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If you looked at the data, you'd see the granularity you desire. I was summarizing, but it's all there for you to poke at if you'd like to.

Also, given the number of companies that have 10 employees vs. 200 employees, if you could figure out how to make those 10 employee companies outsource their payroll, you'd have a decided opportunity (and that was also my point and it's exactly the point that philwelch makes here).

The fact that you and everyone else assumes that a firm with 10 people makes it to small to sell to makes it an opportunity for innovation. A well-done web-based setup rather than the higher cost, high-priced sales person/pitch could easily bring down the costs to make it a more economical proposition to serve the (presumably) lower-margin but higher aggregate volume small business segment.
That picture was priceless. I'm so happy pg captured the moment :)
They're already doing that now, just look at all the NSFW subreddits.
I don't like Blizzard much anymore. I liked WarCraft 2 and 3, and Diablo 1 and 2 (liked is a bit of a strong word for Diablo 1 and 2, though... 'twas more addicting than fun). Nice gameplay, good for LAN parties, and a decent hacker culture on all of them. In fact, the excellent map editors in StarCraft and WarCraft 3 were inspired by some hacker-made Warcraft 2 map editors.

Now? Blizzard's doing all they can to control the whole experience. No LAN capabilities, shameful treatment of the bnetd folks, and others that have been mentioned here. Contrast to id games who open source their engines and invite folks to build on them.
It seems like a popular view here that Google is just trying to save twenty bucks on it's electric bill and I hate to (be the fourth guy in this thread to) break it to them but this has zero to do with electric bills.

Related: Santa not real.

{not to single nostromo out, it's a legitimate question but it seemed out of place as top comment}
It's just the usual HN selection bias--Mac apps appear disproportionately frequently. A cool Windows or Linux only app wouldn't get the time of day from the large Mac-using HN contingent.

Also, for whatever reason, the majority of open source Linux programs are actually cross-platform, whereas Mac developers seem to have no compunctions about only supporting a single platform.
This seems to be just another reader without infinite scroll. Am I wrong?
If you are taking the drone approach, I recommend that you hire in mexico. for the price of a drone you can hire great devs, and for the price of drones in mexico you can hire -lots-.

i can give you advice on this
Especially as the ZMQ API is so simple. init/send/recv. That's about it.
Wouldn't making a game guide be fair-use, similar to an unauthorized encyclopedia of a fictional universe (like Middle-Earth)?

Even so, I suppose you'd have to defend the fair-use in court.
Reddit - Acquired by Conde Nast.

Kiko - Acquired by Tucows, team founded Justin.tv

Loopt - Raised 15million in Series A and B financing, at it's peak was valued at $500m, sold for $40m to Green Dot

Simmery - Closed. Founder went back to uni.

Infogami - Merged with Reddit.

MemAmp - Never launched, one founder (Chris) joined reddit one (Zak) went back to uni.

FireCrawl - Never launched, team founded TextPayMe and got acquired by amazon.

ClickFacts - YC stake acquired by private investors because YC wasn't a good fit. Company still exists.
I don't agree with this line of thinking, that the concept of the art in question lies entirely with the reader or viewer. If a piece of art (i.e. a book or painting) is conceived as a whole and executed as a whole, then finishing it is necessary to understanding and appreciating that piece of art.

If you are not enjoying a book, feel free to put it down. I have many times. But I don't pretend that I have formed a complete and valid judgment. I forfeit that when I fail to comprehend the work as a whole.

As for whether endings are "necessary" when you have enjoyed a book, it depends on how necessary the author intended it to be, not on whether (as the author was rightly, in my opinion, angered by) the reader felt he was "done." It's a bit like knocking the wings off a statue because you think it looks better that way. What you think looks better isn't the point. The statue was created that way because that's the way the creator wanted it created.

Personally, I think it is critical to read every word as the author intended. Otherwise you are appointing yourself as editor over their artistic imagination. You are in charge of your own time and enjoyment, but not the structure and content of their work.
what do you use when have to use the JVM?
Alas, Rick Santorum ("Putting the 'No' in 'Nuance' since 1991") will be with us long after he's turned over the hole cards of his busted straight of a Presidential bid.

Look at the careers of Sarah Palin, Pat Buchanan, Howard Dean, Jon Stewart, Rush Limbaugh, Rob Reich, et cetera et cetera ad absurdum. Once a politician discovers some capacity to generate an audience, they go on raising money ($ for consultant buddies), selling books (royalties), speaking (speaker fees) . . . . No one expects these people to ever affect anything. But they can reliably, bankably, generate attention. Maybe they start out trying to influence opinion, but over time the audience retention imperative drives that to the background.

