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Thing is - the company stopped paying because a couple of cowboys are currently checking if the town is big enough for them both.

Users don't care about that. Yes, some users are totally legitimate. Dropping their data because someone, somewhere thinks that the original service in general was 'evil' is not a solution that is as straight-cut as you'd like to present it.
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My idea of an appropriate response to this:

Interviewer: Ok then, we'll just need your facebook login information and we'll be all set.

Applicant: Sure thing, but first I'll need a key to your house.

Interviewer: What? Why?

Applicant: I'd like to go in when you're not there and rummage through your stuff, to make sure you're the kind of person I want to work for.
>my point was just that wearing low-cut tops and dressing for sex appeal are usually correlated.

I didn't start wearing low-cut tops and dresses until I started breast-feeding because they make it easier to pull out your boobs.
Right on Microsoft! It's great to see a software powerhouse able to turn its entire outlook about to keep it's users coming back. Between the ever wonderful Visual Studio IDE, and MS's new-found appreciation for how open-source can enhance it's position, it's a good time to be a .Net dev.
The strongest argument he makes is that there's an impedance to text entry vs. "tactile computing." Which seems pretty intuitive to me. With a keyboard a user can generate tons more information (as opposed to raw data) than with almost any other input hardware.

But you have to think about what information you're inputting. A GUI provides an ongoing dialog that guides you through the interaction with the computer. But if there's data that's unavailable a priori to the interface developer, a keyboard is still the best way to enter it.
How hard can it be when that screw-up in sector 7G down at the old Springfield plant can keep his job after all these years?
My point was more big-picture. The app shouldn't have an entirely custom Air-based UI when there are great Cocoa libraries available. Hell, even a hybrid with some Cocoa would be better (ala Aperture). It _should_ be a stand alone app at this point.

The argument about "people wouldn't want to transfer to the new UI" is conjecture. Film pros have been switching to new versions of Final Cut Pro without complaint.
The building owners have to continue to pay property tax, condo fees and maintenance costs like security, gardeners and window cleaners.
The customer (MegaUpload) would like to continue to pay for the storage, they have been prevent by a third party (the government).
I fear certifying a design can be hideously expensive. I am not familiar with the rules, but I'd assume one would need to build a complete reactor and operate it for some time.
OK, but you do realize the person who wrote "Lighten Up" was railing against something different than what Maher is referring to, right?
I'm not saying that auction houses can't work in general, I'm saying that it will not work in Diablo 3 due to it's design.

I'm well aware of the benefits of free-to-play, as I am a founder of a company making a free-to-play game!
If you mean difficult in the sense that it probably took some time to find the right algorithm, than you're probably right. But the algorithm itself is rather simple. I have looked at the reddit ranking algorithm and duplicated it for a project of mine. It took some iterations but the result is rather simple.
Excellent article, very beneficial with some good tips. Plus it brings out some actual writers here to give their insider knowledge which is really nice.

However, I wonder if this will cause the strategy and tactics to become less successful, at least in the short run. And by that I mean, if every entrepreneur that reads the article goes out and those this, it's just going to become the same noise that the reports see every day and they'll learn to ignore it...

What I expect to happen is that there will be an uptick of this type of activity by start-ups that are looking to get some publicity for their companies. It will probably last a month or so, and then die down as they realize that no, it's not really easy to make these connections and to make them be really successful you have to be genuinely interested in the writer and his stories, Think of it as the HN bump.

Any writers seeing this already? Or am I way off base?
Completely true, but Github still beats Codeplex by parsecs.
I apologise for my tone.
That is a bit dramatic. I don't see how this opens people up to any additional scams than are already out there. What it does is provide another avenue to get money from people who have it into the hands of the people who need it.

It's like y-combinator for the little guy.
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We are all different, but that doesn't mean we must be treated different at all times.

At work we are all workers. We may be treated differently depending on our position within the company, because that is relevant to our job and duties. But how is it relevant and useful to treat employees or colleagues differently because they are this or that? Does it bring any more profit, productivity or anything positive at all?

We can't be looking at these differences all the time, because most of the time they do not matter at all within the context. This is what people don't get.
With 10mil subs still they will take a long time to fade, but if you look at that chart, the first significant dip in its history was post Wrath of the Lich King, followed by the current dip which occurred after Cataclysm. They regained their subs after the wrath dip, but this one seems to be ~4x as big. It will be interesting to see what happens when Pandaria comes out, I doubt that they will ever return to their peak, but that is the point where we will _start_ to be able to make predictions on how long the demise will take.
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Same here. I loved the concept, stayed motivated for almost over 2 month, but then the instructions got worse and worse. I read and reread them, jumped back and forth, and didn't grasp what they actually wanted me to do. The exercise level also seemed extremely out of balance, jumping from copy&paste to and "now apply everything you have learned ever before".

