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Autonomy is nothing like SAP. What a ridiculous, empty post.
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It was reconstructed based on ancient writing, so a speaker of modern Hebrew can read text written thousands of years ago with full fluency after learning a few additional vocabulary words (mainly nouns).

The structure of the language and it's grammar rules has not changed. Even though the language was not used for regular conversation, it was still studied and spoken for the entire time, so was never lost.
"We are experimenting with reputation derived from complete anonymity since we believe that anonymity is required to maximize sincerity. "

Interesting. Where do "real name" Amazon.com reviews fit in? These make a selling point of being attributable to real people, and to me, imply sincerity, since often these reviewers seem to write reviews almost as a hobby, and often make a point of covering both good and bad aspects of a product.

There's a interesting dynamic here, since Amazon is vanishingly unlikely to harass you on the web, unlike say an ebay seller, who might well come after you if you leave anything other than a perfect review. In this case you are likely to be anonymous as far as everyone but the seller is concerned, yet being sincere may carry some risk to your own ebay account.
For a citizen of a miserably poor and corrupt nation, their citizenship is also a problem to be solved. The surest way to help the poorest of the poor is not to send them food or money (that will likely be seized by their oppressors) but to give them a way out, some place they can go and live safely. All the existing nations are essentially closed to poor immigrants; if this works, it will be an escape valve for some fraction of the poor in poor countries as well as the rich in rich ones.
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or they could...

have some kind of contract with tugs, lifeboats, helicopter rescue, etc. You could set up some sort of insurance system for citizens/inhabitants to cover those contract retainers.

Hell, you might even end up contracting it out to the Coast Guard if they meet your needs and are close enough to count.
More on: Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/argentina-isps-ip-over...
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I agree with most of this, but caution against bidding more hours than you think the project needs in order to raise your "effective" rate. In addition to being slightly skeezy and potentially queering expectations on future projects, doing this also has the practical risk of putting you on the hook for additional work if your client starts aggressively project managing you; after all, they bought the time.

Another way (also skeezy, I think) firms play this game is to double-book and have teams juggle multiple projects, thus genuinely spreading the hours on the project out while keeping effort constant.

I really think the thing to do is to be upfront; if your rates are raising, they're raising. If your customers want to mitigate that risk, they can pay for it: pre-buy time commitments at a discount from your current rate. I think advanced purchase is a more effective (and more professional) lever to use than rustproofed hourly quotes.
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Not as ridiculous as claiming a right to a free account using the name of your choice. Nobody expects this from a bank or other commercial supplier. If you care about your pseudonym that much then set up a corporation and trademark it.
an easy to use example is a great idea, but an actual explanation of the service is essential.
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Just think if this had been pushed harder by the company or sold to Apple, IBM or Microsoft. That could have changed our current landscape of tech giants. It was an amazing prototype at the time but it seemed there was no execution and it was too far ahead to make it a reality.

I also thought this was a typo and Knight Rider the show had some "IPad" type device on it.
My knowledge of bantu languages is only what I read on wikipedia, so I am not qualified to answer, but it seems they orbitate around 20 :)

As for cases: I am learning hungarian which is related to finnish and also has more than 20 cases.

The problem, in my personal experience, is that learning such an agglutinative language is slightly harder than others because when you are learning you don't know all the suffixes and at the same time you don't even know enough vocabulary to understand what's what. Especially once you consider that suffixes stack up.

I see something like
"ccddee" and it's hard to understand where I should break up the thing (<ccd,dee>, <cc,dd,ee>, <cc,dde,e> etc). YMMV :)
lol, considering the state of the samsung patches to android, they better hire him and put in a top decisional position... or at least that's what I'll do.
I realized that when I heard palestinian kids mocking Israeli soldiers in Hebrew about how poor their Hebrew was
I used Interleaf on a VaxStation in the late 1980s. It was great at handling the huge (thousands of pages) government documents we had to produce.
At a good enough price I'm sure they would have found a buyer. They got zero dollars for it now, so any sale prices seems better than what they did.

