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Exactly. I have been fighting to allow people to choose Mac or PC when they are due for new hardware, and now that 80% of people are choosing Macs, it is getting to be a pain to manage them.

I am so glad to see this as an alternative to the tools that Apple has been neglecting since they stopped trying to sell server hardware.
So you're telling me that random routing is as good as round-robin? What is it you are smoking again?
It did somewhat more than that--at least acknowledge that this is an incomplete summary of the article.
I believe that he wanted to point out that a successful treatment for mice does not always mean it will work for humans.
I'm struggling to understand what it means by "copy and paste the compiled seer.min.js" into a google doc and that's it.

All I get is either the file path if I use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V or I get presented with all the JS if I try and drag it into a blank doc.

Does this need to be a spreadsheet or something?
Perhaps. I work in finance, I'm not a programmer or 'hacker' at all. So I constantly feel like an outsider to this community, and especially when stories like this pop-up that really highlight the groupthink.
I happen to be working on my own implementation of Web Audio in Haxe(for easy portability into Flash or outside the browser). I'm still at an early stage and admittedly am heavily guided by the Webkit implementation - while working on parameter changes I had to stop and take notes on their code to see exactly what was going on. What parts of the spec do you find most difficult?
I'm not sure there is a lot of harm here. The Tesla market is tech-minded people, and a lot of them value data over anything. Sure, it could have been handled in a smoother manner, I agree. But its Musk. The guy who is building the future, today.
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60 gran from 5 backers? you must be kidding me!
It's definitely confusing – we've got a long way to go before Rap Genius is the perfect platform non-musical textual analysis! (But I still think this is a good way to present our reply since I want to comment on 2 of Heroku's specific claims)
No, it wouldn't. Are you familiar with the broken window fallacy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
On the other hand, if people do not have much of an impression on the car company or Elon Musk, this type of episode could cement an unwelcome impression in their mind.

For instance, if you didn't have any impression of Top Gear before their Model S review, how do you feel about them months later after learning of what they did?
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Can we please replace JavaScript or use a proper VM instead of this nonsense?

Or better yet, just use native applications.
That's like saying Goodfellas was copied from Godfather II. Yeah, they both had De Niro and kinda dealt with the same themes, but they're totally different.

I like the hailpixel version much better.
I'm not trying to flamebait, but are macs so popular that it's just assumed that all new hires want one as their tool? At my company we're still asking new employees which platform they want to work on, is this falling out of fashion?
Totally misleading title (good choice for AL, bad for HN). I am myself a 1-man startup and it is hard to get any good advice other than "don't be a 1-man startup". Well, I am. And I am pretty sure is the right choice for me for now. I don't want to get in an accelerator, I don't want VC money, I don't need to correspond to anyone expectations about what makes me more likely to succeed. I just want advice on how to improve my chances being a 1-man startup.

Well, so I share my experience for those who came to this post thinking the same thing as I did. An obvious statement is that 1-man startup is not a 1-man's work. I outsourced design and engineering (code to developers, infrastructure to Microsoft Azure). Mostly I am responsible for customer development, product management and growth marketing.

But this year I quit my job in order to learn how to code (simultaneously HTML/CSS, javascript and C#/.NET) and be able to better take charge of my startup. Still, I am talking to two developers (a junior and a senior) to work by the hour, with the expectation to become a full-time member of the team - as a freelancer-mode experience period that, if successfull, become co-founder or Director/VP of Engineering.

My to-do list is long, dynamic and diversified. It is not that hard to keep changing hats, but it is extreme hard to know when to and to which hat change. What is my priority? I have no idea. Talk to early adopters, fix some spceficic bugs, A/B tests on design, handle twitter account, learn how to code, better develop my vision, the product roadmap, etc.

One thing I learned is that complete development outsourcing is a mistake. It is expensive and hard to manage. I wish I had the freelance-as-a-test-to-co-founder approach much sooner.
Other lesson (opinion) is that the "learn to code" advice is prioritary to "don't be a 1-man team".

I would love to read more advice out there on how to be a better 1-man startup. Don't bother telling me the best option is not to be.
> Consider me dumb but I still don't get the relation with Russian girls.

I thought you were saying that sociopathy from the top can effect the entire society. However, you have specific mechanisms in mind having to do with the workings (or not) of law enforcement.
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And what if tech support of the manufacturer of the mobile phone is telling you to take certain steps to extend the life of the battery that ultimately are incorrect and fail?

