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I don't think it'll work that way.

Iraqi gov't publishes list of Al Qaeda members beforehand, the bounty hunters work from that list.
Your right, I remember that discussion: I actually use pier solution, with the shellscript (I assigned them to Ctrl-A + Number)

I agree that it does not work 'out of the box', but once setup, it works quite nice :)
Arizona passes law aimed at refusing service to people who are gay
Didn't even read the OP. And this first comment sums up what I was already thinking. No need to even read further down. Next.
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You don't think Al Qaeda are rich well equipped militants?
Yeah Russia is one with the third-world attitude.

Maybe we should fix our broken country first.
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It is reliable! Growing pains happen. Downtime happens. Expecting five nines from a little startup, even when it's out of beta, is silly!

I've built three companies now and it is really hard! Balancing up-time, product development, customer support, and bug fixing is difficult. I'm sure interfacing with legacy banking systems made it even worse. If it were down all the time (the way Reddit was during their major growth phase) then I would agree, that is an issue. But they are not and were not - insignificant downtime is not something to criticize, there are other more constructive things to criticize about the product which is consistently evolving anyway.

It upsets me to see people on HN get up on their soapbox and say demoralizing things about trivial issues (that are part of the life of a growing product) of little startups that are doing well, continuously improving, and doing their best.
Am I really the only one who things that she is annoying and fake? I literally threw up when I tried to watch her playing Manic Pixie Dream Girl-role.

Ruby and Snow Leopard? Really? This book will be completely useless in 5 years when technologies change. She should have wrote about basic CS principles instead. But I guess most of the women just cannot think logically. And that's probably why there are so few women in tech...
Fascinating exercise. "Deleting one character" seems a phenomenally unlikely outcome of radiation, though.
So it's Twitter+Dropbox? Still not seeing what's so interesting or different.
Hmm -- if a process bumps its `currentEpoch` for every proposal, and the delays are randomized, it looks like this would fail only probabilistically and may eventually succeed. I'll have to take a closer look later today...
No, it won't affect him. But his family will be reading these later and it will affect them.
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

The government therefore offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising persons began to breed cobras for the income.

Though framing innocent people isn't quite the same as raising them to become "jihadists" and then turning them in.
He seems more into politics than anything else these days.
Hard mode: flip bits in the interpreter's process memory as it's running.
WhatsApp is not really free but supposedly cost $1/year from the second year. Yes they are doing free renewals for now and i am guessing it will not be long they begin to charge again.

They have 400 million active users now and will be around billion users by next year. If they charge the usual $1/yr in the emerging markets and say $5/yr in the developed markets that will get them around $3 billion revenue. Also they have almost 90% gross margins as from what i read its a tight operation with just 50 people and 600 servers.

So with a $2.7 billion EBITDA by 2016 the $19 billion dollar valuation is just 7x multiple and very reasonable. This is not even considering the strategic value of WhatsApp to Facebook!.
You mean like this?

> One can even argue he stole his original idea from the Winklevosses
Installed it today for the first time (just switched from Windows to Ubuntu) and I love it already!

http://askubuntu.com/questions/423529/how-to-efficiently-swi...
Why did you create a profile? If you don't want to connect with your professional network, if you don't care who looked at your profile (and are even spooked about it), if you (likely) don't use it to find people... What do you think is the purpose of having a LinkedIn account?
I have worked 60+ hour weeks for significant periods of time and in various roles, including as CTO of a dot-com startup and as a trader at Morgan Stanley.

I differentiate between working long hours for yourself (e.g. as a business owner or startup founder) versus for someone else (i.e. as an employee). My observations here are generally about situations where you're working for someone else (although some have general relevance). For business owners and founders, motivations and rewards are very different, and I think that, for them, the decision to work long hours or not is a far more subjective and personal one.

I don't think there's anything intrinsically bad about working long hours, as long as it is the exception (and for relatively short periods of time), rather than the rule. For example, if you're working for a startup and you've got a big product launch coming up, it makes absolute sense to put in extra effort in the run-up to the deadline to add new functionality, eradicate bugs, etc. However, if you are expected to put in 60-hour weeks as a matter of course, that's not good. Work-Life balance is important (and gets more important as you get older).

If you are expected to put in 60-hour weeks as a matter of course and your boss doesn't, I would advise you to quit that job as quickly as it is feasible to do so.

Working long hours wears you down, especially in roles where high concentration is required. I used to work 12-hour days as a trader and, come the weekend, I'd be so exhausted that I'd usually sleep in on Saturday and Sunday until the early afternoon. That's not a good lifestyle.

