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And if the original author disappears, or stops selling licenses at all, or changes their license to "we will not sell you a copy if you use $OTHER_FORK"? As I said, the original author can easily kill the entire community or any individual part of it at any time.

Consider what would have happened if Oracle had that kind of power over the communities that formed LibreOffice or Jenkins; those projects wouldn't have survived in such an environment.

On top of all of that, what makes the original author so special here? The community adds a huge pile of value, often more than the original author, and yet only the original author gets to demand payment? Or should this become like the NetBSD license's ever-accumulating attribution clauses, with a hundred different authors to pay license fees to?
it took me right to the site the first time I used it. But yes, for frequent use I would definitely add an entry.
it also aligns the CEO's best interests with the best interests of the shareholders since both are being compensated the same way.
> In fact any language that is turing complete can do anything that any other turing complete language can do.

False. Or how exactly are you surfing the web with your Turing machine?
There are a bunch of new things for WPF in the .NET 4.5 release, including performance fixes.
You heard wrong: http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html
How do you plan to compete with LogMeIn once they have an HTML viewer? Which they either already have or will have and very soon.
So we can trade Zynga shares on Facebook quarterly earnings reports. Sounds good to me!
Ask HN: I've had constant de ja vu for the past three days, where do i turn to?
For the past three days, every so often, atleast five times a day, i see something that i know ive seen somewhere before, in my dreams. Its sometimes a strong de ja vu and sometimes weak, im just wondering where do i turn to because i have limited internet access.
As apt an analogy as ever I've seen.
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iTunes runs on Mac/PC, so yes. But you'll need a Mac to program iOS devices (for Xcode).
Very nice job, indeed.
While I understand the historical context behind wanting to maintain the ability to link to C code, I personally think that keeping the C include and link process was one of the more bat-shit insane things they did with the C++ language. It was an outdated concept when C++ was made and they should have had the courage to do better. Plenty of languages can interface with C without requiring the same brain-dead build cycle.
Facebook does not take a cut of third-party display advertising.

For example, if an advertiser pays Zynga to put a banner ad in their application or above the Flash widget containing their game, Facebook doesn't see a penny of that.

Zynga pays Facebook to advertiser in the right-hand column, though. Lots.

Additionally (and this doesn't count towards advertising revenue), Facebook Credits are mandatory for all games on the Facebook Platform, and Facebook takes a 30% cut any time a player purchases some.
You can use a Mac or Windows machine running iTunes to download and view.

If you are none of the above, your best bet might be to get a Windows license and pop up a virtual machine with ritual ox.
We were actually considering MongoDB for our system, given its scalable, high-performance, and open source qualities. However, since we are building a payments platform (specifically, a third party payments aggregator), we soon learned that our case is the exception where MongoDB--or any other pure NoSQL DB for that matter--is not an ideal solution (and is specifically noted as a less well suited use case on the MongoDB site), because NoSQL DBs are not transactional.

Any possible work-around proved to be complicated and tedious--likely requiring heavy application-side logic--if not inadequate. Going hybrid was an option (RDBMS for critical parts, and NoSQL for other non-critical parts), but that may not have been a prudent way to start building this thing, since it would be difficult to predict the portions that might be correlated or codependent in the future (where a JOIN between the RDBMS and the NoSQL DB would be inefficient, if not impossible).

As a payments platform, we cannot afford to lose any transactions, and every penny must be accounted for, so a transactional and ACID-compliant data storage is a must. Thus, we decided to go with a traditional RDBMS. With that said, and looking towards the future, I am considering the use of an ultra-high throughput RDBMS such as VoltDB for our system... A VoltDB vs. MongoDB (or any other NoSQL DB) would be interesting.
Well, they're still taking a large salary, it's just in different currency. If you pay someone 1m dollars, 750k euros, or $1m worth of stock, it's still essentially salary...
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Sigh. I wish people wouldn't do this. And by 'this' I mean screw up expectations so horribly.

