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re Quixotic Behavior: We want people who are comfortable taking a stand on an issue and going off on a mission to solve the problem. Not every great idea seems reasonable before people see it working.

re Full-Stack: We're looking for people who design and build full systems from low to high levels. Some have made their career working just as a front- or back-end hacker. We want to meet people who wouldn't dream of letting someone else take half their work or who would be comfortable throwing part of the problem over the fence. People that are a good fit probably don't care that much about what the stack is beyond some reasonable constraints.

If you end up sending that cover letter there's a chance that we'd all be amused enough to read your resume.
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I've found copied web content due to the person copying it not changing any of my img tags, external js, css before putting it up... pretty dumb.
If we present one face to the world, and another, totally antithetical one over the Internet, who are we anymore?

The same people we've been for as long as I've been alive and a long time before that.

If you look at it close enough, human nature's not pretty all the way through.
And if successful, they could wipe out all of their hardware partners. I doubt Windows 8 is going to be very successful, though. Most people will not see "Metro" as "Windows", and in the tablet space they will have to start from scratch, like everyone else.
Replication What and How.
That's a heck of a generalization.
Sure, that's a good way around it right now.

But I can also see America forcing their will on other countries and forcing them to keep detailed logs too (let's face it, the UK is right there with America)

Countries like the one that hosts TPB may hold out as long as possible, but eventually the rest of the "internet world" could just ban those IPs or whatever. (just like they are banning the TPB IP now).

What I'm saying is, I can see the day where it's illegal or extremely difficult to use a VPN anonymously, from any country.
Oh didn't realize your project was older. :) Anyway I doubt most people would really confuse the two.
Hey, you're exactly right. Most articles have really terrible information density and this is one of them.

For example Paul Graham's essays are often very insightful, but they are frustratingly long. The core idea, which is the only reason why I am reading the essay, can be summarized into 1 - 3 sentences. The rest is just a boring extrapolation and repetition of that.
Facebook CTO Bret Taylor is leaving the company
Programming your hands *updated [2006]
Right. Apple has found that they can charge 50%-100% more than the aftermarket upgrade cost (though in this case that wouldn't be an option) and people will still pay for it. That's capitalism, don't like it? Buy something else. In particular, it's not abusive of their market position, and it hardly takes advantage of end users. Seriously, how many people upgrade their Windows PCs? It's a minority, and a small one at that. The Mac world is no different.

Is it unfair for Apple to produce a product that cannot be upgraded by the end user (RAM specifically) and charge so much to do the upgrade before it gets to you? No, because you are not compelled to purchase it. This isn't like when AT&T leased phones, or MS forced OEMs to include Windows on all their systems (and had a >95% market share). Apple has no monopoly, they have no special sway with corporations and gov't (in fact, their absence in those fields and success despite it is somewhat remarkable and speaks well to their business acumen). If the prices are unreasonable, and people stop buying the products, the prices or the product will change.

Wasn't the Macbook Air similarly expensive when it was first released? Found it, $1799 for the base model when first released (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/01/15Apple-Introduces-M...). People bought them, but the price came down on future versions. The same thing will happen here, and if it doesn't then it means the consumers don't mind.
On the other hand, there is nothing that prevents the likes of HP, Acer, Dell and Samsung to do the same. All of them could have the economics of scale Apple enjoys, but they choose to have a more diverse product line instead.

Your argument would carry more weight if Apple had a much larger chunk of the market than all others.
Going viral isn't a marketing strategy.
That is a freemium offer AFAIU, where one is more or less just a demo and the other one is similar to a system extension for input. I don't know how to apply that to my app.

I was thinking of a time-limited trial version. I don't believe Apple accepts time-limited apps that duplicate full versions for the Mac App Store, but don't know for certain.
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I have phone numbers for all my close friends. If I wanted to contact them, I'd just call. The beauty of it is that it isn't all at once :)
There must be coming a cross-over where live actors will be cheaper than animation and it will be easier to make Shrek17 as live than CGI
I don't understand this instant knee-jerk reaction to call the lawyers out and bandy about the idea of a lawsuit. Public shame is powerful, and is often much more efficient than the legal system at solving the actual problem.
Which is fine and dandy, but "Pay 100% more for 'there's no other way to get a RAM upgrade'" is a pretty crappy deal.
Uh, so what? It's an incredibly basic design. It's not as if it's some blatant ripoff of an extravagantly designed theme.

They changed the logos and such (so it's not as if they are pretending to BE you), and made the colours their own. I'm not quite sure what you're mad about?

