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No, it is not a fuzzy term.

Open source means it is licensed under an open source license. Even Microsoft is not trying to steal the term, opting for 'shared source' instead.
Sites aren't people. It's linking wp sites. Don't even see how this stands even in general concept of 'facebook rival'.

Technically, it sounds plausible (?), but that's irrelevant.
Nice advert for Apple computers.
I had the good fortune of joining Sun the day the Monday after they went public. There were certainly people who left 180 days later, even though they had unvested pre-IPO stock, because the return on their vested stock was 'enough' for the next stage of their life.

There was also a clue in their S-1 [1] where his name is not included in the 'executive compensation' section, generally that is a sign that either he won't be continuing on with the company going forward (likely case) or that if he quit it would not materially affect the company (hence not of interest in the prospectus)

Given that he's been there 3 years out of four, has a C level position, and all of the other C level jobs have multiple millions of shares, lets give him a 'lowball' grant of 4M shares. So 3/4 are vested and that is 3M shares. So FB is currently $30/share but lets say he sells all 3M and pays 50% in taxes. Lets be even more pessimistic and say that his sale pushes the price down to $25, that is 1.5M shares @ $25 that he pockets free and clear. So $37.5M in the bank. Perhaps he did this math and said, "You know, I've got lots of things I want to do and that chunk of money would give me the freedom to do it until I die."

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001193125120...
My worthless opinion is based on about 20 years of newsgroup / forum membership, but the few years I spent working in companies whose software product was a cost centre for its customers was particularly enlightening. We (the guys working on framework / architecture stuff) tried to grow some of the people from the domain-specific side of things into roles on our side of things. It was an uphill struggle; these people weren't interested in it. Code didn't excite them, at all. They might as well have been shovelling fast food for all the love of craft they had. They came in at 8:30, got their work done, and went home at 5:30.

But the work they did? It would have bored me to tears. I would have quit had I had to do it; or perhaps, I would have surreptitiously built a framework or macro system or something to remove the redundancy and repetition from the tasks and indirectly reducing the tedium of the workload, rather than doing it more explicitly in what I was actually doing (developing the v.next framework for the company). But there's only so much redundancy you can squeeze out of many of these things (turning business rules from specifications into code) before you create too much complexity elsewhere. We still need lots of these people doing this boring work (most software development does not occur in software companies), and it's good that they're expert in the business rules they're translating. At the end of the day, it's OK that they're not great at producing code.

Of course, my opinions are completely invalid because they are generalized from limited experience, have no scientific value, etc. But it's the world I've lived, so I'd have to see decent studies and censuses to convince me otherwise.
Microsoft has been working to make Skype only use Microsoft's servers for a while now. I believe a lot of Skype data is going through these servers already, and since no users can become new supernodes any more, some time in the future all the data will go through Microsoft's servers.
Many "bright spots" aren't really manageable: one runs all around my room and it's called a wall. The other follows me everywhere I go and it's called my face.

A bright picture on the monitor (say, a Google page) will beat reflections in most situations. But as soon as I open something darker - say the Sublime Text editor in its default (and best) color theme, and it's a friggin mirror.

As for "shimmer", I'm afraid it must be a problem of lower quality monitors. My good ol' NEC 1990FX gives me nothing of the sort.
Adding to the "why it's scrambled" comments: because data transfer pricing differs for intra- vs. inter- AZ traffic, if you need to coordinate with other entities to be in the same AZ, it's possible to do so.

But, yes, generally: Amazon randomly allocates AZ labels to given customers to avoid preferential clustering on any given first choice.
I agree, the classic engineers like to work problems with an easily definable end result (so that business types don't tell them what to write).

It's a pity though, there's a huge space of products that are needed but the talent is going into slugging it out in societally useless and relatively low paying niches (such as many of the most talented programmers entering the game industry or social networking or linux kernels). Meanwhile dumbasses are raking in millions with shit like SAP and the like.
This is pretty identical to mine, so I have a natural bias towards this (and the only one I took seriously). There's something to be said for simplicity, but too simple is just not realistic. For example, in the first picture, it's just a laptop on a table. No pen, no paper, no earphones, no mouse (!). There isn't even a power cable. I know it's to make it look clean, but like I said - not realistic.
Well, I think this says more about your understanding of friendship versus acquaintance rather than facebook itself.

Just because you added someone on facebook doesn't mean that you are now good friends. It means they know you somehow. You'll get invited to people's parties when you're close to them. Facebook supports existing friendships. It doesn't create new ones (well, in general).

In fact, if someone you know but don't certainly like adds you on facebook, it's socially awkward to not accept their friend request, because it is an outward social refusal to not do so. Essentially, you can "force" your way into friending someone. This weird social dynamic allows people's friend lists to grow way beyond proportion even if the feeling isn't mutual for everyone.
Question for HN, how do you generally feel about the 'Intrinsically Motivated' requirement?

