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I'm not sure why you think Linus doesn't really contribute to his operating system anymore. He doesn't really write code, but that's because he's become too busy as a project manager for it - which is a different sort of contribution. Not sure what about this makes you so angry...

Anyway, at least he earned his right to rant about git and linux, I mean, he sort of created them. And regarding Google v Oracle, he is a stakeholder in the verdict - if APIs are copyrightable, there will be people filing suits against linux on the way out of the courtroom.

What did you do to earn your right to rant?
The "move seamlessly across devices" feature has me wanting to try it at least. If it was possible to start typing a HN post on your phone then finish on your laptop, for example, that would be really cool.

But a chrome killer? I doubt it. To kill chrome you'd need a far more compelling use case.

To me the biggest problem on the web right now is there's too much to read. In fact there's an Amazon killer here too. It's never been so easy to own a lot of books but it's getting harder and harder to read them.
Your concern is exactly why public arbitrator profiles are my number one priority now. Arbitrator reputation should overcome the randomness concern.
The impulse buy thing is a really important reason this works.

For example, I adore Transmit and have no need for any other FTP app. I bought Forklift anyway when they discounted it to $1. Haven't even launched it yet.
My hope was that choosing to refer to it as "minimalist" would help calibrate people's expectations not to expect to much. I'd be interested in other language or naming that we could use to make that more clear.

This template will indeed become somewhat more featureful over time, but part of the intent is that highly specialized, opinionated, and therefore featureful templates should be built on top of this one (eg a template for an MMORPG). Again, thoughts on better verbiage to make this more clear would be greatly appreciated.
Item 3 of the FAQ [1] implies that there's not a separate arbitrator fee on top of the $299 filing fee, and the arbitration agreement [2] mentions nothing about an arbitrator fee.

So my question is: What qualified arbitrator would be willing to:

* review the documents submitted by the parties;

* conduct a hearing (via Skype or G+ Hangout?); and

* explain in writing the reasons for his/her award, as required by the "Timeline" section of the arbitration agreement [2];

all for an absolute maximum of US$299 per case?

[1] http://www.judge.me/online_arbitration#process

[2] http://www.judge.me/arbitration_agreement
Hi - author here. I'm curious about your opinion, could you elaborate?

Edit: maybe you thought NSRails is an attempt to port Rails to iOS? Please see the readme - that's not the purpose of the framework. NSRails just allows iOS to talk to Rails simply and effectively.
You're just jealous ;)

Valid point though, if you have a small part of a large graph for a new product it somehow always looks like a hockeystick.

But if he can maintain this for even three weeks or more then he's on to something. Stranger things have happened.

A word of advice for the OP: keep it quiet. Bragging like this is going to bring copycats and unwelcome attention in large quantities. If you're making 'easy money' keep it to yourself.
Why wouldn't you want to use exceptions for #2? I posit that it is very rare for errors like RPC failures and filesystem errors to be handled at the level of the call. 90% of the time the natural handler is several stack frames up where you can raise an error dialog or write an http error response.

Return values create endless repetitive "if error return error" code, or worse - programmers get lazy and ignore return values, producing bugs that show up only in hard-to-test-for situations like transient network failures.
> "Question from audience: What keeps you guys up at night? What do you fear most?

> Paul Graham: I fear that something will come along that causes me personally to have to do a lot more work.

[http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21869934240/peter-thiels...]

This aside, in the vast, vast majority of cases there aren't any benefits for the company for being public in the US any more; just tons more work and requirements. YC as it exists today would be impossible were it a public company.
LXC is just a set of script/interface to Linux's namespaces.

Namespaces is what is actually used. There are disk namespaces, network, pid, etc. Those are not very widely tested albeit supposed to be relatively secure.

FreeBSD jail provides a all-in-one integration instead. LXC provides the glue to achieve similar integration.

There is also rsbac_jail which provides an integration more similar to what FreeBSD does.

The major issue with LXC so far has been that it's not well integrated/easy to use.
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it's working, the site, albeit blank, has code FB OG meta.
Nice, fast, mobile aware, and social... fantastic.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

<meta property="og:title" content="Yahoo! Axis" />
<meta property="og:type" content="product" />
<meta property="og:url" content="http://axis.yahoo.com" />
<meta property="og:image" content="http://l.yimg.com/mk/micro/img/axis-icon64.png" />
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Yahoo! Axis" />
<meta property="fb:admins" content="100000203733930" />

<title>Yahoo! Axis</title>
<body></body>
</html>
You know, I think this is good for your Oracle stock, and that by losing this trial they have dodged a significant bullet.