What happens is that someone who doesn't really know anything about getting things manufactured announces a set of features and a price. Folks who do know about those things say "Are you insane? You can't make something with those specs for that price." And they get criticized for being so critical. And everyone makes happy noises about this new thing which those of us who have 'been around that block' know is pure fantasy. And then when it gets to be time to get real, the whole story comes crashing down and there are fingers being pointed and blame and lawsuits and weird names like JooJoo and stories of prototypes versus actual markets.

The reality is some idealistic novices fantasized about a really cheap tablet. The only problem is that the minimum cost to make a tablet is higher than that because of the laws of physics and the price of parts.

So how can we educate these people that these fantasies are not realizable in a less painful way?
>What has the Pirate Bay done of value over the last decade?

All sorts of things get submitted to tpb. When Wikileaks looked like it could be raided and shutdown at any moment, they put their encrypted archives up for anyone to download, for one.

Also, as an aside, I hate python's comment syntax enough when coding. It's even more annoying when on a forum.
Very interesting. I'll definitely come back when some other shows are available.

> Log in to Curvio with your Facebook account

... but will probably never log in.
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Great! When I was reading hiring post today I was just thinking that something like this will be very helpful.

Just one thing is missing: sorting by city.
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Convenience is what you should be going for. If you're able to generate a short url for convenience, the chances of someone signing up later rather than saying "Signup just to try? fuck it" are higher.

Hell, when generating the url, just make a call to the api at http://tweak.tk so that you can display the short one side-by-side with the long one. Provided your codebase is well formed, a change like that should not be astronomical.

(P.S. Tweak.tk is really awesome. At least check it out.)
Because everyone not running Windows must necessarily have a Mac?
The Hacker Way has taken Wall St. by force. Love it. The Letter from Mark is the Best Part. http://theairspace.net/commentary/letter-mark/
Jeez man, can you tone down the vitriol please?
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> Boom. Instantly you have 10 links to your site.

I personally dislike Facebook Pages myself, and not inclined to make one. Still I wanted to see if they'd at least give some link-fu and just checked one... all the links are of the rel="nofollow" variety. Nowadays, I'd guess the rest of sites on the list do the same.

In short step two is a time sink for less benefit than it would appear.
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Ask HN: How the hell Zuck holds 28.4% after all those rounds from VCs?
In every round of financing it's not only about money raised and valuation as many may think; but the story is way more complicated. Especially because of all the pro-rata rights accumulated by investors over time, the option pool for employees, etc.

This would have diluted Zuck and the other founders in a more substantial way.

Look at Google: 1 seed round + 1 series A and Larry and Sergey have only 10% each. Or Groupon, Zynga, etc - the common is between 7 and 15% of the company for a founder that approach an IPO.
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I've been saying this for a while now (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3041689). Facebook's engagement is shifting to mobile. Their entire business model relies on web. Their app ecosystem has been crashing as a result, and display advertising is likely to follow.

Facebook is filled with smart people. They understand the trends better than we do. As you'll note, 4 of their top 5 Risk Factors relate to the web-to-mobile shift and the problems inherent with that.

From the filing:

#2 - "We generate a substantial majority of our revenue from advertising. The loss of advertisers, or reduction in spending by advertisers with Facebook, could seriously harm our business;"

#3 - "Growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where we do not currently display ads, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our revenue and financial results;"

#4 - "Facebook user growth and engagement on mobile devices depend upon effective operation with mobile operating systems, networks, and standards that we do not control;"

#5 - "We may not be successful in our efforts to grow and further monetize the Facebook Platform;"
If they do, it will be to start new companies with their new found wealth I bet. The new PayPal mafia?
The Hacker Way component in Mark's letter to investors has to be the most interesting part. http://theairspace.net/commentary/letter-mark/

I don't think Wall St. is used to companies like this.
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You put XML and REST in different categories. So what? They are both attempts to provide systems interoperability for a huge domain. What we go out of XML: some ability to browse the format with standard tools, and some human-readability . That is all we will get out of REST. If that's the point, so be it. If you want to use it, so be it. I might use it for some projects. However, to put it forward as something new and special is being willfully ignorant of history.