Wouldn't it make a lot of sense to include that in your review of the phone?
> Well hopefully we wouldn't make the same mistake again by going with a language and we would just implement a VM on which JS is implemented.

A VM still needs some kind of well-defined input format, and that's a language. Whether it's human-readable text or binary doesn't make that big of a difference. Either way, designing language semantics is hard.
There are green badges next to their added comments. And a big bold part at the top that says "Click the green links below to see our responses", but I'm not sure it was there before or after they saw these reactions.

edit: I agree with you on the UX part. Just wanted to point out that there was some context clues.
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More like "don't say Rap Genius told you about a problem Yesterday when they actually told you about it last week and you refused to respond until they took the issue public"
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> It was given every conceivable chance

Except that it didn't have decent DOM integration...
Transparency is definitely called for. Especially for a use case that's getting a lot of attention. Heroku's lack of transparency is what caused this problem in the first place.
Using cellular broadband, but only in case of an emergency, would still be useful.
Unless there is a bug bounty-type program in place, I wouldn't expect an email back. You're wasting your time. I've had the same results as you in the past. I don't even report them anymore.
Love it. When can we expect a JavaScript to asm.js compiler?
"People should be allowed to express any opinion, as long as I agree with it."
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With the Bamboo stack, there's a Varnish in front of your servers that you can use to cache responses. So it's part of Heroku. Cedar no longer has Varnish.
So do the issues in the RapGenius post only affect those on the Bamboo stack? I'm procrastinating migrating to Cedar now but this could be a very good reason.

Also, I really love seeing a company take responsibility like this. I know the situations (and the stakes) are not comparable but this is a lot better than what Musk did when Tesla got a bad review. As a company just take the blame and say you can and will fix it, that's good enough for most people.
It's easy to install something originally from state X to state Y with bash, but Puppet makes it easy to continue ongoing because it's a declarative syntax.
It's an online retail company - what do you need 28 people on the staff for? Hosting and administration is outsourced, as is warehousing - that leaves a front office guy, a back office guy, a finance guy, a web guy and someone who writes the truly awful copy that you get to read on Ecomom.
Rubbish. For most of the general public outside of the tech elite, nobody knows anything about electric cars. They're a curios novelty that simply do not enter into the discussion when choosing a car. This controversy has actually put Tesla and electric cars on the map for an enormous number of people. This is the exact kind of global publicity that is worth billions of dollars of marketing money.

While the impression itself is not necessarily positive, the controversy involved here means that a potential buyer will do a tiny bit of research, which has a chance to lead to a purchase. People who already were planning to buy from Tesla would not be swayed by this controversy at all, as they would probably have sided more with Musk's remarks after already convincing themselves the car was sensible.

This entire saga is a huge win for Tesla. I actually saw mention of it in a local newspaper which has never reported on Tesla before now.
The source of this article is quoted as the Daily Mail, UK tabloid newspaper.

I should point out that the Daily Mail has had an anti-porn campaign called "Block Online Porn" since at least April 2012.

The Daily Mail's primary audience is lower middle class, conservative, middle-aged women.

It is not considered an objective, or even credible news source, even within the UK.
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> highlight the groupthink

The perspective may also be a good way to become aware of your own groupthink.
I guess the question is whether Russian really need dashcams so much, or whether they are just overreacting.
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But some people do scroll down fast, somewhat like skimming...
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> Of course, the flip side of this is "If you're horribly depressed in your house, which would you rather have, a handgun or a telephone."

Not much a flip side. Unless you happen to think that suicides by other means are somehow better.

>> The evidence, however, indicates that denying one particular means to people who are motivated to commit suicide by social, economic, cultural, or other circumstances simply pushes them to some other means.[1]

[1] Same PDF as in the next comment http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_Kate...
Ugh. Lamar Smith. No matter what he does, he'll always be the sponsor of SOPA to me.
Might seem like overkill, but Chef/Puppet are designed to be idempotent, which is exactly what you want when you're running configuration scripts that are expected to evolve and update, and hence must be run over and over without reformatting the workstation.

Disclosure: I'm a big pivotal_workstation and Chef fan, but excited to see what new angles boxen demonstrates :)
It is a very nice car because reasonable accounts have said so.

The limitations of the battery technology, primarily the long time to charge, are acknowledged by everybody as far as I can tell, and emphasized by most. Most reviewers have nevertheless not found the car to be "shit" because of that. Hell, not even Top Gear called the Roadster shit (and I, unlike Musk, would classify the Top Gear review of the Roadster as "reasonable").
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Ultimately someone is responsible for that machine, I think that role should fall with the sysadmins, if they exist yet.

