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HP appointed Meg Whitman as CEO earlier today, in an attempt to save the troubled computer maker. When asked what her first course of action would be, Mrs. Whitman firmly answered "eBay."

"I'm an excellent eBayer, and have been for years. You've never seen a feedback profile with so many A+++++'s before." Mrs. Whitman continued, "HP has warehouses full of inventory, ready to be gobbled up by the highest bidder. On my way in today, I must have passed about a dozen pallets of iPaq 3630's just collecting dust. Those go for a lot of money you know! There's so much stuff just lying around here that can be sold for big big bucks!"

The board of directors was quick to point out Mrs. Whitman's Titanium PowerSeller level status, among her many other credentials. "She accepts all major forms of payment, including PayPal." When asked about their CEO selection process, a board member went on to say "We won an auction for a used paper towel holder from her the other week. She even emailed a tracking number so we could determine the exact date it would be delivered. I must have refreshed UPS.com about a zillion times! Well, when we got it, turns out it was actually new, not used! That level of service amazed us, and we knew right then and there we found our next CEO."

Mrs. Whitman quickly detailed a plan to get the company back on track, including getting their feedback rating back up to 100%. "All these negative feedbacks about this Norton AntiVirus thing have got to go. And paying to upgrade your auction to bold, and including a picture, really does make a difference!" One shareholder noted that "It's executive-level thinking like this which will save this company." Other Shareholders have agreed, and bid the stock up to a yearly-high shortly after the announcement.

"Is Woz's cubicle still around here? I bet there's several Apple I's under his desk that'll go for lots."

When asked about long-term prospects beyond selling all of HP's assets, Mrs. Whitman indicated that they can continue to thrive by adopting IBM's business model of advertising their brand everywhere, without actually selling anything, financing it with Jeopardy-playing machines. "I love that show and watch it every night. Ooo, maybe we can make a Wheel of Fortune machine too! That'll really pump our margins up!"
Of course not. In arbitrage you are both a buyer and seller. Real arbitrage would be, for instance:

1. Get a bank to loan you at 0 percent.

2. Buy something liquid.

3. Sell said something.

4. Loan the money to another bank at >0 percent. (ie, buy a CD.)

...it's still stupid, because if they caught on to your shenanigans, that zero would turn into 29.95% overnight and you'd lose a pile of money trying to unwind the mess. The unavoidable problem is step #2. Good luck buying anything except for treasury bills that don't immediately drop 5 percent or more in value the minute you purchase it.
Oracle seeking an injunction against Android as an "incompatible clone of Java"
i'm not RTFM-ing you, it is just they explain it better :

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b107...
Dont about the downvotes. It's probably because you haven't used the timeline features yet.

As a current user of the timeline feature (it is available to Facebook developers), I am amazed and almost creeped out about how easy it is for me to see back to the very day that I joined Facebook, and to easily review all my interactions since then. I can assure that you will be too.
From Wikipedia: [FriendFeed] had on average one million monthly visitors ... [and] was bought for $15 million in cash, and $32.5 million in Facebook stock.

I figure after the first million users, your embarrassingly parellel app server layer is not your bottleneck, it's getting the database to scale.
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If you have more car-lengths of empty lane in front of you than you do cars backed up behind you, you're impeding the flow of traffic.

Bad rule. You're actually smoothing traffic by creating anti-traffic in front of you to absorb minor slowdowns. Drivers who keep distance in front of them are essential to dissolving traffic jams. See http://trafficwaves.org/trafexp.html for more details.
Supercoders needed to take down cybercriminals. Join us (YC S11)
We’re a Y Combinator (S11) startup in SF that’s tackling a big, interesting problem and we’re ready for our first engineer to join us.

In 2008, there was $4B in online fraud and 70% of that was driven by organized crime. The opponents are no longer script kiddies -- they’re just as smart and capable as any of us, and their attacks are evolving in both scale and sophistication. As the world becomes more connected, this problem will only get worse. We’re building a large-scale machine learning system paired with elegant visualization/UI tools to help ecommerce businesses take a stand. We’re literally fighting bad guys, and have big plans beyond fraud.

One of us led the Android speech recognition team and the other was CTO of a sentiment analysis startup that recently exited. We’re both technical, push each other, and like to laugh.

As the first engineer, you’ll have a huge impact on the product, direction and culture of the company and set the bar for future hires. You’ll be expected to punch above your weight class and grow into a team pillar, and will be rewarded as such.

You must:

- Get shit done

- Thrive on responsibility and freedom

- Bulldoze through problems

- Not be an asshole

A background in machine learning, Hadoop, Rails, Mongo, statistics, data visualization and/or AWS is awesome, but not required. Just be ready to learn quickly.

