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We were well funded, but lacked focus... lesson learned: it's hard to realize when you're lacking focus, it comes in many different forms. Don't start a business or hire anyone until you have a focused idea, that has traction in the market... Software is easy, ideas are easy. Having traction in your software, having something that multiple people desire because it makes their life easier, saves them money is not easy. Don't get caught up in the details of what life might be like under successful conditions. Know that you need to cover the basics and to that end you need to probably cut most of your ideas. Yes, you can crank out software, but it's how you reduce your software down, how you make it simpler that is really hard. Writing lots of code is easy, but making it simple is hard. Making it simple will give you a better shot at making it understood and possibly a success... Oh, make sure you recognize the barriers to entry also. We created widget software at one point and it's hard to get people to install your code, even when it's a simple copy/paste - not impossible, but it's a barrier. Also, consider the costs when you start pricing... You must make money above all else, always ask yourself if you would pay to gain the value that is your software... /endrant
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Also, the site linked to for "Call your representative now" (http://fightforthefuture.org/) is either outdated or factually incorrect:

"The Stop Online Piracy Act could pass this week."

IIRC, Congress is in winter recess. Also, it's still in subcommittee:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/actions_votes

And of course, its Senate-companion must be voted on, too, before it reaches the President.
Spoiler: Twitter owns it.
What's up with "Unknown or expired link."?
For all this talk about cutting-edge webbery, why does HN have such funny URLs for paging? This makes it so that whenever I come back to an open HN tab I get this error message.
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That was bothering me too. Looks good now :)
So far as I have observed, while the group is loosely-knit, and really is in concept "anyone" -- in terms of general perception by media and people there rather actually is some consensus of who is more Anonymous than the other.

And that's on the basis of who historically carried out most of the attacks, as were reported/confirmed on Twitter by Sabu ( https://twitter.com/anonymouSabu ) and AnonymousIRC ( https://twitter.com/AnonymousIRC ). Sabu was the de facto leader of LulzSec (the most technically able person in LulzSec -- the only member of LulzSec who's in fact still on the run) and he seems to be promoting the leak pretty persistently. AnonymousIRC did also take responsibility for this one.
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Am I the only one who finds the symbol of the clenched fist to be a real turn-off for any feeling of support for these kinds of sites?
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I have updated my post with that press release:
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/12/24/anonymous-antisec-...
eg problem = persistent storage

idea 1 = reel to reel tape

idea 2 = self contained cassettes

idea 3 = hard disks

idea 4 = floppy disks

idea 5 = flash based drives

If you concentrate on the problem (we build the most reliable/fastest/cheapest devices for persistent storage) instead of the idea (we build the most reliable/fastest/cheapest tape drives) then you're less likely to be screwed when the market or technology changes
I'm still disappointed that K&R never released a third edition.
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Hardly a top secret if you can read about it on the wikipedia.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756
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You can change the delimiter if that helps.
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This seems like a good place to pose a question I've been thinking a lot about recently:

What would be wrong with getting rid of options for employees, and just paying market salaries and cash incentives like profit-sharing or bonuses?

HN has been replete lately with stories of early employees getting screwed because they got too little cash and not enough equity. I completely get wanting to let your employees share in the financial success of your business. That's only fair. But equity isn't just about sharing in the financial success, it's also about control. But unless I'm wrong, the 20% option pool for employees is there for financial incentive, not to give employees a vote in the election of the board or something.

So why not just skip the equity mess and reward people with the cash they're trying to use equity as a proxy for?

Of course, this presumes that startups CAN pay people market salaries and HAVE profits, both of which may be pipe dreams. Is that the only reason though? If you started a really profitable company and never gave employees equity, but were very generous with salaries, perks, bonuses, etc., would that dissuade the best from working for you?
Man it's a good thing I have this pastebin post to discredit my other pastebin post.
As a librarian I can tell you that the people who loose here are not only readers, but communities. It's very difficult to explain to a user who wants title X in e-book format that the publisher doesn't offer it, that we can't buy certain titles or that availability is limited due to publisher limitations. They simply see a failure of the library model. Most of these users will not turn to pirating, they will turn to buying. This is bad for them, for the library and for the community that relies on and benefits from that library.

