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Show HN | Angular-js App to find new gtlds.
Yahoo's COO Walks Out With $20M Stock Bonus, Plus $40M For 15 Months' Work
6 Ways to Become a Successful Entrepreneur in the Mobile App Industry
Your average Joe wont be reading this article... As soon as he sees the technical nature of the discussion, he'll move on.
That is a rather interesting header image.
Maybe a solution would be to only communicate the bounds of a value rather than the value itself. E.g. Instead of “party A has 35% with sigma=2%” something like “we expect party A to have 33%–37%”. Providing a range is shorter than explaining the SD, and can be visualized easily, e.g. in a bar chart.
Infact his goal is to alienate readers like the commenter above by writing in the old literary style. We are so accustomed to modern non-fiction following Malcolm Gladwell like structure for 10 year olds that we've lost the art of appreciating the meandering, scattershot expression of ideas in a literary style. In short, his filtering works.
I guess for that to work you need to sync your Facebook Account and will only update/find full FB profile if they are in your friend list.

It doesn't do a common FB database wide search just from your contacts/FB friends.
Wow, this is looking good, I wish I had it available to me 6 months ago! Nice job :D

I don't know if it's just me or not, but it's not working for me in Firefox (OSX Mavericks 10.9.1 and Firefox v26). The X's and checkmarks aren't showing up next to the highlighted selections. Works fine in Safari.
just signed in to say the exact thing..
why is everyone using the the term "hack" for every expression?
It's really annoying and cringing..
Yes. You mark it for deletion and then don't log in for like 30 days and then it's actually deleted.
Sam Altman is a great writer. He was also Founder/CEO of Loopt. I have to wonder why this post doesn't relate the traits back to his work at Loopt so the lessons learned can be more contextualized.

For example, are there areas where he was a mediocre founder by his own definition? Were there times when he was mediocre and then became great? What did it take to go from mediocre to great?

I'm surprised that the essay is so general in nature when there's a wealth of specific (and maybe more valuable) cases that could have been shared even after respecting privacy of individuals involved, etc.
Somewhat. Disable it for really long time and then delete I guess.

https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
Looks very nice. There seems to be an issue with international characters though (æ/ø/å).
I do not see the flaw. The statement in quotes, while a simplification, is correct if a private company is making the decision. If a government is making the decision (typical with roads, not with broadband), there are a ton of other factors, although in an ideal world they would also try to do a similar NPV calculation. In any case, the government doesn't own broadband.
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> This networking effect of having developer hanging around the business people and sales is also the added value of those developers.

At my last on-site position (now I'm contracting remotely) the dev team was originally going to be in another city (London) from the rest of the company (minor EU capital), however because of this reason it was decided we should all be together. I rarely saw the advantages of this, or felt value from being around the business folks. Most decisions were made in hallway chats and we were kept out of the loop, except when something 'super urgent' needed to be changed and a PM walked over and grabbed someone. Disadvantages were apparent, as it was a lot harder to find decent Rails developers compared to London.
I fail to see your point. What does speaking one language among many have to do with anything?
You know, sometimes I think that the people who play the startup game to strike it rich (a minority, but they do exist) have got it all backwards.
I think everyone can agree that what you are paid to work should be near the value your work provides to whomever is paying you.

Therefore people are underpaid if they provide a lot of value and receive a lot less in return and vice versa.

Therefore are lawyers who create bad patents and then sue people over them, thus destroying value and producing none themselves overpaid? Yes

Is a fast food worker working for minimum wage for a company that makes billions of dollars in profits underpaid? Yes.

Unfortunately supply and demand determine our salaries and not strictly the value our labor produces.
Got a client said ,their oracle form only work on win xp internet explorer 7. Thanks god for them . But to me it was disaster because to suggest web application compliance to internet explorer 7 :(
Anybody knew about their activation for windows xp after april 2014. i still got laptop using windows xp.. 2008 laptop.
Swedish SEO company has 6 hour workday, full pay and expanding
This is known in the dynamical systems literature as strong anticipation:

http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/7493/2/Dynamical_mech...

http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1521.pdf
That's a pretty nice idea. I like exploring new places when I can (I usually work from a village in the middle of nowhere), so try to find a new place each day.

The only issue is getting coffee, settling in, then finding the wifi doesn't work >_<
Could you tell us what RAID controllers actually does this? Because I've never seen one do checksumming at all.

Anyone that is actually available for "normal" people (which is relevant for the discussion of the article), i.e. not enterprise SAN?
Building Android apps is way quicker
I last heard his name when a good friend recommended "Hell is the Absence of God" to me.

I later tried to recommend it to my mother, but found myself incapable of doing so.
> The food that gets produced is basically poison anyway

That's nice hyperbole but there are literally millions subsisting on those artificially cheap, subsidized corn syrup calories.

