skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Google blocked Mint Linux from its results in response, it wouldn't be much of a threat.
Yeah that's me. =) Do you have any thoughts on those posts?
Just go man... Mhmm, warm.
"that being an invention of Apple made based on being awakened to the possibility by Xerox"

I'm so curious what you mean by this, unless you have redefined what GUI means.
If you didn't have some leverage over the company, it would not be wrong. If you were, say, lead engineer, and knew that training a replacement would take quite some time, then it would be wrong.
Why CommonCrawl is a Disruptive Force in Big Data
First: Marketing. We had to sell accounts and you can't really fit a big complicated explanation in an advert, nor would you want to.

Second: We were fair. Compared to our competition we offered a damn good service. You're right, cutting someone off after an hour would be shitty, but we had very few customers who didn't end up using more or less as many hours as they wanted to (back to the buffet example)..

We had a well-tuned system that calculated a rolling total of your connected time over the last 7 days and ONLY if you exceeded a specific threshold (if no one exceeded it, no one got disconnected), and ONLY during peak times (5pm to 10pm weeknights), and ONLY if all the lines were in use, would we selectively disconnect high-usage customers to make space for others.

If there was the odd high-usage customer (it was about 5% of our unlimited accounts at most) that couldn't get online between 5pm and 10pm on weeknights here and there because we were limiting their access to allow other customers on, BUT they can hop back on at 10pm and stay connected until 5pm the NEXT DAY, I think we were offering a pretty good deal.

So like your buffet example, the majority of our customers had no problem with our unlimited service, and the very few outliers who got limited, well they were getting a good deal anyways, and at the end of the day were actually costing us money, so if they cancelled as dissatisfied customers for not being able to essentially have a dedicated dial-up phone line for under 25$/month, we didn't lose any sleep over it.

So in the end, it was effectively unlimited service for 95%+ of our customers, and near-unlimited for the rest.
If you're lucky enough to be a programmer, very little!
> I don't like how the argument devolves into "this stuff I do is complicated so I'm smarter and your stuff is simple so you're dumb".

This itself is a microcosm of the attitude that is espoused by a certain insecure subset of techies where someone who doesn't understand computers is an idiot.

To me this is a clear indicator of someone whose self-esteem is tied up in identifying as an intelligent person, but who in reality is not nearly as smart as they think.

Intelligence can be applied to anything. Sure, system programming gives a nice barrier to entry such that someone with an 75 IQ will probably never even get something to compile, but mostly it's just curiosity plus time and effort applied to the craft. Brain power can be applied to anything whether it be programming, art, sales, sports, management, or investing.

The bottom line is all programming is limited by the capabilities of human intelligence, and all areas of programming are ripe for development by the smartest minds we can muster. Someone throwing stones at one area or another just to protect their self image is a simpleton as far as I'm concerned.
#2 I could definitely change 'ur' to 'your'.

#3 encrypted disk image doesn't allow collaboration. That was one of the main things as I set out to solve.
This is unreal. If the employees weren't "adding as much value" why not just fire them? California is an at-will employment state anyway.
"My blog is my public face to the world and if I post something horribly offensive here, my brand goes with it."

Friendly advice: folks might be more inclined to take your advice and your "brand" as something actually post-adolescent if your public face to the world consisted of choices of words other than your odd, repeated use of variants of the word "douche" in your writing and in the headline you self-posted here on HN....not amusing and actually offensive to many women and men.
I heard Apple copied Xerox, and Microsoft copied Apple, rather than stole.

The funny thing is that Apple always felt justified in their copying, when they really just they pulled a fast one on the Xerox HQ people who didn't know what they had in PARC. I think it was probably the PARC people who first considered that Apple stole all their ideas.
For all of you trying to parse this on a purely business level and justify Zynga on some ethical or legal distinction between 'vested' and 'unvested', etc., understand this: The take-away lesson, from the standpoint of an experienced developer being offered stock options in lieu of compensation is, from now on, a simple story, and it's the one you will have to overcome for the foreseeable future, thanks to Pincus:

Once upon a time the "Google Chef" could become a millionare.

Now he can't.

The End
And where do you draw the line?
At the moment only US residents can create projects on Kickstarter. It's going to be awesome when they expand to other countries.
Thanks, that's what I was missing: -a can have a file.
Cool stuff and thanks to all for explaining it.
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?history does not mention the command line argument, http://linux.die.net/man/1/bash does.
No, it's Japanese. I've never heard of Orto before but I can read the licence off your Github repo.

https://github.com/robterrell/orto/blob/master/docs/license....
A Great Land Grab For the Second Screen... The Social TV Scrimmage Continues
The Original Box.net Jingle - "Put your junk in a box"
My startup has an in-house chef. It is the best investment we have made. Employees are happy, morale is high, we eat healthy food, and stay late to have a family-style dinner. When we make it big, I'm going to be stoked to share profits with her. :-)

One of my colleagues takes pictures of our food and puts them up here: http://thumbtackfood.tumblr.com/
most people who run companies would rather the world worked more like the US than Europe in this one regard.

