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I don't know what you consider volatile, but Bing launched in 2009 and now has over 30% marketshare. Yahoo also quit search. Other challengers keep popping up too (Wolfram Alpha, Blekko, Duck Duck Go, etc.).

Anyway, I found it clear that Schmidt wasn't saying that he thought Bing was going to beat Google. He said there are others who think that. You can call that misleading or slippery, but it's by definition not a bald-faced lie.
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Groupon Loses New COO, Who's Going Back to Google
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I like knowing how much of things is in my food. :)
Let me warm up my spam-blocking finger so I won't injure myself.
Isn't that because the web-based app can be read on many more devices, such as Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Android, Nokia, etc?
YouTube is nearly perfect for watching a video. That's what it's really good at. Not a lot of room for improvement on that.

The biggest unsolved problem is discovering good content. I would probably watch a lot more stuff on YouTube if I knew it existed. As is I usually learn about interesting content or producers from external sources. Making YouTube a better destination could turn it into something twice as amazing as it already is.
Clojure 1.3 Released
Im the founder of "Guali Mexico" (guali.com.mx). ... I got selected, see you there guys :)
Changelog: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/1.3.x/changes.txt
Yelp complaining about anticompetitive practices by Google is about as hypocritical as you can get.
How do you mean you haven't found a good MVP yet? (Just trying to parse that.)
Ok - now it's working :)
What does being a white male have to do with anything?
I was a beta tester, and I sent my mom a card using SendWrite. She just told me she got it and that it was the single best thing she received this year =]
I agree with numerous opinions in here that consider this a fiasco.
Many say that the law must be interpreted in it's context (uk) and that the guy behind the service couldn't much, etc. But honestly, why putting up a service bragging to fight the power all the time, specifically pointing out that it can be used to circumvent censorship, etc. if you're going to give in at the first trouble.
I don't recall them clearly stating that their service was not meant to provide means to those breaking laws. If they are so loyal to some country law, then they should clearly state it, instead of bragging how cool they are by rebelling against some other county law.

I say, if you put a service like this up, stand up for its integrity, or else, don't bother creating it in the first place.
If you're using Homebrew on OS X, here's a formula to install Shen 1.7: https://github.com/hadronzoo/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Fo...
Grammar aside, I think this should be signed at the very least to show interest in IP law change. You have to admit that any developer with any sense of the litigation battlefield currently represented in the law should jump at the chance to bring more focus to the subject. I would rather fight big business on a competitiveness basis than over the tremendous threat of litigation with the large legal team overlords cutting up every concept and locking it down.
Groupon's COO leaves company to return to Google
If your servers support it, and a few major web browsers support it, then SPDY should work for most people. You can always fall back on HTTP, so if 80% of your users speak SPDY, that's a good situation.
Good call on launching as soon as you can, but in regards to your startup, why are you trying to take the meaning out of physical letters? The splash page basically says, "Everybody loves getting cards because they mean something. We're trying to make them as meaningless as email."
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Can you talk more about your internal solution?
I don't know if they'll be around for long — but what about the HP Envy laptop? The industrial design is very similar:
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/envy/index.html?ju...

PS I'm pretty sure that Apple has a patent on magsafe, so nobody else will have that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe
> The BBC is indirectly funded, but not controlled by the UK government.

I doubt funding can ever be divorced from control, even if it is indirect. The BBC knows where its next meal comes from.
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So when Carr was writing that last column which slagged AOL was he already setting this up with Arrington?
This Is What A Network Marketing Pro Does To Succeed.
Thanks - I will watch the entire clip later (looks interesting) but a quick scan and I would say what appears to be the part of the interview that was referred to seems to be somewhat ambiguous. And I think you're right I wouldn't characterize it as "lost it" either. Although he
does appear irritated and says he was "blindsided" I don't think this is really representative of the Steve that I remember and commented about (no clips of that sorry..)

It starts at about 20:10 and Steve says he was "blindsided" at about 21:00 approx. as if he was misled or something by Andrew. I thought the question Andrew asked was a good question.
AeroFS is hiring
You've heard about us on Hacker News, and now you've seen us on TechCrunch (http://ae.ro/oo9oUV).

We're a well funded (and no longer stealth) company solving fundamentally fun and hard problems in the system software space. Not only are we building a world class syncing and collaboration tool, we're also trying to redefine today's view of the "cloud".

We are a small and agile team of five Engineers and we're looking for smart people to join us.

AeroFS touches almost every layer in the technology stack, so you will have the opportunity to work on both incredibly low-level and high-level problems. Because of the size of our team, you will be "CEO" of whatever you create.

