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I like it! My main concern is that it's Javascript only. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I can't see anything the code from arbitrarily being inserted elsewhere with my client ID but random email addresses and sign up dates, and thus triggering emails in my name to go to these email addresses that aren't actually my users.
Actually several of the best startups we've funded applied at the last moment.
love the design, it is fantastic
I find much of that to be a huge waste of money. Why are we encouraging people to have kids with a tax credit? There were a lot of people in my hometown on welfare who would have more kids because you get more food stamps and welfare than what the kid would cost them. Brilliant. We are subsidizing terrible parents bringing kids into poverty because these idiots want more food stamps.

Just because things are done a certain way doesn't mean it's a good idea. It certainly isn't a capitalist idea to have favored industries with subsidies or tax credits. America is far from being a pure capitalist society. It's a bastardization of capitalism and socialism, and while I may not be in the majority, I'd prefer pure capitalism over what we've become.

I'm all for helping people who can't help themselves, but I'd prefer it be done in the private sector. I give more to charity than I pay in taxes, and the money I give does far more good than food stamps and welfare ever will. If I didn't have that money wasted on taxes (note I don't think it all is, just a lot of it. i.e. roads are a good thing, military, etc.), I could give a lot more to the places I think are more worthy.
I live in Ontario and already numerous people have been killed by the high winds, debris is all over the highways, power is out to numerous parts of the GTA, and trees are falling left right and center. All of this already, and wind speeds are expected to DOUBLE by tomorrow morning.

I would say postpone it at least a day.

If the stock markets aren't running, you can't expect a startup to get much done either.

F.Y.I. the GTA (the section of Ontario I am talking about) is a good 500 miles from the eye of the storm.
You don't even have to quit. You just say: no, I'm not doing that. Maybe they fire you and maybe they don't, but that's their problem. You just focus on doing the right thing.
I don't know... I'd prefer an online option, so that I could have the same bookmarks searched from multiple devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, etc...)
I agree. Since this was mainly a usability test, it's good to know how horrible an ad bar will be. The message has been loud and clear so far.
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Now this is some interesting stuff. I wonder if they have any plans to make a dual instruction-set processor that can run both x86 and ARM-based operating systems... That's the kind of crazy design that just might work ;)

(Aside: I wonder if it's possible to have one processor core with an ARM instruction set, and another with x86 - obviously, reading from different [segmented] memory locations, albeit simultaneously)
I used to save bookmarks like crazy, and I was in the boat that had used stumble upon, delicous, magnolia, and diigo. I don't use social bookmarking anymore, or regular bookmarking because I'm always on my own computer can can you the autocomplete search bar to bring on past visit websites.

1. Tab - One time read
2. History - I might need to return a few times in a week, month
3. Bookmark - Something I want indefinitely Rails API

Its never hard to remember your favorite websites, chrome autocompletes it, it'd be faster to autocomplete type it then click a dropdown menu.

The only Mozilla UX news that will interest me is if they made the default look of Firefox not feel heavy. I still think of Firefox as being slow.
I think applying that philosophy to every decision you make will get you sued. Sure, nothing important would come of it if the patent is junk, but if it isn't, and if your product takes off, then you will be in a major bind.
While I agree it's reasonable to question, I'd prefer that I allocate my resources how I deem appropriate rather than the government do it for me. They aren't nearly as efficient.
As it turns out I know the answer to that one. Its a question of hazardous materials. You need a permit to store fuel on site (and you have to get regular inspections to insure it isn't leaking into the groundwater) and the permits get more expensive the more fuel you keep. At some point the permitting authority would probably change your business classification from 'data center' to 'fuel depot' if you went overboard :-)
It's a broker's screen. The middle man. Buyers and sellers would never see this. However, the buyer would see the spec that is sent (which is not part of this demo).

The concept demonstrated here is to enter and manage my aircraft for sale and the contacts associated with it (from a broker's perspective)
I wonder what the chances are that the water will go down, and they will be able to supply fuel to the pumps, before power is actually lost.
Yes, and Steve Jobs was also ousted from Apple for (in part) that reason. One of the articles even described Forstall as "mini-Steve".

I'm just pointing out that "Forstall was a problem" isn't a new narrative that is being spun due to his departure, but one that has been around for some time.
The hurricane wasn't a surprise... the effects shouldn't have been a surprise.

If you're going to run a startup, this is a good test of being prepared for a (known, impending, likely) shit tsunami, and being agile, and resourceful, and flexible, and, well, you get the idea.

If pg wants to appear compassionate about changing the date, that's fine, but this isn't like a tornado (no warning), or Katrina (total destruction of an entire city).

