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Except he was judging others based on a decision that they made, not on their thought process (which, as you pointed out, he doesn't know). You judged him based on his thought process that he himself laid out. I don't see your judgement as hypocritical (by your standards).
Apparently, it's because a lot of HN commenters think that this kind of behavior is okay, because -- and I quote -- "he created an apparently billion+ dollar company almost overnight."

It's the same "high court, low court" inequality dynamics we see in the rest of the society, but this time in disguise of meritocracy.
The default Linode kernel (for all VMs) was updated/recompiled to support features that Docker needs to run.

So it allows you to run Docker in an existing VM (provided you reboot the VM with the new kernel image).
Toshiba has been aggressive at limiting DIY repairs as well. They sent Tim Hicks a takedown notice forcing him to remove service manuals from his site: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/cease-and-desist-manual...
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Completely agree. Whenever I see articles about how "[founder] rejects offer from Google/FB/Apple for [$X]" and the resulting criticism that the founder must be shortsighted, I never see any discussion on the other side fo the fence. Why on earth does Google or Facebook think Snapchat is worth any money? Somebody over there does, do they have the same mentality as Spiegel?
"My favorite example of this sort of insanity is the office in which each time any developer deployed to production, the speaker system automatically played 6 seconds of their favorite song across the entire office. You could actually watch productivity go out the window as dozens of developers fell out of the zone."

And yet, it's a developers dream to set something like that up. Or a nerf gun that fires when you deploy. Hah!

Very self-harming...
No. I don't think that and I didn't said that.

Cite? Just found this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide.

From the graphic shown on the page, not all suicide are caused by mental illness. That was my main point.

I have some doubts about the mental illness importance shown in this graph. Anyway, the mental illness could be the source of pain leading to the rational decision to end it by suicide.
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I had accidentally bought two copies of the same book from Barnes and Noble. I didn't have the receipt anymore.
At first they thought I wanted to return it for money and seemed hesitant but I just wanted to get the first book (I had two of the second). They were really helpful and exchanged it for the correct book.

I know it's not too relevant but I was so afraid of a no receipt, tough luck situation. I'm surprised they didn't think I just grabbed it off the shelf and went to the counter. It was just a $10 book and not a TV or anything but it left a good impression.
That was a fascinating read, thanks!

Tl;dr: 100$ bills produced in all likelihood by a foreign government (suspects are North Korea, Syria, Iran) or maybe criminal gangs are so well done that they are practically indistinguishable from the original.

The numbers printed seem to be pretty low though, and not nearly enough to endanger the economy in any way. Probably its hard to launder the money?
Listen to your people. They know more than anyone else about the conditions under which they're trying to work. If something is sub-optimal, they'll often figure it out way faster than you will.
"There are the ones where everybody thinks they don't know how they're going to make money but they actually know. There's this kind of Kabuki dance that sometimes these companies put on where we're just a bunch of kids and we're just farting around and I don't know how we're going to make money. It's an act. They do it because they can. They don't let anyone else realize they have it figured out because that would just draw more competition."

In addition to the other example that Mark gave ("they don't know how they will make money") another way to keep the competition at bay is by the use of red herrings and by spreading disinformation that is believable.
> the distribution of power is completely asymmetric here

I'm pretty sure there is no fundamental law of the Universe that makes it so, only the fact that it is allowed to persist in this state by the multitudes who actually (but unknowingly, it seems) hold the power to change it.

You know, "if only there was a way" for employees to unite, and therefore increase their bargaining power with employers.
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To me the take away is that he doesn't care that his company exposed the private information of the company's users.
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I assume that Snapchat has had more offers to buy it than just Facebook and Google. Probably many hundreds offers starting at a few thousand, to a few hundred thousand, to a million. When do you stop and sell out? Is there a right time? I might have considered it at a billion but apparently that would have been a mere 25% of what I could get for it.

The rest of the article is idiotic: "Evan is only 23 years old, a straight white male, and chances are, has never been denied anything in his life." Chances are I can make up anything I want about someone's life to fit whatever narrative I'm trying to express.
Responsibility is not a binary property where any given individual is either responsible or not. There are varying degrees of responsibility. Obviously each step in your absurd slippery slope argument corresponds to a drastic decrease in the degree of responsibility. You aren't following the logic, you're evading logic entirely.
after experimenting with many different pandora stations, i've found that trance music is awesome for programming. anything with lyrics or irregular beats (like dubstep) is particularly distracting, even though outside of work i like listening to pretty much anything.

this is often why when people ask me, "what music do you listen to?" my answer is always, "for what?"
What would Machiavelli do? Emotional intelligence and automization
We at Sococo have the best of both worlds. We're mostly in physical isolation (working at different offices or from home offices). Then we share virtual spaces where we can meet, talk, form spontaneous groups. If you're heads-down then just take your headset off, minimize the team app and work. Folks can see this; courtesy demands they send a chat to ask for your attention.
The problem with logic like that is that even suspending disbelief and accepting the 10% chance, a discount rate needs to be applied. Risk-adjusted returns are getting entirely ignored.