Of course, this will also drive piracy, but to a smaller degree that people think (most of our e-book users are not technically literate). I do think, however, that over time as more users find it's difficult to get reasonably priced content to their readers, they will turn to alternate methods, and force publishers into a DRM free, reader friendly system. Of course, that, like music, locks out libraries.

Our only real hope is that publishers can work with authors to come up with a 21st century compensation system that allows for subscription purchasing (ensuring an ongoing revenue for publishers and unfettered access for library users) or that more authors bypass publishers all together and make their material available in a library friendly manner.
Good idea. I'll look into it!
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> I don't see why it is so flamewar-ish

Because there's always (at least) two sides to each coin.

Putin might be a czar, but Russia under his rule restored much of its superpower status that was lost in the Soviet Union collapse. His exploitation of Russia's position of nearly monopolist resource exporter in the region is very clever, and it put a lot of smaller countries in Europe (Finland included) under substantial influence of Russia. Understandably this doesn't sit well with some other countries, and it's in their best interest to undermine Putin's order and to support and agitate the social unrest in Russia. So one may argue that the "revolution" is being stirred as much from the outside as from the inside. In fact, there's an alleged proof floating around (in a form of fiscal email exchanges between "independent non-profit pro-democracy" Russian media and social outlets and their US sponsors). That's not to say that the proof is real. It only means that there's a full-on media war on, and theatlantic.com might be representing just one side of it.

Now, do tell me this is not flamewar-ish :)
Unless I'm missing something obvious, this post lacks a proper attribution. It is an old, very old and very well-known one-liner that made rounds and rounds in the Perl community over the years. Reading Krumins's post one might think he invented it.
It would have to pass first. The supreme court is not going to hear arguments on something that might become law.
Good catch. That looks right now you've pointed it out. I was thrown off by the word "translation".
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I would love to know the story behind the Stuxnet worm, but I doubt it will be declassified in my lifetime.
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I'm not a big fan of Safari on Mac either; I use Chrome everywhere, and Firefox only if I want to debug something with firebug. I use Safari only if I need a quick way to run a browser with no personalization settings, to see how sites work.
Isn't this a bit circular? You need a controlled university email system... so that you have control over it?

If users were expected to get by using their own email addresses, there'd never be a reason to go in and delete a message for them.

The author's musing about why the university even needs to run an email system is more valid than I think either of you above are giving credit for (I think the verify-ability issue is also overblown.. university students should be held to a personal responsibility standard where you don't need technical 'verify-ability'... these aren't high school students).

However, I can think of at least one area where not providing an official school email address would become a problem -- many student educational discount programs require an .edu address.
When one anonymous person tells the other anonymous person that they were not responsible for the anonymous person's action, you better believe it.
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Runs fine on iPhone 3G. Impressive.
Duplicate of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3391431
Yes, I realized this simple explanation only after doing the Markov chain analysis myself a couple years ago.

But for some reason, looking at the game, you don't think it will take so long.
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Consume with a grain of salt.
What saddens me about this story is the real but largely unexamined cost of war -- the appropriation of talent for projects with no positive impact on humanity. Yes, this satellite project was valuable in that it perhaps helped avoid future wars. However, what benefits could we all have received from the work of these obviously talented engineers? I'm not suggesting that such a satellite program was not a good governmental decision given the state of the world -- just that, in the absence of such adversarial relationships between countries, these engineers could have made the world a much better place somehow. We might mock the allocation of engineering talent to the latest group shopping or social networking "fad", but at least people are getting some possible benefit.
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So I'm usually one of the folks defending google+ against the haters (usually along the lines of it's dead/no it's not arguments)...

But this particular issue shits me no end. It's ridiculous to give us this way of sorting people into circles without that actually giving us any control at all besides (and only recently) what appears on our stream.

Actually making circles MEAN SOMETHING - should have come before they integrated them into every single other product offering. The front page of youtube now - for me is full of crap that I have no interest in at all.

Just because I've circled someone doesn't mean I want their presence injected into every aspect of my online endeavour. It's annoying as hell. We thought it was safe to circle people because we thought the whole point of circles was the control it gave us.

