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If it wasn't used, if it didn't help people or solve a problem, how can it be considered successful?.

The team got paid. I've written a lot of software that nobody has ever used. It was fun so I consider it a success. Similarly, many clients have commissioned many silly projects that they paid for and never used. (I was once tasked with writing a fourm system for an insurance company's customers, where they could discuss their experiences in having that company's insurance. Despite the software being up to their spec, the project was cancelled because it was a terrible idea. I got paid nonetheless, which could be considered a success.)

ALL of those products/projects you list did required managment and business skills to be successful.

Where's your proof? I'd say that projects like Emacs and Linux are successful in spite of their leadership's social skills.
From an environmental perspective, a single landowner like this, who isn't going to put it to intensive development or use, is probably the best thing which could happen to a place like Lanai, other than becoming a park or nature preserve of some sort.
How important is the foundation of a house, after all there is also a floor in the second storey of the building.

The entire point of the secured boot process is, that you can only boot a signed kernel. And in the case of iOS today, the kernel will only load signed programs. (And a VM is against the App Store guidelines, as is a python interpreter). So there is no guarantee, that you will be allowed to run a VM on your secure boot machine.
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"As Larry Ellison is unlikely to be able to win a war against the United States, I'd say the answer here is also no."

I wonder… "Hey Operations? It's Larry. Shut down all Oracle and Java applications running inside .gov networks. Right now. Every single one."

;-)
FWIW, H1Bs have run out until October 2013.

Lachy is Australian though, and could almost qualify for the E3, which is a far better visa (I'm still on it seven years on) though it still needs employer sponsorship and some level of university education, which makes it less than suitable for his case.

The dynamics of the H1B run-out will be interesting for Australian tech workers if it means US companies can only hire Canadians (TN) and Australians (E3) for the next 16 months.
https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Editor-integration
Printing presses don't make decisions and are not electronically connected to a greater network of presses.

Computers aren't A.I. yet, but they sure aren't staplers either.
"The key to speeding up checkpoints and making security less intrusive will be to identify and assess travelers according to the risks they pose to safety in the skies."

I can do that right now. Statistically speaking the answer is, "none". What a waste of resources.
Because he's kind of immature, like a kid.
Kickstarter isn't perfect
My favourite is probably:

Say you want to add a product to an existing order in the database...

$orderProduct = new OrderProduct();
$order = OrderPeer::retrieveByPK(1);

$order->addOrderProduct($orderProduct);

Now, if ANYWHERE after this point in the code, something calls $order->getOrderProducts() before you call $order->save() (like a validation routine or something) you will lose that new OrderProduct and it will not be persisted.

It's bit me more than once, especially as you start to spread code around that depends on traversing the relationships - can be a very tricky bug to spot.
I'm saying that some people ARE asking for a free pass. They want knowledge in exchange for money.

Yes, they exist. I agree with everything else you've said and indeed that's the challenge.
Huh? Hysterical.
The burgers are addictive, man. The craving, the feeling of being overcome by the desire to consume when you get one, the shitty feeling you get afterwards and yet still continue to eat it - that's addiction, bro.

And like the other guy said - it's backed up by science too. The insane amounts of fat, salt, and sugar spike the reward processors in the brain WAY past what they're built for. They are hacking you.
Excited to see more people become aware of Zapier! I can't believe it was only 5 motets ago that Wade was showing me a demo of the product and listening to my crazy suggestions.
http://www.ellisonfoundation.org/
My large organization has the managers of engineers, who are engineers themselves, act as the intermediary.

I've met very few PMs who know enough to filter anything.
Twitter Co-founder Jack Dorsey’s $9 million 2 bedroom house in San Francisco
Category error. Pin-tumbler locks work for their purpose, don't they? The current business models for digital music don't, as evidenced by the topic at hand. I'm assuming you know what a market failure is..
The competition might also be more fierce in the US and you don't need to be there to be successful. Maybe the lack competition could work in your favour?

Australia is also part of the Asia-Pacific region (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific) which includes developing countries like China and India.

It'll be good experience to go to the US, but don't discount your local region.
One of the unusual experiences I had growing up in LA was a high school club fundraiser where we all went to a sitcom. Yes, we were hired as a studio audience for an evening.

This was clever because they gave us a reason, not just an individual reason but a collective reason, to be there. We felt more engaged with the experience, even when it dragged into the late evening. We actually ended up laughing, at jokes that were not that funny when they ended up on TV.

Ultimately, what they did to get us there enhanced the enjoyment of the later users... I mean viewers. I wouldn't hesitate to get early users the same way, for the same reason.

Getting people to sit in a seat in a studio and laugh for an evening is basically a solved problem. But getting a sharper-than-average, engaged group of early app or site users is still tough. And it's desperately needed.

