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The only reason it worked for Steve Jobs is that he was Steve Jobs. Almost every other person with that attitude would be, and arguably should be, fired (or at least talked to seriously about it). Someone like that would be extremely detrimental in a team environment. Except in the case where someone truly has demonstrated that their decisions and opinions are genius, most of his behavior would simply not be tolerable. Would you really want to work with someone like that?

It's even called out in the biography (I forget if it's a quote or a comment by the author) that he probably could have been just as effective without being as abrasive.
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Of course its not exactly the same thing. I was looking at it in a global context. And globally people refer to it as "piracy". I think there has to be parity across the board. If not, every one ends up looking silly. In mass media terms, these subtilties are not noticed, it all gets wrapped up as the same thing. In some ways it weakens the anti piracy arguments when yet again they, as a mass, get it so badly wrong. See where I'm coming from? People will point to this case and say, "see, these idiots are acting irrationally". Tar, brush and all that.
I don't want to go into an evolution/something else debate. But beware of your "there is no"'s. That usually smells like fundamentalism. On any side.
You don't get to pick what other people work on, unless you pay them.

PyPy is quite friendly to new contributors, so if you want to help speed up JSON or improve docs, visit #pypy on freenode and offer to pitch in, and I'm sure some core developers will do their best to help you help them.

Or if you really want a feature but don't have time to work on it, see if any PyPy devs are accepting contract work. I suspect speeding up JSON wouldn't take one of the experts long, so it probably wouldn't cost you much.

Docs are more of a moving target: no matter how much you write, users will always want more (and then some of those complaining users will fail to actually read what you do write). There was a tutorial session at PyCon US this year about using PyPy to speed up Python code, and the video is on Youtube.
Yeah I mean, sure SEO isn't exactly rocket science...but it's a little more than making a URL crawl-able....
Id have to learn Cocoa/Objective-C, but I agree with you.
I graduated high school in '92 and since my systems at home were better than what we had in our labs, I gravitated toward exploring the local University networks. You could dial in to a terminal and then connect to any of the local machines. Most were VAX/VMS or Ultrix systems. The VMS systems all had open GUEST accounts that were limited, but allowed you access to BITNET. I managed to chat with Taran King, who was co-editor of Phrack at the time, a few times over the BITNET chat protocol which was great fun.

However, my actually hacking life started on the Ultrix systems. I don't remember how I first had access since I don't think it allowed Guest logins, but I discovered a great hack: all of /dev/tty* was word-readable until someone fully logged in to a particular port at which point it was only readable by the user logged into that port. so every few hours, I'd just "cat /dev/tty* >> passwords.txt" and harvest logins for everyone who logged in during that time. I had some fun with one of the admins for awhile having unknowingly logged into his account. We chatted a bit and he was a good sport about it, but the hole was patched a few weeks after. I never knew if it was already a known issue or if I was actually the only one who found it.

A friend wardialed a system that appeared to be a Dept of Transportation front-end to the brand-new digital readerboards along the Interstate. Let's assume we never actually changed any text, but I cracked the password, TRAFFIC, on the 3rd or 4th attempt. Good one, guys!

Exploring random address on TELENET dialups was a blast as well. Most were very secure since they'd been well-picked, but every so often you'd find some interesting terminal and start poking around figuring out what it responded to and how to navigate deeper.

Don't get me started on the first 2600 meetings in Seattle. Some very prominent people in the tech/hacking space now were pretty sketchy back then.

Fun! Memories!
It will be interesting if these ever get legally tested.
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reminds me of this artwork, personal depersonalization system, http://bengrosser.com/projects/personal-depersonalization-sy... . he wrote code to clutter his google history with junk by continuously searching for dictionary words, changing location, etc.
Being crawlable might not be sufficient, but it sure is necessary! :D
Blogspam, here's the article http://www.cultofmac.com/183623/nearly-80-of-americans-would... edit: never mind, even that's not the source and the link from there is an affiliate link disguised as a direct link...
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Now HERE is what I consider really cool: in the US we were seriously thinking about taking some Apollo components, building what amounts to a Skylab with thrusters, and doing a MANNED Venus flyby in 1973.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_Flyby
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He held it less than a year, it is ordinary income, so 38% to the fed and 11% to the state (49% total) and with that amount of income on the adjusted gross income line he gets no deductions.
Ah, that's a cool project! We will check it out.
Is a version for Mac apps in the pipeline?
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Thanks

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Simple: don't have an ever-growing population. It can't ever grow in any case, so it's better to work toward stabilizing and then reducing it. Through attrition of course.

