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If you're in the bay area, I'd probably watch your dog for free even though I'm not an old lady. Mostly, it's because I have a dog as well, and it's hard to find things to tire her out. (she's a very active corgi)

If you're serious, you can find my contact info in my profile.
Yeah, but that diligence is surely all in FB's court?

If my startup was valued at 500m last week (I wish!), and someone offered me 1b for it today, I'd consider the extent of due diligence required on my part would be checking to see if the cheque cleared...

(Having said that, presumably FB _did_ due diligence - before Thursday's 50m on 500m round - I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when Instagram explained that in the final few days of the sale… "Oh, BTW, we sold 10% to Sequoia et al on Thursday - that doesn't change anything here, right?")
three engineers and a cloud? sure beats three yards and a cloud of dust...
Got it! That makes sense, thanks for following my argument through :)
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True!

If you want a newer example, here's a very recent paper which looks at the results of a couple of RNA-Seq-papers and after being able to reproduce only 12% of the results, concludes that they all used the wrong assumptions in their statistics: http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

Which shows that the editor really needs to know what's going on and why in each paper - I don't think every editor can know everything about his or her field.
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I've actually seen this before, and it is awesome, but it doesn't answer the question of how to re-imagine a text console for touch.
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Just. Fucking. Build it. (Or lessons learned.)
I somewhat agree that "normal" folks won't notice - at least they wouldn't specifically mention anything about stock photos (and these don't look terribly "stocky" compared to others). But, overall the trust or incentive to take the next step that needs to be captured in the first 5-15 seconds will be lower. Even if they can't express it, it just wouldn't feel right in their subconscious.

Also, if possible have the photos set up so the person is facing towards the action you want them to take - the get a meeting room button. Anyways, just a tip, I think it looks very clean overall. And, just went to a meeting room and the onboarding is great. I was in a meeting room within 10 seconds - very nice.
How important is it for a programmer to have an online presence?
Zenoss Core 4 Preview for Everyone
I've done several demos and presentations around Core 4 at this point, these have always been to a limited audience (conferences, talks, etc.). I think it's time to do a preview webcast for everyone else that's interested. So if you haven't had the time to take a look at the Alpha builds or participate in the bug hunt, then this is your opportunity to see what's new and hot. Here are some of the things we'll cover:

•	Core 4 High Level Design Goals
•	Core 4 vs. Core 3 Architecture
•	New features in Core 4 (triggers, SNMPv3, IPv6)
•	ZenPack Repository

Basically, with this live demo, you'll see the new architecture, new features, and hear first-hand what direction Zenoss is heading in the coming months.
No cure for blindness, AIDS, lost limbs

Well...

I think you are unduly pessimistic. Medical progress is slow compared to IT, but 100 years ago we didn't even have antibiotics. Now we have defeated smallpox and polio ("few of the doozies"?!?), and we make progress in other areas.

We can cure (some of the most common forms of) blindness[1]

We can't cure AIDS, but anti-retroviral drugs can stop HIV infection from becoming AIDS[2].

We can't regrown limbs, but we can regrow ears[3].

Even cancer is slowly being fought back[4]. 20 years ago no one thought the HPV vaccine was possible, and yet now it will protect the ~11,000 US women per year who would previously been diagnosed with cervical cancer.

[1] http://www.cureblindness.org/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#Antiviral_therapy

[3] http://www.army.mil/article/73085/Regenerative_medicine_stri..., http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353884,00.html

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_vaccine
They also had ~50 million in the bank after a funding round that was so recent they could not have spent much of the money. Which means FB got a 5% discount on that billion dollar price tag and helps to make all those estimates just that much more reasonable.
Good story and a good guy, he will have no shortage of hackers in whatever future ideas he wants to bring to life. Reputations like that are golden in this industry.
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A good one is Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Businessmen-Need-Philosophy-AtlasS...
> His great weakness? He’s an Asian applying for financial aid.

Every single Ivy-league school has need-blind admissions; that is, an applicant's need for financial aid has no effect on their admittance (http://www.admissionsconsultants.com/college/ivy_league_fina...).
The first comment "What's the penalty for publishing an inaccurate privacy policy? Who enforces it?", is a very interesting question…
This feels a lot more like the 1999 "eyeballs" landgrab. There's no unique technology behind Instagram.

