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There is a lot of good to be said about having a strong internal locus of control, yet a lot of what people were saying in this thread seems a little like self-deception: you can't always be positive about everything. You can try and be happy and you can help this by following stoic principles like negative visualisation, reducing your desires and keeping internal goals instead of externals ones.

But this doesn't seem right. Your life is a story and it will have troughs as well as peaks. It's more honest to accept this and learn to experience everything that it offers fully. If somebody you love dies you should feel sad, and maybe you'll cry. There's nothing wrong with this.

I think there is great strength in allowing yourself to be vulnerable and accepting things as they happen. Do whatever you can to make life enjoyable for yourself but you're going to have to give a little!
Yes, lets rule out the country that provides us with a userbase for most of our sites. Surely there's nothing relevant there?

Hands up if you have an English-language website in which the US is not the largest segment of users?
Yes, he himself admitted that in his post. He's not asking for sympathy.
I liked Apple's defense quoted in the article, "this old pager patent is invalid". I'm willing to bet some people have used that defense against Apple patents. What a farce this whole patent war is turning into.
Worse yet, it's a tiered system where to get the plum jobs, you have to graduate from Ivy/Stanford/MIT. But the reality is that a passionate hard working kid from UCLA or UTexas is no less qualified to fill the same role as a similarly educated one from Princeton. Employers are simply lazy, and rather than truly vet candidates for talent, they just assume that if the candidate has an Ivy on the resume, that's good enough.
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I'm in Canada and I can completely understand the sentiments that led to the creation of this site. However, I fear that this may lead to HN_Asia, HN_South_America, HN_Oceania, etc., making it extremely difficult to stay on top of good interesting news, and leading to a lot of duplication.

I would very much like to see instead a single additional site (HN') which would have a larger focus than simply the European scene, and where obvious US-centric post/comments would mercilessly be deleted.
Yeah, I was kind of enjoying this oddball view of the universe, however much handwaving it required, until we hit the last paragraph, where the author tried to address the phenomenon of startups that actually work out:

It’s from among those ugly ducklings that the swans of the new age emerge: FB, Goog, Twitter, Yahoo! and others — no one wanted them at first — then they couldn’t get enough of them.

There is only so much handwaving that one can get away with. "Ugly ducklings" that "no one wanted"? You just can't pretend that existing companies didn't, e.g., know that Facebook was worth serious money, pretty quickly. They offered Zuckerberg real money for Facebook. According to a book quoted by this extremely-irritatingly-formatted article at Business Insider, the buyout offers started four months after Facebook started:

http://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-companies-that-ever-t...

And Dropbox? Everyone and his brother has dreamed of buying Dropbox. The most famous rumored suitor is Apple:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/18/dropbox-indeed-balked-at...
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I've had many issues when working with Prestashop. Something as simple as removing the category ids from the URLs was a major pain, there were a few work arounds and one which involved modifying the .htaccess file every time you added a new category. Now this included modifying core files, which made updating PS an issue.

Also importing products was another major let down in Prestashop. Are there was a lot of hacking around the TPL files to get various things working.
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You are replying to a different person than the original poster.

Secondly, no, emotional situations don't excuse the delivery. Unless he was literally writing a cry for help from confinement somewhere, he can take the time and respect readers by putting in some semblance of appropriate formatting. If it's just a rant then so be it, but it doesn't belong here.

Thirdly, HN isn't a support group. I'm not going to bother with comforting words because the parts I could decipher give the image of a very naive, assumptive, flippant person. So many mistakes were made -- on their part (at the very outset by proclaiming a right to enter another country -- that I'm surprised that they spent the effort seeking sympathy.
I have several - one for the UK, one for India (in English) and one for Australia. Each targets the local audience and gets negligible usage from the US.

It's a big world. Most English speakers don't live in the US. Not even most native English speakers live in the US.
That annoyed me too. I can see the point of decreasing the bugs introduced (eg by working less hours and better testing methods), but at some point your team will be at full capacity so you will need to expand. It seems that the only solution is to do so far enough in advance so the new hire has time to be broken in before the extra productivity becomes necessary.

