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I've worked there for 5 years. The office does seem loud when walking through it, but not once have I felt that the noise interrupted me.

Now, that may not be true for everyone, but we hire new people all the time, and I've never heard anyone raise it as a complaint (although I have seen many comments like yours over the years from people who have seen pictures of our office).

A big reason why I think people don't get distracted is the pairing. Pairs do a good job of keeping each other focused.
With Opera 12.14, I saw the same thing. I had to open the page in Chrome to see the weirdness.
Interestingly, on Yubikey NEO's web page:

Currently sold out. We expect new orders to ship in 7 weeks.
The video was more explanatory than anything. Great job with it. I'll be waiting for the iPhone version. I'm not sure if you can access the Wi-Fi settings through the SDK on iPhone, but it looks like they've done it on Android. Cool app!
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> There is no Internet culture

Seriously? Your comment is largely hyperbolic animosity. Yeah, I get that endless image macros and memes are seen as a low-brow form of culture, but "internet culture" is very real and goes way beyond that. I don't understand why you've dismissed it entirely.
I actually read this book a few weeks ago. I'm pretty new to Python as whole (4 months with the language), so I picked up a few small tricks have saved me quite a bit of time. It does not assume that you either know Python or linguistics very well, so I was certainly pleased that I was able to have my hand held through some of that. I recommend it!
> Are you implying that these panelists prefer pageviews over progress? If not, who are the boogeymen you are invoking here?

My guess it was a stab against Gawker Media?
That's pretty radically different. A closer analog might be hg-git, but the moment you say that you want the entire process to cleanly round-trip, you have to preserve all kinds of weird and corrupt data that the modern incarnations of the tools don't let you create (for good reason). There's also a lot of internal metadata, especially in Mercurial, where there are multiple valid ways to store a given concept, but only one will yield the right SHA for a given changeset. Not only did no existing tool try to handle these issues; they were all built in ways that would've made such preservation impossible. That's why we had to write our own from scratch.
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And by the same token raises visibility of Teespring, a current YC startup.

The question was raised in the HN DDoS thread about what value YC derives from HN, so there are two examples right there - discovery and promotion of investment opportunities.
Since when is the version to be installed on our own servers unavailable? I always wanted to buy it once I have the svn conversion problems figured out. How long do existing FogBugz users have until the non-hosted version is removed from the market, too and how long are we able to get updates?
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Remember when we used to have "protocols" instead of "APIs"?
This article was clearly written post-email exchange. At this point the author knows definitely that Alexis never planned on attending and that the idea that he would in the first place was simply a communications breakdown.

The author is now being deliberately disingenuous.
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Any way for people who have already ordered to change colors?
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I think you and I just might disagree on how recognizable this is, but its beside my point.

I get some utility out of the thing, and I get to contribute to something that the community would like to see become successful. I don't normally donate at the drop of a hat, but pg has thus far very carefully tended this community without asking much directly from it. Its a no-brainer.

If HN becomes a Kickstarter for non-profits, eh, I become much less interested then.

Oh, and if someone happens to ask me what the shirt is about, I probably would say "Ah, its a novelty shirt I bought from this geeky website you probably wouldn't care much about." Because I tend to think the community benefits from being careful who gets involved in it. {sigh} I typed that, and its probably flame-war inducing, but I do feel that way.
Except that most people are good, especially among hackers. If this wasn't the case the world would already have exploded -- you don't think those drones they fly around with missiles attached to them have exactly zero vulnerabilities, do you?

The most dangerous thing for the future is the opaque systems and "dangerous information" prohibitions that deprive the public of the knowledge necessary to fight the bad guys. Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/504/
Clojure has some very clever immutable data structures based on Phil Bagwell's work [1] that help mitigate the slow down.

I think you are totally right with regard to reading other people's clojure. Sometimes it's easy and pleasant, sometimes inscrutable.

I think the issue at hand is that it is so easy to go the DSL route in clojure. I call that an issue because when you invent a DSL to solve your problem, you've essentially created a new language that only you understand.

So now, if I'm reading your code, I have to understand raw clojure, and then I have to try to figure out your DSL.

[1] http://lampwww.epfl.ch/papers/idealhashtrees.pdf
Can you explain this further? I don't understand.
People do it quite often. Just prepend the title with "Show HN"

Examples:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3Asho...
This appears to radically alter the security of the W8 app sandbox...apparently intercepting the process and changing the security permissions....dangerous

Anyone feel like running some tests and verifying this?
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My sister wanted to copy a video file from my laptop to her phone. I had it up on the laptop's webserver. No can do; there is no 'save' option for a link or file system for it to go to. To get it there as best as I could tell I would have to get it to her desktop first, and then she would physically have to bring her phone there and wire it up to sync with iTunes. Maybe iCloud could have helped?
The new layout looks like it is based around a concept I always liked about msnbc.com's article layout--it divides the page into a series of horizontal "screens", with the article text connecting them.

