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BUG:

- Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type text/plain: "http://movies.io/assets/Lato-Reg-webfont-6690edfe4c4ab548613...

- Resource interpreted as Font but transferred with MIME type text/plain: "http://movies.io/assets/Lato-Lig-webfont-653131606c56b81c0ae...

(Safari 5.2 beta, OS X Lion 10.7.3, though that is clearly irrelevant!)
Love being Deaf
10 items inspired by HR Giger, creator of the xenomorph in Alien/Aliens
Clearly I hit a nerve.

>If you define "95% of problems" to be "reading and writing data such that data is read and written"

Pretty much. You have a competing definition? With the added point that "95% of problems" are mostly I/O bound reads of unfragmented write-once files and won't see benefit from extent allocation. And of the remaining 5% most of them are database systems which are doing their own journaling and block allocation.

Does btrfs have nice features (I like snapshots myself)? Sure. Do I use it in preference to ext4? Yes. But be honest with yourself: it's only incrementally better than ext2 for pretty much everything you use a computer for. And yet it sits at the pinnacle of 40 years of concerted effort.

And garbage collection is much the same: a staggeringly huge amount of effort for comparatively little (but not zero, thus "worth it" by some metric) payout.

Edit: just to throw some gas on the^H^H^H^H point out the narrowness of vision that I think is endemic in this kind of thought:

> If you look at most drives on the market, you will see devices capable of corrupting data for certain after three years.

If you look at most actual filesystems on the market, you'll find they're embedded in devices which will be thrown out in two years when their contract expires. They'll also be lost or stolen with vastly higher frequency than that at which they will experience NAND failure. If you look at most high-value storage deployments in the real world, they have redundancy and backup regimes in place which make that filesystem feature merely a downtime/latency improvement.

Basically, if someone waved a magic wand and erased all fancy filesystems and GC implementations from the world... how much would really change? Apple has deployed a pretty good mobile OS without GC, after all. Oracle made a business out of shipping reliable databases over raw block devices 20 years ago. Try that same trick with other "difficult" software technologies (video compression, say) and things look much more grim.
How many people will install it that haven't installed Adblock Plus?
After reading this article, I immediately started to see if I could find one nearby and found out about the one at Michigan State. Would it be possible for me to go there and sit inside for a bit to experience this, even though I'm not a MSU student?
Google started as an umpteenth search company on cheap machines and offered to sell out for one million, and Amazon started just by selling books from a website with buggy tech and workers kneeling on the floor to package the books. They both started at an easily accessible entry point too. But they each had a feasible path from humble to world-changing in a way that Elon maybe didn't going from online media and payments through a step function into disrupting transportation energy and yanking humanity into a spacefaring civilization. Even with, he was learning to get better at the game as he went along, and laying the foundation for SpaceX at the level of asking the rich questions, making the connections, and digging hard for elusive answers while he was still at x.com/PayPal. You probably always have to go through the foundation of exploring for the right questions to explore, to emerge with a meaningful advantage.
San Francisco, CA (INTERN, H1B welcome)

MindSnacks - http://www.mindsnacks.com/

We build wonderful educational games in San Francisco. If you are nice and want to help us make splendid products, we'd love to heard from you.

We're hiring in lots of areas! Here are a few:

* Backend engineer: So much data, so little time! If you can extract the signal from the noise, and want to improve the way people learn through our products, let's talk! Experience with scaling multiplayer games or web services is a huge plus.

* Mobile engineer: You build pocket-sized awesomeness on iOS and/or Android. We make games that teach people stuff. The perfect combination! We have plenty of fun and challenge projects for both mobile app and game developers.

* UI designer: We believe that great design is essential to build products people love. If you live to make jaw-dropping UI experiences (web and/or mobile), this is the place to be!

Email us at jobs@mindsnacks.com
More details: http://www.mindsnacks.com/careers/
I hope you don't feel too bad about passing on the startup opportunity. Hindsight is 20/20, and no startup is guaranteed to earn $100M for its founders. Maybe it's regrettable for not getting the experience you'd obtain win/lose, but the money part is a lottery.
If IE10 installer asked you this question:
Do you want websites to track you? () Yes () No
I think most people would say No. So, defaulting to No seems like the correct thing to do.

I don't know if that would really hurt Google or Facebook because if you have a google account, you are opted-in to have google or facebook track you.

It might hurt 'lurker' ad networks which track you without you even having any account or relationship with them.
They have got billions in inventory, it's just on Foxconn's books rather than Apple's.