Yep. And most people who are employees would probably rather the world worked like the EU.

at-will versus employee rights is choosing different sides of a power balance (Should we give employees more power? Or give employers more power?). It is clear that most people mostly choose the side that gives them more power.
Only if it's implemented poorly
If France has such "crippling" problems, how are they able to act with Germany as the financial anchors of the EU?
Thanks for trying it out. Restarting shouldn't be needed. I should fix that. Can you please DM me at srini@fabulasolutions.com
And the big takeaway from that is that merit at Zynga is not measured by whether you fail to live up to your promises.
Incrementalists & Completionists
One of the conclusions one could draw from your comment is that the wrong kind of people (professionals) have been the ones involved in developing musicians' careers. ie, lawyers, corporate marketing-type people, etc.

As a professional musician I think this is correct.

The biggest challenge that I face is in my career (besides the creative challenges of creating compelling music) is this: there are very few smart, talented people who have an initiative to help me develop my career AND the skills to do so.

My current annual income is X, derived primarily from concerts.

If I had the right people helping me this could easily become 6X, and I would gladly pay my team of part-time
helpers a substantial percentage of equity to make it happen (rather do more than less, bigger pie to split).

But chances are the people with the talent to make that happen would rather do other things that will:

- make more money
- will be more fulfilling than, say, cold calling venues or other less-than-edifying things that, ultimately, make or break a career.

When I read about the idea Derek Sivers had to get people to specialize in 'Muck-Work' I got really excited.

If someone created an oDesk for musician's specialized helpers that were good at a myriad of very limited, but important tasks, they could make a pile of money.

It's easier said than done. I think Derek realized this and that's why we're still waiting for Muck Work to launch...
FTFA:

About the time when I first started making records, I was also starting to become aware of a new sort of organizing principle in music. I think like many people, I had assumed that music was produced, or created in the way that you imagine symphony composers make music, which is by having a complete idea in their head in every detail and then somehow writing out ways by which other people could reproduce that. In the same way as one imagines an architect working. You know, designing the building, in all its details, and then having that constructed.

Sound familiar?
I can understand why Microsoft wants to start again (Windows 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_8_Developer_Previe...
Your brain vs technology: How our wired world is changing the way we think
Organics and Mechanics
I was thinking the same thing, but a regular trainer has a much longer range of motion than a child can take advantage of. His looked much more kid friendly. I'm going to relatives in a few weeks and they have an elliptical trainer - I'm going to try Rowan out on it, and it if looks helpful, modding one to get rid of the handles and building a tripod would seem pretty straightforward.
Cool.

How do you create the "folders" that people see? (ui wise?) And hide the encrypted counterparts?
I think that may be true, but only as a conceit among C-levels.
This is spot on. At some point I expect these costs to flip. I've done the TCO computation a couple of ways and for OCP/Web2 type deployments its still cheaper to do your own deployment once you need more than 500 instances.

Of course not to take away from Andy's point, if you're deploying the equivalent of Slashdot (which ran on like a dozen servers) then you're silly to spend a couple employee slots on keeping that running in a co-hosted scenario. And these days, given the power of a machine, a LOT of things can be done on a relatively small handful of machines.
I think you'll probably find a whole lot of examples if you use a dataset of websites, webapps, and desktop/server apps made in the last decade. I work in business and enterprise application development, from simple webapps to complex systems on massive servers and I've been using and evangelizing bcrypt use around my circle for quite some time. At this point, most of the people I've encountered that are in charge of systems needing some type of encryption for their user data use bcrypt. I think most of the decent developers around the world already know of the perils of using weak encryption algorithms.
Nvidia Unveils World’s First Quad-Core Mobile
I hope there is some way to shut down the RFID chip once you buy the item
encfs also works really well with dropbox and it similarly includes many more options.

Truecrypt would also work. Does dropbox do binary diff syncs?
My project hits this assistive technology realm, check it out if you're interested.

A one-hand keyboard layout designed for former two-hand touch typists. Based on the same muscle memory you use to type with two hands, thus extremely quick/easy to learn.

Site and PC version:
http://www.onehandkeyboard.org/

Mac App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/one-hand-keyboard/id465275525
Managing Humans
Hierarchy of Skills
Wasn't David Ricardo with his "Comparative Advantages" theory ?
Zynga principals == Zynga
I'd love one :-) but there are tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of kids that could benefit from devices like these. I have no medical training, but the benefits seem obvious. Someone with some ambition would do well to track down the man that invented this and figure out a way to commercialize them. Physiotherapists are buying treadmills right now - I can't imagine that it would take much to validate these as a replacement.
Wasn't the major problem with commoncrawl that most of the index data was too old to be useful?

