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Which then makes me wonder why they chose to start GitHub instead of HgHub. Rails may have been the reason; I'm not sure when or why Rails started using git.
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Every employee at Automattic has a trial period before they announce they've been hired. It usually includes a test project for designers and programmers. I'm sure that's a helpful filter. Then, when the employee starts, they spend some amount of time (I think a couple weeks) doing support, no matter what their actual job is.

'm sure working from home helps limit turnover too. Also, they work in teams, and I'm sure that's fun. And I've never noticed anyone mention things like logging time either - I think they get assigned work and as long as you get it done, time isn't an issue.

And finally the people that work for Automattic tend to be really really passionate about WordPress in the first place, so I'm sure working for the most influential company to the WordPress.org project(Automattic / wp.com), doing WordPress stuff all day, is pretty awesome.
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How does this provide a reason for a company open sourcing its code?
> It's like claiming that Michael Phelps's 14 gold medals should carry no weight in a discussion of whether or not he's a good swimmer.

Not really. It's like Michael Phelp's 14 gold medals should carry no weight in a discussion of whether or not his butterfly stroke has room for improvement.

No one is arguing that Andreessan is not good at making money. If people were, then your analogy would be correct. People are arguing whether or not his money was put to efficient use in this specific instance (by donating to charity).

Having 14 gold medals does not prove to anyone that your butterfly stoke technique could not be better. Nor does earning a lot of money prove that you always make good decisions with money. Take my $100 toilet paper example. Earning a lot of money through good investments does not make using $100 for toilet paper suddenly unassailable to criticism. Does this make sense?
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So a guy I met had a great general idea that I liked and offered to pay me part-time to start programming a site for it. The verbal agreement was that I would be working full-time and that the other 20 hours a week would go into sweat equity. No contracts were signed and now he is undervaluing my equity. He has never seen the code and I am wondering what my options are for giving him the existing code and going forward on the project by myself. Thanks for any help!
It would be nice if the reporters put some energy into either asking or researching what "standard procedures" are, and then put that into the story so that the reader might be educated about the rules and policies that we all live under.
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There's an article on Less Wrong about that too ;)

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2p5/humans_are_not_automatically_str...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
As dcurtis mentions, every one of Google's products has gotten worse when they added "social" to it. Even just their redesign to try to give things a consistent look has made gmail basically horrible, and that's without doing anything to the core functionality.

Even if you buy that facebook is an existential threat to Google, Google shouldn't be destroying itself even faster.

If I were Google, I'd focus on areas where Google's products are already strong, and expand those, vs. trying to force everything into a social box. I don't think social is the ultimate end of all products -- a 10% social effort (in targeted ways) combined with doubling down on Google's strengths, and hitting Mobile out of the park, would result in a much stronger Google than...Google+ and a castrated gmail.
How does this differ in practice from Etsy? I see you can embed it into another site, but are there any other advantages or differences in typical usage, like fee structure, searchability, and so forth?
That certainly could be a legitimate case of "He's looney about X therefore we shouldn't trust him about Y", but I'm not familiar with either Houck or Crichton's beliefs. The quote I can find from him on it seems within reason: 'I think that spoon bending is not "psychic" or bugga-bugga. It's something pretty normal, but we don't understand it. So we deny its existence.'

On the other hand, he also says "More than seeing adults bend spoons (they might be using brute force to do it, although if you believe that I suggest you try, with your bare hands, to bend a decent-weight spoon from the tip of the bowl back to the handle. I think you'd need a vise.)"

http://www.crichton-official.com/qa-travels.html

I just grabbed a spoon and tried it. As expected, contra Crichton, I had no trouble bending the handle to touch the bowl -- no vice required. And no trouble twisting it 360 after bending. But it would be a little surprising that one could exert that much force without noticing. And there was some interesting annealing and tempering going on: it was much harder to untwist than to twist, easier to unbend than to bend, and subsequent bends preferred new locations to repeat bending. So the scale tips a little toward looney, but I'd have to read more before discounting him. And I'm willing to believe there might be some metallurgical property worth exploring here, although I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with telekinetics or psychics.

But you've actually been to a spoon bending party, and I haven't. Do you have a loonier link?
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Oscar Wilde said this because he believed in the complete abolition of private property. I do not think you can convince any VC that that is a good idea.
Thanks Katherine! FYI: I am creating a start up coming up next month and I think it will be beneficial for your company to add your site as a partner because it will help you out to get way more traffic
Once in middle school in the late '90s I created an email loop between two free email accounts that forwarded an extra copy of the email every iteration. It was an experiment out of curiosity and mischief. I don't think the server actually went down when I started the loop (at least, I can't remember if it did) - since the mailbox would have failed up and messages fail to be delivered.

