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Go without your phone to help give clean water to children in need.
Steve Jobs would say the iPhone
The "premium" segment is growing in the global markets.
Delete.im: the forgetful messaging service
Maybe. I'm not convinced that when things are going well we should try to make things go badly just to "feel the downswing too." I think it more has to do with the fact that life can have ups and downs, they aren't easily predictable, and one shouldn't be afraid to face them both in stride.
> Yes, but if you continue reading the start of the very next paragraph addresses this. "The trial was far too small to be conclusive ..."

Yes, and it's somewhat discouraging to see how rarely these appropriate caveats never get into either the headlines or the mind of the public.

>“It’s a proof of concept,” Dr. Doblin said. >“It shows that this kind of trial can be done safely, and >that it’s very much worth doing.”

That exactly what has not been demonstrated. A 20% change is not statistically significant in a test group of this size even if there had been a control group, and the placebo effect has not been controlled for. That's why I posted as I did -- it's junk science.

Again, LSD might be a breakthrough in therapy, unfortunately this study doesn't contribute to our scientific understanding.
I think he is referring to Apple and Google. Eric Schmidt sat on Apple's board at the time the iPhone was in development. There was an impression (with Apple) that the two companies were friendly, and that Google would not compete against Apple on devices. Then Android happened, and then this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-google-g...
Understanding AWS Network Performance With Iperf On High IO Instance i2.8xlarge
There is no such thing as an open source CDN; there is a free CDN called Coral Cache (http://www.coralcdn.org/). CDNs cost money because you're dragging content from an origin to edge locations all across the world, and keeping it hot for client requests.

You could simply serve the content out of nginx, but you wouldn't see the performance benefits of keeping your content closest to the end user.
The article said 4-8 weeks approval time, that has definitely improved (unless Eddy Cue is blocking approval of your ebook app or something)
Have somebody spend a day or two looking for low-hanging performance fruit. Start with your JSON library, there are some slow ones out there. Also see if you might be unnecessarily de/serializing data structures multiple times in a single thread or process, I've seen that kind of thing creep up over time in reasonably modular codebases.
Painless connections. Sttack.  (Startup Bus)
While by no means insignificant, this bill is no where near what I'd imagine would warrant a HN post. I wouldn't be surprised if most startups beat this regularly.

The startup whose backend I co-created racks up an AWS bill that hovers around a half million dollars a month. We make use of all of the ways to save with Amazon: pre-paid reserved instances, negotiated deals, etc. And we're not even that big; imagine what Netflix's AWS bill must cost?

We've tried other providers, toyed with co-locating, but at the end of the day the flexibility and cost benefit of IaaS outweighed the lower base price of CPU cycles when you roll it yourself.
I would have thought having an extra $10 million in the local economy (from the wedding) would be a good thing. Isn't that the whole concept of a trickle down economy?
I mistakenly read it as Google being pissed because pg funded a competitor to Google. Should probably just delete my comment.
Here is a partial log, every /24 that had more than 10k hits in the last 24 hours: https://gist.github.com/evanphx/9361755
I agree with this more or less. I make about twice what my least employee makes, and about 1.5 times what my highest paid employee makes. Since I work for the government though, everyone knows everyone else's salary is, and if they don't it's just an IPRA request away (inspection of public records act.) In fact the local paper publishes the names and salaries of all the employees of all the local government entities every year online, and the top 20 (of which I'm one) in the print edition.

However, there are always some people (usually on the lower end of the pay scale, but not always) for whom pay, and specifically comparing pay, is an unremitting source of conflict. So, in a non-governmental setting, without easy access to other's pay information, the leak of salary information can move that conflict from general abstract anger, and give it a specific focus, which can exacerbate problems.
Not sure if you got that this new icon set actually changes the image to be more legible at different sizes by showing different amounts of detail. The big microphone has more dots on it than the little one.
Tone down the superior attitude. Sources benefit everyone.
Python: Why is truth() faster than bool()?
Is that true even if you only spend some of coins and not all the coins? I seem to remember there being something very tricky about this if you are using a paper wallet.
There were board connections but primarily Apple partnered closely with Google starting with the iphone because Maps and Search were great services that Apple wanted to build right into the core of the device and really the whiz bangness of the iphone intro to me was when Steve searched for a shop, brought it up on maps, touched the number and the companies phone was ringing.

