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I really don't care. I was just pointing out that the use of collective nouns can be misleading when you're talking about what "people" said and how "they" are being inconsistent.

The rest of your point was well-made (not that I expect you to care about what I think; I'm just some random git off the Internet, after all).
I feel that this article is suitable to HN, not for its actual content, but for the intelligent discussions that eventually spring out of it.
I know nothing about "Wheremyfriends.be, a simple webapp " and it is interesting to see how a brand is being built around one of its three developers. However, I hope we see less of these hero-worship posts on the front page (or at least limit the number of hero-worship posts until something more substantial has been accomplished)

Btw self-seeking flattery of powerful, influential people is generally considered as sycophantic.

Is there a good term for flattering people like the guy described in this post :)

[edit] for chc and anyone else who didn't get the sarcasm, yes, the intern wasn't powerful. That is precisely why the smiley-question asked for a new term
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It currently is a web app! I tried to communicate that in the video, pictures and text on the website.
I agree, it does need that.
They might actually be able to compete with Facebook then...
Thank you for explaining my joke. I like jokes.
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The detail in here is great. If you just want to generate and sign certs with a minimum of hassle though, I recommend easy-rsa from OpenVPN:

http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/misce...

I'm also curious to hear about what others use to automate this stuff.
I'm assuming that's only while actively projecting...
The term "clean room" has a well established meaning you probably aren't aware of, I refer you to [1], it might clear up what the original reply was referring to.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
I forgot that you can link images. Thanks for pointing that out... Just started blogging so I forget stuff like that.

Fixed.
As others have pointed out, there is no such "fiasco". However, if you want to simply count the entire table and don't care if the number is exact within the current transaction, you can cheat and do:

select n_live_tup from pg_stat_user_tables
where relname = 'your_table_name'

This will access the internal statistics about how many tuples are in the table. It ignores the transaction's isolation level since it's a global value, and it may be a few milliseconds out of date, but it's otherwise correct.
i really can't think of any company on the internet who botched and ruined everything they had more than myspace. i still don't even think they're trying to improve their product yet.
Online? yes.

With side notes, explanations, graphs, live tests, a short video if needed to explain a complex topic (only when required) and much more. So, a book is a good start, just make it rich.
This is just a demo, an AMAZING demo, where you expecting a completly playable game ?

OK: I also was, but I was not dissapointed, mainly because it's OpenSource, it'll become a complete game soon.
That's an entirely valid point and for the most part, I agree. Where we seem to differ is where we feel the balance exists between correlation and causation. I feel the former still gives very strong contextual direction, and this shouldn't be ignored, especially when the proposed solution is the 'and then what' flow.

I'd actually love to see some studies of how that works in practice, especially given that screen real estate is so valuable around the signup call-to-action. You may be on to something!
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Does it work for free users yet? Last time I tried it didn't.
I would like to test their service before I pay them.
Where do you see people slamming Microsoft in this thread?
The reality is that none of those things (except 8 and 11, which have strong offerings already) listed are billion dollar ideas.

This is just a reiteration of the current Internet strategy:

1. Target a niche.
2. Create a strong base.
3. Grow like mad.
4. Move into other offerings.

This is exactly what trees in a dense forest do - they grow up as fast as possible, and then when they're on top they branch out to both absorb more sunlight and prevent competing trees from outgrowing them.

So the real message is 'focus, focus, focus, until you get big and then try and do everything in your space before the second-starters outpace you.'

I'm not saying this is a bad thing - from an ecological perspective, it is very good for the forest, but not so good for the trees.
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Is it ethical to leave the MBA off of the resume? For some of us, it was simply a box to check in order not to stunt our future growth.
No, I think it's about right; the various studies on cancer and whatnot tend to use a few thousand IU, and my personal circumstances are such that I get very little vitamin D normally. It's possible 10k IU is better, but in any event even very high doses aren't apparently dangerous (look at the acute doses listed in http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#fn32 ).
I tend to think that, in any given country, what you have is a mixture of three ideas being constantly employed.

- Bread & Circuses

- Plato's Cave

- Hegelian Dialectic
Oracle (and Sun) knew this - that's why these are patents.

The law allowing reverse engineering of APIs and interconnects is well established in the US and Europe and has been for decades. In the US it goes back to Amdhal making plug compatible peripherals for IBMs and the right to reverse engineer is enshrined in an EU directive.

