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> No they won't, because he hadn't even started on the "make it beautiful".

At the risk of sparking a language war--the iTunes control project is written in Python so it has a certain level of consistency to start with.

> When I want to solve a new-ish problem, I can't imagine grabbing some barely working cowdung from some guy's github repo.

One developer's cowdung is another developer's works-for-me code. :)

For me part of the standard development process is the "literature review" which consists of finding all the prior art (polished or not) and evaluating it. I'd much rather someone uploaded their code in any state than not at all. YMMV. :)
I know the feeling!

I was once part of a team who accidentally sent a communication where we updated our privacy policy, stating specifically that we would never share your email address with anyone.

Sounds normal right? The catch is, we sent it to 1000 people per batch, and rather than bcc'ing everyone, we used the "to" field. Whoops? Luckily we caught the issue after the first batch, i have no idea to this day how it slipped through QA however.

Similar result however, people didn't like it but many just wanted to point it out to us (and we did our best at saying sorry) I totally got where they were coming from, however we're human and life went back to normal eventually. Lesson learned!
Anyone else seeing this not work in firefox? In the javascript console i see several "Tinycon not defined" problems on firefox 10.
Ask HN: What is the best game console?
I'm planning to buy a game console. Any suggestion?
Linux won't run on a Cortex M4 because the Cortex Mx cores have no MMU. uCLinux, sure.
Maybe. What exactly do you want me to call him? I can think of a few things...
Ask HN: Any Austin start-up'ers with a yard for sxsw?
Anyone have some yard to rent to two sxsw volunteers? We're a start-up of two coming down from Boulder, CO to experience the thrills of sxsw for the first time. We like to be scrappy, so we're hoping to avoid the $300+/night hotels.
Congrats again! (I invested!)
Just a bit of feedback about the landing page, there is a css issue i think.

http://i.imgur.com/yVXLg.png
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What does it say about our world that we need the latest in high-tech equipment to protect ourselves from the police breaking the law to punish innocent people?
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Yeah, i dont like being mean but i would suggest your first problem is you have 6 apps. Pick one, kill it...move on if you still think the others are a good idea.
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This is very cool. About time we started doing more with 3d printers than making cogs that we can spin while sitting in meetings!
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Isn't there an inherent contradiction between 'democratises' and "$4.99 a month"?
This sounds very similar to the way Chrome handles Google's own malware-servers list:

"If you have phishing and malware protection enabled, then Google Chrome will
contact servers at Google within five minutes of startup, and approximately
every half hour thereafter, to download updated lists of suspected phishing
and malware websites"[1]

It would be pretty cool if they made an aggregated CRL available via the same Safe Browsing API (used by Safari and Firefox).[2]

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2008/11/understanding-phishing-and-...

[2] http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
I dont know a lot about CDMA, other than you dont have a sim card. I like sim cards (because i like switching providers when i want to), so i think this is a good thing?
My statement, which was apparently unclear, is that PCs represent a declining share of Apple's business, and that hackers represent a declining share of that. That's not to say both aren't growing, but that neither is the keystone of Apple's future growth and success.
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While I appreciate a good piece of code and the need to reinvent a wheel, I wouldn't call your implementation "aesthetically pleasing" either. IMO your fallback option is the solution, simply appending "(5)" to the page title when there are 5 pending alerts works the best.

[edit] And I am being downvoted because... ?
I had ISDN in the 90s, at dual 64k.

Was in ISP business since early 90s, and in streaming business since before broadband, so familiar with connection profiles, latency, and effects of tuning TCP. There's a lot of lost or forgotten art being reinvented or rediscovered for today's mobile.
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No? It just means that anyone can do it. You don't have to be part of an "aristocracy" (government or academic) to have access to these tools.
My DVR uses FAT32 on a 1TB disk. Each recording has a meta entry that holds a list of files that make up that recording. As far as I can tell, as it records, it closes a file that is approaching 4GB, opens a new one to continue recording, and updates the meta entry by adding the new file name to the list.

The DVR is consumer grade, but this method is simple to implement. I guess my point is that it is a solved problem to use FAT with large files.
Ask HN: What would you ask a recruiter?
I'm starting a video blog where I'll be interviewing companies about their hiring process, what they look for in coders, and just some general information about them.