We can promise two of these five things:

- Daily inspirational quotes read in-person by William
Shatner

- Truly interesting and meaningful technical problems

- All-you-can-eat caviar breakfast, lunch, and dinner

- Weekend Lamborghini rentals

- An incredible team that will challenge and respect you (and drink with you too)

We just closed a seed round from a great set of angels that you’ll recognize and respect, and can offer market salary, meaningful equity, health insurance, custom dev setup, beer o’clock, relocation help, etc. just like everyone else. But what’s most important is the work you do and who you do it with. Everything else is just icing on the cake.

Let’s make the world a better place.

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Was it x86? That's a darn shame if so. I'm not sure /I/ could learn that, and I have used several simpler ones.
So what if they're amateurs, to many surely pitching is a new experience and they would try and do what they think is best.

It's a learning experience.
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Good. Throw the book at him.
Also, Microsoft owns part of Facebook, so there's that.
honestly, i was worried too. but after setting up my timeline, it looks quite nice. one of the unused assets of facebook and twitter are our past activities on them, it is more profound in case of twitter, where consuming our past tweets is really a bad experience, honestly i dont know it would add much to the twitter experience. the other end of this spectrum is the photos experience in facebook. no matter at what time you added a photo in facebook, there is this photos app to make it easier to consume it all at a time, and checking out the albums of a friend/stalkee/victim is one of the things i would do most of the time when i am in their profile. now with timelines, you will be knowing more about the person, and i think i will be spending quite some time checking out friends timelines similar to albums. even though some what skeptical at first, after using it, i quite like it. it is not clumsy at all.
Right, because those scientists were psychic? Neutrino observatories look for neutrinos continuously. They do not throw away data, if there are neutrinos detected they will be logged. Never in the long history of neutrino observation has there been a spike in detections similar to what was observed with SN 1987a. Moreover, that observation heavily confirms our pre-existing models of neutrino generation and behavior in Type II supernovae.
We're obviously going to just disagree on this one, but I do think it's unfortunate that you still feel the need to associate some ulterior motive to people who don't agree with you ("free-ride off the goodwill"). You adhere to a very specific definition of the phrase and there's nothing wrong with that. However, attacking others who do not is unnecessary as well as unhelpful for your cause.
If you look at the old OSI model and the original thoughts of the way the internet was supposed to work you see that it was supposed to be vastly more diverse than simply a browser window rendering HTML.
ask hn: what makes a good sysadmin?
What qualities do you look for in a good system administrator?

How important are programming skills? (and at what level? mere scripting? ability/experience building internal tools?

What types of questions / scenarios would you pose to a potential candidate for a <10 person startup?
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this would be better than the truth.

here's an idea for the hp bod—go read something called the hp way http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Hp-Way-How-Bill-Hewlett-and... it's only a few bucks. need a primer on what it's about? read this: http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/the-hp-way... it's very enlightening. it seems very coincidental that it too has the letters hp in it. it might be helpful

EDIT: the save 94% on half.com makes me laugh. FIRE SALE!
I find that by far the most time/effort/thought goes into figuring out the overall structure of the algorithm I want to implement. Once I've sketched that out, translating it into lines of code is pretty much just typing.
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I'm not much of a fan of Techcrunch and their articles (same with Mashable at times; I have my reasons), but this was great. I'll give Techcrunch another shot at my news reading attention just because of this tut. :)
Why would they procure them from you rather than go get a fresh new one from the day it was made?
It looks pretty cool and oriented at making a browser engine. (tl;dr version i guess)
Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Recursion. One of these is not like the others.
The only studies that show that an increased amber length decrease fatalities have a study period of less than 10 years. Other studies have shown that the effect dissipates after 10 years as drivers adjust to the longer yellow by driving through them.

I hate long yellows, and even worse is the "all red" period some cities have added between the yellow and the next light turning green. It makes traffic inefficient for people who follow the law (which says you must stop at yellow lights) and it vastly increases the number of people who blow late yellows and even reds.
I agree with a lot of what this article is saying. Sharing everything by default is pointless and misses the point of sharing.

I want to share something with my friends because I think it might inspire them or make them happy. Or, in the case of news, let them know about important stuff that's happening in the world. They do the same thing when they share with me.

So to blindly share everything just creates a lot of noise. If everything is shared by default, you'll need to start sifting out the signal from the noise. Which is annoying because I trust my friends to only share stuff that's relevant.

