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Wikipedia In Russia Blacks Itself Out in Protest
Even (or especially) power users can resent gratuitous and/or negative change.
(Boston or remote)

We're hiring a developer at Ravelry.

The site has 2 million+ registered users and a healthy amount of traffic but we're a small staff of 4 - you'd be the second developer and you'd work on anything and everything.

The catch - you have to be a knitter or crocheter.

http://ravelry.com/jobs
With all that money they could buyout their competitors.
90% of employers using social recruiting in 2012, survey says
There are decades of understandable ways to describe what is going on here, and they didn't use any of them.
Its the "People's Court" :-) But more seriously there is a challenge that in the poorly regulated world of the Internet its often difficult to find justice, either from Joe Jobs or scams. If you have a popular blog you can taunt the scammer with cartoons or dry wit, but if you have no soapbox you're left trying to leverage something else.

Like you I find it annoying that this is something folks use HN for but I understand the motivation. I know there have been times when I've filed a complaint with a regulatory agency, or written a representative, and knew in my heart it would fall on presumably deaf ears, but I count on the law of averages to motivate others to do so as well. Sometimes that works, other times, not so much.

Which is why we have popular segments on the local news called <news-outlet>-on-your-side or ActionLine or any number of things like that. Perhaps there is a startup opportunity here, BobsHitList :-) Some folks who are not particularly moral, like RipoffReport, do quite well at it.
"The Russian language version of Wikipedia will be closed on July 10th in protest of the proposed changes to the information law, debate on which will be happening on that day in the Russian Duma."
I disagree with the fact that it would be of limited use if you can't edit it. One of GitHub's greatest features for me is how easy it is to browse other people's code (e.g., compared to Google Code or SourceForge). I learn a huge amount from browsing others' code. I would really enjoy a mobile app that would allow me to easily browse and view code in Github.
Something very odd is happening at Apple. Either there is a massive shortage of developers (unlikely) or developers have been moved to a new project (AppleTV ?).

Because Mountain Lion and iOS6 are by far the most underwhelming updates yet in terms of features.
> PM knows who the renters and the listers are; it's a small step to convince some listers to list with PM first.

You need to learn a little bit about Craiglist. Every single section of the site has been copied over and over again, including big names like Angie's List, Ebay, etc. But yet its been so many years and Craiglist traffic and revenue continue to grow.

CL has such an incredible solid network effect that me and most users couldnt care less how awesome the website to quickly browse CL photos grow. The moment they go solo and decide to disconnect, the moment I come back to CL to post/browse. Simple.
That figure is probably higher - computing has become more ubiquitous than it was in 2006 with Vista.
They are fiber optic, however the repeaters require power to operate.
What? Cite? A quick Google seems to show the opposite.
Windows 95 could preemptively multitask, though. Its "instability" was largely due to it not having a HAL.
Yes, they basically don't say what they're going to spend the money on.

But it may have been (they hint at this) that they didn't need or want the funding so much as to have AH invested in the company. Taking their investment may create something of a partnership and gives them access to AH's advice/rolodex and encourages future support. It also gives them a concrete valuation to cite down the road.
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You're saying it's better for sysadmins to all log in as "prod" or "root"? How do you figure?
Oops i meant to type tropo but wrote trello instead. Must have been all those posts about it this morning!
I can't help but think that this investment marks the Pets.com point in this investment cycle.

GitHub is essentially a web interface to a single open-source DVCS. The switching costs to using another DVCS such as Mercurial (which I personally prefer) or another Git hosting provider are minimal. There are no barriers to entry since Git is and always will be free. There are very few network effect benefits to using GitHub for paying customers who by definition want to keep their code private.

GitHub is a good service and I use it myself, but I'm now increasingly cautious about using it since GitHub are now under serious pressure to deliver pretty spectacular returns to their investors.

In the end I think this investment has less to do with GitHub and more to do with the fact that e.g. yields on 10-year Treasuries are currently under 2%. Investors are desperately looking for any decent returns on their money and throwing it a company like GitHub is just a Hail Mary pass.
And that probably explains the anti-VC sentiment. In multi-level marketing (MLM) pyramids, there's a "business" which serves as an investment vehicle for the money to trickle-up: energy juice, women's cosmetics, etc. A cynic sees startups serving the same purpose for VC. Announcements of funding are publicity stunts to pump up the valuation and then dump it in an "exit". The main difference between now and the late 90's, as far as I can tell, is that insiders sell their shares on SecondShare during later rounds, instead of waiting for an IPO to sell them on NASDAQ.
I think you're right, but I also think the result of judging the people is almost a side effect of evaluating the idea in a situation like this one.

