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Every good cofounder is at risk to be hired away. You have to motivate them to stay.

Of course the post was written in jest.
how would open source software prevent this?

I have an open source Buffalo router that shipped with DD-WRT. it has a service onboard where I can run an alternate SSID as a free wifi hotspot, and software on the router will inject a frame into clients web browsers to serve ads.

evil? yep. on by default? no. implemented entirely with open source software? yes.

what would happen if this feature shipped in an open-source router on-by-default and without the software button to click to change it? are you seriously advocating to consumers that they download the source code to their router, change some #defines to remove the code that injects ads, recompile it, and reload it onto their router?
Screen sharing is definitely in the works.
Economies of scale also play into this pricing. You can have chips whose demand is actually quite low but enough for there to be some market and they could increase in value relative to parts being used in the newest iPhone (even though the iPhone clearly has much greater "demand").

Apple gets really good prices on their components even though they generate huge demand because the parts manufacturers know they'll be able to sell millions of whatever the part is, so they can afford to sell it with less margin for themselves per unit. This isn't true of smaller volume chips where the manufacturer has to price some amount of lost opportunity cost into a relatively small market item.
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I see that you're actually creating your own slime-js-minor-mode-map. I'm guessing that was necessary because you didn't require slime-js before requiring setup-slime-js.

Maybe it will resolve your issue of you put this at the top of the file?

(require 'slime)
(require 'slime-js)

The swank-js documentation says it depends on js2-mode too. Are you using that? At least I have no issues with entering arrays in the repl.
Amazing cases. Hope little brother continues to root out police abuse of citizens.
I do not feel that this post deserves front page mention.
Frankly, this reads as less about the co-founder being approached but rather the OP wishing to be poached as well.

It's not as though highly talented back end developers are lacking recruitment offers these days.
At the very beginning we got feedback from the comments on the Android Market but we were always very open with our support email address (it's in our store description), so we could talk with our users directly.

Right now, users register with their email the first time they open the app.
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Access to location information is a complex issue. There are many reasons to want it, and many reasons to not want it given out.

For instance should the police have the right to ask mobile carriers for a list of all people whose phones passed within 500 feet of a particular location at a particular time? What if that location was where a drive-by shooting happened? What if that location was where a protest happened? What if it is the CIA attempting to figure out who met with a known spy?

Should a mobile carrier be allowed to sell location data to third parties? What if the party who wishes to buy it is your employer, who wants to check where you were when you were sick to identify people who might be interviewing elsewhere?

During a divorce, should you be allowed to get your soon-to-be-ex spouse's location information? What if a restraining order was filed against you?

I know that some of these questions have clear precedents, others have conflicting precedents. All are questions that people tend to have strong opinions on.
"Give a manager a numerical target & he will hit it, even if it means destroying the company."
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Why would most consumers need to do that? It only takes one HNish person to get the code, fix it, and release something that consumers can easily use.
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The phrase 'better for consumers' doesn't seem to have any testable meaning. What hypothetical experiment, if performed, would determine whether a proposed rule change would be "better for consumers"?

Let's pretend that we can clone the universe and run an A/B test. Universe A receives the new rule treatment and Universe B does not. In both universes, we inject happiness meters into every living person's head. These meters also inject clones of themselves into fetuses for the next 100 years. So, we can compute the average happiness levels of all people on earth over the next century. Is a net positive change in happiness levels the definition of "better for consumers"? Must we also consider changes in the distribution of happiness among individuals? Is happiness even the right metric to consider? When the word 'consumers' is used, does it imply that everyone's happiness should be considered?

So, back to some reality. It's certainly possible that an Apple-like walled-garden approach might, for some particular technology/situation/problem/whatever set-off a chain of economic events which has a positive net effect on overall human happiness. However, I have no idea if I'm making a meaningful argument to those using the "better for consumers" phrase as no one seems too interested in attaching a strong definition to the term.

W.r.t. anti-trust litigation, the phrase is oft thrown about. What has bothered me is that the "obvious" answer is provided by a static, short-term analysis of current economic conditions. In the short-term, it's better for consumers to regulate the price of electricity. After all, it costs "too much", you know. However, the disincentive to build new power generation facilities likely leads to an outcome very negative for consumers -- shortages, rationing, etc.

tl;dr; Stop using the phrase 'better for consumers' unless you bother to attach to it a testable definition.
Glad you appreciate the joke.

Yes... if anyone wants him to work for one of those companies less than me, it's him.
That's how you spend your time now.
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Is this an article?
Patents and IP protection are a sovereign prisoner's dilemma.