When Eric got onstage at the iphone keynote [1] and joked about Apple and Google being such great partners that they should merge, it got an honest laugh at the time but watching the same moment in retrospect is absolutely jarring.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9h...

Here's Steve, who had some experience losing a big market to a close partner, demonstrating the betrayal he felt from Google:

We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake teams at Google want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. "Don't be evil is a load of crap"

Now Apple is in the Maps business today and is slowly entering corners of the Search business as well but imo they didn't want to be and they aren't particularly good at it and know it. But the battle lines that were drawn in 2009 made it clear they had to abandon any ideas of partnering with Google for longer than they absolutely needed to.
I find the language "how to mitigate the attack" completely offensive.

How about "how to verify a certificate?" Or better "how to write C code"

This is a scandal. Stop.
School is not everything.
Maybe, but I doubt it. First off we know exactly four things for sure:

1. It's a 30 person shop

2. Author makes 3x the juniors

3. The juniors don't think author is worth 3x them

4. the HR person was a bad hire

Dollars to donuts this is a very poorly run company (each of 2-4 essentially prove so alone, so they definitely point that way in combination).

Let's assume developers (cause I'm not qualified to talk anything else). Let's assume the 50/150 since 150 I'd estimate is about market for a senior dev at least in CA at that size shop. Juniors are more like 70k (or more? I may be a bit out of touch), so 50k is 40% short.

The chances that the junior folks are paid well short of market with great equity and the senior hire is market with little equity? Yeaaaah.

Honestly in my experience it's more likely that everyone at this company is fucked for equity, and everyone that didn't know better was fucked for salary also.
I was 39 when we did YC.
You are right, I was talking a company I worked at :)
What's the "standard fee" for violating the constitution?
> I guess stabbing a close partner in the back by releasing a clone of their flagship product is not being evil

1. All these companies "stab each other in the back" and engage in cut throat competition for everything, including (notoriously now) employees and customers.

2. Of all the things google has done, or is doing, or might do releasing Android was one of the more benevolent. At least the "victim" was a giant corporation not defenseless employees, factory workers, developers or customers.

3. Evil is what Sergey says is evil.

I'm a huge fan of Apple products, but "benevolent" is certainly not a word you might use to describe them as a company. In many cases (not all), the opposite can be said of Google.
I am pretty sure this line:

> Correcting that usually involves a conversation about your future elsewhere.

... is a euphemism for getting fired. I read it as: you get very senior, you get lots of raises, you get the axe, you get replaced with someone cheaper.

Personally I have also heard about the opposite happening: during these boom times the new grads might get "market rate" salaries that end up higher than someone who has been in the industry for a while and hasn't caught up through raises.
medical cannibals

Are those anything like medical leeches?
Interesting to note: I read earlier today (sorry, can't recall where) that one of the federal agencies was upset that Comcast hadn't lived up to their agreement to market this program to the people it was supposed to help. Interesting timing between the two stories...
C'mon. Tesla was the "best selling car" due to delivering years worth of orders all in the 2nd half of last year, and topped the sales figures only if you aggregate them by model rather than make. Even in the months where the S was the top selling model, Ford sold more cars in Norway than Tesla.
Insuring Bitcoin in 2011 sounds like a scam already.
Yeah I probably should have phrased that differently, but my ramblings already resemble those of a pseudo-schizophrenic almost-sentient toaster so it would be of little help.

I don't mind the mundane work related to the fields I actually care about, which is why grad school is so much nicer than undergrad. Being surrounded by people of similar interests is nice, but academia is a but too cozy/cushy for my liking, to be honest. Not much really happens; not much excitement or risk.

I know in a few years, though, my views will be totally different :P The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and I resemble a cow in many of my physical characteristics.
Wow, a corrupt Mexican government convinces a corrupt American government to break its own laws take this site off of the internet. I am sad.
It shows the message after a 10-second countdown - the message itself is visible for less than a second.. Seems like a bug to me.
Survey: 15% think software = comfortable clothing
I grew up in a small town, and after school many days I'd go read books at an alternative bookstore. I was able to give myself an autodidactic education in everything from feminism to anarchism to labour politics and more.

