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I guess I'm one of the few people who always enter complete URLs, e.g. I would enter https://www.paypal.com, when I go to a site that I want SSL on.

I also do check that the lock is on, or for a site like a bank or paypal, that the address bar is green.
Do you care to elaborate? Your whole blog post is spent describing his rude tone, not addressing any of the content of his remarks.

It is really, really not obvious to me whether the world would be better off if you and I stopped writing proprietary software, did something else as a career, and wrote free software as a hobby. That is a hard question. My intuition agrees with Stallman.

Whether or not you agree too, it's obvious from his published opinions that he has thought hard about (and acted in accordance with) the specific goal: what helps humanity the most? That is the clear point of his answer to you and it is the polar opposite of misanthropy.
I'll comment with another note, I love that this is coming out of Greenville. I live here and have traveled to Boston, SF, Seattle, DC and others but Greenville is up and coming. It's not too big but not too small. It's still small enough to have a piece of the intimate south, but big enough to feel a great part of the vibrant city.

It's also dirt cheap to live here compared to somewhere else. A 2-3 bedroom apartment for downtown in the heart of everything will run less than 2k if you find a good spot. Also access to CoWork is awesome like the OP was saying. You can find out more about Greenville here, http://thenextbig.co/. All this to say, if you want to kind of step out of the norm a bit and experience something different but not leaving great talent Greenville is an awesome place to be.
I'm sorry, but you are simply incorrect. Salt is not a piece of secret data. Period. That was never the intention of salt, and it still is not. Secrecy of the salt does not improve its usefulness.

As for the download hash, this has nothing to do with security at all, as I already said.
Then that's your own fault. I check my privacy settings every couple months, or when I hear about or see large changes to the interface or offering getting rolled out. I've been on Facebook since April 2004, only a few months after they launched, so clearly I haven't eventually given up.

Using the "View As" feature and looking at your profile page while logged out is a good idea too.

If you care about your privacy and still want to be on Facebook, this is (unfortunately) a mandatory activity.
Crowdfunding questions
1. Is there any criteria for a person to invest in a company as a par of the crowdfunding?
2. Min and max amt for investment?
3. If the company fails, would the investor be paid back the amount :) ?
"I found myself constantly switching between reading, coding or the next shiny thing finding it hard to focus on any given one."

This is a symptom of ADD, however it is caused by lack of sleep. I experience this, so I'm very familiar with it. I've tried CPAP, oral sleep appliances, and everything else. Nothing has worked perfectly.
His entire point is that this "doesn't happen". The VERY first commenter points out many instances where it does happen and the author makes up reasons for why those aren't relevant.

This feels like someone wanted to make an argument and instead of collecting supporting evidence, just made some stuff up and then got sour when someone proved them wrong. He also used "mute point" instead of "moot point", which, while I never wanna be the grammar nazi, is pretty lol. Why do articles like this get upvotes?
It allowed me in to at least test out the interface, where I was able to determine that some of the pretty stuff on the home page (autoscaling, for example) doesn't seem to be available yet.
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Off-topic: I noticed you're an American living in Cph. Was wondering if you would like to hang out sometime? Always interested in networking with switched on Silicon Valley types :) You don't list an e-mail so I had to ask here.
That resonated like hitting a 40' bong.

I remember ... X person used to say about Y, in my family... "Why the hell would anyone wanna live under his roof, and live by his rules? Even if they had to sleep on the street it'd be better".

I reckon it's about the same for self-respecting men living with Zuckerberg.
Not sure one could miss the point anymore than this.
There's more shown on the site's home page than is currently available in the actual UI. Guessing a lot left to be implemented and we're seeing just the "here's what'll eventually be possible" view on the "features" screens.
What you say is true, but it would still be true if Facebook didn't exist. It will always be true because Internet.
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The site design itself is really beautiful too. Loft Resumes isn't the only case where I've heard projects getting a lot of useful traffic from CSS galleries.

While in my case (Candy Japan) I'm not sure if the possible improvement in conversions would justify spending money on the design, I wonder if the side benefit of getting listed in CSS galleries would make it worth it.
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I receive more grief from women I date for not having a facebook account than having a cheap ass cell phone. At work, since I am in IT, some coworkers express mock shock I do not have an account.

Then there is the bombardment of expecting to have a LinkedIn account as well.

People are far to quick to give up their privacy, I guess it comes down to the fact people want to be heard and noticed more listening and noticing others.
I agree. But we also thought it's not possible to cut video on a phone before iPhone.

Look around, millions of people grab 1080p and cut on a pocket device. Not just that, much more.

