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We setup computers (AMD K2-350 !!) and desks in the morning and played a 2 person LAN game of DoomII for the afternoon. On the 3650th day we played some LAN counter-strike (with a lot more people). Lots of blood, sweat, tears and counter-strike in between. On the 3651th day I left.
Yes, that would work. Including it as a script or css stylesheet would work also.
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I've never used a static site builder in any language, but I'd be tempted to use this. The only problem I see is that, off the top of my head, I can't think of a use for all these extra features. What sort of use cases do people use these generators for (outside of the blogs some have mentioned)?
Yes, but now he has an incentive to fix that problem :)
Buying and owning a gaming laptop or desktop is similar to owning a hot rod.

There are as many different philosophies to how and what to buy as there are gamers. On one end of the spectrum people track pricing trends and chase the best possible value/performance and build it all themselves. On the other end people pay a premium for an innovative case or component or a name brand. This is clearly on the far end of the spectrum, including the expected premium price to get anything Razer.

In the end it's purely for the sport of it. You are right that there are better deals. But there is definitely a segment of people that are more than willing to pay a premium to get an awesome case with a ultra new innovative component like this. Bring a laptop like this to a gaming night at a local coop and everyone will be oogling it and checking it out... That's what it's all about.
i hope these are shopped :'(
If you want to retire and live a 'middle-class' life, sure.

But what if you want to buy and run a sports team?

Or foster special technical projects under your own steam?

Or back a charitable foundation for the progress of -foo-?

Or build a mansion with a long heated driveway... and be able to run it?

&c
Very nicely done. Reminds me of all the walking I did during my second pregnancy (we lived where Noe dead ends at Laidley).
Disclosure: I work at EMC.

It's sad to see that the most detail of the attack we employees of EMC have seen comes from an outside source. The infiltration clearly began by targeting EMC employee(s) not RSA. It's been many months since the attack with nothing being told to the employees whatsoever. I've even heard additional stories about other attempts at social engineering to gain more information recently.

I'll answer questions that I can if anyone is interested but as mentioned above, we really aren't informed ourselves.

To address your first point: I was under the impression seeds were stored for most(all?) customers for "bakcup" purposes. These were taken and matched against SecureID serials for use in more social engineering attacks (getting the other part of the two-factor auth).
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This was obvious. What took so long?
Was there particular value in the YC Y U NO coverage? Seems like coverage for coverage's sake. Networking value, perhaps?
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I'd rather not say until I've signed. :)

Contact me offline and I'll let you know what happens -- there's contact info anti-spamified on here: http://rechargegames.com/page/about-quickcharge
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Location permissions are optional. I use MobClix, and I don't ask for location.

I might be able to get higher eCPMs if I had it enabled, but between GPS taking more battery (for fine location information) and people being hesitant to download apps that track their location, I'd rather have the higher distribution and happier users.
It's called a hellban. You can continue to read and comment, but no other users see your contributions. It's a really good way to deal with users who are posting spam (if you browse with showdead turned on, you'll occasionally see long dead posts filled with links), or trolls. If there were an indicator of a hellban, it would be somewhat ineffective, because then users would just make new accounts.

Anyways, looking at your comment history, there doesn't seem to be anything that deserves it. No spam, just a few lightly downvoted comments. But there's a lot going on behind the scenes, and most of this is automated, so you probably just ran into whatever indicators or metrics HN uses to determine whether to hellban users (or take away their ability to flag, or whatever else). The only way to deal with it is probably to email PG, if you want your old account back.
I think that's the core of it. Someone who plasters stickers on their Ikea coffee table is a "hacker", as is someone who breaks into the NSA, as is someone who, well, creates yet another specialized social network using RoR… (I'd say complaining about the loss of meaning would be a much better topic than arguing about a potential bad reputation)
The question & answer site tex.stackexchange.com is now more than one year old and has grown to a great TeX support web site.
Some of the most active contributors are members of the international TeX User Group (TUG). How about the other way round - how about Stack Exchange joining the TUG as institutional member? If you would like to support this idea, read and vote on the story.
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Yeah, inbound connection to your service are not the issue the article is discussing. It's the outbound connection (for example, to memcached or mongodb) that your service makes in response to those potentially-greater-than-64k in bound connections that might trip you up. The site I'm working on right now makes 4 memcached requests for a logged in user hitting the homepage - that design may well fall apart at ~16k simultaneous connections if it's running on a shared host paas type host (or well before that if I'm sharing resources with another customer on the same paas hardware as my app)
Now we just need to get this law overturned in Illinois:

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Is Tim Cook really worth as much as 580 regular Apple employees? Really?

