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Many Linux distros (Mandrake especially) spent years trying to win market share by cloning Windows and didn't get very far.

Turns out cheap looking Windows clone that can't run most Windows apps isn't really what the market is looking for.

Of course they are inspired by what Apple is doing (so is pretty much everyone now, including MS) but I think Unity/Gnome3 are different enough to stand on their own merits (or lack thereof).

I'm not sure what Canonical would get out of a partnership with Dell though , since their software is free they aren't going to get a cut on units sold.
> Building software is not like installing carpet. You don't just do it for a couple years and become a skilled worker.

I think you're wrong, there. Building software is, 99% of the time, like installing carpet.

> Is a physicist just as valuable after a few years of doing research as a full tenured professor with 30 years of research?

Terrible analogy. There are grad students who are more valuable than professors on the edge of the retirement. Comparing software development to academia is a specious argument.
But even that isn't really correct, right? It's definitely true that the racial categorizations chosen by the census aren't great at dividing up humanity by genetic distance; there is probably a lot of genetic diversity in some particular race, while other races deemed distinct are nearly genetically identical. (And obviously, all humans are exceedingly similar genetically on an absolute scale.) But the the census races aren't useless or random biologically. There are plenty of diseases which have higher prevalence in some races than others. Whites are more likely to get skin cancer, less likely to be lactose intolerant. Asians are more likely to get alcohol flush reaction. Blacks are the exclusive sufferers of sickle-cell disease.

If he wants to say "the races as defined by the census are only weakly correlated with genetic distance or geographic ancestry", then fine. But that's a far cry from "the 'race' categories that are used in the United States are arbitrary...and do not correspond to any scientific view of geographical populations."
I think some organizations see this kind of implementation leakage as a feature, not a bug.

I remember when http://microsoft.com/ began doing external redirects to "default.asp" circa 1997. If you were a "webmaster" (do these exist anymore?), this was a dog whistle. They were not using static .html (or .htm) but not any of the common dynamic methods like .cgi or .shtml either. And using "default" rather than "index" indicated a break from NCSA/Apache convention. They were using a different web server. Those 11 extra characters said a lot.
It's not a smear campaign.
It's the unspoken truth.

Unkempt and maladjusted hacker types are still social pariahs.
People on HN whine about the necessary evils of hustling but fail to tie into issues like the one at hand the contiguous issues of essential fairness and even-handedness.
Or else the Morins, Cashmores, Roses and the Systroms of this world will continue to rake it in while the grungy hacker genius will rot in seclusion.
Oh fuck: The Internet is still here
Call me naive, but the comments of Bo Thide in that link have a very inconsistent level. One comment he sounds like a physics professor, another one like a dude that just read "Maxwell's equation for dummies", making leaky analogies between OAM EM waves and spin-stabilized gun projectiles. I guess the analogies are a habit of teaching.
Perhaps it is because the UK is ultimately responsible for deciding whether or not to extradite.
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The net-60 payout is kind of a bummer too
What are the judging criterion for the contest and who judges?
I would say it is more a refinement of the classroom than a re-invention of the textbook.

Most of the classes have an overall project that motivate students to see the way through the end and all of these courses have consistency with the design of the other offered courses. Together with the forum and passionate, all-star teachers I would say this is the closest we have come to the future shape of education.
#Creative Ideation: Does Success Come in a Bottle?
Apple to Feature Yelp Check-Ins Within IPhone Maps App
Big companies don't realize it, but their data is already in the cloud
JWebBrowser, a light, easy to use Web component for Java Swing
The paragraph

When Mayer suspects an employee might burn out, she asks them to find their rhythm. They've come back with, "I need to be home for Tuesday night dinners," or "I need to be on time for my daughter's soccer games."

really bothers me. If employee burnout is a regular thing inside your organization, that's a serious issue that needs solving. But to have to ask permission to spend time with your family is ridiculous.

If you're working 130 hours a week, something is seriously, seriously wrong.
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I am honestly searching in vain for a point to this post. The title suggests that the fact that "founders never sleep" is a fact. The author went through a phase where that was true but now believes it's a "bad habit," without any advice on how to avoid it or mention that it was driven by his circumstances, which have since changed. It basically amounts to him saying "When I had no money, I had to work long hours to provide income for myself while also trying to run a startup. Now that the latter is profitable I no longer have to do this. This is good because I didn't enjoy my previous situation and don't recommend it."

