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Frontend + backend tech leads and devs.

Kontagent is the leading user analytics platform for developers, marketers, product managers and strategic partners across the social and mobile web.

Good comp, good perks (free catered lunch, gym membership), great work environment - high aptitude/ low attitude.

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At first when I saw this headline and that the source was github I thought it meant making too many commits in git. I couldn't figure out why that would be such a bad thing.
I would assume that as soon as the trial nears its end, some contact will be made with a sales rep. I can't imagine prices aren't negotiable in cases like these. If they aren't it'd be the first time I've seen it. I've ever paid anything close to listed price on any contracts I've negotiated.
Wow I didn't realise Google had changed their tone RE: Apps users. Brilliant
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We provide deep social data pattern visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights via an on-demand service. Kontagent tracks more than 1,000 social applications, over 150 million monthly active users, and in excess of 15,000 messages every second. Kontagent is funded by ALTOS Ventures and Maverick Capital, with additional funding from Facebook and other well-known angel investors. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in the SOMA district of San Francisco with additional offices in Toronto and London.﻿
Even after reading that page, I have literally no idea what it is.

You should delete that page from the face of the planet and do a new one with more explanation.
Sadly Anons are less and less about lulz these days. Too much white-knight'ing going on there.
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Fellow "serial over committer" here. I find it preferable to accept all new opportunities, but make sure stakeholders/I understand my availability. After prioritizing, nobody's surprised when some projects complete and others don't gain momentum. If you're letting others down, they probably overestimated your time/resources.
the man routinely clarifies his involvements or lack thereof in the stuff that he is given credit for by others or by he himself. bottom line, he has been involved in important Internet endeavors and prior art. so you better believe that he will speak of it when applicable. i see faults in DW's personality and technical opinions and on occasion will point them out (as a nobody in his world). but i am completely willing to read his words and observe his works despite any of the shortcomings. i know my own faults and would hope that those faults would not deter other peoples willingness to read or listen to me when i have something to say.
Sounds roughly right.

Or to put it another way, you can, at the cost of an extra daily chore and a bunch of "special offer" emails, earn about four point eight cents a day. I'm afraid I'm just not sold on the value proposition.
Fun fact, but I think you've misread what I was saying if you think it's relevant.
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Wow I didn't realize that redis zipmap lookups aren't actually O(1). I found a document that describes zipmaps as "very memory efficient data structure to represent string to string maps, at the cost of being O(N) instead of O(1) for most operations. Since the constant times of this data structure are very small, and the zipmaps are converted into real hash tables once they are big enough, the amortized time of Redis hashes is still O(1), and in the practice small zipmaps are not slower than small hash tables because they are designed for good cache locality and fast access."

http://redis-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Hashes.html
Your secret sauce is probably less secret and less saucy than you think :)
I wonder if Anonymous was tipped off about Los Zetas tracking them, and if that played into their decision. Recently there was a video of Los Zetas members chainsawing the head off of an opposing gang member...which was promoted heavily on channels Anonymous frequents. That could have effected their decision as well.
I spent 10 minutes trying to log in using Chromium. It half-way showed that I was logged in, but I couldn't actually sign a petition. Logging in with Iceweasel (Firefox), it worked immediately.
How do we know this op was announced by the "real" Anonymous? How long until the CIA is posing as Anonymous to incite rebellion in other countries (and/or make Anonymous look bad)?
I'm not sure if it's a law or just a policy, but the dress code might not be enforced in a gender-specifc way. For example: a guy was annoyed that the dress code disallowed him to wear shorts, so he protested by wearing a short skirt, which was allowed by the dress code. Definitely a double standard.
do you have a link to apple's official anouncement? from which day to which day?
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I think that's severely overestimating the power of Anonymous. The CIA has tried, tested, and true methods for inciting rebellions and coups; no need to invoke Anon. As for making Anonymous look bad... maybe. I find it hard to believe they view anon as a legitimate threat, but NATO did call out anon specifically in one of its reports on growing threats, so who knows.
I have the same problem: 'yes' is so much easier to say than 'no,' but the quantity of my projects is affecting the quality, and I don't like it.