So what would you ask a recruiter at one of these companies? What do you wish you could know that would get you hired?

(Recruiter here means the point person on recruiter. May be a professional recruiter, may be a founder.)

Let me know in the comments. Cheers!

P.S. If you're a company and you want featured, ping me at josh@coder.ly. I'm also going to feature some developers/designers in the future, so also ping me if you'd be interested in an interview about your perspective.
Make no mistake, Apple could give a rat's ass about the developer community, and why should they? We represent a vanishingly small fraction of the total consumer space and we are orders of magnitude more demanding.
Looks like a pretty cool platform. I have a few ideas in that space I've been kicking around and was thinking about jumping into their dev center. What has your experience been like? How have sales been so far? (totally understand if you want to keep that data private). Just wondering if it's worth investing the time. Thanks!
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1) CNN is doing this stuff but only with a focus group of around 40 people in a room. our system is designed to allow the whole nation to participate.
2) we believe there is :-)
3) yes we account for that. people are free to participate as long they wish. if they don't respond they aren't calculated into the %.
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Your first example of latency arbitrage is correct. But your "index arbitrage" example is confused.

If you place a sell order for your index at a price $0.02 less than the cost of the basket of securities, why don't you want an HFT to fill your order? If you didn't want your order filled, why did you place it? Would you prefer it if a human daytrader placed the order, or if a retail investor cashing out his IRA did it?

I'm also confused by your claim that the HFT is "charging you one cent to flip a fair dime". Could you explain what this means?
That's a good explanation. Note how craigslist works for apartments and jobs postings, but not events (nothing works for events, the other favorite "local" startup idea).

The quintessential small business owner we had was the plumber. People need plumbers and search for them, but how do you get them into your directory? I don't know how well craigslist works for plumbers, and I don't think we ever considered craigslist as competition.
I see in the demo it stops at 99, does it not handle 3 digits very well? If it doesn't would it be good to make it do say 99+ like Gmail does?
I keep a working list in my notes application on my iPhone. Whenever I come up with something I jot it down.
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Ideally, I would've liked it if he had done exactly what he did do up until about age 8 or 9, and then gone back to work. As I grew up, my needs shifted from someone who would love me unconditionally and give me lots of attention to a role-model who could teach me how to interact with the outside world, and someone whose life is completely coupled to yours is neither the best role model nor someone who knows a whole lot about the outside world.
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It seems truly bizarre to me that in 2012, there is a major operation that is still trying to vertically scale such a trivially shardable DB.

Scaling a static Q/A site with a few widgets that require user info/counters should be table stakes.
Stack Ovderflow does use Redis, though last time I checked they said it was only for caching.
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The shell itself is ok, but it still has a rubbish interface / terminal emulator. It's a Corvette engine wrapped in a rusted out Yugo chassis.
"Success at the cost of my children is not success. It is failure."

I can already tell this post is an instant classic that I will return to many times in the coming years. I was left with almost exactly the same thoughts as he was after reading Jobs' biography - and kudos to him for following through.

Seeing Jobs' life being lived at the expense of a meaningful relationship with his kids (especially his daughters), for me personally it made his Stanford speech about "following your heart" being the most important thing ring hollow. What happens when your heart values your job more than your kids? Is that just bad luck for your kids?

Perhaps our own gut instinct is not the final authority we should follow. Maybe loving our kids is something that is more important than "succeeding" at our job, even during times in which we don't feel like it is.
I can't get enough of Amazon Prime, but I could never figure out how they made money shipping me a single AA battery via UPS almost overnight.

Now I know.
Developers are also disproportionately useful for a platform, since they're the ones who build the stuff people want to use; for more on that, see http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html , as well as the bazillion other writers pointing out similar things.
I was surprised at how small their database is!

We (Defensio) store about 300gb of data, and most if it is purged after 60 days. We're quite far from being 274th largest website in the world as well, I assume.

It's just very interesting to see how such a huge website can use so little storage.
At first I was surprised by the down-vote, but then realized the audience on HN is comprised by a large percentage of people who are in financial services and thinking about making the entrepreneurial plunge.

We are in the minority of people in financial services and when I look around I doubt highly that the people I work with would ever want or be able to run a startup.
$9500 for a 3 day class? (http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/dtbc/)

Was it worth the money you paid?
I'm really surprised by this as well.
Because you are being arrogant.