As others mention, Mechanical Turk is a pretty bad fit. You're probably better off getting a few friends to be sockpuppets (be sure to pick less silly names than "Nutshapio" though). Maybe a startup founder could try taking inspiration from this story to turn their public beta into a fundraiser. Oh, and I can't miss this opportunity to mention the BetaArmy subreddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/BetaArmy

That's about it as far as resources I've run across for getting a great first hundred users. So what are the best ways everyone else has found (apart from being in YC)? Does anyone run a service to satisfy this need?
Did you aim for the sky right from the beginning?

I guess you either had great people around you who told you you could do anything, or you just ignored the ones who said you couldn't.
I'll take that as a no in general (I assume more people would have responded if they knew of any), thanks for the responses though guys!
This sounds pretty similar to the plenty of fish story.

Casinos have been doing it for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill#Gambling

I say good job boys.
Realistically, chances are that if you could come up with a good idea for a startup and successfully follow through before university, you will still be able to do it a few years later. Even if the startup world implodes, you'll probably just have to wait a couple more years. I would guess that the added education improves the odds for most people, and failing a startup with a degree and related career to fall back on its far better than the alternative.

Aside from university being fun, you should also be learning skills and meeting people. I'm working for a startup that started at my university and I heard about it through another student. If I decide to do a startup one day I'm guessing my experience and contacts will be an asset.
Why would average person want a major OS upgrade for their phone? I can understand a minor update (Bug fix etc). But do I really want my Phone OS to be updated (yes as a developer but no as a user)?
It's all down to implementation faults; e.g., the wii "trucha" signing bug http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Signing_bug would be good if only they used memcmp rather than strcmp.

There's nothing magic about the bootloader check; They have to get it right, which they might -- but it's much harder than one would expect.

> Additionally, my understanding is that the keys in UEFI's Secure Boot storage can also be applied against signed drivers, so assuming the keys are better than the MD5 collided Microsoft certificates, it would also help secure against malicious drivers.

Not really. You just have to get an exploitable driver signed (possibly through official channels of some sort), and you are good to go. Whoever wrote stuxnet had the means to acquire a driver signing certificate; they probably had the means to get a driver certified even if Microsoft had to sign it.

Without a proper revocation setup, you aren't really better off, and a proper setup is much harder than one would expect, because a well-equipped attacker can DOS/DDOS the revocation list response.

> (And not to be repetitive, I apologize, but this would still help prevent evil maid attacks on full disk encryption.)

It would stop a specific class of evil maid attacks on full disk encryption, yes, and would make other attacks harder but not impossible (ASLR, W^X/NX and many other features were supposed to make buffer overflows unusable for attacks; they made them harder, but apparently not much harder and definitely not impossible).

I don't think it is worth the price in freedom that I suspect will be associated (and yes, I know you disagree. My distrust of PC hardware vendors is based on a lot of continuing frustrating experience, but they might surprise me in the end)
What about third party support? Given how few WP7 devices were sold I could see support being dropped very quickly. That would be my biggest concern
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I feel at home here in San Francisco. There are a multitude of companies I'd love to work for.
What are your feelings on OCaml vs Haskell?
Ask HN: Best and Fastest Way to Learn Modern Languages? 
I've slaved my way through most of the past decade working with some dead-end proprietary technology, managing to ignore the rest of the software development world while unlearning most things I learned for/from my computer science degree.

Now I want to find a better (work) life, yet found myself woefully unskilled in the languages, libraries, platforms, and paradigms that are much more employable.

I dabbled with some of them (Android, Python, RoR) but still feel incompetent to apply for a cool job -- I can't truthfully tell any employer I am immediately useful upon hiring me.

What are some of the best resources for learning a programming language along with its paradigms quickly?
The problem is rootkits booting even before your OS or antivirus can. That way they can run a hypervisor and boot the OS on it or load a malicious filysystem driver that returns a benign boot sector if it's requested and no application or antivirus running on that OS can even know that it's running on top of malware. Secure boot can stop this from happening.

Why is this so hard for everyone to understand?
I'm question if you read the post because I didn't diminish anything. I did say that it is a tool in the fight of software validation however.
Are you kidding? The 945GM doesn't have fixed-function hardware! The entire 3D pipeline save for the shaders is implemented in _software_.

Intel didn't even add fixed-function hardware until the GMA X3000 series in the G/GM965 and GL960 chipsets. Hell, it looks like they removed it in everything since the i740.
I'm going to guess "modularity". Probably also cheaper to shoehorn more smaller boards into the car, than one large board.

Anyway, as for connecting them and coding the interfaces, they've been doing that for ages. Have you heard of CAN bus? It's actually pretty cool.
A new business venture for Ellison, perhaps?
who wouldn't want to bear wrestle?!?! smh
There are two mistakes in your reasoning.

