skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a guy who has hired a consulting firm to help him run Yahoo and has sued Facebook. Not exactly the person that you want to take on Google, etc.
Phil Libin's Evernote Now Valued at $1 Billion
"Client IP address is forwarded to application as X-Forwarded-For" is the biggest news here.

Previously, it cost $100 per month to have access to the Client IP over SSL, so any sort of geo-location was out of the question.

Insane prices for arbitrary things are why I left Heroku a few months ago and decided to custom build my servers on Linode.
FastCGI makes little to no sense on shared web hosting machines. With FastCGI, each user on the machine needs at least one long-running process to handle requests. This is a waste when you consider that large numbers of the sites may be idle 99% of the time. With CGI, you only have PHP processes running when they are actually handling requests, it's really a much better solution for shared hosting.
Maybe Heroku can license the technology to Google, since the Google App Engine team has seemingly been unable to launch a similar solution three years after putting it on their roadmap.
Quite honestly, I was skeptical about these changes upon first looking at the Community tab in the screenshot. Then I scrolled down to the end of the post, where you can actually see the new comment system in action. It does indeed seem like a significant improvement, including the new Community tab. In a day and age when it seems a lot of companies make UI changes that are actually a step backward, bravo to Disqus for the enhancements. Well done!
The difference is a thin veneer of legitimacy.
SOAP is a bad example since you should avoid it anyway.
My guess is never.
But what if I want to have my animations in one object, and my elements to animate in another? Yes, you can have an Obj-C method return a block, but you're going to have to do some nasty casting if you want to be able to call those blocks with an arbitrary number of arguments. (That, or box everything up in an NSArray, which kinda sucks.)

I think I'll try and write up a demo app to explain what I mean...
LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for approx. 120mn
So how can us normals get in on this?
I wonder if there's a harder equivalent to FizzBuzz — one that doesn't take any longer to explain or do, but requires a much higher level of skill to pass. One we used at http://airwave.com/ was "Write a Perl subroutine to determine whether a string is a valid dotted-quad IP address," which is something you can do in various reasonable ways in one to five lines of code.
A lot of spam mails are sent through hijacked white-listed accounts. If that's the case here, it's unnecessary exposure of someone else's email address.
Probably because people are used to having to convince others of their ideas. I guess it’s the difference between “why you should invest in us” and “why you should invest in us”.
Struggle continues to plug embedded programming gap
Well shit. :(
Hibernate works entertainingly bad. If you don't have a very fancy data model (lots of different entities but relative small tables), you better stick to bare spring jdbc-templates.
For those unfamiliar, this is Daniel Loeb's MO [1]. When he first purchased his share in Yahoo he fired a similar round at the board of the time, headed by Roy Bostock. [2] Still, lying about your education is pretty serious, and Thompson should answer the charges.

[1] http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/bizfinance/finance/features/10...

[2] http://www.scribd.com/doc/64278509/YHOO-20110908-SC13D-0
I'd wager that quality CEOs willing to take this particular job are especially scarce.
THANK YOU! Finally confirmation so ultra nerds stop crying for it.
Most good leaders are liars. Some are blatant, like this guy. Others are on hazier "grey area" things, things that will be true if the leader and those below him are indeed successful.

That said, lying on something this simple should be a fire-able offense. It is a misrepresentation of the facts of what investors are paying for. It isn't an promise that was not kept or an area that is grey and up for interpretation.

Perhaps if no one in the history of Yahoo has been fired for lying about credentials, then he could get a pass. Does that sound like a likely reality?