Having very lean stock levels in a retail business can have drawbacks.
Before you deploy, test with facebook.com and twitter.com sent to 0.0.0.0 in your hosts file. Facebook has been getting more reliable, so it's possible to develop a feature and deploy it without Facebook breaking.
Konqueror and Midori are not on our radar (although we know of them). We'll try to keep them in mind also admittedly that's not priority #1.

About backgrounds: the randomness is part of what attracts people to the website (bored? just reload N times). That said, for logged on users, there could be an option 'disable random background' or something like that.

Why is page size a problem btw? Are you browsing on mobile? We'll have a mobile-friendly website without random backgrounds.

As for browsing available stuff: there's top50, and you can share public watchlists. For other queries such as Year/Genre, etc. you're better served with a search on IMDb or similar and then come back to movies.io. It takes time to do it right and we didn't want to release something half-assed.

We'll look a lot more into recommending content (from your 'peers'), there's a whole social aspect of the website which isn't there yet (mostly because some people don't care about it, and just want a search engine).
I think what people typically call ideas should actually be called something else. I like the term "seeds" - plant it and it will grow into an actual idea. Execution is the water with which it grows.
Why does YouTube get stuck at around 300 views when a video gets really popular?
Nothing wrong with it at all, I just find it kind of amazing is all :) Personally I haven't purchased software in a very long time, because I use exclusively open source products. Here is a way for open source developers to actually get paid up-front before the work is done, which is kind of crazy but seems to be working better than asking for donations after delivering something workable. Just something I didn't see coming.
On that note, do yourself a favor, write the resignation letter (on your own computer, turn the internet off) that you really want to write. Add all your gripes, hatreds, and problems with the place. Tell the true story of your leaving and why your soul was at risk if you stayed any longer.

now print it out and delete the electronic copy

Now you can turn back on the internet (since you now don't have to worry about accidentally sending something) and write a one paragraph resignation saying what your last day is and how you love everyone. Print and hand that in.

Every time in the future when you wonder why you left, read the print out of your rant.
cf. http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4054800, and you're absolutely right. We're working on reduce pain points, TV shows is an even more interesting challenge.
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The former has a large political impact.

How many dissidents a year do you think you need to kill to suppress any opposition?
so you're agreeing with him, but hating on his job title? just wanting to clarify here
Entirely agree, I suggest you edit the TMDb entry to make it better :) http://www.themoviedb.org/movie/422

We don't yet update our stuff from TMDb once cached, but will do soon.
Well, I guess we'll find out when people start complaining that the internet ads they see aren't as relevant as they used to be and Microsoft relents and turns DNT off.
I don't think irony and hypocrisy need to enter into it; really there is just a concern of escalation, or even a sort of "arms race" (although it would differ from a real arms race in many key respects).
also: we strongly believe that more theory is more power (in practice)
is it legal to download movies from these torrents? I believe no, correct me if I am wrong

http://techland.time.com/2011/08/30/expendables-piracy-lawsu...
> Not doing ads, tracking you, trying to sell your data elsewhere: check

With the absence of a "not" there, it's not quite clear whether you're telling the truth or not, but a http request to "track.gif" could be construed as, you know, tracking us.

http://secure.gaug.es/track.gif?h[site_id]=4fb448ea613f5d5be...

> We're not interested in piracy

Sure you are. You're directly helping people perform it. I'm not saying what you're doing should be illegal, but let's be honest here. You are "interested" in piracy. One could argue you're even involved in it.
Aw fuck, missing mime-type in the nginx config.

I clearly suck at sysadmining.
Feature request: The background images look very nice. I'd like to be able to easily hide all the text and just view the background (But, please don't 1) dim the text - completely hide it, 2) use one of those stupid LightBox thingies)
RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com) is looking for a full-time Bash/Python/Perl hacker in Mountain View.

We're bringing continuous integration to what traditionally has been thought of as a really long release cycle, and we need someone with the chops to build the tools to do it. E-mails jobs@rethinkdb.com. Not a single person who joined RethinkDB regretted it to date.
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Onerous affronts on civil liberties were occurring during the Cold War too.
Is something like that possible? Maybe, but by your own admission "I'm not a programmer" I don't think you will be able to accomplish it.