(I don't have downvote powers)
The FCC wants to deny Lightspeed the use of their licensed spectrum because neighboring users (GPS receivers) cheaped out on their receivers and can't tolerate Lightspeed's transmissions.

This is an insane oversimplification. RTFA -- that part of spectrum was never supposed by used by any terrestrial transmitters. GPS and other services were built under the promise that they would not have to contend with powerful, localized transmissions on adjacent channels. There are strong technical reasons why designing receivers to be immune to such adjacent-channel interference is impractical.

The FCC tried to let bureaucrats instead of engineers run the show, and unsurprisingly it's come back to bite them.
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It has aliases for a few built in unix commands... but could be more harmful than helpful. Like Javascript, C++ and Java all have 'similar' syntaxes.
Edit: Maybe wrong? see reply.

If I'm reading the sample implementation[0] correctly, the update mechanism isn't Omaha[1] (aka Google Update), but the CRX extension update mechanism[2] that keeps extensions and app bundles up to date.

[0]: https://github.com/agl/crlset-tools/blob/master/crlset.go
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/omaha/
[2]: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/autoupdate.html
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The crazy thing is, I've told this story on the phone when interviewing at startups, and I've had them say "oh, we work 60 hours a week here!" At that point, I say that's a deal breaker and wish them well.
SQL Server is actually fairly well regarded as a platform these days. It's a "grown up" database; not quite as trusted for very large sites as Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Teradata etc; but definitely capable of solid "midrange" performance with the usual Microsoft abundance of features and tool support.

I think that what's happening here, really, is the emergence of SSDs as a server platform standard. SSDs drastically revise the algo-economics of data storage.

From the mid-90s until now, demand for structured data storage has surged, apparently exponentially (though realistically, such a function would eventually be sigmoidal). So dramatic has this surge been that it overwhelmed the somewhat linear rate of I/O performance improvement for disk drives. Meanwhile, Moore's Law has more or less held and so in-memory architectures have become much more popular, starting with memcache.

But SSDs change the equation, because they too can track Moore's Law. So they can take mature disk-bound technologies like RDBMSes and breathe new life into them. And that's exactly what's happening.

At the turn of the millenium, if you were given StackOverflow levels of traffic and everything from 2011 technology except for SSDs, you'd have to spend dozens of times as much to approach the same level of performance.
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There are certain situations in which only the favicon is displayed - for example, when tabs are "pinned". In these cases, appending text to the page title would not be visible, which is why it's beneficial to have a dynamic favicon.
This is what makes checking Hacker News worthwhile every morning. Small things that make developer's lives easy.

Motivates me to stop being intimidated by the difficulty of implementation, and concentrate on the power of the idea.
Is that number really "non-insignificant"? Most Windows users I know are always logged into administrator accounts. I myself use the administrator account on my home PC, even though I should know better. Well, at least I pay attention to UAC dialogs.

I actually like how Firefox updates itself. On a multi-user PC, updating Firefox updates every user's Firefox. Not so with Chrome.
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I took that line as an example of management putting undue constraints on the options of developers, not that the post is literally about STL usage. After all, sometimes there are valid reasons for not using the STL. And sometimes, the constraints are worse than that.

I'm a member of the Mil-Aero crowd, and my problem is that I'm not allowed to use C++. I have to do everything in ANSI C (this is for a high-performance, massively parallel Linux application, BTW). I try to write OO C as much as is sensible, but end up getting ribbed by the long-time program members as being "one of the OO guys". I'm surrounded by people who think the art and science of software development hasn't really advanced since 1994 or so. That, I think, was the core of Andrei's message: don't put up with crap like this, call your headhunter.
"Prime members’ spending at Amazon already accounts for a whopping 40% of the company’s domestic revenues."
I did like that they're getting 200GB vs 300GB though. $18m in funding and still being frugal! :-)
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https://twitter.com/#!/AnonymousIRC/status/16674450231538893...

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7014253

We are not in contact with the FBI. We are using this email account to protect our network from you.

Protecting our company and property are our top priorities.