Besides, search index crawling is comparitively cheap compared to the data processing required to make it useful for actual search.
Well...a bloated ship won't sail well. Galleons held plenty of cargo but were slow and unwieldy.
Thanks for the advice. I recognize that not everyone will jive with my style or choice of words, but similar to Zach Holman's use of swear words, I chose to pick the word that I feel works best.

I think most people are familiar with the term "douche" or "douchebag" and that it's usage is similar to "bastard" -- very far removed from the original meaning. I certainly don't mean to offend anyone but like I mention with the case study of Amit - it's pretty much impossible to please everyone.
Are you putting 70 or 80 cents of tea leaves in each cup of tea?
I would never recommend a combination of "some teas that I expect to lose money on" and "I'll have to rely on volume to make it a profitable business". Once your service expands, you'll probably allow members to prefer one kind of tea over another and once they 'Like' the good (expensive) stuff, you're cooked.
Yeah, but logging into half of the accounts first wasn't probably the smartest idea. Hope he is working from behind a proxy and not getting negative consequences out of that stupid idea.
The Best Business Model is the Simplest
No, forbidding people to make jokes because some tiny minority might find it offensive is "fundamentally selfish and entitled".

No, it's professionalism, consideration, and standards of behavior.

you failed to even define what that "line of thinking" is, you just accused me of "employing" it.

You explained your line of thinking pretty well:

Well some people say if you are getting offended by "inappropriate" jokes that's basically your problem, not the problem of the majority of people there having fun

What is this, your personal Godwin's law? Since when "political correctness", especially in a situation where it exactly applies, is a "strawman"?

Because there is nothing here about political correctness. This is about professionalism, consideration, and maturity. Additionally, the term "politically correct" is used as a pejorative these days, so it's of little value.

Not with this kind of crap arguments.

Please take your attitude back to Reddit.
A 7m pitch for TechStars... 2m for AngelPad. What about YC?
Exactly, all India really needed was an implementation of the "Mediation Device" according to their needs, which in turn hooks into all the various proprietary lawful intercept interfaces that just about all networking gear already provides.
awesome see you there!
Make more use of free equipment such as: making films with free film, computer animation, and editing equipment.

Have more sex with random strangers.

Drop acid.
Few things which led us to avoid file name obfuscation

. File versioning: Dropbox does a great job in versioning, so we wanted retain that flexibility.

. Collaboration for teams: This is one of the most important things that we wanted to address. So keeping file names as is the most simplest solution we could make use of.

Also, we are using keys. So strength of the password is a non issue and makes it much much harder to device a rainbow table attack.
Before the Mac there was the Lisa, also an Apple product, which had a GUI. Before the Lisa there was Sun (suntools, sunview). Nobody except Apple sued another company claiming ownership of the GUI and when Apple sued Microsoft the judge threw it out based on the obvious (Xerox, Sun, ...).
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I agree, its way easy to drive off the road. Not as easy to navigate the resulting underbrush.

Aza Raskin's THE stuff is pretty interesting in that regard, there are varieties of menu systems, where do menus appear, how do they appear? (I've always thought the pie menus were cool) And of course how do you switch between manipulating the space (app selection, desktop, themes) and manipulation within the app itself.

Strangely (for me at least) is that the Windows 8 previews have some interesting stuff in them (after years of not changing much) more interesting in concept than some of mainstream UIs on Linux. Again not that a tiling WM is particularly new but the blending of the icon/status bar presence/window/launcher feels pretty fresh.

I do run Kubuntu on my desktop but I continually try out different schemes with virtual machines when I can to see where things are going. My netbook runs XFCE which reminds me in a strange way of Suntools.
Ask HN: Suggested reading for fostering engineering culture?
HN,
I'm looking for recommended reading for fostering a thriving engineering culture in an organization. Things related to lifestyle, process, hours, deadlines, management, org chart, corporate priorities, etc. I know there are a lot of varying views on this and would be especially interested in specific organizations' case studies and blog posts. Books are great too.

Thanks!
[Binary] 11/11/11 from Huffington Post Rocks #WOOF
Not a smart thing to do (to log into those accounts).

If you found a bunch of house keys, each one labled with the address of the house, would you go to each house and open each door? Stepping inside is not necessary.

That of itself, might not break any laws (without prior warning, or intent to cause harm, it might not be trespassing), but computer tresspass laws only require unauthorized access.
This could be really useful one day and I love the idea of providing a REST api instead of a UI! Are you going to add support for european numbers (or would you open-source the code)?
I was really surprised to hear time spent explaining that "Angel investing is a great opportunity!" In SF the investors know that it's a great business and are only worried about finding the right teams.