And if patents were the problem they could have required a cross licensing agreement with any buyer as a condition of sale.
They also provide mechanisms to pass by reference. Default pass-by-copy with specially enabled pass-by-reference is indeed the opposite from most other languages do. I wonder how this interacts with things like memory paging and CPU cache.
furthermore, I had no idea what the site was doing while it loaded. A good part of a demo would have given me some idea what to expect.
Why not just delay the manual save until the auto-save is done ?
That'd take just a few hours to implement and test...
We got a similar approach, but we focused on the pitch for customer when we meet them and inject our widgets in 3rd party sites in front of their eyes using a bookmarklet I hacked together which makes the widgets editable within the page. Naturally everything dissapears on refresh, but I plan to push changes to localstorage so they get re-rendered automatically once injected again.
Glad to see this trend. How about using https links in the RSS feeds, so that anyone coming in from their feedreader gets https by default?
Hourly rates get you paid less, because your rate sounds higher in the context of "one hour's work" than it does in the context of "cost for a completed project", plus the fact that the hourly quote comes with the implicit risk that you'll go wildly over budget. The client will mitigate that risk and take the cost of that mitigation out of your hide.

You won't realize it until you and your friends start complaining over beers about how jacked up your big competitors rates are; they aren't, though, they're just not getting rolled by their clients.

People here really seem obsessed with the risk that the client is going to change their mind a hundred times. That makes sense, because it's the element of risk that developers actually see, care about, and feel entitled to an opinion about. But some important things about that risk:

* Unless you're working for tiny clients, it's much less of a real-world risk than it sounds. Major clients don't start projects with the intent of squeezing extra hours out of their devs. The amount of money they save by doing that is less than a rounding error, and, most importantly, they aren't spending their own money to get you.

* There are better levers to pull to mitigate project/schedule risk than quoting at your most flexible and least favorable rate by default.

* Even if you shoulder the risk of midstream spec changes, in all likelihood a client that pulls the rug out from under you is probably going to be reasonable about buying more of your time, especially when you say "no, I can't get that done in the original schedule; I don't see a way to resolve this without adding time to the project".

The middle ground between project and hourly rates has been our default for years:

* We break pricing down by person/week

* Our proposals loosely attribute milestones to weeks

* Any negotiation is conducted over the total project amount

* Project price cuts take the form of scope/effort reductions

This is a project-based bidding system that leaves you with the ability to say "no" or "you choose, either this new stuff, the original project milestone for the week, or an extra billable week and a new SOW".
I want stock because I know the work I"m doing is adding tremendous value to the company. I also know that right now, I am underpaid. I do more than 40 hours a week and what to do more than 40 hours a week. I want that work to translate to something and ultimately, I feel that this company is in the position to take off. It was featured in Inc. 500 as one of the top startups in the industry.

Here's a little more of a background with where I'm at:

I was initially signed on as a contractor (startup obviously). My contract was for 9 months and there were 4 other devs there at the time including me.

Within a month, one of the devs changed workplaces because he got a better offer. After that, they took the initiative to sign me on full time as a "senior level" developer for 75k. I was expecting more of a 85-90k range, however, this was the start of the summer months and the work coming in is drastically reduced.

I approached the general manager anyways and pointed out that 85k-90k is where I want to be, but I am willing to be patient through summer. The feedback I got from him was that I was too "naive" the way I approached this and sounded too "greedy" and "arrogant". Big blow to my ego. I resolved that I would just work tremendously hard and prove my value otherwise.

Within another 3 months, another developer left, and the technical director left as well. Due to better opportunities or they just didn't get along with the people there anymore.

This leaves me in the position of doing all of their work, including the job of the Technical Director. Generating business strategy, implementing new technologies, overseeing research/development etc.

I had a chat with the general manager and my boss about a week ago. This was a midyear review. They raised my salary to 80k, but didn't really talk to much about whether I'd be the new Technical Director or not, but just deferred to December.

Unlike with the general manager, I have a pretty good work relationship with my boss so I gave him a call that night and asked him what's up. He told me that he was trying to push the general manager to increase my pay to 100k and push me to Technical Director right now given that my responsibilities to change. However, the general manager pushed back and said that this "wouldn't be fair" to the rest of the team as I was the only one that got a midyear review.

I'm grateful of my boss. He definitely understands me. However, because he's not a technical guy (nor anyone else at the company), he doesn't understand the grasp of how much I'm doing for the company, and more importantly, how much devs should get paid. 85-100k is a great salary for a lead developer. For technical director, I would be expecting more like 110-120k... Seeing that they're struggling so much to even bring me up to 100k, I imagine the fight to get 100k + 20k in equity is going to be pretty hard.

And yes, I understand what stock dilution is.

A couple more details: I'm 19, I don't have a degree. My work history as been with 2 other companies, but haven't lasted more than half a year. Maybe this has a huge factor as well?
Arguing against pseudonyms from behind one doesn't really support your argument.

