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Understandable. Thanks for the feedback spydez, much appreciated. If you do get the itch to try a trial document though... let me know ;)
Sure it is, but it's much easier to just build and provide a service which people are willing to pay for.

Everyone is free to do whatever they think suits them of course, I'm just saying that a lot of the time people take the harder path that leads them nowhere at all.

If you're really passionate about some particular kind of web service or product, then naturally you're going to use whatever model suits that particular service.

But, if you're simply looking to make money while you sleep and are open to building a number of different services, chances are pretty good you're going to make more money, and sooner, if you make a great service and charge a price for it.
I don't think this is a very good welcome for new users at all. I've found HN to generally be very welcoming. And as it has been said before, not everyone feels the same way as the OP.

Though a lot of users are worried about the culture on HN. Most users like this site because there is very little trolling, low noise, and informative posts. And a lot of users here consider other sites like digg and reddit to be less useful because of trolling and a high ratio of uninteresting to interesting posts. So they want HN to keep its culture and focus. That's why if a popular story is unrelated to tech or business, someone will probably complain that it doesn't belong on HN.

Most people who are concerned about quality on HN think growth can be ok, as long as it's slow enough that the all the new users can have time to learn the social norms of the site. And so if someone mentions it on a highly-trafficked website, some people get afraid that the user base will grow so fast that the new users won't have time to learn the social norms.Then HN will turn into another reddit or slashdot.

People started worrying about the culture of HN six months after it started, so almost everyone here came in at a time older users were complaining about growth.

Post welcoming new users:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459289

Here's a post on culture: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465991
I'd be surprised also. That's kinda why I'm asking, because I do live in a slight monoculture, and I'm keen to get a measure of what's happening "out there".

Thanks for the comments on QT, I hadn't looked at QT for a very long time and it sounds like the licensing is more sane and worth a look!
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One detail I think is important: When I create an account I'd like to add my password at the beginning. I knew it would email me after requesting that I enter a password, but the mainstream user definitely won't.

Security is a very important factor with your application and it helps to create that image even if it sacrifices some easy sign-ups.

I often see many business applications that list "Secure Log In/Authentication" on the feature list as well because its not always assumed.
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I have chosen 2 items. I use Windows mainly, but only because I have to.
And I use windows but I inted to change.
Gotcha. The current workflow is that we create a random hashed password for you after signup, then on your first login, we prompt you to change your password.

Security is definitely high on our list of concerns. Thanks for the input dmix :)
You really need to talk to a securities lawyer. If the above could be construed as advertising your share offering, you've just triggered one of the requirements for SEC registration. The legal fees involved would be in the tens of thousands of dollars, way more than what you're hoping to raise.

There are ways to do this as an unregistered offering, but that restricts you to friends and family, "accredited investors" (see http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm), and a few others - definitely not strangers on the internet.
Actually, her writing is forward, personal (sometimes a little too personal for my stodgy taste,) and affable. Her personality pours through what she does, and on twittershouldhireme.com and her personal blog, she expresses an understanding and passion for the hyper-social zeitgeist that is finally going mainstream. I'd say she is a great candidate to work at twitter, and agree with tptaceck below about how great it would be to have such motivated candidates.
I unfollowed you because of the spam. It was really too much.
Well, in case of retail cards the keys are registered before shipping. You give the manufacture a set of registered keys, which are then printed on the cards. If done right you won't have any issues - that's exactly what people are doing with CD-Keys or Prepaid-Cards. However, if you mess up (can't always avoid mistakes) and have shipped invalid keys or may be the key-printer didn't work right, you have the customer send you the certificate card and you can refund him.

It's by far the better system than using just a algorithm-based genuine check, especially for things that directly translate into money, like gift certificates.
Slippery slope. I have seen plenty of companies with amazingly engaged but at the same time amazingly incapable staff.

I think it's easier to transform a skilled person into a motivated person than the other way round.
Yes, his description is more on-the-money and bs-free than the other one's I've seen, particularly in describing the computational architecture of the system.
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Thank you so much for providing me with the valued legal info.
I am not interested in doing it illegally.

But on the other side, if the legal work papers for documenting the investment will cost a fortune and has many restrictions, and I won't even be able to do it because I am not in U.S....

Is it possible to treat the shares as virtual product?
What about if I work around this and say... yeah these are shares but we will treat it as virtual product, just like the virtual gifts that people buy on facebook and hi5.

But you will take advantage of buying this virtual product/gift, that you will be able to resell it to me after a year with higher price, or you can keep it and get devidends...

And by buying the virtual product, you own percentage in the startup...

