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The incentives at a typical corporation are also not setup to encourage "nobody cares" attitudes. Employees are paid whatever the results are, unless they do something egregiously bad. They have every incentive to care about their effort and motivations - that's what they get fired for - and no incentive to care about results. That's diametrically opposed from an equity-owning cofounder (who basically can't be fired, unless the board forces them out) but doesn't get paid anything unless the company succeeds.

You could argue that this is the reason why anyone would accept a salaried employment position. In a well-run knowledge organization, employees have just as much freedom as startup founders do. The difference is risk assignment: under an employment agreement, the employer assumes the risk (and reward) that the product may fail despite the employee's best efforts, while in a startup, the founder assumes the risk that the company may fail for reasons outside his control. (The incentives issue actually falls out of this as a form of moral hazard.)

Note that the alternative of paying everyone by results doesn't always work either. Many financial firms use this approach. The problem is that realistically, in a decent-sized organization, people don't have a measurable effect on outcomes, and results will be dominated by randomness anyway. If you pay for results but results are not under the worker's control, you end up incentivizing risky behavior, because the worker's upside is potentially unlimited but their downside is generally capped at "everything they own". This was the problem at Enron, LTCM, and many hedge funds in the financial crisis.
Every technology company, without exception, bases their business on the API of others.
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Seems like a great idea but not something I'd pay for.
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and suddenly HN becomes a cartel of Urdu speakers ;-)
Really nice. Going with the tmtheme support is smart. Sublime Text does this, too.

Now, if only it had support for git, so I could sync with a remote, even deploy to Heroku...
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This isn't G+ "settling" for anything. This is a user's clever way of using the G+ API to present G+ posts on his outside blog.
Again, they're not opposite. You can create most of the properties of an object with a closure and versa vice.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent
Funny, I wrote a plugin earlier this year and came up with the exact same name. I never had time to polish and release it, but if you're interested, here's the source on GitHub:

https://github.com/mbadran/vimroom

The feature sets are different, from what I can tell.
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Yes, the malware described in the CCC's document is a Windows DLL file.
So true. It reminds me of working on a project and there are so many times when some piece of the stack that we didn't write is acting up. You want, so bad, to say "well, we can't do this because X has a bug in it". But then you remind yourself that your users don't care why your product doesn't work, just that it does. And you spend some frustrating amount of time finding a work around.
Fred Phelps is a lawyer and they simply do the things they do to get a violent reaction out of people so that they can then sue those individuals. It's simply about making money in one of the most scummy way possible (far worse than patent trolls even). I thought this was pretty common knowledge but judging by the comments under your post I guess not.

EDIT: With that being said, RMS and Phelps are nothing at all alike. RMS truly believes what he says and that his beliefs are right. Phelps is just an ass trying to elicit violent responses to get money out of people already dealing with horrible tragedies.
Hi PG, we submitted the application and included an idea for a business/enterprise application built on Twitter. While it is not the main idea with which we're applying to YC, it is something I've thought about for a long time.

This Twitter app is really something I wish I have. I have also seen other companies using Twitter in the context described in my application. I had even posted this idea on Facebook so that someone else could build it, but until now, it doesn't exist yet.

Please check out our application and let me know what you think.
I think you mean https://stripe.com/ ?
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The ability of commercial anti-virus vendors to decide what end users are protected against is a good argument for open source anti-virus that crowdsources detection patterns.
I think this is great advice for a CEO's emotional well being. But it isn't true. I know I care a ton about the challenges our portfolio companies face and I know many other stakeholders who do too. Capitalism isnt uncaring
This is the CCC, they always speak like that. I guess the media is by now used to the tone of voice.
SJ to me was a conductor, and an arranger and product visionary but a not a full bore composer, inventor or engineer on Mozart's level: more a Scott McNealy with design sense. I never met him, so I don't know how inspired he was in person.

The best way I can sum it up, is that Apple may have been evolutionary, but not revolutionary, even though for many people owning one of their products was a revolution. Did Apple invent or just popularize the GUI? Was SJ more a popularizer or more an inventor?

This is McNealy's take on Apple and SJ:

"Apple is beyond proprietary, and the consumer has no idea that they are checking into the roach motel. Jobs has been brilliant, and he also understands the power of the secret better than anyone I have every seen." (3/10)

http://mobile.informationweek.com/10244/show/e0e978f8df83663...

