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Learn to hack on the OS of your choice. Make sure it's fun to you first.

Next, get a job as helpdesk. Go through the pain of being the first person people talk to when stuff it broke. Try to fix it. Always try to fix it before you escalate. Preferably you get this job a mid-size company where you can have the opportunity to get to know the staff in general. Single office, walk around it once a day just saying hi to everyone.

Eventually they'll start to wait for you to make your rounds to get help. You're building relationships.

Get to know the maintenance and security guys in your building. These people need to be your friend. Your systems don't run without power, and you need to be able to get to consoles.

Watch for and take opportunities to get into a sysadmin position. Now, working on the trade skill of being lazy. Every task you do, think about how you can automate it. That's one of the real arts to being a sysadmin, if you have a lot of work that keeps you busy, how are you going to have time to respond to problems.

By taking this route though, you've built up one of the 4 skills I think you need to be a good sysadmin. People skills. Remember, by the time someone has to talk to you they've already had to deal with at least one other person who could not fix their problem. The rest of the skills you get from experience as a sysadmin. Scripting, documenting, creating DR scenarios and such... it's a never ending learning opportunity. If you've learned all there is to learn where you're at, then it's time to move on, unless you just really like it there. As often as not the latter is the case and that's not a bad thing as long as it pays the bills.

The one thing I always tell people who ask me to explain being a sysadmin to them is this. It's a service oriented position. The employees are your customers. The business is your customer. Your boss is your customer. You will hit a point where you think there is a technical answer to everything and you know better than them. You don't. It's not your job to make technology changes to change everything and make it easier. It's your job to implement and maintain what the business users feel they need to use to get their job done. Their positions make money for the organization you work for, your department is nothing but cost. Remember that and you can save yourself a lot of frustration.

Oh... and go home and build yourself a nice home network. This is a job where you take mental tasks home with you, having a place to play is helpful. Also helpful for job interviews.
It seems that Google's mistake has been in allowing the carriers too much latitude in modifying an otherwise decent platform. The carriers have proven, definitively, that they provide negative value for end-user experience and overall device quality. If carrier interference isn't somehow controlled -- or even limited -- then Android's reputation will be severely damaged.
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The important thing here is that most of the Android ecosystem is like this. When you buy an iPhone, you're getting exactly what you paid for. No two Androids are sold the same though. Some have tons of crapware, some have an interface you can't change, and for someone who isn't looking to customize the crap out of their phone, hack it, uninstall things, none of that makes any sense.

The Nexus S is a great phone because Google sold it and it didn't come loaded with crap. Most of the other Android phones you buy from other carriers will be as crap filled as their average feature phones.

So the article could have been called "Why my Mom Bought an Android and Returned It." because the article is primarily about problems with the Android ecosystem.
Expose them publically? Because that would you get you in trouble with your job at nearly every company.

Expose them within the company? Only works if your management supports you, and they are probably only doing a security audit so they can get a piece of paper with some initials on it. They just want it to go away, not to hire another auditor to start from scratch.
It won't be long until the tabloids pick this up and run with it, applying their own sensationalist inaccuracies. I think Airbnb have to act quickly to fix this before it turns into a Fox affiliate human interest story and damages their reputation irreconcilably.
In amongst all the other mentoring and help that YCombinator provides its companies, does it have a press officer on hand for crises such as this? As you say, this is such a bone-headed move that it seems like something that needs to be addressed on the same level as technical, business or hiring blunders.
The language of the GPL says the source code is the "Preferred form for modification", it doesn't specifically mention binary blobs.
What is Scrum?
Does sublime text allow for a tree view of the directory you're working in? (similar to the way textmate does)
Forth can be used to create 'if' statements from scratch, too. Many Forth implementations start up by loading a set of definitions for things like comments, conditionals and flow control.

: IF COMPILE 0BRANCH HERE 0 , ; IMMEDIATE
: ELSE COMPILE BRANCH HERE SWAP 0 , HERE SWAP ! ; IMMEDIATE
: THEN HERE SWAP ! ; IMMEDIATE
Free lunch ? Or do they want equity ? Can't leave Chile for X years ? Must have headquarters there ?
+1.

Telling you're contacting her and AirBnb doubled customer staff won't just solve everything.

