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Good point. At the moment it's mostly software focused, but the technical aspect is definitely not the hardest part of getting something like this started in a community, and a major goal of our project is to share our experience and help with the content and community building side. Thanks for the feedback, it's really helpful.
"Non-academic" status wouldn't work there anyway. The smartest person I ever met went there, and was in mortal fear of flunking out a few times.
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Note that 'sudo rm' doesn't care about your aliases. It would be safer to replace the binary.
How is this a tragedy of the commons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
"Product Guy" can translate to "non-technical" similar to "Business Analyst". 95% of the so-called Business Analysts I see (many from top schools and top firms) really don't know anything about the businesses they're analyzing - they get the title by a lack of technical background.

Of course the 5% of "Product Guys" and "Business Analysts" that are true talents are worth their weight in gold.
What does the SPDY protocol do that the SSH2 protocol doesn't aside from being completely HTTP-specific?

This seems to me to be yet another unnecessary new protocol.
My habit is to use 'ls' to confirm what I'm deleting, then pressing up and replacing 'ls' with 'rm'.
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This may be the most relevant post in this entire thread.
DisplayPort currently supports the data rates necessary for 300dpi displays up to about 16-17", and 200dpi 24" displays. That's already good enough to toss out almost all font hinting, without any advances needed in graphics cards or cables.

AMD's high-end GPUs can handle 6 monitors each running at 2560x1600, and can render 3d content at that resolution with useful performance.
Emacs color theming is an epic failure. There are too many modes that define their own colors, and the colors are not defined in any semantic way: they are simply colors that the author of the mode likes. That means that if you switch to a color theme like Solarized (or anything), some mode is going to have fucked up and unusable colors.

Most of the time, things appear to work because everyone writes their font-lock modes in terms of meaningful colors, like "font-lock-builtin-face", but as soon as you venture outside of what font-lock provides, you're fucked if the color theme author doesn't use the modes you do. And since pretty much everyone uses different modes, color themes simply do not work. (I usually define my colors in terms of the font-lock faces to make sure that color themes work. But sometimes you have more information than a normal font-lock mode does, and then you have to manually select a new color. Hashes and arrays in cperl-mode are a specific example.)

I also have some specific complaints about how the mode is written. Why is the color theme definer burdened with quasiquoting and color classes when a macro could make it possible to sanely extend the color theme without extra work? Something like:

(define-color-theme solarized
:base-colors-for light
foo "#abcdef"
bar "#fedcba"
baz "#coffee"
:mode-colors-for light
background foo
font-lock-builtin-face bar
...)

As it stands, there is too much boilerplate and I would never be motivated enough to type everything needed to get the modes I use to work.

Also, while I'm whining, why do people name their own fucked-up Emacs config things like "Emacs Prelude" instead of "my .emacs"? I agree that many of Emacs' defaults are stupid, but the solution is education, not a random .emacs that invalidates the Emacs documentation. When you change all the defaults, you'd better provide a new user manual, or people are just going to be confused.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday and the painkillers are not doing much for me. :)
I've had a similar experience with a Samsung laptop and the consumer electronics store I bought it through. The touchpad had stopped working, so I took it to the shop's tech desk. After confirming the touchpad didn't work in my OS, the consultant used a usb live disc to verify it was definitely the hardware. Then they shipped it to Samsung, rang me when it came back, and I received a detailed list of the tests and replacements that occurred.
I see your point about Scheme. I had wanted to stay with a Lisp, since the Scheme family has a different orientation, with the emphasis on functional techniques among other things. But maybe the more powerful macro system would justify the extra learning load.

I would need some convincing with J, though. I've studied both and I thought APL had much better tutorial material, development tools, and conceptual straightforwardness. I didn't stick with J for very long, so I'm sure I missed important aspects of its use. Could you explain some ways in which you think J gives a better demonstration of the possibilities of the array-oriented paradigm?
I think this is the best article about ebook readers that I've read since... well, ever.
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IIRC they were technically motorcycles and required a motorcycle license. Probably didn't help.
Unless you're talking about some SSH2 completely different from Secure Shell Protocol v2, then I think you need to read up on SPDY... If you are, please correct me.
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I am from the US, currently visiting China. I've confirmed that I'm able to access nodejs.org without my VPN. However, it's been my experience here that the system is aggressive about false-positives in general and will result in intermittent access to various websites for seemingly arbitrary reasons.