It's astonishing how google is missing it's own goddamn point - the one we all thought it was trying to make with this product.

-----

Edit:

I should add that I am still willing to say the positives outweigh the negatives at this stage - the chats I'm having on G+ are simply awesome. But fixing this should be their number 1 priority if they don't want folks like me to ditch it.
I'm a huge fan of my local library and prefer to use it whenever possible. I'd happily pay a rental fee of $1-2 per title.
To this day certain companies do large-scale file transfer by FedExing hard drives around. See http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/
The only thing practically nonsense here is viewing a computer as a finite state machine with 2^trillion states! That state machines cannot decide primality is downright practical by comparison.
It's like a very expensive version of "sneakernet" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet).
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Transferred 1 expiring + 2 that had just autorenewed last month. You don't 'lose' the time remaining on a domain - Hover (probably all the registrars) just take the domain under their control and bill you when the current registration period is up (+ $10 a\per domain for transfer fee)
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Yep, saw that coming. Some people tried to build a group identity and reputation around the name "Anonymous", made it fashionable, and now every spook, wannabe-spook, and random vandal uses the name, regardless of whether they're associated with the original group or not.
> PPC, MIPS, and Sparc are dead platforms anyway

You say that because you're not the one actually using hardware built on those chips. And presumably you don't care whether people who _are_ can use the web. But some other people do care.

> X86 and ARM is where its currently at

Key word being "currently". That's fine, but we don't want to make the web _require_ this.

> So it does make sense to target these platforms first.

Sure, but with NaCl you _can't_ target other ones later. You'd have to recompile the code server-side to add any other platforms. This isn't the case with JavaScript, say, where all a new platform would have to do is write a jit for itself and existing content would just work.

PNaCl, if they ever get it working, might not have this particular problem, by the way. If that ever gets off the ground, I'd be happy to revisit this discussion.

> So we can run other languages in the browsers, at full
> speed

And forever lock all computing in the world into the ARM and x86 architectures. No thanks.

Or are you talking about software that you only want to run this month and will never want to run again?
there is a certain value in at least halting regression, in my opinion. if your work did not advance the sum of human knowledge, then did it at least keep the fires burning a little longer? then it was not a waste, in my opinion.

also, if it makes you feel any better, these projects tend to have a way of trickling down/out knowledge...
Slightly unrelated, but here's a question i've been searching to answer. When I worked in the IT department of a non tech company, I saw tech-solvable problems everywhere. Today I work for a deeply technical engineering company. I Engineer for Engineers. I'm very serious about starting a company, however it's becoming increasingly harder for me to see problems I can solve that aren't consumer oriented. I think consulting is the best way to get into a non tech company to find problems... but I'm not sure how to get in.
Could you add a standard account system?
Wars are often caused by faulty intelligence, of the “oh, yeah, we can take this territory in a week” variety. I’m not a big fan of the defense establishment, but keeping an eye on our opponents’ capabilities is one of the more benign forms of defense spending.
Why so? It is a common symbol for groups fighting for civil liberties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
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I'm always bothered when people tell me an idea I want to work on has already been solved. Imagine if people gave up, and let MySpace keep it's position. There's a lot of crap out there that deserves to be improved.
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This appears to be caused by internal confusion about what circles are. Some people think that "has in a circle" means "is friends with". But Circles are a classification system, like tags - you put people in a circle to reflect some fact about them, and those tags could mean anything from "close friends" to "people I know from this context" to "people I hate".

The author mentions having a "people I don't actually know" circle. The fact that people are using Circles this way means that it's not okay to use "is in any circle" blindly, for any purpose. But that's what Google did with GChat. Oops.
If you wonder why there seems to be a relatively recent boom in commercial spaceflight, this is why. During the cold war the best and brightest aerospace minds were heavily recruited into secret projects building spy satellites, ICBMs, super-sonic military aircraft, and other projects.
In a way you might as well fantasize about trees that grow sandwiches. We have to take what we're given in this world and that includes the nature of mankind and the many faults of human civilization. We should rightly strive to better the state of the world as much as we can but I don't think it's overly helpful to haul around an excessive amount of angst about human-kind being imperfect.
Applying hordes of programmers to solving a programming problem always runs into limits governed by Conway’s Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Law
> exclusive access for opened files ("x" in fopen)

Wouldn't this need to be a service provided by the operating system? How can it be part of the standard? Or is it just that the standard prescribes that "x" must work if the operating system allows it.

