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If these were isolated incidents, I'd agree with you. We should give Linus the benefit of the doubt because of his substantial contributions to OSS.

Unfortunately, this behavior is very well established. To take a few random examples of Linus calling people morons (and mentally diseased, etc) before this:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2007-06/m...
https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/1vyfmNCY...
http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/hibernation.html

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/12/13

The point at issue here is not whether Linus is right. Of course he's probably right -- he's Linus. The question is whether he's being civil. In the case you're referring to, pirtlj's comment was also out of line (although ironically apt to this whole discussion). Linus however did not have to respond the way he did.
so you prefer to decentralize your exception handling code ? how do you scale that ?
Switch is a very reasonable book about affecting organizational change, but I wouldn't include it in a list of must-reads for entrepreneurs. Oddly, I might well advocate the Heath brothers other book, Made to Stick, as it gives a framework for effective communication which is something that can benefit many entrepreneurs.
A much better iPhone application. I think there was a whole article about that.
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Source for the C02 being previously higher? I don't have the figures handy, but on my recent read through of Muller's take on the subject, I thought C02 was currently at its highest. I think the specific chart referenced was a NASA one, if I recall correctly (i'm currently on mobile. Tough to look this stuff up)
Thanks but I wish that I had come up with a nicer way to say it. (And, I'm not a professor - I'm officially a part-time lecturer but I really just introduce speakers.)

Perhaps "There's nothing wrong with working on something for a long time but real founders ship".
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Using the digital content as basically a loss leader for things that can't be distributed digitally, namely live performances and merch that you'd sell at those live performances.
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If you simply go to that login, but s/http/https/, voila! ssl!

I was initially confused by your question, apparently HN is always using https for me.
Well, not really :) There's a difference between having designers, accessibility pros and others able to review the proposals and those that have the time to do the work. All of us are volunteers, and our time is limited.
I suppose time to panic will be when ice caps start melting. Wait a minute, did that already happen?
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And read the same things twice?
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I think you're right, that there are always people who copy/clone/... stuff.

But I also think that many of those who copy will do a bad job. I'm not sure whether this would always be bad for the original creator...
That basically answers my question, assuming other HNers agree with you: For my own website I will also have nothing of real value and so there's no real danger if someone gets hacked. The only real danger is for bozos who use the same password for HN as they do for their citibank account...
If you go to the Baltimore MD Inner Harbor they have a raised pedestrian walkway covering several blocks it completely changes how you treat walking though that part of the city.

In Crystal City VA they have a significant underground walkway / mall that spans ~15 city blocks, and connects to the DC Metro (subway system).

Between the two options I prefer the underground walkway, but either option completely change how long it takes to get around. Rather than trying to accommodate both cars and pedestrians if you just separate the two both benefit. Cars can make turns easier and avoid accidents, people don't need to stop at intersections.
i'm beginning to think that the biggest problem may now be legal.

with a driver there is someone to get a signature/payment/paperwork whilest a driverless vehicle would need something else.

who's responsible for damage inside the back of a truck when it made 3-4 deleiveries?

how easy would it be to stop and steal the contents of one of these vehicles if it can be stopped on a quiet road with a rolling roadblock?

my brother has done 90% of his work on the road in many service/delivery jobs. he reckons at least here in ireland there will always need to be somebody on board to load/unload/handle paperwork/report problems . or if not need to be it might for a long time be cheaper to be.
I just had a look at the original post (I'm a native speaker). It said that the government claims to be able, in principle, to partially decrypt PGP and Secure Shell. This is a vague enough statement.

Further, the German government has an incredibly poor track record when it comes to IT. Recent highlights include a laughable "national trojan" that cost millions of tax payer money and didn't quite live up to (leaked) specifications. Further, the lack of knowledge about all matters IT of our elected leaders are frequently being ridiculed. There are interviews of ministers floating around who couldn't say what the Internet or a web browser was.

My best bet is that the spokesperson simply had no clue what PGP is and gave an evasive answer.
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Q: If someone were to steal your HN password... whats the worst that could happen?

A: Not much.

It would seem extra security layers wouldn't provide much benefit.
Well if the things you need are not scarce, then it doesn't take as much money to "pay the bills."
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Well, it's definitely http by default for me, but I agree completely that a knowledgeable person would switch to https before logging in.
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I've been contacted by an analyst at gartner to talk about what my startup (B2B google apps related application).
What do you I need to prepare ?
Do you have any advice ?
I'm happy to hear that CloudFare was able to help out in this situation.

