skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I was lamenting the working-on-my-own-stuff part, not the getting hired part :)

I tend to build what I think is a cool pet project, then completely fail to put it in front of anyone other than friends who happen to be in the room while I'm tinkering with it. Usually by the time I've managed to build anything substantial, I no longer think it will be interesting to anyone.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch in South African schools.
You'll be able to make your cities and built up suburbs much denser if you don't have to have as many parking spaces.
Will we need massive physical storage devices now cloud storage is becoming more accessible for all?
I also recommend this one: http://www.amazon.com/The-Millionaire-Fastlane-Wealth-Lifeti...
Are We Eating Our Own Trash? (Infographic)
Believe the article was from the early 00's.
Protect them from themselves no.

Protect their password as much as possible when interacting with your web app/website I would say yes.

I don't think about it as a responsibility rather just a nice or the right thing to do.
"Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going."

I think that says it all.
If STFU were really brilliant advice, you wouldn't need a few paragraphs of historical metaphor. The article writer wouldn't need to give a personal guarantee that publicizing your success will lead to troublesome clones. You and he could simply point to examples of web services that publicized their financial success, then got surpassed by clones.

Where are they? I'm not convinced that STFU really is brilliant advice. I'm not convinced that big companies with lots of resources will jump at the chance to clone an idea just because someone has shown it can generate enough profit to make an individual financially comfortable. I'm not convinced that small companies with the skill to execute well on a clone will choose someone else's idea over one they come up with themselves.

Clones do happen, but if there's a connection between publicizing financial success and getting eaten by clones, please show me. As far as I can tell, you get clones when you get popular, regardless of information you publish.
You really need to re-think this attitude toward security.

It is absolutely your responsibility, as the developer of your application, to make security of user accounts an absolute priority.

It doesn't matter what the purpose of your website is - if you're having users create accounts, you need to secure them as best as you can. It's not ok for you to classify users who have poor password practice as "Bozos".

These are your users - your customers - the people who give your application a purpose. Treat them with respect, or let them find someone who will.
Women Air Max 2012
It's funny how everybody's reading this backwards. It's a press release, guys, take it with a grain of salt. "Look, 1184305% increase! wow!". If you take 30 seconds to put drives capacities in a spreadsheet, you can't miss this actually announces a huge drop in the speed of HDD size increase.

From 1990 to 2005, HDD size (and density) roughly quadrupled in 3 years. From 2005 to 2012, drive size grew by a mere factor of 2.66 every 3 years. And they dare triumphally announce that in the future, the multiplication factor will drop to 1,66 every three years, that's a hell of an improvement indeed.

For those who'd point out that this is a report about platter density and not drive capacity, I'd say that 3.5" HDD have had at most 5 platters for twenty years, so platter density always reflect quite exactly maximum available drive capacity anyway.
Weakly here:

> a partially disabled atty

and weakly here:

> You cost me thousands in billable time

But then directly here:
(http://chicksandpolitics.com/nauseatingsagagarciaboohoo/)

> Attorney & CEO of Schwager Consulting & Marketing;

Also here:

(http://www.whenigrowupi.com/)

> though I still practice law via the Schwager Law Firm. My law practice thrives

Claims several times to be the grand-daughter of Henrik Ibsen. I have no reason to disbelieve this. But it's mildly interesting.

(http://houstonattorneysocialmedia.com/)

If I was going to go all Internet detective I'd ask the Mormons[1] for genealogy advice. And then I'd carefully check each of these logos:

(http://houstonattorneysocialmedia.com/logo-design-is-the-fou...)

I don't particularly want to pile on (perhaps a bit late) but, while I know nothing about design, I can say that I dislike those logo examples. I also dislike the copy-writing. (Removing the many errors wouldn't help.)

[1] For anyone who isn't aware, the church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints (or whatever they're called) have extensive genealogical databases. They're friendly and welcoming to people who'd like to research family trees. At least, when my pa did that in London they made no attempt to convert me and provided him with help using their systems and computers.
If you're product can be easily cloned but makes a lot of money without any effort, it is a good idea to keep it a secret as long as possible. This way it will take longer for other people to clone it and you will have easy money.

The part that you should keep a secret is that you're idea actually makes money, not the technical part.
Since you made the same comment more than once in this thread, I'll reply to you here as well.

This attitude is absolutely not ok. You need to make sure the security of users accounts if a top priority, even if your app is 100% trivial in nature.
I agree.

And she had a simple remedy if he made a false claim; she could have filed a counter notice.
Thanks for posting this. Never heard of it before, but will be taking a look at it now.
Robots, Graphs, and Binary Search
Offline ads for direct response are easily measurable with tracking numbers. Branding ads - well - I have no clue how they track any of that - but then again how do you track a CPM media buy just designed to increase brand awareness online... (note: I come from the DM world).
I'm guessing that most HDD space is used for music & video. If the anti-piracy campaigns continue (censorship, TPB blocking, MegaUpload), I expect most piracy to move "offline", to HDDs.