I'm not sure whether this happens at a regional level or across the entire country, but right now it's loading fine in Wuhan :)
What I mean is I haven't heard a positive thing said about it myself. As far as I'm aware everyone I know hates it and has negative things to say about it, most of these where the changes between FF 3 & FF 4. A common complaint I've heard is "its trying to hard to be chrome".

However I can assume by the positive comments I read online that myself and my friends probably aren't the standard, and may be unjustly noicsey as people who don't like somethign are generally mroe vocal than people that do.

So what I'm hearing/reading is lots of people who really like it, and around me people who vocally don't. Thats what I consider polarising, its drawing out harsh criticism and favourable reviews.

The modern laggy behaviour complaint I think is unfair and a marketing lie. What I think is that its a combination of historical problems with FF still in peoples memories and comparisons to Chromes 'snappiness'.

Chrome feels like it loads pages faster, so does Opera, and Safari, I doubt that it really does, but thats the bench mark people are expecting now. Like I said its unfair, people are now expecting speed everywhere as thats whats been marketed to them.

Its the little things that count, for a quick test I just fired up an aurora firefox build, it took roughly 15 seconds to load, chrome took 10 seconds (I stopped counting with safari when I got to 30 seconds but its loading probably the last 10 pages I left open at once). Thats the sort of thing people remember and sticks in there minds, and often takes alot for them to unforget.
Thanks for sharing. I think it's a better math lesson than coin tampering lesson. Hard to imagine the wrench is state of the art. :-)

One of the subtle lessons here is just how many tosses you have to make to get a high confidence level. In business, how often do we get that many rolls of the dice or tosses of the coin before having to decide? And what's that say about how confident we should be? (Perhaps this is way so many HN folks have pivoted)
Somewhat related:

"What makes someone a great product manager at Google?"

http://www.quora.com/Google/What-makes-someone-a-great-produ...
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I remember reading an article . . . that said that the "holistic admissions process" of today, with the essays, activities, etc. supplanted the earlier . . . approach at the Ivy League precisely in an attempt to admit fewer Jews.

The much-cited article on the subject is by Malcolm Gladwell, and was first published in the New Yorker.

http://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html

The article is a review of a book by Jerome Karable, which gives many details of the history of admission policies at selective United States universities.
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Some of the answers above seem to involve 'babysitting' measures that almost certainly won't be on the next box you use.

appropriate countermeasures imho:

1. run an account with the right amount of access.

2. don't use sudo. (su + password makes you think a bit more)

3. this sounds dickish, but I mean it constructively. Pay attention. the -f flag means something...

4. when all else fails, rsync'd folders are a beautiful thing :)
I hate to be this pedantic, but the fact that you're calling in WinMo 7 seems to show your lack of experience. The platform is Windows Phone, and I believe they've done quite a bit right this time. And to note, they've made many firsts that iOS and Android have eventually picked up--or will soon do so.
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Same here, although I visited multiple sites listed in the very same session on the browser I have open, the tool only reported one as visited, and Google as a Whoops.
It should have reported at least 6 more!
I think this is great. If I were to want to implement some sort of darknet project I would definitely consider using NaCl, CurveCP, and DNSCurve as core components.
> on several matters its in direct conflict on the w3c standards with other major players.

Yeah, this is false. Gecko is still arguably the gold, um, standard for page rendering.

That said, I dread using Firefox now, for reasons that are completely emotional. There's too much UI, and web pages have an unfortunate uncanny valley thing happening when compared side-by-side with Webkit-rendered pages. The best way I can a explain it is that it's like when you see a photo of a Russian Buran, and your mind goes, "There's something not quite right about that Space Shuttle."
Wow. The article gives numbers, but seeing the actual mountains, and how many of them, help really solidify just how polluted that area is, wow.
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This wire service story has already been submitted to HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3309108
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Browsers aren't going to implement both SSH and SSL, since that doubles security surface area. You could rip out the mux layer from SSH and run it over SSL, but that doesn't sound any easier than SPDY. And SPDY has special HTTP header compression.
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People rise to the occasion. There isn't much need for that kind of dedication domestically today. As for abroad, most of the thousands killed in various military adventures over the last decade were pretty young. Whether you agree or disagree with the greater view of those adventures, many of those young people gave their lives for what they viewed as something worth dying for.

Disclaimer: I served in the US Navy and have many friends and family members who served or are serving in various branches.
He answered the question.

Why would you expect him to lavish complements on a competitor that lost by a wide margin?
Nop, the subway version of spam is someone selling you Viagra even if you are a 10 year old girl; someone selling you fake lottery tickets and a guy from Nigeria that needs your credit card information in order to give you 10 millions bucks.
> Its a browser that relies on recommendation to exist, and it no longer is getting recommendation.