Not having sufficient carbohydrate intake without resorting to stealing is certainly worse for them, can't you agree?
> [...] kinda `compatible' [...]

Probably used `metric inches', like in the Soviet Union? (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_inch)
I've used Skype and Google hangouts before and haven't had issues (although I've been just screen sharing, not screen + video). If you have audio problems, you should get a headset. Even cheap ones are better than most laptop microphone / speaker setups.
Thanks for letting us know. We've tested on some versions of Firefox, but not v26 on Mavericks. We'll look into this
Only 15 months, as you can do something that valuable in 15 months. Maybe this guy is a genius with a deep expertise in something precious or maybe he doesn't really have taken any risks by himself since the beginning (cf: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/henrique-de-castro). Impressive CV though.
I like Sam's blog posts. They are short and punchy. Always leaving me charged with energy. Good stuff. Keep it up Sam!

"They have a whatever-it-takes attitude." - This is such a powerful trait that it puts the "big dreamers" to shame and separates the Wannapreneurs from Entrepreneurs. Anyone is capable of dreaming, talking big, generate ideas et al.. but few are capable of executing them by doing whatever it takes to turn that dream into reality. Ha, it reminds me of the "never give up frog poster".
"We use equity grants to align the interests of employees and shareholders; without such compensation, they wouldn't take the risks they do."

Wait, what?
If it's OSS, then users are empowered to modify the code for their own purposes in ways that degrade or deny service to others.

Code could be released for inspection, but you can't be allowed to actually run modified code on real radios outside of RF-isolated testing facilities.
Nope. This is my knowledge and my words. You can have any number of "metaphor" you want, but direct, literally, word by word, meaning of legislature trumps all metaphors.

Information - the password, is in his head.
Wow... night and day compared with Safari. Can't for the life of me find details about the different approaches via search. Any links to why the browsers differ?
"finally"

This has been going on for a while now. It's nothing new.
2014 : What Scientific Idea Is Ready For Retirement?
extremely rude of them to sit at a McDonald's. Hypocrites. They would probably not like it if I went into their house and sat in it forever. Yet, they'll gladly go to a McDonald's and sit in it after buying a coffee.
And if you ask a Six Sigma drone, even here in Murka, "quality" means little variation from piece to piece.

"Quality" is one of those things like "value" that doesn't refer to a specific thing, but must always be reckoned against human desires. Like, gold doesn't have "intrinsic value". It has value to us because it's rare and shiny, and humans like shiny things. And it's the same thing with quality: things are quality because people like them and consider them useful, reliable, pretty, or whatever. So this article boils down to a bunch of broad cultural stereotypes (Koreans like new things, Japanese like refined things, etc.) without much meaning.
Calling the posters propaganda would be true before 2001, but today I would not call it that. They simply represent a simplification of how an NK conflict with the U.S. army would look like.

For example, U.S. Soldiers don't use pliers for torture. They chain civilians to prison ceilings instead and beat them to death. Alternative they use simulated executions, rape, or sodomized civilians like in Abu Ghraib.

The posters about U.S. soldier executing Korean civilians is also a bit off. Using guns to terrorize a population is slow and ineffective, as a 24/7 aerial presence that can at any point send a explosive missile (like onto a wedding) will have better effected on the population.

Not that it takes anything away from the message the documentary gives. Seeing how bad NK has become is important, as most people seem to think that all that horribleness went away after ww2/cold world.
What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago
You're not blocked for not being in the UK, you are blocked for being in the US. And the UK is blocked too (well, it depends on which BBC channel you are talking about).
Outgoing personality. It pays ;)
And how much would you pay to cleaners employed by Google then? If programmers "deserve" 500k, then maybe 200k per head for the cleaning staff?
He is really good at negotiating offer letter.
And one on this very comment.
Well, no. I have some fb profile (with photo) in my phone contacts of people that it's not in my friend list, but (probably) it's in my "friends of friends" list. So probably the latter is enough.
I also didn't know everyone in japan would think that perfection = quality.

Me neither. Japanese aesthetics has a distinct place for rough, imperfect items which are referred to with terms like shibui and wabi-sabi. Such items have flaws, often deliberately introduced, which give them "character" so may in some circumstances be preferred over the "perfect" item.
Fixed Point Arithmetic and Tricks (2007)
“For these machines (Cray-1 or X-MP) you couldn’t really go into a store
and buy an application, like you do for a PC these days. Now, you just
‘install’ Word and it runs. For these machines, everything came in
source-code format and you needed to compile it before you could run
it. You use the … compiler to turn it into machine code the machine
could understand,” Tantos said. “That was the main way you interacted with
these machines. Without the compiler, you can’t feed it that.”

And at last, we have located Gentoo's antecedent!
If you're taking the time to dig through my posts and/or remember them then I assume you stick around as a more active member of this community and create a fake account to vent. So I'll reply for you and for others who may think like you.