"OK, you obviously thought this idea was a good one. Why? Where's the magic I'm missing?"

Having a well-considered answer to that question that shows you've thought it through thoroughly gives them a good idea how good a thinker you are.

Not having a well-considered answer also lets them you on the thinking scale, but probably not where you want them to put you.
Collaborating with colleagues is a very social endeavor.
According to his report they scammed him out of a D510 didn't they?
"little known" is actually the reality of how the rest of the world sees the tech startup domain. I am sure I can find people even at HP/IBM who will ask "whats a github"?
Implemented correctly (with using e.g. scrypt as the hashing component, and making sure the hashes are large enough so that the chances are neglegible of an attacker finding a match to a different hash than that was originally generated from the users password), this scheme would be no less secure than the traditional way of storing one scrypt hash per user.

The only effective difference would be that the entire database would become a single unit instead of a collection of separate hashes. Both an attacker and your webapp need to carry this extra weight of a monolithic blob of un-dividable data. It probably won't really slow down an attacker trying to brute force it if he has the data, but it may be more difficult to get the data in the first place.

But if an attacker has access to, say 10% of the hashes, he'll still be able to brute force 10% of the user accounts with weak passwords.

A different way to get a similar result of requiring a huge amount of data to be able to start cracking, would be to treat the database like a huge bloom filter: treat the database as a huge bit array of (say) a petabyte, hash the user's password with a hundred different hash functions (but with scrypt-like slowness), and use those 100 hashes as 100 indexes into the array to set the corresponding 100 bits. To verify a password, create those same 100 hashes and check if all 100 bits are set. Now, if an attacker has access to a part of the database, he won't be able to determine with certainty of any of his guesses at the user's passwords are correct.

Yet a third way to accomplish the same goal: pre-generate a petabyte of random data. To hash a user's password, apply a standard scrypt, then based on the resulting hash, generate a 100 pseudorandom offsets into the petabyte of data. At each of those 100 offsets, read a few (say, 16) bytes from our petabyte of random data, and finally store a hash of (scrypt_result + huge_data[offset1] + huge_data[offset2] + ... + huge_data[offset100]). You'd still have one hash per user, but to check a hash you also need access to a huge block of random data. The block of data functions in a way as an additional system-wide salt.

Anyway, there are more ways to get to a similar result as the OP's proposal. I'm not sure if it buys any additional security or if it's just more of a hassle for the webapp implementing this, but at least it's fun to think about.
That makes great sense. I hadn't seen that angle.
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> Why would the extension need all that above data if it's just bookmarking the page into Kippt?

It doesn't just bookmark the page. C'mon, spend a minute and actually look at what features it provides. It's on the actual Chrome plugin page.

It's obvious what it needs access to the page's content and the tabs that contain that data.

Next time, please do a little bit of reading, a tad bit of research. Don't just click next next next.
Can anybody explain to me how much value I can give the user in a "gamified" app before it is considered gambling?
There is no reason they could not have a single kernel and system api with a different version of explorer and windowing manager for the tablet and PC versions. They could have easily have blended their entire stack into one OS with different skins over the top, but they are just trying to cram them into one mess.
Business Agility Through DevOps and Continuous Delivery
The principles of Continuous Delivery and DevOps have been around for a few years. Developers and system administrators who follow the lean-startup movement are more than familiar with both. However, more often than not, implementing either or both within a traditional, large IT environment is a significant challenge compared to a new age, Web 2.0 type organization (think Flickr) or a Silicon Valley startup (think Instagram). This is a case study of how the consultancy firm I work for delivered the largest software upgrade in the history of one blue chip client, using both.
Eh. OS X has been on somewhat of a tick-tock update cycle since Leopard. Add features then refine them.

Also, it's twenty bucks.
While I think this makes sense, I've often had the feeling that there's a keeping-up-with-the-Jones' aspect to having an iPhone, driving people to get the new models based on comparison -- "Which iPhone do you have? 3G? Oh, mine is 3GS." How would this play out without labels? "Oh, you have a new iPad? Mine is new, I bought it 6 months ago. Oh, is yours a new new iPad?"
Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually
Yes. Why are our remote systems so difficult to use in the same way as our local systems - especially on the command line?
Surface Pro has an Ivy Bridge processor.
Anybody know if Messages has improved? The beta I'm using is buggy as hell.
What Kayak is really good in: If you have flexible dates. It shows you best fares found for each day.