Always remember you're dealing with people, not just nicknames on internet (it's more than a series of tubes). Stop buzzwords and start acting like real people in real world.
Has there been any verification anywhere that this actually happened, beyond just two blog posts?
Some of the posts here make me think I should seriously consider making the jump from TextMate to Sublime Text 2.

Would anyone care to share some good reasons not to make the jump that I should consider?
Can't speak to American papers, but it certainly won't be big news in UK tabloids, if it's mentioned at all. The FT cares because it's business, tabloids won't care because it's not a particularly well-known business (over here).
We're lucky this was a property crime. I know the victim is feeling crushed right now, but property can be replaced (aside from some personal items). There is a huge potential for a sick property owner or vacationer to become violent with the other party. Imagine if they story was about a kidnapping, murder, assault, or rape. AirBnB better figure out the mechanism for their background check ASAP, becuase you can count people being good >99.9% of the time, but that <0.1% breaks your system.
Microsoft mocks Google with 'Gmail Man' spoof to push Office 365
Something relevant: Symbian has had a microkernel architecture for most of it's life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

For a brief shining moment, it was open source. It's legacy is very interesting, worth a read to see just how far the little OS that could has come along since it first ran on PDAs. In fact, it's atypical architecture gives Symbian some advantages over contemporary OSes in terms of absurdly low power and CPU requirements. It is also quite secure, offering granular security settings for almost anything - the only Symbian malware that ever made the news were those that the user installed him/herself. Sadly this also gives it a very complex programming model (for example, it uses an obscure variant of C; also many basic services like audio need to be accessed through a server running on device) and a difficult threading model. Qt provides a beautiful API that wraps over the native layer these days, but it seems it's simply not fashionable among the majority of developers.
Thanks.

My sense, from following Kristen's blog, is that she might be a bit appalled by the traditional Finnish diet, too. She pushes a lot of grass-fed beef and butter produced from the milk of grass-fed cattle, but she also pushes lots of vegetables, among other things.
I would take the response by brianchesky as an authoritative source indicating that it did actually happen.
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I think you mean principle - an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct.
Principal means leader/most important.
For reference, IBM was awarded almost 6000 patents. In 2010.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33341.wss
I think this is a shakedown, even if it occurred as EJ said.

Renting one's own living space to someone sight unseen is absurdly naive. It is incumbent upon the owner of the property to protect his own. Hotels do it, B&Bs do it, but EJ did not. That is sheer stupidity. There should have been someone to meet the renter and to monitor their stay.

The relationships here are business relationships and there are certain minimal precautions one should take. EJ took none. I don't believe she is justified in insisting that Airbnb fix everything. She learned a lesson (and luckily, so did many others vicariously). A normal person would stand up, clean up and learn. A nutball would get a lawyer (and eventually lose).

Also, doesn't she have insurance? Although I would imagine that most policies would not cover renting one's dwelling to a complete stranger sight unseen without a special rider ("hotel insurance" maybe).

Finally EJ might look at her property's deed restrictions. Is she allowed to run a business at her residence? Is she allowed to rent her home? Is she required by the state or city to to pay a "hotel tax", a "business registration fee", etc.? EJ may be in violation of any number of municipal and state laws.
The question now is will this be the Hindenburg moment of this type of services, or is it just a speed bump?

We'll see how all this bad press is going to spread across the rest of the mainstream media and tabloids. I know we are all disappointed with the way airbnb handled the situation, but we really shouldn't be happy if all the sensation seeking press starts using this to boost their sales, and in the process damages this market beyond repair.
I worked in 'educational technology' for years trying to solve 'issues' in education, training, and general Human learning. We called the field advancing Human Potential.

During this time, we tried out all sorts of concepts, worked with world leaders and world class theorists and researchers. We built all sorts of systems, and products, simulators, interactive games, expert systems, individual tutors, and other things of blended nature. These products were built for governments, research institutes, and commercial companies. Some of the 'products' had empirical results that surprisingly showed that they were 'useful', too. However, there weren't ever any revolutions in education or learning or educational theory, while I was there.