I'm deeply motivated about a great many things that are important to me, but helping to implement or maintain someone elses idea isn't one of them.

For a price I'd be happy to turn up and give you eight hours of hard work per day. I take pride in my work, am passionate about improving my skills and would do my best to translate them into tangible benefits for your organization.

But my motivation for doing so would be mostly based on a financial arrangement, in other words, extrinsic. Does that someone like me shouldn't apply for a job posting like this or am I misunderstanding?
> Wow, this is really not true at all.

Actually it is! The failure rate for a MacBook Pro was way under 2/10 when I was there during the lifespan of the product.

Apple calculates the lifespan of a product in different terms to the warranty. The warranties differ by country (EMEA & US have different warranties thanks to EU and individual state laws).

You're right that these machines can and will go for five years. My current laptop, a 17" MacBook Pro, has been with me since ~2007. It'll go for another year at least.

Apple will replace these devices when they are in warranty. True. But the concept of a warranty is what is wrong, not the replacement of an entire device.

It's better to have a device which is far less likely to suffer mechanical failure, which happens to require a more expensive repair when it does, than it is to have a device far more likely to suffer mechanical failure but with cheaper repairs (for a few select problems).

If you can't afford a MacBook Pro don't buy one. There are other machines on the market which are highly user-replaceable. I'm going to buy the new Retina, I won't be getting AppleCare, and I bet it lasts just as long if not longer as anything else you buy.
Yelp lawsuit
hey how do i get in on that lawsuit against yelp, i hate those bastards, they posted a review against my business in which the girl called my employees fat, i let disadvantaged clients that can't afford their treatments help out, that was what she was referring to, yelp is all about the randoms that stop in for a brief moment and review, not the business owner, i hope they end up where they belong, in the trash along with all their trashy negative haters
While they are cleaning up one singleton folder, I hope they will clean up another set of singleton folders. Namely, app folders. I realize that giving every app access to your entire Dropbox is a bad idea, but apps only being able to access "Apps/The App Name/" is like only being able to share files in "People/theiremail@example.com/". For one, it completely kills the ability to have multiple apps use the same files.

What would work better is an "Add to App" model. If I want to use a folder as, say, my Calepin blog, I would go to the Dropbox Web interface (maybe even the GUI client) and click "Add to Calepin." Then if I also wanted to use it as my Epistle Notes folder, there are absolutely zero issues.
Tunnel boring machines are extremely difficult to buy and more difficult still to run without oversight. They're just incredibly complex and hard to maintain machines. It's not impossible mind you , I mean, the cartels have all kinds of expertise available to them, but consider that the cartels have access to humans enslaved by their drug habits. Many people, fueled by cocaine, with picks and shovels can make short work of a tunnel like those described in the article.
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If you're investing according to general guidelines, like investing a fixed amount each month, keeping it in, not trying to time the market, and so forth, there's very little stress. The more your investing strategy resembles gambling, the more stressful it will be.
Using your name is expected. However it's absolutely wrong for a marketing email that is from a company that doesn't have a well established relationship with you IMO. Mind you those companies shouldn't be emailing me anyway ...

If the email is personal to me then use my name, if it's generic then genericise it; if it's for someone else and copied to me then use their name so I can tell that.

Are these things really so hard?

Oh, hang on. All of the comment replies contradict the content of the article .. I'm going with 'raising peoples hackles by declaring something false to be true in order to garner links and stimulate comment'.
Hmm, so someone ripped of your site, and just enough of it is different, that it's probably best to just shrug it off and keep working on your site.

But wait, there is a comment in the CSS that clearly shows that they ripped it off! This changes everything!

Actually, no, it doesn't. This is a distraction. When something weird/awkward like this happens it's probably best to leave it out of the conversation. It would be different if rather than a comment it had been some non-trivial code that directly added functionality to the site, or improved the look and feel. But this is debugging material.

BTW I like Hacker Monthly but I don't currently use it, because I'm already fairly comfortable with how I consume articles here. Keep up the good work, though!
Nice idea, though the way I see it, you are either:

(A) A user who doesn't care what language(s) their OS/toolchain/stack is built with; or

(B) A developer who sees the value in the right tool for the job. I love Python, but it isn't the right tool for all jobs
> Lenovo, for example, wanted $1,060 to go from 4GB to 16GB in the ThinkPad X230.

