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"I've run into just as many dishonorable people as I have in the general population."

Can you think of any group this would not be true for given a sample size or population as large as the military?
yes. density is astounding. that's why it's in science i presume. mostly because people forget how dense dna information really is.
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I agree, see my comment to the above poster.
I think Google is smarter than what looks at the surface. They are indirectly targeting timing of iPhone 5 and Apple's revenue. Good timing Google.
U.S. didn't have such a regulation until the 50s, before that it was merely tradition.
Now do it with set builder notation!
Enjoyed playing with light table. Ruby is still my favorite language, but clojure seems to be where all the innovation is at these days.
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My ratio is somewhat 60% front, 20% new and 20% ask.
By the way, the fundamental concern I have with SQL is the issue of ambiguity regarding NULLs. We are taught that NULL means one of two things, but really it means one of three:

* Unknown value
* Not applicable value
* Value does not exist

This is a big issue, because you would expect operators to treat these cases differently. known || unknown is obviously unknown, but known || not_applicable should probably be known, and known || does_not_exist should be known. In sane RDBMS's there is a possibility of magic values which provides a sane way to handle not_applicable (for example an empty string as distinct from NULL and yes I am calling into question the sanity of Oracle). However, you still have the fact that the first and third cases are ambiguous although you hope not in any given query (the third case implies a missing value from an outer join), the ambiguity could in fact happen.

This is a fundamentally broken aspect of SQL. The problem with ambiguity is that if your data is ambiguous mathematically, then it cannot be reliably transformed using math.
In most jurisdictions I think you can claim your losses against such taxes. Something you'd certainly want to consider beforehand.
"It would be incredibly shocking to see a vitriolic HN comment coming from community leaders like tptacek"

wat
Minority stock owners can easily be wiped out by bastard moves of insiders. The management can issue 8 zillion new shares of stock.

It's probably illegal, but once things are going down the tubes at a small company the stakes are usually too small for it to be worth it to the minority shareholders to bother with lawyers.
Oh, hadn't you heard? There was a memo. New policy, started today, just after tea.
In a sense, you're right. Apple offered to license it's tech to Samsung in 2010 for a whopping $40/device - personally, I don't think that a fee that exorbitant counts, but that's personal opinion. I thing Apple knew they were offering an untenable fee and that Samsung would have no choice but to refuse.
I'm relatively new to the Hacker News community, so forgive me if this is totally off-base, but in my opinion the issue is that the community feels relatively anonymous. Perhaps this is by design, the point being that the comment should be more important than the commenter, but it has its downsides.

It's easy to act viciously when you're only identified by a username, and this lack of identification, I think, breeds contempt. Though it's possible to dig deeper and find out more about each commenter, while skimming comments on an article, I don't "see" a collection of accomplished human beings having a conversation. At a glance, I don't know whether I'm talking to a bunch of snarky twelve year-old know-it-alls or founders with a wealth of real-world experience. To me, this matters.

I wonder whether there are simple ways to shift the tone of the HN community - for example, by assigning a short byline to each username that gives an indication as to who the user actually is, and why I should care about what they have to say (the "about" field already exists, but maybe it needs to be brought front-and-centre somehow).

Again, I've jumped into the HN community late, so perhaps I'm being a little naive. However, maybe a newcomer's perspective could be helpful.
Just think of all the money you'll save. :)
What is your ISP doing, if not "making things available".

Let's stop arguing about whether or not torrents are copyright infringement, and move on to the second point: can one be expected to show remorse for what amounts to computing a mathematical function over an encoded movie file? Even if it's wrong, my human emotions aren't programmed to respond to that.
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Thanks for taking the time to clarify your (non) affiliation with DataNitro. I apologize for my misunderstanding and appreciate you coming in to correct my errors.
It's totally unjust if the world is a computer simulation in which arbiters have perfect information and there's a binary right/wrong answer to every problem. Since that's not the world we live in, I am very glad prosecutors are allowed the discretion to follow human intuition about the grade of offense to charge. Like most other government interventions, there are checks and balances regulation that discretion.
To be clear, XtraDB is solely developed by Percona. MariaDB has nicely included it, not the other way around.
The reason having a large trove of patents makes it futile for others to sue you is precisely because you can respond to their suits with countersuits of your own.
Yeah, I normally do that when dealing with APIs that want to use third-party scripts. I'd just like to see more APIs that support running with local versions of the scripts, to avoid the need for a separate untrusted domain.
Oracle just settled a case today based upon their Indian subsidiary keeping a secret slush fund. It ended up being a "pay a fine with no statement of wrongdoing", but the FCPA does have some teeth.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21328339/oracle-pay-2...
He hates that the skeumorphic things are patronizing, but, there you are, in a word, the very nature of Apple: patronizing.
If the CEO was going to get nothing which I strongly doubt, he should have just quit. Nobody would taint their reputation for zero return, Steve Perlman definitely would have made something out of this - it might not be a lot of money but I can almost bet that it is a hell of a lot more money than those who were fired and shafted received.