Github is large enough that they should have in-house IT looking after the desktops/internal network. They might even have two teams, one looking after employees, and one looking after the server infrastructure.

Start-ups grow organically, so there might not be "someone" at first, other than the developer. This quickly turns into a burden when you have 50+ employees running around and warranties start to lapse, there is no current inventory list, you have a mish-mash of machine configs. Then comes the stage of getting a consistent config on each machine, so that person X and person Y can collaborate, using the same dev tools, at the same rev level. Looks like Puppet/Boxen is a tool to solve that problem.

This problem is compounded when you are in a hiring frenzy, because new people almost appear out of thin air, and you are supposed to have a machine for them. Having a quick deploy script will save your hair line considerably.
Seriously. I find Apple's UI to be really frustrating to use. And honestly, I can't go back after switching to XMonad.

I have many happy coworkers who use Macs, but please don't make me use one.
That's simply because the developer included the sharp symbol in the hash :)
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That's a different form of diversity, but yes, plugins do give more options. And they are helped by running in browsers.

But they are security risks and cause lots of problems for browsers, as well as the monoculture issue (I can't run Flash on linux anymore because they decided to deprecate the flash linux NPAPI plugin).

So I don't think browsers should promote them. But native apps are still fine for them - Unity is flourishing especially on mobile, far more than on desktop browsers; Unity ships native apps on mobile.
> I wouldn't characterise it as lying. Broder constructed a narrative around his experience, and got a couple of the details wrong.

Not having a dog in this fight, I would also characterize it as lying. I have the expectation that a journalist will not construct a narrative, but will endeavor to faithfully report events as experienced and informed, as well as revealing personal biases and possible sources of error.
Yeah, plus it's much more tempting to thieves or kids who want a GoPro.
Obviously video and similar compression is a counterexample, but I usually lose when betting against gzip.

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It's an attempt at humor that's an over-generalization. It suggests that for those of us from Alabama who would have gladly marched with Dr. King or stood with Rosa Parks, had we been alive to have done so, are to be lumped in with the racist history of the state simply because of the color of our skin.

But that's my opinion, you have your opinion, and I respect that.
I don't think this was necessary. The first post by RapGenius was great and was a really good way to point out an issue with a commonly used product. However now that Heroku has come to them hat in hand and promised some sort of resolution this seemed unnecessarily petty. Especially the one line about the date of the report, that's just pedantic.

At this point in the issue RG and Heroku should be communicating privately, not via blog post.
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Ask HN: Why hasn't Vine built a platform for discovering vines in browser?
I would assume Vine is eventually getting around to building a better web based discovery experience for vines.

Currently all they have though is the ability to view 1 vine at a time in browser and that's assuming you have the URL to the vine.

So a friend and I decided to build a better viewing and discovery experience of Vines in your browser.

We launched http://www.vined.co yesterday and would like your feedback. We used the Twiiter API.

Go ahead and search for a popular hashtag like #mardigras #carnival #magic #howto etc and we pull in all the vines for you.

You can also search for a twitter @username and we will pull in all their tweets that include a vine.

You can play and pause the videos by clicking on the videos themselves.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback for us.
Massachusetts hasn't learned much about using trials as "leverage"
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That argument also applies to people who stop drinking without help of a drug.
The impact on aquatic life and on humans can’t be compared directly. First of all, toxicity is often related to body mass, i.e. the lethal dose is approximately proportional to the weight. This means, that a lot more of a substance is needed to have the same effect on a human than for a tiny fish. Second, and perhaps more importantly, aquatic animals are immersed in water and they are so from the very beginning. While we drink for water intake, fish “breathe water”, i.e. they constantly have water flowing into and out of their body. This makes them more susceptible to contaminants in water.
I have fond memories of the compiler. I bought it when my roommate got an Atari ST in college. Very well documented and I learned a lot from the C source of emacs that came bundled with it. I wish I had that source to browse again today.
> All I get is either the file path if I use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V or I get presented with all the JS if I try and drag it into a blank doc.