10 TB would be excellent, I would'n need to pick which of my favourite movies I want to save...
I would definitely say it's the responsibility of the application developer to secure user account information, in addition to being the nice/right thing to do.
I don't think this is a good solution. If you have 1000 users logged in you have a 1000 extra requests a minute just checking the status of the user. This is to solve an edge case.

My company had a problem with clients being logged out after 20 minutes. You would think this is enough time but some people would spend hours editing content without pressing save. We implemented 2 solutions. The first was an auto-save. This pinged the server and removed the primary cause of the issue. The second thing was a warning which triggered after 15 minutes of inactivity. If they pressed OK some data would get sent to the server and the timer would start again. We are not concerned about random "universe glitches"

I would have thought a better way would be to add a listener for form submissions. Check if user is logged in. If so - send data. Otherwise login form can pop up or data can be put into a session or something and reappear after the client logs back in.

This means the user doesn't need to know how to copy and paste.
The cost of a driver vs someone who sleeps in a truck and gets people to sign papers might still be a substantial cost savings. Who knows? If there needs to be a human, maybe 'truckers' end up riding along in an autonomous vehicle for low wages. Some may watch tv while others may work another job online between stops.
The best process in the world can't make up for people.
Hard drive sizes seem to be mostly driven by consumer devices which are mostly moving to smaller SSD. Not saying 60TB drives won't happen, just not sure there is actually going to be a consumer market for them.
It likely has code that handles the generic case. See http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/labor-of-division-episo...
Kevin-

You're an idiot. How is any of that relevant?
Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews
It's because iSuppli study absolutely doesn't say they'll reach 10 TB by 2016, but that 60 TB on a 3.5" is the absolute maximum attainable through the HAMR technology, in some unstated (but quite far away) future.
Just updated Readme trying to explain better what it is. It's the first time I share some code on Github, so be patient with me! :)
I think the title sounds much to factual for such a vague statement. They that they are in principle able to decrypt such encryption, that can mean anything from "we can if the key is weak" over "there is a law which permits us to install a backdoor on your pc" to "we can beat you up until you tell us your password".

And it is in the best interest of german intelligence agencies to make such a vague statement. If they would admit that they are unable to break pgp, that would be taken as a software recommendation by everyone who is afraid of them.
The more I read about Cook the more I think he was the right choice for the role. Trying to replace Jobs with another Jobs-lite CEO wouldn't have worked, because they wouldn't have been Steve.

It's clear Cook cares about the company and wants to drive it forward, and it's clear that things aren't as focused on letting the engineers rule the roost, but we'll judge him over the next 5 years rather than when he's barely had chance to settle into the seat.
CSS regions
Ebersman really killed the FB IPO... Once FB matches the PE ratio of it's peers (Google, Yahoo, etc) the stock price is going to the single digits.

Issuing more shares at the last minute only made this problem worse.
I hope Kickstarter eventually does something like this, except with some guarantees on delivery. Like pledges that are only released once the content is delivered.
From the standpoint of the primary stakeholders (founders, VCs, etc.) and their best monetary interests, I'd argue that FB went public at approximately the right time. Why would they risk a more delayed IPO (and their ability to cash out at such an overinflated valuation)? In an IPO _now_ the risk of whether they can monetize falls to the public while stakeholders cash out on the basis of positive future speculation. In a delayed IPO, the stakeholders assume the risk of being able to actually figure out a revenue generating alternative to the diminishing ad service before user growth flattens---if unable to---panic/skepticism would ensue and the company's valuation (and stakeholder investment) would decline.
Why I Bought Coda 2 Directly From Panic.com
& Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds.
Does the auto-save function they've already implemented not return a value representing failure? Is that value ignored?
Tarantool - an extensible, persistent, transactional RAM db
Show HN: Daystack - A beautifully minimal approach to getting organized
This is something the entrepreneurs on here should be taking more seriously.

My latest adventure in startup land has been going well. As this is my first real taste of "success" and because I, like many of you, feel a sense of obligation to share with my community how I stumbled upon something that works I have been somewhat loose-lipped about my methods and my progress.

When things started to really pick up I decided to post on the Twitter account how many total sales had been completed. I thought it would help attract more sellers (and it probably did) but it also got the copy-cats interested. (Though I display the number of sales on the site, so if you go and add everything up you can figure all this out anyway.)

I recently found out about my first direct competitor, who it seems is knocking off other people's creations to sell and clearly got some "inspiration" (i.e., ripped me off) on how I do things on my end. Right down to copying HTML from my site. Needless to say it is discouraging, but it also forces you to hunker down to try and stay ahead of the competition.