If they have a 10% to turn into Tencent tomorrow, at 10% chance there is some value. If we are talking about 5-10 years down the line, a reasonable discount rate like 25% puts the $100B of future value at something like $10-30B. Suddenly a 10% isn't even close to good enough.

This ignores the extremely unlikelihood that consumers in the US monetize the same way as in China to even reach a similar market cap (Tencent has higher top-line than Facebook).
Why we don't see startups from 57 year old folks featured in Venturebeat?

Trust me when I say that isn't snark. In the US and elsewhere we have a large diaspora of people who held a certain kind of job for a long time, which has since been made redundant by either the economics of the business their employer was in, or the skill set they used was replaced by automation. These people nearly always have high school degrees, many have college degrees. And we hear stories about how they have sent their resume out hundreds or thousands of times without a response.

How can we motivate them to throw out the idea that they are going to find their old job at a new place, and replace it with they can create value by using their experience to solve new problems? We need folks like Venturebeat finding those people who have re-invented themselves, and made a startup in their 'grey' years to inspire these people.

We have stories of people who have been out of work since 2009, that is 5 years now this March. You can get an entirely new undergraduate degree in 5 years, especially if you skip the 'general ed' requirements. How do we motivate these people to engage?
What was the perceived worth of search engines as a general concept back then though? That's the relevant question, not which search was best.
That's awesome to hear! If you have any feedback on the documentation or would like to see other material please reach out to me: james.turnbull@docker.com. Or log a ticket and cc me on GitHub: jamtur01.
Thanks, glad you like it!

It's made using Kirby CMS and a custom PHP script for counting the likes (horrible code). The overlay offset effect (visible only on desktop) I've wrapped in a plugin and put on github here: https://github.com/miloszfalinski/jOffset

I know it sort of goes against reason, but I'm tired of sites riddled with ads, so was hesitant in making any sort of move. Only option I'd be considering was approaching good android developers myself in hope for some ad based sponsorship. That way quality wouldn't suffer, I'd get something out of it, and users could find out about actually good apps. Then again, monetizing was never a goal, and I'm slowly running out of nice things to add, so I'll probably keep it as it is.
I am really confused. I thought snapchap "turned down" the money because they wanted to see next quarter's numbers before opening a conversation about an acquisition. They didn't say "no we're not selling", they said something along the lines of "talk to us in 6 months". I can't find the source but that was my initial impression when I read the first article on this topic.
I dislike this article because it uses the auspices of privilege and bias to talk about one guy being essentially a fool in the writer's eyes.
Privilege and bias are not the reasons I point to for anyone refusing a seemingly good offer. Evan might know things we as outsiders do not, he might be selfish, he might foolish but that seems to me to have little to do with his race, his sex or his socioeconomic background.
>Sanders ... defined "spying" as "gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business".

To the twisted minds at the NSA, there are a ton of loopholes in that language, unfortunately.
I made the utility PowerKey to remap the power key to Forward Delete or another key of your choosing:

https://github.com/pkamb/PowerKey

It was pretty broken with the new Sleep behavior of 10.9, but this is hack is a great step in the right direction.
In Randall Munroe's version of the problem, he gives the visitor red eyes to explicitly avoid this binary assumption. Obviously, the visitor's statement is slightly different because of this.
First of all, I can't answer for pessimizer, but I'll list some potential advantages of using rsync. Second of all, I really need to point out that there's a big difference between convenience and flexibility, so our technical evaluations don't really challenge eachother.

rsync might involve more work, but on the other hand you could have a cron scheduler trigger it at regular intervals, run by a script that only performs a backup under the right network connectivity conditions (eg. the phone is connected to your home or work WLAN). Perhaps you only want to back up part of the system, or maybe you want to back up some parts of it (say, /home) more frequently than others that are susceptible to big changes (/usr/bin?). Perhaps the only thing you really want to back up from your phone are your downloaded email attachements and browser downloads, while having your contacts managed by some cloud service. You've already listed the disadvantages of such a setup, and I agree, but the advantages need to be acknowledged as well. The stream-lined iOS approach might be as one size fits all as it gets, but there could still be cases where a user would reasonably want to handle it differently.