>Similarly, to suggest that HTTP hasn't proven itself (compared to what?)

Compared to writing your own protocol that is appropriate for your application. The fact that people think HTTP is good enough has meant the browser has only recently acquired the ability to have a proper duplex channel without polling. Sorry, but that's just pathetic.

>or that "innovations" of the web existed decades ago (really!?) is nonsensical to me.

Name one thing that can't be constructed more efficiently and flexibly on the desktop, aside from web links.

>It's the most widely deployed application protocol on Earth. It handles billions of dollars of transactions.

So what? Because it's popular that means it's good? I used to be dismissed because as long as 7 years ago I was telling people we needed sockets and proper client/server in the browser. Now I'm getting the last laugh as I watch the browser vendors take decades to slowly do this stuff. At each step, it is labeled "innovative" and interesting and hyped up beyond all comprehension. The progression of this trend is retarded by the insistence of inventing stupid premature optimisations like caching as a basic architectural feature.

>You claim the web is unreliable. I think that's a layer error. The issue is that networks are unreliable. That's not something one can paper over.

Then you're ignorant of the potential of low-level protocol design. Sorry, but I absolutely can tailor my network protocol to my particular application. The web takes the position that everyone should use HTTP. It is a terrible protocol for many things. How are you going to design your soft real-time applications using HTTP? The answer is you can't, because it is impossible to get the right guarantees. HTTP has only "proven itself" in the same sense that Windows has; it was good enough at the time, so now it's blown up and everyone's using it. So what? I want more.
I was actually most curious to see if they had developed a source of revenue other than ads. It seems like the answer to that is mostly no, although they are working on payments.

I agree that ads revenue growth will be key for them in the short term. The Q4 2011 vs 2010 growth was 44% and it seems like perhaps the growth rate is slowing down.

Of course they're not yet showing ads on mobile..
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not really independent, you close that terminal and it'll probably HUP the process.

disown/nohup help with this.
I'd like to check it out but it asks me to download java which I already have. However the java plugin does not show up in FF for me. Any idea how to enable it and could you include those instructions too ? Thanks.
Simple raising money on increased value of the company. If the company is dramatically increasing its value every round little dilution occurs.
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Apologies for the repeated disconnects. It's a result of the authoritative server restarting. Working on a fix, but it's tricky without dropping that aspect completely.
Using REST over a real network is not equivalent to object-oriented programming. Don't be asinine.
The more a company's decisions are data driven the less influence company politics can have on the outcome.

I don't think the practice started at Facebook but they may be the largest example of it.
I've never heard of Deja Vu harming anyone, but I'm not a doctor. Maybe you should start by talking to someone who is. Have you been taking care of yourself? Getting enough sleep?
Ah, the joy of product marketing.

The VIEWING is from any device, but SHARING is not.

Ability to view on iPad in the browser is a step up from join.me, but it appears to be the only major difference. Am I missing something? I am a long time LogMeIn user, so I am probably right smack in the middle of your target audience.
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Sadly this seems unrealistic given the constraints placed on student athletes and the time consuming nature of engineering studies. It's really hard to find blocks of time to work on CS projects when you're spending 6+ hours a day outside of classes training for any given sport.
what's happening with project Z (or whatever zynga was trying to create to diversify away from facebook)?
Eyes are hard because they convey a ton. This was fantastic to watch.
> and display advertising is likely to follow.

I think this is correct, and it explains why the IPO exit is happening now. Most of the insane growth (in profit as well as valuation) has already been squeezed out.
Mobile shift is a huge problem even with a pool of smart minds. Nothing can beat a thousand startups that designs mobile from the ground up.
Thanks for that, spent a lot of time googling and never found that, maybe I didnt search properly, the solutions I remember finding always involved more than one command and were confusing.
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Facebook delivered us 200k uniques. Zero conversions.