I LOVE building things and creating things that add value. That's it! The world can be a very very lonely place for someone like me and many others here. I try to find the handful of people who do that in my real-world community, because only a handful of my 1500+ peers do what we do here. Three of us are so desperate, we are actually teaching hacking culture and development skills to 190 non-tech classmates, just so we can have a common language with them.

That is why I come to HN. To find other doers and share work and get feedback and grow and help others who are facing the same issues. (I am away from the Silicon Valley for 5 more months, but it feels like an eternity of living on another planet) I'd much rather talk about projects than gossip or news and I miss this type of community in real life so much that I've built a full-blown site that allows people like me to team up, and do things for each-other, and discuss projects tackling cool stuff, regardless of who we know or where we are located. It's working and I keep building it without 1 cent of compensation from anyone, because it has to exist. I am also building a people search tool, mobile apps, wearable apps, and a drone, and mentoring a bunch of other entrepreneurs in the making (who found me because they saw my projects). I vote with my time and I am what I do. Thousands of others are here doing the same.

If we see a problem we tackle it. The AMA was done to help. As you can see I haven't posted any of my projects for scrutiny on HN yet because I'm busting my ass to make them good enough to be worth your time.

I'd rather do constructive stuff, than spend it in a flame war, so please do all of the things you accuse me of doing - post your web site, relate this stuff to you, show how hard you work, show what got you fired up to do what you are doing, and what you've learned, and let's talk about that instead.
He's making the implicit assumption that two corporate forms (you know unions are corporations, right?) are equivalent. A for-profit corporation has a collective mandate to make a profit for shareholders and a union has a mandate to make a profit for union members.

More precisely, he's asking what moral/political philosophy principle he can use to distinguish between corporations selling labor and corporations buying labor. Zedshaw suggested "the law says X" as the underlying principle which is a bit unsatisfying.

(It's unsatisfying because it implies that, e.g., Rosa Parks and similar individuals were in the wrong when they broke the law.)
EU privacy laws explicitly forbids exposing photos (linked to personally identifiable information) without explicit consent, especially for people of minor age (the specific country laws may change a little, but the general sense is clear).
So that's a million dollars every week.

I have a really difficult time imagining that this person was overall profitable to the company.
Workers are still exceptionally cheap. I'd sooner expect to see it used to bring a worker from Bangladesh to a factory in Germany. It would multiplex the opposite direction: many "cheap" workers rotating to keep a single robot working 24/7 in an "expensive" country.
Firstly, I must say that I'm talking about consumer available RAID systems here, since that's what the article discusses.

>> "And that is because the designers assumed that the disk would be fine or just fail, and not be in some state in-between."

> Interesting, if you make that assumption you will get burned.

Probably why the designers of RAID have moved on to other storage systems. Yet, RAID is currently the only viable option for consumers to try to get "reliable" storage. Which is why the article was written.

> The whole point of RAID for data reliability is to catch these things. (RAID for performance is difference and people tolerate errors in exchange for faster performance).

No, RAID is for withstanding disk failures, where the disk fails in a predicted manner. This is a common misunderstanding. Nothing in the RAID specifications say that they should detect silent bit flipping. If you find a system that does this, it goes beyond the RAID specification (which is good). But you seem to be under the impression that most systems do that, but that is not true. Most RAID systems that consumers can get their hands on won't detect a single bit flip. The author demonstrated it on software raid. I am fairly certain that the same thing will happen if you try it on a hardware RAID controller from any of LSI, 3ware, Areca, Promise etc.

For instance Google has multiple layers of checksumming to guard themselves from bitrot, at filesystem and application level. If RAID did protect against it, why don't they trust it?
And if we raise taxes, all our expert offer negotiators will move to another country, ruining our C-level-bonus economy! :(
Apparently English proficiency is a prerequisite for cafe squatting.
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I think asm.js is the greatest runtime design that I have seen over past 20 years. It gets the job done cheaply. That is the ultimate goal for any runtime system. It is not designed for human to write asm.js code manually.

On the other hand, most programming languages are full of hacks. Even simple language like C has all kinds of weird behaviors on different platforms. Someone would need at least 1-2 real world experience before he can become a professional C developer in minimum way. asm.js was developed way faster than any other systems that I can remember.
I think this thread is a manifestation of the broader trap that we are in as a culture, in that we cannot seem to break out of the dialectic-materialist mode of argument, even though its not the only way we can form a consensus..
That's been a view of some Wikipedians as well. The Wikipedia Zero program is generally popular, but has still caused some worry. One reason is that Wikipedia is not supposed to be only the website, but a free-as-in-freedom encyclopedia project that can be improved, reused, remixed, adapted, etc. Sort of how OpenStreetMap is not just the Mapnik renderer on openstreetmap.org, but the map data that can be applied to many uses. But when you introduce a data-price differential between the "canonical" and third-party hosts, it strengthens the centralizing tendencies that Wikipedia=wikipedia.org or OSM=osm.org, entrenching them as the correct way to access the data, and discouraging innovation in third-party uses of the data.
> Can't they just let it die?