As for what use ssh for, you are being clear now. At first I thought you meant using an ssh client on the phone (in which case the answer would be the generic answer to "what would I use ssh for?"), but running an sshd on your phone could be useful as well. It's a quick and convenient way to move files to it -- think binaries, scripts, crontabs or runit services -- and a quick way of managing these files.
It is so incredibly infuriating...and by the people who are supposed to be looking out for us.
Big sports fan here. I enjoy watching the game and participating. I've been working on a side project for managing the social sport/rec league teams I play on.

The idea you raised is an interesting one. There are lots of really cool visualizations out there these days. I've always wondered how we could make them more useful during the games.
That's precisely why they are usually legally worthless, where they act as a restraint on trade for the individual concerned.
No. If ethics are purely determined by how other people act, they aren't ethics.

I think that professionals have to be careful in who they choose to work for, but once they start, they should act professionally. That includes leaving professionally.
>Evan Spiegel is just another talented but arrogant, unaware-of-his-own-privilege guy.

From a profile on Spiegel in LA Weekly:

"John Spiegel strove to make sure his children understood that their life was privileged. Every Christmas, he would take them to hand out food at Head Start centers. Through their church, All Saints Episcopal in Beverly Hills, they traveled to Mexico to build houses for the poor"

"He laid out his case in a letter to his father on Feb. 12, 2008. He began by thanking his father for working so hard to afford "such an amazing lifestyle," assuring him that he understood how privileged they were. "We live in a bubble," Evan wrote."

"But where he is a real outlier is in his attitude toward his own success. One of the cherished ideas of the tech world is that success is based on talent and hard work, and that everyone has an equal chance. But Spiegel, who grew up in a wealthy family, has little use for what he calls "the myth of meritocracy." Where others see success as a function of effort, he sees it as luck."

http://www.laweekly.com/2013-10-17/news/snapchat-evan-spiege...

I would say these statements fly directly into the face of your characterization of Spiegel.

>I would be hard-pressed to find someone who thought Snapchat was actually useful to the world. Popular, yes, and fun too, but not particularly useful. Certainly not $4 billion useful. To turn down that amount of money means that Evan sees Snapchat as his primary priority. With $4 billion, Evan could easily fund multiple new startups that are doing meaningful work to change the world (or at least make money!).

Couldn't you dismiss Facebook and Twitter with the same criticism? Who determines what is useful to the world? Enhancing communication isn't the same as curing cancer, but I think you could argue there is some benefit from connecting people?

I'm not sure where you get that his refusal to accept a buyout makes him more out of touch. Do you think Zuck should have sold out at 1 billion to Yahoo so he could go build and invest in other companies? Isn't there a Zuckerburg quote where he said if he sold Facebook, he would go out and build the same company again? Also isn't it plausible to believe that Instagram sold out too early?

So why are you faulting a guy for thinking that his billion dollar company (which comes around very rarely) is his main goal right now? He probably recognizes that this is his one shot at becoming a tech icon, is it absurd to swing for the fences?
I disagree (or I'm misinformed). Aren't just unable to see other processes, but they don't see anything of the host system: the filesystem, ethernet adapters, memory usage, cpu usage, etc. Namespaces can hide a lot of information as far as I know.
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Why would you sell your company for $4B, when you're growing by 15% a month or whatever and are very likely to be worth >$10B by the end of the year and quite likely to be worth $20B the year after??
You might get the best results with a combination of the two. For example, DropBox and Beanstalk tier both features and usage (for DropBox it's storage size and Beanstalk it is repositories) [1][2]. There are certain features that only enterprises will need (e.g. phone support), so you only want that on your more expensive plans.

1. https://www.dropbox.com/business/pricing
2. http://beanstalkapp.com/pricing
Docker integration tests should not fail on an ubuntu system with all the dependencies installed (ubuntu-standard 3.8 kernel, lxc version 0.8, tar, git..), and when using the correct build environment (see http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/contributing/devenvironment/)

If tests still fail for you would you mind filing an issue? Thanks!
I really enjoyed Scott's list and to be honest, I think it's great to see someone openly sharing business ideas for free instead of letting them rust away in some notebook.

I actually wrote Scott about the idea management software, since we at Brightloops (http://brightloops.org) provide a free alternative for social idea development to Danish highschools and colleges; he wrote back almost instantly, friendly and enthusiastic. Even provided some great inspiration. He's one to remember. :)
Pebble has a timer app that meets all your requirements. I use it for pomodoros, laundry, steeping tea, cooking rice, etc. Unbelievably handy.
Page view is just a proxy for reader engagement. There are other, better metrics that measure engagement.
It's an apt description as that code did grow and evolve, constrained by natural selection - only those changes which could be safely made without breaking or even changing functionality on hundreds of architectures over thousands of platforms ever made it in. Naturally that means it is an ever growing assortment of carefully vetted but otherwise horribly ugly hacks.
This article could be titled "How to use Photoshop to draw interfaces".