Good luck with that, USA.
The argument is that downloading a compiled version of the software patched in that way is something that people would be willing to do to remove ads, but that re-implementing the software from scratch just to remove ads is not something that anyone would do.
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Once you know one ISA, you can learn any of the rest "on the job".
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Gravity is in the unique position of directly affecting everything. No other field (unless I'm mistaken) does this. Most people say there is a gravitational force between two objects that have mass. Mass (rest-mass/invariant mass) is just another form of energy. Photons don't have rest mass, yet they are affected by gravity. Every type of thing we've ever observed is affected by, and contributes to the gravitational field, because everything we've ever observed involves energy. A gravitational field that has energy even interacts with itself.

My personal opinion is that we'll eventually find that gravity is something completely different than the other three fundamental interactions, and can't be lumped in with an analogous theory. It has a unique relationship with spacetime.
Someone is confusing specs on a platform that the average user doesn't care about. This is REALLY exciting. If Google makes something easy to use that is a media platform then they finally have a compelling counter to Apple.
It's like an accelerated ride through emacs infos. Lots of straightforward valueable options. Thanks
reflashing router firmware is still something out of reach to most consumers. it would probably not even occur to most consumers that the ads in their web browser would be something they could change.
Easy: bound parameters are a performance feature, not a security feature.
Thanks!
We always resize before recording.
Yes there is some performance impact but users shouldn't see any noticeable UI impact as all capturing and encoding are done on a background thread.
Yeah... when you write good articles that don't mention Facebook in the title, no one reads what you've written. I've got a bunch of those.

But, this is a 100% true story (except maybe the Adderall part I thought HN would appreciate.
Israeli Company Will Judge Applicants Based On Diablo Skills
Yay user feedback.

Fixed!

(We'll add an "x" to close it as well... shortly.)
37 Signals can do what they want because their product is so good. Look, I'm not a fanboy by any stretch, I'm not even a subscriber (yet), but I've been testing the new Basecamp and it is excellent. There is nothing else that comes close. I've tried many so called alternatives.

Why is that? How come only 37 Signals gets it so right but nobody else can?
The thing about golf clubs is that everyone has a manufactured golf club -- it's not like some people have one they were born with and some have to go buy them.

If the IAAF sets a limit on prosthetics, they cannot get it exactly "right" -- the limit will be either below or above the capabilities of the best sprinter's legs.

If it's slightly below, that means that a disabled sprinter can never win, and shouldn't be competing in a race that's stacked against him. If the limit is higher, that means that disabled sprinters are at an advantage, and that able-bodied sprinters may even be able to gain an advantage by replacing their legs with prostheses.
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I guess I missed out on the period when all these bloggers became celebrities or what not but it looks like at some point their personalities became bigger than the actual stories they were supposed to be covering.
Right. sorry, my question should have made it clear that I meant built by Apple.

The point I guess I was making was that it's not unusual for a company to not provide a client for their competitors platforms. It's crap, but it's not unusual.
Here's a critique I wrote a few months ago about Shalizi's review: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3973173

You know, when I was a teenager I was very excited about Stephen's book. Then I found and read Shalizi's review, and reluctantly changed my mind. At the time I didn't have enough background knowledge or intellectual confidence to really see it for what it is, which is a kind of weird character assassination masquerading as a scientific critique (it is interesting to note that Shalizi's PhD advisor and Stephen go way back).

Much later, after some pure math and a bit of industry, I actually met Wolfram, talked to him at length, did some science in the NKS style, and in fact I found the whole thing so stimulating (and the other people so cool) that I applied for a job at Wolfram Research, where is where I now work. In fact, at this exact moment, I'm acting as an instructor at the Wolfram science summer school, supervising students around the world ranging from gifted high-school to PhD. It's a lot of fun.

NKS -- both the book and the methodology -- isn't perfect, and hasn't delivered on some of its promises. However, I think it does represent a really cool network of ideas and insights, if you take the trouble to understand them, especially in their historical context. Many of them familiar, of course, but Wolfram puts them in a new light and unifies various ideas.

And I think in the next few decades it will really come into its own, when we get memristor arrays that need to be programmed, universal constructors that need simple rules to operate, algorithmic drugs that have to be both simple and effective, and so on. "Watch this space", etc.
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Please, no more posts about psychological "manipulation."
I've seen a couple posts discussing the use of psychology to "manipulate" users over the past week. Before it becomes a trend, I'd just like to suggest that people stop writing these posts.