Because the outcome of this trial was never going to be a never-ending stream of bountiful royalties for Oracle. It would be a one off damages payment from Google, a complete re-engineering of Android to systematically work around whatever infringement was found, and widescale abandonment and damage to the Java ecosystem and brand.

In my opinion Android has provided a lifeline to Java at a time when it was otherwise being abandoned wholesale by the next generation of programmers. It has kept new, intelligent young people learning the language for long enough for Oracle to bridge the widening gap between Java and other languages with Java7 and hopefully Java8. (Whether Oracle actually pulls this off is up to them ... but thanks to Android they have the opportunity).
Per the post, it won't be live til after 9pm tonight.
One year old (May 23, 2011) video: http://screen.yahoo.com/introducing-axis-from-yahoo-for-your...
It translates as "based on fairness and equity", i.e. the arbitrator applies equity principles (contract law) instead of a specific local law.
Yahoo Axis shows up in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-axis-a-search-browser/...

I have no iDevices so no idea what it does.
One of the comments noted the video was dated a year ago. Could be a mistake on the video, could be that this project never made it out of the silo last year and was just discovered. Or it could be that it won't be live until tomorrow.

Like others I found the headline amusing because it doesn't seem like a credible strategy to 'attack' Google by replacing their browser.
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Clipboard seems to be what Gary Flake left Microsoft for. If he didn't happen to own the domain already, I'm sure he had the resources to acquire it.
> Patents and software need to get a divorce before somebody gets hurt.

Well said.
That was never going to happen. Oracle doesn't care at all about Java beyond tapping into a stream of royalties from Android. Google's whole purpose for creating Android is to have it be free from control of others; I think they would rather re-engineer the entire base OS to workaround any infringement rather than submit to Oracle taking a permanent slice of control or royalties.
The only way Oracle could ever be virtuous is to actually purchase Virtue.
The Fb:admin is http://graph.facebook.com/100000203733930 and https://www.facebook.com/gaurav.malhotra.75 anyone know who is he?
For storing and remembering stuff I think Evernote is more or less the best option. The social aspect of Clipboard seems to be the same thing as Pinterest too.

I really like the UI however, very attractive.
Australia has recently enacted laws to limit the effect of unfair contracts on consumers [1]. It comes in to play in "take it or leave it" situations, where the consumer has no power to negotiate. How would judge.me's standard contract clause sit with this? Could a consumer argue that they have been unfairly forced to sign away their right to have their day in court?

[1] http://www.asic.gov.au/asic/asic.nsf/byHeadline/Unfair-contr...
1. Libertarian arbitrators who love the long term goals of judge.me and want to help.

2. Young CIArb arbitrators who have a hard time getting into the very small market of very lucrative multimillion dollar arbitration claims.

Edit: The arbitration hearing is email based. So the process is totally asynchronous, takes only about 2 hours (3 max) of the arbitrator's time.
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You have to remember that when chrome was released it was clearly an attempt at a firefox killer, but obviously it hasn't killed firefox, and google never realistically expected it to do so. Google chrome has done very well at sequestering market share from firefox and internet explorer, but chrome is a google product, and lives up to the software standards that we've come to expect from them. I expect this effort from yahoo to be a token addition to an already crowded market.
I can agree with that. Good point.
Is there such a thing as a State of Hong Kong?
Hey, I'm one of the developers working on Clipboard.

There certainly are a lot of other bookmarking and web clipping services out there, but I'll tell you what I think makes Clipboard special.

1) Lightweight workflow - The bookmarklet is lightweight and easy to use. While I can easily annotate, tag or share my clip at creation time, I can also decide to skip all that and just save it with a single click. Personally, when I want to save something, I want that to be as frictionless as possible - I'll think about organizing it later.

2) Style - Clips preserve the style of the original content. Whether it's a facebook post, amazon product listing or tweet, your clips retain the look and feel of the original content. I find that to be really helpful when I'm scanning a page of clips - I can quickly recognize lots of pieces of content without reading any text.

3) Functionality - Lots of sites let you save a url or an image, but Clipboard clips are full HTML. This means links are active, flash embeds will play inline, text is fully indexed (which is very powerful for recall) etc...

4) Granularity of privacy - Clipboard makes it easy to save for yourself, share privately with one or a handful of people (via @ mentions), or publish clips to share them with the world. I think it's fair to say that most other services out there are heavily geared towards private or public without much middle ground.
Around the turn of the millenium I was a lead developer on a finance platform that spanned order management, trade capture, and portfolio analytics, primarily for MBS. [1]

It is a sisyphysian task to sell software like this into a bank. Let me recommend the following: run screaming as far and fast as you can.

The main reasons:

- "Nobody ever got fired for buying [the existing standard]."

- "If your software fails we have no entity of any value to sue."