From what you wrote I am guessing you want to make a dumbed-down interface for creating full featured iPhone/Android/BB (Why even bother with BB) apps such as appmakr.com. This endeavor will not be worth your time, apps like these are super low quality and suffer from the cookie-cutter-app syndrom (Yes I think I just made that up).

No some should be polluting the eco-system with more of these, especially someone who doesn't even know how to program, no offense it's just this would be hard to begin with and it's an impossible problem to solve. You just can't create a product like this that puts out quality apps.
Hi. http://www.consoleshop.nl/ is a dutch online console store. Good design but nothing amazing. But if you just click on another tab (ie http://www.homecinemacenter.nl/) you switch to a totally different store but you barely realize it. Shopping cart is in common.
I did not downvote you, and I almost upvoted you again, but you could have said it better. Be nice.
I respect you make a distinction, Josh... otherwise, it would be akin to racism or other logical fallacies.. "SEO" is a term, reputable professionals are dynamic, with their own personalities, and ways of doing things, which may have nothing to do with the generally-accepted 'definitions' and understandings
How are the movie screenshots and posters not infringing content?
A huge amount of Google's advertising is based on anonymous (not linked to your Google account) profiles they build of people, which they can't do if DNT is set.
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Very similar to Robert X. Cringely's categories of Commandos, Infantry, Policemen in Accidental Empires.
Unfortunately it's getting hammered enough that the content is offline.

Maybe that's why he's walking away from CouchDB?
This is the same with PHP. Be aware anyone using something like MongoDB, if you don't sanitize/cast your inputs, your app could be vulnerable.

e.g. if you have the code:

$collection->findOne( array( 'username' => $_POST['username'], 'password' => $_POST['password'] ) );

someone could POST something like username[$ne]='?'&password[$ne]='?' and login.
Simple solutions. Designate random computers as secure. Have them in normal places, for instance in workplaces, but with agreements to have special monitoring, and serious penalties for putting software on them without properly logging that you're doing so.

Every so often scan those computers. Any software that is there which was not installed, is presumed to be malware. (And if not, trigger those penalties for having installed stuff without saying.)

Humans being humans, you'll get a lot of false positives. But you'll notice things like Flame and Stuxnet.
If you really find the buttons to be too small then why don't you look in to writing (or finding) a userscript to make them bigger/different? I only suggest it because the likelihood that HN is going to change is very low.
Rumble - SF Bay Area (Redwood Shores)

We're a new, well-funded startup making and publishing AAA games for browser and mobile. We're making real games for a large audience. Not ultra casual, not niche-y.

Our first title is a cooperative multiplayer 3D action-RPG. Think Diablo on Facebook. But free-to-play, and no big download. No obscure plugins, either -- we use Flash, but you wouldn't believe it. Adobe says they've never seen a higher-quality in Flash.

Seriously, check out our trailer: https://www.rumblegames.com/kingsroad

We're in closed beta. Let me know if you want to give it a test drive.

Rumble is backed by Google Ventures and Khosla Ventures ($15mm series A). We have one of the strongest founding teams the gaming industry has ever seen. (No, really: https://www.rumblegames.com/about/our-team)

We're both a developer and publisher of games, and we need help on both sides. If you want to develop the next generation of top-quality games, or you want to build and scale infrastructure to 1mm+ concurrent players, this is for you.

Positions: https://www.rumblegames.com/careers

Engineers

* Platform -- Java/Groovy/Grails/AWS (esp. Senior/Architect)

* Web -- HTML+CSS+JS+(PHP/Python/Ruby)

* Game -- Flash+AS3/Java/C/C++/C#

* Data -- Hadoop/R+ML/Stats

Other

* Producers

* Product Managers

* Analysts

* Artists

* Designers

Drop me a line if you're interested: mike.babineau@rumblegames.com
And this is why antivirus is, by and large, an utter waste of CPU cycles and IO wait time.

The ones it catches you could have avoided by not being an idiot. The ones you WANT it to catch go sailing by. Meanwhile your life is a misery because every single little file access goes through the antivirus - much like any other root kit, in fact. Ask me what that does to performance when you develop in Java, and every single JAR file gets unpacked and scanned every time...
@jgmmo sounds like trolling. These things escaped into the wild, which means the code is now available to a whole lot of malwre develoeprs who just upped their game.
Vungle is looking for a mobile engineer to lead development efforts on both the iOS and Android platforms

We're also looking for talented back end engineers that can build big-data infrastructure

MOBILE:
- You don't have to know what fast enumeration is on iOS
- You have, however, developed mobile applications on the side or for another company.
- You don't have to understand what HLS is
- You do have to have deep knowledge of JSON, HTTP, and ability to work with APIs
- You know what good SDKs look like, and will take the time to design/implement one, knowing that your code will be present on MILLIONS of devices.