I agree with the first part of your statement, and partially agree with the second. I personally recommend it to everyone over chrome, because firebug is better than chrome's dev tools...well, chrome's js tool is perhaps as good now, but firebug's better for everything else.
Easy way to check if you are hellbanned:

Visit the .org website and you won't be logged in.

http://news.ycombinator.org/submitted?id=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE

If all your latest comments are grey, shed a tear for the time you've wasted.
I don't think it takes millions and federal loans to make an EV. Scratchbuilt or otherwise. Enthusiasts have been converting small ICE cars ("internal combustion engine" cars) into electrics for many years.

Electric cars are simple. For the most part, all they require is:

* batteries,

* a charge controller,

* power controller,

* some gauges, and

* a motor.

Car companies like to make them out to be more technologically advanced so they can charge more and get more government financial assistance. And for that matter preserve their existing ICE-based business. But EV's are fundamentally way simpler than ICE vehicles.

Edit: Yes, I realize that Aptera's 3-wheeled vehicle is amazing and is not something that a couple of guys could probably put together in their garage. I'd love to see Aptera or a company like them be able to employ engineers to work on those sorts of futuristic spaceships. However, I'm saying that you don't need to go all-out top-end to create an EV. Make a simple "VW Beetle-style" economy EV for cheap instead. It won't require astronomical funding and early adopters will go nuts for them.
More likely, Indiana doesn't have any legal jurisdiction over Paypal. Just because something is a law in one place doesn't mean it's a law in another place, even if you have customers that are covered by the law.
Product guy really boils down to Generalist vs Specialist. Maybe it is 'Versatilist.'

The product person can't be an expert in for example, cryptography, and simultaneously be an expert in photo filter technology, and also the 100 other things that the product needs.

The end product might need all these things, and need specialists on maybe 5-10 of the items. The product person needs to be able to understand how all of them work, and make an end product that has market potential.

A product person can build products on their own if they have to. They are just better and faster when they have a team. If you can't do it on your own, you're probably not a real product person.
Somewhat bullshit legal action, though. All they need to do is move their company out of San Francisco and then the City can't do anything about it. Cars for people in California can arranged from anywhere in the world with phone lines and intarwebs, and I doubt the City of San Francisco has much jurisdiction over people in, say, Russia.
I think I just don't share the same fears as you do, or I misunderstand your comment. If Google gave me a 5-page questionnaire with drop down menus and fields to fill about me, and what I like, I'd want to fill it in. In my experience systems that know more about me can always produce a better and more targeted experience. It's a no brainer.
I don't buy that.

Its easy to point out the EAP kid who can't hack it in college. But I've never heard of anyone bemoaning the "qualified" upper-middle class fratboy who flunks out of school in a drunken haze.
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Agree about Clojure. The main reason I didn't choose it is that I thought a good Perlis language should not require learning much that wasn't directly related to using the new paradigm. With Clojure, you have the whole Java platform to deal with as well.

Of course, there are tons of Java programmers out there and several really interesting languages for the JVM. I have thought that there should really be a list similar to mine, for people who are already working in the Java environment.
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Why not type * instead of ./* in the first place? Sidestep the whole issue by eliminating redundant information.
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Some people are deathly afraid of people talking to them in public, especially if they are from a different social class.

I've had people try to sell me candy on the L before. I said, "no thanks" and that was that. I imagine this is the end result of 99.99999% of interactions between people on public transportation. (Someone stole my shoes once after he asked to read my newspaper and I gave it to him. That's the 0.000001% case :)
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Have you ever dealt with an academic bureaucracy? Barbarism is a good description!
Presumably the bank tellers are W-2 and their employer pays payroll taxes, while this guy is paying his own payroll taxes. If you've ever done 1099 work, you'll know that the government takes pretty much all of your 1099 money.
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This is a cathode made from nanoscale particles of crystalline copper hexacyanoferrate which has a lattice that nicely fits hydrated potassium ions. Very high charge and discharge rates. 40000 cycles and still 80% capacity. Projected to be cheap to mass produce.

The battery chemistry is cheaper than lithium ion, but also heavier for the same energy storage. Sounds like more than a few times heavier, but hard to tell from the article. In any event, aimed at grid storage, energy density isn't as important as for portable electronics.