If people were going to apply at the very last second, guess what - moving the date forward by N days just means they have N more days before applying at the very last second.

If out of compassion pg wants to move the date, or more likely to avoid potential criticism of keeping the original date, then fine. But would this make a real difference, I doubt it.

Besides moving the date back might actually prevent some great company from getting in who are right now, demonstrating extraordinary resourcefulness at finishing the application (typing away on an iphone), getting it in on time, and providing a really cool story of how they did it.
It's not really that petty. This stuff is the essence about what leadership teams tend to deal with.
The easy heuristic here is approval voting: award one point to a subject each time someone mentions it as a "nice to have", and 2 or 3 points to each "essential", then tally up the votes to get a ranking. Truncate it at four years' worth of classes, and you have a curriculum!
I'm sorry, but this is a completely wrong-headed statement. Standardized testing for school children and A/B testing for web site visitors are completely different beyond the fact that both involve the word "test".

When you run A/B tests on a web site you don't tell the visitors which version they are being shown, or even that there are multiple versions at all. That would completely destroy the value of the testing. In psychology research, where ethics generally dictates that the subjects be informed, they are still not told what specifically is being tested, lest they modify their behavior.

On the other hand, everyone involved in school standardized tests knows about the tests, knows about various biases that exist within the tests, and knows what is at stake based on the results of the tests.

The reason that the current form of standardized testing is destructive is pure economics. If I tell you that I will count how many lines of code you have committed to the repository at the end of each week and that your pay will be based on this figure, what are you and your coworkers going to do? You're going to start writing hundreds of lines of comments, putting each variable declaration on its own line, needlessly re-factoring satisfactory code, etc. This is, as I understand it, a well-documented side-effect of measuring programmer productivity using LoC.

Once I implement this evaluation scheme, two things happen. First, you are being evaluated based on an objective metric. Second, you have direct control over the value that metric takes on. Economics, which is, to a great extent, the study of incentives, tells us that you (and your coworkers, at least in general) will game the daylights out of the metric.

So why is it any different when teachers, once told that their salaries and very jobs depend on the results of an annual test, teach their students exactly what is on the test, by hook or by crook, even at the expense of "real" learning?

The problem is that teachers aren't oblivious (neither are programmers). When they see that they are being evaluated based on the outcome of X, they seek to maximize X. So the trick is, if you insist on quantitative metrics (which is not totally unreasonable, at least as the default) then the metrics must be linked to the behaviors that are desirable, not some vague indicator that approximately tracks those behaviors.

Edit: missing word
> I think the problem is identifying the superstar in the first place.

I'd look towards fashion - for example the Japanese clothing store Uniqlo [1]. Their stores are quite similar to Apple's in terms of layout and space, the way that they encourage you to come in and look around, and they always have helpful service on hand. The problem is Tadashi Yanai [2] is too rich and successful to leave his current post.

I see a parallel with Apple making (subjectively) luxurious electronic devices available at prices for the masses the way Uniqlo makes (subjectively) luxurious fashion available at prices for the masses. I grabbed a bunch of French linen shirts in Tokyo for ~25 AUD each (though the AUD was doing well against the JPY at the time).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqlo
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadashi_Yanai
There is a big difference between refusing to apologize and "it's not my fault".
This is exactly what I like about AMD's strategy--they say more cores is pretty much all that matters and, you know what? I think that's true.
money quote

"Whenever I've wondered about how something in Erlang works, I have never disappointed in the answer. I almost always leave with the impression that the designers did the “right thing.” I suppose this is in contrast to Java, which does the pedantic thing, Perl, which does the kludgy thing, Ruby, which has two independent implementations of the wrong thing, and C, which doesn't do anything."
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> The people who are not affected by the storm don't need the extra day; the people who are affected by the storm will probably need considerably more than a day.

They might need another day, or days, if their power is currently out.
Actually, AWS has more than 10 data centers that make up US-East-1. This was mentioned in the post-mortem published last week.

Availability zones in US-East-1 are at least one data center, but may be multiple facilities in geographic proximity.
Maps are really freaking hard to make. I wouldn't of signed it either. There was no need apologize in the first place. Jobs wouldn't of apologized either; I think we are starting to see the downturn in apple. We all make mistakes but its better to look strong instead of weak in business.
Really insightful article, thanks Hamilton!
we have an even more secure mode that we roll out to customers at volume; naturally anyone can have it, but we're still working out the user interface for it. if this is what is holding you back, email me and you can have the docs. peter@userfox.com
Stackoverflow and Stack Exchange are usually hosted in that building at peer 1, but we failed over to our secondary dc out in OR ealier in the evening.
tl;dr : Bad news BigCo, you can't own your employee's entire lives anymore.