I think I was hoping to produce an "email cannon" similar to yours - an email spammer to be directed at whoever I liked.
Nirvana, good point about ops/sec not being a be-all end-all, but I'd continue to argue that you're looking at the problem the wrong way. As the technical director for my game company, my primary concern is not 'whether the database has an in memory database mode' or 'does the database have a distributed scalability solution', but 'will it do what I want?' tied with 'how much does it cost technically, organizationally, chronologically and monetarily to fulfil my requirement?'

That starts with, rationally enough, ops/sec. Because you would not believe the sheer number of databases or solutions that fall down horribly when you ask the ops/sec question. Anyone remember EJB 1.0? And the Riak answer should be "yes. We can do ops/sec. On 1 m1.large node, we do X,000 writes/sec and A,000 reads/sec. On 10 nodes, we do YY,000 writes/sec and BB,000 reads/sec. Our largest installation has QQQ nodes."

Then the question becomes "ok, how about complex queries that aren't just get/set?" And the Riak answer (note: I'm making these up, but you get the idea) is "well, our story continues to evolve, but first, understand that everything is a document, exposed to you as JSON over a web service. Then, we have a pretty complete map/reduce implementation which uses either Erlang or JS as the language of your choice. With a fairly complex query that hits thirty fields of a random complex document, across 3 nodes we do about X,000 queries/sec, and across 100 nodes we do about YY,000 queries/sec on m1.larges."

That sort of goal-driven questioning goes on for a while in a logical evaluator's mind. There are a lot of categories. "How do I support this thing? Ease of development? Do I have to know erlang? What's the first resource that your typical Riak installation runs out of first? What common design pattern or use case is totally crappy on Riak?"

I still like the idea of Riak quite a bit, but it's not enough to say that it has a scaling distributed solution and flowers and candy for everybody as a result, because that design makes it axiomatic that some use case will be pessimal. The database has been designed to fill some portion of the set of all database needs; which ones in particular is it best at, which is it less good at, and which is it not intended at all to address?

You show your 'superiority' (sic) to people whose prejudices (sic) make them unable (sic) to recognize it (sic) by talking like a reasonable adult at an appropriate level of abstraction.

(and by the way, redis can exist on more than 1 node. My facebook game involves 8 redis shards and can read-scale essentially infinitely, with a high degree of data safety)
I actually jotted down a note to myself wondering: is there anyone who would pay to have studies replicated?
Well that was certainly nice of him. Did you have any evidence that Sandberg's strategy is wrong for her or even the majority of people in the tech industry, or were you under the impression that an anecdote from a completely unrelated incident years before would actually prove something?
I started my business in earnest freshman year of college, 2003/2004, with virtually no money. I developed a handful of SaaS webapps with a couple tens of thousands of users I support on my own. It's a lifestyle business, with no employees and no grand ambitions... just enough work for a comfortable schedule and good enough pay that I'd never trade it in for regular employment.

http://www.dangrossman.info/category/portfolio/
They require the source code to be given to the government, yes, among other things.
@mtigas @wilya the process (and forms) is detailed there: http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/reglementation-ssi/cryptologie/con... (in French, obviously)
Happy to give a hand if needed.
Outlier detection is an important part of basic statistics, and has been for a long time. It isn't about just deleting a few data points that "look" strange. Some statistical tests are robust to outliers and some are not... it's always important to use the appropriate tests in the appropriate way and be open about them.
Katherine (CEO) on not getting into YC: http://katherinehague.com/post/18806809604/what-happens-afte...
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OK, so I should choose my battles, great. I thought this column had very little insight or utility.
Predicting the precise moment of the "crisis", the pop, is semi-impossible due to markets being anti-inductive, yes.

Spotting the structural, macroeconomic factors that will create a financial crisis is actually pretty easy.
And who was it that told you appeal to authority was a fallacy? Some authority on fallacies like Wikipedia, maybe? :D

http://lesswrong.com/lw/aq2/fallacies_as_weak_bayesian_evide...

