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Oh, sorry I took it that way then.

For what it's worth, I went from Ruby to Python myself. At first it almost felt like an invasion of my privacy for a parser not to discard whitespace. Once I got used to it though, I couldn't go back.
I hope no one in the state department thinks like you or we would end up with a billion dollar budget to build air-conditioned American military bases in Boosaaso to protect our interests, safe-guard passage of ships and do a little nation building on the side.

If they keep him here that will only invite more "pirates", an easy visa to the U.S. :-P (the guys you're trying to reason with are strung out on methamphetamines; good luck winning that debate.)
ltu http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
No offense, but I think this is their strategy for that:

3. Get rid of assholes. Zappos has a filtering system before, during, and after hiring to make sure they get rid of people who “don’t fit the culture.” That is the nice way of saying they get rid of assholes and they get rid of them quickly. They even pay candidates $2,000 after they go through training if they can admit they don’t fit into the culture.
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http://www.djangosites.org/
There are probably some reasonable categories in there, but I would say they are more like "algorithmist" (more mathematically inclined), "systems developer" (more hardware oriented), "application developer" (more user experience oriented), etc.
Except MTurk and other similar services make the entire concept of CAPTCHA's obsolete with the ability to pay people to solve any human distinguishing task.
https://examples.wufoo.com/forms/buy-a-tshirt/

Simple, but quite good enough with an image added for plenty of stuff.
It's not closing right? Just stopping new users from creating accounts.
Quite true, thanks :)
I say no, but because of who it is coming from. Would this work coming from, say, Comcast? I know to me it wouldn't. I'd view it as pure advert. But if I got one from Wufoo it would simply validate, reassure and go along side with what I already know and feel about them; A company that is just great all around.
I want the bailout money back! Why did we give these degenerates money in the first place! grand larceny.
Has anyone got this to fly?

This looks like it would be a tough one to sell to most of the investors I know.
There are lots of reasons to love OSX, but I don't think the malware argument is standing up very well these days.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941

"It’s really simple. Safari on the Mac is easier to exploit. The things that Windows do to make it harder (for an exploit to work), Macs don’t do. Hacking into Macs is so much easier. You don’t have to jump through hoops and deal with all the anti-exploit mitigations you’d find in Windows."
So, just by curiosity, I would like to know (it didn't get mentioned in the article) what is the use case for a device like that?
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Yes, posting and commenting here is intimidating at first. The combination of very smart people + strong opinions + all the web rockstars who hang out here gives one pause when commenting. I first wandered over to HN about six months ago from Reddit (and Digg, sad to say). For the first few weeks, the ratio of comments I wrote to comments I posted was about 2:1, because I was afraid of putting my foot in my mouth. Perhaps that's just me, though.
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IBM WebSphere Portal Server and IBM Web Content Management Server Standard Edition

Standard CPU: 4600/mo

Standard Extra CPU: 9100/mo

High CPU: 17000/mo

And yes, IBM is fucking retarded. Anyone who's planning on renting these should have their heads examined
All of these sound like suggestions that you just "like" OS X better than any MS OS.

"No falling behind the open-source development curve"

I agree with this one somewhat.

All others are simply not convincing enough. Malware argument is just bogus.
Fair enough :)

My idea is a photography album hosting website where you can order prints from local photo labs in my country. I'm fully aware of smugmug, but i've seen countless local forum posts asking for one specific to my country in our currency (not USA based). I was recently laid off, so I thought now would be a good time to start something up, I believe I have a source for prints. It's the technology to implement the site which usually confuses me. Do I try and outsource the creation of the site? (I can code, but not that well, I'm a sysadmin). Do I use some cloud based service or worry about that when I don't have enough bandwidth on my current host? Should I write it all myself or use an existing software package? I think a push in the right direction from these questions might get me on my way. :) thanks!
> Leaving aside for the moment your assumption that eating animals is equal to torturing them

I don't assume or believe this. What I referred to was modern factory farming or feedlots. Pigs in particular are subject to some of the most horrific living circumstances.

But you have had enough opportunities to state that you believe the torture of animals is in any way wrong. Since you have failed to do so I think it is reasonable to proceed with the view that you believe it to be OK if there is even a small utility value in it.

> Your request is to view the world from the point of view of the animal. Well animals do not care in the slightest about the pain of another animal.

So now you are arguing that we should be taking our moral cues from animals? This is somewhat akin to the argument about the terrorist being so evil that we need to resort to their tactics - except the 'terrorists' here are defenceless animals.

