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> I don’t think the firewall adds anything significant to the startup time

Think how long iptables takes to load, plus installing a couple of system hooks to detect unknown programs and a GUI window to warn about them. This stuff only takes a long time to load if you're loading in a huge framework and JIT at startup - startup times are very quick for C++ programs using Win32 API calls or WTL.

I'd say anti-virus and anti-spyware are mostly treated as one these days (anti-malware) - with things like Microsoft Security Essentials, Norton Internet Security, etc. I use MSE and it sure as hell doesn't add 5 seconds to startup. It doesn't even add 1. But perhaps it's because I'm running a 'post-modern' machine with an SSD...
Windows 8 update : 8 seconds boot time
And porn stars aren't capable of using MongoDB?

Not sure why you deleted my comment btw - slightly over-aggressive moderation there? Your prerogative I guess.

ETA: appreciate you sending me an e-mail.
I still haven't been able to get this to work on Lion. Here is the actual github page where you can read more about the issues.

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms
plus I suspect that SSDs and similar non-mechanical parts means you no longer need to worry so much about drop damages, so you can remove all the rubber bumpers and get a cleaner look.
The company I work for recently adopted a NetFlix style "we don't track vacation" policy. It's been about nine months, and anecdotes (no data available - we don't track!) suggest total vacation time taken is less than half of last year.

I suppose that whether that's good or bad is pretty subjective.
So, the founders aren't the ones that started the company then? When I say "founder" I mean the person that started the company from day 1: taking no salary in the beginning because the company wasn't making any money, taking a chance for months or even years that the company will go out of business or possibly succeed, or even working on the company during off-hours from a regular 9-5.

If a company has enough capital to pay employee #1, then yes, the founder is making a salary. But, at this point, the risk is considerably less and employee #1 shouldn't be getting anywhere near the same payout if the company gets bought out.

The founder also most likely has their own money tied up in the company.

Employee #1 can always get unemployment if the company goes bust. The founder will have their name and business credit history tied to the company if there are major problems. Employee #1 can just go find another job as if nothing ever happened.

"If the big-F Founder has a richer set of post-failure options than founding employees – and gets more beneficial notoriety even in failure"

More risk=more reward. If you are employee #1 and you aren't getting paid industry or above industry rates, then you shouldn't be working at that startup. If you want all of the glory when it succeeds, then you need to start your own company.

Have you ever actually started a company? It's not easy. Much more difficult (and risky) than being employee #1.
In fairness this is an unusually well targeted email - assuming there's a real job they've effectively alerted 800 people in a relatively small niche to its existence in a relatively inoffensive way (you'd rather they did it the hard work way by bothering you at meetups and calling you to see if you're ready to ditch your startup yet? Really?). The ratio of people that might actually be interested in the job to people who wasted approximately 2 seconds parsing the email is quite high.

Now I start laughing when recruiters match me with CS graduate jobs which match up with me on their database because they're in the same part of the country as the university I went to, four years ago, in a completely different subject area...
Putting some thought into it. I think you multiply not add information density, but there are also limits on how complex a message you can decode. Consider the information density of each sylible is also limited by the grammer used.

1 cm left 4 cm up

If you drop '4 cm up' you go from a 2D to a 1D but replace up with blue does not mean anything.
Ask HN: 15-day free trial vs. 30-day free trial
Does anyone have opinions/experiences about which is better, or even A/B tested trial durations? I'm looking at shortening the trial period to increase sales. Anything that I should be looking out for?
HR policies that treat people like professionals and adults are refreshing.

Sadly, not everyone can afford to hire only those who will act this way. It's expensive, and not always worth the cost.
Are you sure what you tried was O365? It's so much more than GDocs.
> Doesn't turning machine off and on each time shorten life of various its components?

More so than 8+ hours of use, do you think?

I've heard the myth often enough, though never any evidence either way.
Apple's most high profile product launch in recent memory - the iPhone 4 - was a borderline PR disaster (antennagate, nasty Consumer Reports recommendations, suing Gizmodo)... and it's arguably their most successful product yet, still outselling everyone 15 months after launch. Argue the legal/moral merits all you want, but this doesn't even register in terms of Apple's public image.
You can figure it out with google translate. Traduce "made me" and "let me" from english to chinese.

I think it is 让.
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I am used to people no connecting with Russian humor. She's actually well known porn star.