What do you think?
This is an extremely arrogant position to take and I'm amazed that more people aren't calling you out on it. Your reasons for this are:

1) he provided an honest critique of a site that he uses and respects (in an open format where he was clearly corrected)

2) directed users here as a place where they could find great content to hone their skills

Those hardly seem like valid reasons to ban his articles from your site.

"I'm not suggesting censoring it for anything in particular that he writes about, but because the articles are always such deliberate linkbait. In 99% of his articles, the most interesting thing is the title. But I don't want PG and the editors to be accused of censorship, so I thought I'd ask for opinions first."

If you honestly believe that this is true of codinghorror (I know you copied and pasted from pg's previous post on valleywag) then it would be good for you to provide some data to back this up. Point us to the articles that you think are "deliberate linkbait".

I think a little humility would do the hacker news community well.
As I pointed out below, I think we can assume "measure before optimize" in this community.

But per your main point, I think you're wrong in assuming that where your time is best spent is true for most HN readers. My research project is a compiler that generates code for the Cell. This kind of optimization - which in general is a vectorization - is directly applicable to what I do. And, yes, in the kinds of applications I target, the difference when this kind of optimization is applied is measurable and significant.

HN has different kinds of hackers. Something that is outside of your scope might be in someone else's scope.
FWIW I find avvo to be pretty sleazy. I am a lawyer but haven't ever practiced law nor do I intend to. Nonetheless, avvo has created a profile for me that lists out my personal info (name, address, phone number, graduate school, undergrad), lets people review me, and spams me to get me to claim my profile.

I think it's one of those things that sounds great theoretically but isn't so great when it happens to you. Not saying that I am going to sue, but I find it in pretty poor form.
Personally, I hope to see your experiment succeed with flying colors (mmm caffeinated pizza sauce) but I don't think the science is on your side:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/soil/msg10134314520...
Considering Mike Rowe is pushing for more trade school enrollment makes it pretty clear I think that he is talking about legitimately dirty work, the real literal definition.

I don't understand what any of this has to do with "dirty"? So now we just stretch the definition of dirty to mean anything one can complain about at work? Then there is no point to it, by that definition there are dirty parts to every single job in the world.

Personally I cant think of any other job that is further from dirty then most programming jobs (literal definition). Why is that tech people have to hijack everything with the me too talk? Next we will read about strong men competitions and all the tech people will chime in with how deployment is such a heavy weight to lift... but hey its just figurative! Or how the programming is like cleaning toilets, because you have to look at other peoples code... on your monitor!

And if you really think your job is dirty, go find an electrician and pull wire through a steel mill, or work with a nurse, or a truck driver, go pull up well pumps, or drain septic tanks... or any other legitimately dirty job.

Or just stop trying to jack the little bit of pride a blue collar worker can have because he actually knows what dirty work is everyday.
My honest opinion, she should be a little more creative.
I don't understand what her value proposition is.

Clearly she isn't technical. That's OK. But she apparently has no experience doing marketing, building communities, or other non-technical stuff people can do for websites like Twitter. Exploring "the intersection of work, life, and sex"? What?
Suggestion for poll makers: split the objective parts of a poll from from the subjective parts.

I use Windows slightly more than Linux because it's convenient on a laptop, the most important client for testing, and often things I want to try come out on Windows first/only (like Chrome). I look forward to a time when Linux will further displace Windows in my usage, but it doesn't seem imminent.

I could reasonably choose any combination of the first four poll options. I picked the 4th, because it seems most pragmatic, but that hides the point of the poll -- who's still using Windows?

Since polls here involve non-exclusive choice by design, I would suggest splitting options into a series of statements, and encouraging people to upvote all that are true. I suppose it's a little like normalizing a schema. For example:

- I mainly use Windows

- I mainly use MacOS

- I mainly use Linux

- I mainly use other

--

- I sometimes use Windows

- I never use Windows

--

- I use Windows because I prefer it

- I use Windows because I have to

--

- I plan to maintain or increase my Windows use in the future

- I plan to decrease or eliminate my Windows use in the furtue

(News.YC software could make this easier by allowing grouping or subheads.)
I've integrated with a similar service at work. Do you provide an API for uploading documents?
Here's my question for Jamie: why?
... Yep - And OpenBSD is intended to run on as much hardware as possible - hence this simpler form might suit their purposes.
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Awesome! These include source.
Let's continue this on IRC tonight or via email? If you care or are interested, that is.
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She's not dead.
The advantage of 'rep scasb' is that some future version of the intel processor will be more clever and handle a word per cycle.

