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I wrote three paragraphs of response here, as is my wont, and realized before hitting "reply" that that's the wrong tack.

Let's be specific. What are you building or considering, where your current options are C and the JVM? How does Go fall down on that work load?

I've got a fair bit of professional experience in both C (~10 years shipping code continuously in it) and Java, and I've spent the last couple weeks in Go --- not long enough to be a true believer, but enough to have some practical experience.
15 minutes seems surprisingly long. What took the most time?
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No, the way AP's etc work is on request of any url it verifies that they have logged in or done what ever. Since the iphone is requesting that URL it can detect if there is an AP and then prompt the login stuff. Really it's not that big of a deal lol.
It's really hard to change a person's character as they get older. In general I think that by the age of 18-21 most of our ideas of right/wrong and how to behave and treat other people are pretty much established.

tl;dr It's hard to stop being an arrogant asshole. I feel bad for the guy.
There is a label already, "ethical". Argue all you want over the ethics of facebook, or if entrepreneurs have any duty to act ethically, not unethically, not illegally or just not get caught. You don't need a new label though.

You sure did write a lot complaining about people using their free speech to criticize businesses they feel are either harmful or a waste of resources because this is a "free country". I was under the impression that the philosophy behind a free country was that allowing the people to openly criticize and discuss things allowed a society to thrive without overly restrictive laws. I guess they didn't consider the hurt feelings of entrepreneurs. I propose a new amendment: Freedom from hurt feelings resulting from the people's reaction to one's actions!

I'm actually very content with having the chosen method for encouraging altruism to be social norms. I'm happy you are free to invent a new addictive and time wasting form of entertainment who's contribution to society is null or negative. Complaining that some internet words made you feel guilty about it or that there is too much social pressure to actually contribute to the society on who's back you built your business is ... well, it's fucking ridiculous frankly.
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>His amoral approach to power and life is definitely key to his success.

Bit of a hasty conclusion. Have you really analyzed the sum-total of his behaviors/moves and feel you can conclusively state that the above 11 "laws" are the cornerstone of his success? I doubt that. Also, the book you reference is really not useful for any human being that intends to be part of a actual society. It is a great primer for a sociopath, but I will assume that is not what you aspire to be. Some people see successful sociopaths and incorrectly conclude their sociopathy is what made them successful. That is like assuming Steve Jobs, who was somewhat notorious for being...blunt, was successful because he was an asshole, instead of in spite of that characteristic. It also willfully ignores a lot of non-sociopaths that are successful and disregards other factors that may be more causative.

I would take that book with a big grain of salt and not use it as a manual for life. Or you can, I just don’t predict great success. I would predict a long string of people telling other people what an ass you are and causing you to have countless doors closed to you without ever knowing it or knowing why; primarily because people don’t relish partnering with/working for/associating with sociopaths. For every "successful" sociopath you see that lives by those "laws" there are millions of others that also live by those "laws" that have nothing to show for it but a string of failed relationships and a complete and utter lack of friends. Beware of survivorship bias[1], it can teach you only the wrong things.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
As a buyer, I don't see how it is great for me. When I search on the App Store there are usually several hits in the results that are not at all interesting to me, and ahead of the hits that better match what I'm looking for.

I want to see several results at once so I can pick which ones I want to look into more deeply. If I have to step through them one at a time with a noticeable delay at each step, I'm not going to be a happy buyer.
Pre-iOS6 I would often go through and tap on each search result to look at the screenshots, assuming I didn't already know exactly what I was looking for, so this saves me a couple extra steps there. If I know exactly what I am looking for the search suggestions allow me to go directly to it. The one thing I do not like about the iOS6 App Store is the amount of horizontal scrolling on the iPhone. Not enough space for that to work well.
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An Interesting way to get Brogrammers excited about the Election.
They seem to offer 3 models Base, Pro(+$50), Expert($+100) but no description I can find anywhere on the site.
What is the Target pregnant girl incident?
The alternative is that you could end up with customers who constantly hit false positives in the fraud detection, and it becomes impossible to charge that person unless Stripe implements a way to "force charge" someone, and then you have to hope your 3rd party Stripe integration also supports and exposes that to you...
RE: Habibreaker, check out Stickk.com . Really interesting work by a behavioral economist and people use it!
We did finish with primary school. But these days the internet brings it to us. Ah, the future is grand!
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It's a nice thought but there's just one catch. This new interface makes it difficult for new applications to be 'discovered', especially if they're not chosen by Apple to be shown near the top of the stack.