That's why the Oracle case isn't about copyright. They claim to have patents on various concepts of the language. So you are perfectly at liberty to implement a 'while' command with the same function template - you just aren't allowed to use it to do a loop !
Yes, it makes intuitive sense - but we all know how little intuition is worth...
Got demo URLs? Or is this a declaration of a personal challenge?
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Wise to test different trial expiration scenarios against each other, some based on usage time, some based on product feature usage, some a combination of the two. You'll often be surprised which scenario is optimal and by how much.
Yes, I've removed that plugin - I dont know why i'ts included in WP by default.
Health insurance is a tricky business, since claims are made much more often than against other types of insurance (like renters insurance). As an insurer, in order to have a sustainable business, your risk pool must be more valuable (either in terms of people or prices). If it is possible for insurance prices to drop the point where individual policy purchase is cost competitive with premiums you'd pay via an employer, the competitive advantage of employer provided health care quickly diminishes.
From my understanding, you are allowed to decompile and inspect the released binaries, as well as intercept and analyze all inbound/outbound data, as long as you aren't modifying the running binary in any fashion. Things like debuggers are commonly used for this goal, as are tools like wireshark for analyzing the traffic. Once you create a specification based on your analysis, someone can create a clean-room implementation from that spec.
I've seen examples of both sorts of courses from both Udacity and Coursera, so I think it really just comes down to the extent to which the instructors are willing to reinvent their material. And for those who aren't doing so much reinvention, I'm still glad they're doing what they are - I'd rather have an online class based on recycled lecture videos, than no online class.
"The Internet is a joke. Nobody outside of the tech and geek industries either wants it or uses it. "

sometimes, things change.
Advertising is the vast majority of Google's revenue. How vast? AdWords alone accounts for 97% of Google's earnings. The strategic vulnerability of that position cannot possibly be overstated.

Along comes Facebook, which could (in theory, at least) roll out a perfectly competitive product to threaten AdWords. If social really does provide better context for advertising, and advertising within the world's prevailing social network is deemed superior to advertising within search, then Google is fucked. Some degree of 97% fucked, to be precise.

This is why Google's so feverishly obsessed with social in general, and Facebook in particular. They see this -- rightly so -- as no less than an existential threat. Now, their approach to the problem is up for debate. But the extent of the problem is, if anything, popularly underestimated.
We are working hard to make Stripe available outside the United States.

What does this even mean? You've been saying this for a long time now. Is there really no other status update besides this? Why not be a bit more transparent about the process to people who want to give you money?
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Those links detail reverse engineering the binary. I think Iv's point is that reverse engineering an existing binary is not what "clean room" means.
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So publish an app for $100 and pay 10 friends to buy it? You'd still profit $9,000.
I must say I recently fell in love with Minion Pro and I'm really grateful that it's available on Typekit.

What I'm really looking forward to though, in term of web typography, is a broader adoption of the font-feature-settings CSS property.
It worked for me on ubuntu as a free user, even though the site said it wouldn't. I did experience issues with the ads getting stuck visible over the interface, but the audio worked fine.
Just keep in mind that the reservation is also for a particular availability zone. You need to stay within that zone to get the discounted rate.
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I wonder if PCs will ever have non-linear memory.

To explain what I mean, suppose you have a big 2-dimensional array in memory. As it works now, if you read a cell from memory, the area in memory around it is brought into the cache. Because of the way that arrays are represented in memory, what you get in the cache is just cells from the same row (or column). This means that if you need to access neighboring cells above of below the current cell you're not making any use of the cache. The way I see it, it might be useful if the system could somehow instruct the memory to bring a different-shaped block into the cache. Maybe there will be a whole part of memory intended for 2-dimensional arrays, and where blocks of memory will be allocated as squares on the plane (instead of segments on a line). Of course, something like this would require support from the programming language, which would need to mark put 2-dimensional arrays in that special part of the memory (and allocation will be much harder, now that you need to allocate 2-dimensional chunks).
That's a terrible comparison. There was no alternative to the internet that did the same things.
Yes, it works for free users now - at least it worked for me (I have since gotten an account.) I was using the Windows client via Wine, which worked surprisingly well until an update killed it a few months ago. During the same update, however, the Linux Preview began working for free users. I'd try it again if I were you.
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- The UK is so far behind in this regard.