Tim Cook alone is taking home 5% of all the money Apple spends on employee compensation worldwide. If you cut down Cook's compensation a little bit, everyone else at Apple could get a couple percent raise.

Which one would REALLY be better for the company: paying every single Apple employee a couple percent more enabling Apple to hire better people across the board, or paying it all to the CEO?

People need to recognize how grotesque it is that you have a CEO making $160,000 per day, every day.
Think Andrew Carnegie.

I know I directly benefited from a Carnegie library as a kid. With philanthropy at this scale there is potential to benefit humanity in a way that may otherwise not happen. Compare this to other paths that wealthy people have taken, such as creating trusts that mostly benefit the family and still exist today (e.g. Rockefellers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_libraries
more often than not that it's okay

What rulings are you referring to? SCOTUS as of late has been a free speech tear, including of course Citizens United.
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Earlier tonight, I read this post on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2930210

After I read the post, I read the FAQ and guidelines.

Then after reading the full posting history of the individual who was made an unperson, I didn't see anything outrageous. Nor did I see anything in the guidelines that suggested why this person should have his access taken away. At most there were some criticisms of a YC funded company (hi there AirBnB!).

I completely understand that this isn't a democracy here. Anyone who participates in the community here is subject to the guidelines and standards of the community. Here's where I see the problem is:

The internet is full of juvenile forums where you'll be banned if you disagree with who runs the forum. Hacker News never seemed to be that kind of place to me. I've lost a lot of respect for pg and the mods after reading about this.
HN shouldn't be a place like this. Disagreement should be welcomed and embraced, if handled in an honorable manner.

If "Hacker News" is a forum where you'll be banned for disagreeing with a YC-funded company, I'll take my ball and play somewhere else.
I think many people is losing money with this "Android users dont pay for apps" idea. I bought tons of apps and almost every people I know that uses Android use to buy apps too. It is even easier for people in countries like Brazil, where iPhone users cant buy apps directly (only using gift cards). With google checkout I buy apps in seconds. I have more paid games than most of my friends who have iPhones.
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The problem is a massive network effect: almost everything supports LDAP - even Active Directory uses LDAP under the hood - and so there's a real network effect working against attempts to introduce something simpler. I was half-tempted to say "Facebook" since I'd lay even odds that LDAP won't be replaced by a similar network protocol rather than something which brings other selling points to increase the benefit of switching, and indeed it's becoming more and more common to use web-based authentication systems so that might be the eventual successor.

Something like ldap.js does seem like a good compromise: using a real database and a modern implementation without so much legacy baggage would probably be the best bet as you wouldn't be forced to upgrade every client just to get a working server.
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I've decided to dive in mobile dev. Which iOS book/s sites should I read?
I am a VERY novice programmer (some light Rails sites), although I feel that I can learn anything. What's the best way for me to learn how to develop mobile apps on iOS? Which resources would you recommend?
If you're about to overlook this because "it's just another damn static site generator", think again. I almost did, but I was very impressed with Statis! It sure is worth a look.
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I don't share that guy's mindset. I've just pointed that the bad guy business model exists due to google's ranking algorithm, which has changed recently.

However it's clear that this is very bad practice and shouldn't be tolerated by the public.
This is fantastic news; I say this as a liberal knowing that some of my conservative friends feel exactly the same way.

Having said that:

I flagged this story. It doesn't belong here. I highly recommend people read Radley Balko's blog --- he's a staunch libertarian former editor at Reason, and someone with whom I don't generally share a lot of political opinions --- and encourage others to read it as well. He's amazing.

But I would never post a Balko story here, because they're just not appropriate for HN.