I think someone needs to orchestrate some kind of small-scale campaign to smear Steve Perlman from ever running any kind of company in the future.
Can't the founder be issued a bunch of new shares as part of the dilution? (I mean in theory, not in this specific case.)
Karsparov has a history of staging or attending protests and getting arrested. After his chess career ended he has been trying to reinvent himself as a "people's champion" and "pro-democracy" leader. So far this has mostly amounted to him getting marginalized and beaten up by police.
Actually, I vaguely remember a post or essay from pg, which suggested that one of the reasons to create HN was to assess potentially good founders based on the content they post on HN.

Hahaha. PG should be doing the inverse. If someone is spending enough time on HN to have a really high karma then they aren't spending that time building something.
Loiks like TheVerge was covering this live and had a reporter stationed outside. www.theverge.com/2012/8/17/3250507/onlive-employees-fired-all-hands-meeting-acquisition-imminent

Onlive declared a "variation of bankruptcy" to get out of employee liabilities.
I think one thing that was always unclear was if they were targeting PC or console gamers. Clearly they were 'PC games' but they didn't act like PC games (sandboxed network environment, no mods, no settings) and the console controller really didn't work right for many games.

The real target market seemed to be people who aspired to be PC gamers, but enjoyed the idea of a console and didn't have the ability/money to buy a decent PC (but had a great internet connection). Realistically, this market just never felt fully there yet.

It also was a company with a huge number of ambitious goals. This isn't a terrible thing, but it definitely pushed them to having a very high (reported around 5M/month) burn rate. Many of these goals, as of today, were unfulfilled. Focus overall seemed all over the place for the company.
I didn't use Janus, but I copied a really good, commented .vimrc from another Python and Ruby programmer. That was a mistake, but I didn't realise it at first because I thought "this does a lot of neat things that I need" but I had no idea what was really going on or how it was different from the default. So I did the same thing you did. Deleted it and started with blank dotfiles and no plugins.

I figured out that when you're in the learning stage with vim, you should always be editing your dotfiles because that's a big part of progressing up the learning curve.
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Sounds like a union to me... Standard contracts. We'll call it American Association of Programmers, or the American Programmer's Association.
Until I read Paul Graham I had never heard of another entrepreneurial programmer who liked Evelyn Waugh and Wodehouse and placed such an enormous value on doing hard things. I came to news looking for other people like that.

My experience here has been quite positive; I have learns a great deal from recommended books and programming languages. I also discovered Richard Hamming's famous speech which changed the way I work in several ways.

Unfortunately, I absorb more than I contribute and sadly realize I am of the generation that dilutes the vision and modeled behavior of this community's best members, reducing the ability of those following me to even notice what I saw and did not emulate. I hope to do my part to increase the quality of posts by adding to the site rather than shouting down low quality.
Wow. I really like the design!
More likely scenario: the company company is about to go bankrupt and finds a buyer. The buyer says: We will pay your investors $.50 on the dollar in exchange for all your assets and IP. We don't want any of your people as part of the deal because we want to shake things up, install new management and dramatically reorganize the Business because the way it's been running to date sucks. Like, seriously, you drove it into the ground. That said, we reserve the right to rehire some of them after the deal closes.
A question of intent
Looks far simplier to configure an ad campaign on Facebook than it used to be. But does that really matter if there's still a problem with bots?
Well, nothing says the service must shutdown when the people who built it are screwed by the CEO/VCs...
The party has been on since at least early July. It is just so that not everyone was invited, but they're opening it up slowly.
I would argue that these employees on "(very very) below market salaries" are taking more risk than that hypothetical founder.