First, according to your definition of losing, gambling away 99% of your life savings would not count as a loss. A better definition would be: having fewer resources at the end of an act of gambling than you had before the act.

Second, you have assumed that infinite comes in only one size. To see the error in that, consider these infinite sets: {1,2,3,...} and {2,4,6,...}. The first set contains all counting numbers and the second set contains only even counting numbers. Both sets are infinite, but the second set is only half the size.

With these corrections in mind, it should become clear that you can start with infinite resources, lose half of your resources and therefore lose at gambling, but still walk away with infinite resources.
And with talented kids like him around, Obama decides to give work permit, financial aid, and legal status to illegal immigrants?
So the problem is that there are too many useful programs which can't be expressed in a practically decidable form, or there's no clear way to get from a form that isn't to a similar-enough form that would be, like knowing what strategies ghc uses to narrow the search space or something?
The only real downside to a single landowner vs a national park is that nobody else gets to enjoy the beauty of the area.
- A hiker
I have to say I just switched over a Windows 7 phone (more out of curiosity than anything else) and although there are a lot of features I like, there are an equal number I dislike. The attempt by MS to completely shut out Google is annoying. In many respects, I really feel at times I'm being forced into using MS products.

All in all, I give the Win7 phone a 4 on a scale of 1-10. With the continuation of the Metro interface, the forcing of MS products and lack of alternatives (like Opera or FF browser instead of IE) in the Market place, I doubt the Win8 phone is going to be a substantially better product.
I can live with the tiles if only let me customize the shapes. No plain rectangles plz.

Dropping native code development is a shit decision they made years ago, and I am glad to see they finally shit it back.
So basically the TSA wants new screening technology installed in airports. Guess thats one way to justify your agencies existence, and give kickbacks to the companies that sell the equipment.
CIOs Consider The Future of Yammer
This is all it really says:

HONOLULU – Landowner Castle & Cooke has filed a transfer application with the Public Utilities Commission. Castle & Cooke owns 98 percent of the island’s 141 square miles. The buyer is Lawrence Ellison, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation.

Governor Neil Abercrombie today released the following statement: “It is my understanding that Mr. Ellison has had a long standing interest in Lana'i. His passion for nature, particularly the ocean is well known specifically in the realm of America’s Cup sailing. He is also a businessman whose record of community involvement in medical research and education causes is equally notable.

“We look forward to welcoming Mr. Ellison in the near future.”
"Who is going to end up with my scan data and exploit it in the name of 'targeted marketing?'"

I'm not worried about "targeted marketing" so much (heck, Facebook knows way more about the average person than this database would), but more about hacking and this being a target for potential thieves. Like a whole new form of "identity theft."

Of course, giving up this information is "voluntary", but if the cost of not giving it up is having to get to the airport 3 hours ahead of your flight to stand in line the entire time, the government will suddenly have access to a whole lot of people's personal information.
Ask HN: What mention app do you use?
Something like brandseye and non-specific to facebook/posterous/twitter monitoring. Could be web apps or iPhone apps, for discovering when someone mentions your brand on the web.
I've notice that these articles are good at generating one thing: envy. The problem with comparing oneself to the person portrayed in an essentially random article are many. But first and foremost is the utter lack of context: I'd argue that Lachy's peers at his high school would be better off comparing themselves to him. And even then I would hesitate, as luck really does count. The rest of us fall prey to a kind of assumption of universality: that his context is roughly the same as ours, and so the only difference are variables we can control. That's not true!

The one quote that I really like in the article was from his "fan" headmaster, David Gee. "I think he’s a great example of someone who has followed his passion, hasn’t let age be a barrier and hasn’t said ‘well I can’t do this because I’m 17’" That's a fantastic sentiment, and I share it. The most tragic reason to fail is because of some delusional belief that failure is tied to some innate quality like age.

Note that these two sentiments are not at odds! It's true that context can prevent your success, but we don't usually know which part of that context is to blame.
After Yammer, Microsoft Needs an HR Software Play
Nicely put. Also, another huge factor in the standardized open PC was Microsoft licensing DOS to Compaq. That triggered the PC clones and the PC revolution which Linus leveraged with Linux and then Apple a decade and half later.
Scanning fingerprints or irises? No thanks.
I don't care what people think Ellison has accomplished, no one should get to have their own island when we have so many starving homeless people.

Its amazing to me that its so easy for people to justify that.

Larry Ellison is a crook, an asshole, and a liability to the technology community.