Its starting to feel like the whole notion of "employee" is fading fast. We're contractors now, all of us, and we are our own brand.
yeah thats probably not a bad idea - allowing users to flag if their application is late due to storm and just accept it
If he dumped his shares based (even partially) on the decision to drop google maps, wouldn't that be insider trading? I don't really understand how top executives are able to trade in their own stock.
I suspect somebody will be struck by an epiphany during the storm. technology + disaster situation experience + kickstarter could be interesting.
FallingMeat is a HORRIBLE name for a jet seller....

With that said - you need to put in some example inventory to show both buyers and sellers what they would really see with a fully populated listing.

Show how after entering all the features of a jet - comparable FEATURE listings come in and tell the poster the pricess for that inventory (you could monetize this feature)

Need to make it easier to select MFR such as engine maker... i.e. select an angine after selecting known manufacturer.

Also - your engine would be FAR more powerful if you preload model configs from various manufacturers. So, i can ladder through a product list based on selecting a particular manufacturer.

The key to success here is in doing all the leg work to get the data from all the suppliers.

Link this info to maintenance records, charge fees for scans to this..

Call it AIRFAX - carfax for airplanes.

Or if you prefer, call it Flightr.com --- a domain you can acquire from me if interested...
There's a spectrum of who gets sued.

1. Company is too small to be noticed (or sued)
2. Company is noticeable but does not have resources to prevent or defeat lawsuits
3. Company is too big or powerful to be sued

Companies on the smallest end of the spectrum won't be sued, either because nobody has ever heard of them, they don't have anything worth using over, or a combination of both. These are your bedroom startups.

Companies on the bigger end of the spectrum have more patents and lawyers than there are sausage on a meat lover's pizza. These are Microsoft, IBM, and and the like.
Work-Life Balance vs. Work-Life Integration
ConEd is quoting November 5 for restoration in some areas. One day is not enough. Manhattan is dark
At the point that a customer notification includes the words "Life safety is our number one priority" things like "can't they bypass the pumps" become far less significant.

People's lives are at stake. If the service is important enough that you'd expect them to stay behind and keep it running for you, it is probably important enough that it exists in multiple, geographically separated data centres.
Where did Pierre 303 go? He was an all-star
I try to refer to Ogilvy on writing, even when not writing copy:

http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/how-to-write.html
Never had a pre interview before my interview. I think it may be if YC wants to understand something about your application that isn't totally clear, before making a judgement on giving an interview.
Just remember: outsourcing your tech development is usually not a good idea except if you have the funds and need it to secure more funds to build the real thing.
I agree that I'll never be the arbiter of blame. I also agree that subordinates should give counsel to their supervisors when it can save them from making a mistake. Unfortunately, from my experience a lot of times a person's pride gets in the way of accepting such advice. Some of the best ideas I've ever heard came from people who were both young and inexperienced.

As far as having multiple people telling me what to do, I was mostly referring to my time in the military. Take my word for it, I wasn't expected to choose a specific implementation (unless it was theirs), and they were definitely not offering friendly advice!
No worries, we love the ideas around your product.

To be honest, its not even a direct need of "database level integration", that is just where it ends up. Going to the DB level removes the "crap, now we have to get all the data into X service..." every time we want to key off of some new metric. Backfilling data is doubly painful.

Most services just do an API or a JS include to do this, but those require special coding as well to replicate our data into services like yours. Its just annoying and is a negative experience when you want to start using your product more.

In my opinion, someone should build a more affordable Marketo that ties directly to your data source instead of replicating it. But I can understand the major hurdles in customer adoption at a lower price point (hey, gives us the db access and pay us $30/mo!).
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ok, thx.
> There would be no crime in possessing such a file, nor should there be.

exactly. There should be no crime in mere possession of information. It may be a crime to use that information in ways you are not allowed - for example, the above file of personal information, if copied off my machine by somebody who i didn't authorize, and then that person used it to do something, i have grounds (and the state has grounds) to pursue criminal activity.

Now swap that with any information that is deemed "illegal" in society these days, and the same arguments should apply.
What bothers me is the triviality of the examples in the article:

Next year’s version of the Excel spreadsheet program, part of the Office suite of software, will be able to comb very large amounts of data. For example, it could scan 12 million Twitter posts and create charts to show which Oscar nominee was getting the most buzz.

A new version of Outlook, the e-mail program, is being tested that employs Mr. Horvitz’s machine-learning specialty to review users’ e-mail habits. It could be able to suggest whether a user wants to read each message that comes in.

Google is building cars that drive themselves. Microsoft is still analyzing real time data and improving email.