A bit of advice going forwards: this isn't a national-or-otherwise sense of humour issue. I have no doubt there are many people from many different countries that have a knowledge of famous porn stars. There'll also be lots who don't... and that's without getting in to the whole objectifying women debate ;-)
Those two things sound like backend capacity issues, rather than frontend. The frontend as I understand it is almost all static HTML/JS. So they may be having capacity issues, but that would be true whether they stayed on the old twitter or moved to the new twitter.
I am an avid Vim user, and I also find such cheat sheets overwhelming. My pattern has been slow, incremental learning.

Starting from scratch is very intimidating. But when you have 10 commands in muscle memory, learning #11 seems pretty easy. When you know 50, #51 seems easy.

At first, using Vim was terrible. In a couple of weeks, I was back to "normal" productivity. In the 3 or so years since, I've continued to learn a new "trick" every few weeks or so, making notes in a Google Doc.

There is a long tail of commands, and no, you don't need all of them. But yesterday I created a macro that called a second macro, performing many complicated edits in my file in a few seconds that would have taken 10 minutes otherwise.

Was that worth it? Heck yes. It saved time, but even better, it felt awesome. The computer did my bidding.

Isn't that what programming is all about?
I remember the old joke of emacs standing for Eight Megabytes (of RAM) And Constantly Swapping. Oh for the days when that was a lot of system memory.. Not really.
Does Microsoft issue automatic downtime credits?
It passed? I haven't been able to find anything about it passing, and GovTrack[0] still shows that neither the house nor senate has voted on it.

[0]: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968
Is there an award for title redundancy?
Reference please?

(You aren't talking about that Samsung phone which were announced before the iPhone but not shown until a good while after the iPhone was released?)
Oh, hi! I left on Tuesday morning (as you may know). I was wondering if the power ever came back on before you guys left.

Thanks for the nice comments too! Your group was pretty fantastic at that. Being motivated with the weird conditions for the day, even with some of you having flooded basements and whatnot. It was a pretty fun day.
Two excellent books (O'Reilly, PragProg) and this site are great for beginners. The standard docs are very good once you are comfortable with the language. Great mailing list. I don't agree with your comment.
Look at your comments, you have some bias against Microsoft and Google.
Exactly. It's the best system, but only works when dealing with the best people.
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep is really good book. The movie is also nice, but it is almost independent masterpiece in itself. These dresses of Rachel, these rainy streets. Never mind.

Btw, A Scanner Darkly is also good novel by Philip K. Dick, but it never appear in any such ratings. It is almost that dark and depressive as Electric Sheep. ^_^ http://www.amazon.com/Scanner-Darkly-Philip-K-Dick/dp/067973...

As for Zelazny, A Night In Lonesome October is very nice read. http://www.amazon.com/Night-Lonesome-October-Roger-Zelazny/d...
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When the user is told their free trial period has ended - give them the opportunity to extend it - even if you have a process to OK that - this is very likely to increase conversions.
Is it in the same space? It's too small.. they need a new crib.
It doesn't give her the right to act like a spoiled brat in public.

It didn't need to, that right is innate. As is your right to voice your disapproval.

She should be embarrassed.

By whose standard? Yours? Why should she care what you (or I, or pg, or Larry Ellison, or the wino standing at the corner of 3rd and Main) thinks about what should embarrass her? Or maybe she should worry about some abstract notion like "society" or (even worse) "polite society?" Feh...

I think we just have to agree to disagree on this point.

Fair enough. Reasonable people disagree all the time.

Anyway, I'll freely admit that I'm biased towards people who do things that go "against the grain" and break the "rules". If throwing a little profanity around and escalating a situation is their thing, I support it (to a point at least). I mean, I think there's a lot to be said for the mindset of "if I think this guy is being a doofus, I'm going to say he's a doofus, and damn political correctness."
Right.

Unless you literally mean take as much vacation as you feel is right and no matter how much you take (even 4 weeks straight), we won't ask questions, then I'd rather have a specific number.

For sick time, I think this is a great idea. I have unlimited sick time where I work, so I only take it when I'm really sick. It's like the saying that what gets measured gets done. The measure of legitimate sick time is not "do you have the time" but "are you sick," so that's what people use to judge when taking sick time. If it was "do you have the time" then as long as they had the time, people would feel fine taking sick time, even if they weren't sick.