I am especially happy because I came to know CloudFare not through HN, but through constantly seeing their failed cache page.

Edit: That sounds really brash, but I sincerely do mean that they have lots of clients that I frequent and if their reliability improves, it will prove to be very valuable.
Perhaps the title should read First skydiver to land without parachute On Purpose. Or some such.
Does now every crap get voted to the top on HackerNews?
The only person who could get hurt is the one who uses the same password for HN as they do for their bank. Is it the responsibility of the website developer to protect that person from themselves?
If your advantage is so small that your product can be easily cloned, you are definitely working on a problem that is too small.

Go back and watch a couple SpaceX launches and re-read Peter Thiel's comments on the slowdown in innovation. There are plenty of big problems to solve. The good ones involve contrarian thinking, so are further protected from clones.

Even if you don't want to work on basic advances, at least build a product with network effects. Dropbox and Airbnb aren't rocket science, but their businesses are protected by network effects.
Oh, good. One of these again. It's been almost a week since I've read the last guys guarantee on how to get a job.

Regardless, the proper title for this piece is: "How to get hired by me." Nothing more.

The best way to get hired? Follow the instructions on applying provided by the company. If they fail to provide proper instructions, they'll probably fail at a lot of other things as well.
"One day, Miller's desk was taken away from her. To cope, she brought in a little red wagon, a classic Radio Flyer model. Each day, Miller would pile all of her documents, files, and possessions into her wagon, and begin to drag it up and down the halls, looking for the empty desk of someone out sick for the day. "Everyone thought it was so cute," recalls Miller. "I'd be trudging down the hall, and they'd laugh and say, 'Oh look, here she comes with that little red wagon.' It was like a bad dream.""

We have stuff. We need stuff to work. It doesn't all fit in a briefcase. We need a home base where we can dump our stuff. If there isn't personal space, then we have to waste time hauling all our stuff around - which can get pretty ugly.
Every industry does everything possible to prevent itself from having to change.

But what does it matter? The companies who hire shipping companies or run shipping departments are themselves run by number counters -who don't care-.

Companies like Wal-Mart will have a huge interest in slashing shipping costs to gain competitive price advantage, and they historically have exerted powerful control over their supply chain. Same with companies like Amazon or FedEx.

What is a shipping company going to do when their customers are opting for new companies that are automated/cheaper? Adapt or go out of business (or attempt to regulate but shipping is no Wall Street so I doubt they have the clout to use government to stifle innovation).
Another post saying that if I don't have a highly populated Github and a well-trafficked blog, I'm worthless as a candidate to a startup. Good to know; my employer will be disappointed.

Nearly all of my work is behind the screen of an NDA. When I am looking for a job, I'll send code samples, but I get the feeling that's no longer good enough. Is this correct?

In any case, I am noticing these things and will probably force myself to start a blog at some point, even though it's completely counter to my nature.
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Inherently, exposure tends to be perpetual, and so it certainly does seem that at the time you are growing fast (viral?) is actually an excellently poignant time to increase exposure.

I certainly agree that one should be careful to not just completely erode any competitive advantage, however I would absolutely support anyone sharing the success of their app. I mean, that's one of the reasons we're all here, right?
There's always the old standby: custom-made, one-off products.

A concert, for instance; lots of musicians make money through performance.

Depending on how crowd-pleasin' your creation is, or how well you've done at finding a crowd, there's a bit of tension possible; a husband who commissioned a Dali portrait of his wife ended up hanging it in his kennels to underscore what he thought of it.
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I would love that. Easiest login service I've seen. I'm hoping it gets a lot more traction.
Exactly. I think the 2 key failings of the checked exception idea (there are others, but not as important) are

1) Precise exception specifications leak implementation details. This will bite you badly, e.g., when you want to change the implementation from under a published API.

2) The times when we only care that some exception occurred vastly outnumber the times when we care about the exact types of exceptions that may occur. Checked exceptions don't add any value to the common case, in fact they make it worse, because generic exception handlers tend to live many levels up the call stack from where exceptions are thrown(1), and therefore they "aggregate" large amounts of code that that can collectively throw a huge range of exceptions. If you were to carry around detailed "throws" clauses, they would be a mile long.

The funny thing is, all solutions that solve the problems created by checked exceptions do so by subverting the mechanism one way or another. So you're better off without checked exceptions in the first place.