Oracle is a scam. But then again, so are most things in this so-called 'civilization'.
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It could be bad. Wealth that moves through the economy tends to keep people employed. Now, take all the money that's being spent and therefore paying N people, and put it in a room. That's bad, I think.
Did Microsoft allow hardware companies to customize the OS interface? Did Microsoft assign hardware companies the responsibility of delivering OS updates to users? Did Microsoft let hardware companies ship 2-3-4 year old versions of Windows with new hardware?

The Android == Windows analogy is a faulty one.
EFF's new software patent reform made to stop abuse
Let me suggest that a lot of the pressures you feel in high school probably have little to do with "real life." It's amusing to think back to all the things I (and authority figures around me) worried about when I was in high school, because it's all long since irrelevant to me now. I can't really comment on college pressures because I didn't go to college until I was over 30, so I don't know what it's like to be a real college student.

My own experience suggests this: If you've learned to work hard when necessary to meet your own internal standards, and make sure you keep pushing those standards up, you'll probably wake up one day to find you're way more competent than most people in at least one area. That can be really fun (and sometimes lucrative), even if at the same time you're self-aware enough to know you're not a world-class expert that somebody would find interesting enough for an article.
Hey oz, what a story.
Another Jamaican here we should connect.
Email in my profile.
>Next up: "4chan flame comments are a terrible way to incrementally advance the state-of-the-art in a narrow academic field, presenting theorems, experimental data, and citations to closely-related work."

Now I'm tempted to test that, by submitting my next paper as a 4chan comment and seeing what kind of response it gets.
Speak English or forget buying Apple products
Hope Apple doesn't sue over that "feature". ;)
Interesting that you would want to work for a company rather than start your own (optionally taking part in YC, etc.).

What is your reasoning behind that?
Looks like he now has a place to swim with the dolphins and Marc Benioff now.
Yes, that shows MS is actually quite hostile to hardware vendors. There is no need to complete drop support on existing hardwares, you can at least provide a lite version if the old hardware (actually not that old) isn't powerful enough.
Being denied a sale in a single store is nothing compared to how iranians would treat an american trying to live on thier soil. Have you seen the videos of thousands of iranians screeming in unison, stringing up fake american dummies, beating them with sticks, stoneing them, setting them on fire and burning the american flag in the streets? For the most part we live with you in peace over here,we wouldn't string you up or cut your head off with a knife or burn you alive but you are appaulled that someone doesn't trust you here?
Microsoft Metro Tiles Design... Patent Question.
So, I believe that they patented this design. Yes? If I were to design a new website that uses this tile design, would I be subject to a lawsuit? Do I need a license from Microsoft? Or do they specifically look to shut down direct competitors (i.e. Apple, Google, etc.) rather than websites that don't compete whatsoever?

I thought I read they were encouraging app creator to use the metro design?

Would this then just be for apps/programs that would be used on Windows 8? And not extend to just website design?

If anyone knows and can help, that'd be great. I have a very app-like website (a lot of functionality) and rather than use icons I wanted to use a page that had a set of tiles to display the icons and information. It'd be sad if I couldn't use this design style. :(

But in regards to a patent on the tiling design... it seems like it'd be similar to patenting icons or even widgets, so I don't see how they could get that? I'm not familiar with exactly what the patent they have explicitly protects.

edit* It seems like the patent is more so for their "panorama" that they have for on all their interfaces (horizontal scrolling with the tiles/text/etc sharply cutoff... rather than the whole "live tile" thing. However, if someone can confirm this and more-or-less assure me I'm fine designing parts of my website with "live tiles" that would be great.
I swear I've seen HP OpenView processes using more CPU than Oracle. I have no idea why companies throw away so much money on such terrible software.
Google Battles YouTube-To-MP3 Conversion Website
I'm 37. And if I can give some life advice, it would be to always start from the end. If you're building sites, start with the host. Make sure you understand how to deploy your thing. Then work backwards, and setup your build-test-debug loop with deployment as the final goal. Once you get something working, you can incrementally improve your process - but you need to start with some way to get your stuff online.

Note that you must be very careful to define the scope of your project. "Putting something on the public internet" can be achieved with a blogger blog - no programming necessary. Or a hacker news comment, for that matter. But if you want to do arbitrary things with web browsers on the web then I highly recommend getting a VPS - I like linode, but there's plenty of other options. Another interesting option would be something like Google App Engine, which takes a lot of the pain out of system administration, while still allowing you to serve arbitrary applications (and it's cheaper than linode, too).
Casement windows
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If you don't like it here go home.
Mongo on AWS: Stability in the midst of chaos
Hm, interesting points. In particular, the part about age being hollow. Hm. And also, the poor programmer part. HN does sometimes seem to convey a message that if you aren't a good programmer, your code won't succeed in what you make, if that makes sense.
Lamenting isn't good, true. It's just so hard to be motivated sometimes.
Also, I like your name. I have an account on HN but my usual passwords aren't working on it. So this name it was.