I was hoping to hear about sweeping changes and products that would affect all of our daily lives. I still believe that the OS itself could use a lot of optimization and personalization. A truly adaptive information management system could be a real edge for any company in the OS space.

It could be that the author cherry picked examples that were easy for the average reader to understand. If not, another example of companies that are really big thinking really small.
Wow. I haven't listened to any podcasts recently but felt compelled to try it after your post. That thing is just awful. Not only "yo dawg, I heard you like skeuomorphism..." territory, but they didn't even do it right - scrubbing through a track is completely disconnected from the tape wheels (go in reverse, it's much more obvious) If you're going to go down that path, you really have to emulate the device in question 100% accurately or else it just looks really stupid.

There's a good reason that its a bad idea to roll a system UI replacement the vast majority of the time. The next time it comes up in conversation, I now have a perfect example of why in my pocket.

I also totally agree about the "designers who didn't use the apps" bit, and would go a bit further - they really need to do a better job testing real-world network conditions too. Designing stuff designed around cell reception doesn't fare so well outside apple campus where it's not blanketed with reliable, high-speed, low-latency network connections. iTunes Match... it brings back memories of realplayer. It's a cost of secrecy, but seeing that the supply chain had already failed them there, best embrace reality and use it to improve stuff before launch.
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> I said, "why can't you handle a little incivility"

I echo PG when I say that it's a slippery slope. There's no value N for incivility that someone won't take to N+1. Besides, why are you the person to measure how much incivility should be allowed? Just be civil. Not hard.

> self-righteous whiners

> tight ass stifled pedants who contribute nothing

> anal retentive

> douchebag

> some fucking idiot

> Boy Scout

> holier-than-thou

> passive aggression

Is that a little incivility? That's just a bunch of angry attempts at belittling others, based entirely on your perspective and zero facts. We can fill HN up with that, but I'm not sure it would improve the place.

> I would much prefer a forum full of passionate hackers with strong opinions who express original ideas in an uncivil way

1) Doesn't compute. HN is full of passionate people. Raganwald seems to be one, but you reject what he's passionate about. So must people only be passionate about your ideas, or others?

2) You've told me various times how you would prefer this or that. It's not about you.

So, summary:

Your points are all about what type of boy-scout-god-fearin' bad men are restricting your self-expression, and how you'd prefer a forum which was a free-for-all. There are many fora for self-expression and ranting and just sticking it to the man. But rather than posting there, you stick with the one with a stated civility policy and alter it to suit your preferences. I think that's what you accused Raganwald of. You're doing what you despise.

It's okay to follow some rules. These ones are so easy to follow and it doesn't affect my day at all to do so. I'd rather find the real issues in the world and fight those, or break rules that really matter.

Don't assume you know me, my background, my religious beliefs (or lack thereof), why I'm doing something or anything that has no basis in fact. It sounds nice and angry, but all you're doing is arguing against some picture in your head, but diluting your core argument about the facts. Besides, you might find I'm closer to your opinion on most of the issues you post about. Just not this one.

In any case, this is my last post on the issue. Bigger fish to fry.
Actually both setups are possible. Sometimes vendors put the Tesla PCIe cards in a separate chassis, and link the chassis to the host via a PCIe cable, eg.:

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-c410x/pd
I think it's probably better to ask people if they were affected rather than trying to guess based on their location. It's not something you can get really get away with lying about, since it just takes an interviewer asking "so, tell me how you were affected by the hurricane" to get someone blacklisted.
It is almost universally faster than free WiFi (i.e. at a coffee shop), which is what the post said.

I have unlimited data and a ROM that lets me tether, and it really is amazing how useful LTE everywhere is. There's no way this isn't the future of internet connectivity in general. (Unless everyone using it would somehow saturate the available spectrum?)
If it is a halon equipped datacenter you listen. And then do as it says. Quickly.
It is funny to see the points on the parent comment, "oscillate", going from 2 or 3 up to its current zero.
So why didn't they do it earlier? That was my point. Of course you have to keep your people safe, but this shows poor planning.
People at this level generally don't have a problem saying "no." That's not usually the issue. The issue in a situation where a CEO is overriding other executives and dictating bad decisions outside of their domain expertise is that it's politics at this point.

The fact of the matter is that you can do your job extremely well, do everything right by any rational measure, have a strong political position, and yet still get screwed by unanticipated or uncontrollable external and internal forces, up to and including nonsense of others on the executive team, especially in an organization with a poor/weak/incompetent CEO or equivalent.

It happens all the time.

It's pretty easy and cheap to make a blanket "it's always your fault" statement, but back here in the real world it's typically much more nuanced and complicated.