I think it's great that psychology is a relevant topic in the tech community. (My name IS "FrontalLobe," after all.) It's helpful to understand how the human mind interprets information and makes decisions when building a product, but the last thing startups need is the outside world accusing the people behind them of "manipulation."

In one of Peter Thiel's lectures to Stanford's CS183 class (http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21169325300/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-4-notes-essay), he discusses how businesses that form monopolies need to deny that they've done so in order to avoid government intervention. The same is true for businesses that leverage psychology to guide desired user behaviors. Although the businesses' intentions are likely not evil and they're only using psychology to provide users with some sort of value, the term "manipulation" carries a lot of negative connotations with it and risks miscasting the businesses in a negative light. Nobody likes the idea of some outside force controlling their thoughts and decisions and it's very likely that they'll choose not to use products that they suspect are doing so.

So, sure, talk about the value of psychology, but choose your words wisely so that you're not inadvertently harming the community you set out to help.
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You read a journalist's interpretation of a research article. These are almost always a disaster from a scientific point of view. Your question is unfair to the original authors unless you read their paper.
Yep, Clicktale has been doing this for many years.

I've never heard of them being dragged to court.
I think mechanical inequalities are also physical inequalities.
Depends which webkit browser you're using. Chrome has weird problems[1] in displaying these fonts, for example.

[1]http://lee-phillips.org/google-chromeBadKerning/
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Wasn't their original intent to protect the inventor's R&D investment by ensuring that he would be the sole beneficiary of the invention for a time?

Easily reverse-engineering products makes the initial purpose even more necessary.
Can't edit my comment anymore. Original title was "37signals kills: Backpack, Tada, Writeboard. You must PAY for all products now."
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"Astonishing" is exactly what I was thinking of as well. There's a lot of vitriol in this post. You say that you could go on and on and no one would care. But that's not true. If you list good, logical arguments against something, people will listen. Instead, there's an almost instinctive urge to rebel against your points solely because of your post's tone, which is antagonistic to what I assume is your goal.

In my opinion, Clojure doesn't try to one-up Lisp. Rich Hickey recognizes the great value of Lisp and wants to share these features with a wider audience -- I can't say I would have ever taken an interest in Lisp if it weren't for Clojure in fact.

Check out Clojure's rationale page (http://clojure.org/rationale). Rich says he wanted a language that is:

*A Lisp
*for Functional Programming
*symbiotic with an established Platform
*designed for Concurrency

And he says he couldn't find one. That's not a subjective statement -- there wasn't a language with all those features before Clojure. And I'll bet there's a lot of people that want those four things. His language does that very well. That doesn't mean it should be used for everything, but he never implied it that anyway -- quite to the contrary, he explicitly points out the problem domain that Clojure addresses.

I think you misunderstand the designers of these new languages. Most of them aren't trying to make something "trendy" (that should be obvious by how many esoteric hobby languages there are). They are trying to solve problems. And if some people other than the author of the language can get some use along the way, well then that's just great.

Clojure isn't the product of "immature minds" either. It's the product of one mind, and one that's spent many years thinking about good language design and many years working with software in industry.
The Singularity Institute is working on it (or rather, the spinning-off Center for Applied Rationality is working on it); and indeed, we have literally been known to refer to it as "Defense Against the Dark Arts".
Homonyms usually have different pitch (accent). Which differs depending on the region you are from :D

In writing homonyms use different kanji so there is no problem differentiating them.
So I decide to try and work out what flagtap actually is. The page which the flag link takes me to asks me to either login or sign up based on 3 images which promise to fulfill all my wildest dreams. No thanks.

So I cut the end off the URL and checked the front page, just a login screen. Oh, there's an about link down the bottom, that's what I'm after. Click. Huh, I need to login to see the about page?

Sigh.

Goodbye.
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I wouldn't say nobody else. (IMO 37signals gets these things right because that's their business. Getting these things right. When they don't get things right, they rework it until they get things right.)
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Yeah, airfare search is a really bad starting point if you want to start a profitable business without massive startup costs. Hard to get access to data from airlines and a stack of other services competing for the thin margins.
This looks similar to AppNexus: http://www.appnexus.com/
great UX comes from feedbacks of test users. this definitely helps the designers to learn user behavior and make changes accordingly.
Storytelling Prevails
How does Bridge compare to Meteor?
It's still all in the way for me on iOS (when I zoom in to actually read)... but thank you for taking the feedback into account, it's good to see. Hopefully il be able to read the actual article soon :)
My company's product was blatantly ripped off from concept to design to some actual text copy. We aren't too worried though (consult your lawyer if you want legal advice). They have signed some big clients but they're clearly offering an inferior product.