I would disagree with the concept of ownership of any kind of design work. Especially in the case of code considering how one-dimensional CSS is, there's really only one or two ways to build a site like this anyway.
Yeah but that's Greenpeace. As far as credibility goes, Greenpeace:environment::Sea Shepherds:marine life
panoptech.com - search tool that sat in your system tray watching keyboard input and doing background searches so that it would have results immediately ready for you anytime you wanted them. circa 1999, no one cared about privacy issues back then :)

feedcache.com/feedcache.net - QOS for RSS. Idea was to cache every RSS feed and their associated enclosures, etc. and make them available via API so that application developers had certainty that they could retrieve the content from the feed when they needed it. circa 2003/2004ish. Internet infrastructure sorta caught up to the idea pretty quickly and we also realized that it was too hard to compete by just providing QOS on content that a) didn't belong to us and b) was freely (usually) elsewhere.

I literally have hundreds of others, and these two are my favorites...
Astronomers and physicists care a lot about this and they are the people running the clocks.
In spite of its problems, I'd consider subscribing to The Hacker News Magazine if this article makes it into the next issue of the magazine.
The combination of public shame and a very basic legal request is often much more powerful than either in isolation.
They could call it the Zune tablet.
> I found it's very helpful if you can see as much of the code as possible (for better context awareness and browsing efficiency) which means putting a 1920x1200 monitor in portrait mode.

It's hard to find (online) if any given monitor can rotate. Furthermore, you'll get unsatisfactory results rotating a monitor (even one that pivots naturally) which has poor vertical viewing angles (ie, TN monitors).

I'd suggest getting an IPS monitor (or two) ensuring it has a VESA mount, and then getting table mount like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Dual-Monitor-Stand-clamp-monitors/dp/B...
That's kind of irrelevant anyways, all modern CPU's have speed stepping functionality that can reduce the clock speed while on battery.
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Why you are worrying about revenues of cartels?
If you think that selling drugs is legal, then their business is equally legal to business of Apple or Microsoft.
Why you are not worrying about revenues of Microsoft or Apple?
If that's your profession yes, but I don't know a single person who upgrades RAM for fun. If the system runs comfortably on 8 gig, upgrading it is silly.
If this is true, is sounds a lot like Microsoft's foray into the portable digital music player market.... It reeks of trying to play catchup, but not quite ever getting there.
Jail? Really? Aren't there better alternatives for cases like this?
I think you came close to the biggest differentiator: adaptability. Great programmers can dive into a new technology and use their past experience to quickly gain competency in it. If I hand node.js to a great programmer, I expect that he/she will be able to start being productive with it in just a day or two. Lesser programmers struggle to apply their past experience to that new paradigm. It takes months for them to truly get comfortable.

That type of agility is hugely helpful in an organization.
"Police? Mexico is not using your usual police officers to fight drug violence neither Colombia. They are using highly trained military forces. Why? Cartels have very advance military equipment"

If you read the article, you'd see the reason Colombia and Mexico use the military is mainly because the cartels own the police. Virtually ever person has been bribed. That's the core problem here.
Get over it. This happens everyday a thousand times over. Provide a better service that keeps users from going elsewhere. Keep innovating to keep the competition one step behind.

Heard of Pinspire? The Samwer brothers have used the copy game over and over again to get mad rich.

It's not worth your time getting upset. Look at it as a form of flattery and move on. Your time is better spent on making your site better than bitching and/or attempting to get them to stop.
I have experimented with this, and to my joy, it works. In first attempt at rhythm, I emailed users on a consistent basis. Soon I discovered that they were getting ad-blindness (well, sorta). So now, my new version emails them once every 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, or 21 days, with the probability of a user being emailed weighted over the slower end
Facebook has over 900 million monthly active users (google it and you can easily confirm this from multiple sources). It may not be "cool", but the time when you could proclaim it a fad has long since passed. That's like saying TV's not cool.
Yeah, but when developing it ends up being confusing sometimes since we're often targeting Mozilla Aurora, it is also why I prefer to call it Aurora.js.
Homicide and other violent crime rates tracked pretty tightly to the creation (and eventual repeal) of alcohol prohibition laws in the US. Homicide rates dropped dramatically immediately after prohibitions repeal. We likely wouldn't need to wait "generations" to see a benefit.

One reference for prohibition homicide data: http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/alcohol-pro...
There are lots of free and premium themes to build a "basic site" like this, and anyone can get a license to use the design legally. Why steal from someone who isn't willing to license?

CSS is open source by default, but this doesn't mean there's no copyright.
A/B Testing? I'm talking about the post title here in HN.
People will look at each other and ask:
"I always use CLOCK_MONOTONIC, do you?"
If you think a consulting company protects the confidentiality and privacy of its clients, there's a bridge I'd like to sell you.
I have an average high speed Internet connection and the 4 images you have on this post take forever to load the first time.