If a wealthy self-made person says something about how to make money, that's stronger Bayesian evidence for that actually being a good way to make money then if some random person says it.
I would personally support a Constitutional amendment putting an upper limit on the length of any bill passed by Congress.
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I agree. I didn't mean to imply its a conspiracy of any particular group. Its the logic of events, motives, ambitions and ideas of all the various factions fighting for power or some privilege, hand-out or even legitimate protection from the government that moves us in the direction of dictatorship. The idea of a constitutionally limited government has been lost. So everyone, good or bad, has to petition (or control) the government to protect themselves and their perceived interests. The system we have now has been called a civilized civil war and it is not stable. The main point I am making is that at some point some future president will have the legal authority to suspend our rights. I don't have the answer for some of the reasons you described but I do know that the internet is incompatible with dictatorship, which is why it is and will continue to be a target for the worst elements of the society. Here is a good article on the current status in the USA;
http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/ascendence-sociopaths-...
One's time is highly unlikely to be worth nothing.
You are presuming that the TSA will ever reveal what "standard procedures" are. They're whatever justifies their current behavior, but you can't know, you dirty hippie, because that's national security.
It is more complicated than that. Customer convenience must be considered. For instance, I and many others like me will not buy data transfer from someone when figuring the cost requires me to account for the time of day and phase of the moon.
Are you a uXer in New York?
Paywall just went up about an hour ago as a matter of fact.
I suppose I'm commenting from a statistical standpoint.

-In the North America there are n% recognized as super talented people and have some profound impact on society.

-In Africa there is m% recognized super talented people and have some profound impact on society.

For some reason m <<< n, and on top of that, there are many more people in Africa. So that seems like a huge waste of potential in my opinion.

Now think of how much is lost just by missing one Einstein, or one Feynman... Even one of those would be an unbelievable amount of genius squandered.

You're right, statistically it's possible nobody is missing out, but it's kind of unlikely.
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If I was more cynical, I'd think the TSA was a program to teach the next generation of Americans that privacy is an archaic concept.
How is Google Drive different from the way Google Docs is meant to be used? Seems like Google Drive is Google Docs with a new name and an intro video.
I have no scientific basis to back this up with, but here's my hypothesis:

The higher your Klout score, the lower quality of your connections/posts. Klout mostly cares about quantity, not quality.

The way Klout is going to make it's money is by identifying good evangelists. The best evangelists are not necessarily the best content creators (eg. Justin Bieber)
I had a similar idea a few months back, using video teaching but with very talented people in the 3rd world say India and 1st world (to start America) students
Genius manifests itself in many ways. It's foolish to think that simply by living in poverty, genius can be stopped. If you raise the living standards everywhere, the lowest living standard becomes the new poverty. Are we then to say that genius is being squelched in those new areas?

> The reason why we can't find examples of "genius being wasted in poverty" is simple: how can we identify someone as a "genius" until they've actually produced something notable?

Poverty does not prevent the identification of. I've lived in a poor community. Yet I've seen genius in people who can fix vehicles, in people who can track animals to hunt, or in just retelling amazing stories. Those people are geniuses. Just because they don't invent some new-fangled iBullshit, or get on the NYT best seller list, does not diminish their genius. It does not mean that it did not exist. And it does not mean that a cash infusion would have made them any "more" of a genius. Open your eyes. Geniuses are not resources to be exploited by people who want to make a good return on an investment.
Do you count videos served or videos uploaded as the primary metric for YouTube? It's the latter that drives revenue after all.
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/02/02/president-obam...

http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2012/02/with-tiny-budgets-like...

You're welcome. Actually, the funding for the actual climate skeptics who are actually fighting this goliath is so close to zero as to be indistinguishable. The significant players all basically amateur bloggers. I think Anthony Watts got $40K from Heartland, but AFAIK it was for a contract not officially related to his blog at all.

The good news is - there's really nothing wrong with being wrong by five orders of magnitude. So long as you keep an open mind and are willing to learn from it.
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Sometimes a 509 Bandwidth limit exceeded helps!

AWS can actually do a setting for max bandwidth per hour or so & alert early if there is suspicious activity.
The fact that you know your password is what identifies you as the legitimate owner of your account. If you forget your password, you can't identify yourself as the legitimate owner of your account and thus, to the eyes of the system, you aren't. And about the only person who should be able to change the password of an account is its legitimate owner.

So, to answer your question:

Do they just ignore that rule in that case?

That case should not even happen in the first place.
I wasn't bragging. I was trying to relate...I made an ad hominem attack and was called out on it.