I also believe that working long hours has a negative impact on creativity and the ability to make intuitive leaps. In my experience, taking a break and stepping back from a difficult problem can often yield a solution. If your work hours do not allow your brain enough downtime from work to disengage from your work problems and engage other things (beyond simply resting), your productivity is likely to take a significant hit, in my opinion.

Finally, there's the impact on your mood. If you're not actually enjoying working long hours, it's likely to make you impatient and irritable, and that will have a knock-on effect on the atmosphere at work.

Certain types of companies (law firms and investment banks, for example) seem to rely heavily on getting more junior people to work long hours. They're able to do that because the rewards that come with climbing the corporate ladder are significant - partners and managing directors get paid a lot of money and, in order to have a chance of getting promoted to that level, you have to serve your time and put in long hours. For many young (and, some might say, foolish) people, the long-term carrot (Ferrari-level income) outweighs the downside of having practically no life during one's 20s. Because of that, I think their decision is closer in nature to a business owner's or startup founder's than a pure employee's.

Bottom line (and TL;DR): It's up to each individual to make their own decision based on their motivations and personal circumstances.
That's the best kind of bankrupt.
Ha, yes, yes I mean Android. I'd heard there was another mobile OS out there, but haven't ever used it.

So I wonder if there's a measurable difference in the Linkedin graphs of iOS and Android users as a result of this? I guess only Linkedin knows...
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But PG wasn't an established authority back when PG was writing fast. I remember reading PG in 2006, and you'd read lots of snarks on the tech forums of the time (Slashdot, Digg): who is this guy, and why should we listen to this bored washed up multi-millionaire who sold his startup to Yahoo? He hasn't done anything of note in the past 10 years! (They said the same thing about Philip Greenspun too, who was also writing at a faster clip back then).

Look, at the end of the day, "established authority" is only loosely correlated with worthwhile meaning. At some point you're going to have to move past the author and evaluate the words on the page on their own merit.
They will publish a list of people the Iraqi government says are Jihadists.

Last I checked the Iraqi government wasn't scoring well on government corruption metrics.
Right. For the same reason, the Paxos protocol allows multiple prepare votes from each acceptor. It makes this safe by requiring that each acceptor tell the proposer of the value for the highest ballot number it has accepted, and requires the proposer to switch proposal values when receiving such a message. This is, at first glance, one of the strange edges of the Paxos (synod) protocol, but it makes a lot of sense once you see an example where it is needed.

Raft has somewhat similar constructs, but explained slightly differently.
"Since real money is involved and salaries and careers are riding on this number going up, they'll employ all kinds of perverse and intrusive tricks in order to inflate that number every quarter for as long as it is a measure of success."

Isn't this also true for most startups?
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It's not important whether they report ghost users as real because they serve their own purpose - to trick people into spamming contacts and trick contacts into signing up, at which point they are counted. Growth is not always good.
> It is also reasonable for a single user rich client. Because of issues like needing sticky sessions I don't think it is good at all for simpler content sites.

I don't think it is meant at all for simple content sites. The whole point is live-refreshing between server and other clients and that whole trick where you do something on device A and it automagically updates the view on device B as well.

Content sites need none of that. But it brings a smile every time I see an "app" site do that. Even though I know exactly how it works and I've done that stuff by hand from scratch. I just can't get over the "Wow, this is magic" feeling :)
With 1.3 Million users, Tariq Krim ditches the JoliOS and announces Jolicloud 2
Next WhatsApp – Here are Boston Co.'s with growing global users bases
I thought the article and the whole blog to be a rather fun and cheeky counter-point to the argument that space exploration is too expensive.

As a total of US budget, NASA's expenses represented less than one half of one percent in 2012.

We've spent more money on things other than space exploration that, depending on who you ask, has far less social value.
I think Bill Murray deserved an oscar for "Big Ern" in Kingpin. Maybe it was the timing of when I saw it, but some of the improv pieces he did with Harrelson cut deeper and redefined where comedy could go. The Wes Anderson stuff that followed helps to sell Kingpin as a coming attraction for Murray's best years (so far) Ymmv
Yeah. Like the family of a programmer reads HN.
Flagged. This is almost a hit piece.

One can even argue he stole his original idea from the Winklevosses.

I can believe that someone would say something that stupid, but not under his real name.

We're done here.
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This article is terrible.

> Amazon has stayed ahead by creating the Kindle, in-house.

Is he suggesting that the only way to be innovative is through hardware? Facebook has gone through many changes over the years, adding the wall, adding photo sharing, and a host of other things. To say

> Facebook innovation is centered on changing privacy and advertising policies

is just plain wrong. Also

> One can even argue he stole his original idea from the Winklevosses.

sounds like he watched The social network to many times.
Making a butterfly shader
VB was clearly influenced by Hypercard. Likewise HTML. In many ways (including performance) VB was a huge regression from Hypercard (I was working on a multimedia project in VB3 in 1994 and a 25MHz 68040 running HyperCard simply blew away a 486DX66 with more of everything running VB3).