Being popular != being valuable.
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What global problems are you referring to? Economic, environmental, energy, healthcare, educational? The world can be improved in lots of way!
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I've always assumed those emails are sent because if you forward a newsletter to somebody else, your personal 'Unsubscribe' link will still be on the bottom, therefore the person you forwarded it to could click the link and unsubscribe you from the newsletter without you knowing about it.

But with the unsubscribe confirmation, you'll know right away and can resubscribe if needed.
this is way too complicated for mainstream users. didn't g+ prove that the circle designs while elegant really didn't take off at all?

plus I hate their automatic lists, they're ridiculous and don't match my real-life "lists" at all.

in zuckerberg's terms, nobody wants to make (nor maintain) lists, whether you call them circles or groups or whatever. Who the hell is going to spend hours refining their circles except from super privacy conscious hipsterhackers of the SV? I bet most people would rather go back to the ol'good plain dumbphone address book.

with that said it is visually very appealing
It's solving a completely different problem. In fact it doesn't change SSH's authentication at all, so you'd still use your existing ssh key.
Well, a team that does not even deliver a product cannot be called perfectionist. That's just procrastination. They only managed to deliver once being bought over by Gearbox and given additional resources and time to just ship the unfinished game. The end product speaks for itself : obviously noone was satisfied with it, not even the ones who made it.
All metrics are imperfect: this one of course over-represents languages used by employers. It won't capture self-employment (a significant and growing trend). Also, it's uncomfortably common to advertise for one thing in order to filter applicants, when the job is actually for something else. (Maybe it's clever of them, but I've felt cheated by this bait-and-switch.) Along these lines, ability to pick up lesser skills is assumed. (Perhaps that's why PHP doesn't appear.)

Stackoverflow/web searches over-represent languages used with the web (esp Javascript). But, since the web is the fastest-growing industry, it may be an accurate anticipation.
The current mode is impressive, although may I suggest a co-op mode where you don't shoot other players but rather actual asteroids? Might be less crazy/frustrating that way.
Only partially related, but there was a fantastic game called Star Control 2 once upon a time. The main single player game was a big long quest, but it also had a 'Melee' mode where you and a friend could go up against each other in Asteroids-style space combat- putting different types of ships with different weapons against each other. So much fun was had.

Good news is that it's been ported to modern systems: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Does anyone know if Instagram will require facebook credentials to log in now? One major reason I have enjoyed Instagram is that it's a separate network away from facebook etc.
The answer is no. Until anyone here gets a call from their mom asking how to play a 10 bit encoded 1080p MKV file and it can't be solved by downloading VLC / MPC the answer will be no.

Even if it did become a huge issue MSFT would simply bundle the codecs into the next Windows update.
As long as these things don't have a wide adoption or a public facing IP address I don't see the problem. I mean plenty of company's have an windows NT box inside their network running some internal service that nobody want's to pay to upgrade.

At some point it's ok to say if a bank robber is inside the vault with a crow bar, then yea they have access to everyones safety deposit boxes. But, let's just try and keep them out of that room.
GPLv2 includes an implicit patent license

Has been tested in court? I think the answer is no. The logic Stallman brings up seems valid, though.
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An explicit grant is much better than an implicit one (and is one reason why the university where I did my grad work refused to let us use the GPL).

Besides, wasn't the Netscape code released under the NPL/MPL, partially for this reason?
The problem with casual programming is that problems of a given type (say parsing some files) arise from time to time; so unless its part of your day job, investing in learning those tools doesn't seem so worthwhile until the same type of problem arises weeks later.

IMO a truly casual programming tool is about the quickest route from "need" to "working code".
I don't think you know the definition of "literally".
I'm not sure where you get that info. You certainly can close tags in hamlet. (I often do). You just do not have to.
Now the whole drama will rehash itself all over again :(
In point of fact, they couldn't if they wanted to.

You see, once you have owned a patent, no one can use that particular patent against you. Ever.