One thought is to look at what can be reasonably offloaded to a new person. For example I recently had to step in and sort out the HTML for a project for which we did design and where the developers were struggling and overwhelmed. Not having to worry about how things looked anymore was a big burden off their shoulders, and it's a well enough contained area that I could be productive pretty much instantly.
Except you called it "bullshit stacked on bullshit". Debates over languages go much deeper than "5% efficiencies", and what I was trying to get at is that depth is beyond an entrepreneur. Not because of an implied hierarchy, but because you have other concerns in life than learning about the intricacies of computer science. It takes real computer scientists and engineers (i.e. the craftsmen) to understand why it's so bad PHP didn't have first-class functions until whatever version.

For you, as an entrepreneur whipping out MVP after MVP until you strike gold, that couldn't matter less, but for those interested it's a big deal. To jump in the middle of their discussion as an uneducated outsider and judge the whole thing as "bs stacked on bs" is... inconsiderate at best.
Selling a business for a payout is one thing... Starting a business just to get a job is kinda nuts. You say "lose nothing", but there's always a tradeoff..
I am a big fan of Go, but he was certainly not describing this language. A lot the items on the wishlist were math and sciences items (arbitrary precision int, float, rational number; vectors, matrices; units). These are not in the language, and, while they can be in libraries (see big.Int and big.Rat), without operator overloading, I don't think Go is a good fit for these types of applications.
What is the stack behind it?
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It is just business as usual:

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)

Variant: If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. -- As quoted in Built to Learn : The inside story of how Rockwell Collins became a true learning organization (2003) by Cliff Purington, Chris Butler, and Sarah Fister Gale, p. 171

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Constraint synonyms are a welcome addition as well. Will really help clean up some messy signatures.
Failure point: You waited too long to hire a new developer.

You thought you could handle it, but couldn't, and you should have seen this coming. The team leader failed here and let a severe issue (overwork of staff) cover his ass on costs.

We always have an extra developer on every team, no one does crazy overtime. It's worth the extra $0-$30k for the intern/half-timer. The kid gets experience and we get a backup.

Should we lose a live dev, we prop the intern/half up to full and we're back up to speed. We also track overwork/hours.

Once again, the team leader failed. You SHOULD hire more developers, and you should hire them sooner, specifically because a training period is involved.

This is something anyone who's spent time in a growing organization could advise you on, and a good reason to have mentors if you're inexperienced in business.
Post and find out. As with all UGC sites, it becomes what users make it. Waiting for "the rules" will probably leave you waiting for a long time.
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actually he is a she, but you are right. i don't understand those people - they do not even read this stuff.
It is worth noting that this happened after 250000 signatures were gathered for the referendum about ACTA:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js...
HN is not a community-built website, so in the most direct sense, no it can't take itself a step further. It sounds like you are looking for reddit. Join, unsubscribe from the default crap (pictures, funny, etc) and subscribe to r/programming, r/physics, etc.
IDEs are terrible text editors. Text editors are terrible IDEs. I can't wait until people figure out how to graft good text editors and good IDEs together.

One way to do that is to provide IDE functionality as an external service to the text editor. There's a Scala editing package for Emacs called Ensime that uses the Scala presentation compiler, a service that runs in the background. Every time Ensime is asked to colorize code, provide code completion, or jump to the definition of a symbol, it asks the presentation compiler, which gives it the right answers. No half-assed guessing; it actually runs the relevant compiler passes and provides correct information.

Another way to do it might be to embed a real text editor (not just a crappy emulation mode) into an IDE somehow. I think that's what I would prefer. Emulation modes in IDEs will always be playing catch-up, and power users of a Emacs or vim shouldn't have to maintain a mental catalog of which features have been emulated and which haven't. I don't know how it would work, though, and I don't know of anyone working on it.
Where would we be able to get notified about this?
In the aftermath, I have been thinking if there is a way to hive off region specific posts into separate pages, but obviously still linking back to HN.

The other downside to HN is the obvious great mass/karma based in California/wider US that influences the front page of HN.

Work in progress :)

Feedback on specifics are being worked on furiously by Elias Haase in a coffee shop in East London - poor guy is struggling with coffee shop wifi to deploy - show some love: http://twitter.com/8bitpal
Keep in mind that truly sophisticated and informed "helicopter" parents know that tests are not enough - they've done their research, they themselves have been through the system. As a matter of fact, the truly informed helicopter parents are engineering failure into their child as well in order make him stronger. Many are reading how Native Americans create emotional strength in their children; others research and study the biographies of great leaders, investigating what separates these leaders from those that failed.
Trade schools are not a panacea. The bigger picture is the economy sucks and there aren't enough jobs, tradespeople included. No amount of education reform is going to fix the jobs problem.
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Why is he being downvoted? This is seriously one of the dumbest articles I have ever read.
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Recall that the 9/11 terrorists came via the US/Canadian border.

Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered the US from Canada, and it is a startling indictment that there are people still so incredibly ignorant to make this claim.

Further the US has one of the most porous borders on the planet, with some 12 million+ illegals within its confines right now. They didn't get there from Canada -- they flew directly in from overseas, or walked across the land border from Mexico.
Ahh but that then opens the door to an HN aggregator.

Get to work! Media is endless disintermediation.
You are right... but that is why Hackful should be fine: it was born out of an email list called Open Coffee London where there is an amazing community of entrepreneurs helping each other everyday. We saw how open HackerNews is and thought that we should give our European community more chance to flourish.

Our NEXT steps are to make this more shareable: RSS, possibly daily email digests (opt-in only)

THEN we are plugging in a calendar of local events and need-to-know events

AND FINALLY capping it off with a local Angel List
500.000 are needed to make an official application for a referendum, which of course can be rejected by the parliament.
It is being worked on ASAP :)
Helicopter parents everywhere I'm sure have taken this tip and shared it virally. Expect a sudden drop in participation over the next 10 years as a result! But on the flip side, expect creations of extracurricular civic groups that are "college approved".
It's interesting that you mention that "it breaks the web with a non-standard behavior".

Anytime I have to scroll horizontally in a browser, it feels awkward and non-standard (especially if I have to scroll horizontal AND vertical).

Whilst it's just my preference, I'd sooner not have any web pages scroll horizontally.
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Anyone has a cache?
Also there were huge protests against ACTA in almost all major cities in Poland.
First sharing with each other

Then a very relevant calendar

And finally a local Angel List

Would those be useful, or superfluous?
"It's a juvenile playground pissing contest that has nothing to do with craftsmanship." Sadly, you've got me there. There's rich conversation to be had on the topic though, could we come up with ways to make that surface out of the current swamp of language debates?

Although they might not use them, they'll talk endlessly about them. I mention in another comment how I've witnessed very long discussions among my photography and cinema friends about the "nerdy" details of their work. But you're right, there's a lot less emotion than in our community :/
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> Doesn't anyone keep data startups and acquisitions?

Pretty much all of the M&A guys have a column in the table which lists $$/head.

The number is in the nosebleed sections of valuation lately, as near as I can tell. I doubt it will end well.
To be honest, I never go "Damn. I wish the Hacker News articles were more focused around me." Most of the articles here are universal, the rest still make a difference to me.
Persistent storage to which access may be significantly delayed on a human time frame probably tends to loose utility rapidly.

And if one has a Terabyte of data, how is putting it in the cloud and accessing it at web speeds better than a hard disk at bus speeds?

With a processor cache, populating the cache predicatively is far easier due to the limited domain of alternatives, the logical structure of instructions, and trillions of cycles per core per hour available for testing alternative predictive schemes.

On the other hand, a user may ask for a rarely requested file once every ten to thirty fortnights, or never. And predicting that request would require parsing a joke told on WJMZ's morning show fourteen minutes ago.
It isnt the scrolling that "breaks the web," but the forward & back being two finger swipes -- the same as scrolling.

I've made my forward/back three finger and spaces switch to four finger, seems to work well.
Hackful will never replace Hacker News - it is for local entrepreneurs to have far more relevant discussion.

Why would a European service need peer review from a predominantly US audience?
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What you describe is pretty common on many parts of the US-Canada border, too. There are towns that are split down the middle, and it's normal for locals to cross the border several times a day without any hassle. When I was growing up (1990s) the guards would simply wave locals through because they knew their cars.

The major highway and airport crossings that deal with many thousands of visitors a day are obviously a different matter.

In my own experience as a US passport holder, the absolute hell that is entering at Heathrow far exceeds anything that my European friends have encountered coming to the US. Border crossings are often unpleasant. Europe isn't different.
Do you mean that many (most?) online banking sites use JS? Based on my bank's online system, I don't think there is anything that could not be done without scripts. And my suggestion (perhaps not well expressed) is that someone (e.g. the banks themselves) develop a cut-down extra secure browser for use exclusively with online banking websites. I am assuming that the majority of online banking is done from customers' own home computer or tablet; obviously this idea won't help people logging on via a shared public PC.
Why is it just OS X Lion? Snow Leopard has horizontal-scroll to go back/forward in browsers also.

