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The gave permission for cops to search, not Apple. They knew full well that they were creating the impression that all of them were police officers.
You're right. The cops knew what they were doing was wrong or else they would have entered the home as well.
You probably mean 'add-apt-repository foorepo && apt-get update && apt-get install foopkg' or 'dpkg -i foopkg' (as root) because as is, 'apt-get install' is innocuous given one uses the default trusted, signed and whatnot repos.
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I agree, I wish i could enforce chronological order on it... Maybe if I add a sidebar widget, it might help, to let people quickly jump to old posts?

Thanks for reading!

Edit: I can reverse the chronological order of things, but I'm not in love with the way they do the side links, rolled up by Year... I'm going to play around with it, and see what I like
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Point well taken - That's really just my style, I suppose. I wrote it to reflect how I would tell the story if I were directly talking to someone.

I'll try to be on the lookout for anything that looks too over-done in the future.

Thanks for reading!
In what ways was/is HP transparent? Maybe I'm thinking you're just referring to the touchpad, where they seemed to be open about some stuff, but secretive (or more likely just incompetent/indecisive) about other important stuff (getting SDKs in to dev hands, for example).
I think saying "very dangerous" is a bit over the top.

The worst that will happen is that you might get a circular reference and leak memory. This may (or may not) cause your app to eventually crash.
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For all the above:

- an explanation of why this is relevant, written for someone who has never heard of network effects, minimal viable products, iterations, ab testing, google ads, virtual hosts, backups, recovery, testing, user testing, user tracking, user demographics, early adaptors, or anything else really.
AirBnB's entire business depends on non-transparency - you can't get the other person's phone number ahead of the transaction. And they've put in more workarounds to get around the problems that forced secrecy creates.
tl;dr - He won't say. Supposedly inside rumors say the place is a PR nightmare.
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Does anyone know how durable are the current e-ink readers? May it be so that Amazon moves away from e-ink readers in particular because they can't be made reliable?

I like to read books and I was a theoretical fan of e-ink readers, but I never owned one. My younger brother, on the other hand, was against them: "why buy the device that only reads books?" On a recent trip to the countryside he borrowed a (PocketBook 301 plus) reader from a friend and put it in the tent's pocket together with a phone, iPod and other such stuff. In the morning, he found that the screen failed because it had a tiny crack. Maybe someone accidentally kicked it or something, but modern phones, iPod and such withstand abuse rather well, and this thing broke after one night - it even was in its own leather case that covers the screen! Googling revealed that cracking screen is a common issue.

I start to suspect that those e-ink screen are a flawed technology as they are. There might be a reason Sony makes their readers with a metallic case, but do they last even then?
No, you're getting a raw deal. The idea that you can't get equity because you're in another country is absurd. Foreigners can freely own property in the USA, including equity in companies. The only requirement is that you pay US taxes on it if you sell it.

The correct offer, if they want to conserve cash, is to take the 2/3 of the salary they are not paying you in the first 6 months, convert that directly into stock (not options) at the same price that the founders are doing so, and give you a bonus on top of that for risk of say %25-%50 of the stock value.

If they want to stop giving you stock after 6 months, then paying you the amount they're proposing to pay you now would be fair (at least to make up the 2/3 you missed out on for 6 months.)

Basically they're asking you to take as much risk as they are, yet they're going to screw you on equity and on income. And they're not even offering it as a deferred salary (which would give them the legal obligation to pay it.)

To be honest, looking at this deal, it communicates to me that these people are not honest and you should not do business with them. I could be misreading something, but it sounds like they're trying to cheat you and use your nationality as an excuse.

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Edit to add: This is the reason for equity in startups. To allow cash poor startups to attract good talent. They're trying to not pay you (until some imagined future cash infusion at which point they can fire you) and not give you equity.... you're going to do the 6 months of work that earns them the big venture capital and then they can replace you without you getting any equity?