Turns out you're loading giant images (with original dimensions in the neighborhood of 1421x1352 and a filesize of 2mb) into an <img> with dimensions in the neighborhood of 570x542.

If you only need an image of size 570x542, please resize your images for the web and use those resized images in your post, rather than 2mb originals. This will help people load your page much faster and have a more pleasant experience reading your post.

Thanks. :)
$200 to go from 8GB to 16GB was among the most reasonable of notebook vendors I saw in my research last night.

Lenovo, for example, wanted $1,060 to go from 4GB to 16GB in the ThinkPad X230.

Regardless, I don't think anyone looking at such an expensive notebook to begin with would have a problem paying $200 for more RAM if they think they might need it some day if it means a thinner notebook.
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Same as landing a plane. Any experience you can learn from is a good one!
Funny enough I just read this article and thread and moved on... While googling for some stuff, I ran across this site:
http://nerdinthebasement.com/
Looks exactly like BOTH yours and the offending site, just a color change... I don't think there's anything special about the design that would warrant calling wolf, other than the fact of the CSS comment showing he did actually rip the design...

What I'm saying? I don't know. Designs are designs, nothing revolutionary about this one... Shrug it off, and move on.
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For Humble Bundle, I very much liked the ability to split things up how I wanted to.
I'll have to wait and see.

I'm wishing against hope that they'll bring to life some of the features in the Courier concept: Infinite journal, clip and paste, touch+stylus (stylus for writing ideographs --which are cumbersome by finger).

Dual screen? Maybe as an alternate model. One of the main ideas is that it would not just be a presentation medium but also a production medium.
I'm actually a bit surprised by the reactions here. Since when is css copyrighted? Where are the numerous lawsuits against Pinterest "clones" for having a grid layout etc.?

Sure, it's a shame, but css, like html and javascript, is not a protected source. It's run client-side. Would you rather just receive a image/png from websites?

EDIT: I know someone who've experienced something very similar (with css prefixes obviously referring to his site rather than the microsoft.cn clone).
But is the stack LAMP? And is the "P" Python, Perl, or PHP? What database are you using? etc.
That's probably not far from the approach they will take. And it will be a cluttered clusterbomb of a mongrel, nowhere near as useful as a Kindle or a Nook (or an iPad).

But I'm only basing that on about 27 years of using MS's products. (whether I want to or not)

The sad thing is, it will be cheaper than an iPad, and it will have a long list of features, and it will be pitched to VIPs in various organizations, as well as poorer customers, who aren't sure what they want to do, but see the list of things and the price.

It will suck, and it will eat up many times its cost difference in lost productivity, but it will probably get the biggest market share. Sob.
Steve Yegge was also unable to successfully maintain a not-too-complex 2D game and managed to blame Java for it

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.ht...

10Xer imples 10X some base level. Depending on what base you choose, Yegge can easily fall short.
true. But even a broken clock is right twice a day. And that was also a couple weeks after she started getting media attention. She generally was less pleased with other aspects of the lunches besides just taste. Even if the chicken curry was de-lish... it is freakin tiny. And that single broccoli stock... wow.
Does Hacker Monthly obtain the rights to republish all the articles in their magazine? They probably do not need permission from Y-combinator, but they certainly need permission from the original article authors/owners. If they are not getting permission, it seems that they are stealing too.
yes, it's not necessarily wrong, but it tends to end up that way unless you are careful to justify things on a case-by-case basis. it's all to easy to end up at "no, you cannot do this, because we say so and we have been given carte blanche to infringe on your rights".
Autofill profile will be the same for everyone, no?
I think they have requested permission from all authors. I remember I read it somewhere.
Microsoft has been looking at making a tablet since the Courier which was previewed in the run up to Apple's release of the iPad. What their ultimate strategy is remains to be seen but my guess is that if they are branding and distributing the hardware it's as a result of lackluster interest among consumer electronics companies in manufacturing such a device.

Such disinterest, if it is the case, isn't particularly surprising given the consumer market's acceptance of Android driven tablets, and it may be reasonable to see Microsoft choosing to take on the hardware side for the sake of conducting research (ala' KIN).

Alternatively, a Windows 8 tablet under the XBox brand makes a lot of sense given the success of that franchise and the level of acceptance that console competitors have achieved with portable gaming devices...e.g. Gameboy and PSP. A gaming focused marketing strategy has a lot going for it - "Mom, I can even do my homework on it because it comes with Word" and integration with XBox Live is already part of the Windows Phone 7 Gaming Hub.