Google brings us a few hundred a day, consisten conversion.

Apparel retail. FWIW.

As far as I'm concerned FB traffic is junk. Comes handy for load-testing though.
They're actually just Bose QC15s.
"Effective January 1, 2013, Mr. Zuckerberg’s annual base salary will be reduced to $1."

In the business world, we can now call this "Doing a Jobs".
I think we're going to see a young angel boom next year. It'll be good for startups and the valley in general.
Two of my classmates dropped out of a math graduate program. One of them actually quit right in the middle of class, saying "This is not fun anymore!". It was a Group Theory class on Galois Fields. She became a real estate agent. The other flunked his qualifiers & decided to quit the program and become a pilot (!!) instead of retaking the exams.My prof said attrition rates in math were super high.Its just not everybody's cup of tea, I guess.
Among undergrads, sometimes people switch because profs demean you. Once when I was a TA, the Algorithms prof wrote an email calling a student "bozo" because he couldn't figure out shell sort ( its a stable sort algo ). Unfortunately the student was cc'ed in the email & took it badly & switched.
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I agree that this paragraph is badly worded but the rest of the article hardly deals with anything related. There are some valid issues here that have nothing to do with the programming paradigm advocated and supported by either language.
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It's tricky because if he thinks you are interested in starting your own thing, he may start looking for someone to replace you.

Did you sign and NDA/non-compete? Your boss may try to lay claim to your already completed work. Many companies own any related work that you've done, even if it's not on working hours.

This is why I've always just kept it hidden. Mostly because I hate working for other people. All my side projects were built with the intention of quitting. I finally quit last year, so it's not a problem for me anymore.

Since none of it was ever related to my workplace, I didn't think it would ever be a problem (the code base was also usually so different, they couldn't accuse me of sharing code).
We're working on doing exactly this.
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I would think that anyone who has coded C++ in teams and/or working with other people's APIs would be instantly familiar with why too many features in the language are harmful.

I had an instance where someone overloaded the new operator which confused the hell out of the team (parenthesis overloading caused a similar issue).

Another instance was a grad developer 'updating' a system to use templates so that (a) no-one else in the team understood how to use it (b) it (predictably) broke, yielding half a page of compilation errors that no-one including it's author understood and (c) slowed the compilation process down to a crawl.

Another instance (repeated in dozens of similar contexts) was sharing code with other teams where we had used C++ as an OO language and they had used it as a procedural / faux-functional language and trying to make these incompatible styles mix.

Other cases are pretty much any one of the major C++ systems that tend to work 90% of the time but you need to know why and when they don't. These cases are legion.

Programming languages don't have to be complex. C is simple. Java is simple. Lisp is simple. Each of those languages can be pretty damn powerful.
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Based on my (perhaps limited) understanding of where they get their data set, isn't it possible that the percentage of athletes interested in engineering be overrepresented by the source? I would imagine an online social network for recruiting student athletes would be just sort of thing that would skew towards people who had computer access and savvy?

Wouldn't someone like the NCAA be a better place to derive this sort of representative data as far as what incoming high school students are interested in majoring in? Presuming of course that the NCAA was the only game in town as far as collegiate athletics was concerned (is it?).
> 1/2 MW charging cables

Cables are rated by the current they support, not by the power of the devices connected to it. A cable up to 10 Ampères supports 1100 watts on a 110V mains, or 2200W on a 220V mains. Quick charging on electric vehicles probably is done at high voltages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampacity

EDIT: you are right about home charging not possible. And to the sibling, the best storage systems for fast charging are http://en.wikipedia.org/w/Supercapacitor and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
This is a pretty good read on this subject: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
better detailed my question.
You forgot about fraud systems. Right now they only collect money -- once you start giving away money to websites who host Facebook ads, the incentive for fraud now exists. Google has done a lot of work in just securing the AdWords system from malicious gaming
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I'll second this notion. Even if there is a way to collect micropayments, but not process them until they are large enough to process efficiently with the current credit card framework.