It sounds as though you are copying the file manager listing for the file, rather than the file's contents. If so:

1. Open the source document in any convenient text editor.

2. Press Ctrl+A to select all the text in the document.

3. Pres Ctrl+C to copy the document's contents onto your system clipboard.

4. Move to the destination document or Web page.

5. Press Ctrl+V to paste the clipboard contents into the destination.
I installed VMWare on my mac solely for the reason Excel 2011 and it's previous iterations are unbearable to use.
These are $60-100 units, they are pretty basic protection.
I share your opinion on vagrant, but it still stands that there are lots of tools you use on your host machine that you might want to make simple to share and configure organizationally. Look into how pivotal labs (consultancy) works and its a little mind-blowing and inspiring -- they all share the same configs and many of the same defaults and dotfiles and shortcuts (which they decide through deliberation and consensus), they reformat their macbooks from scratch between each project (for infosec), and they all know how to write chef recipes, so if they customize their system in a way that they want back after they wipe, then they write a recipe for it and share it back via pivotal_workstation :)

It's pretty cool. And even if not everyone can put the time into building that sort of solution from scratch, pretty much everyone can ride their coattails
It seems to me that being able to predict the impact site and evacuating is a much more promising first avenue compared to deflection.

That obviously doesn’t help (as much) with dinosaur killers, but certainly with anything below that.
They are probably doing this right now, don't you think.
I've only been trying to get it to build on Linux for a few minutes, but there are a few obstacles along the way.

IMHO, the author should remove Linux from the README unless he intends to really make it build on that platform, if the goal is, after all, "Portable and compiling in one click on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux". No Makefile, configure or CMakeLists.txt is provided with the source, and the unix_compat.h file is missing from the sources.

Edit: I'll probably continue with my attempt to compile it manually tomorrow...
Most people have never heard of Reddit. Facebook is a global community that everyone has heard of. And, trust me, while people like you and I might hang out on HN/Reddit - most of the rest of the planet spends so much time on Facebook that they don't even use email any more. Conferencing, chatting, socializing is all done on FB.
> Whether it's human-readable text or binary doesn't make that big of a difference.

To people like the grandparent, that is the only thing that matters at all. It's not a technical problem they have but an emotional one. They do not want the code they write to be a second class citizen to the code someone else writes, and they will absolutely be ecstatic to see us throw away the last 15 years of progress and start from stratch in order to alleviate that problem they have.
Vine seems best suited to be a content creation tool for twitter. I would be very curious to see data on traffic for vines from twitter vs. all other sources.
There is nothing wrong with a temporary clutch. After all, and actually clutch doesn't cure someone's broken leg, but you wouldn't take it away from someone with a broke leg. A clutch gives people time to heal. This can do that too.
> Asm.js seems like an interesting project but one of the issues that (I like to think) the VM approach would solve is that the semantics could be more low-level.

Can you elaborate? asm.js semantics are already low-level, in fact as I said in another comment, they are lower than some VMs (e.g. PNaCl).

Which part of asm.js do you find to be too high-level?
I still don't understand why Apple hasn't built something like this for the SMB market. Maybe they don't want to play in the true enterprise space, but even if a company has 5 workers, having a central cloud service to handle system configuration, baselines for security, backups, vpn, software push, hardware replacement, etc. would be essential.

On mobile there are a variety of MDM services so you can almost do this for phones, but there isn't much for the SMB market for desktops/laptops. In the Microsoft world there are some tools, but even those are generally too much work for a small business to set up (even a non-tech business with 100 employees isn't likely to do it, at best they'll have ghost or something to image new machines -- a tech business might after 25-50 employees)
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Top Gear filmed themselves pushing a fully working vehicle, while pretending that it was dead. In court, they claimed they never actually said the vehicle was dead, and that what they did was merely for entertainment value.

There seriously cannot be any credibility lent here, regardless of anything else Top Gear did or did not do.
I'm not seeing it how installing a security patch is any different. Security patches usually check to see if they need to be applied before doing anything. Updating a version is as simple as `brew update node`, `brew updated mongodb`, etc. The bash you call hacky is what's being done here with an extra layer of Ruby.
I thought that was his joke, given that he was talking about literal broken windows...
Everyone technical I see in silicon valley, with maybe 5 exceptions, is on Mac laptops. A fair number of serious devs have Linux workstations to go along with their Mac laptops.

People who do some other stuff (heavy email users, some video/audio people) do sometimes use Windows (it's weird, but I think the Windows audio stuff is better for realtime now than Mac).

(the exceptions are people with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux laptops)

I'd be pretty comfortable as a Silicon Valley employer only supporting Macs for office automation, and then either Mac or Linux for development workstations. If someone really wants Windows, s/he can support it independently.

The harder problem is phones -- there are people who are religiously attached to iOS and to Android, and you basically need to support both. There are pretty good MDM tools to cover both at the same time, but it does mean you can't push enterprise apps unless you do crossplatform development.
I would much rather want a responsive version, so I don't have to download an app to look at HN.