That's one reason why this sort is so reliably brain-dead. Saying something their audience doesn't expect to hear subjects said audience to the pain of unguided thought; do this too often and that audience withers, because they're tuning in for validation of opinion, not formation of new opinion.

A general campaign introduces Santorum to zero marginal conversative audience and takes up valuable time. If he won the nomination, his first move would be to demand a recount.

[EDIT: Yes, I meant Jon Stewart. I regard him and Limbaugh as a species of politician -- they make their living motivating political activity of a particular bent. They didn't build their audiences via electoral politics, but once built their audience relationship / maintenance dynamics are very similar to the others named.]
ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12
HP to open source chunks of webOS 3.0.5 as a "Community Edition"
tl;dr: the share went down 3%.
Not sure how could the title be any more misleading.
Residential startup incubator at UC Berkeley
Seems pretty exciting: agorastartuphouse.com
Doing blind searches of samples on large DNA databases in order to find cold hits gives you a very high probability of a false match. A match that the falsely accused defendant will be quite difficult to challenge since there is a general belief by the public that DNA matches on a few markers are irrefutable proof of identity.

DNA can more strongly connect a suspect who is already known through other information. Doing blind searches isn't science and it isn't justice. Those advocating this are dangerous, not to be trusted, and possibly ignorant of statistics.

Please see: http://www.bioforensics.com/articles/Legally%20Scientific%20...

> For instance, if a DNA test capable of distinguishing between 'unrelated' people with one million to one confidence was used to create a database of two million personal profiles from a population of 20 million potential suspects you could be pretty certain that most crime stain profiles run against it would produce at least one cold hit.

> You could also be more than 90% certain that it would be the wrong cold hit. You could further expect that around 80% of the personal profiles on the database would match at least one other on record from a different person.

> Problems like these had led the 1996 National Research Council publication "The Evaluation of Forensic Evidence" (NRC-II) to recommend that "When the suspect is found by a search of a DNA database, the random match probability should be multiplied by N, the number of persons in the database".
Possibly here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80625
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Bummer. It appears we have been locked out from the videos.
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I'd be wary of Anonymous-OS including exploits to break out of a VM and infect the host.
This raises so many questions.

What kind of traffic inspection are these ISPs doing that would enable them to identify infringement as it's happening?

How do they know what rights the people involved have to say that a specific download is infringing or not?

Speaking of the general public, how does Joe Smith know that Hulu's stream of "The Office" is legal but some other site's is not?
Note, he's pre med, not in med school. Pre med doesn't give you any specific medical knowledge.
Squirrels are notoriously ingenious at raiding feeders. They are really good at defeating feeders that are specifically designed to be "anti-squirrel" too.
Indeed, with Utah being #1 in porn consumption, how did his advisors ever justify these proposals?

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_11821265
Your ISP is going to spy on you starting July 12.  Tips to protect your privacy.
We're looking into integration-level testing for our Javascript since it'd give us full coverage of the bugs we see.

I forgot to mention we also use Socket.io for real time push updates to user Backbone models. A good number of bugs don't crop up until another user modifies data and those changes get pushed out to another person.
Which is what I'm guessing as well. Since it's not a product-issue, Kevin's not-coding didn't hurt. Which was the point I was trying to get at. Even if he could code, that wouldn't help solve the market-fit problem.
OK. Open the mofo up and remove the flash chips. It's the government, they have the technology :)
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Which Internet were you using for research? My Internet contained 128,000,000 results (or thereabout) for the provided link.
"I'm very suprised that they keep some secret, custom gear in a semi-public shared data center. "

Google wants speed above all else which can be delivered best in some cases by shared centers like Equinox's. That sometimes finds itself at odds with Google's desire for secrecy for it's own proprietary advances.

"What exactly prevents no-googlers from wearing their own headlight or using a flash in camera?"

Presumably rules. Ok, so people can break the rules. The amount of information they'll get from looking at a server with a flashlight isn't very much though.

Turning the lights off is like putting piranas in your moat outside your castle. The castle is the enclosure, the moat is the contract and rules you have with the people running the site. The piranas aren't really what's protecting you but they close off some attack vectors.
I find it interesting that people find these equally challenging. For the record, we know way too much about Mars and too little about the machine that makes us want to go (and go) to mars, the brain. If we can master our intelligence we could do so much more than going to a desolate planet. TBH i believe the first mission to mars will leave us disappointed (we won't have learned anything - and we don't really need mars for our future).
How do you think I became a programmer in the first place? I left marketing and hustled to become a programmer. I'm sorry you've shaved your beard or lost your passion or can't find a job. That's not the story for me. Hard work has taken me good places, and continues to do so.