-- the conductor bows to audience with orchestra, and applauds orchestra as well.
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Not if they continue cutting their hardware divisions, it won't.
Animated (in Display PostScript) by Keith Ohlfs, designer of much of the NeXTSTEP user interface; text by Steve Jobs.
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He's not saying you shouldn't care, he's saying nobody else cares what the reason is. Nobody is going to give him a win just because his best players are out.
Now I am curious. Why would Windows end up in such a system? I would expect an RTOS like QNX (which is not that hard to program).

I agree I am more familiar with corporate IT disasters where some pointy-haired boss decided Windows was the way to go instead of what would be the optimal choice, but I always expected flight-control software to be built with a great amount of attention to every detail.
The short answer is no, and even the article says so:

"The Media Lab is, in many ways, the antithesis of a corporate R&D lab. It focuses on human needs, but has no blinders—no time constraints or deadlines, no shareholders to please. It celebrates openness and collaboration between different disciplines and entities. But it winnows ideas quickly because of the emphasis on testing concepts through prototype building. The discoveries that work find their way into the world, with E Ink as exhibit A.

"And then there is SRI. Founded in 1946 in Menlo Park, California, as the Stanford Research Institute, it is now the largest nongovernmental lab in the United States, with roughly $500 million in government-and corporate-funded projects. Like the Media Lab, SRI stretches the R&D horizon far beyond the typical corporate three-to-five-year view. But SRI shows that a research lab armed with a system for commercialization of ideas can successfully cross the so-called valley of death that separates the lab from the marketplace—a route littered with unread papers and long-forgotten patents describing products that never connected with customers."
I find TED's talk - www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_in_empathy.html - to be a 2011 version of Lord of the Flies.

Many people found that TED Talk to be borderline offensive ans sometimes even worse - outright misleading.
I am curious if their opinions would change have they read this link or the book.
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LinkedIn actually had pretty poor info when it comes to startups and the people who work at them. The professional social network for startups works well enough that many people have never felt a need to exploit LinkedIn connections for their next gig. It's often salespeople who most appreciate what LinkedIn has to offer. LinkedIn has always been surprisingly bad at capturing the professional network value in asymmetrical relationships. Great professionals and influencers (which YC founders are likely to be) are those that avoid LinkedIn the most because it's a distraction.
Those are basically the same types of questions I have as well. I reckon there is a lot to be learned from the YC network of startups. It's a great space for a grad student at Stanford's or Berkeley's iSchools to investigate.
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Oh the other hand. I can touch type at a pretty good clip on the iPad keyboard in landscape mode something I've never been able to do on a netbook or a 7" tablet.

For what it is worth, iOS 5 helps with thumb typing on the iPad.
"batch files" like bash scripts? Look in your system directories for some. A quick Google search found http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ and there are many others.

Or do you mean IBM mainframe batch programming, like with JCL? I've never had to deal with that system. That domain isn't really part of the free/open source culture and I can't find a good source of example programs. Lots of IBMers also use REXX, and there are 71 projects on Sourceforge in REXX ( http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/?&fq%5B%5D=trove%3A17... )

Or perhaps you mean DOS batch programming? I hear that Windows is moving towards PowerShell. However, I know about as much of this field as I do JCL.
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Bolting a stack onto your regular language just makes a Frankenstein context free one, just as bolting a stack onto a DFA just makes a push down automata. This whole blog post is knocking down a straw man.
This is a serious question, no sarcasm: What would not have been a marginal update?

I’m not quite sure myself. The iPhone 4 was clearly a major update compared to the iPhone 3GS: On the outside the design and materials improved. The resolution of the screen quadrupled and they switched screen technologies to IPS. They improved the camera, added a gyroscope, doubled the RAM and improved the processor. All that at no loss or improvement of battery life.

The iPhone 4S does three (or maybe four, depending on whether the RAM was doubled) of the same things. That’s certainly less major.

But what could they have done?

They could have changed the design. That said, one thing I like about Apple is that they are willing to stick to a design if they like it. Maybe they should have tried to make the phone thinner or lighter (with an otherwise unchanged design), though that would likely have cost battery life.

Increasing the resolution of the screen was in no way practical. That’s for all intents and purposes a done project. The pixels are invisible to the human eye and that’s that. Apple would only quadruple the resolution anyway and that’s clearly not practical. Switching technologies would also have been an option, but whether you prefer OLED or (IPS) LCD is more a question of taste than opinion.

They could have increased the screen size but I again think that’s more a question of preference. A larger screen is not automatically better and Apple clearly thinks that consistency is worth more than a marginally larger screen.