That's why I think this transcends raw deal into the realm of cheating you. (And normally I'm of the "whatever two people agree to is none of my business" persuasion. But you asked here so this is my opinion. It doesn't matter how great the idea is or the other guys, if you're not going to be able to participate in the long term. Equity measn they want you around, no equity means they'll replace you in those 6 months.)
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Autolayout in Lion does something similar to this, it's quite nice after the springs and struts we were stuck with in previous versions of OS X.
It's actually to keep people from trading on info before it's public. Every investor legally is entitled to get material info at the same time.

Being this brutally honest as a firm isn't easy. Sometimes you withhold for what seems to be good reasons - not scaring people, not distracting people, etc. Not everyone reacts well to such transparency. All this said, it did build a remarkably strong culture for them.
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If it hadn't occurred to you yet that Facebook cares far
more about the "Like" buttons that you don't click than
about the ones that you do -- there you go.

I've been telling this to people since ages. These stupid Like buttons are an infestation, and exactly the reason why I care so much about Facebook's privacy policies despite not being registered on it - it's just not as simple as "not having an account". This goes for the other networks, too, by the way.

Besides, this solution with the two clicks is very clever, and privacy friendly. In addition, it speeds up page loading. It speaks for itself that the only measure Facebook has is trying to sue with a very broadly formulated policy, which I doubt applies in this case anyways:

if such use could confuse users into thinking that the
reference is to Facebook features or functionality.

Well duh, it is a Facebook feature/functionality.
I don't seem to see his posts unless I enable "showdead".

I didn't even know karma worked this way on HN. Quite ridiculous, IMHO, to completely hide someone if their karma runs too low. Especially if it can happen by unfortunate accident and ends up hiding a positive contributor completely from view--basically means the system is broken.
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I forgot how when I click a like button on a foreign page, face book is keeping data about what pages I am visiting and (who,what,when,where,how) and is selling that click data about me to the highest bidder (and I cant turn it off) to advertisers or worse government agencies doing warrent-less surveillance.

I'm never clicking a facebook like button again until I can turn off user website tracking.
Friendly reminder, blocking all and any of Facebook's pre-click tracking measures can be implemented easily in AdBlock Plus (or any equivalent ad blocker) with the following rules:

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The HP-15C is the only calculator that ever became an extension of my mind. It is that good. After 20 years the keys became a little unreliable, so the brain connection snapped; I don't know if I could wire it back in again.
You don't even need to click the like button. Facebook get the information as soon as you view the foreign page.
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The attributes you decide to use now may wind up in the HTML spec some day. If that were to happen, your site may break.

...I hear that a bit when this question comes up. Personally, I think the site would be due for an update by then anyway.
By 'selling that click data about me' you realize that the only monetization tool Facebook has is a anonymized and aggregated ads tool...it doesn't sell click data.
To some degree, I feel the same way.

I look at what people had created and in between the thoughts of "this is cool", "this is boring", and "why didn't anyone think of this before?", there's a sense of inspiration that someone has created something and people are using it now. (I also get something similar to NIH, but I've learned through the years to mostly ignore that.)

I get a lot of joy in using software to allow people to do something new, something better than they had done before, or just to make their everyday life a little bit easier.
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Facebook is detestable. Just like its founder.
People, including myself, seem to forget that Google has a far more pervasive network that has been operating for much longer.
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I'm constantly seeing posts from hell banned users who are contributing. Here's an example I saw just this minute (you may not be able to see it if you don't have show dead turned on.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2930421

Since I see these posts and the spam and I've left it on for several weeks this way, obviously the spam that is getting thru with showdead on is not enough to make me want to turn it off. In fact, except on the new posts feed, I rarely see spam at all.
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Facebook better wake up and realize that especially thanks to companies like them and their failure to self-regulate and respect privacy values outside the US, using Like-buttons for tracking is likely to become illegal in the EU and many other places in the next five years.

Technically, one could argue that they already violate existing laws, but incidents like these will make absolutely sure that these practices will be explicitly outlawed very soon.

It keeps surprising me how companies like Facebook and Google seem to be oblivious to the way privacy is perceived elsewhere, and are actively provoking stricter legislation than would be the case if they showed some respect. There is absolutely no question about these tracking practices being perceived as ethically unacceptable in many countries, so why provoke both negative publicity and legislation that is likely to handicap less intrusive solutions as well?
There is a nice talk about the security of the packstation card.

http://vimeo.com/26025789 (audio german, slides english)
Group of people show up in plainsclothes. One knocks on your door and identifies himself as a police officer and alludes threateningly to your family's immigration status. Two of the others ask if they can enter your house. You agree to it (and they find nothing).