An advantage of optimizing the hell out of the library version is that nobody will be tempted to roll their own string compare in their application code. Slow APIs are terrible because they force application developers to work around them. So the answer isn't just to write something slow, then measure. You'll find performance doesn't matter because everyone has avoided using it.
Yeah, the point was it should be separated so you wouldn't have seen it at all! But in any case, it won't happen again...
I can't see a thing in Google Chrome or Safari. It's fine with Firefox 3 though.
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I'm confused. What are you getting at? The code linked is from OpenBSD, which is under a BSD-style license which is considered GPL compatible.
Flagged to request the editors remove the editorialising from the link text, not to request it be deleted.
Personally, I wouldn't like to see hacker news contain lots of stories like this one but isn't there room for diversity? I'd say about 5% pure 'hack' shenanigans would be the appropriate level.

Anyway, I've searched this but hadn't found the link someone posted here: http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/soil/msg10134314520... It looks like I need to rethink the experiment. I figured something like this would happen, which aside from sharing humor, was my real motivation for posting this story.

Anyway, since we're sharing: what I'd really like to see is... less introspection in every other hacker news thread, lamenting the inevitable decline of this wonderful site :) Not every link is everything to everyone, nor do they have to be for this to be a great place.
I don't think there's anything left to say, really. We're making orthogonal points.
In places where I've done this sort of thing, I prefer

#ifdef NO_CLEVER_OPTIMIZATIONS
obvious version
#else
complicated fast version
#endif

It's good as documentation, good as a test case, and good for isolating weird problems like compiler optimization bugs.
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Most you've listed are shameless self-marketing blogs that push remarkably poor self-acclaimed technical insights onto the programming populace, and propagating their work does learning developers a gross disservice.

Unfortunately, "Ban it, it causes brain rot" wasn't a poll option.
On the whole I am unimpressed. The idea is funny, but she doesn't have anything to back her initial wow value.

If she really wants to get the job she should incorporate twitter into her site in a unique way and show rather than tell them that she is indeed capable of creative community-building.
Ask HN: Does the Justin.tv domain appear to be parked for you, too?
If you sell the shares in the US without complying with securities law, investors can sue you (personally, not the company) to recover their money if it goes south. The fact that the government can order the transaction be unwound at any time will also discourage any investors, since it could potentially eliminate any upside for them.

You can call the shares whatever you want, but if the SEC deems them securities, they're securities. For an example of this, Prosper (a P2P-lending site) recently got nailed and is facing huge fines and several lawsuits over what they called "loan notes" and the SEC later said needed to be registered as securities. See:

http://fred93blog.blogspot.com/2008/11/prospercom-sec-cease-...

(Please don't take any of what I'm writing as legal advice, you really need to talk to a lawyer. There are ways to go the friends-and-family route that aren't horribly expensive.)
Not at the moment, but that's on our plate.

During your integration, was there anything that you really liked, or didn't like about that products API? Anything that was missing that you think would be useful?
This is cool, but I believe we saw this on HN a long time ago
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I have serious doubts that this is a bot!
At the time of writing this, the account of "jg2009" is created 44 minutes ago!

There is another entry about justin.tv's down - the duplicated one, and I also suspect that who wrote it is a bot too!

I am afraid of that HN would being face another type of spam attack... but I am not sure.

]

After hanging up my Internet explorer 7 browser for 2 minutes (and was about being crashed), it worked hardly fine...
The icons of Flickr, TC, and webmynd history don't show up... it's down.
Several posts a week is remarkably prolific for a genuinely technical blogger. I'm lucky if I write a post once a month, and that's because that's generally the minimum amount of time it takes to do something worth talking about, or gain an insight worth sharing.
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there is no way, in 2009, that Symantec could get away with hiding objectionable code in their binaries.

Granted. But there is no smoke without fire. I don't think its just a PR problem. If they could go to such lengths as to delete all those posts, there must be something in it other than the fact that they could not identify the problem, or they so stupid ?! I am intrigued to see how this unfolds !
Extremely interesting discussion in this thread. When I first started reading sho's comment I was instinctively leaning the other way, but ensuing discussion has convinced me that these millions would be much better spent on... universal healthcare for example. That would absolutely save more lives.
No, I'm saying that putting common code in a separate method is not necessarily -- as in, "as a logical result or consequence" -- less error-prone.

I'm not advocating cutting and pasting huge blocks of code everywhere, but a 1-line calculation duplicated in 4 spots is probably okay.
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"Blame Penelope Trunk. She creates these monsters."

I'm going to leave HN for the day, because there isn't going to be a comment or submission to top that today.
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I've done some digging, this is actually an interesting case.