How is that useful advice to those trying to earn a living and run a startup? What would be a better alternative?
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This One?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdgzKHOfUI8

Shame all I can find is that youtube video and no download links etc, that game looks utterly insane and quite fun.

Technically it's only really a 2D game though , still very impressive for a 16 year old.
Isn't the whole point of lorem ipsum is that it doesn't make sense to the person reviewing the document, that way someone proofing a design will focus on the page elements, white space and text flow instead of getting distracted by the text?
What the hell is an information architect?
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It's actually more than a preview. The entire book is available free of charge in a variety of electronic formats (PDF, ebook, etc.).
BeOS did that. I think it's a shame that OS X seems to be moving backwards in this respect.
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Now that they are extraditing British citizens to US for crimes committed on British soil, I hope they would finally stop shadow boxing and declare UK as copyright colony of US and let British citizens vote in upcoming US elections.
SLIME installation is not covered.
This game seems to be a mix between MTG, Heroes of Might and Magic, and Plants vs Zombies. An interesting take on the CCG genre! I look forward to playing it.
Preview is a slight understatement, it's the full book as both pdf and epub.

It is a bit of a marketing term, though. Not many of the "modern" features are really new to Perl, but basically rather common modules. In the case of Moose, they do change the language use significantly, but mostly it's about showing that Perl can be used beyond small, one-file Unix scripts. And it's been able to do that for quite a while, the Perl 4 days are long gone.

Still, getting some new-found traction is important, and popularizing some great CPAN modules definitely won't hurt.
I sold one time a company. It worked out for me because I had some relationships. It is always good to know your competitors. Competitors are always potential buyers.

And there are always companies who would like to extend their portfolio. This companies have always 2 options. Make it or buy it. Buy it is always faster and you know what you get.
I sold to a company which wanted to extend their portfolio.

I hope my answer was helpful.
Agreed, it reads like pure insanity.

That you would only be "granted" to have time for your family if you're on the brink of burn-out is ... horrible. I'm pretty sure that's not the general guideline about how Google operates, not sure if there's some editing and/or language barrier here.
I think any competent PR representative would have inevitably pulled those statements, as they were never true even when they were written.
Different marketing approaches will have different levels of reception with different products and different demographics, as well as different conversion models and different growth models.

That should be self-explanatory.
You missed the memo, but it still sucks. Juristiction depends on which country the "harm" occurred. For example, if I fire a rocket at another country, then I've certainly committed a crime within its boundaries, despite never having set foot there.

His website was accessible in the US by design (one could forbid US visitors in the ToS, and by geoip), and the "harm" from his supposed crime occurred, for those US users, in the US, not inside his server.

What sucks about this case is that it seems incredibly unlikely that linking constitutes a felony copyright infringement, because no copyrighted material is ever directly encountered. It seems much more likely that only a misdemeanor infringement occurred (if any), for which the UK does not extradite to the US.
I know that is the popular thing to do now, be vague, I think it only works if you target market is techies (notorious early adopters no matter the technology).

Home and small business owners want to know how your product is going to make them more efficient. Your sentence above is a pretty good draw. Try not to use the word "just". You have a unique value proposition, right? Don't downplay your strength. Selling is no time to be self-deprecating or overly humble.
Ugh. I have that in the konqueror file browser. It beleives that my .epub files are zip archives, so the default handler is not an epub reader.
Very different architectures. Anandtech did some performance comparisons of Tegra3 to the new iPad's PowerVR SGX543MP4 which show the PowerVR delivering better performance with "fewer" cores and far lower frequency:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5663/analysis-of-the-new-apple...
Wow, I had no idea that they said stuff like that on their site. Even though it specifies "PC viruses," the average computer user doesn't understand the distinction. Just last night a relative mentioned how Macs don't get viruses (which I corrected).
I noticed this too, whenever I read anything about American Universities (I'm in the UK) for CS it always seems to be one of those 3 especially when it's related to startups.

Is it the case that a CS degree is somehow considered second rate if it is not from one of these universities?
Is it a prestige thing or do all the other universities suck for CS?

Obviously we have similar in the UK to an extent with Oxford/Cambridge etc but CS degrees from most universities are well enough respected.

I've done some of the online classes from these 3 universities as well as watched youtube videos from some lectures. For the most part they don't strike me as being especially more difficult than what I did for my CS undergrad (in most cases the difficulty level seems about the same).
For my research, we looked at optical vortex modulation schemes for a while. With polarisation (spin angular momentum), there are only two orthogonal states. With orbital angular momentum you can have infinite integer "charge" states that are orthogonal (yes you can have negative charge as well). So in principal by encoding each stream with one of these states, a bunch can be transmitted at the same time in the same beam.