Derek Sivers has a suggested approach for over-committers: "Hell yeah, or no." It's helped me cut down on my projects (and leaves me with more awesome things to work on, on average). Give it a read: http://sivers.org/hellyeah
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There is a cost in overcommitting as there is the opportunity cost.
But I believe there is a way to overcommit with the "under commit, over deliver" line of thought. That will allow you to still look at the new opportunities and present an option ("sure - let's talk first"..."could get done by xx".."too late? well next time perhaps").

One thing I've found - while handling many side-projects is to know each one has a priority based on how much I'm invested in one of them and the benefits that one will bring.
If you have the priorities set upfront, it'll be easier to make decisions in case something gotta give. But if you "under commit" to a lot of different commitments, you'd still have some space :)
All I could think of was making it difficult to find exactly what commit fixed/introduced what bugs.
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Also very handy for users who can't see the mouse well or rely on a screen reader.
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You seem to suggest that money is a better motivator than reputation. Money is a motivator, but it's often the wrong kind of motivator. Money can bring in people who do it just for the money. Especially as the money that any site can pay for it's experts is usually much-much less than the expert earns in its daily job.

I applaud that you have created a site that tries to compensate the effort to its contributors... I just hope that you have managed to tailor the site to avoid the problems that money can bring.
From the Register article: "The hyperscale server effort is known as Project Moonshot, and the first server platform to be created under the project is known as Redstone, after the surface-to-surface missile created for the US Army, which was used to launch America's first satellite in 1958 and Alan Shepard, the country's first astronaut, in 1961."
The author references "I... A... S... India, Alpha, Sierra", and I immediately recognized those as words from the NATO Phonetic Alphabet [1].

I have found it to be a wonderful tool when I need to spell out loud. Now that I have the alphabet's acrophonic words memorized, I no longer fumble to create words on the fly that match the target letter. Plus, there is no second-guessing by the listener, since the words in the alphabet were selected to reduce ambiguity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Seemed like you were saying that you could do that every day?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popek_and_Goldberg_virtualizati...
It's even more incompetent to not scan at all.

Better to do some than none.
Wow, thanks for that link - that's a really good post.
Um, does anyone know how to carry over a custom color scheme? or is it possible to create new custom colors, I don't see that option in themes...
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I'm not colorblind at all, and I have a hell of a time distinguishing between read and un-read mail in the new look.
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And if it is, you can just do some squashing and rebasing later on to fix it.
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title is miss-leading, Mexico arm of anonymous has pulled back..however UK arm is going ahead with the Nov 5th plans
FYI - I had been incorrectly advertising the screencast as 120 minutes. It's actually 1:21 - 1 hour, 20 minutes. I'm terribly sorry about that. I've corrected the site.
HN generally attempts to maintain a more collegial tone than this.
There's a related video too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICKlhVMzE_c
Nope, my plan involves only one big transfer, which earns the ten thousand "credits".
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Is Daring Fireball a technology blog or a business-strategy blog?
A concept video is the polar opposite of a tech demo.

A tech demo is a demo. It's real. You can use it, you can see how well it works, and you can get a feel for whether it can be developed into something real or not. Making a tech demo is an exercise in putting your money where your mouth is.

A concept video, in contrast, is just a bunch of special effects. It exists free of any constraints. You can make a concept video for something which is impossible to make--time machines, faster-than-light spaceships, cars that run on water.
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Yes, and actually the police need not be corrupt. Organized crime leaders can be in the public eye and unless there is evidence against them, they cannot be penalized by the legal system.
Not to mention that that fixed elements are just-plain broken in the Android browser. They don't attach to the edges of the viewport (which would be bad for the reasons you outlined) — they simply sit in whatever position they are given when the page first renders (which is also bad because it often covers content you'd like to see, or interact with).
The only way to fight criminals at a scale where they threaten the state is through intelligence and military techniques, not law enforcement.