I would really love to see how the drop out rates are. At one point it seemed to me the only ones left are those who already are decent programmers and just love to discuss semantics in the forum sections. I had convinced three friends of mine to start with it as well and over time each single one dropped out.
If a court orders them to take "reasonable, and industry best practice computer security approaches to prevent the data being lost", then, yes, they would be responsible for "accidentally-on-purpose" leaving the servers accessible. If it were to happen, someone would do a post-mortem, find out that they intended for it to be broken into, and then they would be guilty of contempt of court/destroying evidence/etc.
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I agree with your basic point; however, I think we can and should leave the emotional arguments out of this particular issue.

The fact is that U.S. law enforcement is bound by law (and the Constitution in particular) regardless of whether one is sympathetic to them, and regardless of whether or not legal standards are violated. If no law enforcement agency enforces corporate policy over individual rights, do they all then get the right to invade privacy without a warrant? No, they don't.

My "should" above, is because it leads to polarization. Lots of people are not sympathetic to police, but lots of people are, and we don't want to nudge the latter in the direction of downplaying constitutional safeguards.

In my ideal world, law enforcement would never violate the standards they are bound by, and everyone would say, "I am sympathetic toward law enforcement agencies." And everyone would also say, "I do not grant them the right to invade privacy without a duly issued warrant."
‘Bird Man’ Hoaxster Comes Clean on Dutch Television
break your code into smaller chunks! If you're testing at a fine-grained level, you can assemble those well-tested components into different products
I'm not sure if that's one of the most important parts of SPDY. Multiplexing multiple streams over one TCP connection and differentiated quality of service (some streams have higher priority than others) still work perfectly in this kind of system, and provide huge benefits.
Thx for the tip. Private browsing works to see the new design
> $120 for 3TB

So even if you throw out the rest of the hardware and have zero redundancy, $40/TB * 25000 terabytes = $1,000,000.

(Of course, somebody has to ship and store over 8,000 HDDs, too.)
you do expect some kind of return though. It just comes in a different form.

You don't go to kickstarter and say, "oh hey, ill just piss away 25$ because this guy seems nice...."

plus kickstarter has its own vetting process.
I think engineers in hard sciences are a bit different than "startup" software "engineers". Anyone can make mistakes of course, but the process and professionalism is different.

I'm not bashing all programmers, just ones who are part of the "rockstar" startup scene.
I don't know the details of how SPDY works, but could this proxy be taught some custom HTTP headers (X-SPDY-Hint: /static/site.css) which can be trivially sent by the proxies application and could be used to enable advanced SPDY features?
It is possible that all the incriminating evidence, i.e. the harddrives, are encrypted, but now are mounted and are hence decrypted. Pull the power and you might need someone (who might be outside the USA court's reach) to enter the password.

Pull the power and maybe all the evidence goes away...
i miss the lovely and extremely liberal zlib/libpng license.

in short "here's the code, don't sue us".
I agree - kind of a cheap magic trick if you ask me...
I'm paid to work on Open Source full time and have been for the better part of a decade.

I don't really agree with anything the article says. Open Source development is a segment of the industry. Getting a job in Open Source is really no different than getting a job in Game Development, Robotics, or any other niche market.

You generally have to (1) be willing to accept less pay (2) be more flexible about relocating (3) have specialized skills and experience or just get really lucky.
Will Cost Per Engagement advertising ever take off?
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It would be an interesting study to try and understand the behavior and personalities behind the 100% completion rates so far. Most of code year signups happened around new year resolution time - compliance can't be much different than that of a typical gym with a great offer. But those who have been consistently at it, must be special.

The 0% completion numbers might look exceptionally bad for Codeyear as there was so much of hype surrounding it back then (Bloomberg and all..). But that is understandable, and the founders could not have done much about it.
Yeah, I think you would also consider that with a fairly standard equipment lifecycle program you would have 1/3rd to 1/4 of the equipment up for renewal in the next 12 months. Maybe you bring that renewal forward... and maybe you spec some nicer hardware (new Xeon E-5, etc) and are able to get a better consolidation happening so you don't replace everything.

I just wonder if they would be in a better financial position declaring it a loss and claiming the tax break / insurance then actually doing the work?

As long as they can support the hit to the cashflow, they are likely to be able to claim the damages back from either one of the parties of the case once its decided and / or insurance.
"There are funny things that happen to steel piping at 2250 psi and 600 degrees Fahrenheit."

