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I didn't talk with him about this yet. I just think that even if he would sincerely offer me a maximum X, an hard pressed negotiation would still give me 1.05X (annually it's not a small amount of money...).

EDIT: as you say "with that kind of mindset you will either press too hard and lose him (and potentially the offer too) or you'll end up feeling resentful at being "underpaid"."

What other mindset would you suggest?
Yes, I think maintaining a free service would be necessary, much as LinkedIn does. Freemium seems to be working well for LNKD in a way that might be a potential way forward for FB.
This is true.

There are lots of ways to mitigate this, but would drive up costs considerably.
You also need to consider that the landing may be successful but the vehicle's drive system may be rendered inoperable for any number of reasons. In that case, you'd want the surrounding ground to be as undisturbed/uncontaminated as possible so you could still do some science in that location without being able to move around.
Do you not understand where the web was invented? It wasn't at symbolics.com.
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Well, no, it seems like you're looking at it legally. You're totally right on a lot of points (maybe all of them, I haven't looked into verifying them all). Apple is very much using the legal system to squash competitors and that's shady. I'm not denying that. What I'm arguing is really outside the scope of this trial and the law. I'm saying that the allegations that Samsung has purposely copying Apple designs in some of its phones and tablets is obvious. Samsung makes a lot of touch screen phones. Most of those phones, like most touch screen phones made by anyone look very similar to each other. They're all pretty much the same basic design. But then there's a subset of Samsung's phones that so closely resemble the iPhone that even the most casual of observers has to wonder if it wasn't on purpose rather than coincidence. I think it's pretty safe to rule out coincidence in this case.

Apple's patent abuse and legal shenanigans aside, there's a handful of Samsung phones and tablets that just couldn't have come out looking like almost perfect clones of the iPhone and iPad by accident. Apple is being an asshole. But they're right that Samsung copied.
Plenty of events, in fact the vast majority of them, don't suffer from this undersupply.
If Google drives the consumer cost of high-speed internet down to nothing in response to the threat of google fiber, then Google wins.

Google wins when people use the web. Cheaper access to high speeds means more users at high speeds. Higher speeds means more pages per unit time, which means more ads server which means more revenue.

Google is declaring that the the US will have higher speed internet if they have to implement it themselves. Bold move. I hope it does drive down the costs.
Why? "Fuck" is an extremely expressive word when used properly. Entrepreneurs must have a thick skin, and know when to use "fuck" and similar words.
So what? A goddamn language is easy compared to git - they all mostly work in the same way.

I don't understand this attitude. Why can't our tools be so easy to use that you don't need to read the instruction manual?

Conceptually, there's nothing that difficult about using git. I have some files that I want to be versioned. Yet, the commands are inconsistent and any non trivial operation requires consultation of a variety of tutorials.

Why do we have to settle for this? Why can't the tool be internally consistent?
Ah, good to know. Everytime I've googled this it was something about reset --hard (or --soft) and HEAD or ^HEAD or whatever else.

git stash is hg shelve. Don't know about cherry picking (I've never needed it).

Anyways, the argument I'm making is not "which tool is more powerful" but "which one is easier to use while being powerful enough". For me that is Mercurial, hands down.
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> GUI apps which are not really composable in any consistent way.

Production-biased GUI apps not being composable and linkable is a consequence of the political economy of software production dictated by their makers; not an inherent trait of the GUI as a form.

Some related reading:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NoApplication

http://openendedgroup.com/index.php/2007/10/17/using-photosh...
Methinks they have that data to cultivate ads for the users. If they asked you to pay and changed their policies for the paying (ability to export data, a lack of emphasis of keeping it for themselves) would it be more compelling?
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Just some background - the solution/benchmark spawned from an index lookup latency issue. In our search engine, we generate enormous b-tree indexes and store them in memory (rsync from master then mmap). After adding more logic, intersects, and unions the search engine started to miss SLA.

Eventually, we traced the problem back to the additional latency in the vmalloc code path. The get_free_page* API code path had much lower latency and llds was born (llds uses k*alloc which is a wrapper around GFP).

Additional use cases where llds is being used is in low-energy compute environments (like SeaMicro machines) where every CPU cycle is expensive due to increased hardware latency.
This is why the big boys still use Perforce.
It's a question of how closely the ID can be inspected for accuracy.