I strongly urge others who are in a similar position to reconsider just how open they are. Especially with the people who will email you privately and ask for guidance in what they will usually tell you is something that in no way competes with what you're doing. There are indeed many sharks in the water.

I do think there's something to the whole 'brag about your success and more people will find out about you' thing. In some cases this probably does turn out to be better for the business if it attracts a much larger audience. It is a fine line though and should be walked carefully.
My Encounter With a Patent Troll
but I guess those vendors are not (yet) making out like bandits like the people the OP references. If your product is simple, profitable and easy to copy: STFU
Here's a video from the 2010 LLVM Developers' Meeting that introduces libc++ and shows how it builds upon new features introduced in C++11: http://devimages.apple.com/llvm/videos/LibC++.mov (16:36, 42MB)

Slides: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/Hinnant-libcxx.pdf
> Ditto google's 'free' analytics

Or being logged into Chrome.
The Evolution of File Storage
Cook is running Apple well and should be applauded for implementing changes that make Apple a modern company with social responsibility. But in the end he will be judged on whether he can come up with new, innovative products and lead them to success. All products released during his tenure have been iterations as the article mentions.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with solving small problems, making a lot of money relatively, and living a great life.

To Thiel $5 million in wealth isn't a big deal, nor is $500k in annual income. It is to nearly everybody else on this planet. You can generate those kinds of results by solving smaller problems on the web / mobile / software.
Case and point:
https://www.google.com/search?q=parrot+secrets+e-book
Facebook Shows There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
FB shares stabilizing, but probes mount
After using NoScript for while, I realized that it was painful to whitelist every website I visited. My goal was different, I only want to block tracking scripts and cookies. This is why Ghostery is best suited to my needs.
LeafFrames, about to change how websites are made?
There's a new startup called LeafFrames(up for release soon),that claims to change how websites are made. They promise that any normal internet user can design themselves or their businesses beautiful websites.
The sessions are probably stored on the server, and they expire after some time.

It happens a lot here where I work: our legacy ASP.NET WebForms use Sessions (because it used to be easier this way) and once in a while people complain that the app kicks them after some 20 minutes.
Yeah, I mean there are some terrible players out there. But most of the losing players at the high end would be winners at the low end. They're playing high because either they have money to blow (Tony Parker and Guy Laliberte come to mind) or because they usually play lower stakes but are taking a shot to move up.

It's also worth pointing out that the highest stakes tables have starting stacks in the 10s of thousands of dollars and pots in the hundreds of thousands. Your ROI doesn't have to be super high to pull in 4-figure hourly rates at those levels.

But for fun sometime, do a search for "Isildur1" in late 2009, early 2010.

http://www.pokerlistings.com/online-high-stakes-the-isildur1...

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/12/pokernews-exclusive-is...

And the biggest pot in online poker history ($1.4M)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfn6FjF0tc8
I can accept one's arrogance and lack of social grace being proportional to their contribution. So Linus in my book can be a total jackass and it would probably still be ok.

In reality I think he is just direct and says exactly what he means.
Battle igloo
How Thomas Edison & Iron Man are holding back American innovation
Looks great! Is it only for games? Nice job on everything though, and good luck!
How quitting his job made him millions
Aswath Damodaran, NYU's Professor on fair value of Facebook
But facebook gets to see who is where at all times...
HP to cut 27,000 jobs - May. 23, 2012
New ‘radically simplified’ WordPress is on the way
For me, exercise is key. If I get in 30+min of exercise after work it's like hitting the reset button on my energy and I can squeeze out another couple hours of productivity.
"You're asking me to believe that the CFO of Facebook doesn't know how to change his relationship status on Facebook?"
It's a sad state of events when any small merchant using popular shopping cart software can be harassed and bullied by trolls. I ended up writing my two Senators and House Representative (yep, single Representative. That's Montana for you!) in the hope we'll see real patent reform in the future.

For a more "news like" account of the case, with background and comment from the troll's attorney, see below:

http://www.ecommercefuel.com/ecommerce-patent-dispute/
This is not really possible if you are working on a mass-market product, like a videogame. Financial success is synonymous with publicity, so if you STFU you will almost certainly not succeed.

Sure, you don't need to brag about it or post sales figures directly on your site (Minecraft), but people are going to notice and often try to clone your game.
If you're able to randomly divvy up your customer-base, then split-testing is a better approach.

("Better" in that it's easier and more profitable, but not necessarily as fair.)
If your site has nothing of real value, then why are you requiring a login in the first place?

Further to that, if someone gets 'hacked' using your service, you've already highlighted that the vulnerability was using your no value service.