And why we have to use steel piping at 153atm and 300C?

The fact is that we are using a design that is totally obsolete and designed for creating nuclear bombs, not for giving us energy.

The good thing about startups is that they could think different, use creativity to innovate and invent new methods. Einstein was not very intelligent a la Von Newman, contrary to popular belief, but he was super creative.

Creativity is destroyed in academia.
Yeah, realistically it just wouldn't be worth it. But it's fun to imagine.
Anecdote time:

My last big open source effort, Hecl, weighs in at something like 100K lines of code. LiberWriter, my first real "pay for it if you want to use it" project, doesn't quite pay me enough to live on, yet, but earns decent money at around 10% of the lines of code.

I did make some money consulting on Hecl, so it's not a total loss, and I had fun with it, and learned a lot. But in terms of the money, there's simply no competition: LiberWriter wins by a huge margin, even though it's simpler code that doesn't do as much.

The big difference is with LW, people pay me directly. With Hecl, it was a matter of hoping someone would come along and pay to have some work done on it. It's just so much easier to deal with the former in terms of cash coming in.
Or you know, it could open up new funding options for startups and small businesses. The truth is that a well built crowdfunding site can prevent fraud pretty easily.
Google Research: Excellent papers for 2011
Link to relevant paper: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/126/126ra33
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Considering:

- the relative net worths of the companies

- the respective user sizes and incomes

- the huge investors backing Facebook for its IPO

Facebook is totally correct to fight fire with fire. Because they have more fire.
Not backing up your important data is passive stupidity.

Backing up your data on Megaupload and then not keeping a local copy is active stupidity of such vast scale that I refuse to believe it has ever happened in the real world.
Yes, as I wrote it does un-clutter your news feed and other benefits beyond profitability. I was posting about another less apparent benefit that works in Facebook's favor. And yes math is very beneficial to the user in most cases and I didn't mean to give you the wrong impression about it. This post however has more to do with the psychological impact of the 18% visibility of your social network and its recourses, not the math that is used to calculate what and how much of it to show.
Anticipate the next time the boss "reminds" you to give him your password, and have your phone recording when it happens.

In many US states, it is legal to record a conversation if one of the parties is aware (i.e. if you are recording a conversation in which you are a participant).

I'm uncomfortable with doing this in normal circumstances, since it's a pretty manipulative way of getting a recording of someone. But if you're getting abusive requests from your employer and (I agree) you're not likely to get it in writing, this seems like the appropriate response.
Without more fresh fruits and vegetables, you'll end up being the Silicon Valley Zombie.
None of this patent fight between facebook and yahoo will "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". It's a giant waste of time and resources. Software patents should be invalidated.

(Quote from the Copyright and Patent Clause of the U.S. Constitution.)
I never saw the advantage over parsing a string, like toXML('<foo><bar/></foo>').
One VCS to rule them all...

Having gone through different VCSs of varying (mostly poor) quality and cost over the span of my career, I am glad to see that that a de facto standard seems to be being settled on. Git is quite good, far better than any other solution I have used on a day-to-day basis. (No disrespect intended to Mercurial, etc.)

While having a breadth of technological solutions to problems is frequently a benefit, I'm not sure source code control falls into this category. This is an area ripe for de facto standardization. Developers should be able to go to a new job without having to relearn the intricacies of MKS, SVN, etc.
I feel like there's a recent anti-Google sentiment among the hacker/techie community which seems very unsubstantiated by solid reasoning or logic. The argument in particular, that search quality is getting worse, is a little lost on me because, for me or anyone I talk to at least, this is simply not true.

In fact, I find myself spending less and less time on "Google the Search Engine" because it's gotten so damn good at giving me the right result right away based on the simplest and vaguest keywords (I use the omnibar so I don't even go to google.com anymore). I still remember not so long ago having to try different phrasings of my search keywords a number of times before I would get the result I was looking for on the main page (or in cases of extreme frustration clicking through pages and pages of search results). This is largely not the case anymore.

From my general interactions with people and how they use the web, anecdotal as it may be, they simply doesn't give a shit about ads, filter bubbles and so on. Google Search hasn't changed for them in any meaningful way except that it's gotten a lot better at figuring out what they wanted to find (and in most cases they are not even conscious of that improvement over time).

With regards to other other free G-services (Gmail, Docs, G+, Blogger, YouTube), if you are consciously buying into them, it is implied that you know you are entering into a relationship where parts of the real-estate you're interacting with might be used to display ads and I think everyone understands and accepts that.