Here's from a few weeks back:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/17/dc-bar-fight...

It's worth reading for details.

Bystander verdict:

- there's almost no conceivable way the data in question is proprietary (beneficiary: avvo)

- it's established avvo got their info by scraping the dc bar's website (beneficiary: dc bar)

- after seeing that avvo was scraping them, a terms of service got put up prohibiting said scraping, but avvo didn't quit scraping until receiving a cease-and-desist (beneficiary: dc bar)

But summary-for-the-lazy is almost unchanged:

- underlying data not proprietary (essentially: public records)

- avvo obtained public records from a source that didn't want avvo using them the way avvo did (point of fact now)

Even the quotes from the DC Bar support this:

taking this information without authorization

If it was "their" information 'this' would -> 'our' for more impact; prepared quotes tend to be vetted.

No predictions how this turns out.
Thank you so much for taking time to help me, I really appreciate it so much.

About the SEC, I saw that PayPal started something... they take the money you have in your paypal account, and use it for invesments, and it's NOT covered by SEC. I read that at PayPal.

What do you think?

EDIT: About lawyers, well... believe me, I have no money!
I am not raising the money for the sake of raising money, because I think that raising funds is a "serious responsibility", but I am raising it because I am running out of money, and I am owed!
I'd totally vote for option 3, but if people don't want to ever see a CodingHorror article again... well:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
After this I am really looking forward to the public release. Go alpha!
Someone linked her to this comment thread and she responded on her twitter:

Haha, they aren't very nice over there. Enthusiasm apparently is a threat to the bitter.

http://twitter.com/jamievaron/status/1307535902
I honestly can't believe that people still use Norton in this day and age, let alone that it was doing something dodgy.
No, it does not!

But it was down today, at least for me.
Thank you. But this setback is just an opportunity for innovation: I will now breed tomatoes tolerant of caffeine.
Does for me too - weird.

Edit: A quick whois shows it was updated very recently. http://www.enom.com/whois/Whois.aspx?DomainName=justin.tv

The "detailed" verisign whois doesn't appear to be working.
Here's the source code for Apple's implementation (i386):
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.5/Libc-498...

(requires registration, here's gist link: http://gist.github.com/77178)
It's faster if you just store the length in a separate memory location. This is very fast:

getLength()
{
return length;
}
You're missing the architecture-dependent implementations. Here's one for i386:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/arch/i386...
Sounds like she's excellent for Twitter! If she hasn't got any concrete ideas for a business model either, then I don't see what they're waiting for personally.
Here's a story.

I saw this comment, all light grey sitting at the bottom of the page. I thought to myself "self, it would be really nice if hovering over these comments would cause them to get readable (say, darker?)... especially since highlighting them doesn't really help."

While thinking this (I'm a multi-tasker!) I copy/pasted the text of the comment into TextMate.

After reading it, I have only this to say to HN: Please don't make hovering on these comments cause them to be more readable. We'll all end up living in a van down by the river.
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My personal hope is that Avvo loses, not because I think the bar is great, but because I'm sick of seeing startups scrape their way to victory and that seems like their business plan. I'm all for opening up information about lawyers, but I'm not for doing it by stealing data someone else paid to gather.
Yeah - if they don't want her after this, someone else will.
one paragraph

another paragraph

code here -> (((lisp (((((sucks))))) )))

hmm italics

* no italics
I see where you're coming from, but that's what I use coffee for. Nothing like a good cup of joe to key me in.
Nope, the have implementations for different architectures, you can find them here:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/lib/libc/arch/

The linked code is for the case when there's no arch-specific implementation.
What about the 24 hours rule? I don't see the point of publishing news for 24 hours - links to the article on our site after we remove it won't work, for example. Are we supposed to query your API each day for each article or something like that?
Wow do I ever disagree with you on that one.
Go have the argument with glibc then (And all the other people who use optimizations like this).

"friendlier to the micro-architecture" doesn't even make sense. Check the chip timings for rep scasb. It's not friendly.

We're not really discussing wether you should be using strlen on large strings or not, but even if it's used say a million times on strings of length 80 or so, you'd see an improvement worth having.

Check any assembly language forum, book, etc and there will be discussion on why rep scasb/movsb/cmpsb are lame.

Would you implement string copy with rep movsb as well?
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Totally agree that not every link is for everyone, but I disagree about less introspection, whether or not the includes discussion about an inevitable decline. The community must discuss itself to be healthy.
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That's 3 strikes, and Gmail: you're out. I'm moving my domains off gmail as the primary MX.

Is there a viable alternative to gmail for conversation view and search?
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