Find them, build up decent evidence, kill them; don't try to prosecute. The risk is turning into a star chamber or right wing paramilitary, but I would trust the professionalism and morality of an organization like the us military to resist that. Plan Colombia worked out ok, compared to Peru vs shining path, for instance.
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I agree with you completely. Iterating on ideas/design should be the norm. Thanks for the comment!
Apparently in the future, we use lots of Gotham.
Do you think that object oriented programming is really necessary for absolute beginners? There's always this problem of coming up with examples with OOP when being introduced to beginners, and you can end up with horrific "Cat inherits from Animal" examples. GUI programming might be the best place to introduce OO since it's a decent fit, however a lot of newbie GUI programming would just be using a library, not building object hierarchies yourself.

Even the MIT "intro to programming and computer science" class (which uses Python) doesn't touch OOP until lecture 14, after dynamic programming, divide and conquer, bit of runtime complexity, recursion and more...
I like the idea of prioritizing, but I find that even small projects that I abandon have a disproportionately large negative effect on my emotions/confidence/drive. It reminds me of what someone once told me about the stock market - getting $100 feels good, but losing $100 feels so much worse.
The trouble with movements like Anonymous is that there is no centralized authority. Further, a group pushing for anarchy is either hypocritical if it's effective (because it will be organized) or ineffective because it's anarchical and disorganized.

Anonymous is not a serious threat to large corporations. It may cost them a minor inconveniencr, but without centralized authority, the group has no real internal integrity (the question of whether or not a group claiming to work under the auspices of Anonymous is moot...because anyone can be Anonymous).
I think you're underestimating the reach of these cartels. I doubt they have the resources to find hackers, but they do have people feeding them information from inside the Mexican and US governments.

Also, the Anonymous people have made themselves a pain in the ass to governments who have the resources to find them. Even if the cartels don't have ears in the right place it's not hard for me to imagine a list of probable Anonymous members somehow making it into their hands.
Have they mentioned it somewhere?
Well, that's one (potentially valid) way to explain away the concern.

(I should have said "explain away" instead of "assume away.")
Only continue if you are doing something different or better than your competitors. Obviously if you are just mimicking what they gave already created, that's no good but if you can improve on it, then their presence in the market may be helpful in terms of warming the market for you before launch.
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Not only is it extremely dangerous, but it is a campaign which would be incredibly difficult to do anonymously, and even more difficult to do with the resources available to a largely disorganized movement (read: no governing authority to direct the group's actions other than mob mentality).
have you tried "selling the idea" to someone else? Perhaps someone that wants to learn to code, or work with design, or write - depending on the type of project, even small ones, its good to energize someone to try it than to drop it.

A shared success is better than no success.
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I've been thinking of jumping the Google ship these days. Dropbox killed google docs for me, G+ didn't attract enough of my friends for it to be worth my time, Google reader went from my favorite waste of time, to outta sight, outta mind, Gmail got rid of my custom color scheme, and makes it impossible to read big long email threads all at once, and I can't even tell which emails I'v read the contrast is so effin bad. The only thing I'd have a hard time leaving is chrome, but I just bought my first mac, and Safari doesn't seem too bad. Google is still a powerhouse, but I wonder if they didn't just do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE
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Here's an idea I have for a new social network, what do you think?.

It all started as a joke with some friends about a social network for lone rangers, but later I got thinking about people with social phobias, and even people using twitter/facebook that become anxious about their followers count or privacy issues.

Do you think there would be users for a "social network" like it?
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I am asian and when I try to play basketball ... black people make fun of me.

What do I do? I accept the fact that I am asian and so it's okay for blacks to make fun of me when I play basketball.

This is how society works. Sometimes, you just live with it. Stop the whining and the bitching.
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Both you and Salvatore have very readable code. I'm uncomfortable with having both 'H' and 'h' in the same function, and with using 'l' as a variable, but both of these files are exemplary C. Still, although it may just be personal preference, I give the slight edge to Salvatore on clarity.

I have no real problem with 0 for success, but I'm with 'qeorge' on this. How is someone looking at only this function call supposed to determine if rehash() returns an integer or a pointer? My first guess would have been that you were checking for a non-NULL pointer. The 'goto err' makes it relatively clear after the fact, but not at a glance.