I am an avid conspiracy theorist, however, and have more long-term concerns about what happens if Google turns TRULY evil and starts to use its data to spy on citizens on behalf of some authoritarian government. But as of right now I feel a little foolish reacting to this concern in any significant way.
Nope. Not clear enough for someone busy who doesn't want to think.

This, from their about page (it should really be on the home page as well) is the type of clarity you need when pitching:

"Buffer makes your life easier with a smarter way to schedule the great content you find. Fill up your Buffer at one time in the day and Buffer automagically posts them for you through the day. Simply keep that Buffer topped up to have a consistent social media presence all day round, all week long."

And, this is really the key point:

"Simply keep that Buffer topped up to have a consistent social media presence all day round, all week long."
I'd be delighted if they offered it for even just two regions. Right now if you want your service to be highly available you either run your own routers in two collocation facilities and forward to AWS, or you don't use AWS.
Sorry, I think I may have misread something. There are withdrawal symptoms from alcohol, which will affect people temporarily after they quit drinking, but that doesn't mean that they last long term; I don't know whether or not the effect is longer term. Apologies for being sloppy.
It has more to do with control in high winds, but you're right in that LTA craft are probably better suited for the task.
some basic math...1 trillion over 40 years is about 25 billion a year....US budget in 2012 was 3.796 trillion FOR THE YEAR....so that is 0.6% of the budget. I think we can all agree that it is certainly militarily advantageous to have air superiority keeping in mind that it is mainly for the wars we dont fight and will never fight rather than our current conflicts.

Also these articles fail to mention the planes that will be retired over the next 40 years that the JSF will replace. Lots of costs savings that arent included.

Military superiority is supported by practical every political base including libertarians. Large, complex aircraft cost a ton to produce. Is there waste? Sure but some of the waste is due to our own democratic political system. Easy to cast all blame on greedy govt contractors.
I disagree. Servers should be inaccessible, but not at all accessed by the law enforcement agency coming up with claims in court - why would they need to look at that amount of data anyway and why should tax payers suffer.

Just - put them behind bars. I said so.
How much do we lose to piracy, again?
(For the unwary / spoiler alert: HumbledMBA is Jason Freedman's personal blog, it's popular on HN, and Jason recently started 42Floors, so this is basically a startup acquisition blog post parody. Unless I'm totally missing something.)
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That was a dumb decision on Linus' part. Apple is the future; Linux is the past.
definitely, baby carrots and apples will be good
You crowdsource the viability and the platform makes sure they're a real company and verifies their legal status. Who better decide whether or not a company has a viable idea than their potential customers or users? In fact, I can't think of a better way to assess the viability of a company than to put it out there in front of 1000's of eyes to see.

The truth is that the Y-Combinator evaluation style, or other more tradition financing routes for that matter, aren't the end all be all. We're working our tails off to leverage our users knowledge and make a system that roots out any sort of scammers.Crowdsourcing isn't a short cut, it's just a decentralized system versus our current more centralized one. In fact, I suspect more man hours will be put into assessing viability through a crowdsourced model just because of the sheer number of people.
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Wow, I bother to calculate it. However,

- if you buy HDDs in these quantities you will get a big discount (50%+)

- they most likely get the HDDs back after the case is finished, but not the electricity bill.

- you have to factor in opportunity costs from not being able to rent out that rackspace.

- I don't even understand how this can be proper evidence if it just hangs around at a private company.
Lots of tech companies have free lunches. Keep mooching off people.
But then you have to operate in France, which by all accounts (from my European colleagues) may not be worth the cost :)
Are you building a company, or your credentials?
You can get insurance for "my client shafted me but I've still got bills to pay" but more typically I think you ask the client to post bond. It's called knowing your client. An ISP doing this much business with one client but not considering the possibility of MU going under is irresponsible.
Seesmic Lays Off Half Its Staff As It Pivots Back to Social Cross-Posting
micro-formats have fallen to face-books open graph and google's social snippets. i'd start with those and worry about hCal later, nothing consumes it.
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I took this class (6.042) as a sophomore a few semesters ago. I wasn't terribly good at it. Additionally, the professor and staff were a real pain in the ass, so I didn't really have the best experience. I remember they were writing this text my year. They made us do reading assignments critiquing each section. They were basically having us proofread it for them.
Ah, a great shame. :(
I think I got all but one:

Simpsons, Teenage Mutant Teenage Turtles
South Park, The Smurfs,
Asterix and Obelisk, Burt and Ernie,
Donald Duck & his three nephews, ???

Who is in the bottom right?
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