With a population significantly less than today's level, biotech isn't really needed. Without modern biotech people can live to be 80+ on average. That's good enough in my book. I support death (even my own, at 80+!), to keep the population fresh and keep the dictators dying. Overall, I'm confident the benefits of no biotech outweigh the negatives.

I don't think I could help being disappointed if a kid of mine chose to work in a job that did great harm to others, be it cigarettes or GMO food. That's kind of natural to feel that way.
Is the goal for Thiel to see a quick return on his investment? Or is it set these people up for a better career in the future? I have always understood it to be the latter.

From what I have interpreted, Thiel believes that just getting out into the world and getting to work will put you as good, if not better standing than someone who went to college with respect to future income and employment opportunities†. That doesn't mean they are going to be millionaires on day one. They still have much to learn, like anyone else. One year later doesn't really tell us anything about the success or failure of his program.

† within reason; you are not going become a doctor without the right credentials and he openly speaks to that.
Great idea! Yes, it has been a long time. You should make a reel chronicling your adventures since the JM days!
Maybe 'robotics industry' was the wrong terminology, but there are certainly people developing modern robotics -- researching it, developing it. No prior experience in robotics, some minor making, soldering, 3d design, but nothing robotics specific.

I'm basically starting from scratch here.
One good way to start building your security credentials is by becoming the go-to security guy on your team. Poke around the product you're working on and try to find security holes. Bring up security at code reviews. Besides just facilitating learning about security those experiences can also be put on a resume and talked about at interviews.
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IMO, catharsis ends once the lawyers get involve and start sending out C&Ds.
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I'm looking for some good learning resources on UI/UX Design that focuses on practical aspects of designing web & mobile user experience. Which are your favorite ones?
An alternative way to look at it: When you use technology to do things in ways your content producers don't understand, they respect technology less. Eventually, they fight back, even if the technology does improve their situation.

Lesson? Make sure you explain how your technology works to the people who are providing your content. They are the ones you need to convince, because if you can bag them, they will become your biggest supporters and users.
You could call it that, but given that the US track record so far is closer to Halliburton (i.e. the aforementioned Enron case) and not Sweden, it seems more appropriate to refer to what has actually happened rather than what people wish would happen.
I think you're referring to an Authorization, which is valid only for a limited time. To store enough details to re-bill a non-pre-auth transaction in the future will get you into PCI DSS Level D compliance, which is not cheap - to say the least. Full compliance with the PCI DSS with stored credit card data, including PAN and CVC generally requires a number of products/services from 3rd party vendors and a dedicated team to manage compliance.

Then, you have the issue as to whether or not the card has the amount available in the future when you intend to charge it...
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But the point is not to put you outside of US law, but to make a harder target for frivolous claims. In this case, the site is legal, but was taken down because the hosting provider did not want to deal with the torrent of unfounded cease and desist letters.
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It's brand diluting all the same, though. I guess they (probably correctly) see that they are doing a lot of things right with online purchases/downloads that other places aren't, but part of what I think they are doing right is having and keeping focus. Of course, people said the same thing when Amazon stopped just selling books, and that worked out alright for them.
>Incorrect, a bunch of students with failed/successful experience is better than a bunch of students who go to college, because they were "suppose" to.

Not all college students attended college because they are "supposed to". Even for those who attend college because they are "supposed to", it is arguable that they will end up being better than choosing not to go to college. If someone has no idea what he wants to do in life, it's arguable that going to college is better than not going to.

The truth is that people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg are rare. Most people need a formal education. It's arrogant to think that you can design better alternative than an educational framework that has existed for years to educate the mass.

The Thiel's model works well for a small number of bright youngsters, who might exceed their potentials through a customized training program, instead of going to college to have an off-the-shelf training program. If more and more people drop out of college, or even skip college to do this, it's going to blow up in his face.
I use gnuplot to work with large datasets I extract from telco carrier logs (for client usage analysis). It's one of the few tools you can throw a 100,000 point dataset at and it graphs it in seconds. Try that with most scripting language graphing libraries, and you'll be there for a few minutes.