I eventually dropped out from this field from burnout. Why? Because of the people. This area of interest seems to attract people with very similar personality traits. Reading this article and the subject reminds me of the type of people who want to 'solve' education. It is not at all unusual to work with people in this field who complete advance degrees while still in puberty. I worked with a guy who ended up the chair of mathematics at world-class university before he was 20. These are all 'geniuses', as they have been taught and trained to think. And, interestingly they all seem to clamor around this tall flag of solving education.

I believe the failure of this field is actually that most of these people running it are very 'left brain' analytical thinkers. They think that they can solve these very dynamic, chaotic educational systems by decomposition and reductionism. It's kind of funny actually. Smart people get addicted to being smart, and they want to encourage the use of the systems that gave them the personal 'high' to begin with.
Disaggregated link - http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201107...
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A fairly similar experience to buying a laptop with Windows pre-installed. Tons of junk and third-party bullshit. Multiple anti-virus bollox, browser toolbars etc. Took me an hour to clean up.
Can you explain? I have no idea what a CISSP is.
I cannot, and I think no one can. There is simply not enough data about it, this could easly become a Masters thesis and I would love to read it. This is just my feeling about Java comparing to some of the new and not so new languages that are evolving in months while java takes years. I am a Java programmer that likes to experience with other langs so don't get me wrong java is an awesome tool and I love working with it, but I think there are other very good tools emerging and getting more and more reliable.
Agreed ... and even without inaccuracies, such stories typically get framed with the service as the problem. In the UK a few years ago there was a big story about a teenager who held a party while her parents were away. She advertised it on Facebook, word spread and the house got trashed. Parts of the media emphasised the Facebook angle when they covered the story. Would they have blamed lampposts or flyers handed out at school if she had advertised the party that way?
The real news here is "TechCrunch isn't sleeping on the AirBnB/EJ story", especially given that EJ's followup post is still on the front page.

The important details are in the news cycle itself:

1) EJ post tops the HN front page

2) HuffPo-owned TechCrunch reblogs it

3) TC posts a defense from an AirBnB cofounder

4) EJ posts a "still no help from AirBnB" followup

5) TC reblogs that as well in an attempt to cover both sides of the story
The battery life and "scorching hot" temperature sound like hardware issues, but I doubt they're representative of all Android phones - just this model.
The same could be said about the Windows ecosystem, too. The same could be same about the "Blackberries", as well. I don't think all of them are very high quality, even for people who like Blackberries.

The only difference is that it's Apple who only makes a model per year, and soon 2 per year from what rumors say. But in thise case people should be more like "I'll only buy a phone from HTC", or whatever, if they care about the quality of their phone.
So where is the Java version of 1.7 for Mac?
ParaSail is designed to be easily understandable and usable by programmers familiar with languages like Java, C#, Modula-3, Eiffel, etc., while providing implicit parallelism and full compile-time checking of all user-written annotations as well as all language rules (such as no use of uninitialized or null data, numeric overflow, array out-of-bounds, race conditions, etc).

ParaSail is also designed to be simpler than many current languages in its basic module/type/object model. As part of that it eliminates re-assignable pointers, explicit storage allocation, explicit storage reclamation, garbage collection (it uses region-based storage management), run-time checking (it does it all at compile time), and run-time exceptions. Finally, there is no special syntax reserved for built-in types -- any appropriate type can support indexing (e.g. A[I]), slicing (e.g. A[1..5]), operators (+, -, <, >, +=, *=, ...), literals (e.g. X += 25), intervals (X..Y), aggregates (Map |= ["key1" => Value1, "key2" => Value2]), iterators (for each [Key=>Value] of Map concurrent loop ...), etc.
It seems like the author didn't have these problems with his phone (that he loves), his friend(s) didn't have those problems with the nexus s, I've had four Android phones and I've only had any serious problems with one due to design failures (and only one was a google experience phone). Sure, there are poor android phones out there. If you think you can buy _any_ android based device and expect an apple quality experience you're obviously in for disappointment. But attributing any failure of any device to the platform only makes sense if you see the world as stark black and white and couched in a constant two sided battle of google and apple.
Whatever happened to home construction? In the old days I chopped down my own trees to form into straight boards for the frame, dig up my own rock to make a foundation, mine my own iron to be formed into nails, etc... Now I just buy all the pieces I need from the hardware store and piece them together to build a house.
"It's 3am and I've been drinking, but this seems feasible"

I have come up with some astoundingly dumb ideas that were preceded by exactly the above thought.