As someone who uses this gesture all the time I'd be very annoyed if a page hijacked the scroll to prevent my forward/back.
But you do live in Europe, and can visit other European countries relatively easily. If you are a member of the EU, you could even move to another EU country.

I think most Dutch people would prefer the site to be in English, as the Netherlands is only a small country, and England's an hour or less away by plane. Surely Dutch people would be interested in, for example, sources of venture capital in the UK?
You make more money and grow your business by developing new features, not by fixing bugs. Some bugs must be fixed now and that is fine but if you spend a lot of time trying to fix every bug then you never develop new features. I think that is the point that was trying to be made.

This the culture we are trying to change at work. Shift from a drop-everything-and-fix-the-bug-now culture to a fix only true emergency bugs now and mainly focus on developing new, high impact features. In other words, expanding the business capabilities of the software. Note: This will bring in more profit and grow the business which eventually will lead to hiring of more developers to handle new projects.
Then you will likely carry on benefiting from Hacker News, as we all do. Hackful is for those who want to share amongst their local peers. We aren't trying to be fancy; just an extension of the current Open Coffee mailing list.
I find this subject so intimidating.
Everywhere i read something else.
There is Agile, Extreme Programming and Books like "The Deadline".
These sound awesome first, but then i also read bad/contrary things about these methods. I also ask me why big companies don't implement them.

I know there is not the perfect way, but can anybody recommend me a book with a way you can confidently execute?
Maybe a guide how Google does it? It may be not perfect but they produce relatively high quality code.

Has everybody/company figure these things out for themself?
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In order to send a user a plain text password that has been stored encrypted (as this company apparently claims) they must also have the key to the encryption stored somewhere as well.

Which means that an attacker must: 1) obtain the encrypted PW from their database and 2) obtain the key to the encryption from their database.

But if the attacker obtains their database, it is likely that he/she obtains both the encrypted passwords and the key (or keys) to the encryption.

A real world analogy would be locking a document into a lockbox, then storing both the lockbox and the key to the lock on the lockbox, together in the same safe.

If someone cracks the safe, they have both the lockbox and the key, so the lockbox becomes ineffective.
You can't really call it breaking scrolling, you can still scroll back and forth, up and down. The two-finger gesture on the other hand has been reserved for back/forward.

Personally I'd take gestures for moving back and forward in history over the ability to easily scroll horizontally. I find it very unintuitive and awkward.
Just ran a scan - sleek UI :) I can see a freemium business model working on this with some twists here and there.

Will look at the results of my scan closely (it showed up some errors which should not be there) and then report the specifics to you if I find any errors on the report.

Feel free to ping me (address in profile) and all the best moving forward.
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Sorry, you are right, complete oversight.
I have to agree. It also bothers me when scrolling down a page that contains a scrolling div, The scrolling stops, scrolls the contents of the div and then moves on. While logical, it's jarring.

My solution would be for OSX to only scroll the contents of a div if the scrolling action started on that div, and never to scroll the page if the scrolling gesture started on an element which responds to scrolling.

That sort of behaviour might fix the issue. Although, perhaps fwd/back swiping in OSX should only be three fingered by default.
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Temporarily suspends, it is said that they won't be resumed before end of 2012, but it doesn't mean ACTA won't be ratified at all, so let's not celebrate too soon.

Consultations are to be started Monday at 1400 local time.
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Can we just stop the horizontal scrolling on websites already? Users hate it (countless usability studies), it's ergonomically difficult to perform it consistently with a mouse, and it always seems "too clever" like someone was trying to think outside the box.
I agree. Its the defaults they have. It is extremely annoying though... I personally turn off that paging feature myself as it annoys the flip out of me when I'm scrolling horizontally and because I like the rest of the defaults as they are...
Makes it easier to copy/paste into a report on other sites.
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Horizontal scrolling is a pain in the rear and I hope most web developers stay away from it entirely. I can't think of any good reason any web page should ever scroll unless your monitor is smaller then 1024px.
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