See how, as you move down the page, different elements like pictures, boxes on the right, and graphics divide the long article text into a series of stacked "sections", each of which fits into a horizontal screen orientation.

This makes better use of the (now) more prevalent widescreen 16:9 screen orientation, which normally would be considered poor for reading long articles.
Well, either it actually isn't or you're trying to troll me.
Yes, and I said exactly that. I do appreciate the link to the journal article though; I should have included that.
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It does require people to know what a traffic light is, and those colors are a convention, that's true. However, if they know what a traffic light is, and if they've used Windows before, no explanation is necessary. There are plenty of things that switchers have difficulty with (like the fact that 'minimize' and 'zoom' behave differently in OS X than they do in Windows), but this isn't one of them.

Also, even if people didn't understand the traffic light metaphor, a quick mouseover would clear it up: if you hover over the red button, it turns into a (X), if you hover over the yellow button, it turns into a (–), if you hover over the green button, it turns into a (+).
What if a developer is most productive using Bazaar, Fossil, Monotone, or perhaps Arch?
I love that people can't even refrain from negative comments on a t-shirt. You're not adding to the discussion here but still you need to snipe.
Jeff Bezos has actually tried to patent the barge landing. Go figure.
http://ipinspace.com/2012/02/13/repeat-after-me-patent-appli...
Very fair feedback, we just added a Slate Grey option to check out - let me know if that works.
This is interesting... I always read at the bottom of the page vs. the top of the page. I wonder if the style of fixed border elements really will train us to read more near the center?
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There's a 'Downloads' folder on Android, which at least covers most use cases.
I always felt Alpha Centauri did things well. You had as much time as it took you to move all of your units that still had movement points. When you had no more units with free movement points, your turn ended.

And for the record the AI in that game could be brutal.
> I'm sure a lot of people would spontaneously barf on their screen if they saw my code though.

This is exactly the problem I had. My canonical "getting to know your new language" project is always writing a simple chess engine. After writing a few of the high-level constructs, my next step was to try to browse some other .clj libraries, because I was pretty certain that a lot of the tedious tasks involved in writing a chess engine had already been solved.

After reading their code, I very quickly gave up.
Isn't it all completely open source?
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I've been a software engineer, a CTO, and a consultant. I build really fast.

I'm looking for a partner with deep connections and strong understanding of business problems in their space who is constrained by the ability to develop tech.

Call me maybe?

cma [at] bitemyapp [dot] com
And I'm not exactly sure how productive it is that your failure in reading comprehension has resulted in two posts wherein you've tried to belittle my point by emphasizing it. Relax and have a better rest of your day.
I'm afraid I'm too busy making the comic books I want to see in the world. (http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/)
Actually, they use the kerosene for cooling, not the oxygen.
I can't say you haven't beaten depression because I just don't know you but for me believing that I've beaten it is dangerous. It's the same kind of logic behind why addicts say they're recovering and not recovered. The disease is still there and can show itself at any time but for now it's in "remission" I suppose you could say.

A lot of people feel like admitting they can't beat depression is a sign of weakness and that if you "beat" it or become "cured" of it that that's somehow a badge of honor. I don't feel that way. I think admitting you can't truly beat this and knowing your limits is the smartest and bravest thing a person can do. I know that if something were to happen and I fell into my old depression again I'd certainly feel even worse after having thought I'd beaten it. Even if I were to say I beat it today while I'm feeling good, that would be a lie. I haven't beaten it. It's still there. I feel it. It wants to consume me all the time but I don't allow it to right now. It hangs on to me every single day, even on days like today when I'm feeling good. The only difference between depressed me and "cured" me is how I deal with it. I'm sure this would be impossible to understand for someone who's never experience depression but even though I struggle with depression every day of my life, I'm not depressed. And that has everything to do with how I've learned to deal with it - I just kind of work around it and don't feed it.