Yes, it will force developers to do better App store SEO, but that's not what we want. We want users to be able to use apps that have better design. To me this new layout makes it harder for users to compare apps, and thus makes it harder for them to find the ones that are the most well-designed.

If, as you say, the users naturally gravitate toward using more well-designed apps, then what's wrong with the current system? If I were you, I would worry that your new app -- even if it's revolutionary, even if it's the prettiest App in the App Store -- would be stuck at the bottom of the list, because Apple chose to dedicate more space to the flashy apps that are already ranked first.
Everything you say will be true as soon as Apple's search is good enough to reward quality apps instead of SEO hackers.

Until then, this is a step backwards.
Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHxUf2hHjUk
Oh geez. Duh. They are both sponsored. Reading fail on my part.

However, I guess that shows that even when you're looking for it... you sometimes don't see it, showing why these might be a terrible idea. Or a brilliant idea.
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"Protected computer" is an incredibly broad term that covers almost any modern computer or device:

(2) the term “protected computer” means a computer—
...
(B) which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;

I can't imagine they'd ever prosecute anything below the $5,000 mark but even a candy bar sized loss does appear to fall into the federal domain. (Not saying I agree with it, but that's how the interstate commerce clause has been applied in almost every case.)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
I never said it was either, I was referring to Zuckerberg, in some ways, being hoisted by his own petard.
Agreed. I am working on one :) I just meant that if you are addressing developer market, sales costs are lower as developers live on the web and there are many mediums to share information such as hacker news.

I find that other parts of the enterprise market are surprisingly harder to reach. In enterprise companies information sharing is often discouraged, many folks working in the enterprise are hesitant to mention what products they use let alone promoting (or criticizing) them. Successful SaaS companies addressing the enterprise seem to either gain traction elsewhere and then try to penetrate enterprise or spend tons of money for marketing and sales.
I would subtract sucking.

No seriously . . .
A few years ago, i guess 06, all my jacked-in friends were making the move from myspace to facebook, and people i knew that were less jacked-in were registering. Everyone was on me like 5th grade cigarette smokers "dude it's cool, everyones doin it" but i never got around to regging. Never cared that much.

Today, those same people hate facebook. They're bored of it and they've finally had it. They've discovered that it's a time sink, the connectivity is largely worthless as well as hard to keep up with, and the negative publicity certainly doesn't help.

All of a sudden, the people that were calling me antisocial a couple years ago are now calling me prescient . . . that I somehow saw the whole thing coming. The truth? I just didn't care. Still don't. I've got about 8-10 people that I really care about in the world and i'd just as soon go over to their house and look at their dog for real. My son, otoh, has adopted a friend-removal doctrine... "When i get a notification for your birthday, if i wouldn't care enuf to actually call you and say 'happy birthday', then i'm removing you." Solid.

Anyway, I can't answer the question, but I can give an answer: It was cool at first, but now it's just too much of the same thing. all the features and crap that have been added, from what i've seen and heard, have cluttered up the interface. by contrast, when gmail adds features, they barely touch the core of the app and add things that make it easier to use the core of the app. Facebook could learn a thing or 2 about that.

Google = Diversify and Focus. A billion different apps that do one thing. cool. Facebook = Focus on diversity. One app that does a billion different things? not cool.
You know, i did say generally. Did you just miss that or..?
The feeling is mutualistic.
What I'd like to understand at a glance about Storm is durability, idempotency, and specifically those two things in the face of all your standard failure modes.

Is Storm something that is going to get 99.9% of my data there which is good enough for some side-channel processing like ad targeting, or is it something that's D durable in the strongest sense of the word? If I'm ultimately delivering data to something that is 5 9's durable, or better yet S3 10-11 9's durable, is Storm going to be my "low point" of durability?
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Exactly. I remember thinking when all of the big tech companies were asked by the Indian Government to give them access to some data or censor some posts (don't remember the details). But they pretty much all agreed, because they were too afraid they'd be the only company refusing. But if they all joined together to oppose it, I don't think there's much the Government could've done.