If you tell me I can take as much vacation as I want as long as I need a vacation, then even to take a half-day, I need a justification. Every vacation day, or part of a day, becomes a risk that I'm going to look like I'm taking too much vacation.
The right investor becomes a partner from which you can leverage their knowledge, experience, and network. You may not need them as an investor to access these resources but to propose that you have plenty of cash, knowledge, experience, or network to make your company as successful as possible would be a pretty outrageous statement.
Where do you get that info from? Isn't it a little early to extrapolate long-term uptime stats for a new service like O365? Maybe you were referring to the cloud infrastructure only, and not the app layer?
Except when the API is overloaded, which is often. Then Twitter.com just spins for a long while and gives a message about trying again while failing to load your tweets at all.
Often its by just shuffling funds from certain programs to another. I believe in this particular case, they'll also use revenue-generating measures like closing tax loopholes to fund the new programs, thereby not adding to the deficit.
>The U.S. economy is stalled because of a wave of government legislative activism

Really? I thought it was that dive in consumer demand.
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My company did the same. It must be a fad among CEOs.

While on the face of it this policy looks like an improvement, it turned an entitlement into something that depends on the generosity of one's boss. Also, keep in mind that when quitting you don't get any accrued money. I highly dislike it.
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I didn't see the original comment, but I assume it was a suggestion to hide tweets in the stream that aren't from or retweeted by a user that you follow.
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30 days is the de facto standard and I don't see why you should change that to make money a bit faster. Any kind of a/b testing would have to be done by you to be relevant.
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I'm not sure what the cause is exactly, but back when they let you chose between new and old, I found that it was always slower and less reliable on the new version of the site. And it hasn't got any better since they killed off the old version.
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Ask HN: tiny VMs
I've searched in vain, so I ask you folks:

Is there a tiny Linux distro aimed at running in a VM (i.e. not buckets of drivers in there for all the things the VM doesn't have; rather a very thin light kernel because its all backed by the VM)? Perhaps even set up for an external x running on the host? Ideally with a packaging system built around single-shot apps? So I can have a VM for a browser, and another for a mail app and so on, each with a tiny footprint?

Host would be Windows or Linux.
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Yeah, there isn't any bigger place in Berlin. Last year I think they were at 120% capacity, because they have such a good relationship with the management of the place that they get access to all the "secret" places. They run their own Phone & Network operation centers etc. There is a server room that attendees can plug their servers into, and CCC made a 10Gbit fiber connection across the city!
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In bandwidth starved places (India, Africa), such a method itself seems more suitable. Some even found carrier pigeons to be useful for the task. (http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/09/us-safrica-pigeon-... )
Thanks for your help - that's a great article!
I'm glad to see Gene Wolfe just squeaked onto the list, but IMO the New Sun series ranks up there with Dune.

Pohl's "Gateway" and Gibson/Sterling's "The Difference Engine" would have been nice additions, too.

Otherwise, it's a nice starting point. There are a few titles I hadn't heard about that I'll be reading, if I can find the time.
They also only last until the company hits a certain size, and someone starts taking 4 months of holiday a year, because they can. In countries where you can't easily be fired, anyway.

Most stupid HR policies come about from an employee abusing the system. Come in before 9:30! No sick pay! etc etc
However I found that 3rd party libraries often aren't very well documented. I found myself having to read the source more often that with other languages. Luckily though, Erlang is much easier to understand than those other languages.
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Google Plus is a new service that goes with your Google account, just like Gmail, Documents, Maps, etc. They don't count as new users if they already have a Google account.
I've seen similar situations. People wind up never knowing if it's really ok to take vacation, so they don't. If the folks in charge are the workaholic types, the answer is usually perceived to be "no", even if it's not.
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Good list. There is also interesting work that could be done starting where Strongtalk and/or Self left off (well, Strongtalk is still alive afaik but progressing slowly). Image based programming is very different than "cult of the dead" programming and I think it still has a lot to teach us.

I'd also like to see more effort going into generic functions. This is clearly a superset of message passing and is more powerful (e.g. no need for the visitor or related patterns).

I'd also like to see effort put into exploring the CL conditions systems. Exceptions already made programming more robust, conditions give the developer full control over error handling.
Google Docs was down for over an hour just two days ago when they were yapping about switching to the cloud to save energy and announcing offline apps.
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I'm a big fan of Iain Banks since reading Excession (which still remains my favourite). Also loved Dune, but haven't read any of the sequels yet. I'd also recommend Catherine Asaro's saga of the Skolian Empire to anyone that is into physics/maths.
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Thanks for the downvotes. You all must have an EFI that boots installation media reliably, or have one that has a proper BIOS emulation with usb support, or have one that has support for graphics switching when not in OS X, or have one that doesn't require an HFS+ partition with "bless"ings.
After the rogue trader incident at SocGen, the investment bank I was working for required people to take a week of vacation at a time (HR would actually verify compliance). Employees would have to declare in advance that they were planning a mandatory vacation so IT could suspend their remote logins and disable their card access to the building.
"Essentially, they cost nothing to the carrier in that they get transmitted as part of the control channel. "

That was true at one point, but the popularity of SMS has completely swamped the capacity of the control channels.
Read the 6 books by Frank Herbert, skip the other spin offs by his son and the other guy - they're terrible in comparison.
I think you've succeeded. It is the de-facto free learning guide for Erlang.
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Its exciting to watch this proposal start to come to fruition. I worked in the government, and attended an Access to Capital Summit in the Dept of Treasury back in March, where I saw this proposal take bloom.