They take same uncertainty risk [company failing]. Similar financial risk [unless founder has invested own money]. But. They don't have any control over the company. That results in larger uncertainty risk.
If by "first in line" you mean that preferred stock owners are ahead of common stock owners you're right.

But there are other creditors that go before any stock holders. One of the main creditors is wages owed to employees for work performed. It's probably small consolation to people who see their equity wiped out, but I've known of companies during the dot-com bubble that went bankrupt and tried to cheat employees out of even that.
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What's Kasparov's status like with the people? Is he a kind of star or folk hero from the old chess days? Or has he been marginalized?
Wow, so little discussion here on HN on something that has come from some powerful people backing it.
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So glad you're enjoying Blessings! I've had fun writing it.

I'd love to hear what kind of projects other folks are doing with it. Any neat hacks? One of my fun little demos is this terminal-dwelling Game of Life: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/conway/. I was thinking of adding an interactive mode so you can draw your own patterns and set them free; it would be an excuse to add key trapping to Blessings.
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You're not supposed to see bar charts, just numbers floating around. "Show data and comparisons." - Tufte
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So are we going to hate on Google now, like we hated on Yahoo suing Facebook?
Cool, I really like the idea, and will probably become a fan, once it's further along.

Bret Victor's talk was truly inspiring, and I'd wish he'd release his tool too for comparison.
big words... let's see your work

EDIT: sorry that's a bit flippant, but you just sound overly dismissive of a specialized field. Nobody disputes that a good user experience is important. This is why people specialize in it. Now, just taking you at your word that you do in fact design and code amazing experiences- obviously most developers are not as highly skilled as you. If I want to build a good product, it's going to be very hard to find someone as amazingly talented as you. I am left with the choice of hiring a good developer and a good designer and building a good product. Sounds good to me. This is why the profession exists.

If I can find a UX designer who is also skilled at visual design (more common than one who is also a full fledged developer), the product will also look good. Also, are you good at researching, setting up user testing, and designing marketing material and other graphics as well? How do you find the time? you must be a true god among men
Garry was famously beaten by another machine in 1997.

The most intriguing part of this affair to me has been the revelations of the patriarchy as basically tools of the KGB and now Putin. The airbrushed out $30K watch that bloggers found the reflection of. Wild stuff. Not that we don't have our share of corrupt clergy in the US but that the story we've always been told was of how the Russian church was oppressed and quietly waited out the evil Socialist overlords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_of_Kirill_I_of_Mo...

his predecessor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Alexy_II_of_Moscow#Al...
Was Facebook suing Yahoo when Yahoo decided to sue Facebook?
Not for all possible thermodynamic cycles -- there is no fundamental thermodynamic irreversibility due to compression or expansion.
Your impulse threshold is about 3x my ceiling price for a car.
Does someone know of a really good (performance + corner cases) migration tool for MySql - > Postgres.

It looks like there are a ton of roll-your-own, but none as good as, say, "git svn clone"
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> The CEO of a company cannot "take back" or "wipe out" your right to purchase stock, aka stock options.

Sure they can, if that's how your vesting contract is written. You get fired, your un-vested options are gone.
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People have proved that they like Apple's products. Skeumorphism is but a fraction of the entire user experience.
"this time".
I've talked about something very similar to this with colleagues and friends of mine. Seems there aren't enough businesses out there focusing on improving the world. Of course the point of a business is to make money, but when is enough, enough? Money can be a means to an end, but it should not be the end.

By the way, I'd probably change the title of that article to something along the lines of, "We Need More Self Sustaining Businesses that Improve the World."
That's a pretty rare clause in startups, which is why people wanted to hang Skype (and Silver Lake Partners) so much over it. It's apparently fairly common for management in PE-led turnaround deals, but I've never heard of it in startups except for the Skype deal.

(What shocked me was that a16z was in on the deal as well, and as far as I can tell, had no problem with it. I would have expected better.)

I think it is exceedingly unlikely such a clause is in OnLive employment agreements. Steve Perlman is a particularly honorable entrepreneur who has been involved in startups longer than a lot of HN users have been alive. He has nothing to gain by tarnishing his reputation like that.