We all love lolcats but know how to find them on our own.
Now we know what to avoid when talking to a VC. But what do you say when you have already been flagged as an amateur? How do you convince them otherwise?
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True - and the important point here is that this is a pattern. Like any language, to be truly fluent in C you have to understand the common idioms as well as the syntax, grammar and vocabulary.
What are the access controls? Trivially guessable urls make the usual "security through... hey look a pony!" more unsuitable than usual.
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My pet peeve is the inverse: it seems that police regularly ticket on the freeway where high speeds are safe, but rarely ticket in the city core where speeding is much more dangerous. The difference between a 25mph and a 35mph collision with a pedestrian is that the former probably isn't fatal and the latter probably is.
Microsoft responded to accusation: http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-clears-up-linux-confusion...

I've submitted that link to HN.
I found it helpful as well.
It's in a similar vein to the recent Skype integration.
That's the article that's at the top of reddit right now. I came to Hacker News to see if there was a better article here since the reddit one didn't seem particularly well written.
Ask HN: Need iOS development links for Google Custom Search engine
Actually, the C standard does say:

A pointer type describes an object whose value
provides a reference to an entity...
This is a Google Custom Search Engine that I've set up. I'm focusing on sites that would be useful for new iOS developers, specifically sites with good tutorials, examples, or articles. This is my site list so far:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/
http://cocoadevcentral.com/
http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/
http://iphonedevelopertips.com/
http://mobileorchard.com/
http://maniacdev.com/
http://mauvilasoftware.com/iphone_software_development/
http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/
http://www.icodeblog.com/
http://theocacao.com/
http://www.mlsite.net/blog/
http://petermcintyre.wordpress.com/
http://blog.sallarp.com/
http://wiresareobsolete.com/
http://vellios.com
http://www.themikeswan.com/blog/
http://themikeswan.wordpress.com/
http://longweekendmobile.com/
http://www.duckrowing.com/
http://www.peterfriese.de/

Any suggestions for any more sites that I should add to it?
> I spent some time today thinking about who I would pick.

So who did you pick? I'm drawing a blank..
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hp used be renowned for management empowering employees. of course they also used to be renowned for only entering fields in which they could contribute real innovation (and making stuff just to make stuff, but making something new and better than anything else). i'm still in disbelief about this company. they have abandoned nearly every damned thing that made this company great. from jim collins' foreward to the hp way (linked in my last comment)

The core essence of the HP Way consists of five fundamental precepts.

1) The Hewlett-Packard company exists to make a technical contribution, and should only pursue opportunities consistent with this purpose;

2) The Hewlett-Packard company demands of itself and its people superior performance—profitable growth is both a means and a measure of enduring success;

3) The Hewlett-Packard company believes the best results come when you get the right people, trust them, give them freedom to find the best path to achieve objectives, and let them share in the rewards their work makes possible;

4) The Hewlett-Packard company has a responsibility to contribute directly to the well-being of the communities in which its operates;

5) Integrity, period.
>you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.

actual modern implementations aren't about guilt, they are more practical - by selectively enforcing these laws government can target anybody at any moment. There is a saying in Russia - "Given a man, it is always possible to find a law [he's broken]." ("Byl by chelovek, a statya naydettsya" :)
I'm sure you will find no shortage of $100-$500 projects on sites like odesk. There's a threshold at which it seems to not be worth the time though.
The access controls are stored in the database as well. If the viewer is not logged in then they see public photos. If they're logged in then they see public photos plus photos they've been given access to.
> What if you say "oh, this will be easy and fun!"

That is same problem as saying "Oh, this is hard and tricky." The author didn't seem to suggest to tell students things are easy, which is misleading and harmful, but rather he used the example of art teachers where the students are not told that things are easy but rather they need to practice and put in a lot of effort. Hell, he didn't say the word 'easy' once in his blog entry.

Lecturers and many others seem almost afraid to say "You're going to have to work hard." and then stand by that statement.

I'm currently at university and I've seen exactly what he has said. Lecturers and students saying x is hard and tricky and for most of the other students here that seems to have demotivated them. I think the current schooling system here in Australia and in other countries in the world where I've spent time or have friends from is horribly flawed in many ways and what this blog entry about is just one of those flaws.
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Whose database? Are you a service for syncing photos between third-party photos services (in which case it's thier acls that matter), or another attempt to become a centralized photo service (in which case why talk about openness?).

Nice API != decentralized.
This is interesting to me. I'm probably one of those "dangerous drivers" you're referring to. I almost uniformly drive at 5km/h under the limit (I do restrict myself to the "outside lane" however).

My rationale is simple - I've been driving 9 years with 0 traffic fines. I'm in no great hurry to get from A to B, so when other drivers tailgate me I just smile and wave.