Could they have added sensors? I honestly don’t know. Maybe NFC? Maybe they prefer Bluetooth?

They could have switched to 4G but I don’t think that would have been practical. It would just cost too much battery life for too little benefit. Getting everything out of 3G (which they did) is, I think, for now good enough.

Yes, this update was less major than the last, but maybe that’s to be expected. I’m not sure whether I would want to call it minor and I don’t think that jumps like from 3GS to 4 are possible every year. Maybe the next update will be of similar scale than the 3GS to 4 jump: They will probably at least switch to 4G.
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Seriously?
@chl: please remove '[good!]' from the title, if you want to give your opinion do it in the comments
I wouldn't pay for it either, since I only have to maintain contact with a manageable number of people.

But were I the head of a large company, or in any position wherein I was keeping track with an unmanageable number of people, I'd definitely be willing to pay $20 a year to ensure that when I urgently need to get in touch with someone, I'm not burned by having outdated contact information.

I'm actually a little bit surprised that my desktop mail client doesn't do anything like this already.
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> Asked about the competition, Williams said: "Samsung has An even larger group working on this than we do."

As a consumer, I'm indifferent to who does it. As long as it gets out.
Apple acquired NeXT in 1996 (or was it the other way around?)
A two paragraph history of Cocoa and Objective-C

Cocoa and Objective-C are at the heart of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Although Mac OS X is relatively new, Objective-C and Cocoa are much older. Brad Cox invented Objective-C in the early 1980s to meld the popular and portable C language with the elegant Smalltalk language. In 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, Inc., to create powerful, affordable workstations. NeXT chose Unix as its operating system and created NextSTEP, a powerful user interface toolkit developed in Objective-C. Despite its features and a small, loyal following, NextSTEP achieved little commercial success.

When Apple acquired NeXT in 1996 (or was it the other way around?), NextSTEP was renamed Cocoa and brought to the wider audience of Macintosh programmers. Apple gives away its development tools—including Cocoa—for free, so any Mac programmer can take advantage of them. All you need is a bit of programming experience, basic knowledge of Objective-C, and the desire to dig in and learn stuff.

From "Learn Objective-C on the Mac"

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/objective-c/9781430218159/hello/what_apostrophy_s_coming_up
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I am working on my first mobile application, which in a nutshell is a camera that asks for a password when you start it and then uses AES to encrypt all photos taken in that session, so that plain data is never written to a storage medium.

I intend on selling this app and releasing the source under a non-commercial license, applicable only to licensees (i.e., once you buy it, you have a non-commercial license to modify and share changes).

What's the best way to market this application? It seems like it will be difficult to break into the Market where there are millions of applications, especially when there are several "vaults" that purport to keep data safe (though they really just move files around so that applications don't see them anymore).

What advice do you have to help a no-name developer successfully market a useful application?
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When Parcell asked: "What should I do?” .... is he not, in fact, spending his time on "what you might do" ?

Kinda makes the story pointless, if you ask me.
Considering that almost everyone has a stake (i.e. as either a user or a provider), I'd imagine that an independent investigation could only be done by a government entity forcing disclosure of this information by a private company.

Actually, does anyone know of a government funded ISP that makes this information public?
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I am really proud of this downvotes I got for supporting free software :)
Great to see some positive press on HP. Hope HP can innovate their way out of the current slump.
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The "obvious" solution is down 11 feet to the floor, 30 feet across the floor, and 1 foot up to the honey, for a total of 42 feet. Instead picture the room "unfolded" into a series of squares and rectangles and laid flat. Then use the pythagorean theorem to find the length of the diagonal that connects the ant and the honey while staying on a surface the whole way. You'll get (6+12+6)^2 + (1+30+1)^2 = c^2 or c = 40.
While he might not have asked for the publicity, it would be very easy for Stallman to issue a public apology.
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I'm almost definitely not the target demographic for this product, presumably meant for businesspeople who need to keep their extensive digital Rolodex up-to-date, but I doubt I would use it even if I were.

It's $20 a year to solve a problem that doesn't feel large enough to bother with to me. Does contact information really tend to change that often? When it changes, is it typically completely unannounced? $20/year really a large amount of money, but I don't feel like the price is justified for what this product does.