If you want to keep returning -1, I think a better convention would be 'if (rehash(H) < 0)', which makes it more clear that you expect an int and better implies an error condition. But I think even better would be to return KV_SUCCESS or KV_FAILURE (defined however you choose) and check explicitly. This would also let you remove a bunch of lines by getting rid of every comment next to every return statement! :)
Please review the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is in violation of a lot of them, as are several of your other submissions.
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This whole affair is a good test of the adage that the pen is mightier than the sword. Is the submachine gun mightier than the modem?
If there were a browser extension to block all fixed elements from displaying, I would install it.

ADDED. Here is a first draft of some text for the Kickstarter project: "The extension would modify the Google Chrome browser so that no fixed-position CSS elements would display. However, the extension must not prevent the display of any elements that would have been displayed by an unmodified copy Firefox 2.0 with plugins (Flash, Sliverlight, etc) disabled."

ADDED. There are some sign-up forms, e.g., on Reddit that would probably be rendered unreachable by this browser extension. So maybe it needs a whitelist.
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That is an awesome idea. And if no one wants to "buy" then probably no one cared about it in the first place so I shouldn't feel bad about letting it die. I'll have to try it out - I've got a good project in mind that this approach might work for.
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Initially, I thought this sounded ridiculous. But when I look carefully at what you've done, I'm impressed by your thoroughness. I think you have an excellent course for weak-to-average students.

I do wonder if your most able students might appreciate more opportunity to "play" and be creative, but in all honesty, they just need to stick with it into the Project Euler stuff at the end.

Is this a whole-year course?
What a terrible article. "THIS DISPROVES THE HYPOTHESIS THAT UNDERSTANDING SPEECH IS SPECIAL TO HUMANS (oh by the way we've done that already with numerous other experiments so ignore our main point please)."
Kinda obvious that Facebook is getting scraped up and down for all sorts of reasons. Wasn't there some "art" project of some guy guy who recently scraped millions of (public) profiles?

"used programming interfaces from ihearthquotes.com" seems to be down/unknown the the googles?
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Ah - that sucks, sorry about that. I pushed a small change, hopefully that makes it slightly better.
Dave Winer would agree with you:

November 2010: http://scripting.com/stories/2010/11/11/didYouInventRss.html
January 2007: http://scripting.com/scripting2/davewiner/2007/01/02/rssWasn...

Here’s one characterization by someone else that he seems to approve of:

“[RSS] grew out of a good idea in 1997 from the software company Userland that got picked up and melded with one of Netscape's similar ideas.”

http://scripting.com/2003/04/14.html#lff229a9a0dde77eb6e47c1...

While you might still think that Dan Libby deserves more credit than Winer, this is a far cry from claiming that he invented RSS.
Would you be so kind as to tell me which rule you think I'm violating?
Interesting that they would cancel when many other de-centralised organisations would be pretty resilient. In fact, losing a member to the enemy would cause an outcry and drive more to join the cause.

eg Taliban, Al Qaeda, IRA, guerrillas, and more.

Whoever cancelled the operation just confirmed to the adversaries that they're easy to squash and immediately put the cause at risk. Adversaries are now more confident to risk further resources if it means they can destroy the cause.

They chose unwisely.
Just look at the photo at the top of the article of policemen with automatic rifle wearing masks to protect their identities. That is some terrifying stuff.
No, I meant locked in. Hey, I enjoy the gmail UI as well, but most of my non-tech friends do not care. This is all I was saying.

And yes, I mean locked in, because if everybody knows you at tim@yahoo.com, or reg@hotmail.com, you can just move to gmail easily. Sure, you can setup forwarders, email everyone, but this is a non trivial step for most people. I am confused why people here can not see this.
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I think the key to recovering from over-commitment is to increase your rates. If you are over-committed, you are giving away your time for too little money.
Thought I was going to read about how they "REALLY" evaluate startups.
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>Wasn't there some "art" project of some guy guy who recently scraped millions of (public) profiles?

Oh, it's amazing - http://openbook.org/
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Since when is there a "real" Anonymous? Heck, I went to an anti-scientology protest one time, surely that gives me as much of a right as anybody to claim to be Anonymous.
Instead of the Government tracking down anon. Just let the Zeta's do it for them(CIA style). Anyone vindictive enough could fake being anon. Now we just have to convince the Zeta's that Al Qaeda is going to bring the heat down on them.