Same thing with China. Google suffered and still suffers the consequences of going against their government then. They should've allied with other companies first before deciding to pull out of China.
"I also agree where he said any legal start up is fine and free of guilt"

Really? The law, for very good reason, lags behind societal developments and shifts in social norms. Conflating "legal" with "ethical" shows a pretty profound misunderstanding of the two concepts.
Twitter's disruptive potential is arguably greater than its cash-flow potential. Strategy shift to the latter might be net-negative from an buyer's perspective. They are also at risk of killing brand value, which is tied to the perception that twitter is a universal-fabric-of-the-intenet service. Once Isolated, they don't seem so scary to incumbents or valuable etc.
Sweet! Yep more than just pics, I can see you positioning yourself as the world coffee hub, connecting coffee lovers globally. This then becomes an attractive proposition for advertisers of everything coffee (coffee bean brands, coffee machines, coffee making courses etc) :)
You missed the important part about the broken nature of App Store SEO. It isn't good for buyers or developers to show less results when search results are very poor. The quality of your design will not matter at all if no one sees your icon. You need much better quality results for good usability with 1 result per page.
> Are you saying that we should discount Greenspan's opinions automatically, because what, he's too bitter, or has complained too much already, or hasn't created something nice and shiny and new recently?

Yes. Rehashing the same sob story about how he isn't a part of Facebook and isn't a billionaire is old news. Another round of complaining how evil Mark is is not going to make Mark or the public feel sad for him and slip him a cool billion.

Get over it and move on.
I guess Microsoft doens't think of itself as an "Internet company", and they've often been on the other side of bills such as SOPA, etc, at least before the backlash.
> They can live with just a few big name apps from the major players. Android users tend to like lots of apps from indie devs and iOS users do too but if push came to shove they'd just keep their Angry Birds, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp and go on with their day.

I am not sure I am parsing this correctly - but I would guess that iOS users care a lot more about indie apps than Android users do. (iPad and iPod touch users even more than iPhone users) Is there any data on this?

As an iOS consumer, the indie developers are indeed the center of the universe for me (or at least the center of the App Store). But then I'm also considering an Xbox 360 for XBLA only :)
As long as that ridiculous excuse for an argument or whatever it is (and from a lawyer no less) stays as the top post, it makes all of HN look bad. It's not just the lack of conscience, it's the lack of clarity of thought. Gibberish.

The information Greenspan gives us relates to the person behind a website to which millions of people submit their personal information. The kid running it cannot be trusted. And he really does not care about security or privacy. It's that simple.

Given this information, who cares about the "purpose" of Facebook? There is none. And in fact, they can use your personal information in myriad ways, without ever informing you. What is worth caring about is this website is run by someone who cannot be trusted.

You have person after person who has dealt with him coming forward and telling their story. And it's the same story every time. He cannot be trusted.

If someone responsible had founded and was running Facebook, things could be very different.
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With the release of the Replicator 2 MakerBot has made the move from embracing being open source to closing their hardware and software. Josef Prusa, designer of the REPRAP Prusa, voices his opinion in this open letter.
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I, too, was a hacker there. PennApps this year was definitely a great time, but the judging didn't really align well with the quality of apps. One of the most popular apps, PayTango, had a completely faked demo from what I saw (I saw the play button show up when they tapped a button on the iPad, revealing that it was just an image slideshow of mockups). That and the demo time was severely truncated, 75 seconds is enough to demo about one feature, and when your app has several features it's impossible to show it all.
The press didn't even cover some of the coolest hacks in my opinion, like http://pokebattle.herokuapp.com , http://bbcat.co , http://electioneering.us , and http://notableapp.herokuapp.com , and some more I can't recall.
I understand that it's hard for them to deal with so many participants though (it was may more than they had planned), so I applaud them for their effort and expect them to improve their plans accordingly for the spring event, which will definitely be just as popular if not more-so.
Could this print Legos? How about a flower pot? Those are the two things I'd want to print.
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I've been in your situation many, many times I'm afraid. Comes from having poor money management skills, highly narrowcast career expectations, as well as an exaggerated sense of modesty bordering on The Imposter Syndrome:

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

But my story is a different topic. Some quick advice:

(1) You already know you're headed towards a brick wall. The most sensible thing you can do at the moment is to soften the blow, and buy yourself time. Really, every $50 or $100 is critical here... so if at all possible, pare down your lifestyle to the barest essentials.

An apartment lease (in SF!) is probably the easiest to dispose of, and will net you the most cash, especially if, say, you have friends in the East Bay (or practically anywhere else besides the city and its immediate suburbs) that you can talk into letting you move in without a deposit. Plus you'll get your security back. That change alone might help you coast until Dec or Jan.

(2) after that, you need to put yourself on an austerity budget, i.e. you should be able to get by on $5 a day or less on food from grocery stores, +perhaps $2.50 a day if you must use coffeeshops for wifi. If you can avoid using public transit save for special trips, that's a huge plus.