Also, I feel really nervous about handing over the keys to my email account to an unknown company - no offense to the developers intended. They say that no person will access the data, and that it is deleted as soon as it's processed, but as Jeff Atwood says, "your email account is a de-facto master password for your online identity."[1] Google is a well-known and fairly well-trusted company, so I don't really have a problem with them having such access (especially when they have so much to lose, and where they have so many people trusting them already), but I don't really feel safe giving some unknown party free reign over my email like that.

Also, would this only allow them access to my email, or to my entire Google profile? Honest question, since I don't know how Google sets such things up.

I definitely don't bear these folks any ill will - as I said, I'm not the target here by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm sure it's a fine product for what it's meant to do - but I don't see a huge market for this.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/please-give-us-your...
This is a very anti-hacker post, and an argument for the broken status quo. I also seriously doubt it is accurate.

PayPal has disintermediated anti-competitive banking laws, providing millions with low-cost quasi-banking. They should be celebrated, not attacked.
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This works very well in these situations; The clip of fresh prince of Will and his dad also lacked the laugh track and the outro music that gave it a somber mood.
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It wouldn't necessarily be a money-salary.

But to be precise: at that point, it will no longer be ethical for us to order it around. We will have to resort to asking politely or to bargaining, such as giving it some form of salary in exchange for fetching sandwiches.
What's the problem with that? Calvin was six years old. Or are you simply unfamiliar with the comic being referenced? [1][2]

[1] http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/

[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Calvin_and_Ho...
Opposed for historical reasons?

The fact is that the citizens of Germany, and most other Western nations formerly known as the "free world" are today under more intense surveillance than the Stasi could have ever dreamed of. The German public in general is just mildly less apathetic about this as the rest of us.

The only thing that makes a real difference in Germany is the constitutional court, that appears to suffer less from political influences than the highest courts in most other nations, and actually takes its task of protecting citizens constitutional rights very seriously.
It has been shown that if P != NP, then GI is in that valley.

Could you point to a reference? Is this true even if P != NP, but NP = coNP?
The wording of their "backdoor policy" is ambiguous:

http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/bdtp.shtml

"F-Secure Corporation would like to make known that we will not leave such backdoors to our F-Secure Anti-Virus products, regardless of the source of such tools. We have to draw a line with every sample we get regarding whether to detect it or not. This decision-making is influenced only by technical factors, and nothing else, but within the applicable laws and regulations, in our case meaning EU laws."

So they won't leave explicit backdoors in their software, but their decision on whether or not to detect a particular malware is influenced by EU law.
Just browsing the code on Github I noticed that there aren't any unit tests. I'd be interested in seeing what type of testing you did.
> It is not legitimate for the mass of HN to be "in grief" because of Steve Jobs's death. You may be sad, but certainly no grieving period should be necessary for strangers.
> When was this decided? And by who? Did I miss a memo?

You need a memo to tell you others don't have to feel the same way you do?

> So who's deciding how we are to legitimately feel about that?

You, but keep it to yourself or risk other people sharing their feelings with you.

I too see Jobs like Bill Gates. He went out of his way to sue competitors out of business and hated the idea of anyone's success he couldn't charge rent for. The world is a far poorer place because of would-be monopolists like him.

As for the future he'd have created, it's on schedule. He's a product manager, not a materials scientist, graphics artist, programmer, etc. The same quality of work is being done by the same workers today as is was last week.

As the leader of an consumer protection organization, seeing how Jobs sought to ultimately undermine personal control of a user's computer through DRM and lawsuits, Stallman's response seems quite reasonable.
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huh. I thought 'rolling reserves' were fairly typical for merchant accounts for people with bad credit. I don't remember what the rolling reserve was when I accepted credit cards directly (a loong time ago) but it was significant.
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Watch HP research's Stanley Williams describe the memristor and what they are working towards in more detail on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY&sns=em
It is in a sense true. I believe to this day Woz is essentially an honorary Apple employee, and is paid a salary though he does no work for them.
You can also do

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Instead of nofu or nopaste.
If you were the head of a large company, wouldn't you probably have an EA to do this manually as a part of their job?
What are the implications for back end development? Will this greatly reduce server complexity (need for redundancy)? Could AWS just give you a machine in the cloud, and you wouldn't need to worry about databases and database backups and so on, you could just keep all your data locally in natural data structures?
No reason to wait, its already the FAZ top story [1].
Same with the Die Zeit [2]. Interestingly Der Spiegel has apparently not picked up the story yet.

[1] http://www.faz.net/aktuell/chaos-computer-club-der-deutsche-...
[2]