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Facebook Among the Worst Big U.S. IPO Starts in 5 Years
The social network’s much ballyhooed offering was in the midst of its second-straight day of declines, dropping as low as $30.98 today. That would have been an 18.5% drop from its IPO of $38.

But for now, the most-traded IPO in history has gotten off to one of the ugliest starts in recent history.
Yes, it's been very reliable for me. It ships with angstrom Linux, but it's trivial to install Ubuntu.

I've got it hosted in a collocation rack now, so it had better stay reliable :-)

I've written a short blog post about it
http://www.ewanleith.com/blog/956/my-60-arm-server
Qt 4.8.2 Released
This thread is actually kinda sad. The guy seems to be full of passion, but doesn't have knowledge of actual engineering/science to do anything useful in that direction; (and seems to be unwilling to criticaly think and learn something, but that's another point). I wonder, if somebody set him in right direction when he was younger (think a good math teacher) would he work with those nasa guys now? It seems to me that true passion is a resource many tech communities could really use.
As a non-developer. I would love this for php & wordpress.

Here me out: the people who aren't in IDE's all day could benefit the most from this. They don't know where the functions are or even how to find them sometimes. I resort to google 9/10 when looking for how some functions.

This has huge applications for helping non-programmers become programmers.
If you have your own server then of course you can do fancy deployments, but locked down shared hosts make it harder. Ftp is lowest common denominator to get your stuff up. I'm just saying that many people need to work in these environments and don't have the luxury of being able to deploy in cute ways.

Also I find developing wordpress/drupal sites that working directly on the dev server is fine, and committing from there is the best flow. It can be a big pita and time waster trying to maintain these sites in different places just for shits and giggles.
Nice, I figured there'd be a brew for it. I'll give that a shot. Thanks!
I wonder if the blog is registered under her parent(s)'s account. I would expect a 9-year-old user is outside the Blogger ToS.
Maybe it's just how such briefs are written but this thing doesn't seem to lay out evidence or argument that she should have been promoted and bonused. Nor does it trouble itself anticipating obvious benign explanations -- she wasn't good at her job, didn't work hard, etc. Doesn't she have to make some showing that her performance merited the compensation denied her?
Hosting companies often pay over $100 per referrals so it's pretty obvious that the value of a single customer is very high. A few fake reviews here and there will likely net them thousands.
Tencent vs Facebook Infographic
I had a whole response ready, but it looks like Steven Frank - one of the founders and devs at Panic - replied in the comments and addressed all the issues:

"We edit directly on a server — but not our production server. We have a staging server which is an identical clone of the production server, and also a Subversion working copy. A deployment script syncs everything over to production when it’s ready, which is a separate operation from committing it to the svn repo.

Ever since we shipped Coda 1, we’ve learned that there are as many ways to set up a web development infrastructure as there are web developers. There’s no way we could be a perfect fit for everyone’s workflow, so we concentrated on what we perceived to be the most common workflows, and those that would the most generally adaptable."

http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2012/may/22/on-coda-2-and-diet-cod...
I personally didn't like the intros of Enterprise.

Partially because its tone didn't feel like a Star Trek intro, but mainly because it completely ignored the incredible achievements of the Soviet space program. You would at least expect a shot of Yuri Gagarin.
Agreed. The future of spaceflight belongs to engineered beings - be they artificial machines (androids), genetically-modified humans or some combination of the two.
Tech blogs make it look easy, but raising hundreds of thousands or millions in funding is actually very difficult-most startups try to raise money and fail.
You could be the most brilliant engineer in the world, but if you're not good at sales, you won't be able to get funding. Your only options for significant upside are thus either to:
1. Find a sales/business cofounder
2. Join a startup for a mix of salary and equity
Any startup giving away a few points of equity is likely well funded, removing a significant amount of risk for you.
Having the GPU compute position updates into a texture would indeed be orders of magnitude faster, but it would require the vertex shader to read from a texture to get the results. Unfortunately, vertex texturing is an extension that is not required in the WebGL standard and not supported on a significant percentage of machines. It's almost a shame that vertex texturing makes really fun demos really easy to make. Every time I see a VT demo, there are dozen of comments crying "Doesn't work for me. WebGL is broken!"
What the Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Internet Rally Was About
Thanks Riley!
Wow we had different experiences. I only interviewed at start-ups and none of the companies I talked to asked me any ANSI C questions. I had some interesting Python do-in-whatever questions at one company (which I did all in Python) and on the other I went to them with something I had already made of their unofficial platform and skipped programming challenges.
They won't actually run out of course, but I expect their user growth rate to rapidly approach the low single digits. Which leaves an awful lot of innovating money extraction to provide the absurdly high valuations they've asked for and gotten. Time will tell.
The cost of the materials is only a small part of it. Preparing and cooking fresh food requires much, much more effort than prepared packaged foods. Microwavable or similarly low/zero-prep food products require very little labor, require only a few steps before they are served, and create almost zero items to be washed and cleaned. You would be surprised how much cheaper a flat of microwave burritos is compared to an equally caloric-dense flat of fresh or bulk goods.