So Firefox is safe, at least from those patents.
I am going to echo Jach comments a bit. Millions of people are dying from cancer, and will die at the pace of current research. The argument is that if you turn up the pace, you will kill more people but in the longer term you may save a lot more. Instead of decades from idea to human trial you push into a few years.
How is that a relevant statistic? I bet most Instagram users have never even visited the website.
this looks great, definitely going to try it
I'm a little disappointed that none of the posts here actually discuss how these (pretty pertinent) issues might be solved in the future in any way different to how they are at present.

The issue of having to choose a combination of 1000 overlapping libraries and languages, for instance, is one that affects us all, and is actually pretty recent. Whats the best solution for the future? Surely its not just 'google them all'....

Languages and libraries are, after all, supposed to make the leap between the conception of a simple idea and its implementation easy. If they fail to do this something will change.
Its going to be a hot summer. Probably a bunch of wave of heatwaves across the midwest.
Hahah, I know. You're right.
You know what would have made your statement more credible? "Show HN: Here's our MVP, we just f#*king built it". Let's hope we will see that one soon!
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Yeah, this programming stuff is really tough. How about a nice game of Farmville instead?

It's normal to be frustrated when learning new things, but the savvy student recognizes the problem lies in him or herself, not in the topic they don't yet understand.

Try harder, or stop complaining. Blaming the compiler is a novice response, and will garner you no sympathy.

(Hint: it's probably the significant whitespace.)
I'm right there with you. my favorite book right now is "we're going on a bear hunt": we can't go over it, can't go under it, can't go around it. I guess we'll have to go through it.
You will. Don't worry. We haven't stopped, and won't stop working until we get there.
And Texas. I'm hoping for a few (very weak) hurricanes.
PHP is dead (on addons.mozilla.org)
Note to self: "brew install mosh" installs a scheme implementation. Install mobile-shell instead.
From a month ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/new-yorks-second-wa...

Numerous cities around the world had record-breaking or near record-breaking winters (warmest winters on record).
If I have to convince my friends to use this it's not going to work. Spamming my family and coworkers with unsolicited email notifications is not a solution.
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Shouldn't it be possible to install the mosh-server over the network from the client machine. Similar to what sshuttle does?
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Motorola Mobility wants 4bn for patents relating to XBox and Win7 - 1bn for a better bargaining position could be worth it.
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matlab has a lot of these features, and so did genera for lisp machines. Proprietary development stacks win when it comes to solid documentation.
Read "a right pain" as "genuinely frustrating" or "really annoying".
La Niña is at fault for some of the warmer winter weather. Just because we had a warm winter does not mean we're going to have a boiling summer.
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Yep, I think it's because the character delay forces you to simultaneously inhabit two levels of abstraction.

At the higher level, you're composing some tricky unix pipe, and at the lower level, you're counting many backspaces you've pressed and how far behind the echo is.

% find . -name '*.txt' -mtime +2 -exec chmod g+w^H^H
Sweet. They only expire in 3 years or so. Brilliant move on AOL's part.
Can you use the email address in my hn profile? Thanks
I think we just have a general problem with acronyms. I skimmed the article at first, and misread "ABB" as "ADB" because I still was going on the premise of it being "Ice Cream Sandwich."
"Now if you’ll excuse me I have a crowdfunding site to build."

I wish you luck, but I found this to be a hilarious closing for a public mea culpa about "startup bullshit".
You know what is interesting about that article? The total lack of statistical insight.

"The average temperature of 51.1 degrees F was 8.6 degrees above the 20th century average for March and 0.5 degrees F warmer than the previous warmest March in 1910."

Without standard deviations, who cares?

And clicking through to the main article, I'm surprised by how many words can be written without saying anything of consequence. Even the graph showing Green Bay temperature looks like nothing more than a plot of noise.

Edit: Now that I think about it, the lack of basic statistical disclosures is pretty damning evidence that nothing significant has happened.
I've always been criticized by my parents, my teachers, and my therapist for being too harsh on myself, but looking upwards seems more optimistic.

Yeah, I know the feeling. I'm pretty sure that no matter what I ever do or accomplish, I'll never be truly "happy" for any long period of time, or ever feel any real sense of contentment. I am always burning with this drive to do more, accomplish more, see more, feel more, whatever. And I am an optimistic person, and my sense of self-efficacy is off the charts... but I also know that there will most likely always be something missing.