Otherwise I don't see why Sites like http://www.vayama.com/
or not the same. Besides the brand, what is their unique selling point? ebay, AirBnB has high entry levels. But a site to compare flights?
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Note that the email was intended as an internal (and confidential) heads-up to Mozilla contributors, not as a press release. And I'm not sure how "ongoing security and stability maintenance" is harder to understand than "maintenance mode."
We need "tabs" and "contextMenus" from Chrome to access the current tab (get tab url, title and highlighted text) and add options to browser context menu. It's unfortunate that Chrome doesn't allow more limited API access and it's understandable that these might sound excessive.

Kippt's extension is open sourced and available at https://github.com/kippt/kippt-chrome so you can make sure that there isn't anything fishy going on (I ensure you, there's not). Installed Chrome extensions can also be taken a part with just few clicks.
Why not the Transformer tablets? I'm planning on doing a lot of oss development for it when I get one of the infinities - I figure someone will be putting out a good vim port among other things, designed for either attached or bluetooth keyboards.
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The gmail folder is not thunderbird's fault. Its google's imap implementation. If you configure it correctly you should not see it.
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Ask HN: Joint statement of profits - have you heard of this type of arrangement?
I've been laying some groundwork for a website that I got started on with the understanding (although I may have 'misunderstood') that I was entering into a partnership agreement for 20% of equity. This seemed like a good deal because the principal is assuming most of the risk and they have the experience to get the product line we're selling. Something I could never do. My role is tech.

I know the principals well (they are blood relatives) and so I had no trust issues.

Now that we're ready to really to start grinding into the main part of the work I have not yet seen the articles of incorporation, so I don't know if I'm on the board, and have 20% of shares or not. I asked for a written agreement between us before we go further.

Today I got an email from the principals saying they will sign a 'join statement' to the effect that I will get "20% of all profits from all online sales or sales that are driven by the use of the website".

Have you heard of anything like this? At first I thought it's a bad deal, but then I realized it needs a lot more information for me to make that determination. For example, am I an employee who has to work a certain number of hours to earn that 20%? How are 'profits' defined? Is it even wise for any business to sink 20% of their profits into a single 'individual'? I guess I'm not a partner so I can't call myself that.

What should I come back with in terms of questions and responses?
>I have to imagine that a chunk of that money is to provide liquidity to the founders

That helps explain why the founders sold the equity, but not why the VCs bought it.
The demo site is also leaking (a lot of) memory. Use the "heap snapshot" in Chrome Dev tools [1] and do some heap comparisons when going from one page to another one (switch between two distinct pages multiple times).

[1] https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/he...
These are the three criteria, all of which must be met to be considered gambling:

-prize (they have to get paid money or something of value)

-consideration (they have to pay to participate)

-chance (so skill games are exempted i.e. chess)

If any of those is missing, it is not gambling.

Zynga Poker does not have a prize but they have consideration and chance, thus it is not gambling. There are legal subscription poker sites (i.e. clubwpt.com) that do not require people to pay, so no consideration - but they have chance and a prize. Not gambling.

We ran a leaderboard contest last month to get some more alpha testers and gave $500 to the top 10. It was free to participate (no consideration) and our game is (we think) a game of skill, not chance. So we were confident it wasn't gambling and thus was legal.

Consult your attorney before making any business decisions, but thats the gist of it.
They were the bootstrapped happy ending. They went from zero to market dominator for web services source control, and now they got their payoff for all the work with VC adoration.
Yeah I think that's new in Lion. The flagging feature is a little half baked since you can only pick from preset color labels. If there's a way of renaming them to something more descriptive I have no clue how to do it.
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Thanks for clarifying. I agree there are many environments that would benefit from version control but that lack the technical resources to make it happen with existing tech.

Versions (and Time Machine history) are good steps to part of this, in that they are easily available and understandable, but they don't solve the collaboration aspect. How do you diff and merge your local changes into the NEW_final_v2_UPDATED.xls that was emailed to you? I'd summarize the problems as:

- identfying & organizing versions of the same document in ways manageable by normal humans (i.e. not a set of variably-named files spanning email attachments and shared folders, nor a graph of nodes identified by 20-byte hashes, nor a rigid interface to a versioned-file server)

- diffying & merging non-text document types (images, audio, spreadsheets)

I agree this would be a valuable problem to solve well!
They must have plans to venture out into unproven territory that includes risk to their core business that would make a bank balk at approving the loan.
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What exactly would have been overwhelming?
> because Macs were never released with sequential numbers like the iPhone.