We're looking for INTERN, REMOTE, and our immigration lawyers are the best at acquiring H1B visas, (or others).

BACKEND:
We're scaling our infrastructure to handle 100m+ API requests a day, and are looking for people that have experience working on software stacks that are internet-scale.
- You have a deep understanding of networking and the UNIX operating system (ubuntu).
- You also want to be apart of a great engineering culture and learn how to push the limits of node.js, mongodb, and redis.

Oh by the way, you may also become the next character in Mashable's web TV series, Behind The Launch: mashable.com/behind-the-launch/

Apply at jobs@vungle.com
Mobile Me ends June 30
Until a targeted attack turns every computer into a zombie DDoS farm inside an air-gapped network (thus, by definition not really a targeted attack anymore), AV companies and Mom and Pop shouldn't need to worry about these kinds of things. Stuxnet can be installed on your mom's PC and it'll provide just as much system instability and maliciousness as Winamp or uTorrent.

The real threats to moms and pops buying off the shelf AV products from their local BestBuy are the threats that are targeted at your mom and dad to steal their passwords, bank accounts, and include a trickle of Spam into the torrent of daily inbox junk that gets sent out every minute. If a nationstate decides to buy Norton 360 (et. al) to protect their nuclear reactor PLCs from being fucked with by another nationstate, well, they're screwed. There is no solution at that level (yet).
We hate lightbox as much as you do. No, more!

Yes, the backdrops are awesome (thank the amazing guys at http://www.themoviedb.org/ !), we'd like to find a cool way to let you show them without crowding the interface.
Good stuff. Personally, I've been spending a lot more time lately getting serious about strategic thinking, doing competitive analysis and formulating meaningful strategies instead of just "winging it" so much.

The book Outhink The Competition[1] really inspired me to start down this path. There's some good stuff in there, and that led to me finally picking up my copy of Porter's Competitive Strategy[2] and digging in. I take this seriously enough now, that I wrote a quick and dirty internal app just for managing competitive intelligence and keeping track of documents and links related to competitive analysis and strategy formulation.

Which, when you think about it, is a Good Thing. I mean, if you're talking to an investor and they say "how do you intend to compete with $FOO?" It's probably good to have a solid understanding of exactly how you intend to do that, instead of just saying "Oh, we'll out execute them." Especially when you choose to play in crowded markets like we do[3]...

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Outthink-Competition-Generation-Strate...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/Competitive-Strategy-Techniques-Indust...

[3]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4054540
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...thinking about doing a 'bad movie night' feature ;-)
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@PlanetGuy Yeah, way worse than those child pornographers and identity thieves.
"'consumer-grade antivirus products can’t protect against targeted malware created by well-resourced nation-states with bulging budgets'"

That's not the relevant bit. This is the relevant bit (emphasis mine):

"As far as we can tell, before releasing their malicious codes to attack victims, the attackers tested them against all of the relevant antivirus products on the market to make sure that the malware wouldn’t be detected."

This means that they can be certain they've bypassed the signatures, and whatever imperfect heuristics are being used have been bypassed, with the attackers essentially having all the time in the world to play with and understand the heuristics, up to and including a complete disassembly of the heuristics if necessary. And you can't have perfect heuristics (hi, halting problem!).

Yes, when the enemy has full access to all these things and sufficient resources to use them, the antivirus loses. Other malicious hackers don't have this scale of resources, and that's the sole reason they can't do it.
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This is fantastic and a required piece of the online learning revolution. You have to prove that it's you and take an exam to get the credit and currently this can only be done by physically going to test centers. I predict that in the very near future (~1-2 years) taking such tests to get credit for online courses will be as common place as taking the GRE or GMAT.
> With the absence of a "not" there, it's not quite clear whether you're telling the truth or not, but a http request to "track.gif" could be construed as, you know, tracking us.

Fair point, reworded the above to be more precise.

Point taken.
That's mighty purty.

Bug: if you try to type in something that doesn't exist, say an actor's name like Walter Matthau, it autocorrects so aggressively you can't finish typing

Feature requests: If it's available on Netflix/other streaming services, show a link.

Oh, and this seems like a very bad place to actually log-in.