- This will certainly be at least part of the future of education
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The articles of faith can be looked at as axioms of the worldview. For instance "bible = word of god/statement of truth" is a basic axiom.

Similarly in science you do get certain axioms:

* occam's razor
* reductionist analysis is the best path to truth
* this new theory is more elegant even though it currently unanswers certain questions.

They are axioms without empirical proof, that are argued fairly strongly fairly regularly.

NOTE: I don't disagree with them, just pointing out that there are non-empirical axioms that are fairly dogmatically taught and followed. One frequently under fire is reductionism, particularly in medicine and other biological areas.
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Works fine in OS X Lion and Chrome. There are some bugs, though. For instance if I walk off a ledge into the ocean, I just keep walking in mid-air suspended above the ocean. Pretty cool either way.
the cascades is only for BB10 and Playbook

http://developer.blackberry.com/cascades
spotify.com's "Sign Up" button takes me (in USA) to the "Not Available [in your country]" page. Any insights?
While that helps explain why Google's social efforts are weak, it doesn't make the case that social is something Google needs.

What Google needs, in this case, is more information on its users, which is not a particularly social thing to need.

Say Google is approaching social as an information gathering problem, and Facebook is approaching social as a users-interacting problem, then who will always win social under those conditions?
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Indeed! The current iPhone app is very buggy...
I agree. "Not enough relevant development experience." is an answer that I would expect from an HR drone, not someone interested in hiring the best and brightest.
Ads are a part of life. If you don't wanna see em, you like many others install adblock. For the people that don't, they create revenue.

As for installing every colour, flower, car. That's fine and dandy but stuff like that would be flagged and dealt with.
I'm in the tech and geek industries and I used my G+ account for about ten minutes.
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Same here. Picking international, and then USA doesn't change anything. As of now, a worthless app on the iPad. Perhaps first day launch issues?
You see the little gray triangles to the left of my post? Click the one pointing down and be about your business.

Edit: you talk too much.
> In the fall the certificate printouts they sent had Stanford's name on them.

The certificates they sent had a paragraph disclaimer at the end pointing out that the certificate had nothing at all to do with Stanford. This was the only mention of Stanford. This clause was only added because Stanford legal requested it since the classes were taught by the Stanford professors who set up the system, of their own initiative and definitely not something initiated from the bureaucratic side of the institution. Your post suggests that the certificates indicated they were granted or approved or validated in some way by Stanford. This is not the case at all, it is the opposite. I recommend you track down one of these certificates and examine it to your satisfaction.

As far as Coursera, it didn't exist in Fall. It was created in response to Stanford lawyers and bureaucrats going apeshit and shutting the venture down once they saw what a threat it was since the classes were as good as what they were charging for. This caused several of their best professors to resign and leave Stanford.

Stanford is about their reputation, which comes from their top notch professors. With professors leaving, the reputation is worth less than before.

Stanford intentionally isolated themselves from this venture and tried to punish those who pursued it. This shows how committed their administration and legal staff are to the future of education. Not at all, in direct conflict to their most progressive and talented professors.

The future clearly belongs the rogues who are leaving the inefficient and ineffective old system behind to join the ground level grass roots work of modernizing education. This is something that institutions are showing themselves incapable of doing, and it scares them. They won't go down easily. They will fight this, attack the new paradigms, and try their damnedest to retain an economy based on buggy whips that supports their institutional power, wealth and obsolete practices. Many on the forefront such as Salman Khan do not have any teaching credentials or background, and that is how it must be for the old practices do not work.
If team A uses the binary to write a spec, and team B uses the spec to re-implement without direct help from team A, it's generally considered legit.