(3) -DRASTICALLY- lower your expectations for you next job. Customer support, friggen PHP dev... whatever it takes. If you don't get tech work, just work at a Trader Joes, do delivery work, ANYTHING. Bottom line is it's VERY important to get out of the idea that you have to borrow money from people unless you're truly, seriously on the edge... which it sounds like you aren't6 yet, not by a longshot.

(4) finally -- you're in yout 20s (sounds like).. you're touhgh, you can take anything. forget about what other people think and their so-called "success" stories. just concentrate on you'r own story for now. Trust me, when you pull yourself out of this (and you will) you'll have a lot to be proud of + to look back on yourself positively for.
If the company exists (a quick google search should show this) then they typically stop and remove you from their lists if you respond. It can also be a slightly kinder thing to do IMO.

I sometimes respond, but only if I'm in a good mood.
great toy

someone make a game based on this. take my money
I was almost going to buy that app, but it looks like their modified tex engine isn't open source.

I'm not quite sure why this irks me so much. I'm not likely to mess with tex source, but it'd be nice to share what was shared with you.
Don't feel bad bro. It's tough out there. We all end up short at one time or another. Chin up.
Go is less reliable than Flask/Tornado?
If you want to build your own CPU, learn Verilog and get a FPGA development kit. It's totally doable; here's an excellent example of what can result:

http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/parallelogram/index.php

You can get a decent Xilinx board for under $200; the "web edition" of their dev tools are free.
Careful, you'll bring the HN grellas lovers down on you.

grellas is the most selfless and erudite among us. Attempting to argue, rebut, or piddlepaddle one of his comments reflects more on the commenter than on the point they are trying to make.

The only proper response to a grellas comment is "Thank you."
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Definitely a valid solution for some. I think everyone has put together something like this at one point or another. :-)

For me, when it was all email at previous jobs, I had trouble distinguishing signal from noise. And it's pretty easy to ignore if you're really busy. Early on you have it go to your inbox, then it becomes too much and you start filing it into a folder, then you create a rule to automatically file it, then it's all too easy to stop checking it unless something blows up.

I also think anyone who goes for a solution like this gets tired of the feature creep distraction. Implement a library in every language you use, now it emails too much because we're getting more traffic and there's no de-duplication so rig up something to do that, there's a bug in the de-duplication code and now it is in an infinite loop because it's reporting on itself, and by the way, quickly find all users affected by this front-end form bug so we can email them a coupon and apology.
It has nothing to do with imposters.

A great many wifi networks are open to the public, but redirect all HTTP requests to a login page. Think airports, coffee shops, hotels, etc. This is called a "captive" network. The apple.com request here is a heuristic to detect the "captive" network, so it can show a web browser inline that shows you the redirected URL so you can log in. This is actually a really nice feature when you're on a captive network.
No doubt the amount of data you would have to store for such a massive table would be glacial :-)
You might want to try swinging by r/coffee and see what they think. They love taking pics of their latte art.
While this does seem like a generally great initiative and idea, I can't help but feel like WW3 or WW4 will be fought between tech companies.
Hopefully this is much less prediction and more science fiction plot.
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I think avoiding creepiness requires using intuition from human interaction.

In particular, it's creepy if someone knows something about you and you don't know why.

So if you don't want data mining to be creepy, you have two options:

a) Explain why you know something.

b) Wait until data mining is so commonplace that people take it for granted, and standards of etiquette shift.
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isn't this the layout of that app store discovery startup they bought a while back? chomp or something like that?
Those are some great suggestions. Thanks Nathan!
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Probably because the guy who was forced to code it knew the whole idea was stupid.
Do you have an option to redirect said URL? If so, this would make a great vector for attack on all Apple iOS devices.

1. Hijack router

2. Set up a rule

3. Watch and wait
Have a look at the last IM exchange between Greenspan and Zuckerberg on the idea of protecting the privacy of students' home adresses from being accessible to any student at any university using Facebook. It is toward the end of the timeline.pdf document. The problem: Thanks to some sloppy php, anyone at any univeristy could download a .csv file of all of someone contacts including their home addresses and other private information, if that person had ever requested to export her data to csv format. Greenspan wanted this security hole fixed promptly. Zuckerberg didn't care; he just fired off an email to someone else (same guy who wrote the sloppy php?) and put it out of his mind. Then when Greenspan made others aware of the problem, Zuckerberg was upset because [un]"savvy" users might learn of security holes in Facebook. What a terrible thing that would be. We see that same sort of denigrating view of users and concealment attitude continuing at Facebook to this day.

Say what you will about Greenspan but at least the guy is responsible. We can't say the same for Zuckerberg. The kid is reckless and unremorseful.