Would it be systemically safer for me to drive at the same speed as everyone else? Probably. Do I want to blow 90% of my disposable income on traffic fines? Not really!
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Ask HN: So, how's the ongoing financial crisis treating you?
It's been 3 years or so. Millions of jobs lost. But I'm interested in reading HN users' stories.
If a startup has the resources of Microsoft isn't it a bit disingenuous to call it a startup? No-one is saying that it is impossible, simply that it is much more difficult and you tend to need a lot more time, money and resources to do it. Google needed significant venture capital to fund free search when its competitors were paying the bills with sponsored placements. Ford had a ton of investment to start, while Microsoft leveraged its position with DOS to push Windows.

Of course there are examples of companies taking market share from initial entrants and eventually dominating markets. The point is that if you're a small startup this is really difficult. As I see it, the only really decent example listed above with relevance to this community is Reddit, but even that is a somewhat cautionary tale given the fact the founders sold it. Which isn't a critical observation, but probably gives a fairly objective read on what Alexis and crew must have felt their prospects were for keeping the business independent.
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This is interesting :).

OpenPhoto doesn't have the concept of "users". Any user can sign in (at the moment) with BrowserID which basically says that the user viewing owns a given email address. This allows anyone to sign in to any OpenPhoto site - without having an "OpenPhoto" account.

From there all permissions are based on email address. I can give any user access to any photo by their email address.

Not sure what you mean by giving Flickr permission to look at a photo. If you give an app permission to your photos that's done via OAuth and you can revoke that token at any time.
Facebook Timeline Will Change The Human Race
Timeline ANGLE - Turning Users into Developers - it's the future
Forget that Facebook is AOL what they are doing is turning the user into a developer..users develop their own and connect...like programming - lighting in a bottle for Facebook
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Did they change that recently? For as long as I have been on Bitbucket I have had LOADS of private repos ...
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> It is one thing to think everyone has an agenda, but expecting everyone to deceive with every word is really wrong.

That's nice, but irrelevant because I'm not claiming that anyone is trying to "deceive with every word". I'm claiming that they're trying to accomplish what the substantive provisions would reasonably be expected to do and the other stuff is just marketing to get it passed.

> I believe the incompetence comes from not actually having run a small business and pulling the levers of the economy in an attempt to fix things.

I'm not convinced that "having run a small business" is relevant because they're not just hosing small biz. However, it is sort of absurd to expect them to be experts in any of the fields in which they make decisions, let alone all of them.
One of the biggest problems with the war on drugs and with traffic fines is that they create perverse incentives for law enforcement and for local governments, because revenue generation then becomes coupled to the way laws are written and enforced. Everybody knows how this works with traffic "offenses", local governments use red light cameras, speed traps, and speeding ticket quotas as a source of income. This then converts a significant portion of the resources that should be used for keeping people safe into effective tax collection.

The same thing happens with the war on drugs due to asset forfeiture laws. On the one hand you have a police officer tasked with the hard and often thankless job of enforcing the law, investigating unsolved crimes, meticulously sorting through evidence, walking a beat, etc, etc. On the other hand you have a police officer tasked with the comparatively simple jobs of, say, pulling over "suspicious" looking drivers on the highway and looking for pot in their car, or executing exciting no-knock raids on, in the average case, un-armed drug dealer's houses. In the process generating enough revenue through the seizure and auction of vehicles and houses to pay for raises, more officers, new guns, helicopters, swat teams, armored personnel carriers, etc. The natural equilibrium is going to be that as many officers as possible spend as much time as possible in those typically easier and more glamorous and exciting jobs that generate revenue. This is hardly hypothetical, as over the course of the war on drugs we've seen a dramatic shift in the amount of effort the legal system puts forth in enforcing drug laws and prosecuting drug crimes and we've also seen a dramatic increase in the militarization of even small-town police departments. Assault rifles are more common. No-knock raids are more common. SWAT teams are more common. Use of APCs is more common. And this despite no significant increase in drug dealers becoming more heavily armed or more violent over that time period (except in Mexico which is in a drug-gang induced civil war).

The law should be pragmatic not dogmatic. The law should be molded to aid society not to mold society into some perfect, moral vision. Whenever the law tries to overstep those boundaries the result has always been strife and disaster.
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Some more context. It's completely decentralized. Here's how.

The source for OpenPhoto is on Github (mobile and web clients). Anyone can install the software on any server they want. The user then connects their instance of OpenPhoto to their personal cloud account (think AWS or other).

There's no central repository or database. If you spin up an OpenPhoto instance then I'll never know about it personally unless you send me a link to it.

So the API is self contained as well. Your OpenPhoto instance has it's own API and is an OAuth provider. You can use the mobile app to point it to your host and it will take you through the OAuth flow requiring you to log in to your site. We determine the "owner" by email address as part of the setup flow.

https://github.com/openphoto/frontend
It's used for lots of stuff. Predictive typing, market segmentation, trend analysis and prediction, computer vision, medical tomography, process optimization...