Competitors can help grow your market base (by getting people interested in products like yours) and offer a point of comparison during sales meetings. Oh, you've heard of X? That's excellent, because we offer Y which clearly offers your organization a greater value because...
Not as I understand it. The intent was to provide an alternative to "trade secrets". In exchange for disclosing how your great new invention works, you get a limited monopoly on it.

Modern patents don't work this way. Seriously, who reads patents to learn who new inventions work? I'm sure there is someone who does but mostly they are just dense legal mumble-jumble. Also, it seems most of them are totally obvious that don't need a detailed explanation of the "invention".
Einstein died before Bell discovered his theorem. Careful with the rants about integrity.
I can only hope that VCs are clubbing together to give patent trolls a good thrashing. Partly through lobbying; Congress should be sympathetic to innovation and job creation, especially during a downturn. And partly through a vigorous collective defense. Patent trolls turn their extorted money into more patents and more lawsuits. Like any parasite, the smart approach is to kill them early.
Oh indeed. It's like the people who call Computer Graphics effects in movies CGI.

No, CGI was a type of web script that existed right when CG (aka, computer graphics) came to a head and reporters got everyone mixed up.
You do realize that Tit For Tat is the dominant strategy of PD, right? [1]

[1] Ok, not strictly true. Other strategies can dominate under certain conditions (finite and pre-known number of iterations, possibility of signal error, etc) but I don't feel that those conditions apply in this case.
Without wanting to start too much of a holy war, this is exactly why I prefer the GPL over BSD variants. The GPL takes ESR's argument in this blog post to its natural conclusion. The only way you (the user) can be completely free is if the code is forced to stay open. There's no other way around it.

Even if Cisco's firmware blob consisted entirely of compiled open source code, if it was all BSD licensed you'd still be no better off.
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The same person announcing in this blog post that Cisco is "doing evil" and that it's not true that "Open systems and networks aren't always better for consumers" is the person who wrote this blog post last month:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4386

wherein he described how he's not at all like RMS, because RMS frames his advocacy "as a moral crusade" and because "his rhetoric and his thinking became dominated by terms like 'evil'" and RMS doesn't use "pragmatic argument about engineering practices and outcomes".

I think ESR is really telling us that he wishes we'd all start listening to him tell us about how we should stop doing evil things instead of listening to RMS do the same.
We're implementing Delight in addition to usability groups and testers (and all the usual analytics). I won't replace having people give you their qualitative feedback, but being able see where real users get stuck in your UI is incredibly valuable...
If you go back the right number of centuries, the original intent was for a revenue source for the Crown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law#England
> reflashing router firmware is still something out of reach to most consumers

I don't know. I'm always amazed at what a few good blog posts can do if enough people see them.
Same idea can be expressed succinctly or with a lot of verbiage. Some prefer the former.

The point of my post was asking the parent to consider this point.
I thought they had a free plan for non-profits... you should ask them.
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You'll note that your comment has no value except as author feedback. Isn't that exactly the value of the comment you downvoted?
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A piece of anecdata:

I've got comcast, and I recently bought my own cable modem because the provider given one was dropping packets.

To get it to connect at all, I needed to call them up and tell them the model number and the the MAC address (or something that seemed analogous) of the router. I had two models to choose from (fewer than usual because I needed DOCSIS 3 I think), and they made it very clear that these were the only models they would allow you to use.

(it almost goes without saying, despite using their business support, it took three or four days, most of which I was without usable internet)
Think about it this way - Google wants to get into the console gaming market but they know they can't compete yet. They need to innovate a new model. So they release whats effectively a prototype onto the market as a "media player" and let developers have at it. Its derided as bizarre until 3 years later when there are hundreds of super cheap indie games available on a number of ultra cheap Android-based console media/gaming devices... and then magically Google is crushing Nintendo
Where on earth would they get such data going that far back?

This is more like CamelCamelCamel for amazon, very helpful to find out if the current price is reasonable or what better low to expect.
That's more the fault of my website than FlagTap.

Though I guess that still puts me at fault either way. I'll get it fixed ASAP.

Thanks again for the feedback!
This is an excellent tool. But generally on a penetration test, BurpSuite is what you want to use.

If, however, simply demonstrating that SQLi is there is not sufficient, or if the blind SQLi is too ephemeral sounding to the client, Sqlmap can help you dump the entire database. This will convince even the most skeptical.