I find this whole thing personally interesting, because I had my own in and out experience with owning some Yahoo shares. I thought long and hard about their CEOs. It was clear to me that Carol Bartz was incompetent. When she left and there was no instant replacement, I realized the board had no idea what they were doing either and I sold all of my shares. At the same time I thought, what type of person would agree to become the CEO of Yahoo? Certainly, all the deep talent capable of working there are smart enough to have a job at Google, Facebook, or any number of very promising start ups. Now I have my answer: a blatant lair.
1. Why do you doubt it? There are very good public schools in US. But the variance is very high, so the bad schools are very bad, which brings the average down.
C is a very important language, but not so much among Visual Studio's target market. Windows developers tend to be rather C++-centric, and I'm guessing the biggest reason why the compiler team hasn't bothered is because there just isn't sufficient demand to justify the diversion of resources.

I'm also guessing a lot of the world's C99 code has dependencies beyond the just the compiler that Visual Studio won't support without some effort. "Just compile it as C++" is not a good answer, but I wouldn't be surprised if "just install Cygwin" often is.
It's such a stupid lie as well. He already has a degree in accounting and has loads of relevant experience. Why lie about an additional degree?

What's happening here is liar's debt. Early in his career he must have made a decision to lie about his education, when no one was looking and when the chances of someone verifying the claim were low. He reused the lie on every subsequent job and it's stuck with him. It became encoded in the DNA of his professional reputation and he could not disabuse himself of it without making himself look the fool.

Now if the lie is recent and was used to get the head job at Yahoo - well then it's an even stupider lie. Why risk your professional reputation over something so trivial?
Facebook IPO Road Show Highlights [Single page]
Sometimes intense people need to be reminded of the obvious as the obvious is too often overlooked
Of course I do. Doesn't the post make it clear as day? C++11 and C11 are different standards, as stated.

Any C++11 compiler that tells you it is also C11 standards compliant is not a C++11 compliant compiler. There are many things you can do with C11 that should cause an error under standards compliant C++11.

EDIT:

If they decide to make the /TP switch on the compiler turn it from C++11 compliant to C11 compliant, that basically makes it two compilers for two different languages, instead of restricting to a subset of C++11.
Google tried that, they made Google Video. They're also trying to make something like Facebook (Google Plus), hasn't taken off so well. If Google can't make Google Video work, what makes you think Facebook Video will work?
Exactly that subject was a topic of a recent Planet Money: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/17/150815268/why-peop...
Following up to note that:

- Despite the opinion clearly being unpopular here, I stand by it: the ruby community is toxic-at-best, and totally technogically uninteresting.

Individual Ruby developers may be very nice people, but that doesn't make the technology any more notable or novel, and doesn't change the general tenor of the Ruby community, which seems to be driven by larger than life personalities and a general lack of solid applied computer science.
Yes... "You will need a Mac running OSX 10.6 or higher."

- http://www.rubymotion.com/support/#faq
This just looks like Reddit with avatars though.
There's nothing special about the "Who's Hiring" threads. They're not even officially sanctioned. Somebody just posts a thread with that title at the beginning of each month, and since HN happens to be a good place to hire from, people post positions they have open. Any karma limit there would have to apply to all posts unless PG decided to make them an official thing.

The Jobs tab is something different — it's for job listings by YC companies, each listing gets its own post, and you can't comment on those at all.
I just looked at LinkedIn's P/E. It's almost a thousand. How is anyone valuating the company in such a way that could even assume they would increase their revenues 50 times over in the next few years?
If you are new to electronics I would suggest the arduino inventor kit. Comes with everything you need to get your feet wet.
It was the late 90s. Of course pud did.
Facebook's Other Founder:
>Every URL being sent through GMAIL is being crawled by Googlebot

This is demonstrably false.

Email a gmail address with a URL that only you know about. Then observe your server logs - you will not see GoogleBot at this URL
It's widely used in advertising/marketing. CPM is Cost Per Thousand.
Yes please do because you are making absolutely no sense whatsoever.

I think you are over thinking things.
The lowering of the barrier to entry means talented engineers are nearly always better off starting their own startup rather than working for yours

Yes -- I think a lot of us are starting to figure that out :-)
Are there any functional benefits to doing this with a Pi instead of an Arduino?
You aren't giving enough credit to engineering. Science is all well and good, as is basic research, but honestly engineering is what carries the day.