When I go to the store and buy beer, they want to see my license. They always make me take it out, which means the clerk can feel it, and the "feel" will often give away a fake to someone who has handled thousands of legit IDs. Next, they look at the pic on the ID and then look at me to make sure they at least kinda match. Nobody is really holding them up for a side-by-side, but you at least kind of have to look like the guy on the ID, which immediately limits the pool of people who could be faking my identity. Then, assuming it feels right and looks like me, they scan the ID and verify a record of that ID card with the state, which simply confirms that the state issued such an ID.

Between those three things, the system is actually pretty secure. But when you ask someone to scan in and email a copy of the front of their license as proof of ID, all three of those "checks" are eliminated.
We'll know it's out of hand when it's commonplace for marketing copy to say "Fucking use our product, bitch!"
Weird that he point out the iOS support for GCD, but not that GCD is not that much cross platform compared to OpenMP
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What I really like about projects like this is the fact, that local communities organize themselves and get things done, that the bigger entities are not able to tackle.

The more I read about such endeavors and the more I think about it, I believe, that local communities in a connected world have more power than

a; they thought for a long time, due to the fact, that a lot of things are decided far away.
b; a lot of bigger players would like them to have.

They might not be as "efficient" or as "moneymaking" but that might be actually a good thing.

For example, building this network underground is much more resilient, than on poles. But I also believe, that the bigger players, will try to enforce their role, as such initiatives get more common.

The same might happen, as power generation becomes much less centralized or as food production (hopefully) returns to a much more local situation.

I really hope to see more such initiatives, not only in Britain, or Europe, but on planet-scale.
Probably not only in the US.
Are you implying that in the 1960s there was literally no one living in poverty in the soviet union?

Seems to be some evidence against that, such as: http://books.google.com/books/about/Poverty_in_the_Soviet_Un...
Oh... in that case, how can a .mac account be used to compromise a Gmail account - using Forgot Password?
But that's an excellent response. If the thing "here" is what they wanted, wonderful. But often it's not exactly what's needed "yea, like that, but I need it to be wireless" so what's happening is you're now facilitating a dialogue between the Maker and the Buyer and that gives the Maker an opportunity to create a product that's exactly what that Buyer and others like him will want.
Scala and Akka solve many of these problems on the JVM, with a strongly typed language to boot.

I love Erlang, but it's not all roses either.
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The gateway tunnel has been postponed indefinitely. But no worries, apparently the only reason the Gateway Tunnel was necessary was because the MTA previously refused to run things efficiently.

http://transportationnation.org/2012/06/14/ny-mta-chief-says...

Also interesting: "The Regional Plan Association, which held the conference at which Lhota spoke, and other advocacy groups have expressed support for through-running—at least until Gateway Tunnel gets built."

I.e., they want to be more efficient, but only as a stopgap measure until the tunnel is built.

(Also check out Market Urbanism's blog post on the topic: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ycccmpt... )
I totally agree that customer support is a very inconsistent department. I was just hoping Apple would have stringent training for these reps to all follow the strictest possible security checks. Who knows...
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Is that the main point of the article? Is that the most interesting point you can make after reading it? Just because something minor in the article offends some semblence of sensibility in you doesn't make it a good topic of discussion on HN. In fact, it's just a knee-jerk reaction from you, and if anything, you're just trolling.
Possibly referring to this story. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230489870457747... If so, the quote only says they could stalk people with the master password, not that they were.
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Mars has LESS pressure. So the landing would be easier here, so it should have been tested?

I find it impossible to believe it wasn't tested all together as a unit and just connecting individually tested parts.

Kind of strange they would not share such a video, which if made by a government entity is public domain anyway.
I love how the old media fears robotic spacecraft.

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The kid who hacked Sarah Palin's email got a year in jail. He was convicted of "the felony of anticipatory obstruction of justice by destruction of records and a misdemeanor of unauthorized access to a computer." [wikipedia]

The guy who hacked Honan is certainly guilty of the misdemeanor (which could wind you up in jail) and depending on what he erased and how they want to interpret his motives, he could be guilty of the same felony.
Interesting. I suppose there are not high odds that these multiple systems will ever get integrated into one regional agency, the way the various NYC subways were eventually merged into the MTA and interconnected?
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Then I hope they've done something meaningful with it. It doesn't necessarily have to be reimplementing their working (although apparently it isn't...) site, is what I was trying to convey.
It's a big risk working for a friend. By that, I mean working in a position where your friend would be the one who has to let you go/fire you if something went bad.
Working with friends can be great though you still have to be careful.