Don't skimp on basic security. And show your potential users a little less contempt, too. They are not the 'bozos' here.
Yes, I was wrong about cracked and I was unfairly harsh.
Yep, same deal. Endlessly blinks in the dock but never opens.
Cocoa, Apple and PureBasic
IMO if you have 1000 users logged in, an extra 1000 requests/minute is in the noise. And I tend to be paranoid about such things (e.g. I would add a small random number to the 60s delay to avoid synchronization).
So will the bus/taxi drivers or chauffeurs. Honestly though, we can't just stop progress because a group of people will lose their jobs. If we did there would still be elevator and switchboard operators, chimney sweeps, etc. And then where would we be?

Edit: Typo.
Another even easier and quicker way to greatly improve UX in many products is better copywriting (possibly by hiring an actual copywriter).

Quite frankly, I know I'd be quite puzzled if a message popped up out of nowhere telling me "You might be logged out, please, back up your content and refresh the page!".

What do you mean by I /might/ be logged out? Am I logged out or not? And why would I be logged out? What does this have to do with anything anyway?

And what on earth am I supposed to do to "back up my content"? What does this even mean?

And what is this "refreshing the page" business all about?

To be honest, being a developer myself, I would actually figure out what you actually mean. But I can guarantee you that 99.9% of the people out there won't have the faintest clue of what you're talking about. They'll just do what they always do in this case: they'll click OK, or Cancel, or whatever they think is going to make the annoying message go away.
I suspect that Sleepy's / 1-800-Mattress are in violation of various consumer protection acts. In Massachusetts, for instance, it's illegal to claim that an item is discounted from an original price unless the store regularly sells the item for that original price. Looking at their ads week after week, it appears that certain mattresses are always on sale, under rotating schemes that bring it to roughly the same discount price each week.

I decided to buy from CostCo instead.
Ask HN: Am I the BOZO?
Knowing that people post their 'Show HN: I built something over the weekend' and get valuable feedback.

I spent 3 yrs making my.infocaptor.com and submitted the post "Show HN :..." style but even after my two attempts I couldn't see the post alive.

I can see the post when I am logged in but the moment I try to query up using other machine it does not show up.

So clearly my account is flagged or something wrong here. I don't know if this reaches someone but wanted to rectify this situation.

Why BOZO:
If you have used and administered wordpress there is a setting where you can mark the users as Bozos. This simply means the comment poster will see their text live the instant they post it but in effect it is only visible to them.

It is not funny!
Article is behind a paywall/log-in wall. Can anyone post the juiciest quotes?
I'm sure it depends on the startup, but I was perfectly happy to get code samples instead of a github link.

In that case, though, you should work a bit to demonstrate your engagement with the field in some other way. The kind of people who I most want to hire at a startup are the ones who would still be coding on something even if that weren't the job. I strongly want to avoid clock-punchers who only program because that seemed like an easier job than dentistry.

Note that a blog isn't the only way to show your engagement. A bunch of good Stack Overflow answers. A very thoughtful cover letter. A link to some personal tech project you did. The presentation you did for a local user group. Mentioning the time you spend volunteering with the FIRST Lego League.
Kickstarter hides failure
I can't think of any cultures which are nomadic by choice. Peoples such as the Mongols and Bedouin come from desert regions where resources are too low density to sustain static groups.
Were the engineers ruling the roost in Steve Jobs' years? The story has seemed to be that the designers/visionaries steered/put the engineers in their place.
Alternative take: http://uncrunched.com/2012/05/23/meet-facebooks-fall-guy/
Also Adveristy and Anti Social subscription for AdBlock.
http://code.google.com/p/adversity/
Umm, wow. I just want to say think you Hacker News for not dissolving into that kind of a cesspool.
Yep.

From the viewpoint of a maintenance programmer, every artifact (file, class, method, function, test, etc.) is like a puppy you've adopted. It costs something to make, it will cost much more to maintain, and if you don't really need it, it does more harm than good.

Per the Pareto principle, 20% of the tests deliver 80% of the benefits.

Focus attention on: (i) tricky things (string parsing), (ii) security sensitive things, and (iii) fragile things (add tests when you fix a bug)
> In my experience many C# programmers simply fail to add much exception handling code at all because the compiler doesn't force them to.

Still better than:

try {
// Do broken stuff
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e); // TODO: Add a domain-specific runtime exception so we can actually catch this
}

I find this or something like it[0] spread across every Java codebase I find myself mired in, and I read a lot of Java these days (much to my dismay, but so it goes).

[0]: Actually, that's not fair. Most people don't bother to include the TODO.
> They are not the 'bozos' here.

Does that make PG the bozo?
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I sense some uncertainty on how to spell his name...
Claims several times to be the grand-daughter of Henrik Ibsen. I have no reason to disbelieve this. But it's mildly interesting.

I also found that interesting, but being that his two great-grand kids are male, I highly doubt she's a descendant.
There's scarcity in spending time with a particular person, for example. Meeting their producers sounds like a good "exclusive" bit of interaction, but I agree about non-exclusivity of content.