We can't pay you $50,000 at once for the reasons we discussed previously. We can pay you $2,500 per month for the first three months. In exchange, you will make a public statement on behalf of your group that you lied about the hack (as you previously stated). Once that's done, we will pay the rest of the $50,000 to your account and you can take it all out at once.
> One other thing relating to the title: She asserts that the movie itself is illegal (and thus not copyrightable) due to the company engaging in “solicitation, conspiracy to commit prostitution, pimping and/or pandering,” during its production.

This was the only interesting argument in the bunch, and while its success would theoretically get her out of her jam, it would mainly just mean a lot of porn would suddenly be illegal in the US. Which should be the first big red flag as to that particular argument's legitimacy. I know they put every possible argument out... but yeah, it's basically asking for the court to set a new precedent on whether or not particular methods of producing pornography - methods in wide use - are legal.

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with some of these methods, actually, though as a layperson I'd have trouble believing they'd be prohibited by any existing laws. But for example, College Rules is this creepy kinda crowdsourcing of amateur college porn... they pay a tiny $10,000 if you send them a porno you make with college students with enough "good footage" to make it on the site. And "good footage" means you have sex, and it means you can't have your face blurred, and they make you sign the documents and send in IDs to do it. And from what I can tell every one that makes the cut has at least 4 different people in it - most have more - so each person is actually doing it for a couple grand. And like... the people talk about the money in the videos to reassure themselves... which is extra creepy, especially when it's really so little money for something like that. I have to think some of these people would never do it if it weren't for student loan debts.

I don't know. I watch porn, and think there's some seriously borderline coercion stuff out there that's perfectly legally protected.
No matter how you slice it, sharding introduces substantial complication. You need to modify your application to shard or to use an auto-sharding store, and then maintain that overhead forever.

The thing is, they don't need to do that. Moore's Law, here represented as SSDs and RAM, is keeping ahead of their traffic growth.
If you work in an industry where this isn't true, but depends on the largess/spending of people who work in industries where this is true, are you still in a largely zero-sum waste of time job?

More simply, how many levels deep do you carry this analysis?

Also, can you guesstimate how much of the income generated in the US is not derived from zero-sum waste of time jobs/products when you carry the analysis at least 2 levels deep?
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What do they have in the database other than text fields and profile information? They don't store many pictures or anything else do they? Thats probably why they don't need lots of space.
This problem has already been solved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling

Yes, there are problems with OCSP stapling, but it is much better then what's currently used. In addition, it does not depend on a central authority as in the approach proposed by Google.
Perhaps that means companies buying the products that the financial sector is selling them should hire some smart people to work on their behalf.
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How are you storing your data? And is it compressed?

... I suppose for spam, the problem is that as a side-effect of trying to fool Bayesian filters, there's a lot of incompressible gibberish.
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Of course. Abstraction is important and powerful, and the right tool for the right job etc etc. But that still means there's a certain thrill in submitting HTTP POSTs via magnetized needle.
They've proudly blogged about it a few times http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/server/

I think they've successfully shown how far you can take it. Nevertheless, I agree with you that scaling this horizontally makes a lot of sense.
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What languages/skills do you see becoming the most in demand over the next few years?
Why is it so hard to find entry-level work? Why are there far more openings for senior developers and project managers than for second-tier coders, and very few openings anywhere for a first-tier coder with no experience?
After reading about Aurora and Stuxnet, government backdoors don't seem farfetched. But why would they want to backdoor a bunch of cheapskate Linux developers? The cyberwar budget is large, but it's not infinite.
> For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title...

I was under the impression that Chrome auto-updates, and hence Chrome 16 is really all the "Current stable release" versions of Chrome.

So might as well compare it to IE9 and IE8 combined.

http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

> By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions.

I was also under the impression that Chrome got rid of meaningful "major" releases some time ago in favor of non-meaningful "major" releases.

"Google Chrome's Version Number Is Meaningless"

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-chromes-vers...

> Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.

Getting some text to align on a website for a significant browser segment is not ridiculous to me at all.
Not only does money talk, but after spending ~200k on college (alright, maybe 100k on average after financial aid) startups are pretty risky. I mean, not only do you have the normal high-risk, low-immediate-return situation, but you have student loans on top of that.

Making 6 figures on Wall Street is definitely an attractive offer, and most grads don't treat it as a final destination - it's more of a "make money for a while, enjoy the city, and network" deal before they move into other jobs/consulting.