Also to consider is the cost of a skilled laborer -- someone who can actually cook -- versus a minimum wage worker who only needs to unwrap a package, press a button, and plate it.
Samsung Chromebox gets a premature outing, $330 price tag
Facebook Investor Sues NASDAQ over IPO Delays
moondev assumes that someone who uses a VPS is more likely to use SSH/version control rather than FTP.
I suspect that the quality of the advice which YC can bring to bear on a given problem has improved more quickly through experience and contacts than the effects of larger class size has degraded the availability of any particular partner.

It would make sense if YC has added partners with strengths which fill the gaps in the existing partners expertise. To put it another way, PG is the public face of YC, but it has been shaped by JL from the beginning, too.

http://ycombinator.com/start.html
Actually, a "long time" in space propulsion terms means more than a couple of minutes. The specific impulse of ion engines is sufficiently high that with sufficiently large engines, you would be talking weeks to get to Mars, rather than months by rocket.
Thanks for the feedback!

We've been getting a lot of requests for prepaid plans, and we'll now go ahead and add them.

I'll ping you on Twitter when we've added them!

Also take a look at our other product - Testling: www.testling.com - It's automated browser testing. It won't detect visual bugs but it's good for automated js testing in all the browsers.
Her side of the story sounds awful, and to the extent it's true KP's inaction and behavior is despicable.

I'm curious why she stayed though. VCs move between firms in the valley not irregularly, leaving previous firms on both positive and negative notes. My top two guesses are that either she wasn't able to find anything else, or she wanted to stick it to them by collecting enough evidence to win this case.

Both make me sad - the former because it means everyone else was blind to her apparent talent, and the latter because even if she wins this she'll never get that time she was miserable back.

I hope that the truth comes out and justice is served, but can't help wondering if success elsewhere might have been the best revenge.
The Burroughs B5000 - 20 Years Later and Still Ahead of the Times?
Yeah, I'm with you. I don't know anything about this lawsuit but I have the strong feeling that many of her accusations are true.
Also when I read things like "[...] Christina Lee, a Kleiner Perkins spokesperson, stated the Firm regrets that the situation is being litigated publicly and had hoped the two parties could have reached resolution [...]" I feel a bit bad. What is she implying? Paying her a big sum to keep her mouth shut? ...
ArrayDB, a new and easy PHP ORM
Would a space elevator cost only $10-20B? Burj Khalifa, a half-mile high building cost $1-2B already. Hard to imagine a space elevator costing only 10-20x the price of the world's tallest building.

A space elevator would presumably need to use a range of as yet non-existent and/or unproven technologies (very long carbon nanotube ropes, etc).
Blizzard has stated that this is not the case. All hacks have been by people getting their passwords stolen, and all of the recent hacks have been without an authenticator, or before one was added to the account.
You're clearly not familiar with actual guitar sheet music. There's a lot of notational conventions for string indications. Along with fingerings, positions, barres, etc.
The founder is not technical at all. He knows his business well but can't see the difference between HTML and JavaScript.

I'm the one who has to look at the code.

What I see can't be saved. It is a total mess.
The team is clueless but at the other hand they really put a lot of effort and work hard. They now want to change the framework and refactor a portion of the software. But I have a feeling that this a never ending story.

What it makes it really difficult is to accept the loss, trow away all the money and time and begin all over again. So the founder has the feeling that there must be a way to launch with this code base and delay the rewrite.
Ask HN: Can you fix the page expired nuisance 
Yeah, can you fix that. I love browsing, but it is frustrating when I go back to HN after reading a nice article and hitting the next page and seeing the page expired page.

Save the clicks!
In the US we have corporate industrial processed food lobbyists influencing what ends up in the school cafeteria's. We're used to having quick, processed junk food and most people probably wouldn't want it any other way out of ignorance of what 'real' food costs and can taste like. 'Poorer' countries eat much less processed foods and more of the local 'real' foods.
No, not really. Each day we see atrocities from poorer countries, richer countries. The light of truth shines on it and very rarely is anything done about it on a scale like this.

In this case I think the celebrity involvement helped, but really it was the father engaging the local government.
You mean she was asking for it?

Where did you pull the false accusation / innocent or trivial incidents from?

And if may not be true in this case why bring it up?

She asked to be transferred away from him because of this and they ignored her, how much more insensitive could it get.

Even when you're in a relationship 'no' still means 'no' and 'leave me alone' still means just that.
Sure, but Exchange support had been part of the AOSP trunk for over two years by time the D4 was released.
> Preparing and cooking fresh food requires much, much more effort than prepared packaged foods. Microwavable or similarly low/zero-prep food products.