Flagged.
Why didn't anybody make a movie out of this yet? It's a great story.
I wonder if one could get these to work for other browsers as well, or what is the browser degradation method for SSEs?
Wow, seriously, guys? Is there nobody around anymore who cares about helping the downtrodden of their own good will? Maybe it's naive, but I seriously think there are still some rich people out there who care to use their wealth for purposes other than selfish gratification, and without ulterior motives.
No; we assess other people's mobile apps for security flaws, and I'm pretty experienced with ObjC, but I'm coming from a place of "having gotten lots of value out of Olark, and seeing how that feedback loop is even harder to get on an iPhone than it is on a web page".
Yes and it's good that he finally gets into prison for acting like a fraudster. Don't see a reason to downvote me because you don't like him. No logic in there.
You have observed this? There's a trick to the way sockets work: They track a bunch of data about each connection, not just the local port number and IP. You're talking about exhausting a space of 60k+ connections/user, not connections/server.

If you've actually seen this in the wild, then I'd like to know what you're running, what you're selling, how you're doing so remarkably well, etc. This sounds like the best problem to have. :3
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The most likely answers are, “Yes, yes, and yes.”

How did he figure that out?
>"Take Bill Gates for example."

Not really a Softie to Softie comparison. The Gates give away more than a $billion per year.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/Pages/foundation-fact-s...
But I would never post a Balko story here, because they're
just not appropriate for HN.

Flagged.

I don't understand why this wouldn't be appropriate for HN. Could you explain what you mean?
Ask the shareholders. And since I am one I'll answer.

I don't have a problem with this at all. $300M is about 1/1000 of the current market cap. The rewards are spread over 10 years. So 1/10000 per year to have a world class CEO running the company. Would I pay that? Gladly.
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After being an engineer with Cisco for 2.5 years I want to say that this article nails it when it says that companies like Cisco get "too big and unwieldily" - unfortunately I feel like it has more to do with their management style than anything. There are companies in this world that are just as big yet make better products, are less wasteful and flat out operate on a smarter level.
I know it's experimentally proven that people are more likely to cheat/steal the more levels of abstraction there are between the things being gained/stolen and money.

I don't find what you're saying hard to believe at all, seems like the same or at least very similar behaviour.
No, it's connections/server, unless the provider has separate back-end IPs for each user (not a bad idea, but I'll bet they're not doing that).

The tuple consists of the source IP, destination IP, source port, and destination port. The first, second, and last are, in a naive implementation, potentially universal to all applications/instances/sessions on the server, so your number space is reduced to the ~60k source ports.

This is an incredibly easy problem to solve, but it does need a small bit of attention by PaaS providers to ensure they're not going to hit it.
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There will be many of these, and deservedly so.
Agreed 100%. Usually Schneier is MUCH better than this.
There's a way to benchmark NoSQL Databases with the 3n+1 conjecture.

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd5f3337_12fzjpqbc2&pli=...

I've submitted that to ycnews, but it didn't appear. I've no idea why. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2919371
Thinking more about it, while there is a limit here, I'm pretty sure it's one I don't need to care about.

My current project makes 4 outbound requests for some pretty common pages. That'd limit me to ~15k simultaneous page creations, which even at 250ms response times (I'm aiming for under 50ms) implies a limit of ~60,000 page views per second. (or 240,000 page views per second at my target 50ms page render time). If my app is getting 5billion pages views a day, I don't think I'm going to be worried about limits of shared paas hosting...
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I'd recommend Mirah (https://github.com/mirah/mirah) and Pindah (https://github.com/mirah/pindah) as an almost Ruby over Ruboto for Android due to slow startup times from the poor performance of Reflection on Dalvik.
Anyone want to trade illustrative code snippets?
So I've found that one of the most effective ways of speeding up development is to maintain small snippets of code demonstrating how to do various things.

For example, here's a chunk of example code I posted to StackOverflow showing how to handle xml data in Python with lxml:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6432826/preferred-python-xml-processor/6433099#6433099

I actually have a fairly large library of similar code snippets demonstrating how to do all sorts of things. The thing is, each snippet can take anywhere from a half-hour to a few weeks to put together -- once you account for all the research time, trial and error, refinement, etc. Each snippet carries a great deal of hard earned knowledge. And while sharing is nice and all, I'm not really inclined to trade a lifetime of knowledge for a bunch of points on StackOverflow.

But still, I find code snippets like these to be highly valuable, so I was wondering if other programmers might be willing to trade somehow. Like say, I would give you my xml snippet and you give me a snippet illustrating how to use JQuery UI buttons (or whatever).