Like I said, I can't and I'm not saying you haven't beaten it. I just can't understand how anyone can really beat it at least not with my understanding of the word "beat" I suppose.
Light pet hair. It stands out much more than dark on light, for whatever reason.
Not true. The part where he contacts Tim O'Reilly directly, he names the name of "the publisher who replaced him", and said they lacked "integrity and good business sense".
If the 1% is the least offensive, I'd hate to see the rest of it. I guess I'm glad that I'm on the technical side of things :P
Agreed, and let's not forget that client side GUI applications like SourceTree help to abstract away most of the common operations.
I think they would start to realize it if sales fell. The fall in Blackberry sales was clear. iPhone sales are still rising.
I agree that they look terrible. It felt like I was thrown back to Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 tiled backgrounds. Trippy.
The war was over before this release. Git won.
The ability for clients to erroneously or maliciously fork the chain can't be designed out whilst keeping the system open and decentralised. The blockchain is a distributed copy of a shared truth which takes time to propagate and has to be agreed upon by all participants. If the network is open, then me, or me and 500,000 friends, can join the network and attempt to propagate a different truth.

If you compare the way the Bitcoin community responded to this with the response you might have expected from even a very well run company, I think the Bitcoin community comes out ahead.

It would be useful and or interesting to compare the Bitcoin community response with a specific failure and response of a for-profit closed-technology company, but I'm not sure what case to use for comparison.

Maybe the recent cloudflare outage?
The colors of the site are _terrible_ on the eyes!
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Right and he's already banking on the fact that he has won that lawsuit.
There is also a provision in some publishing contracts that say that once the book goes out of print, the rights revert back to you.
The very same. I hesitate to ask, but, is that good or bad? :)
May, according to the order page.

https://www.automatic.com/order
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Is the color not brown? Perhaps I need to calibrate my monitor
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When a template subscribes to data in a server collection, there is a delay between the moment the subscription begins and the moment the client displays the data it receives from the server. On page load you really notice the delay because there is nothing else for the user to see while the client waits to receive the data from the publish action. The way around this is to show something else on the page so that the user doesn't notice the delay. One way to do that is to show only static assets during that time, another way is to use local (client-only) collections.
F/OSS is great for gov.uk. It's a very bad idea anywhere else. There's no government department I've encountered that doesn't rely on Active Directory, and there are a lot of projects where F/OSS is being pushed and then abandoned.
Isn't his tax rate on all wealth, so 10% of the value of your home and possessions too? Or was it only on income?
Sure if 'doing "web" right' means sending my personal information to private companies based in a foreign countries when I visit government web pages [1]. This may be the Silicon Valley/libertarian idea of the web done right, but it isn't mine.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5127921
> Clojure has some very clever immutable data structures based on Phil Bagwell's work [1] that help mitigate the slow down.

This is true, and I've read some of the papers describing said structures and was blown away by the cleverness. However (and I don't have a source here, so please forgive me if I'm just totally wrong) I have watched many of Rich Hickey's hour+ long talks, and in one of them, I distinctly remember him saying that his vectors were "Within an order of magnitude of mutable vectors performance-wise, which is good enough for me".

I was... put off by that.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, it might have been Maps that he was talking about. I are not good at remember.
Thanks for the response! I'm just a curious lawyer from the UK so a visit to San Mateo won't be necessary :)
I think the reasoning behind it is that people might not want to walk around with "Hacker News" on a t-shirt.
Automatic seems to be mostly aimed at consumers who wish to have statistics more than to perform optimizations or do diagnosis, but here are a couple that are fairly common in the aftermarket:

Stats, Tuning, Android App, Bluetooth dongle: http://www.superchips.com/Store/VIVIDLINQ.aspx

App to work with any number of bluetooth OBD-II dongles: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torq...

Personally, as someone who regularly changes drivetrain, tires sizes, gearing, etc. on vehicles, I'll stick with things like VIVID which do work pretty well for the most part. I can see a market for people who just want an easy app that tells them statistics and such (but those do already exist, just not as easy for the average user since they've been the domain of tuners for a while).
Yes, that confuses a lot of people. 'Zoom' toggles between the 'standard state' and the 'user state'.

"Your app determines the initial size and position of a window, which is called the standard state. If the user changes a window’s size or location by at least 7 points, the new size and location is the called the user state. The user can toggle between the standard state and the user state by clicking the zoom button in the title bar. Follow the guidelines in this section so that users can have the zoom experience they expect."

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserE...
Well, it all depends what your goal is.

If your goal is to embarrass and piss off the people who have annoyed you, naming names will accomplish that goal.

If your goal is to make a broader point about an industry, naming names will just distract.

If your goal is to criticize a particular company, naming names again distracts from the objective.

I can't read the OP's mind, so I don't know his goals.