- There is a large existing power structure at financial firms aligned behind existing solutions. Folks who have made it their job to understand the [often crappy] systems and to maintain them. These people do not want to lose their niche.

- Verifying the correctness of your solution is extremely hard and the standard of verification required is very high.

Folks that are winning in this space, like Sungard and Imagine, have largely become services businesses. IMO that's the only viable way to play in this space.

[1] http://www.beyondbond.com/index.php
Excellent point made in the article: Google's pulling data from sites and displaying right on the search page might cut off the oxygen of some content creators.
And unfortunately that puts any conversation about it in a pretty moronic place. I'm skeptical, but more fluid and seamless search-browsing and device-to-device experiences could have at least inspired some decent conversations. Now we get "who is yahoo kidding?"
I like the concept and that there's depth behind the glitz. Hopefully users will progress along the path from savers (useful initially in its own right as a bookmarking service) to sharers (more useful as more users join).

Here are some observations on sign-up and initial use:

Sign-up: Feedback for good field input shows check mark with FF 12 but missing font square for IE 8 and Chrome 21 dev.

Sign-up: Too soon to ask me to access my social accounts. We just met. No trust established. At least it's optional, though.

Sign-up: Bookmarklet installation guidance is slick.

Operation: Clipping via bookmark bar works very well. I like the subpage selection interface.

I'll have to play more to appreciate it all but wanted to get an initial reaction out for you. Nice job.
He could take the killfile approach to lkml... of course that would get him just as much hate. It's really a lose-lose situation, no good way of getting people to stop with the "im right and won't stop pestering you even though it's your project" stuff without pissing off one half of the internet or the other.

The oddest thing is, as I read random lkml threads that interest me, it seems that Linus isn't a jerk immediately when people bring up stuff - even well hashed stuff. When he is wrong, he admits it, and seems reasonable about patches that aren't perfect/up to snuff, particularly from newer devs who are trying to do well. It's when the threads go on and on that it seems to degrade. (or when a topic that is famous for being a no-go is brought up... but i think it's fair to at least understand the thing you are trying to contribute to, particularly as well documented as linux).
Got to love those over-the-top effects. Glass-breaking, plants bursting out of the ground, etc.

Don't really see Yahoo! being able to execute on this sort of thing though. I haven't seen anything really awesome from them for years.
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Why would this take any sort of CS education? They've patented when to show a commercial.
You are correct, this is less than a big deal. In fact it's pretty irrelevant.

Third parties hacking battle.net accounts aren't doing so through brute force, they are doing it through phishing and viruses with keyloggers.
Thanks for the compliment and finding a good bug (deleting from a clip page). I don't know why we didn't fix that sooner. Already rolled out a fix.

Regarding the welcome email and the confirmation email, we saw a hacker news post that shared we'd have better success when the confirmation email had a clear and actionable subject. http://clipboard.com/clip/LQiJMrYD7dhXX8DWhgOoKa8A2PHm_0fHaw...
in 2006 i tried to convince Jerry that Yahoo needed to ship a browser.

it only took six years for it to sink in, i guess.
The browser interface is ripe for disruption (the whole UI space is, really), but whether yahoo will do it remains to be seen. Personally I am pretty doubtful, although they do have the resources.
Internet Capital Group went public during the last bubble when B2B and incubators were all the rage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Capital_Group

As an investor I would stay away from VC funds that went public. I'd want partners to have a lot of their personal capital tied up in the fund, not cashing out in an IPO.
I too tried the link and it didn't work.
They've since taken the video down.
Version? Not sure what you mean. Some other way to interact with the kernel, besides a "shell"?

Quicker, shorter, terser sounds good to me, whatever it is.

Or maybe you mean if he wrote his own shell?
Does Y Combinator ever invest in the follow-on rounds of companies that have gone through its program? If not, why not? It would seem a logical easy place to own an even greater share of their most promising companies...
This isn't about Linus not being allowed to rant. I was merely stating that Linus is starting to come across as an old bitter programmer who hates everyone and everything. It's pretty unprofessional for a guy of his stature and influence to go on these ranting tirades, professionals don't air their disdain for things publicly unless there is a valid reason, he just comes across as a jerk regardless of whether or not he's earned the right to do so, it's unprofessional.

If he's project manager for Linux, why was he surprised that that the Linux core is getting bloated? If he's a project manager, shouldn't he be managing the team to unbloat the operating system? I'd hardly call flaming your own team and operating system a contribution. Nothing about this makes me angry, Linus is a genius and he knows it which is why it frustrates me to see a guy like him resort to sometimes school yard words and ways of dealing with things.

Linux itself has already been through what Google has, remember the whole Microsoft debacle? Regardless of the verdict, pretty much every software company that has felt threatened by Linux I'm sure has tried some kind of legal action in some way, shape or form.