A question for founders in other cities: do you have to try to sell the idea of "being an investor in a startup", or do you just need to sell yourself?
The point is not dependent on the words being synonymous, nor did I ever claim that they were.

(edit: I mistook who I was responding to and changed the comment accordingly.)
I turned down a spot at an Ivy league school to go to another top-25 ranked school because they offered a lot of scholarship money. I would not have done that.

I would not have majored in Latin, or at least I would have considered majoring in something else. I majored in Latin because it was an extremely short major because I had taken 4 college courses in high school. I figured that would leave me with plenty of time to find something else worth studying, but I hadn't made it to CS before graduation time came. That decision forced roughly 4 years of extra work to "catch up" to where I would have been had I majored in CS originally.

I spent far too much time and energy trying to answer ?'s of religion that ultimately didn't get me anywhere. I wasted time oscillating between atheism and various flavors of Christianity, and in doing so ate up a lot of energy that ultimately could have been used for more fruitful pursuits.

EDIT - I see people are listing things they would have done identically as well. I figured I'd add this.

Assuming I went to the same college, I would not have changed my circles of friends significantly. I was in a dry fraternity (Lambda Chi Alpha at Wake Forest if anyone cares to know), and we were the top academic fraternity by a long shot for my entire tenure there. The people I met there were, by and large, the most fascinating people I've ever met. From this group, I know a Marshall scholar, a professional rapper, three priests of wildly differing viewpoints, several doctors and a professional poker player who netted 6 figures a year for 3 years. They were all people who weren't interested in the typical fraternity scene and who were intensely interested in the world around them and trying to make the most out of it, whereas the typical fraternity student isn't looking beyond their next chance to get laid. They ALMOST make up for my poor choice to take a scholarship instead of going to a school someone might have heard of.
Still better than not reading it at all, which is what I do now.
The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent
I ran into this issue a few days ago too. Border-radius can also cause it. There are multiple bug reports on this already:

http://bit.ly/vbeCPM
http://bit.ly/rSH6sV

Hopefully this gets fixed soon.
Depends on your definition of "tracking users". Netflix tracks your viewing history to recommend new movies and TV shows. Amazon tracks your purchasing and browsing history to recommend items for you to purchase.

In my opinion, neither of these is inherently unethical.
Back in YC S'08 pitches were between 5-6m. Now with so many teams I believe they're around 2m.
You're welcome, it took me a bit of time to come up with this idea, of course, it's not perfect, but does the job pretty well.
If you're inclined to working with computers, I think you'd find it relatively easy. Latin is HIGHLY systematic.

Feel free to ping me on e-mail if you'd like to talk more. I wrote a rough draft of a textbook as a "thesis" and while I don't know where it currently lives, I'd be happy to help as Latin pedagogy was my original calling (before software).
Apple uprising brewing?
Your impression is entirely mistaken. I do entirely understand CSRF exploits and mitigations. I think what's happening is that when I write "not a demonstrated vulnerability" you (and others) are reading "a fine and dandy example of web programming". That's why phrases like "doesn't sound like a good strategy" keep popping up in your reply and others when I'm not talking about recommended strategy.

When I wrote my first comment, this story was at the top of the front page. A story about 10 demonstrated vulnerabilities on Apple's web sites would belong there. A story about 2 demonstrated vulnerabilities and 8 instances of sloppiness that might be vulnerabilities but we don't know without more information -- that's not really a top-of-the-front-page story.
>they're basically cloning OSX bad habits: instead of switching between windows on Alt+Tab they're now switching between apps (across virtual desktops!).

This is THE reason why I will not touch gnome-shell/unity. Too bad, because I could get used to most other stuff (except unity's menu bar on top) and I believe it has potential. Multiple displays and virtual deskops are a minor annoyance that can be improved.
Hint: The title makes much more sense when you realise that they mean 'rewrite the rules' as a verb, not 'rewrite rules' as in mod_rewrite.
> Unlike the "chosen ones" (and it really is an insular, exclusive circle of those types who get that kind of coverage)

You know how these guys got that way? (1) They blogged. They shared their insights, example code, ways of solving common problems, etc. with the world. They answered questions from strangers – Wil Shipley had a long blog segment giving long helpful advice/critiques to code sent in by strangers. (2) They talked to each other. They hung out in a (not hard to find) IRC channel, chatted about their common interests, griped about common problems. They met up and drank beers at WWDC and MacWorld and C4. They organized local meetup groups: Daniel Jalkut for instance dumped a ton of effort into running the Boston CocoaHeads group for years and years (maybe still?). (3) They built a bunch of great products that people liked. They built reputations for solid support and a rapport with their customers.

In other words, this is not some impossible-to-break-into clique or conspiracy. Becoming a “chosen one” yourself is quite doable if you put solid time and effort into making good stuff and giving back to the community.