Additionally, "I’m certain these rules are supported by data that outsiders aren't privy to" is a non-starter.
Here it is guys:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av55q3freJTPdHk...
He's never heard of Autonomy so therefore assumes it's similar to SAP? Hmmm.
WebOS was for Hurd just a fig leaf to make a future orientated impression, in reality were all the profits he made short term.

What HP needs now is focus and that is what Apotheker is doing. Some people are disappointed that it is not consumer orientated, but when you look at the "smart phone wars" this seems reasonable to me.
HP can't compete with Google, Apple and Microsoft there. Look at Nokia and Blackberry.
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I've been eating ZeroCater provided food for the last two weeks, they offer a great selection and it's always of a high grade.

I highly recommend them.
"Pointers are a very powerful and fundamental abstraction"

An abstraction of what? Can't get much closer to the metal than with pointers. Frankly I'm not sure someone writing this have much insight worth wasting time on.
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Here's the link to the survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av55q3freJTPdHkxSzVUR3JCZl9mMTNSQXZ4cWp4M3c&hl=en_US#gid=0

Link to the form (still live): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHkxSzVUR3JCZl9mMTNSQXZ4cWp4M3c6MQ#gid=0

Link to original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2907815
Uh, really?

Japanese: topic instead of subject marking, deference forms, completely different morphological categories?

Chinese: productive verb serialization, very different syntax?

That's just off the top of my head

But that's not the point really. Learning any language well is mind-bending for any speaker of another language. It does help if the languages are different (I remember very vividly the click that went in my head in high school when I was taking English, Chinese and Hebrew simultaneously... that's how I ended up in linguistics grad school), but different people have their minds bent by completely different things. I mean, root-and-pattern morphology is really cool when it's that regular, but if you think of it it's not horribly different from Germanic strong verbs (write-wrote-written). Weird agreement patterns? Well, Welsh only uses the 3pl verb forms with a pronominal subject, so "they they-went" but "people he-went" (as, for that matter, do some varieties of English). And so on.

I mean, sure, whatever floats your boat, and it's awesome that studying Arabic can be so fulfilling; I've had the same experience with Welsh. But at the end of the day all languages bend your mind, and I don't think there can be an objective metric. They are just hard.
Not having the secure flag on a cookie (I didn't look, because I don't care about SSL on HN) is a vulnerability. STS doesn't totally fix that vulnerability.

STS: Nice to have. Most installed browsers don't even support it.

Cookie Secure flag: Must have. Every modern browser supports it to some extent.

You're entitled to your opinion about this stuff, but know that my opinion has been hardened by many many years doing appsec for financial services companies. I would not doc a company for not having STS†, unless I was doing design/best practices review. I would doc anybody for not setting the secure flag on cookies for an HTTPS site.

† (ie: if you ask me to doc stuff like STS and Clickjacking)
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On the wikipedia page for Autonomy Corporation, under competitors, you'll find SAP NetWeaver Enterprise Search plus SAP Business Objects Text Analysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enterprise_search_vendo...
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It's pretty incredible how far Google Translate has come.
I'm a huge DFW fan. If I may make one recommendtion, do not start with Infinite Jest. It's a wonderful book, but it's not exactly a breezy read. It's totally doable, and it's not obscure, like, say, Joyce's Ulysses. But it is a long slog.

Instead, I recommend reading some if his short pieces first. It'll allow you to better appreciate Infinite Jest, and the short pieces are a little more immediately gratifying. My personal favorites are 'Good Old Neon' from gis short story collection, Oblivion, and 'A Supposedely Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again' from an essay collection of the same name.
It's naive ("let's poke it with a stick and see what happens"), but should be mostly harmless with a properly configured IDS. You don't want to permanently blacklist legitimate users, just discourage malicious ones.

Unfortunately, there's no guarantee that an HTTPS site is identical to the corresponding HTTP site. In most web servers, each one has its own configuration, so it's best to visit SSL sites only when you've been explicitly directed to do so.
A friend who's a native Hebrew speaker told me that modern Hebrew initially lacked foul words, and so they were borrowed from Arabic.
If I was them I would have giving him free airtime. Their marketing apartment don't seem to be very alert not doing this.
I think it's way late to start talking about that. In America, we have this puritanical ideal that working leads to happiness— or that working is, itself, happiness. Scientifically speaking, that's bollocks. To take the classic case study, people who win the lottery aren't any happier or unhappier than their workaday peers. They are exactly as happy.