I don't really have an opinion on the actual thing being discussed though, other than my comments back and forth with "paul"
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If you're using C++ (like the article) you should be using boost::thread instead of low level pthreads, or std::thread if you're using C++11
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Next time I have to deal with a large, dumb corporation I'm going to write up some policies of my own in advance. That way when they insist I do something dumb I can say, e.g., "I'm sorry, it's our policy that we never reboot computers without written documentation of the necessity."
I am that cynical. Seeing pictures of kids holding up signs that say "Thank you for protecting us!" next to their proud, deluded parents at an airport, everything about the TSA makes me sick.

Edit: And then, this: http://boingboing.net/2012/04/25/tsa-security-screeners-in-l...
I definitely agree. Do you think there's some value in making it easier for companies to promote a "positive form of conspicuous consumption"? Or do you think the action is more of a means in itself?

For example, if AZ said "Hey users of instagram (or users of AZ product that just sold), we're going to let you decide which cause some of this money goes to," would that create a delta in value from the original proposition?
The people who are making these decisions do not understand what they are doing.

Yes, exactly -- to paraphrase Feynman -- you don't fully understand something until you "turn it over, to see why it's true, from every angle you can find." You don't understand all the benefits, the issues, the problems, the gotchas -- until you explore it from every angle, you're just taking someone else's word.

The problem with adoption of any new technology is there is no shortage of advocates making claims that you should use X for... but there aren't enough hours in the day to explore them all. Which ones are you going to take the leap of faith to learn, and why? The more foreign and ambiguous the technology, the bigger the leap of faith required.
Your desire to touch my low-hanging fruit is the problem here.
I've just intentionally ignored that case in the past. :-) Ie, sending a password reset email will bypass the check, just as you suggested. There are some other things that people can (and I'm sure do) do to try to meet the requirement, but there isn't really a solution. For example, a lot of people who hit this restriction are just trying their old password with one or two characters appended, so you can try the hash of a few substrings of the new password.

But in the end, none of that really keeps people from inventing new, easy to remember, and insecure passwords. Eventually people do learn to just alternate between about three different forms of passwords. IMO, most of these draconian policies are invented to make things look secure more than to provide real security. That seems appropriate for the TSA, right? :-)
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about WRT Ayn Rand.
I won't use the HP cloud because they'll give up and shut it down.
They'll give it a try for a while. There will be some major downtime events. HP will decide it's too hard and not their core business and give up and shut it down. Like Palm. You don't want your app running on it when they send out the "you have 3 months to migrate to somewhere else" notice.
There's only one small problem with your reasoning: the Lysenkoists called their work "science" as well. As do of course the other two.

Unless you adopt a tautological definition, in which "science" does not include pseudoscience, "science" is whatever the people in your society who practice and organize it choose to call "science."

More specifically, since basically all "science" is government-funded, you'll find that your actual working definition of "science" is "whatever my government funds and calls science."

So your statement boils down to: climatology can't be pseudoscience, because it's funded by the US Government. And Washington (unlike Moscow) would never fund pseudoscience, and call it "science."

This is a pretty interesting epistemology to say the least. Do I have it right? If not, where's the error? If so, what information do you, as (no doubt) a rationalist, have about the US Government that justifies this extension of trust?

And if USG is not the institution you're trusting, what is? What set of human beings are you investing your trust in? If the field of climate science as presently practiced was not in fact scientific, but rather pseudoscientific, who would you expect to have stepped in and shut it down?

[Edit: see also the links to the actual funding levels a couple of posts down. If you're interested in reconsidering your position on this issue, the blog to read is Steve McIntyre's.]
Many of us love sugary drinks, and sit inordinate amounts of time[1].

Things aren't looking up if we don't change attitude. We all feel indestructible in our 20s, but soon enough, we'll have to pay the Pied Piper.

I hope the next generation of startups will offer healthier perks than redbulls, soft drinks, and sugary snacks.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874024
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So ... How many billions is it worth?
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The most memorable phrase I've heard all week.
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I'm curious to know whether the objects were stored with Cache-Control: or Expires: headers. Does having such headers make a difference?

Clearly the client's not presenting If-Modified-Since: pragmas as I believe S3 honors those.
They don't help with beginning programming topics because the primary thing beginners have to learn is reading and writing code. The videos mostly help beginners who have been convinced through "learning modality" marketing to fear reading and writing as a teaching technique. After that, if they aren't typing and reading they aren't learning to code.

Where videos help is with demonstrating visually dominant technique topics, like CSS layout, how to use Vim, how to change the path in Windows, how to run a debugger, etc.
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What does this mean exactly? How can you say something is (n)x more potent than something else in "explaining a disease"?

I find this quote to be very confusing.
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