This was the method used by Compaq to implement the IBM BIOS, back in the day.
It's a known issue and is being worked on, last I heard.
Actual link the above obfuscated link refers to:

http://42floors.com/blog/posts/consider-this-a-job-offer-to-...
This is the second time I've seen this story this week, and this version is subtly different from the previous one I saw. This is making me wonder whether either version of the story actually happened. I wish I remembered where I saw the other one.
It's pretty obvious by that this is some egotistical generic write up.
Do good things, don't brag with them, at least thats how I learned it.
If every programmer actually had to know the contents of every "what every programmer should know about X" articles before programming then we wouldn't have any programs.
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Interesting. My own limited experience with Go suggests that it requires more time to write but less time to test and debug and tune so it might b a wash overall. Where did you find you were spending most of your time?
1,000 employees? For what?
Interesting observations around strategy and implementation. I agree with the reasoning behind the idea that at a startup, implementation > strategy... but it does still keep these notions separate. Is it going to far to say that implementation = strategy = idea? Do successful startups actually draw a sharp distinction between these things?
It screams that technical recruiter type ethic: "at least 10 years Ruby on Rails experience required" when Rails isn't even 10 years old yet.
The new app is a universal binary which also includes iPhone updates, so it might be worth downloading the update and seeing if it fixes any of your issues.
> It is bad for viewers, bad for video creators, and bad for YouTube’s ability to curate and tailor videos to potential viewers.

First, a question: any random person on the internet, without being logged in, used to be able to Thumb Up a YouTube video?

If that's true, then I bet it was very easy to spam. Giving it a Thumb Up, without being logged in, would also mean that none of your friends had any idea that you had given it a Thumb Up, and you could never again find a history of things you had Thumbed Up.

And now, to upvote, you need to be logged in...

What website, anywhere on the internet, allows you to upvote without being logged in? Not HackerNews. Not Reddit. Not Facebook.

By knowing who you Follow, Google and YouTube now have a much better way to find information that you care about. If I search on YouTube for "python", it has a chance to know that I mean the programming language, because of who I'm Following.

Also, every single +1 that you get on your YouTube videos now has a real person behind it. Every single +1 is now worth Gold. Every single +1 has a better chance to go viral, because the Followers of that person who clicked +1 have a chance to see it.

If I search on YouTube for something, and I see "Wil Wheaton +1d this," I'm MUCH more likely to want to check it out.
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I can't help but read it as 'the me furnace' :-p
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Ask HN: Who is going to 'Work at a Startup 2012'?
I received my invitation today and am quite excited to attend and learn more. Who else is planning on going?

For those that don't know what I am referring to: http://workatastartup.org/
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Web Intents (which should be in Chrome soon, or maybe they're in already) should hopefully allow exactly that.

http://webintents.org/

Latest news seems to be on G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116171619992010691739/posts
I've seen it about a dozen times in a dozen different forms in as many years.
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The post of this just implied, to me, that Microsoft is evil for putting in a take-down request. Why else post this? There are literally hundreds of take-down notices on GitHub. Why post this one?
Thank you for the links, as I wasn't going to visit the brain dead extremetech site on my iPad.

OS X mockup: the window control traffic lights don't line up vertically with the toolbar/tab bar icons, looks jarring. The close tab button is still on the right, tab titles are still left-aligned instead of centered, not impressed.

Firefox team: stop trying to ape the Chrome UI and think for yourselves for once, put the tab bar on the left or right side.
Thanks for the comment, debacle.

To be clear, I'm not trying to say this is a good way to run a startup or that anyone should do it.

In particular, I am really bad at doing more than one thing. It is one of my personal weaknesses. Some people, like my previous cofounder Andrew, are great at it. But as a result, I HAVE to be focused to get anything done. This isn't true of everyone, its just something that I finally realized about myself and its changed the way I work. My typical day literally starts with me adding to my to do list, ordering it, then knocking them out in order.

I think the idea of a startup founder with nothing to show for himself but a string of dead websites (me) advising other people on optimal strategic decisions for their startups is a bit silly. I think all those ideas I cut out are great ideas, my brain just isn't big enough to hold more than one.
as an alternative to a full-blown rant, just remind people that market fundamentalism died in the '08-'09 superbubble implosion. E.g. the new Dallas Fed report about enhancing "market discipline" and restoring "faith in market capitalism."
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That'd actually be a really cool pledge to make as a company. Sorta like the 1% for the planet initiative, but something similar to pledge a slice of profits or revenue, or exit-event-cash to the OSS projects you depended on most.
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Just like real world universities, there may be no "victor." but rather many groups catering to individual needs. If it was a mere matter of location, we'd only have one University per city.

For that matter, Western Governors University is still quite large. They could pivot much more easily than Harvard and integrate this into their current system, and they have the advantage of accrediation.