At a guess I'd say that's because they're using matched 8GB sticks, whereas Apple is using 4x 4GB. (Just a guess.)
The Dell Ultrasharps are a great value for the price. I picked up a refurb 24" for around $350 a few years ago, and it's served me very well.
I think a well designed Google+ API and infrastructure could be integrated into WordPress effectively to form the missing pieces of a "social" backbone. That's how Google+ can succeed in my mind--as a view-agnostic infrastructure that sites can build off of to add the social features. It seems that people think that G+ must succeed as a specific destination, but I think it can spread and succeed in more "hidden" background role.
Livejournal tends to foster that kind of social network.

I have an account on Dreamwidth, an open source fork of Livejournal, and it's very good being able to savor the more long-form writing I find there.

I believe I have several invite codes, and would be happy to give them out to interested parties (email me, it's in my profile).
Integration:

Nice idea, but you should link that lonely island to twitter/facebook as (Mobile-/Web-)App for higher availability.

Design:

The Twitter bootstrap looks ugly. Why not use warmer colors and stock photos that spread a warmer feel. Customizable SmilePages that contain all the love at a secure/private link would also help spreading.
MBP batteries haven't been "user replaceable" in a few years. The difference now is that the cells are glued in instead of screwed in, so even adventurous people can't give it a try very easily.
Yes, it's plausible and that's the main thrust of the argument.

I'm not even sure Matt M. has a clear idea of how the direction this might play out but it might be like this:

- build a huge set of site running the same codebase (done)
- start to connect them on the admin level (doing)
- start to connect the on the user-facing level (starting)
The thing about these studies, which I do appreciate, is that they are measuring a programmer's ability to work on something:

1) Small.

2) By themselves.

3) Well understood and documented.

4) Doesn't have any threat of changing out from under them.

In the real world, the bottleneck usually isn't writing code, it's writing code that does the right thing and making the right people happy in the right way.

In some ways, trying to apply the lessons from Peopleware in the real world is like using your knowledge of unicorn anatomy to predict the Kentucky Derby.
The CPU usage seems to increase while the audio file is being downloaded from the server as well, which might explain why it was initial 10% and then dropped to 6%. We'll look into that more. When decoding from a local file, I've seen flac as low as 3.5%.
Can someone with more experience in CSS optimization take a look at some of the code output and see if utilizing something like CSSHat actually worths? Looking at it is a bit of an eyesore, but I can't discern whether or not it would really affect performance.

VisualIdiot's export: http://jsfiddle.net/csshat/a725h/

musHo's export: http://jsfiddle.net/csshat/d99Hk/
Why Google suggest me to block all Endless.com (amazon) links?
I am searching "steve madden ENDANGER wedge sandals" then noticed Google shows the "block all links from endless.com" underneath the llink.

I know G is going after Amazon for awhile and with their latest shipping service play. Now this?
I have a 15" Pro, and I hate carrying it around to work from coffee shops. My old work 13" Air fit much more easily into my everyday bag and the weight made a big difference. I don't think working on a 13" is the most comfortable thing, but with judicious use of multiple desktops and full-screen mode it's workable.

I love the 11" Air, but I couldn't imagine using it for anything other than a basic email machine.
I think the biggest problem is not the stole per si. But the biggest problem is that a company trying to make a similar service ripped the competition design.

It's so sad that someone inside the hacker culture has to go through things like these. Why stole a code?
Yes, that's huge part of it ... "stop talking about never-will-make-it projects like Diaspora"

But there is a strong part of me that thinks WordPress could become a serious (although very different) competitor to Facebook.
I guess it depends on which season Facebook is in now. I vote for summer.
I deleted my post because honestly I think Apple and its future belongs to users like yourself, and that it will work out fine for everyone in the end. Just know that I have been buying a respectable number of Apple machines over the years, including three Mac Pros - which probably just confirms that I really am a member of an audience that Apple actively tries to get rid of.

So yeah, I can afford a MacBook Pro. I'm just choosing not to, anymore.
The analogy here would be more like using books as toilet paper....
For what it's worth, the iMac has been able to power a secondary screen for quite some time. Not that's it's a great alternative - Apple has always had a lackluster desktop line the first iMacs took off.
It's impossible to run an organization like this for so long and with profits so large, without the help of some (lets call them corrupt) FBI/CIA/DEA agents or politicians inside US. I may be just a sheep but the shepherd and the dogs are always working together. We are driven to believe that all this is Columbia+Mexico vs US conflict when in reality there may be an invisible and silent war inside every country (not only US) between the ruling class and middle+lower class and the "war on drugs" is just one of the never ending battles, which will not be won by anyone as long as the rulers don't have serious interests in winning it.
A link to the github repo would be nice.
yet somehow we allow nicotine to be sold... or sugar. both are highly addictive.
If I am intrinsically motivated, why would I work for somebody?
I've been recently travelling with several friends for a long trip. It was very fun to see how you cannot use any recent macbook or an ipad as a "portable" computer anymore, as you cannot swap the battey with a fresh one. Sitting on a power source while waiting for the thing to recharge is also very fun when you know you could be able to just pre-charge another one.