Microwaving corn on the cob is pretty much as low effort as it gets.
Git and GitHub Secrets
I'm no expert in this area, but I just stumbled upon your post. Depending on the stage of the startup (and, importance of your role), you might get 1/4% or 1/8%, which is sort of standard, in my understanding, for early employees. But, these numbers do not really mean much, since your share will be diluted and diluted, and diluted, as the startup gets more funding. The cash equivalent of your option is close to zero at this point, so I wouldn't optimize for the option. (As for the valuation of the startup, if it has been funded, then there should generally be valuation based on the previous round. You can always ask the founder(s) and, I presume, most of them will be candid about it.)
Cult of the Amatuers' authors new book #digitalvertigo
Do kids still learn C in college? It's been my experience that new grads are primarily taught in Java...

That said, we do all our interviewing in the langage I expect them to be developing in - namely Ruby, JavaScript, and/or SQL. Is that the norm or do people still interview candidates using, say C or Java, for Ruby/Python/JS positions?

I suppose if we were interviewing someone who didn't know Ruby but knew Java, we could fallback to that. But luckily we have plenty of people that know Ruby/JS that I've never had to do that...

Although you don't have pointer stuff, you can do really interesting things with Ruby and JS.
I think this is telling: "In his personal life, Skrbina says he generally tries not to use technology if he can avoid it—he refuses to carry a cellphone, has never owned a microwave oven, and does not have a laptop (though he does use computers for his work)." So he advocates understanding Kaczynski's point of view, but he doesn't attempt to understand technology? That seems rather one-sided.
from the page: "For example, the Express edition for Windows 8 allows developers to use C#, Visual Basic, C++ and JavaScript" and "If you would like to use a language specific Express edition (C# Express, Visual Basic Express, or C++ Express) without specialized tooling for the latest platforms, you can use the Visual Studio 2010 Express editions, which will continue to be available as free downloads."
Honestly, the official book is just so very good and Lua is just so very compact that I don't quite see the need for a tutorial like this. But whatever, someone spent a lot of effort doing this, and it does not seem bad, so more power to that person.

However, the basic syntax and library of Lua is extremely simple. There is just not much to be said about it that you can not see from a few code samples.

What I would like to see is a comprehensive tutorial for the interesting stuff: How to use metatables, how to build great scripting APIs, how to implement object systems, how to use the C API efficiently.

But then, as I said, the official book does a good job of that already.
Google App Engine Blog: 1.6.6 SDK Released
Awesome, I'm totally getting one, thanks! Also appreciate learning about nmon, which looks nifty.

(Still do wish I could jailbreak my AppleTV though. That is one sexy piece of hardware.)
> Reading things like this, i sometimes worry that
> the HN-circling web crowd is reinventing things
> that others invented just a few years ago.

The difference in this case is that the HN web crowd are targeting their fellow programmers, and not the "Enterprise" crowd.

I've been following the DSL tooling scene, and it's horrible. Think closed source, expensive and targeted at the Enterprise (or specific engineering disciplines).

The community is full of MDA (model-driven-architecture) types: too often is the focus on increasing complexity (for ego boosting / job security) instead of simplicity and accessibility.

The HN crowd are pretty much the polar opposite: the focus is on simplicity and scale. Sharing knowledge, instead of locking it up for fun and "profit".

That's why I like it here :)
Tell it to Wall Street, Sun Tzu. The user just submitted the story, he didn't write it.
> This has been deeply thought through.

It hasn't. Read tptacek's link to see why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4009591
the traffic spike from HN crashed my server. i'm resizing my linode instance now, so the site should hopefully be up again in a few minutes
Memorial Day Weekend 24hr Hackathon in Atlanta (free and no vendors)
The daily-deal model forces a photography studio to shut down
It would depend on the laws of the country you launch from.
"Hi, I'm Sean Haufler, rising senior at Yale [...] Position: Software Engineer Intern [...] I didn’t have much experience manipulating individual bits"

Sometimes I want to cry for what the world has become. At least I can be content knowing I have job security. (To be fair: the ability to google the answer quickly and implement it is exactly the skill that kind of test is supposed to screen for. Still, three years at school and no bit math?)