I've always been interested in this discussion because it's one of those cases where an idea seems very good on paper, only to turn out quite bad in practice.

(1) This observation is what makes exceptions such a useful mechanism in the first place.
Win!

...but why is such a space, respectful of a balance between personal and communal, such anathema to those authorizing office design?
Absolutely agree. But what if the next big wave is making physical 'content' abundant instead of scarce? 3D printing, the internet of things, etc. That's what I'm starting to think about...
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It's artists also have a little success with digital 'busking' - where you intentionally deliver high quality content for free, along with a message that asks people to toss a few bucks your way if they think you're worth it.

The best written one I've ever seen was Benn Jordan's "Hello Downloader", which is included in all of his self-released torrents: http://www.alphabasic.com/Please_read.html
Understand that Western governments have had legal access to rubber-hose cryptography for some time. Inasmuch as a person may be beaten with a rubber hose until the passphrase is revealed, I've no doubt they are able to break PGP.
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I think that in 2016 you will not be able to buy a tablet or notebook with a HDD, everything having been replaced by SSD.
That's the way I remember it, he was already somewhat successful because of his taking advantage of an under-served niche market. Most of what I remember is him talking about how he expanded it and chased the long tail. I'm sure he's had a boost since he started talking about it though.

I suddenly feel the need to read through his posts again.
Ask HN: How do you stay productive after work?
Here is my little back story:

I work from 8-5(or 6), during work I will take a break and scan for a couple good articles on business, technology, etc. I put the web address in an email to myself to read for later (even if I want to read it all now). At the end of work I send myself the email in hopes that when I get home I continue my enthusiasm to read those articles. Sadly my trend hasn't been what I would like it to be, that of staying motivated, reading articles, and writing down my thoughts or ideas. I am productive in a sense that I go workout to stay in shape and cook dinner, but I would like to keep my head down and work on my own ideas.

So I ask, What do you do when you come back from work to keep being productive on personal improvement or projects?
This is probably the worst possible response anyone could give with a question like this.

I sincerely hope you're either joking, or in no way responsible for the security of user accounts wherever you happen to be employed.
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Agreed. No matter how complex they key, phyiscal security can nearly always be broken. From mysterious breaks ins to _we have ways of making you talk_
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Business is largely a zero-sum game with your direct competitors.

But the only reason capitalism works is that it's a clearly positive-sum game overall. New competitors are mainly worth investing in because they figure out a way to create more value for customers. That in turn makes both customers and producers richer.

Silicon Valley does so well partly because there's a great culture of sharing information here. I agree with the main article: if you're raking it in and it isn't obvious, you shouldn't crow about it. But sharing techniques isn't a problem; money fountains like Google share open-source software and publish papers all the time.

You can't avoid fast-follow competitors by keeping your mouth shut; eventually people will notice your success no matter what you say. The best you can do is avoid it for a little bit.
When the article says "inter-city", that's the opposite of what it means, right?
Hmmm. Maybe I'm the minority, but I can't extrapolate those data points to even begin to understand the ballpark. I have an app tucked away somewhere that has a huge amount of traffic and a great rank in its marketplace. If I were to provide the stats and the context, you might assume I was making a killing, and you'd be wrong.
Read that entire article. Well worth it. Did it say what year this was in? I think you could infer from the "Think Different" campaign and other tidbits mentioned, but I wasn't really sure.
> "Can decrypt" is a phrase that gives many interpretations

It's also not the phrase that Google translate gives me - I get "at least partially and / or evaluate", which could refer to lots of things, eg. traffic analysis.

Also... anybody with a copy of PGP (or GPG) can decrypt PGP'ed messages. PGP would be rather pointless otherwise.

Edit: Also there's a pretty good chance it's just plain old fashioned bollocks.
Doesn't work really well with RVM. I can see the result list, but can't open one because the gem exits with a segmentation fault on nokogiri.
It doesn't explain why a 2.5x jump in areal density, by their own figures, will magically yield a 15x increase in drive capacity. What a useless article.
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One of the most irritating things about this book that I found with that section was that the process was:
1. Write a test for function(5) == 20.
2. Make function { return 20 }

Then it goes to the next input:
1. Write a test for function(4) == 16
2. Make function { return parm * 4 }

This gets annoying when you know the problem is to make a function multiply by 4.
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For mobile people, fine, probably.

But if you look around any traditional office, you see personalization. People tend to merge with their environments. People tie themselves to their environment. They make their work part of their lives.