People who fetishsize -~=!SCIENCE!=~- and ignore the sheer quality of engineering that the US produces are frankly fools.

I don't mind losing big projects like the supercolliders or even the goofy NASA stuff if it means that we can let the funds end up in the hands of lean, strong, and awesome engineering teams.

Besides, your supercollider builds no homes, makes few jobs, and really is just a chance for a lot of particle physicists to stroke off on things that aren't really useful to most of mankind. Sorry, but your "science" is super fringe.
whoa this is pretty good - the idea is actually quite novel. Since most people consume content from select websites, they are bound to go to those sites more and essentially that is the internet to them. So why not help them try to find the most relevant content from that very site. I will give it a shot.
You are right from a technical point of view. However the psychology is very different.
Then they should buy Yammer next.
Honestly? No one gives a crap about content. It's not exactly worthless, but it's been pretty solidly commoditized. Which company do you think had more content? Revision3 or Instagram? My guess is Instagram had 100x more content than Rev3.

The way a company like Revision3 gets a big valuation is by having massive distribution AND a big hit that goes mainstream, much like what Draw with Me did for OMGPOP. Revision3 never had a crossover hit that the average Joe watched. They stayed niche, and $30m is maybe as much as they could get for that audience and distribution footprint.

Meanwhile Instagram had MASSIVE distribution, in the millions, AND was generating content at an epic clip. No one piece of Instagram content might be as "sticky" or engaging as a single piece of Revision3 content, but wouldn't you want to have all those photos instead of a bunch of shows watched by a small but fervent audience?
That would be approx. $94 per active user. I know there have been social networks which went over the counter at that price before, but looking at them now I would not touch this stock with a ten foot pole.
I certainly can't think of any way to extract that much money from my account. Ads?
I know that this reflects not the current status but future expectation, but I cannot imagine any way how Facebook can fulfill those expectations. They have nothing, which when taken away would make users hurt. Other social networks stand in line.
Interesting. I specifically asked at both the SVA and the Finanzamt and they both told me it wasn't possible. Well, too late for me, unfortunately, I got screwed in 2010 and I'm about to shut down my business in Austria anyway.
LinkedIn is the world's premier social network for professionals. I'd imagine there's a lot of ways to make money off that besides their current scheme of basically charging recruiters a ton of money. Just to throw wild ideas out: build more tools for recruiters. Own the whole software stack that runs the recruiting pipeline (coincidentally, jobvite is a piece of shit.) Create classes and certification programs that help replace college degrees. Cross company calendaring integrated with my gcal and work calendar (eg I want to have drinks with friends, and I want all my calendars to sync. I don't want my work cal to necessarily say that I'm having drinks or with whom, but I want the time to be unavailable.) Steal the job search market from indeed and simply hired. Do meetups tailored to professional activities like user groups. Do message boards and mailing lists for professional groups that don't suck (unlike their current offering.)
And now I'm left wondering how Apple ships anything without a REPL.

It's not a big deal*

* former smalltalker
because the author is working on a microsoft platform (C#).

not to say that open source C# doesn't exist, but it's just not as big a part of the culture.
Bill Gates started a company named Traf-O-Data before starting Microsoft
It's not an investment, please don't kid yourself.
I was thinking this was a bit of old news when I saw it. But who cares? More publicity as the goal approaches! :D
Granted, you can't make everyone a co-founder

Yes, you can. It's called a collective, or a cooperative. There are some functioning software cooperatives, Galois Systems being one of the more lucrative examples.
Haven't you run into performance terminating SSL on ELB? For me the performance is so-so, as I'm using a 2048 bit key and it seems I hit the maximum requests per second limit pretty fast. There're a pair of threads regarding this issue on the AWS forums, where a user did a really exhaustive test of ELB and even got an Amazon engineer to really look into that issue:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=327283
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=327715
The others, too. llvm, gcc, and icc all support both C and C++. But they also support Fortran using the same technique: A separate compiler front-end for each language.