I've been looking for a true alternative to Photoshop. Sketch looks neat but requires Mac OS 10.7 at least (my iMac is stuck at 10.6, my MBA isn't suited for graphic design) and seems to suffer from numerous bugs. Macaw looks promising but is too much focused on code. And Fireworks is discontinued.

I use Illustrator from time to time, but only for assets: icon fonts, logos, or print-quality jobs. It's not suited for layouts: there's no grid, it's difficult to export background images, you need to calculate a lot even for simple adjustments... Photoshop actually carries interesting vector capbilities, which I use for example to design icons that are both infinitely scalable and pixel-perfect (start small, expand appropriately).

Why is Photoshop still considered the n°1 web design tool?

- Web designers are mostly graphic designers first: they focus on the UI, and don't know or care about the UX. They want to create Dribbble shots, not experiences.

- The community and online resources are huge, from simple forum signature tutorials to advanced realistic drawing techniques.

- Air-brushed billboard model? Funny image manipulation? Fake celebrity picture? Done with Photoshop. Everyone knows about it. It's even a verb.

- Eye-candy sells. Clients don't care about how their website will perform. They care about the "Wow!" effect. It's something they can have an opinion on. And it's not in the web designer's interest to point out this fallacy.

I guess the article's purpose can be summarized by its last paragraph, where it displays the drawing of an eye, made with only one Photoshop layer. What's the purpose of this self-imposed constraint? The answer lies in the appended link's destination: a Dribbble shot.

You can design interfaces in Photoshop, but most people (including me probably) only draw interfaces.
The Free World won the war against Communism through economic warfare, surely Toshiba contributed to that impoverishing them by $517 million of hard currency for weapons they never got to use?
Regarding returning things without a receipt:

Once upon a time, it used to be possible to get Bing points by playing a bunch of stupid games on Club Bing - you could accumulate at most 1000 per day, unless there was some sort of modifier (like "double ticket day") site-wide. The prizes available for these points were usually older Microsoft products like old games (9.99USD), kitchen appliances, hammocks, cheap headphones, etc. The biggest prizes were Zunes, Vista, Microsoft Office, and the XBox360 Arcade Edition. As I recall, the XBox required some crazy amount of points and thus wasn't worth it...and Vista and Office are hardly sexy items. You could win at most one of each prize per physical mailing address.

The games that you played to win points were flash games, so a bunch of bot writers automated this. They'd register multiple accounts and try to max out the number of points they could get per day. Since users had multiple accounts, people would maintain different amounts of points to save for the big ticket items. I believe that Office and Vista were in the 50,000 to 100,000 point range. (Side note: Microsoft was slow, but they DID actually deliver - I got a 360 controller for free!) There are forums dedicated to "opportunities" like these.

So, what do you do with a free copy of Vista Ultimate? Well, one day a user who had exhausted all of the other prizes tried going to Best Buy with his copy. He went to customer service, in-store, and said "Hey, my grandmother got me this for my birthday. I already have it. Is there any way you could possibly help me out?"

Can you guess what they did? They gave him $450 in Best Buy credit.

For awhile, the overarching Club Bing metagame was to simply farm Vista Ultimate, go to a different Best Buy, and "return" your copy. And, on top of that, someone discovered that Microsoft's shipping treated "123 N. Fake Street Apartment A" and "123 N. Fake Street Apartment Z" (and, for that matter, "123 N. Fake Street Apartment AAAA") as unique addresses - so it became possible to have multiple copies of Vista Ultimate shipped to your house. At one point there were so many Club Bing copies of Vista Ultimate floating around that you could go on forums and purchase it directly for $100 because botters had exhausted their local return options.
As per my other comment, I've considered it, but haven't gone thought with it. My only motivation for the site was to repurpose what I had laying around on my hard drive in hopes it would be useful to people. Also, I wasn't willing to do anything that would sacrifice experience or quality, so I decided not to.
Only thing that I think could work would be approaching android devs directly about ad based sponsorship, because that would allow me to control the relevance and quality of the ads. Decided against it as, honestly, I'm busy with other things and the hassle outweighs any potential revenue I could hope to get out of it.
The new bill detectors use PCA and SVM to analyze notes.

What sort of features?
If you want to move to Portland, my company is hiring. We're converting some old Delphi legacy systems into .NET. And I promise you we offer more PTO than that. Shoot me a message on my LinkedIn (link is in profile) or gmail (same as HN handle)
Demographics and culture.

Teens sexting tool vs legitimate messaging service adoption by demographic that can afford the add ons.

apples and oranges imo.
Saw this few days ago: http://www.rivalrygames.com/