The second sentence here is almost certainly untrue. Such broad statement should require at least some evidence.

> I prefer to view the world from the point of view of a human.

The more angles you can view a situation from, the better your model of reality is. In chess you need to view the game from your opponent's perspective and in relationships you need to try to understand how your partner feels. Similarly in interactions with animals it makes sense to try to model their behaviour by taking their perspective. This is the case if you have a pet, are hunting or are being hunted. I believe this is an advantageous and natural human trait. Because we have more surplus brain power we can do it better than other animals.

A necessary part of running this model accurately is to glimpse at some of the likely/obvious feelings of the animal being modelled. Those who don't feel any discomfort at the extreme pain of an animal are either censoring their view or they simply don't have the mental capacity to construct an accurate model. Either way I believe it is an impoverished way of viewing reality.

Hopefully this extend description has at least allowed you to understand my argument.

> To an animal everything is food, there is no category "not food".

This is an obviously incorrect statement. Koala bears only eat Eucalyptus leaves. In percentage terms roughly 90% the of animal biomass is necessarily formed through eating plants. Carnivorous animals are by necessity a small minority.

> So by saying humans are meat (and therefor food), you are basically advocating for humans to act as animals.

This is a silly argument that doesn't follow from anything I have said. Even under your logic there is another option - don't eat meat. But that is a different argument.
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I have a Thinkpad running XP and it is fine except every time I resume from sleep I have to repair my wifi connection. In addition for being the "premium windows laptop" it sure comes bundled with a lot of annoying software (password manager that invades every browser installed, another wifi icon for the task bar that is always lit green to confuse the issue, etc)
Are you sure we could skip the "round" feature of entrepreneurial finance? It is a classic problem in market economics: whenever you deal with low volume, unique items, you won't have enough information to set a fair price. Market economics don't really work until you have a real market around a single item, whether it be pork bellies or Google stock.

More broadly, anytime the economic stakes of a transaction goes up, you'll often have the whole bargaining/negotiations spiel (e.g. cars and Oriental carpets). But the cause in that case is due to the cost efficiency of paying professional negotiators to extract more money out of the average consumer.
I really don't get why that thing has become so bloated through the time. The size of the Vista installer of Acrobat Reader 9 is 41 MB!!!

I remember the good old days when its installer size was around a few MB, and not the monstrousity of today.

I prefer FoxIt Reader too.
It's nice, but the site requires horizontal scroll on my small browser window on my MacBook screen. That's my biggest complaint, really.
Slashdot was a really good place to hang out but never got with the times and got left behind.

Digg was a good source of news a couple of years ago, then went downhill.

Reddit was tech savvy too when it started, now downward spiral.

Techcrunch for a brief moment, but Arrington blew it.

HN is my only news aggregator.
Ask HN: Please review my startup
My site is here http://www.geniuswiki.com
A wiki software. Thanks.
Amusingly enough, this comment is #3 in the results.
Good article. But Scoble is a hypocrite. I haven't seen any company obsessed about their number of followers or cribbing about not being in Twitter's suggested friend list. But scoble does both. The benefit of being on the list is that you get more followers. Since techcrunch was on the list and scoble was not, he was mighty pissed and started throwing around accusations that techcrunch had paid twitter for the position on suggested friend list.

If as he says, no of followers doesn't matter, then why would not being on the list matter so much to him. Here is the thread on friendfeed where he accuses TechCrunch of paying twitter and makes a huge deal about number of followers

http://friendfeed.com/e/c487ea34-ee9c-4794-9bc6-29d2cc1ceda1...
Ask HN: How to build your own cruise control?
Any suggestions if your car doesn't have cruise control and you might have to drive a long distance? I was thinking of wedging something under the gas pedal to prevent over acceleration and laying something on top of the pedal for pressure.
Actially, I believe this becomes a variation on the AI-Box experiment: ask the tester to not just distinguish the humanity of the challenger, but also to determine whether the challenger is a user with an honest goal to use the website, or an MT-employed opponent. The spammer can then only win if they can convince the tester to "let them out."

Interestingly, with both the challenger and tester being average humans that are badly- or un-trained on being on either side of a social engineering attack, the effectiveness of this technique will depend totally on the statistical ratio of cunning to cynicism in the average human being.
Aneesh, it sounds to me like you've been part of the 1% club for a long time. I applaud you for that. Without people like you, HN wouldn't be my homepage.