At the Summit, Jessica Jackley of Profounder and Kiva vocally voiced concern for the Reg A and Reg D restrictions on "accredited investors". Sec Geithner was in the room as well. A month afterwards, the idea had organically permeated other conversations in the White House, and meetings in the OSTP would often bring up the issue. Now it seems its finally made its way into legislative proposal.

Comes to show I think, that even though government is slow, byzantine, and sometimes impossible to access, often all it takes to get something done is to just show up and say something really provocative. Someone may listen!
Its not the OS's fault that you've littered your machine with all sorts of startup checkers and startup apps. Then again, most end users arent aware of this.

Is the state of software engineering so poor that no one has considered staggered or delayed startup for some of these borderline useless apps? I mean, startup is a busy time in the computer world and on the server end of things we use delayed services all the time, but on the dekstop the assholes at Apple and Google and the rest just assume that their little startup app should run immediately and with full priority and so what if you have 5 others just like this. Heaven forbid someone consider the end user experience here.

I think MS had to step in and set these things to low priority starting with Vista. What a mess when the OS guys are fixing what the app guys are simply unable or unwilling to do.
When using Windows, one of my first troubleshooting steps is to reinstall the program. I (almost) never do that on the Mac. I'm guessing part of the reason is that Mac OS detects corrupt files before they are installed.
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This is how my company works too, and I think it's a great idea, assuming that the culture isn't one where people are belittled for taking vacations. If the culture causes people to feel a complex about taking time off, people will just resent the policy. Personally, I really enjoy the flexibility it affords, and it's quite a golden handcuff when I think about leaving to find another job.

Looking at job descriptions with their little 3.5 weeks of vacation is just a bummer now. Who wants to sit around thinking about the optimal way to use that time? Just do a kick-ass job and take vacations when you want. This benefit means more to me than a considerable increase in salary would.
Because it is lip service only. This plan will be muddled by congress as to benefit primarily the large institutions that are their donors, rather than the intended swath of USians. When that happens, don't expect Obama to be outraged. The exact same thing happened with health care, tax rates, debt cap, etc.
Yes. I added that to tests and README. Except that I have

fib = +lambda {|n| return n if n <= 1; fib[n-1] + fib[n-1] }

My fibonacci is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3.. and yours is 1, 1, 2, 3... but doesn't make a difference as far as example goes.
I never though much of Dune 2-5 either, but I guess I'm in the minority on this one.
Again a misleading Headline for klicks.

The subject was an injunction, i don't know how the author comes to the conclusion of a permanent ban. This is just a prequel to the real trial.
You got it. The biggest issue for patent reform is the scope of patents granted. Reduce the scope of patentable things for the biggest effect.
I see "retarded", "Jew" and other terms (when used pejoratively) as in a separate usage class from "fuck", "shit" and their ilk. The former are invectives; that is, they refer to a specific kind of person. Their usage can only be interpreted as negative judgment of a human being, even if they're not specifically talking about someone. ("Don't let them Jew you" is still negatively judging Jews even if "them" is vague.)

On the other hand, "fuck", "shit" et al. exist in a bit of a vacuum. "What the fuck" is not offensive to fucks, because (hopefully) very few people identify as "fucks".

So, the vector of offense for "Jew" is different from the vector of offense for "fuck". I'm offended when people use racial slurs. But when someone simply swears, I don't see a reason to be offended. It may affect my opinion of them; for example, I am less likely to respect someone for being articulate if they can't express themselves without swearing every couple of words. But getting offended implies some degree of emotional investment in the words or concepts themselves, which I don't really see the basis for.

To put it another way: I feel like any reasonable, compassionate person can't help but be offended to some degree by slurs; and they should be, because slurs are probably not such a great thing. Conversely, I think that we are taught to be offended by swears, and it's within reach of the average person to disconnect their emotional response from them.
If I recall when I was doing my research, one of the selling points of Chobani is that it's got 2x the protein of traditional American-style yogurt (i.e. Danon, YoPlait, etc.) Those all have 6-8g of protein / container, and Chobani has 14-20g, which is awesome when you're on a high-protein diet.