Of course, getting into reading a lot of evolutionary psychology, finally truly embracing my atheism (and not hiding behind the term "agnostic"), etc., have taken some of the mystery and romance out of the world as well... I have a hard time not believing in a strictly deterministic, mechanical universe sometimes, and that seems to take some of the joy out of things....

But I keep ploughing on, and telling myself that it's the journey that matters. :~)
I don't know... These ones were clever enough to get someone to pay a billion dollars for them.

That's pretty clever.
Are you trying to solve a problem, or do you just want to be able to say you have a "startup"?

From your first post, I would have said the latter. You wanted Y Combinator behind you in much the same way that a struggling band would want to be signed by a major label. I was so happy to read, "Success is defined by making a product that people want and will pay for. That’s it."

Keep it up! And always remember startups are just businesses. And business is centered around transactions: You give me $, and I'll give you X.
Haha fair point. It didn't sound nearly as cocky in my head.
Beautifully executed. I'm impressed.

I would suggest working on the navbar just a little bit, to have its look not be so readily recognizable as the 'Twitter Bootstrap, yo!' one.
He wants a fucking ide for casual programming.

Then he dismisses all of the actual causal programming -- which happens in shell these days -- and marches on to blather about gui toolkits.

This man is a clod.
Also, if every dollar has one chance to multiply and you take one tenth of the fund and immediately double it at the beginning of its lifetime, that is an outstanding outcome. Just because you can't reinvest the money in that fund does not mean it is lost, it is simply paid out to investors right away.

Anybody who has taken a finance course knows the simple principle that a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. It is NEVER better to make a return of equal percentage later in a fund than early. Instead of having $50 million to invest in the original fund in the same companies as before, you now have $100 million to invest in the same companies as before. The fallacy in your logic is that you are hung up on the required return for that single fund.

The only way what you are saying is valid is if by investing that $50 million in Instagram, they missed out on the opportunity to invest in another company that at some point in the future would have returned more. In a window of about two months, I highly doubt that's the case. Again, once you have doubled your money and gotten it back, you can invest it anywhere you like, including the same companies you may have before. But now you have twice as much money. There is nothing magical about that fund that makes its investments more special than another.
You didn't come off crass...not to me anyway.

I wasn't giving a stock tip. Just stating what I see as the most obvious conclusion.

That being said, if I had a net worth of any significant value that wasn't illiquid, I would probably buy FB stock on IPO and hold it for a few years. I can't see why you wouldn't want to.

They have not really monetized, they have 800M+ users and they are already doing $1B/profit per year. Imagine when they really figure out how to make money.
Wonder what has Fox News to say now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN7-k-RXvSQ

Note: I am in no way implying that a hot summer is evidence of global warming.
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Reminds me of when Google launched the official Google Blog during quiet period, then proceeded to post recipes for chicken on there.
Did the pay for the three engineers, or the thirty million users?
nice interface! simple to use and super fast.
I can't imagine it does. To top it off, the numbers seem to be bounded to a very small integer interval. Even if the question was posed as a captcha, a computer could simply keep guessing. This is super-easy to brute force...

At least they enforce a moderation queue. (I asked about the standard deviation not being included as was mentioned by abtinf.)

edit: deleted parent post was discussing the plaintext captcha.
Please can you make it scale to for a 1024*768 resolution? Thanks. I found it great fun dog fighting with another when it's a bit quieter. Annoyances were someone hacking the controls and setting a ship to move across the screen shooting a great number of shots directly left and right that moved in a wave straight up and down the screen, wiping out all players in its path. Trying to move ahead of this often didn't help due apparently due to lag. I managed to shoot the bugger, but then they respawned with movement reset and the whole screen was speckled with shots, yet another killing field. Later it was doing similar movements to before but shooting out in a spiral at a rate unmatchable with the space bar. Thanks for building this!

Edit: A hide-able chat msg system would be cool. I just wanted to hit t and say "good fight!" after an opponent and I managed to take out each other at the same moment.
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My pardon for the deletion, I reconsidered the observation as off topic.

The original question was:

"I have a question about the Captcha at the bottom, how does a text-based math question help prevent automated submissions?"
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