Very sad in my opinion, as the swappable battery is essentially what makes an "appliance" portable. Recent mp3/music players, phones and pads have basically the same issue. You can't simply continue to use the device while the second battery is recharging.
This is rather perplexing. I mean, first of all, this isn't really Skout's problem. Yes, there is a problem with sexual predators using the internet to find victims, but banning teens from Skout doesn't actually do anything to prevent that.

Secondly, if this is how they were going to react in this scenario, what the hell was Skout thinking letting minors sign up in the first place? Were they just hopelessly naïve?
It seems like a really cool idea, I just can't see myself using it though with other locational based apps like 4square. Also, I'd look into twitter bootstrap for the site UI.
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I read this and wonder how bad it needs to get before politicians take legalisation seriously.

50,000 people dead? - check. Billions in profit? - check. Narco-states on the US border? - check. Criminals walk out of prison? - check. Gigantic crack & methaphetamine problem within the US? - check.
You forgot "drug addicted".
Lol I think they should rather call it "The n00bs news magazine". Looks completely lame. So I would just ignore them, its a waste of time.
>>I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a fraction of hackers' tastes and preferences.

Oh, yes there is, it's called change.
add sugar to your list. People definitely eat for recreation and it is addictive.

People simply don't think rationally about the war on (some) drugs.
Some thoughts on cross-platform mobile strategies
You don't like it, don't buy it.

This being said, we know how Apple manages a 50% profit margin: Lots of people can't help themselves, THEY LOVE IT.

So...all discussions can end NOW. :)
Here's a link to story on the Wisconsin hunter that stumbled upon a marijuana farm operation on public land.

http://fox6now.com/2012/05/17/cartels-invade-the-northwoods/
We've built a 'Cargo freemium' application to format and convert videos. We give away daily free quotas and charge for additional quotas (if the user can't wait for the next day or has a lot of videos).

We're still on trial and error mode on what to give away for 'free' and price points.

At the start most users didn't even use 1/2 their free quota s. Which is both good and bad. Good in that most 'free' users weren't putting a strain on the servers, but it's also bad because if they were leaving half-empty (quota on the table), there was little incentive to pay up. The other variable in the process is that if the 'free' quota is too low, nobody is able to 'test' their videos for free (so it's a balancing act to get average video size too to fit in the free quota)

User acquisition and marketing has been the most problematic for us. Our conversion for paying customers is still in the 1/50 range! If you consider average adword clicks in-around the .30-.50 cent range, that's about 15-25 dollars to get a paying customer on average. Operating at this level the margins are razor thin to say the least (We've tried to cut down on the marketing costs, but bidding anything lower than that and you get little to no traffic)
Why do you think the "Restore to Point in Time" failed to work? That puzzles me the most in this catastrophe and no has addressed it. In theory with Point-in-Time restoration you should not lose data from a failure on just the storage where the InnoDB is stored.
any member can post their own hacker desk from here (http://coderwall.com/p/t/hackerdesk), these are just a few featured ones
In 2 years, the non-replaceable battery pack will be dead.
And the current War on (some) Drugs isn't having a massive negative impact on you? Do you not pay taxes? Do you own nothing at all of value and never go outside?
It might not be initially obvious that these are just some featured desks as part of our launch. Coderwall members have been adding their desks here => http://coderwall.com/p/t/hackerdesk
>how is that better than only having the statistics?

Its the quality of the stats that is the difference. e.g. When economists work out the GDP its a case of thumb-sucking a number based on a few factors which in turn are also educated guesses. With a digital economy you can just throw it in an Excel sheet and get a perfectly accurate answer. Thats what he means with "having the data".
No you got it, exactly like that.
I see you're using a computer. Did you happen to steal that computer from someone? Maybe a neighbor? Perhaps the local consumer electronics retailer?
Mozilla named their alpha release channel "Aurora" in 2011, but the name is a nod to Netscape's 1997 Aurora project, a competitor to IE4's Active Desktop:

http://news.cnet.com/Netscape-previews-Aurora/2100-1001_3-20...
Ripping off a site's look and feel is not generally illegal, it's just scummy. However, that (irrelevant) comment in the CSS shows that it is at least somewhat a derivative work, which is often illegal.
Whats the easiest way to stop people from breaking the law? Change the law.
...for $200.
Good to see more ways to share internet experiences with real-life people. Wasn't meebo working on some sort of web check-in thing? Wonder if there's something in the works around that, beyond just their hello advertising bar.
> they have to adapt their ethical code from "copyright infringement is bad"

How about "plagiarism is bad" and/or "monetarily profiting off the work of others is bad"? Both of those are self-consistent in this context.