I was suggesting to be creative and think ahead. I am biased, but I believe it would work great and bring revenue to the table fast.
Ask HN: Why can't webapps agree on unacceptable unsername characters?
For instance, some webapps I sign up for accept dashes, some others don't. I was wondering whether there are factors that affect or play a role in these decisions.
re: suggestions on how to make it intuitive to scroll down:

On the shop page: An anchor link that sits above-the-fold with a call-to-action like "start shopping" or "browse designs" would probably make it more intuitive. Anything that shows me a peak of what's below-the-fold would help.

Since the main slider occupies all of the above-the-fold real estate and has its own horizontal navigation, I just assumed I was 'done' with the page once I had scrolled through each slide.
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barrier is not a suitable primitive for a WaitGroup. The ideea is simple. You accept sockets in a loop and handle the connections in parallel threads.At one point you want to stop this loop and the main thread must wait for all the active threads to finish before exiting, otherwise some clients may receive "connection reset by peer". With a WaitGroup, every starting thread increments a counter, and every finishing thread decrements it;when the counter is zero -> all the threads finished.The main thread calls WaitGroup.Wait and it remains blocked until all the worker threads finish the jobs. I guess you could simulate it with core.sync.condition
This parallels my first exposure to scheme with guile, but in truth most repls suck more than they should. I can rant about pretty much all the ones I've ever used. With guile, I learned at some point that I had in fact built it with GNU readline support, and that I could activate it by putting in ~/.guile (analogous to $PYTHONSTARTUP):

(use-modules (ice-9 readline))
(activate-readline)

Ahh, much better. Later interaction with Gambit Scheme was much nicer. Clisp was alright, more or less the same experience as Gambit. I hear DrRacket is nice but haven't tried it. Clojure uses jLine, so it's finicky. (I hate jLine.) Oh wait, I lied. You can use jLine, but it's not default:

alias clj='java -cp /home/kevin/clojure-1.3.0/jline-0.9.94.jar:/home/kevin/clojure-1.3.0/math.combinatorics.jar:/home/kevin/clojure-1.3.0/clojure.jar jline.ConsoleRunner clojure.main'

But I like that Clojure has built-in (doc) and (dir). I like Node's colors and it has decent tabcompletion. PyPy's REPL is probably the coolest out-of-the-box experience I've had--it reminded me of MySQL with how it helpfully gives you edit access to a whole chunk of code you wrote over multiple lines with one up-arrow. PyPy did it better, though. I've used emacs' Slime before, it was pretty sweet, but I'm a vim guy. (I'm aware of the various screen hacks to get a more or less the same experience.) I haven't messed with R in a while but I remember it offered to save the state for next time I launched.

I totally agree with you that first impressions matter. If command history and a sane consistent parsing of left/right/backspace/delete aren't features in your repl it's unusable, I can tolerate other deficiencies. It's especially annoying when REPLs are encouraged by the users of some language and they still stink. Python's (before I started using PyPy even!) is really the only one I've spent a lot of time in building a program, iteratively, albeit that's after disabling those annoying '>>> ' and '... ' prefixes so I can copy/paste-file/save/modify/paste-repl variations back and forth without pain. The rest of the repls I use mostly for isolated "will this work" style of questions since it's faster to check with the computer than simulate it myself in my head.
The main image is actually a video that you can watch. It seems to work by pinching your thumbs against various parts of your other fingers.
If only they could provide this kind of customer service worldwide. I've been fighting with Apple (Asia) about screen burn-in since 2010 (which I've already given up); I can never ever open iPad keyboard more for than 5 minutes without getting a burn-in since the first day since I bought it. The only thing they ever did was denying the problem. I love Apple products, but never have faith in their customer service.
I know a developer who tried polyphasic sleep. He said it worked as far as productivity goes, but his unwelcome side effect was that he would get sick very easily.
Can I ask how you're doing the shadow background on the menu elements? It looks gorgeous.
Silly money may not be a good recruiting tactic, but the importance of understanding what the market actually is for the A players cannot be understated. So to add to your excellent list

3) Be prepared to be truly market competitive in salary - your target A player may have a 20 year consistent track record of getting sh*t done, respect their sense of self worth.

Being immodest I consider myself an A player, when a startup offering "competitive salary and benefits" low-balls my current income by 50% they've wasted my time and theirs
Some employers say they want a BS. But it usually just means they didn't consider that CS BA degrees exist. Hardly any employers ever actually verify you have a degree at all. Usually the ones that split hairs over this stuff are places you don't want to work at, because it boils down to: this hypothetical employer cares whether you took another two classes.