Edit: several of the responses have interpreted this as my sniping at the author. I'm not (he got the question right, after all!). I'm depressed at the status of software engineering and computer science education, such that dealing with the in-memory representation of data is treated as an "obscure" skill that comes up only on job interviews.
If they release some sort of Ultima VII kind of game in the world of GoT this might be the first time I'll give a facebook game a try.
My girlfriend is in the medical profession. She's gotten job offers after 1 hour conversations. The last job interview process I went through had 3 separate phone interviews (each with coding questions) before they were to fly me over for a full day interview. She was pretty surprised at how intensive the process was. I have a CS degree from a top-10 school and have 5+ years of work experience. This is the kind of stuff that makes me sad to be in software.
I believe the winking face at the end was to imply some form of sarcasm or joke.
FWIW, these questions have no relation to any questions that are asked in engineering interviews at Google. We mostly focus on software design, implementation, and algorithms. (SREs get some UNIX/networking questions, SETs get refactoring questions, and so on. And some interviewers like math questions.)
Kaczynski's view seems a bit narrow—he takes a small portion of freedom and complains about how technology eliminates this freedom. But there's more to freedom than just the freedom of not adapting. Sure, it's becoming hard to get by without a computer, so in a way, we're being forced to use computers. But at the same time, computers give us a lot of freedom we didn't have before. Ironically enough, Kaczynski could've probably used this freedom to self-publish his work on the Internet. What Kaczynski fails to realize is that technology creates an increase in net freedom. More tech means more overall freedom, which is what really matters.
We are co-hosting a hackathon this weekend in Atlanta, GA. The event is completely free (including all food/drinks) and is being thrown by Social Fortress and Triple Threat Strategies (big data) with zero vendors.

If you're in the area and not looking to get caught up in the memorial day travel rush please come on by!
Corn is a grain, not a vegetable. Dietarily, Americans do like to treat corn as a vegetable, but it should be more thought as as a starch.
Someone has to remove the husk, de-hair it first, and chop it to size, not to mention dress it with butter or etc. Each single one. Compare that to the amount of effort it takes to microwave a 20lb bag of creamed corn that is already dressed, and ready to be scooped onto a plate.

Go inside a small kitchen at 4pm or so and watch the amount of effort it takes to even chop onions in preparation for dinner service.
From her blog (http://neverseconds.blogspot.com.es/2012/05/i-had-really-coo...):

>Today I have been sent lots of photos from America. This one was sent in by Kimberley who works in the Glenview school district, near Chicago, Illinois. Dad timed me to find Chicago on the globe and it took me 48 seconds but it was not fair as I was looking for it spelt SHicargo.

I hope I'm that kind of dad someday. Cheers to her father for the encouragement and for meeting with the school council. And of course cheers to Martha.
How 100 iPads saved Greece $140 billion
Dokuen - A Personal Heroku
Bungie's Next Huge Game is an Xbox-First "Sci-Fantasy, Action Shooter"
Shortest Game in World Chess Championship History - Game 8
The secrets of the system
The explanation given in wsj for problem 2 is totally wrong. The balloon will do the same as a person in the car (nod backwards), only less pronounced due to air resistance.
Also emacs provides an extensive platform with tons of modes to support pretty much anything you can throw at it, works in a terminal if needed, has an abstraction over files (buffers), debuggers, easy modes for vi/cua users, can connect to browser instance if needed and tons more.

Building a lighttable mode or even several small modes (libraries vs framework) for emacs would make more sense.

It is going to require a huge effort to duplicate a fraction of what it provides already.

But from a marketing point of view it is/was probably smarter to show eye candy to attract funding, but I am not sure it is the best route in the long run.
As long as the remote files are not in production and are under version control, what's wrong with editing them directly?

Sometimes it is hard to effectively duplicate the server environment (OS, RDBMS, ODBMS, web server, reverse proxy, other web server, caching tier) on a local machine. Particularly in a test deployment (as opposed to dev) you want to be very close to the production setup.
the best way to understand what's being said here is to remember that Rand escaped communist Russia

No, not at all. The best--in fact, the only--way to understand what's being said here is to read the fucking book (Atlas Shrugged).
Fun fact: that 100MW laser is in "cut the ISS in half in a fraction of a second" territory. 5KW lasers are used for cutting through 1/4" aluminum.
Thank you, Ed. I really enjoyed reading that.

I can't help thinking that the counterpart -- which you've provided indirectly in various other posts and comments -- would be a/the story of working somewhere where these distinctions are not recognized or acknowledged. And the risk this can pose to the high performers' well-being.
I do hope you're joking.
The idea isn't "Pay me extra for doing my job" — it's "Pay me a standard tip if I do my job competently, pay me extra if I go above and beyond, or underpay me if I really suck." Think of it as part of the meal's price being contingent on acceptable service, because that's really more what it's like. Viewing it as "extra" is just intentionally working yourself up by categorizing things weirdly.
I think that's called damage control.
It should depend on the type of app you're building. If the monetization is important (e.g., it's a paid app), then I hear that iOS is still the way to go. (As kavalec points out, the trend is slowly changing though.) If it's important for you to have wide distribution of the app, then Android has a larger reach and this will only increase over time.
That doesn't sound like a relationships so much as intimidating someone into having sex...
So crazy. I wonder how long it took to come up with that attack? There must have been a ton of dead ends along the way.