You should be extremely detail-oriented and have a high bar for quality - for us, performance is crucial.

If you're interested, shoot us an email at hnjobs@aerofs.com
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Some fine print:

We really, really, want you to have a deep knowledge of:

* Highly scalable server architectures

* Networking and Distributed Systems

* Databases background is a plus

Additionally, you should have:

* B.S, M.S, or Ph.D., in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

* Expert knowledge of either C++ or Java (Shell scripting and Obj-C are a plus).

* Familiarity with the UNIX working environment

If you have any projects you've done on the side, we'd love to see them!

Benefits:

* Competitive salaries and stock options at an early stage startup

* Medical/Dental Benefits

* Free lunches, snacks, and a fridge fully stocked with BEvERages

* Build your dream development machine

* Netflix, Amazon Prime, Foosball Table

* Working in Downtown Palo Alto (goes well with the free lunches ;)

* Did we mention we work on hard and interesting problems?

Email us! hnjobs@aerofs.com
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Having launched web applications in both markets I can say with a high degree of confidence that both systems are far from perfect. However, I think the US system suffers the most because it is "stuck in the middle". It struggles to benefit from innovation because antiquated payment models often delay (if not outright discourage) it. E.g., use of e-mail is a NEW phenomemon for many US docs. So we don't get the benefit of truly free markets working quickly to highlight/exploit inefficiencies. On the flip side, we get the bloat but not the benefits of a single payer system- even though most care is paid for by the government. I think a single-payer system would be a local maximum but a truly free market would be the most optimal.
Is this "petitions" feature on whitehouse.gov brand new? I've heard of a couple of petitions today, and never before.

I see right now that there are only 32 petitions there, and every one of them is either a neutral or leftish cause. The only completely nutty one is the UFO one, and there are no troll ones either (I thought "Stop Animal Homelessness At Its Roots" was a clever troll, but apparently it's talking about abandoned pets rather than wild animals).

Have conservative activists not yet got wind of this? Has 4chan not yet got wind of this? Or is the White House carefully curating what petitions it allows to appear on its site?
Show HN: SaaSaholics.com - A forum for SaaS builders (and a contest)
Hey Guys,

I set this up a while ago and have tried a variety of things to get it really kicked into gear, and this is my newest attempt. The forum is meant as a community for anyone involved in startups and specifically SaaS based systems (Software as a Service).

I know, why a forum when we have HN? My opinion is because HN is inherently temporal/trend based, whereas a forum can maintain conversations that last months (or even years sometimes). As participation grows in a forum, it only becomes more valuable to both newcomers and veterans alike. So I see SaaSaholics.com being in a symbiotic relationship with something like HN, where HN facilitates trending topics and fresh information and a forum helps for networking and long term conversations.

Additionally, I've setup a contest for the first 5 users to reach 100 posts at the forum. The winners will receive a free lifetime account to my SEO Competition Analysis Tool, serpIQ.com. The details of the contest can be viewed here: http://www.saasaholics.com/thread-let-s-kick-this-place-into-gear?pid=337#pid337

I'd love for everyone to check out the forum and participate if interested. Thanks guys!
The time has come when Microsoft does think they can get away with it. All Metro apps on Windows 8 will have to go through their app store approval process.
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Show HN: We want to help startups poach engineers from Google and Apple 
Hey HN,

All our startup friends are having trouble finding good engineers to hire, while some of our friends who work at big companies are looking for new challenges.

But they don't read HN or TC. They don't know where to start looking.

So we put together a place for the best opportunities.

We'd love some feedback, ideas or suggestions...

Some people call us "The Ashley Madison of Job sites".
The President can certainly sign an executive order saying pretty much whatever he wants to say. The President doesn't really have any explicit authority to issue executive orders, but historically executive orders are treated the same as Congressional legislation (although the courts can certainly overturn one).

That said, I would much prefer a proper legislative approach to an executive one. The Patent and Trademark Office is part of the Department of Commerce, so I don't think it would be frowned upon too much for the executive branch to enact some reform. Still, I think a legislative approach would be more robust and less controversial.
Most of that 30%was bought. Organic growth is incredibly slow. Google has an incredible stringhold on this market and more so on the mobile.
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There is certainly some nice stuff here (it is especially nice that your office is close to trees), but I honestly think the first words that should be printed on the page are what you are looking for. Web designer? Web developer? I don't want to dig through an entire job listing only to find out at the end you are looking for a senior sysadmin with massive photo-shop skills.
I'd be happy to hear your testimonials!