Case in point: when I applied to grad school it did seem to be a big deal that I have a BA and not a BS. I took this (among other things) as a sign I didn't actually want to go to that school...
That's really just wallhacking and aimbotting - not really an AI as such. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a human doing the pathfinding with a 'shoot them in the head' button. If your FPS allows you to shoot with pixel perfect precision from across the map, rather than a more realistic 'in a general area', or if it's sending information that you shouldn't be allowed to have, then of course people are going to bot it. That's a hack/cheating, and should be banned, but it's more effective to make your game unbottable and not sending information that the player shouldn't know.

WoW is not really that complex or difficult - maybe from a scaling point of view, but you just have to look at all of the clones that have sprung up to realise that it's not that hard. Botting there derives from wanting a shiny sword of whatever like my friend Bruce, but I can't be bothered grinding the same mob over and over for three months hoping that it'll drop.

I play a game called World of Tanks which has a cone of fire mechanism (as you hold the gun still your accuracy improves), along with needing to take cover, work with teammates, help spot enemies, etc. Movement is also pretty slow, especially for the larger tanks.

Bots in that game routinely get spotted and reported, not because they're headshotting people from across the map, but because they're shit - they're just not capable of the strategy or tactics required (eg. they'll leave fields of fire open, won't move when spotted, won't take advantage of terrain, will be out of position, etc.) It's a far more interesting game than "run around like an olympic sprinter and headshot people from the hip".
I see that arch like thing on the right, and the view screen, and my brain goes to the bridge of the 1701-D, which is awesome. I want to play this game right now.
We actually haven't gotten many orders directly from the CSS galleries. While some designers do order our resumes, they aren't our primary target market (many of them will design their own.)

From our standpoint, it helps out with getting some solid back links for SEO purposes in the beginning and also helps from a referral standpoint. We also just like seeing and spreading great design. We're kind of passionate about that. Some designers will send the link to their non-designer friends because they don't feel like doing it pro-bono for their friend and the money their friend can pay just isn't worth it to create something from scratch.

However, if you have a product or service whose direct customer is designers, then you might be able to get some conversions from the CSS galleries. Your's could be this case.
Ironically dotCloud started out in 2008 as a very similar project, with the same lofty goals. We had VM templating and versioning (https://github.com/dotcloud/cloudlets), cross-infrastructure deployment (https://bitbucket.org/dotcloud/vm2vm), various goodies based on container virtualization, copy-on-write filesystems (https://github.com/dotcloud/aufs.py), and an orchestration layer to tie it all together (I found an old fork at https://bitbucket.org/Foi3GraS/dotcloud). It powered various 3d-party "XaaS" throughout 2009 - here's a French provider that still seems to be alive: http://www.diva-cloud.com/softwares

Then in 2010 we joined YC, and actually tested our claim that "you can make it publicly available as a service!". Within 6 months we had rewritten 100% of the codebase around the real constraints of deploying and being responsible for tens of thousands of applications. We are only now getting around to open-sourcing some of these new, battle-tested components: a great example is ZeroRPC (http://github.com/dotcloud/zerorpc-python). More to come.

My hard-earned advice to you Justin is: you have to operate PlatformLayer as a service first and foremost, and the code you publish must flow from the real-world experience of operating that service, charging money for it, and being accountable for its reliability - not the other way around. There's a reason VMWare is a flop in the cloud world: they don't know how to operate their stuff.

In any case, I'm super excited to see so much open-source activity around solving these problems. Back in 2008 it was quite lonely :)

We hackers all benefit from this friendly competition in the end - happy hacking!
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you should understand that they just push cost around, and put a better face forward by focusing on the 'valet' type service model. you actually pay for this, for eg. when you pay an extra $100 for 16gb of ipad memory; which should really cost you $15 as an sdhc expansion.
I think the point is that people shouldn't have to do this. Making multiple facebook accounts to fool the moronic employer who thinks they need to look at your facebook account is just a string of fail where no one benefits at all.
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That people voluntarily gave facebook a temporary claim to certain inalienable rights is undeniable. What happened was that the userbase shifted and became larger, the power of the individual became weaker, and the rights and obligations vested in the company in the initial user agreement were eroded to the point of meaninglessness, without ongoing consent from the user. So at this point, your data is theirs. Moreover, there is no other alternative. Facebook is 'Brave New World' in miniature. It's easy enough to stand outside it and scoff, but the truth is that no one who's signed up for it can ever free themselves from its grasp, nor their personal information from its database.

I'm not sure what clearer example of Authoritarian behavior I could give. The only thing that makes it like summer camp is that a lot of people still seem to like it for the sense of group camaraderie its membership instills, despite its ever-encroaching and heavy-handed tactics. In that sense, its appeals to group happiness aren't too different from that of any communist party.