The problem I have with gnuplot -- and maybe I'm the limitation, not the software -- is that I find it difficult to use, and the result of some input is inconsistent. Not to appear self-deprecating, but I really do think I might be the limitation here. Regardless of that, I often waste time trying to figure out why gnuplot is behaving as it is.

I have no idea if chartulo.us is going to choke on my datasets, but I hope I'll be able to use it. I really could use a tool that is a little easier to use than gnuplot.
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+1 for using 1 and missing drawer. Never upgraded to 2 because of the bad press, and because 1.5 is good enough. It chokes on large files - and long lines, so I use vi instead for these.

I really like a few features:

* View your whole project from the root directory:
mate .

* Open a bunch of files in arbitrary locations at once:
find . -name 'something.' | xargs mate

* Write a script and run it using command-R

* Banging out html using tab complete

* Compared to any IDE it is ridiculously fast.

* I wrote a bundle (for Oracle Databases) that I used for awhile.

Kind of cool stuff.... might be available in other editors but I found 'em for the first time in TM 1.5.
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We previously submitted to HN pretending that we'd stumbled across the site so that it protected the social experiment part of the site (I.e. Keep it a secret and see if people will sign up). This caused some unrest so we're reposting with my proper name.

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Does anyone know a similar app for Android landing pages?
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A bit on topic, this is my tweet about that: https://twitter.com/fijall/status/230597001056768000

That said, not all PyPy devs are working on STM, so there is definitely work going in other directions. I should probably write a blog post detailing stuff that's actively being worked on.

STM is also funded - which means there is enough community interest to sponsor at least some of the work (and thanks to all the donors)
Funny to see this ranked right above Pulse's post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360756
yes when i said firefox i meant thunderbird.

but really, any decent email app for mobile phone would do.
Funny to see this ranked right below "Design Tips: Never Use Black." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4357002
What is with the random mixing of serif and sans-serif on that page? A demonstration of fonts negatively affecting one's opinion?
I agree with this very much - I was just pointing out though that the term "spreadsheet" to anyone I know is automatically assumed to include the ability to calculate.

I use Excel for most everything (e.g. I do all my patch matrix docs for the DC, MDF, IDF buildouts in excel. Modelling the physical layout of a switch in Excel to show what ports are patched where - and while I am not doing any formulas in these particular docs - sometimes I do (clacing bandwidth, subscription etc...)
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Ask HN: Company training or best friend's wedding?
So I am at a crossroads between professional development and personal commitment ,and I could use some objective thinking.

One of my best friends is getting married over Labor Day, and I told him I wouldn't miss it, and I will go to it if there is any possibility. Unfortunately the company I work for wants to send me over for training in Switzerland for training for a client. I need to be at training Tuesday morning, and the only way I can make it is to be on a plane Sunday afternoon before the wedding.

Should I go down for the night before and hit the airport before the ceremony or should I say I am unavailable to go to Switzerland?
There was a FAQ that explained in detail how the site worked. According to the site owner, most of the people who read it were no longer angry. Apparently almost none of the people sending hate mail to his web host even bothered to visit the site, they were just going by stuff they read on facebook.
Doesn't matter. Git has plugins to pull from other repositories.
> Doesn't mars also lack a magnetic field?

Yes, that's correct. There is no global dipole magnetic field on Mars [1]. However there are weak fields "frozen" into some of the oldest rocks on Mars [2], which indicates that the planet did have a global magnetic field at some point in its early history. Scientists think that the lack of a global magnetic field was part of the reason that Mars lost its atmosphere. [3]

For humans to settle on Mars and stay for any length of time, we will need to find a way to shield ourselves from the ionizing radiation that reaches the surface. [4] On Earth, most of this radiation is either deflected by the global magnetic field, or absorbed by the atmosphere.

[1] http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/personnel/russell/papers/mars_m...

[2] http://cmex.ihmc.us/data/catalog/TectonismonMars/Paleomagnet...

[3] http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/as...