Much more likely this was just a company which ran out of money, has debts and liquidity preference far in excess of assets, and thus all common stockholders, including optionholders, are wiped out. Those who continue in a successor entity might get new options for future work.
I just run Plex Media Server and set it up to rescan whenever it detects changes to the folder. Then I can use any of their clients to stream the content on my network.

Mine is on the Mac but they do have a beta client for linux.
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Node.JS is a decent platform for developing on, if you know the caveats. You have to be very careful with the modules and frameworks you use -- as mentioned in the article, maturity of modules varies.

I know people that have had issues with socket.io and skipped it (and node.js) for their production needs. That said, my aha, gotta be careful, moment was when I was setting up a quick test, picked one of the http-digest auth modules, and had a bug -- actually a completely incorrect digest auth implementation (basic auth was fine). This was the second node.js module implementing digest auth that I used that had a bug that relatively simple testing would have found. (The other bug was around the caching/lifecycle of nonces.)

I plan on going back and submitting patches for both of these modules, but the lack of basic testing in two cases of a well known (and documented) feature reminded me that the platform is still in transition. (This is just one example of some issues I've run into)

Why I say you have to be careful? For the downsides, there are definite upsides. I needed a simple test https server w/ a rest API and serving a static file -- total lines of code, about 25. A great boon to prototyping.

Like any new framework, evaluate it in consideration with your needs.
Releasing pressurized gas is cold when there is a phase change, i.e. from liquid to gas. Going from high pressure gas to low does involve a temperature drop but it's not going to be anything like a real air conditioner.
Actually, if you sign up for a U.S. account with a plausible address, then there is really nothing that would stop you from buying an ebook from the U.S.

They wonder why folks pirate. I paid for that book, I would feel well within my rights to find a copy of the book in PDF format (non-DRM encoded) and use that instead. I haven't done that - but there you have it. I paid for a book, I didn't get a refund of about $100 and I can no longer read the book. They stole from me.
Java has been greatly improved since Oracle took over the helm. Major improvements to the JVM, an exciting yet stable roadmap, better platform support (in particular on OSX) and a lot more confidence about its future.

Oracle has been nothing but a huge positive for the Java platform.
I recently had the terrible idea of writing a new screen editor. This project is very much not helping me avoid working on that idea.
Thanks for asking. The payins side has settled, yes. We now have all but three stragglers moved from Stripe to Balanced, and the stragglers are likely bad cards. The next three priorities are:

1. Payouts: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/22

2. Redesign: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/66

3. Tipping to email addresses: https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/89

My goal is to knock these out one a week over the next three weeks. I'm hoping we can get a solid growth bump with each one. I'd like to be moving at least $2,000 per week by the time I go to XOXO in mid-September, hopefully more.
Au contraire, people buy iOS for the beautiful hardware. Apple hosts mainstream events to reveal new hardware, not new software. Their most famous designer, Jony Ive, is a hardware man. At most you reduce the relationship to an equal partnership. But Apple's attempts to reduce software sales to commodities clearly shows that they consider software as intended to make the hardware shine.
1) Define moderators as subset of voters that you trust. One of such moderators would be you.

2) Rate every other voter against moderators' votes.
If voter upvoted the same as moderator, then increase weight of such voter in the future.
If voter upvoted against moderator vote -- decrease future voter's weight.

3) For every comment calculate weighted upvote/downvote total based on voters clicks and weights calculated in #2.
Why is Apple evil for defending itself from companies who are copying much of the look and feel of their phones?

If you invented a new approach to smartphones that became really successful and changed the industry, wouldn't you want to protect your hard work from others who copied it?
If we're judging by success in the marketplace then surely Windows XP is the most loved design on earth, right?
How about just getting rid of this upvote / downvote point system? I have to say, when I first joined, I didn't get it. Now I do. It's a competition. But not one that seems to improve the quality of the posts or comments. One that improves ... not sure what. So is it valuable?

Remember the BBS forums and forums of old days when you didn't have points and rankings? Yeah. The forums often degenerated there too. Points didn't seem to help or matter. But moderated forums worked well. If you want high quality, you'll need a walled garden. But walled gardens rarely work and stifle creativity. However if you think a point system is a substitute for moderated comments. Well, then, the results speak for themselves.

So, points and voting be gone, maybe? I doubt the quality would change much. Even PG admits that it's not the voting per se, but the entrance of a larger volume of people.