I watched you over several threads act as if I were talking about concentration camps, or making some absolutist moral judgment on the site or its users. I did none of those things. My point was that group thinking leads to moral equivocation, tolerance for authoritarianism and overall civic rot, and that we're better off if more off-beat, free thinking, smart people decline their invitation to this behemoth, or burn it in effigy. There's no need for a universal agreement on the nature of positive v. negative freedom for this rejection to go forward... and the fact that you chose to misinterpret the most basic of my references, "camp", to mean a nazi death camp, most likely means you either didn't read what I wrote or you were trolling.
Don't you think people might not be collecting that data because it is nearly impossible to collect? What would people do? Look through newspaper classifieds, see whos hiring, call each company and ask if they look at facebook profiles and force people to give them their login? How many companies would admit to doing this over the phone? See where I'm going with this?
Honestly, the egotism displayed in this post is rather laughable. You claim companies like Google or Facebook don't hire A players, not realizing you're doing the same thing you claimed B players do (write others off who don't fit their arbitrary criteria as a way of feeling smug about themselves).

Any criteria that says Google doesn't hire A players is a joke, or completely meaningless.
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(I forgot the traditional disclaimer: I'm the co-founder and CEO of dotCloud :)
Apple has great customer service in general. At least in the US, dunno about Asia.

I got them to replace my 27" iMac screen, on site, without taking it to an apple store, just by sending them pictures of it. Had some intermittent discoloration. And it got replaced the very next day.

Their phone system is also great now. No waiting on hold or typing numbers into your phone 3 times each, then repeating them to each agent, like with comcast and others.
I think the idea is great, but what really stands out is the execution. The style the way it just works is why this idea could be huge congratz guys.
Would love to participate in a Kickstarter or something for this.
You absolutely pay for it. And I totally expect to pay for it. Its not free.

When I bought my first MacBook, I wanted someone to stand behind it and just handle complex, hard-to-diagnose problems.

Downtime can be very costly. You pay for that too.
I've got to say I'm amazed at the number of templates you have. It must've taken quite a lot of total designer hours to create all these.

Any plans to code them and let people generate mini-sites from them? I could see that doing pretty well too.

In any case the service and site looks great, congratulations!
> the importance of understanding what the market actually is for the A players cannot be understated.

This can't be emphasized enough. What you consider "silly money" probably isn't silly money to an A player. In fact they may even find it low.
This post wasn't intended to be a PR stunt, though I see how the last paragraph could make it seem like it was. I was merely making an observation and have just rephrased the last bit to make it clearer.
That's what happens when you write something quickly and go back to your code...
That's the exactly problem: they have great customer service in US but for some region (e.g. South East Asia) it's almost on the same level as all other companies out there.
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Interviewer: O.K., now we need your Facebook password so we can verify you're a good fit for this position.

Interviewee: I'm uncomfortable with that. How about you all give me your Facebook passwords first?
Actually, 'information you give them' is always within your control.
Looks really interesting as a hardware hack, you should consider adding a longer demo video.

I don't think that even with extended use i could type faster with this glove than using the standard on screen keyboard, do you guys have any data on how fast you managed to type using your glove ?
The market will decide. As someone said on HN: the best language in the world would be a mix of Go and D and would be called GoD. When there were few options, yes, it was enough to survive long enough to get a community. But when you have plenty of similar options, some of them backed by some major actors (at least in the early stages), i think no one will sacrifice his productivity (other than for hobby projects) for the sake of one language. I really hope D will develop into something, but looking to various sources (abandoned projects for D1 on dsource.org) on the net and google results, it seemed to me that D peaked somewhere around 2007-2008 with a slight revival in 2010 when D2 was released.
Great to see more people exploring the world of wearable interfaces. How does it compare to existing gloves like the Peregrine? ( http://theperegrine.com )
Maybe he wants to be nice? Facebook fails at nice, that's mostly why I quit. Seems the guy who made it is probably a bit of a sociopath, your only two options are "Friend!" or "Fuck off!" and I think that contributes a lot to the general loathing of the site.
Yeah, because Googling for a quoted piece of the text is soo hard?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22Angry+Birds+was+Rovio%E2%80%99s%C2%A...
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Wouldn't all those other interactions equate to all the time you aren't camping?
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Ask HN: How do I split profits from online sales with a collaborator?
If I collaborate with someone on a project, like music, art, or software, is there something we can use to sell our product that splits profits from sales in a way we agree upon (50/50 or 25/75 etc..)?