For VC++ to add support for C as easily as many compiler collections do would require VC++ having a modular architecture like that of the other compiler collections. Considering VC++ only supports one language, that seems doubtful.
Does this support wildcard SSL certs?
Ah, thought your startup was Cloudfrag. I've seen Fashiolista before and was on my list of potentially interesting startups to join. I'll probably contact you when I'm back in the market :)
They are very different - one is geared towards more of an FP audience, the other targets the crowd at RailsConf.
This is much more of an investment than a purchase. You purchase something when you reasonable expect to receive it. However, if you look at what people are saying about this project, there is a reasonable chance that you will not receive a product at the end. This type of IDE is highly experimental. There is no guarantee that the project will come together or that the final product if delivered will fully resemble the original vision.
Yikes, for my "dual degree" program in Arts and Engineering, I had to do 240 credits (a typical science/arts degree is 120, the requirements for my engineering degree were 160 credits, but there was some overlap, e.g. electives)
Yet another update from Skylight - a perfect collaboration tool for startups
Skylight team has been busy adding small and some large changes. Some of these recent updates include speed improvements to Projects, Contacts, Stages and Milestone views, Google maps for addresses, Hover-on options to see related data, Increased Social integrated CRM and more….

http://skylightit.com/blog/
You might want to learn the difference between Ruby and Rails. Just an idea.
But they need at least couple more hundreds of Millions to buy them.
> I rarely see MM used to denote a million outside the financial world.
I found that interesting as well. The problem is that people predict that a generous return policy will make them happy, and they are more likely to purchase if you give them what they predict will make them happy, not what will actually make them happy.

Perhaps they will be more likely to refer friends to your service if you don't give them a return policy, since rationalization will kick in and they will make themselves happier with your service if they're stuck with it.
My thoughts:
"Hey! This looks pretty neat. Oh it's $150 on sale, forget this. Oh it's only for macs, glad I never bought this piece of garbage."

That being said, it could be great, I have no idea.
I just replied on the site. C has just outranked Java and C++ on the Tiobe index. M$ not having a compliant C compiler is ridiculous.
One-one-thousand, two-one-thousand, loaded.
I wonder who is trying to pull strings and get board votes. and for what i might add.

Yahoo is going through a dark time and to have something like this brought to light is so low.
Wonderful! I love the way Zen stories and koans invite so many interpretations.

As a casual Zen enthusiast, I have enjoyed two audio books from iTunes, which other newcomers may also enjoy:

* Zen Buddhism Stories (Trout Lake Media): This is a reading of many Zen stories similar to the one above about the monk being told to wash his bowl. Its great for light-heartedly pushing your mind in an unfamiliar direction. Many of the stories at first lie just outside your understanding, and invite you to ponder them a while longer. I listened to this audio book several times while driving the Pacific Coast Highway on a Californian road trip, which was a wonderful experience. Drive, listen, pull over, watch the waves, smell the sea, ponder, repeat.

* The Iron Flute: Zen Koans (Nyogen Senzaki): This is a much drier, academic coverage of Zen Koans. Koans are read and followed by commentary. Many of these are still very opaque to me (the koans are often a mystery, and the commentary only makes me realize they are even more complex than I had first thought). More challenging, but still interesting.

I've been encouraged by others in my zendo to focus more on practicing Zen (sitting zazen) than reading about Zen, but I must admit, reading about it is great fun :)
LIGHTS: Addressing Cybersecurity for Smaller Facilities
From Twitter:
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The security emergency release to fix the PHP CGI RCE (that was tested for days...) does not fix anything at all.
Why would someone assume that revenue needs to increase 50x? Perhaps you're assuming fixed margins (which are currently close to zero). If they doubled their revenue without increasing expenses, they would have a P/E closer to 20.
42Floors (YC W12) debuts startup office pimp-machine dubbed "Showroom"
Microsoft Gets Nasty With Open Source Skype Devs
$20/mo for SSL is crazy.
Merchants of Despair: ...Environmentalists...Pseudo-Scientists...Antihumanism
Apple's valuation isn't at risk any time soon
The real title is:

Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism

The 80 character limit on titles is lame.
There is no reason that good developer in any market shouldn't be living at the exact same standard of living as the good doctors, lawyers, finance people in that market. They should be living in the same homes and sending their kids to the same schools, etc.