I use it at work everyday, it comes in very handy when you need to keep some changes only specific to your local setup
(monkey patching, javascript page speed measurements, weird php local config stuff, etc, etc).
I'd be very interested in reading regular, photograph-rich updates on how it's going. Either from you, or from any other of the startups.
I was just thinking of inviting jeff to give this talk at a openstack hacking event and I see slide 10 he references us :)
I think the throughput you get of pumping out more code (without really testing it) may be a micro-optimization.

I only bring this up because I once worked at a place with a really strong, borderline omniscient, QA Department and I felt myself getting sloppy and checking in things that I knew were probably wrong, but I knew that QA would find it and tell me how it was wrong. It appeared to be optimal for me as a developer, I got lots of code pumped out, but as far as the whole organization or product, it was a net loss.

Subsequently, I've worked on a few projects with no dedicated QA people, and my overall "getting good software shipped to users in the real world" effectiveness hasn't decreased.
The service charges a monthly or yearly fee for unlimited data transfer. They don't need to log when you actually use the service.
Wolfram Alpha isn't a search engine, and doesn't DDG use Yahoo/Bing's API for some things?

One major player going away, another losing something like 9 Billion, and one or two minor players stepping up isn't exactly a volatile industry.
I thought the Air's already had thunderbolt. Is the video card not capable of 2 monitors yet?
Boo - this isn't free - it is a few sections with a paid sub to watch the rest - please fix the title.
The 30% market share was not truly earned. If IE wasn't pre-installed and the default search engine in Windows and there wasn't MSN portal traffic (Bing technically launched in 2009 but before Bing, it was Live Search and MSN Search), the number would be MUCH lower. You also have to consider the 30% includes buying the rights to power Yahoo! search AT A LOSS contributing to massive red ink all over the division.
At OSCON Ryan had given a report with some benchmarking of libuv vs. the current node 0.4.x implementation. I was hoping to see some updates on that (libuv seemed to pay a pretty steep performance penalty in Windows environments, versus a virtualized Linux instance).

Is there any update on that front? I'm excited to see if they have been able to squeeze better performance out on a native Windows stack since then.
Hey HN,

All our startup friends are having trouble finding good engineers to hire, while some of our friends who work at big companies are looking for new challenges.

But they don't read HN or TC. They don't know where to start looking.

So we put together a place for the best opportunities.

We'd love feedback!

Some people call us "The Ashley Madison of Job sites".
Was I ever on CentOS 5.7?
That's a great move by the administrators of the scheme. Not because hiring locals is a problem (though it very well may be depending on what skillset you need and the language barrier) but because the bother of administrating such a scheme is a huge bother for the startups. They are right to put as few barriers in the way as possible.
Take control of pitches and proposals... looks really cool from the demo.
It's a start, but "What you'll get" needs much more specificity than "A good salary. Tell us what you're looking for."

It would be best to see a specific "We expect to spay $x to $y for this position". Even "Our salaries are in the 80th percentire (based on data from A, B, C)".

This doesn't even try to say, "We'll pay you well", it says "We'll bargain you down."
I'm a little confused by what this does... Can't you just not 'git add' a file to have git ignore its changes?
Pack of 3 cards for $4.99. He put it at the end of the video, but agree: it should be clear on the site.
great stuff !
well outside of these design features that op mentioned the hardware specs you can purchase a comparable laptop with hardware specs for half the price.
Right, gitignore can only help with untracked files, not tracked and changed.

Back in the day when I was using SVN, its ignore-on-commit feature (GUI only, but anyway) was incredibly useful.
I would definitely pay for this service, but might want to see a preview of the printed card. Can you email back a preview of how the text would look? You also don't mention (or make it clear) how much text is allowed: twitter size?
Congrats the ones who've done it for round two.

As being from round one and already have been living in Santiago - Chile almost three months, I'll be more than happy to help/assist newly selected startups on settling down here. For those who consider applying to upcoming rounds are also welcomed.

http://www.startupchile.org/supprojects/limk/
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So what? 30% is 30%
Exactly. It's illegal to import those drugs. It's not illegal to go to another country to get treated.

I'm not a lawyer, and this isn't legal advice, but I'd imagine the only way they could stop you is by passing a new law, and it would be very controversial to try. Existing legislation (and stuff that can be done within the existing framework) is less controversial - bureaucrats and politicians will just say "it's the law, and I may not personally agree with it, but that's just the way things work". You can't say that if you are introducing a new law.
Business cards are so cheap now. As someone else mentioned, Vistaprint and check the 'free' section (not free but cheap). I have many different versions of my business cards. One is a generic 'me' card with just my name, contact information and the URL to a generic landing page on one of my sites.
Then I also have a card for each of my projects (about 2 right now).