But the point is that the vast majority of HN users are likely not contributors. Instead, they're passive visitors to the site. With respect to that group, unless you don't want those users contributing, there's definitely a free rider problem.

Although I certainly don't think the barrier is unique to HN (although downvoting adds some pressure to come with something decent). I was just wondering what creative strategies people have used to get people to leave their first post or comment. Because I think once you get that first comment, you get the user hooked (b/c then they experience the added value of the discussion you mention).
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Why is posting here intimidating? There's this perception of this community being full of super serious users who are always in a ready position to pounce and criticize others. There are a handful who are like that, but for the most part, if you post anything that carries even the smallest ounce of intelligence, and are respectful, which really isn't hard to do, people will welcome you.

I think people are more likely to post here because there is something to be gained from the discourse that happens. I can walk away learning something new, whether it be through argumentation, or an 'Ask IN' post. You don't get that on Digg.
None taken. :-)

But you're saying that if you don't get up and wave to people with a stupid grin on your face when you're "in the zone" when writing code and being productive, that makes you an asshole at Zappos and hence fired? Nice.
FWIW I think your voice matters. Please keep posting.
Weebly is hiring a front-end web developer in San Francisco, CA
Ask HN: How hard do you work?
How many hours do you spend at your workplace? And in that time, how many hours of actual work do you do?
Ask HN: Can the App Store model be applied to other types of software?
Ask HN: Can the App Store model be applied to other types of software? For which types would it work or not work?
Everybody gets 50 twollars, and can write to get more...

Printing money in this cavalier a manner really should lead to hyperinflation, which means I'd really hate to be one of those businesses that committed to matching the funds with US dollars. But perhaps it won't be a problem, since the US Treasury is printing US Dollars at a high rate as well lately, so perhaps the two inflation rates will match, negating any ill effects.
This isn't the appropriate place for this discussion. If you feel like you were unfairly banned, talk to pg (pg@ycombinator.com). He's a nice guy, and generally wants to give folks the benefit of the doubt. If you were banned by an editor (rather than pg), and he considers it unfair, he will fix it.

Meta-discussion about your posts and the votes on those posts is discouraged. Strongly.

To restate what someone else pointed out:

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Metafilter and AskMetafilter. They have a once-only $5 fee and a one-week waiting period before you can make your first post. This filters out the Digg / Yahoo! Answers crowd. They also have a culture of trusting users not to make "yo-mama" comments...which succeeds in keeping discussions cordial and intelligent.
Why is it that people hate active whitespace? I think it's great that the parser can detect where blocks end just by maintaining a nice code structure. I guess people are just against it on principle? Just in edge cases where indenting wouldn't make sense?
Only 4600/month? Those people are out of their damned minds.
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Isn't it more like charge 3X the other guy and die. I can get a similar device from nokia for less than half that or a netbook for 1/3.
Ask HN: How many "tell me when it launches" email addresses did you have?
On my app I have about 450 beta signups now (we haven't done our public beta yet) and I think that's pretty good for the moment. But I am curious about others. Did you do anything special to get interest prior to your launch?<p>And in the end, did any of those people convert to paying customers?
Very good comment. Most sites have a karma/points system which is not robust against dilution of intelligent comments. E.g., if the Digg-crowd started infiltrating Hacker News, then I doubt the karma system would be able to stop this.
No reason it can't be preprocessed. It should be a straight 1:1 translation between indentation depth to an opening/closing brace (a simple push-down automaton.)

[Edit: he chose to go with begin/end; let's call this a Ruby That Doesnt' Suck]
How is forming a conjecture different than generalizing an observation?
>Can anybody give an example of something that makes Mac OS X better than Vista?

Sleep mode that works (quickly).
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We have a "Tell me when this feature is ready" button. So far 50 emails in the last month, but people always had something usable from the moment I bought the domain and set its A record to my home DynDNS IP.
we used to spend 16 hours a day working on weebly, mon-fri and sunday, but we'd always take friday night and saturday off. we were fairly productive, so i'd say at least 50% of that time was actual, productive work.

over time, and with a move into our own office (and out of the apartment), we've shifted to what feels a more sustainable 10-12 hours a day, 5 days a week.

at the same time, we're pretty liberal with vacation as appropriate (probably 5-6 weeks a year), as it's a great time to recharge the batteries. in this context, vacation generally means working at a much reduced output -- it's pretty hard to step away completely.

all in all, we feel very happy with what we've been able to accomplish at work, and feel lucky that we're able to have as much personal time as we do -- it's sometimes not as much about the amount of time, as it is about the flexibility to take time off at the drop of a hat.
But for how much of that time was it seen as a slum?
I've tracked my time for over 2 years solid.