Since you have other options, I would pass on working for your friend. If he asks why you went to work for someone else, tell him the truth - that you didn't want to risk the friendship.

There is an exception to this rule: If your friend is in real need and you're willing to sacrifice to help him out, that's different.
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Yeah, one of the Gmail account recovery mechanisms is some process involving another email address.
Yes, but we already had to switch once (as per the links above) - we'll do it again if we're forced to.
I'm sitting at home surrounded by a bunch of Apple hardware, and my first reaction is "This is why you shouldn't use iCloud!". This is also why I refused to connect my iOS device to an Exchange server at work (which grants remote-wipe capability).

I don't think this is Apple versus non-Apple. I think this is everything-in-the-cloud versus everything-local.
Akka (Scala actor library on the JVM) allows for STM on multiple actor states.
I actually wonder what the market is like for a C++ web framework. In principle I like the idea of a framework built using a compiled language, but I imagine it'd be far easier to write a vulnerable application.
I appreciate your assessment of my intelligence based on your knowledge of my history, writing and actions. I fudging appreciate it.

Or perhaps you aren't smart enough to use the word "you" correctly.
It would be cool if someone make a rails like framework for GoLang. :)
Good point about Jamaica. I'll have to throw my theory out of the window for now!
Founders who end up successful usually learn this lesson early on. It's not something you can read and understand, you just need to live the lifestyle. Don't allow yourself to get distracted, complete small but manageable goals, and just go one day at a time.
I suspect the vast majority of people never read the TOS and decide to sue, or not, for completely independent reasons.
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AIUI the .mac account was the backup email address of the Gmail account. So
1. The attacker compromised the .mac account.
2. The attacker used the I forgot my password feature of Gmail - to get an account reset email for the gmail account sent to the .mac account.
Actually it's much better: it takes much less space, can be configured to ignore certain file types and can disappear after the downloads are finished.
I think that happened in the 90s in the video game market.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Daikatana_ad_-...
> I am not defending the bans, but find it strange that people would be surprised by them.

yes, i think a lot of replies here are speaking past each other, making valid and not actually contradictory points, but not really replying to each other.

if you read the entire doc it is clear that they are pushing c in a very safe, but somewhat unusual direction. there's no dynamic memory for example, so the main reason that most of my c code uses goto - to free memory on failure in a "catch" - is irrelevant.

taken as a whole, it's not what i would call normal c use, and i don't think it's very useful for most other people as a guideline, but it is internally consistent and, for the specific use case, reasonable.
Actually, like most words, there is more than one meaning. From the OSX dictionary, after the first listed meaning:

> difficult to understand : some of the lyrics are a bit obtuse.

It also sounds a lot like 'abstruse', which has the correct meaning and no other.

Sorry, but if you're going to be pedantic you'd better be right!
Google actually calls it "2-step verification"

source: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
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If you buy and hold, the hft leeches won't have much opportunity to steal your money...
Again, is the food comment--a very small part of what I said--the only thing you're quibbling with?

If I could retract that one small part of my original comment, what would you have to say about the rest? Anything good?
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"There is an exception to this rule: If your friend is in real need and you're willing to sacrifice to help him out, that's different."

No more than other startups. Otherwise I wouldn't consider high-balling on salary.
I think one of the things that I find hard to do wrt to time management is whether to take meetings or not. I've tried both ends: both taking all meetings, and taking no meetings. I've found that taking all meetings, the vast majority of them aren't useful (to them or to me). In taking no meetings, I was able to focus, but I do wonder what could have been.

So where's the middle ground? Usually, I find that my default stance is 'no'. I have work to do, and I have to guard my time. So I'll only take meetings that are interesting. But I think after reading this, I'll have to also add 'need genuine help' to the criteria.

I think something that Stammy could have added under "Workdays are Sacred" is how to say 'no'. What if it's a warm intro to someone that doesn't heed genuine help?
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"it still looks like the craziest Rube Goldberg set of hacked together systems I've ever seen for landing on a planet"

It almost makes slamming into the planet and bouncing around in a giant airbag look like a perfectly reasonable and drama-free landing approach.
So, basically, you are saying that Kaspersky thinks that Indiana Jones was real. What a thoughtful nitpick.
Have a look at 'easy git' http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/. I use it side by side with git, and whenever I need to look at a help command or something beyond the usual add/commit/push commands I tend to use it first, git second.
Ah, yes, the brutal regimes of modern-day Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and others in Northern Europe!

where people aren't routinely bankrupted by medical debt, and don't enter adult life or the adult workforce straddled by terrible student loan debt, and workers have rights!