Hope you don't spend the rest of your life either trolling or being a miserable wretch shitting on successful people. :)
Comparing it to as a percentage to what servers use is a spurious relationship. An energy saving is an energy saving. Servers need to be on and lights don't. 20W*hundreds of racks (plus extra for heat extraction) is still greater than a couple of 5 watt headlamps - why spend money on this if you don't need to?
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I've been googling and hnsearching to no avail... I saw it in a comment here a few weeks ago. It was basically a PaaS that would execute your algorithmic trading strategy against historical data, or against real data with fake money.<p>Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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Are US ISPs being paid to do this by the entertainment industry? If so, is there any transparency on this?

Why would the ISPs choose to do this with no legal requirement for it and strong restrictions in how they can achieve this now or in future any infrastructure business around it due to net neutrality and other regulator issues? This would directly alienate their own broadband customers...
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sounds like a bullshit article, thought up to scare people. go fuck yourself PR firms, i'll believe it when i see it
Aside from the rule against incorporating, the Glass-Steagall Act was very helpful in preventing the Too Big To Fail bailouts for many decades.

While the author may have omitted some specifics (in part due to column length), to those who follow the industry even casually, it's hard not to consider the changes self-evident, like a statement "CPUs are more powerful today than in 1990".

Even if the regulations were unchanged, top levels of government are almost 100% Goldman alumni and/or future Goldman people, so enforcement is comical. Imagine if Ford and GM executives had been running the EPA for the last 20 years.
What hyper specialized positions are you hiring for that none of those you've interviewed can possibly fill? Did your job listing requesting a developer get answered by waves of auto mechanics?

To echo what others have said : are you sure you're not raising the bar to imaginary and unrealistic heights? You wouldn't be the first would-be employer to sigh woefully just because you couldn't find a mythical wizard-rockstar hybrid.
Seeing as the various x rated tube sites have a business model thats based around the swapping of copyrighted material plus a freemium/premium option for those willing to dish out money directly or sign up for a sister site, I'm willing to bet that a one day copyright window wouldn't really make a big deal. In reality, I think the practical shelf life/copyright life of a video is a day anyways and then it ends up on a tube site or torrent. I barely watch a hollywood movie more than once, how many people who use pay sites bother going to the archives? There are probably just enough people willing to pay for day one access that it keeps the industry going.
I think this long GOP primary is a sign that both evangelicals and libertarians are realizing that the "deal" they made with the "big tent" GOP has had a poor ROI.
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It's a good place to see what-not-to-do.
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Intellectually, I understand all this. However when I read a pile of steaming bull manure that is presented to me at the link as a political argument, I literally feel sick a little. And that given that I am a libertarian (not a Ron Paul kind, but still) and so have significant affinity to some of the GOP positions and thus my prejudices lie rather in favor than against GOP candidates. I am not an US voter, but if I were, I would not be able to vote for a person that publishes such a vile idiocy under his name. I'm sure he could appeal to the same base without this - there must be other issues and things he could use as his special advantage. I don't believe one has to go that stupid.
Moving from paper books to a kindle means my tolerance for poor quality writing has dropped massively. Instead of a few books waiting to be read and the need to hunt around bookstores for replacements I've got a dozen books I intend to read already at my fingertips and millions more a few minutes away online.

If I decide a book is not worth continuing (even if I spent money for it because the free sample was inconclusive) then I won't continue it. I'm too time poor to waste my life on bad books.
Also relevant: http://theanticorruptionpledge.org/
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True, good points, but not insurmountable roadblocks, especially if more weight gets thrown behind it. I think the last two points can also be addressed by better caching, etc.

Further into the panel, it seems like there is interest in having some kind of standardized hooks into the compiler, and Guido hems and haws a bit about that becoming implementation specific a feature, but really maybe it should become a defined part of the language.

In one sense, I think if Python 3k had better function syntax/flexibility that might help a lot... then you could almost create DSLs. I mean function definition and application more like Haskell, or even something like CoffeeScript.

I applaud that they standardized the print keyword to a function in Python 3K, but now I can't help but feel they should have changed all functions to be more like 'print' instead.
Having fired real guns and paintball guns, I can tell can you this proves absolutely nothing.
Obviously, the notion that Santorum could somehow scrub out the tubes and eliminate Internet porn is laughable.

However, it is unfortunately very plausible, if he or some other religious extremist became president, that hundreds or thousands of citizens (a more or less random selection from the millions that occasionally view porn) might be arrested, caged, fined, and otherwise abused as part of a dysfunctional and technically incompetent 'war on porn'.

(The morality of it is interesting, too: what's worse, jerking off while watching a blowjob video, or apprehending a human being under threat of violence and putting them in a cage?)
Where's the proof that this is really happening and isn't just some random blog that's fear mongering for pageviews?
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I don't think parent meant the semantic web as in the Tim Berner's Lee version of it, he just refers those "semantic" html advocates (hence the quotes).