I know there are sites out there that collect code snippets, but they don't seem to be very good -- presumably due to the economic disincentive from sharing high quality examples.

This is still a very fuzzy idea... And I can see there being some issues... but maybe not insurmountable ones. I just thought I'd put the idea out there and see what people think.

My email is JesseAldridge@gmail.com if you want to talk directly.
Yes! There was a ton of value in it because it came a few days before we interviewed at YC. So it drove signups to our app and we got to show the partners that we were able to build an app in two days and get it on TechCrunch. We didn't wind up getting funded but I think it certainly helped our case :)
At least he can pull it out and replace the battery. ;)
Give me a break, you don't think you could've gotten him cheaper?

What's the difference between 580 million and, say, 200 million? It's funny money either way, and the person's quality of work is going to depend on other motivations.
It's the principal-agent problem - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem

You could find a lot of capable people willing to do the job for a lot less.

But if you pay them a fixed salary, even $1m, that isn't directly linked to the performance you're looking for, then the game is to avoid anything too risky, even if the expected value is very high, if it might endanger the CEO's job. The game would be to take the minimum risk and do well enough to not get fired, and that's it.

If Tim Cook manages to double the stock price, he'll have $700m. If it drops to $100, he'll have $100m. It's a big difference, and his interests and risks are aligned with the shareholders.

Anyway, that's the theory. Give too much stock, and you're impoverishing the shareholders for little benefit. Don't give enough, and a superstar might decide he'd rather do a startup or an incubator LOL, or he may not want to pursue the same kind of risk-reward as the people who hire him.

$100m is still a great deal of money. I guess going to $700m, it's the difference between superrich for life, and a legacy of being a great leader and dynastic wealth LOL. Nice work if you can get it.
Thanks for sharing.

I'm completely new to backbone and jQuery and I've only recently started learning javascript (I have a C++/Java background, and only tinkered with Rails a few years back).

I agree with bilalhusain, the talk does wander a bit, but as a jQuery newbie it was quite useful for me. YMMV.

I liked how you built up the use of the framework, gradually adding events, templating, iteration etc.

I would like to be able to follow along (doing the same steps myself), but I didn't understand the starting point of your project (is it a sinatra app?).
Do you have instructions on how to get setup to that point?
A screencast for setup would be great, but even a list of pointers would be helpful.

Keep up the good work!
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It's definitely not typical HN fare, but I think privacy and one's rights pertaining to media are very relevant to the web and of concern to many readers on HN.
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Web(http)-based or not, I'm interested in network protocols that aren't tied to a specific website, or otherwise encumbered.

By now somebody must have designed a decent protocol mapping LDAP's data model directly onto a nice RESTful API that R. Fielding and TBL would be proud of.

That should make for a good upgrade path, no?
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I guess we'll be seeing this prediction every year until it either comes true or Facebook ceases to exist as a company.
Looks really cool. I've been frustrated with Jekyll too.

Question: how would you create an index/archive page with links to other posts/pages (if you did want to use it as a blog)?
This is a symbolic vote of confidence between Tim Cook and Apple more than anything. When you consider the effect on the stock price if there was any uncertainty about the future leadership of the company, this is a bargain.

Besides, that is not his salary or anything. Who knows, he might follow in the tradition of Steve Jobs and take a $1 salary.
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Or people who like Apple products, and products that are priced at levels people are willing to pay.
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Yeah, but... the whole thread was about whether this icon thing is comparable to excessive nitpicking over a database name.
It got entrenched from Android devs sharing their numbers and those numbers being lower for Android than iOS. I don't know if other Android devs were making good money and just didn't want to share that info or if it's gotten better recently, but it's good to see that it's actually a viable market now.
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Politics stories that aren't huge major news don't belong here, it's as simple as that.
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I'm starting to wonder where this meme comes from. I would hardly call owning a product produced by the most successful company in the world and a household brand being a "hipster".

Apple products are not really overpriced. Try buying a capable iPad-like tablet for less than $499. Try buying something like the 11" Macbook Air for less than $999. The iPhone 3GS is $49 with a two year contract.

Is there a rebel without a cause sensibility about hating Apple?
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