I earned my right to rant the day I got an internet connection, which was a very long time ago.
> It's your experience that mutual binding arbitration is common in B2B professional services contexts?

It's certainly not uncommon.

> even a website redesign puts outside people into contact with confidential business information, poachable employees, company IP, and liability if the website e.g. includes IP from other companies.

All the more reason for arbitration, which by agreement can be made private and confidential, whereas confidentiality in litigation can be very dicey under open-court laws [1].

[1] See, e.g., http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/23/us/texas-high-court-cuts-i...
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To illustrate the point here is a 'complex' email from him on the 16th: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/19/97

Now here is him on an un-related issue apologising: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/21/230

For linus the github 'discussion' was an everyday thing. He speaks his mind and will apologise if he is wrong, such is the order of the day on the kernel mailing list.
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Given the guy's karma, I don't know...
well, I just added $6.96 ($9.95 - 30%) to your revenue numbers for today. I had no idea about this application but it looks great and solves a pain point for me.

Some successful Hackernews marketing in action I suppose.

Good luck on future success in the App Store!
I agree in principle. However, it's not "easy" money, he produced a quality, well thought out app and then got lucky (or executed a well thought out strategy) with marketing.
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He was the one who said he was right, shouldn't Linus be backing up his statements and proving why he thinks he is right instead of the other way around? Haha.
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With ebook readers on your computer, tablet, phone, and dedicated (and cheap) ereaders I don't see how anyone could say that books are getting harder to read. It may be so easy to buy them that we are developing backlogs, but that is a problem of self control.

There is a ton to read on the web right now. The current solution is to use a service like Instapaper, Readability, or Pocket that saves articles and renders them in a pleasurable format to read later. If you want that built into the browser, look no further than Safari which introduced "Reading List" in version 5.0 (the new version in Mountain Lion has offline reading as well). Opera has also announced they will have a feature like this in their next major release.

There's always room for disruption. Firefox used customizability and standards compliance to disrupt IE's market. A few short years later Chrome used speed to disrupt IE and Firefox's market to become the most used browser in he world. Who will be next? I don't know, but I'm skeptical that Yahoo is the company who will do it.
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Sounds fine, but -- to me -- like many of the other points in the piece, it applies equally both before and after graduation from college. I think a lot of college kids fool themselves into thinking what they do during college doesn't matter; they'll start anew and turn over a new leaf when they graduate and "adult life begins". It doesn't work, those sorts of rationalizations are similar to New Year's Resolutions, which also don't work. Adult life doesn't start with a blank slate after college graduation; college kids are already living their lives and, to use the author's own term, amassing their own life debt.
But that is exactly how both Replay Gain and EBU R128 behave.

Initial set of conditions:

- we want music to have uniform volume
- we want louder parts be slightly louder
- we want quieter parts be slightly quieter

In the end, over compressed songs are penalized. Songs that are recorded too quiet are pumped up. But it is a per song setting, leaving song to song progression on same level.

Here is a discussion on comparing how Replay Gain and EBU R128 algorithms http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8642...
I have a fairly unique first name and managed to get it @gmail.com and the amount of legitimate, misaddressed email I get is staggering. 5-10 per week.
What operating system were you using when you couldn't see the check mark? Were you on a native Windows OS or inside a VM?

Also, glad you liked the bookmarklet installation nags. :)
personally? yes. Many times I'll buy a bunch of cheap (physical and digital) books, read them for a bit, get bored and then eventually sell the physical books.

Most times if a book is expensive I'll put off buying it, but if its a dollar or two, no love lost if I only read a few chapters and don't like it.
Presumably for similar reasons as outlined here: http://cdixon.org/2009/08/14/the-problem-with-taking-seed-mo...
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The only reason anybody cares about Berkshire Hathaway is because it's Warren Buffet's company and that guy is a fucking genius. You can learn practically everything you need to know about the stock market simply by watching him and his company work.
Something that has already been made can be copied much quicker than it was originally developed.
As per my brother's recommendation, I ignored all the modern hoo-ha's about high-level programming languages and dove right into C and C++.

Spent weeks grinding it out until I was finally comfortable writing code. I can tell you honestly that this experience has never left me and I've never been at a completely loss navigating through different languages since.
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Thank you, Jon. I have heard similar comments before. It's really frustrating to know that something is so horrible, yet culture allows it to stay in place. I wish I was naive and believed that I could do this by myself in my free time. Unfortunately, I have worked in the industry long enough to know that the odds are severely stacked against me. I, however, am adamant about risk management, and would like to crack this space open.
It doesn't. You, for instance, accidentally book the same flight twice, or your company's travel person does.