However, there was some sheer brilliance, as well.
Posted several times, some with relevant comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818407 : 3 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819411 : 2 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820611 : 0 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821072 : 2 comments

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ADDED IN EDIT: I've started a poll about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041
I think most people on this thread are missing the point entirely. Computer Science is the sustained study of processes and how to encode them. Sussman is simply pointing out the most complex, powerful (yet flexible) processes that he is aware of and stating that our models of computer programming can't even begin to describe such processes.

Seems like just the kind of thing that Sussman, who has been invested in logic programming, and constraint logic programming for 30 years, would be interested in.

Sad I'm going to miss this talk, I'm becoming convinced that future programming languages will need to combine our rich knowledge of object oriented, functional, and (constraint) logic programming.
I'm not a designer and come into this not knowing who Khoi Vinh is. However, his site's footer - Visual design, layout and Cascading Style Sheets may not be reused without permission. - just reeks of self-importance. I'm really not allowed to make a high-contrast fixed-width three-column layout with header and footer without Vinh's authorization?

I realize this might be like coming to a software discussion and not knowing who Steve Jobs is. For all I know, maybe Vinh invented and patented three-column layouts and everyone's laughing at my ignorance.
Why would anyone give the keys to their home to a total stranger? (And leave them on their own for a whole week?)
HN could easily automatically use the title of the submitted article, it doesn't for the purpose of allowing more relevant titles to be written for the HN audience.

The submitted title accurately portrayed the story as linked to without significant editorializing.

There was a clear conflict of interest in YC modifying the title to be one more favourable to one of their portfolio companies.

This is exactly the kind of situation chinese walls are designed for, where I've worked for investment banks in the past there's no way they'd allow their investment arm to edit the output of an analyst report to be favourable to a company they invest in. That's the kind of thing that makes you subject to a regulatory investigation.
In the EU (well, I can speak for Greece), you get the phone with carrier subsidies, with year-long contracts. You can choose not to get a phone and deduct an amount off your contract each month.

The carrier-subsidized phones are usually exactly the same as the stock devices. Some carriers install one or two apps (rarely), but I've never seen a carrier-locked phone in the hundreds of devices I've seen. Any carrier-sponsored phone works with any other carrier.

It's your money, anyway.
> Let's also realize that his "over the top" reactions are due to his role in the FSF and the GNU project.

I remember an interview with RMS where he basically said that, while this cause is very important to him, the amount of pressure he felt in his role as a free software leader was enormous. I think you're probably right, he seems to get a lot of scorn for being a radical, and not enough praise for his integrity and results.
Saying that Apple has more cash than the treasury is misleading. The apple numbers are based on total assets (including property for instance) whereas the treasury numbers are based on liquid operating budget.

Im sure that the treasury would have a good leg up on apple if it was allowed to add the value of the governments property to the mix.
Carriers don't want to be a commodity, which in reality is what they are becoming.
It's full name is the Certified Information Systems Security Professional. There's a good writeup of the problems with CISSP here:

https://infosecisland.com/blogview/15450-My-Canons-on-ISC-Et...

and here:

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/07/ethical-problems-of-ci...

It's often described as 'a mile wide and an inch deep'. However, it's not really the example of broad security knowledge it sets out to be and is considered a joke certification in my niche (technical security).
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It's more of a CDN than web hosting (like amazon cloudfront).
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Actions speak louder than words. Stop telling this girl you will do something and DO SOMETHING.

Show the world your integrity and make this right.
I don't know what you mean by It's not exactly a tech publication. but this is not exactly a tech problem, this is a general business problem.
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While you don't look obese, you don't look too fit either. With that kind of diet, I see a coronary bypass in your future.
Yes. At least in Windows you can just drag a folder to the sidebar and it drops a tree view there.
Interesting Mint Mobile UX Problem (and a solution)
Posted several times, some with relevant comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2818407 : 3 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2819411 : 2 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820611 : 0 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821072 : 2 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2821210 : nothing relevant

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ADDED IN EDIT: I've started a poll about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822041
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The issue is that once your users figure out the system, they'll always "forget" what their password was once it's getting around to expiring.
in the current form its impossible in vim. perhaps vico can implement something but im not looking to jump on that ship.