Everything in that series of events is incredibly sketchy and falls under the heading "if it isn't illegal, it should be." And if you go by the spirit of the law, the Apple employees should definitely be charged for impersonating police officers, given this narrative of events.

Note that it would still be incredibly goonish even if (a) they made sure the dude understood they were Apple employees and not police officers or (b) everyone involved actually is a police officer. Pure nastiness on the part of Apple and the SFPD.
There is a more subtle and generic message here: your product might sneak outside the target market despite best efforts. Be prepared to pivot. 37s actually has a huge opportunity if they choose to take it.
From my own experience, the line "subject to the availability of capital" means you're never going to see the money. Capital is always short or tied up in other areas not earmarked for salary.
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I'm not sure I completely agree with this argument, but I think it is worth putting out there. It doesn't matter if a single article gets killed. We have too much information already, so not seeing a single article will probably mean very little.

However, seeing spam is really annoying. So what we want to do is maximize for minimal amount of annoyance on the front page. What a single flag does when it kills an article is minimizes annoyance on the front page for the most people.

I think the real question is what should we be maximizing?
Corresponding blocks are already in the EasyPrivacy list.

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So I just read this piece.. and I dont know what the point of it was.. Other than to point out that the author made a wrong prediction, and to note that iOS and Android software handle different screen sizes differently.

Seriously, did I miss some insight that wasn't self-evident?
He granted SFPD permission, not Apple employees. $100k? That sounds like a stretch. Are you saying the residences of everyone present at the bar that night should be subject to search?
You also get several meanings as well now in Google Translate.
There's another factor: the shares have no value and no way to sell them.
Regardless of whether or not you use a formal plan, exploring the size/scope your target market, loosely defining your product's parameters, and predicting some form of financial return is always a good exercise. You don't need to present it as a formal business plan, but doing those standard, boring, HN-hated activities will at least help you properly explain yourself.
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Their certs are also baked into hardware and a large part of the Dutch e-Government. Diginotar has more than 10 employees. They do other things than merely signing certs.

Size of the company doesn't really matter too. If it matters we would have a single CA.

Apparently even my new passport is signed by the Diginotar PKI. I'm wondering when this will be big news in Holland.
Also worth noting that Firefox users who prefer the idea of whitelisting cross-site requests rather than blacklisting them, can install RequestPolicy.
Dude ... read the other comments. It was a talent acquisition / google changed it's strategy since. If the founders did not want to have it shutdown they should have negotiated a clause in the contract.
I'm not sure why you'd treat your own product any different from how you treat freelance work?

What if the freelance client was someone building an MVP? :)
Simpler solution (which GTD practitioners already know): keep a Waiting On list. Put due dates on it. Follow up when you hit the due date.

I use Todoist, but this will work with many todo systems, including pen & paper ones. When populating a project with items, like "Email Greg with questions from the RFP", I also add an item, like "Get RFP questions from Greg" and tag it with @waiting. I will also give the latter item a due date (e.g. 24 hours). If I want to see everything I'm waiting on, I can just look at the @waiting tag, but it's going to pop up when it's due anyways.

This is a much better solution if you already have todo lists, since you don't have to train yourself to perform a different activity, or keep track of yet another list of things in another program. Plus, it separates todo list maintenance activities from your email inbox. That kind of mental separation makes me way more productive by reducing the complexity of the given activity (i.e. sending an email).
Question: What are the financial disclosure requirements for startups? 
Does an employee at a start up with considerable options, or with options converted to restricted stock, have any rights to any company financials, or does the company have a right to keep them all secret?
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I'm guessing this was linked because it was an interesting discussion on helicopter piloting and not because of the original question.

Pretty neat description of how it works.
I put my faith in Google's engineers and they have utterly destroyed my credibility.