HyperCard was probably one of the most influential pieces of software ever written. It still has one direct clone ("Livecode") being sold commercially, and I believe Director (whose programming language started as an inferior clone of HyperTalk) is still being sold by Adobe.

It was also an incredibly stable programming environment. Back in an era when computers in general were as flaky as hell, you could work on it all day and experience nary a crash (and since it saved everything by default you tended not to lose anything even when it did crash).
In the real world, flat-out no. Maybe 1B, just maybe.
Yeah, and that's a big problem.

If I'm motivated to move away from existing social networks for any reason, it's because they are centralized...

The fact that app.net is/was pay-to-play doesn't eliminate the issues of free-to-play at all: it still has the same issues (and moreover: less virality) but now I'm paying for them.
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What a load of bull.

Let me tell you a story about John Sculley. Former CEO of Apple ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sculley )

I met John 4 times. He contributed to a charity that I was working with. I didn't think there was any chance he would remember me. Years went by, then I got a linkedin invite from John wanting to connect.

John Sculley wants to connect with me? Really? This can't be real. I'm "famous" but I'm not that "famous" and I barely met John, no way, has to be fake. So I report it to LinkedIn. A second friend gets a similar invite, and she has never met John, but was a contractor for Apple, and at Pepsi when John was. I have her report it to Linkedin as well.

Linkedin rushes around, calls John, doesn't get anything but a generic voicemail. 72 hours later they remove the account. 4 days later John's wife gets back from a trip, and checks his email and sees that linkedin has removed his account.

Ooops. I have caused a legit person to have their account removed.

I'm not saying LinkedIn users are all "real" but they do seem to go out of their way to have what is described in this article not happen.

- http://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonwirtz
To be fair, Sass did have it about 3 years before LESS
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So establishing another group is not a problem?
Cops can search mobile phones—only if they’re not password-protected
Do you think the world has changed such that a modern HyperCard is just not something people would use? Or has the massive influx of "there's an app for that" papered-over the hole in the market?
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The other ones are even harder to find, I suppose.
I enjoy articles like these because I have a certain inborn hatred of social media and social networks, and I get schadenfreude from seeing them fail.

That said, I'd like to believe it - that Facebook and Twitter are happenstance lucky breaks, and not worth all that - but things are worth what we say they're worth, and you could have made the same arguments about Gates and Jobs twenty years ago.

I'll wait to proclaim Facebook's imminent demise until there's actually some "next big thing" out there.
We got this idea as a silly joke, but some of you might actually find it useful! Technically, it might make design workflows easier by allowing you to browse your history with something like Github.app.
Perlman is going to learn that he hasn't actually created anything new and the telecom industry will prefer to use the standards that are implementing similar solutions.
Sure... But then I also like some brazilian brands that are like Hersheys (also made here those days I guess)
Tinder Flaw Leaked Your Location
Really? I've heard it should be pretty easy, and that unless you're planning to fly often, renting is by far the best way to go (aside from just taking the airlines). Then again, my sources might not be all that knowledgable!
This is a neat trick, in that it defines Bitcoin's security model such that all of the successful attacks are out of scope. Meanwhile, the central actors Bitcoin doesn't have who received the trust that Bitcoin doesn't require ran into a smidgen of trouble running the bank that Bitcoin makes obsolete and now their depositors that Bitcoin doesn't acknowledge are praying that the government that Bitcoin undermines will hit them with the legal process that Bitcoin structurally avoids.
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Looks like somebody doesn't like his boy's club getting disrupted.
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I do not really get your point, care to elaborate? Unless you mean that 'div' is subject to change over time…
You are correct. One of our devs built a prototype using a 3rd party WebGL framework quickly (few days), but for the real deal, we started over and went straight to WebGL ourselves (so we could better optimize for large models, etc). The prototype that was built just couldn't handle models of any meaningful size, so we definitely needed to own everything about the code so we could optimize for our needs.

We are in the BIM space and have one of the few web based viewers for such models. Some other products require a plugin to render 3D, but we really wanted to reduce friction to use our product, so we decided to go with WebGL. It's now supported in all 3 major browsers too.
Yeah, except twitter doesn't like 3rd party clients, and Dropbox doesn't know about your twitter network.
This is where the NSA overreaches: collecting data on innocent Americans either incidentally or deliberately, and data on foreign citizens indiscriminately.