I suspect that a gaming focused device would match up pretty well against the iPad (and Android) because XNA offers a way of facilitating cross platform development. On a larger front, integration of a tablet with Kinnect would offer the potential for some really interesting applications out in the workplace.
Well, I enjoyed the classics references. Had to look up Manichaeism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism)
I've been a part of some fairly large JS projects. I think you can develop solid software in either case. It boils down to the developer in most cases. Having said that, there's no doubt you're given the ability to do a lot more around enforcing structure with constructs such as abstract classes or interfaces. the timing of this post is interesting as I recently put a project up on github (https://github.com/vannatech/blade) for essentially coding JavaScript in a .NET-ish environment. I think maybe even as valuable as some of the thing strong typing brings is the ability to make use of the IDE (you get Visual Studio, assembly referencing etc). For building reusable components I feel like it's definitely the way to go. For annotating a page to add UI features, I'd push for JS. Then there's a lot of area between that where it could vary depending on other factors. Overall I can agree on some levels with the post. But I think, as in most things, it's important to understand the underlying technologies. Abstracting away JavaScript and the browser related APIs will inevitably lead to bad results.
Here's a start -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613095

And here's the golden nugget from the comments -

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3613571
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We do. Every single one of them.
looks like a typo to me
The expected return from a stock, even if you're a crappy stock picker, is greater than the expected return of a lottery ticket.
In my opinion, on first examination, the layouts are fairly generic in their particular similarities, and the copy text and specifics different enough as to possibly not be a clone but rather just a site with a similar design.

However, that changes when we see that the css file has been copied exactly. That makes a much stronger case that they may have started with your design and altered it just enough to seem to be different.
Can you clarify how Zach's name got dragged into this then?

I think the other thought would be that I would like to run my own idonethis server, or have some means of capturing the data in a usable format for myself, the way gmail allows you to get your mail for keeps and delete your account. I felt like I didn't have control, and, with the Zach bit, I felt that whomever did have control, may not be reliable.

Please contact me: my.username@gmail.com and I would be happy to reconsider.
From your privacy policy:

We use this information [personal information] to:

- Assess the needs of your business to determine suitable products

- Send you marketing communications

- Administer contests and sweepstakes you entered, and notify you if you won

- Conduct research and analysis

You are planning to do an awful lot of stuff with my personal financial data. One of the nice things about Mint is their transparency as well as the control they give users over their own data.
Yeah, I'm thinking of deleting the FB app on my phone. It's just a temptation to constantly check what's happening and stop being present with whoever I'm around.
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ah... true. Something like "Show HN: Budgetable (It's better than Mint)" probably would have worked.
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Me neither; I lug around a big-ass ThinkPad. I don't give a shit about design; I love my Thinky's design. Like a pickup truck. I need a computer that will grow with me and has parts available if I need to repair or upgrade.
That last part is certainly true. Find a product you like & apply :)
What will happen to consumers when prices will be so low, so no body will want to sell drugs, because they are no longer profitable?
It is a matter of priorities - drug enforcement isn't high up the agenda.

The DEA has a budget of $2.4 billion. The NSA's budget is classified, but most analysts estimate it's at least $6 billion - over double that of the DEA. And that's just one intelligence agency. The total intelligence budget of the USA is $80 billion.

Cartels could easily be dismantled if the will and money was there - it isn't, because we would rather spend that money on other things, such as nation state intelligence and counter-terrorism.
I always thought he was wasting his talent in there. I mean it's a big platform and everything, but he basically took an existing API and converted it to REST (the "open graph" etc).
Like give the money back? To who? You're also creating a perverse incentive. Steal and not get caught, keep the money. Steal and get caught, give it back. Heads I win, tails you lose.

You could fine him treble damages or something, but if most of his income derived from insider trading, there's no way to apply the penalty.
An alternative in which direction? Like, a nice hotel ... or hanging?

Insider trading is basically theft, only with no specific victim, and no broken windows; a very clean crime. Insider trading is stealing from other shareholders, which might include pension funds of HN readers.

Some discussion of impacts of insider trading here - http://money.howstuffworks.com/insider-trading3.htm
yeah, but maybe it's also free advertising for them now and (real)hackernews loses market share, who knows?
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I'm at the brink of quitting my day job & working full time on my startup, which was on the side but has met with some success recently, thanks in large part to my assistant. But it's starting to get unmanageable for me and I'm wondering if I shouldn't just keep it on the side...

I can do great work, but unfortunately not on my own. Someone has to do all the little stuff, dot the i's cross the t's... Not that I'm incapable of doing it, but I just can't rely on myself enough to know that I'll do it when it's my own business. I've read Neil Fiore's "The Now Habit" and a couple of other books including Tim Ferris' 4-hour workweek (hence the assistant). But nothing seems to quite work for me... Anybody have any good advice? Have you faced something similar? I've spoken with counselors regarding this, and it seems they just don't get it, they end up making me even more anxious...