I know Windows usually defaults to exclusive access, but in practice do any unix-like systems provide exclusive access for file read? Just wondering since I've never requested exclusive read access in my Linux programming.
It's not always that. Sometimes (especially in smaller companies) the technical staff just leaves. Sometimes they get better offers. Sometimes they go off to start their own company.

I know some of what the OP is describing. I'm dealing with a system that's got three layers, each written in a different programming language. It was written by a pair of very brilliant programmers, who were unfortunately rather bad at documenting. They left the company when an after-hours project they were working on turned into a viable business opportunity.

When I deal with this system, I can piece together the what, but the why often escapes me, only to bite me later when I try something and it fails horribly. Luckily, I'm only dealing with software. I suspect that it'd be much more costly to deal with failures in OP's case.
Yes, you are. The fist symbolizes strength through solidarity and partnership, which is the only strategy that most Americans have for confronting consolidated corporate power.
I'd really _like_ to use C99, but unfortunately Microsoft is putting a damper on my fun. It drives me crazy: for once I was working on a project from scratch and decided to go ahead and enjoy myself using all the niceties of C99 that are available in GCC, and then people come along and complain that they can't compile it in Visual Studio. Even though I don't use Windows, if I want a certain cross-section of the developer community to be interested in my work, MS is effectively able to tell me what to do. I'm forced to use the lowest common denominator, which they have decided is not going to be C99, so I end up having to start back-porting my work to C89 or tell these people they need to use MingW. (Which apparently is not an acceptable solution even though it technically works.. it's just complicated enough to set up an MSys bash prompt that it turns people off.)
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But he is mostly alone on it, so he can't deal with every case. Everything would be better if there was no need to do that :-(
very outdated then. It has been doing that for a very long time.
that's quite a contradictory advice upon which companies like Wufoo (http://mixergy.com/wufoo-sold-for-35-mil-heres-the-story-beh...) and Rovio (several years trying before angry birds) should've died prematurely :-)
>university students should be held to a personal responsibility standard where you don't need technical 'verify-ability'... these aren't high school students).

Fair enough. But, in my experience, "my" generation doesn't know any more about computers than their grandmothers. In theory, you could insist that they be responsible for their own e-mail. In practice it'd be a disaster. Even if the e-mail system were perfect, messages would still get lost. Messages would still get accidentally deleted. Having an e-mail system under university control means that mistakes can be undone by the central helpdesk as well as the user.

Another issue with allowing personal e-mail is archiving. If the university is under legal obligation to archive emails, it's much simpler to have a central e-mail system that all messages pass through. That way, there's no legal liability resulting from messages not being archived properly.
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The only really new part here is that there are several species of what was previously thought to be one fungus.

IIRC, the fungus produces a compound similar to LSD that causes the ant to climb onto a sunlit leaf and clamp on with its mouth. The fungus then grows inside the ant and reproduces.
I doubt they got their hands on the actual equation. That being said, it might be better to NOT use an equation in this case... college admissions is one of the things in the world that's the exact opposite of an 'equation'.

There's a certain bitterness when I say that, but that's the nature of things. I attended the top science/math open public school in us USA, have a perfect SAT/SAT 2's, but due to things like my GPA, I was given about a coin toss chance of making UC Berkeley, let alone Stanford/{M,C}IT/Ivies etc.
Comments like these are my least favorite part of HN -- the sheer level of implied smug pedantry running through this part of the thread is disgusting.
pastebin is the new Press Agency. Let me know how it works out for you.

Maybe I should pastebin to the world I invented the cure for cancer, or discovered cold fusion.
All I'm seeing in your post is arm waving.
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According to Namecheap customer service, GoDaddy is blocking whois requests, forcing whois information to be entered manually. Due to the large number of recent domain transfers, this is slowing down the transfer rate.

.com domains appear to be blocked, but not .me domains.
And good luck discovering these with a touch screen interface. People always forget that one.