Put aside the question of data on U.S. citizens: I don't understand how in an era of burner phones and widespread encryption any intelligence agency can do without some bulk foreign surveillance. Say HUMINT gets its hands on a foreign bad guy's contact list. Odds are the most relevant information you'd be able to extract is in the past, especially if the target knows you captured his list.

Is it really an "overreach" if the NSA can acquire the mobile phone records of Yemen "indiscriminately" and use the data to build social graphs for current and future (currently unknown) targets of interest?

EDIT: I don't mean to cast Schneier's argument uncharitably. He may very well make a distinction between "acceptable" and "overreaching" bulk surveillance, but if so he doesn't seem to outline it in this piece.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion on her being annoying and fake, but your last statements are just un-called for. Women cannot think logically? Obviously she though logically enough to create an idea that struck a chord with enough people to raise over 250K? Hacker News shouldn't be the place for such blatant misogyny.
My issue with LinkedIn is philosophical as well as practical: it's fucking dangerous.

In the career game, most of us have to be spies-- careful and immensely tactical with information-- in order to have success. A lucky few are so good at what they can do that they can shoot their mouth off (like I do) and tell the truth, for the good of the world. But most people will need to reinvent their histories at least once, and LinkedIn makes it harder to do that.

The upside: participation in a rather boring social network.

The downside: you can never reinvent yourself, because you've put too much information out there and people can find out that you actually were only a Director, not a VP, at that job in 2007, or that you spent 4 months at a shitty startup you've since taken off your resume.

But now it's almost socially unacceptable not to have a profile and actively play the game (so as to get double-digit endorsement counts in your specialties).

To me, LinkedIn seems to be a way for those in the slave class to polish their own chains.
Software Engineer at SpaceX here. Exits like WhatsApp not only cost more than space exploration, but also make recruiting much more difficult for many companies.

Our best engineers are very entrepreneurial. They don't hesitate to tackle massive challenges, often without even being asked. When a large exit occurs, it's an unfortunate siren call: "you could be making billions, writing way less complicated code."

Why am I taking a salary somewhere when some guy just made billions in four years? Did he have to worry about loss of human life if his code failed?

I make my own internal siren shut up by being a complete space geek, but rockets are not always as intriguing to prime candidates in the recruiting pipeline.

It's time for a reality check.

How many people actually exit with this level of success? Why is enabling our species to be interplanetary often a harder sell than the prospect of trading years of your life for a small chance that you might exit with a few billion dollars?

Greed. It's terrifying how much it prevails in our startup culture.

The size of one's exit is far less important than the impact of one's technology on the world.

Hack things that make the world better (or other worlds). If riches come as a result, great, but our startup culture's emphasis on valuation over innovation is, in my opinion, our achilles' heel.

(My views are completely personal opinions and do not reflect the views of the company. I love our startup culture and am proud to be a part of it, but I'm convinced that when I look back I will clearly view the code I've written here to be way more important for humanity's progress than the code I've written for entrepreneurs' selfish attempts at billion dollar exits)
i highly recommend transparency about 85-90% on conemu if you use black/dark backgrounds. it really seems to save me some alt-tabs especially when following instructions.
Something that resonates in the article for me is that I don't understand the utility of Facebook's big acquisitions. You see Google and Apple make acquisitions for talent and technology to build out products they want to launch and/or improve that ultimately drive their core business.

What does WhatsApp provide Facebook? People are talking about the value of the user base. How is the user base more valuable to Facebook than it would be to Wal-Mart? Is Facebook going to merge WhatsApp accounts into FB accounts and the WhatsApp platform into Facebook Messenger? Ditto for Instagram. I'm not sure what advantage that provided to Facebook. As far as I can tell it's an entirely separate products and platform and user base.

If anyone has insight on this, please enlighten me!
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It's possible to coherently argue against multiple types of spending.

Given the vagaries of Congress, arguing against any spending you don't like is probably even a more sensible strategy than arguing first against the ones you like the least.
I can't read this code at all, but, does this code basically contain the same code twice, so if something from the first half is removed the second half saves it?
Check the "retry" part, basically when there is a split-brain during an election, a new process will try again and eventually will succeed. This is copied from Raft.

It works because when some instance retries, it increments again the currentEpoch, so ti is a new voting process from the point of view of the voters.

Btw it is not needed that to retry is the instance that did it the previous time, because even if the voting failed, the currentEpoch of the process that tried to get elected, will be propagated across the system, so every process will get the new epoch, and can try with an updated epoch to get voted.
Keep in mind that this ain't your daddy's Qt. QML is the new thing and it has a slight learning curve. (And the documentation is unfortunately lacking in some parts, like C++ integration.)