Obviously, the sort of inequality we have in the U.S.--now greater than that of imperial Rome--obviously that's the right way to be, and the only way society (or at least a tiny fraction of it) can thrive. Right? That's what you're saying, right?
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Large amounts of personal data are collected by data brokers like Intelius, Spokeo and Whitepages - which makes this easier to pull off. It's fairly trivial to find answers to questions like "What's your DOB?" or "What's your billing address" by looking in one of these places. Most data brokers will have opt-out pages where you can request removal of your data - though they don't make it easy. There are also services that help with this: MyPrivacy (reputation.com/myprivacy) which I work on and Safe Shepherd (safesheperd.com).
A readable account of Carol Dweck's research (mentioned in the interesting submitted article) is a Stanford alumni magazine article

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?articl...

that was shared here on HN a while ago.
It's quite possible to add two-factor logins for any protocol, that works in any country with a cell phone network. Just demand a response to a challenge via cell phone before validating the password, you could even require one of those RSA token thingies if you want. Just a matter of cost and convenience.
Is he serious?
C'mon, you surely must know that the KGB outlet he graduated from was a math school on steroids, not the 007 training facility. The chances of him still being an agent because of that are well comparable to being simply hard-pressed into cooperation after his company acquired a momentum.
Doesn't the N-times speedup on N cores really require you to write perfect Erlang? I feel like that's a really optimistic prediction. Even the authors said they needed to give their original programs some tweaking, and they're Erlang pros. At this point, I remain skeptical of this claim.
As some comments say on that page, there are numerous technical details as to why it isn't nearly as simple as proposed. AFAIK you can't easily run LIRR trains to NJ because only a few engines support catenary operation, everything else requires a third rail to be built.

So while this might get us a few percent increase in the number of trains for now, at the cost of a few hundred million to build out third rails in NJ (or catenaries in LIRR areas where NJ transit trains might be routed), it doesn't change the fundamental infrastructure issue given the growth of mass transit in the NYC metro area.
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>IIRC it does the wipe via the recovery boot, so wiping that partition would kill it.

Isn't this not an option in relatively recent Macs, which have the recovery functionality baked into the EFI firmware and not as a partition on the disk?

Newer Macs have that functionality out of the box, and a bunch from 2010 and early 2011 that did not originally ship with the recovery firmware ended up getting it later via update: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4904
Apple made the source of GCD available where it is known as libdispatch. I've used it extensively on Linux, but the port appears to be abandoned. The major release from last year never made it to the head of the repository and the mailing list is dead.

This is sad, because C+clang+blocks+libdispatch really beat the socks off of C+pthreads for very low overhead network servers.
How about just telling everyone that wants to meet that you work from (for example) some coffee shop from 3-5 on Thursdays? Then you can work or meet with the people that come. And nobody is "scheduled" so if three people show up then things will just work out. Or maybe you'll introduce them to each other if the meeting isn't useful.

I've heard people call this "office hours" too.
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When I opened my Ing account I didn't need any of this. They verify your identity through a series of questions about your past, as well as your SSN. In fact, all US banks allow accounts to be opened over the 'net now. I've personally done it with several of them.
"Unusable while you travel" or in other countries is simply false: one of the two-factor authentication options is the google authenticator app on your smartphone, which requires no internet/phone connectivity at all. It's time-based.

The imap/pop thing is still a legitimate concern. App-specific passwords let those continue working, but they have security issues of their own.
If you guard your time you won't make connections that make your limited time multiply through the help of others. Likewise you can probably do a little for someone that would help them a lot forward.

Don't take meeting when you have work to do. If someone is asking for a meeting so someone can be a witness to their existence, push it to the weekend and take only the most interesting.

If there's something concrete you can fill them in on, or be helped with, be concise, clear and direct about it. There's a lot about startups that you can, and should be learning on your own all the time.

Work meetings can be doubled up during events, lunch, or coffee. Keep it on topic and on time. Getting together after work is an option too, it doesn't interrupt working time.
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