I might venture a guess that this was done over a short distance in a closed room. Problem arrises when these beams counter strong turbulence or scattering, then the vortices are either destroyed or coupled together. So the channel leakage and signal to noise becomes a problem.

Still neat though, bundling 8 channels is impressive.
The author clearly has a problem with racial preference in college admissions. But this cannot be attacked by pointing out that racial categories are only weak biological indicators, because the justification for racial preferences is political and not genetic. And insofar as the racial categories are trying to capture the political dimension, they do a pretty darn good job.
With a name like "Political Screaming Match," do you think he's after rounded, reasoned debate? This sounds like it's mostly for some laughs. I think it's a fun idea.
The new issue of Wired has a pretty in-depth article about Anonymous explaining Sabu's cooperation and proceeding arrests.
All the people on the review panel are men. Could be better.
HN-centric example: Patio11's appointmentreminder.org
Knowing webpage status code and resolving a given address using Java
I'm genuinely curious... are there viruses that spread in OSX?

Not trojans or whatnot that require users to click on files they shouldn't, but rather actual viruses that make use of vulnerabilities in OSX to spread from computer to computer, either via Internet or thumb drives or something?

In other words, if I always follow responsible practices (never opening files from untrusted sources), has there been any threat up through now that could compromise my OSX installation?
Thanks for the note. We were flabbergasted to read the parent comment complaining about "graphs and numbers."

Note that the issues raised by the Redis developer boil down to the following:

* The benchmark measures a primitive that Redis does not provide, so Redis looks slow: This may be true. The strength of a system lies in how well its primitives handle unanticipated uses. Undoubtedly, a system with a "do_benchmark()" interface would achieve the best results, but this is not a good way to build systems. For the record, HyperDex's interface is at the same level of abstraction as Redis's in this case.

* The benchmark compares "single-core Redis" to "multi-core HyperDex." It is true that HyperDex was designed from the ground up for a networked, multi-core system. Redis is not sharded and seems to work best when co-located on the same host as its clients. If your data fits on one host and clients are on the same machine, you should probably use Redis and not HyperDex. As for the complaint, we would have used something other than "single-core Redis" if such a thing existed. Our emails to Salvatore asking for an alternative binary went unanswered -- he chose to respond with blog entries instead of code.

* The benchmark is not real: The benchmark in question is the Yahoo Cloud Serving Benchmark. It's not something we made up. One can only imagine the kind of criticism we would get if we had actually constructed our own benchmarks. YCSB is an industry-standard benchmark commonly used to evaluate the performance of key-value stores.

These kinds of issues are really easy to resolve, without having to recourse to noise on blogs and HN: We urge everyone to test their own apps against the git repo. We worked hard to make HyperDex the best key-value store out there with the strongest properties, and we hope you find it useful.
Even assuming she was not commuting to work (sleeping at the office), that leaves 5.4 hours a day for eating, sleeping, shitting, showering, brushing your teeth etc. Nobody can do it for more than a week or two.
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Are macs not PCs? Perhaps I'm an average user, but I thought PC stood for "personal computer".
It's also valuable to test readability with something you can actually read.
130 hours = ~18.5 hours a day, 7 days a week
I wonder how many people are on the opposite side of the equation ... I worked 130 hours a week and lost everything.

Somehow, I think the fact she is who she is leave people with the perception that working that much is what it takes.
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That's 18h/day everyday. Or 21H/Day if she gave herself a Saturday. I call BS on the numbers. I'm sure she worked really hard but the numbers are BS.

Further she thinks that there is causation between her crazy hours and the ultimate success of Google. Correlation is not causation.
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The same argument can be made about other sectors that are considered hot. We're having a hard time attracting young talent into mainstream R&D engineering because dotcom and social media companies are sucking talent into faddish and ultimately doomed companies.

On the other hand, like several commenters on the FT site noted, maybe we're better off hiring whoever isn't chasing the latest trend.
Full width characters have a fun habit of breaking most things. Even more so than unicode.

Since they are only used in CJK languages the majority of programmers are unaware of them. The seperate code points between half-width and full-width mean that you need a decent unicode library. Otherwise a user could spoof another user.

One cool feature is it lets you write monospaced even if you do not control the font. Since there are full-width codepoints for most programming symbols.
I love google, but I am calling bs on this.
Just a further note: Although HyperDex is multithreaded by default,
when benchmarking it against Redis, we disabled all but one thread
from serving network requests.