The first year (2007) I was 46% billable efficiency (web design).

The second year (2008) I was 49% billable efficiency (doing web design).

I also do sales / marketing / customer service / and building my own web app so this is purely consulting stuff with clients and I'm happy with the numbers.

In 2007 I worked 2784 hours. In 2008 I worked about 600 hours less than the previous year. I think that was my goal going into the year. Objective achieved!
Except MTurk imposes a micro-cost on the attacker... until you proxy captchas into something else ("Turing porn farm").

Of course, using MTurk to generate captcha's is also a micro-cost so I don't know if you win at all (but Amazon does!).
Overall, it seems to work pretty well. Under "prettyURL", the "Tiny URL" is often longer than the "Meaning URL". Use a shorter hash key. Also, you might want to have some basic content that loads instantly along with the "loading" graphic (e.g. Logo, basic description).

What user base are you going for, and how to you plan to monetize it?
Don't try and play genius, just add what you have to say when you know something worth sharing. Takes the pressure off, and works better anyway.
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i don't know. sounds like you got what you wished for. your account was called banned_man and all...

seriously: deleting accounts is serious. nonethless, i don't have enough information to form any kind of judgment. shrug.
Out of curiosity, what was the root cause of the fear? Getting downvoted?
Same stuff could be said of professional athletes.
Man that was painful. Never in my life have a seen an adult act like such a cry baby. He can't face that other people may actually be more interesting to a wide cross section of people. No, it has to be a pay off.
cool. i signed up and made a private space. it feels like you're giving a lot of value to users, though i don't have anything concrete to say about that....i'm always vaguely looking for private wiki space for small collaborators.

biggest question: will you still be around in 6 months? i've had not so good experiences in the past with finding "a really cool private collaborative wiki" (free) that suddenly stopped working...
Very informative article, especially the international comparisons. Thanks.
Not notable in the least. Rooting a computer when you have physical access to it is trivial.
I think it's closing later this year

"Existing GeoCities accounts have not changed. You can continue to enjoy your web site and GeoCities services until later this year. You don't need to change a thing right now — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We'll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and we will update the help center with more details at that time."

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html
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Given that I work from home, it depends on whether or not I've taken Adderall that day.

It ranges from 2 to 16 hours.
Too hard.
I know handbrake was originally for os x but it does work on windows now as well.
Yes, I am aware of an issue. The Subversion server is reverse proxied and I think this is interacting with Apache's auto-redirect if trailing slash is missing. (This is a recent setup, no other Subversion server I've administered does this either.) I need to fix this. Thanks for your patience.
This is all ^his fault.
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dd93s8qb_37dqrnxjdk
big in-store interactive displays. in this instance since they're talking about real estate, probably some sort of listing browser they can throw in the lobby or take to the mall or whatever they want.
Based upon the fact that hn uses the same system for comments as reddit (only up down voting) and we know how well that worked out there really is no question that once the number of users goes up hn will resemble reddit of today, but the owners wont care because they will have a ton of users and we wont care because we will be somewhere else.
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The code may be beautiful, but the documentation is garbage. It's garbage because nobody at Adobe uses it, and very few care about 3rd party development. Furthermore, there is ambivalence there about encouraging understanding of the file format (which is perhaps why the documentation is very partial) and definitely real fear and loathing on the issue of people emulating the Photoshop plugin host interface (if they could make that illegal, they would).

Business as usual in big monopolist land, really. The minnows will eventually bring them down anyway.
IBM still charges big banks CPU time on the bank's own hardware.

Big bank backend apps are written to sleep as much as possible, and then do everything all at once in order to save on CPU costs.
Never did default to TIFF. They did bolt some layer support hacks (binary blobs) to TIFF though.
and now (through no fault of their own) the company is dying and can't afford it, because they managed their money poorly

For example, by giving their workers pensions and other compensation far exceeding their market value.
No, they're saying people who don't fit into that culture, having only invested a few weeks of training, tend to take the money and run leaving only those who actually fit into that crazy happy culture.
Why no comments on job postings?
Given that a lot of people know other developers, it would be great if we could add comments on HN job postings to recommend people.
So that first paragraph means that if you eliminated the non-productive time, you work 6 x 8 hour days. And gain some work life balance.