The fly in the ointment is that they do not have a suitable anode terminal, but as researchers that just gives them something to work on.
On the other hand, the NYC system is not particularly dirty. I'm not from NYC and so haven't ridden the subway a lot, but I've never seen a single seat unusable because of filth. That shiny plastic stays pretty clean.
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I don't know. Those shoes look awfully comfortable and make him look clean. Perhaps they are a very valid business expense and well worth the money: Perhaps he did A/B tests with different shoe styles and manufactures? Perhaps the shoes are a topic of conversation during the sale that he can switch to and then back to close a deal? Perhaps if his feet don't hurt after 11h and he's able to hustle that one more hour, the shoes pay for themselves.
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Going off this 'starter guide', a Product Guy is basically taking your most junior, inexperienced designer/developer and putting them in charge?
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Basically social power and wealth is distributed in a top-down way based on which school you went to. "grades" don't actually mean anything they're just a social fiction created to justify why some people have greater shares of power/wealth/freedom than others.

Asian families, the pragmatic authoritarians they are, are very good at hacking this system of social sorting. The elite colleges know this. Elite colleges are n the business of creating and maintaining high status in the eyes of society. The highest status people are often not the best education-hackers. Therefore, the elite colleges don't sort solely or even primarily on the basis of grades. They want people who are going to rise to powerful, prominent, high status positions and they accurately recognize that hordes of Asian authoritarian parents are just hacking the system for their family's wealth.

They use racial profiling because it makes sense given their goals. Anyone who tells you it isn't racism is suffering from some kind of American myth of a post racial world.

Caltech is color blind because their goals are different. Caltech is for scientists and so they don't care what race you are. Yale is for leaders and good leaders usually don't get that way by being obedient violinists.
I'm more of a fan of the other comment, which was basically "don't use -f then". Personally, when using that command at root, you should be pretty aware of what you're doing.
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I like Erlang's syntax. The punctuation rules make sense to me and I appreciate how it allows greater code density on the page. When I do have trouble scanning code, it's generally due to the heavy use of pattern matching for flow control. So, I really don't have any feeling for how much of a problem this is for people.

That said, I want to recommend languages that introduce people to new ideas with a minimum of distractions. If the syntax is an issue, then I should point to alternatives. For the important concepts in Erlang, I'd appreciate suggestions.
I just tried it twice, once on a public wi-fi network. And then again when I got home. It worked very well on the public wifi, and had many false positives at home.

It seems to work better on slower internet connections. The script returns calls a site "visited" if the response time of the potentially cached image is less than 1/20 the time of the certainly uncached image.

On slow connections the cache is much faster than the uncached. On fast connections it's only slightly faster. However, the known uncached images sometimes have "10x increase in latency" so it seems that based on my (and other's experience) that this is a major problem.

One could attempt to normalize this for the sites where appending random query string causes higher latency. Simply precalculate the added latency from images with the random query string on a per site basis. Then subtract it from "uncachedTime."
Scott Adams, in the back of "The Dilbert Principle," describes the OA5 model of running a company: Out at 5. His main goal was an efficient organization that let everyone out at 5, which meant the product was delivered, which meant everyone did a fantastic job, and other things that we all take for granted as being desirable.

One of his big points was that nobody should be doing anything more than 1 degree removed from the core mission. If you're a web host, you're either directly working on maintaining or supporting the service, or you're optimizing an internal process relating to the first two (as an example).

Otherwise, you're dead weight. The kind of product guy described in this article runs afoul of that OA5 principle.
have you ever sold anything? you have to almost beg them, one on one. you have to be bold and walk down an aisle of people who give you the evil eye, and still make your pitch. before you take some high horse and put this man down, walk in his shoes.
That is good to hear, maybe I am doing something wrong. Maybe Android does not work that well in South East Asia, where I am traveling at the moment, whereas the iPhone worked very well.
The site itself is light on details, but the video provides an excellent overview of the product. I especially like the minimap and the mad lib-style issue reporting.
I bailed halfway through the intro video. There was nothing wrong. It looks great. I'm just so very jaded about anything purported to manage... anything. Especially in a web app.
First, I want to say that it looks like a lot of work went into this and it looks well done, complete with the cheery wide-eyed demo video.

However, do we really need yet another task management tool?

http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/12/tyranny-of-th...
> Much like how a computer gets slow and needs to be reformatted, people who are browser power users need to clean out Firefox every few years.

Maybe I'm asking to much, but this seems totally unacceptable to me -- both things seem totally unacceptable to me. And while it may still be just true, Firefox suffers worse from this problem than any OS, software or other browser that I use.