Edit: reword for clarity.
Not always.

I get the feeling that the article was more written with the mind of the early days of Google- where one employee working 130 hour weeks could save the company tens/hundreds of thousands, and she wanted it to work that well.

Google most definitely doesn't require those insane hours out of people today- hell, quite the opposite. Requesting to spend time with your family does seem ridiculous, but the thing is, if you're in a small startup that is trying to get somewhere fast? You knew what you were getting into, no one forced you into the job, and maybe you should have chosen something that allowed more family time without having to ask. That doesn't make the job bad or 'seriously wrong', it's just a different life situation.

Similarly, there are a lot of people who want to work that hard, for something they believe in or are passionate about, but they find themselves incapable. That's what the article is really for.
Textbooks given away for free (with or without video, or interactive question banks) would actually be a "revolution in higher education". But that's more a statement about how backward higher education is than anything else.
Maybe it's because I'm not at a company like Google, but all articles like this seem to do two things:
1) Make everyone who doesn't put in 130 hours a week at work feel like they're not Working Hard Enough
2) Legitimize unpaid overtime/ worker exploitation

It seems that the quantity of "time spent at work" is emphasized over the quality of actual work done. I'd be curious what her work quality was over 130 hours, especially once she was in week 5-6 of working that much.
First of all, I very much doubt that she actually worked 130 hours per week with any regularity. That comes to 18.5 hours per day, including sundays. Even assuming that she could survive with 3 hours of sleep per day (yeah, sure), it leaves almost no time to eat, commute, or god, even going to the bathroom.

And why in the world is she giving advice on burnout?
I think that its great that it worked for Marissa Mayer. But, the culture of working over 40 hours is troubling. It really puts into perspective what you should value. I value my free time too much to take that choice.
Relatedly, does anyone know if Facebook allows the Amazon affiliate links in posts? I posted a couple of links but I never saw any affiliate revenue from the purchases.
Interesting, yes. Relevant to Hacker News... debatable.

But I agree with jrockway - pictures of cats should result in immediate banning (unless it's something like http://placekitten.com/).
To call any of those "socialist", when the paid-by-the-student cost has skyrocketed and the paid-by-the-government cost has plummeted, is a bit of a stretch.
Wherein I have Language Envy and the audacity to suggest C# features
I think there are probably more conservatives around than you realize. Assuming the number from my random searching (http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/How-many-users-does-Hacker-...) is even the correct order of magnitude, then even if only 1% of HN is conservatives, that's over 1000 people.

I think in general people tend to overestimate homogeneity (but probably fewer people than I think).
> "Overwork doesn't burn people out per se, but it's doing that without knowing the things that replenish you."

If you're working 130 hours a week, and sleeping a healthy 56 hours a week, that leaves you with negative 18 hours a week for replenishing yourself. Not even including showering, eating, etc.

I'm sorry, but merely having dinner with your family on Tuesday nights is not what it takes to replenish yourself. If that's the only thing I get to ask for, it sounds like a hellish place to work.

I need hours of replenishment daily... you know, like an actual work-life balance.
That looks like a template you could fill in with any emerging-but-not-yet available technology, and the resulting strategy will fail the vast, vast majority of the time, since most exciting new tech developments never come to fruition. Plus, what would "software for OAM" even mean? It's so vague as to not even constitute advice.
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Just as I saw this I got this email:

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So, if you selling Magazines then it's pretty awesome, everyone else loses out.
Im sure the private residence at the 4 seasons in SF and the tens if not hundreds of millions she is worth had plenty to do with her not burning out as well.

Further, as others noted - that is ~18 hours per day "working" - and if by "working" we really mean, thinking about her work.

This means that she could just as easily be "working" when being chauffeured from house to work, or on the plane or eating dinner.

Its not like she needed to be welded to a screen pumping out code at her desk 18h per day... she has a much different output, mostly her thought and attention, than many others.
This reads like a allegory for Hell. How to love working 18 hours a day could almost be the title of a satire novel on the failings of modern office life. The fact that she lived it and looks back on it fondly doesn't, in my mind, reflect positively on her or her employer.
> an extra header that said "give me this page, as it appeared at date-time X"

It's your lucky day: http://www.mementoweb.org/
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Sad. Sad. Sad. This is macho BS, dressed in a cool start-up suit. No one is productive doing that year around.
you know... "Think different". They cannot have even the smallest thing in common... or at least that's what they want people to think.