These words should be stapled to every CS degree, and reinforced with classes if necessary. The lawyers/doctors have an ingrained culture in their professions of, well, being professions. We should totally steal that. (They can keep the guild systems, though.)
There's always

-ansi -pedantic -std=c99

I actually find some of the GCC extensions quite nice for correctness. I assume #defines that expand to nothing on other compilers still class as "GCC gunk" though. :-)
Looks very promising. I love Ruby and I initially hated Objective-C but I have to admit now I find it very powerful. The biggest missing link here seems to be the Storyboard. Its a really nice option in xCode. Have I missed something, how are layouts defined separately from code?
I thought that Rolling Stone _was_ the philistine's Rolling Stone, but then nobody ever mistook me for Matthew Arnold.
Cutting him some slack, its possible that his accounting degree had a significant computing component and he decided to bring this significant aspect out. My degree is in Biological Sciences, but in my third year I specialised almost entirely in molecular biology. Informally I'm sure I've said 'I did molecular biology at university' - although on my CV I've always listed Biological Sciences.
I have a couple of old php sites on dreamhost and they do not appear to be vulnerable to this.
1, 10k deductible?, thats unheard of unless if they worked for a startup with funding issues :)

2, It takes about an hour to find out the good school districts in any metro!.

3, 2x salary is real, Just compare the 2200 euro beginner salary ($35k yearly) mentioned in the post with US. An beginner american programmer can easily start at $60k. After tax it will be really 2x than in europe.

Anyway with so many downvotes i think its not a good idea to argue further :)
I love writing Ruby code, but today I'm finally at a point where I also feel happy and productive with Objective-C. What made my eyes bulge is this:

http://www.rubymotion.com/developer-center/guides/project-ma...

No XCode. Instead of obscure and impenetrable project files, a convention over configuration Rakefile. Clean and Ruby-like workflows and repositories.

While you can certainly configure an Xcode workspace to program in RubyMotion, we do not provide any support for Xcode out-of-the-box. We do not believe that Xcode makes a good environment for Ruby development (or development in general). Ruby also makes it very easy to write great Domain-Specific Languages that can be used as elegant alternatives to graphical user interface or data modeling tools. [1]

Laurent Sansonetti gets it. I've been writing iOS code for three years and have never been able to figure out how to have a frictionless workflow around XCode, everything about it is convoluted. The idea of automating frequent development tasks with Ruby generators and DSLs sounds exciting and promising.

[1] http://www.rubymotion.com/support/#faq
As jyap said up the top -- it's more likely that this is a mis-typed email to a friend than spam.
There's still a ton of C legacy code running on windows machines out there.
None of their competitors realized how much money Google was making from search until it was too late.
Interesting. I was actually considering going to work in Vienna (not far from my current location, Brno). It's a really nice city.
I've done this before and I know this works. Tested on many thousands of URLs.
P/E is market cap divided by profits. Your comment about increasing revenues by 50x is non-sensical.

Consider a company with $100M in revenue, $1M in profit, and a market cap of $1B. PE is 1000. Now say this company has a shot at doubling revenue in the next few years without incurring additional cost. They will then have $200M in revenue, $101M in profit, and the PE will be 10.

Just looking at P/E in isolation is like judging a programmer by how fast they can type. You need to take a broader approach to reading financials and understanding the underlying business.

I haven't followed LinkedIn close enough to have an opinion on the current valuation. You may be right that it is overvalued, but the PE ratio isn't a very good indicator in isolation of expected future earnings.