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Mars#Radiation
I've had these bookmarked for awhile...

http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/50-totally-free-lessons...

http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/

http://ui-patterns.com/blog/How-to-get-better-at-UI-design
I agree. Why not keep it simple and say "10/mo for additional 10000 users".
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This is solving a genuine problem, and it's well executed, but there's no way I'm going to sit there manually rating enough films for the recommendations to be useful.

Have you considered:

a) scrobbling a la Last.fm or
b) turning the collection of user preferences into a game or a quiz of some kind?

Good luck!
So you think if I use a shitty keyboard for a long time, that would justify paying more money for it in the first place? Sounds almost like a sunken cost fallacy to me. You should not feel obligated to continue using something because you regret paying so much for it. Had I paid too much for my keyboard, I would not attempt to comfort myself by using it more. Similarly, I would not find comfort in looking back at how much I used it.

The intrinsic values that the keyboard itself has should set its worth, not the value you extracted from it in the past. It is a keyboard, not an heirloom.
It's a cool idea, but it probably would have killed the crew due to radiation exposure.

Edit: Some additional info. The Apollo crews had very little radiation protection, basically just the hulls of their spacecraft. This was thick enough to give them protection against the van allen belts as they zipped through them (not coincidentally where the ships were going near their highest speeds) but it wasn't enough to protect against an errant solar flare. Fortunately, the missions were short duration and we just plain got lucky. Venturing into the inner Solar System near Venus would have exposed crews to higher levels of radiation (due to proximity to the Sun) and combined with the longer duration trip would have virtually guaranteed being exposed to high doses from a CME or solar flare.
tl;dr: We missed out on Facebook because of regulation. regulation lowers market efficiency, markets have always evolved, HFT improves pricing and order fulfillment

Like seemingly everything wired writes these days this article is nonsense, written from the perspective of an agenda. Wired regularly comes out with these neo-luddite articles. The reality is, software bugs cause money. Knight was punished for their "sins".

Meanwhile I profit because HFT makes the market more efficient for me. I know this with certainty because I trade derivatives (options spreads) and I've done so in areas where there is no HFT and where there is a lot of HFT. My orders go better at closer prices when there's HFT going on. I've experienced the additional market liquidity first hand, and the underlying is shockingly stable for the nature of the business, so I don't think anyone could say that HFT is destabilizing the stock price.

At this point people might be tempted to shout "anecdote" but the thing is, economics and reason also support this view. Thinly traded markets are simply less price efficient because there are less people analyzing price and thus willing to buy or sell at a little better price. Computers are efficient at this (I know almost all the counter parties to my trades are computers, it is really easy to see because they react instantaneously to my actions.)

Finally let me point something out. Facebooks IPO has been pretty poor, while Google's was great. Google was able to go public when it was still in its high growth phase. This meant that the public was able to invest in google and make very high returns. Facebook, however, grew up in a different regulatory environment, especially after 2008 (Which was itself a result of regulation in the first place, though for political reasons we're fed a constant stream of lies to the contrary) ... in this regulatory environment going public is much more difficult.

Thus, instead of you and me profiting from buying facebook stock in 2006, where we would be up 100-fold by now, only venture capitalists and large companies were allowed to participate in that. This is really a shame. In the 1990s a company like facebook would have gone public much earlier. People seem to think that because there was a bubble (again government created) and some companies went bust that somehow magically "regulation" will "protect" people. It doesn't, it just hurts people. We all missed out on Facebook, and now facebook was forced into a situation where its stock is going to suck wind for awhile-- hurting the entire startup sector.

But it always starts with articles like this-- nonsense to scare people about HFT, this creates the political support for legislation (which always favors certain interests, not the least of which are the politicians who wouldn't do it otherwise) at the expense of society.
Drag a bunch of random/loosely associated files to the icon == new project.

I forgot to mention ackmate and the extension that disable project refreshing when connected to a network share
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Amazon now allows California affiliates again, due to its tax agreement with the state of California (which in part, required both sides to drop pending legal disputes).
I have personally thought about this idea as well at times. User management is something that every web based business needs. So the concept of UAAS (user-as-a-service) is definitely interesting. But the biggest question is: how can you let one of the most critical aspects of your business (your users) in the hands of a third party. Have we matured enough to try this ?