If you can't personalize, you're less tied and more prone to leave. In any case, I would probably leave, because I'm non-assertive and it would be stressful to me to compete with everyone every day for work space. I don't want to think about work space, I just want to work. If I have to, I'll work somewhere else.
"If you're lucky you will have patrons, not customers."

Probably the best quote from the post. Soon the only way of making a living from a creative endeavour might be to be funded by patrons, then releasing your content for free. A generalized Louis CK model if you will.

Funny how that would bring us back to pre-18th century days where patronage was the only business model in town for creative types, with all the constraints that came with artists-patrons relationships.

Except in this world everybody would get to play Medicis or Louis XIV. I certainly hope that "crowd-patronage" will mitigate the limitations of artistic freedom that often came with traditional patronage.
To paraphrase a somewhat popular song from behind the iron curtain: "today I saw again on the TV some fresh fruit".

There is no free lunch. You need energy and commodities to get products, and these will be scarce for the foreseeable future.
Creative works have always been purchased on a "Do I enjoy this enough to buy it?" basis. We're used to sampling art, and it's always been this way, whether it be via public art, radio, etc., then we go buy it if we like it. The internet is an evolution of this, but without the controls that distributors are used to (payola anyone?).

What RadioLab is trying to do here is using a "free gift" to goose the people who enjoy what they make into giving them some coin.

This is very common in public radio and TV, but usually comes in the form of a free t-shirt or coffee mug. In that case the "gift" has dual purpose - it also functions as advertisement and a physical reminder to go watch/listen to the thing you helped support.
Anecdotally as somebody sitting on the east coast in a start-up's office right now, everyone in this room is wearing a t-shirt with jeans/shorts. I see some flip flops peeking out here and there too.

I think it's more of a Start-up vs. Corporate office attire. SpaceX's culture is more Fresh Silicon Valley Startup than it is corporate.

And of course there is a huge concentration of Start-ups on the west coast.
I would imagine it should be trivial to have the application automatically switch a user over to ssl when attempting to login, as a lot of applications do this.

Maybe it's PGs way of teaching people to think about security by making it something they need to "opt-in" to, but that seems like a fairly strange line in the sand to draw.
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Tablet definitely, but I suspect SSD + traditional HDD will be reasonably common, though in decline by 2016 (using the space freed up by removing the DVD drive).
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But that's exactly one of the main points of the detractors of checked exceptions (of which I'm one): the only sane way of working with it is to subvert it.

Whether you convert the throws clause to a common supertype (which very soon converges to the base type Exception), or wrap everything in a RuntimeException, you are effectively emulating a language without checked exceptions. So what was the point in the first place?
Cool! Thanks for sharing. How long did it take you to develop?
I suspect this will be a story in which the comments are overly biased against the POV of the topic. I say that because (a) if you believe him, then you're probably already STFU'ing (and why come out now), and then (b) posts like this are often largely ignored for their content and, instead, people with an agenda or an axe to grind will come out of the woodwork. The only people who I can see arguing adamantly/strongly on the side of the OP are people who did NOT actually STFU and were subsequently burned. Anyone else who believes will either offer a medium-strength comment ("Good post - I agree") or just an upvote. People who disagree will cover the extremes - and that's what has happened here already.

That being said, it's a good post and well written. Thanks for sharing.
valid point. Do you think an email early on where you DON'T share that you know this fact, but just seem like an angry dude who will sue them if they keep stealing his profit, would have had a chance of stopping them selling the guy's software with his screenshots and his software's name as keywords, etc?

The idea that you can build buzz for your product and have the exact same screenshots you're building buzz with be used to trick people into thinking they're in contact with you, but it's some shady fly by night, is just unacceptable to me.

How would you feel if this company http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955265 went even farther than it currently does with it's 'tribute' title and (hypothetical example, not to pick on them!) actually used YCombinator all over its keywords, and had pixel-for-pixel YCombinator's front page, which they stole, to trick people into thinking they're the YCombinator site, and in every way were virtually identical to the confusion of searchers?

This kind of commercial ripoff activity was resolved legally hundreds of years ago. It's unacceptable.
Hoarding is always good after all right? The attitude in some of the posts in this thread remind me of how open source might have been viewed a few decades ago. Perhaps different people simply have different priorities.

I'll just add that if you have something actually worth saying, being so gruff just to get attention is probably unnecessary.
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