Except, you know, the Macintosh II...

Or the Mac LC (followed by the Mac LC II and then the Mac LC III)...

Or the original Power Macintosh models (like the 6100, followed by the 6200, 6300, 6400)...

And then the PowerMac G3 (followed by the G4 and the G5)...

Apple has changed from numbered to unnumbered model names (and back) before.
> With 0 dollars, a couple of guys built something amazing. I can't wait to see what they can do with 100 million.

Since substantial funding wasn't a contribution to their first success, nor apparently even their goal, there's no reason to expect that throwing money at them would lead to something even more amazing.
I think the chat integration is the last remaining puzzle piece. If thunderbird had builtin chat and builtin gpg support I'd be content. I have never understood why smime was baked in but gpg was not. Enigmail should not need to exist and unlike any other ff/tb plugins it used to be a pain with amd64...
The cost has nothing to do with the product, that's determined based on other factors, like how many Mac's OSX sells. There's no straightforward relationship between price number of features.

The direction appears to be cheap upgrades, and merging feature sets between IOS and OSX so eventually there's one operating system that changes in unison.
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Does the amount of stuff added matter? If the quality is good I honestly don’t care.

Lion was a bit of a dud. Mountain Lion doesn’t add much but it improves massively on Lion. It corrects its mistakes. I’m very much ok with that, I don’t need flashy new features. I really don’t want Apple to start pulling features out of there ass (especially now that they switched to a yearly update cycle), mere refinements every year for something mature like OS X would be awesome.
Yes, secure handshaking via PKI is a well known and already solved problem. However, as mentioned in the post you originally replied to: "Anti-competition legislation in Europe dictates that the manufacturer cannot stand in the way of the transfer of secret keys." Keys, here, referring to the private half of a public/private keypair.

This means that a manufacturer can't be the exclusive source of resetting a key much in the same way that Verisign isn't the exclusive source of SSL certificates. Due to the anti-competition legislation, you should be able to take your vehicle to any local garage and have it fully serviced whether for a tune-up or to get a key reset. And if a local garage can be employed to reset your key because they have access to the private key required to sign the key request, thieves can do it just as easily.
How many of the active thunderbiord developers are not mozilla funded? I do not know, but it was my understanding that there were not many.
They have also moved to an 18 month release cycle for OS X[1], so we should not expect huge swathes of changes in each release.

[1]: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/143731/mac-os-x-mountain-li...
Mixergy Premium is like a gym membership.

You'll end up spending money on something you won't actually do because when it comes down to it you just have to do it.
"No copy line command in Emacs" Did you try "Alt/Meta-w" ?
Between parse, trigger.io, trello, and github, it seems there's more shovel-selling going on than actual gold-digging.
ah yes, oops-- I meant the MacBook line rather than Mac line
When should I say “thee”?
This is one of the most thoroughly researched and tested facets of Office. I assure you that you're wrong on the discoverability of Office features for the average user: it went up by leaps and bounds with the ribbon, and in fact the entire ribbon was designed to address the fact that the most common feature requests for Office were for things that already existed.
Pinterest moves corporate headquarters from Palo Alto to San Francisco
I think the idea is that Betable lets you do real gambling, but for games of chance. Not sure how it works with their platform to make it legal, but that's what the article claims their service is
Android 4.1 in AOSP
Maybe this is pigheaded or troglodyte-esque of me, but I solve this problem by refusing to use any CSS 'features' that require prefixes.

I can live without gradients, my life will go on.
I've had to configure my helper applications to avoid getting thrown into Metro from Desktop by accident; e.g., setting my PNG viewer to Chrome instead of picture viewer. I haven't found much to in Metro yet beyond browsing my applications, but I think the whole concept is very cool. Even on my Samsung tablet I find myself in desktop all the time...b/c OneNote is just that good.

(disclaimer: another MS employee)
Related: Chris Messina invented the hashtag: http://www.quora.com/How-did-the-idea-for-hashtags-originate...

I like the ad-hoc-thing-becomes-global-standard process. Hashtags are now showing up on movie posters, for goodness' sake.
Yes, github:fi (renamed to github:enterprise) has really been an afterthought to github. I hope they build up a real support team and market it well, because it's technically superior to the alternatives.
> -chance (so skill games are exempted i.e. chess)

What about games that have an element of chance which can be greatly reduced with a high skill level?