Come to a Microsoft event some time and let a Silverlight developer buy you a sympathy beer.
Maybe it's because they want people to use google translate, which has the same functionality?
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Also, perhaps OS X? If there's an OS out there where everything from top to bottom seems engineered in harmony, it has got to be OS X...
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That's obviously an example of something that will practically never happen, which is why it doesn't work all that well as a justification for ditching SQL databases altogether.

I've never used NoSQL for anything, so there must be a lot that I'm missing, and that's why I asked. But it seems to me like you'd be digging up necessary information through quite a few steps if everything is "flat".
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"There are units slated for Europe." according to http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/forum.cgi?r...
What are some good, popular books on learning effective copywriting?
This is a great guide: http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course
Apparently it's more of a copyright issue than the 2-click process. They don't like their logo being used on a locally hosted image. So heise.de made the button more generic and it's all good now.
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You could periodically run a script that checks all the records for errors (especially embedded records that might have drifted from their current value, and not been properly changed by the app-level constraints), and automatically correct them (plus log the error).

If Michael Arlington changes his job from "editor in chief" to "founder, former editor, occasional contributor, and CEO of Arlington Investments", and his old posts aren't all updated, it's not the end of the world.

It really depends on the problem domain. You wouldn't run a bank's ledger off MongoDB. On the other hand, a bank's ledger should be radically simple, with little need for normalization.
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Despite the potential conflict surrounding the leadership quote provided in the post I found that overall the post resonated with me.

As someone starting down the entrepreneurial path I have found that it's easy to get caught up reading the countless startup news sources, scouring endless books on how to succeed or attending the large number of conferences pitched at people like me. All have their merit in moderation but, particularly as someone who has decided to bootstrap my current startup, I find I get the most done and feel the best about what I'm doing when I focus on what my startup is building and how we're building it, rather than getting caught up in "all that noise".

In writing it down here it seems pretty obvious that focusing on what you're building should be the priority but it can be surprisingly easy to lose focus.
Freelancing is great! It's flexible! It's win-win! But what freelancers really, really need is more oversight, regulation, and goodies from Washington.

Permit me to doubt it.
All I'm saying is with Heroku you have to clobber these features together and the real cost of that is higher than people may be admitting in these comparisons.

I've worked with both platforms and I'm not saying heroku is horrible. In fact it might be the easiest to get started with of all the PAAS providers but it's expensive (they all are) and does not provide the same level of features out of the box that GAE does. Saying that because I can eventually get all the features I need by clobbering together a bunch of random gems and bringig AWS into the mix is quite different than having a unified api out of the box.

The point I'm making is that there is an additional real cost this kind of integration work (just like there are real costs learning googles API and accepting a certain amount of lock in.) and I don't think these costs are being fairly represent in the current discussion.
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Yeah, that's what I was referring to.
How many people built software before iOS and Android? A few folks scattered across huge companies that either built consumer products or provided services for those companies.

Nonsense. Pre-2008 (iPhone App Store launch) there was loads of software aimed at the residential market. There was also the open source movement, which had created a whole operating system from scratch. Yes, the App Stores have made it much easier to sell software, but to think that all software was made in megacorps is silly. This isn't the 1980s!
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Thanks for these. Is there a page I can go to for blocking rules on all of the "social networking" sites?
Very early days but I came across a project called Racer, which is aiming to do just that: http://blog.nateps.com/announcing-racer-experimental-realtim...
Don't underestimate the fact that expensive foreign branded products are considered prestigious. That may have more to do with why Baidu's OS is copypasta than anyting else.
> In an interview with SF Weekly last night, Calderón told us that six badge-wearing visitors came to his home in July to inquire about the phone. Calderón said none of them acknowledged being employed by Apple, and one of them offered him $300, and a promise that the owner of the phone would not press charges, if he would return the device.

I wonder if it was the Apple-associated people who spouted this lie (my guess would be yes).

Individuals (e.g. victims) do not have any say in whether or not a prosecutor charges a suspect with a crime. This is a common misunderstanding - there is no such thing as "pressing charges" if you are not a prosecutor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Home owners should be allowed to put a bin like this at our houses that can substitute for the signature. Obviously the whole bar code etc thing isn't necessary. It could just work like old mail slots. Items can go in, but can't go out.