Cards are like a resume... old tech. We in the high tech industry know they're dead and know there are tons of way better alternatives, but they're still a basic requirement for doing business.

Go get 250 cards from vistaprint, it'll cost you less than $30 probably. Generic cards with a blank back are always nice because you can write a URL on the back for someone.
It's a real place. The ISS is not a "place" - it's something we put up there. It's the difference between going to the woods and camping on your mother's lawn.

Besides that, if we can manufacture spacecraft parts on the Moon, launching them is much easier than launching from Earth. You can even use a maglev rail to launch stuff from there - no reaction mass involved.
I like the idea, although I'd be careful - I'd imagine the various companies involved might not be too keen on such direct action against them. Is this something you've investigated, in terms of their/your legal standpoint or indeed how these companies react to recruiters approaching their employees?
The file still shows up in status and, the most important, changes from file still shows up in 'add|checkout|reset -p' which I use all the time.
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gitignore only works on files that haven't been added. This looks like it's for files already being tracked.
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That said, based on things we read here, there certainly seems to be a demand for this kind of thing - just letting people see what they could do could be the catalyst to get them into start-ups from some of these bigger companies.
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Compuserve used to do this; it got old quickly; but good luck!
Great, I just signed up and sent a letter to my mom!

I've been meaning to look more into a good service like this, because I hate "writing" letters. I would love to keep in touch with my relatives and send out updates, but I am quite lazy. Photos/postcards aren't quite what I want either.

I hate paying through Paypal though :(

The $2/letter price point for the 20 pack still seems high. Care to comment on the pricing? I know I am inaccurately spitballing, but $0.44 postage and then $0.25 maybe for letter+envelope in bulk?
As with many things, not available in Canada (bing is, just no video background).
Here is the breakup of nationalities, thirty-three in all:

Argentina: 5, Australia: 1, Belgium: 2, Bolivia: 1, Brazil: 5, Canada: 11, Chile: 27, China: 1, Columbia: 1, Czech Republic: 1, Equador: 2, Estonia: 1, Finland: 1, France: 3, Germany: 3, India: 5, Ireland: 1, Israel: 1, Malaysia: 1, Mexico: 2, Netherlands: 1, New Zealand: 1, Poland: 1, Romania: 1, Singapore: 3, Spain: 1, Sri Lanka: 1, Switzerland: 1, UK: 9, USA: 54, Uruguay: 2, Others: 1

Interesting to note, there are no companies from the African subcontinent.
tip: don't call it the The Ashley Madison of job sites
I also sent a card to my mom. Next I'm going to send a card to some people who hosted me while I visited Canada. The difference between this and postcards (and postagrams) is that I can remember to use sendwrite.

Feature request: scheduled emails to remind me to send a card to a person. I can simply reply to the email to send the card. I'd definitely send monthly cards to various members of my family, or a long-distance sweetie, or what have you.
So 1.31 service and handling seems high?
They're the government. They have something better than equity: they automatically take a seventeen percent share of every profit made by every company in Chile... not to mention personal income tax on every employee's salary.

Just one medium-successful company which decides to stay in Chile in the long term will easily wind up paying more than six million in taxes to the Chilean government.
Thanks! Was on the fence about getting this, but think I will go ahead and grab it after reading your review.
Americans also have poor black people stuck in urban ghettos, which hurts their statistics.

Until poor black students have a good chance of getting a good education (which is hard when all the middle-class students flee "black" schools, leaving schools full of low socio-economic status students, creating big negative peer effects - teachers can't teach if they spend all their time on crowd control, and students don't learn if they don't have positive role models), you I doubt you will get any respectable demographic statistics.

I could talk about how certain educational reforms would improve education at a low cost, but there's no reason to trust they would work. What would work is large federal grants, based on low SES student numbers, to attract the high SES students to not flee, and to improve outcomes for low SES students. Start at kindergarden (in a few randomly chosen regions), and then work up if it works.

I'd like to see US health statistics disaggregated by income. I still doubt they are great, though.
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"Creepy" is a personal and cultural term that is constantly changing. Ten years ago, having a feed of the conversations and locations of all your friends was "creepy", but now its normal.

To make a meaningful negative statement about Timeline or any new technology, you need to argue that it hurts human society on some measurable level. This is not impossible to do, but its much harder than saying "That creeps me out".
For those who aren't familiar with the git subcommand, `git update-index --[no-]assume-unchanged` is at the core of this script.

It's useful for ignoring checked-in files locally, such as overriding app config settings for a local dev server.