Real happiness seems to come from something like the Buddhist ideas of mindfulness and acceptance, and that's true whether you're a poverty-sworn monk, a janitor, a CEO, or a pot-smoking layabout.

The idea of "rewarding work" vs. "empty hedonism" is an arbitrary Western construct with little basis in reality.
Python's colon-before-indented-block resulted from usability tests of people learning how to program. I don't see why that would have different results today.

See page 7 of this presentation:
http://mvdirona.com/jrh/TalksAndPapers/GuidoVanRossum_21_yea...
Can you elaborate please? What is this "HTTPS everywhere" and why do we need it?
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That's an excellent point.

I'm actually curious to see now if we had this same discussion when Dell started to pull back on their consumer division. It's still there, but their business offerings seem to either have been given more attention, or for whatever market reasons have dwarfed Dell consumer.
...funny, I kept on thinking of the line in WarGames when WOPR says the only way to win is not to play.
A really fantastic firefox addon that forces HTTPS on certain sites. https://eff.org/https-everywhere/
Why all the presumptuous name calling? There is no cited evidence that this has anything to do w/ the article author, it has to do w/ others' opinion of how they want to use a third-party commercial service. Complaining about others' opinions of how they want to use a third-party service certainly smacks of obnoxious entitlement.
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I enjoy my work. Problem solved.
For the purpose of the comparison (to show that Autonomy is far from the consumer market and close to the enterprise market) I would say they're close enough. Enterprise search and knowledge management applications are no less far from the consumer space than SAP.
Why do you assume he assumes instead of doing some little research?
Go to a big crowd, in your local area. and shout IE6. Those who shout back, with mean words are probably HN Readers.

/trollsarcasm/
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Any time you hear yourself thinking "I'll quote this part of the project based on my hourly rate", please at least use a daily rate. You're a sought-after professional in a white hot market. You don't do partial days.

A customer that's worth bending that far backwards for is worth a couple hours gratis. Everyone else can just pay your daily.

Every quantum of time higher than "hourly" is more favorable to you. Data entry temps might look attractive at their hourly rate, but developers have frightening hourly rates. Even just doing your quotes in chunks of eight hours frees your client up to think about how much you can get done in a day. Nothing gets done in an hour.

You have a 1-day minimum. Think of it this way: there is no way you can expect to be effective working for two different clients 4 hours each in a single day. It takes too much time just to get back into flow. So any time you quote less than a day, you're either giving the client the rest of your availability that day for free, or you're stealing it from another client.
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Argentine ISPs Use Bazooka to Kill Fly

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/argentina-isps-ip-over...

the judge ruled to block two sites, ISPs blocked by IP
It's not meant to be reliable.

Nor is it meant to be secure. It's a direct connection to a data store.
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They can still sell off the patents.
I still have no idea even after it loaded.
> What HP needs now is focus and that is what Apotheker is doing.

Yes and no. Focusing would be to reduce the surface of the corporation to its core business, basically what Jobs did when he got back to Apple.

What Apotheker is doing is to change HP's business altogether.
I'd guess that for HN, protocol is not the bottleneck
http://www.sunsaluter.com/ seems like it is the only practical & longlasting thing there.
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Whatever author has planned for a career I hope he dumps that and decides to be a writer of some sort. That was a truly superior read.
What does it do? There's no about page. I keyed in the reddit url and it showed reddit. After spending 15 seconds on the site, my conclusion is that it is pointless.
That's stating the obvious. Another question would be, why was Apotheker hired? Whoever did that must have expected something like that?
Wouldn't that require them to come up with a valuation for the WebOS business? And right now, wouldn't that valuation look very bad for HP? The spot price for the WebOS business is much lower than what HP paid for it. Why not delay and diffuse the reckoning?
Let's assume that the tablet isn't the end-all of consumer computing interfaces. If people were prototyping tablets 15 years ago, what are people prototyping today that will overtake tablets in another 15 years?

I'd guess more seamless integration between mobile devices and stationary components (displays, keyboards). I'd also like to see more portable, hands-free displays, e.g. in glasses or contact lenses.
They did. The Indians invented both base10 and positional notation. The Persian's picked it up from the, and a few short years later the Arabs picked it up. It was bought to Europe via Fibonacci's Liber Abaci.

The entire time the positional notation didn't change with alphabet
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