There's all the difference in the world between public praise and public criticism. I can't explain it to you, but maybe think back to when you've been on the receiving end of both.
Sure, after you drive to the shop and wait for a while. Knowing without having to go anywhere is a big convenience.
You could do some kind of weather app with the ambient air temperature and air pressure readings?
I want to second this. It's already quite nice but I'd recommend being as extreme as possible with optimizing for focus. I don't need all the corner information, so let me have the option of turning it off or having it fade out.

Also, I don't know why the title defaults to all caps; some people may want to make decisions about the capitalization of their titles.

Great work though!
> you've tried to belittle my point by emphasizing it.

No, no I didn't. I was just making a joke.
Ah, well my comment was prominently about its recognizability/design.

To your post though i pretty much agree with you 100%.
I also struggle reading Clojure code that isn't my own. It reminds me of a quote by Brenton Ashworth on the subject: http://goo.gl/yCIWI
It continues to amaze me how seriously people take Twitter comments--good or ill, and that we can have entire posts citing 140 character insults from assholes.

The jerks were in the wrong, but I think the wrong approach is to engage them in their own medium. They are vocalizing their beliefs because they know it will provoke a reaction. You'll never convince them, so the best thing is to ignore them and get on with your life. In the case of reddit, the problematic set is best left to fester and dealt with at higher levels (bans, filtering) or discussed out of band (as in the linked post). "Arguing with a fool only proves that there are two," as they say.
> Try removing some of your Chrome extensions down and you'll be back in the 50MB range.
Thanks, but I'm a extremely tech savvy user. When I first noticed Chrome getting slow on my netbook, I created a fresh profile and removed all my extensions.

It's clear from my own experience, posts here, and benchmarks that Chrome has strayed from it's original design goals of being a lightweight browser. My reference to this iPhone was just to point out that I think it's a issue with Chrome itself, and not the underlining webkit browser.
Only if you ignore the "giving it away for free" part of that sentence.
FWIW, I thought the features page[1] laid out Draft's value proposition fairly well, primarily around a collaborative and versioned writing environment that doesn't suck. I really like the idea of integration around other cloud tools, as it provides paths for Draft to work with my existing workflows instead of being Yet Another Cloud Island.

I'm not a heavy-duty writer, but Draft fixes some deficiencies in other tools well enough that I'll definitely try it for collaborative writing work.

As far as the Draft site, I'd like to see an easier route to the value prop on the features page from the homepage. Perhaps locating that info "almost below the fold" on the homepage, so that simple scrolling leads readers through a tour? I suspect (anyone have data?) that there's a lot of propsective users who drop off before they'll click on a "Features" link.

[1] https://draftin.com/features
I'm a little confused on how you keep the password private. Can't an Android user just go to Settings->Wifi and look at the current network password?
Yuck, sorry about that wrapping problem. I'd like to fix that. Could you send me that document (or something similar) that I could use to test with? I'm at nate@cityposh.com
Skip the colour selector and go direct to Slate: http://i.americanapparel.net/storefront/photos/zoom/serve.as...
This is ugly. I was shocked to Ctrl-f "ugly" and come up with nothing, but that's exactly what this shirt is.
What will be the effects of this fragmentation? For example, will we see Firefox for Mir and Firefox for X and Firefox for Wayland? Is there a risk that one window system will be without applications? I am too distanced to draw these conclusions myself.
Relighting / staging while the first stage motor is running at "idle" or something like that will be interesting.

For a relight, you need some propellant at the feed pipes to restart, though if you have small enough aero forces, you could just vent some stuff to accelerate the rocket forward slightly so you can start ingesting liquid again, instead of the pressurant gas and can then proceed with relight.

Then again, since the empty rocket's bottom end is heavy, it could orient itself the right way aerodynamically anyway (acceleration vector pointing the way of the nose) so the liquids go towards the engine end.

If it comes like a dart and not tumbling (which presents its own problems), such a big stage has lots of mass per frontal area and it will come in quite fast.

Interesting aerodynamic problems. I wonder if we might see some maneuverable mini fins or wings at some point.
Totally agree. We built a PaaS entirely in Clojure (https://circleci.com) and its absolutely a grown-up language. I was unsure when we started (my cofounder has been using Clojure since 2008 and was adamant that this was a good idea), but Clojure makes it very easy to write big hardcore systems. Definitely one of our competitive advantages.
When was the last time a robot asked you to meet for drinks?
Well, if you own your own company, I'm not sure who you're justifying yourself to.

If, however, you are in a situation where you have an employer, I'm sorry; you're just wrong. Working from home is not a fundamental human right. You are, or are not, allowed to.