Why?

If it aint broke don't fix it. What new features do the newer versions of windows provide that makes it worth spending money, and worse time to upgrade?

I don't use it myself but I know a TON of people on XP and the computer works fine, they use openoffice, a browser, and a few games.

Computers used to get faster all the time, that's not true anymore. They are now appliances - you use them till the break, instead of upgrading all the time.
> Web scraping. It's something we all love to hate. You wish the data you needed to power your app, model or visualization was available via API. But, most of the time it's not. So, you decide to build a web scraper. You write a ton of code, employ a laundry list of libraries and techniques, all for something that's by definition unstable, has to be hosted somewhere, and needs to be maintained over time.

I disagree. Web scraping is mostly fun. You don't need "a ton of code" and "a laundry list of libraries", just something like Beautiful Soup and maybe XSLT.

The end of the statement is truer: it's not really a problem that your web scraper will have to be hosted somewhere, since the thing you're using it for also has to be hosted somewhere, but yes, it needs to be maintained and it will break if the source changes.

But I don't see how this solution could ever be able to automatically evolve with the source, without the original developer doing anything?
That's a very inspiring story. Kudos to you.
I'm a little naive about these things. HNews, how is this possible and why would a company accept such terms?

Also, are good executives really worth the money, or is this something that's just become accepted practice and companies have no recourse but to follow along? I know a lot of high-performance people, but I've never known anyone I'd give $60M for 15 months of work.
Several earlier answers (e.g. pron's) _do_ refer to the legal structure as to why unions can exist, without citing the specific act.

It's totally fair that they also (i) discuss why the law may have to come to be and (ii) how they think/feel about it.
Pravda? I don't think so. Could you please point to proof that there are areas where teachers get $1000/day compensation?
They should have s/re-shaping/disrupting/g if/when the referrer is HN.
Unions do create market power. At most companies, not showing up to work is a firing offense. Once a union forms, it is illegal to fire workers who don't show up (that's what a strike is). Similarly, hiring a bunch of non-union workers at cheaper wages is also illegal in many states.

Once a union forms, you are legally forbidden from taking your business elsewhere.

That's a far stronger form of market power than what is alleged in this case - Apple and Google colluding certainly did not prevent Oracle or Salesforce from poaching their employees.

And the anti-collusion agreement only applied to employees working on collaborative projects anyway - i.e., Apple can't poach the Google guy working with Apple on iPhone/Gmail compatibility after they decide they like him. It never prevented Apple from grabbing someone working on Android internals.
Say goodbye to our football pyramid.
We can also raise exodus tax. :P
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Yes, thanks for spotting. We'd discovered that Chinese, Japanese and Korean failed but didn't know about these characters. Thanks!
LOL: Iran’s Fars News: US is run by ‘secret alien regime’
> They didn't say they wouldn't hire each other's employees, just they wouldn't actively recruit top talent from each other.

You've just described collusion. They colluded to prevent the wages of their top talent from being boosted by the normal process of competition in the labor market. Sure it's not like they stole money directly out of their star employees' pockets, but in the end the effect was the same.
> It's great that someone is finally disrupting the squatting market.

It's good that there's a more legit way that empty properties can provide homes for people. The fact these properties are no longer providing homes for other people is not the best thing about this.
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No. The client and the server are such different environments. In the server you want 10s of 1,000s of processes, with long lifes (years, months) and hot code loading and supervision/restart. None of this is needed/available in the browser.

So the key goal is low-impedance - the developer has a mental model where this is say a server-side process and the business rule is 'send the user a message' so they write code like:

call_user("gordon@vixo.com", modal, {"Did you brush your teeth?", {"yes", "no"}})

and the 'modal' process in my browser gets some message like:

{msg, {"Did you brush your teeth?", {"yes", "no"})

It pops a yes/no dialog box and send "yes" back to the calling process on the server.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith
Finds a cheap person who starts working the next day, on twitter. Cheap, fast, good, pick two. No surprise at all.

OP sounds like the kind of client who wants a pixel perfect template and then tells you to "make it responsive" after you deliver it...
I presume they're on display to give the appearance of easy availability of a wide range of products (the store is apparently featured on TV programs), but not for sale because there is in fact no availability due to trade restrictions.
How do you determine who is the "little guy"?

Is there some arbitrary pre-specified list/heirarchy of little guys that must be taken as a first principle, or is there an underlying principle determining who is the little guy?
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Many Googlers called this even as he was offered the job.