As for the semantic web in the TBL meaning, it is not worthy of caricature, anyway, considered the utter failure of RDF and XQuery outside of tiny niches, not to mention the flawed premises under it all.
Did you have a non-compete agreement with the firm you worked for? I would have thought working in financial services your employer would technically have first dibs on anything of value you create.
You outed him, there is no two ways about it.

You can be appreciative of the comments, receptive to criticism blah-dee-blah but you outed him and you know why.

As far as I'm concerned that defines you as a person above anything else.
The author runs his tests after his partial commits. He does this by stashing the remaining changes, testing the newly-committed code, and then continuing to make partial commits. Here's the example in the article:

% git stash
% make test
...
OK
% git stash pop

Also keep in mind that the initial tree contains WIP commits that are unlikely to work or pass tests, so reordering commits can hardly make things worse.
I'm just saying that it's a very silly protection. It's not like piranhas, more like having a moat full of herrings. For me it's this kind of protection that says "hey! there is something interesting here" but is not really preventing anyone from peeking.
I understand why they use shared centers and that they actually have some kind of custom equipment that should be used there for our pleasure. I think that putting it in a normal-looking rack would be a way better protection.
My favorite part was this analogy by Guido van Rossum:

In Python, I would just say something like, ‘Get up and go through the door.’ In other languages, I might have to say something like, ‘Stand up, but not with so much force that you fall over, take three steps to the north, take one step to the east, approach the door, check that it is open, if it is not open, open it, then step through it with this amount of speed …’
It does not take a leap of the imagination to see how ordinary, law-abiding citizens might accidently be affected. Here is a hypothetical scenario of how things might play out.

People pirating music will be caught. These people will start encrypting their web-traffic to avoid getting caught in the future. Then coders like me who use SSH/SFTP heavily will be flagged as pirates too. Then my internet will be cut off.
I believe this is the "6 strike" system. They agreed to do this last July, and it seems to go into effect a year later.

Also, I'm not so sure how "voluntary" this was, considering the Obama administration was involved to "mediate" the deal. My guess is the White House tried to pressure the ISP's into agreeing with this, though I wouldn't exactly call the ISP's innocent considering pretty much all of them now have their own content services, and it would benefit them to cut down on piracy somehow.
Completely false. You need to know that your change doesn't break the build, and if you wait a long time, you will have mentally switched gears when informed of the breakage. This is a big productivity sink.

(What's worse is when changes come in faster than the CI system can run the tests. Then you don't know which change broke your build because many changes were tested at once.)

Anything longer than 10 seconds is too long, in my opinion. As soon as you can get up to get coffee while your tests are running, you've lost a lot of productivity. (I recently finished a project where the tests took about ten minutes to run. That meant I could only change code 50 times per day. If the tests had taken 10 seconds, I would have been able to be make 300 changes per day. That's a 6x productivity increase right there.

Fast running test suites are absolutely essential.
If you have a $9/mo budget, you should already know that the reaction on the other end will be "Oh cripes, not again". $9/mo is $108/year, which really isn't much considering dev, support, infrastructure, non-tech staff, and overheads.

If you want interested, keen support, then do what is necessary: pull out your wallet and stop going for the cheapest thing possible.

One honest reason why some companies do 'please call' is that pricing structures can get complicated quickly, the intracacies of which may be necessary but may confuse the purchaser. I've just come out of a meeting where it's clear we're going to have to take a financial hit simply to allow our reselling agents an easier price structure to quote from (these agents aren't primarily technical staff).

On the other hand, the OP is indicating there is an underserved marketplace that may be ready for disruption by a low cost no frills service.

Friendly, keen support is a frill.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-57397452-261/riaa-chief-is...

http://rt.com/usa/news/internet-providers-year-sherman-661/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launc...

While the post summarizes this, it also includes additional tips.

Hope this helps.
Very bad karma in a very tight-knit community that is dependent on investors. Google has been said to do at least one M&A action per week. With that kind of pace, you can't burn bridges.
I've felt this way playing Civilization V, which I recently picked up during the Steam sale. I played a campaign and felt that I got all there was to be had out of the game. Though, I am ignorant of many of the core mechanics and I'm sure it's a much deeper game than I'm giving credit for. I started a new campaign (to feel that I'm getting my money's worth), and still managed to sink a few hours into that, however.
I don't think so... Where is all your extra energy going?
Is he angling for a Kingmaker position instead, i.e. extract certain concessions from Romney given that he controls a large chunk of delegates?
Interesting, but you're right now that I think about it. I've never stopped to think about the fact that ALL of their games have always supported both platforms.

Makes me appreciate them even more. :)