One day I decided to sample from the "education" section, an area which I'd been avoiding. As fate would have it, I started with The Teenage Liberation Handbook.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Teenage-Liberation-Handbook-Educat...

It was written by a disgruntled former English teacher and explained that the education system robbed children of their creativity to turn out a constant stream of factory workers that wouldn't talk or waste time. School was to keep kids out of gangs.

What really got me, however, was the idea that 75% of what we were doing was in fact "make work". We were in a glorified day care. The only reason they cared about truancy was because the school gets paid based on the number of classes we attend.

I was furious; basically I became a walking Rage Against The Machine song for about two years.

There are pictures.

I'm 35 now, and my only regret about dropping out of high school is that I didn't do it 2 years earlier. All of the people who told me that I was throwing my life away now come to me for life advice. I have started several companies and to date have never woken up in a ditch. I am not plagued with a sense of wonder about what I could have accomplished had I just written those last few exams.

I told my principle and the other students that I did not want the school to take credit for my future success. I was a bit of a shit, sure. But I wasn't entirely wrong, either.

These days, seeing kids like this gives me hope for the future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h11u3vtcpaY
ICANN should pull GoDaddy's domain rights since they aren't following ICANN rules.
It's interesting - many icons we consider familiar and obvious today represent tech that's racing toward obsolescense. The traditional light bulb has a lot of history in mediums beyond computers, but it's on the same path as the floppy disk / save icon.
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Shippable has been features in TechCrunch, Geekwire, YourStory, VentureBeat, etc.

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No, that's an earlier company I worked at. It existed before I got there, and I suspect it's still there now.
Note that if you can get Rackspace or whomever to donate the hardware/bandwidth, you can use less than 7k/month to hire a very competent admin to solve the administrative issues, which would probably lead to better service for everybody.
what you work there or something? have you bought their license?

have you ever used FontAwesome or ionicons?

i know they're not as "responsive" or multi-colored as Iconic BUT 49 bucks for PERSONAL use - get real!
I'd like to see some stats on Facebook login vs. Google login usage. I suspect Facebook login is used more often than Google, and now Yahoo! is trying to be another also-ran in this field.

The thing is, people want the simplicity of sign-in, and I don't know that Yahoo! services are compelling enough at this point. Their are too many other competitors, all likely using Facebook or Google, and Facebook pretty much has the social aspect of these services locked up. How many of us have as many social connections on Google+ as we have on FB?
You seem to continuously miss the point he makes.

"Many eyes make bugs shallower" is indeed true and a tautology.

The way ESR meant it, it's merely BS.

He meant is as in: "because open source code is available for everybody to see, many people look at it, and so bugs are found more easily".

In the context it was said, it was meant as a factual observation about what GOES ON in OSS, not merely as a trite theoritical description about many eyes being better.

So, people are arguing against that, not against the idea that if more people ACTUALLY look, they will find more bugs.

The case is, very few people look at code. In some cases, even for extremely widely used software by millions of OSS users, even less people than the people paid to look at a particular proprietary software look at the code.

Heck, Gtk, the basis of most Linux desktops, had in the latest years like 1-developer really working at it (I know, because he complained publicly about the situation).

I don't know what happens in the Windows GUI toolkit or Cocoa, but I doubt there's one person doing all the work -- and only during his free time at that...
salary ranges are commonly posted on job listings on AngelList, etc. so he could of saw it there when they were hiring for the position or if they are currently hiring for that position

also glassdoor posts salaries of different positions at companies so he could of saw it there
When bitcoin started it was touted as anonymous, reliable and secure against fraud and theft by central authorities (especially government.)

I had some doubts (and other interests) so didn't bother getting into bitcoins.

Now we find out that bitcoin definitely isn't secure, and fraud by central authorities is just as possible as with any complex system of representing monetary value.
I really think it's a universal Law - let there be any kind of central body involved in a system where there are profits to be made by dishonesty, and there WILL be dishonesty.

MtGox turns out to be no different to the FED and any other fiat money authority. No different to the bullion markets, and their empty gold vaults (gold stolen, due to fractional reserve fraud.)

I think I'll stick to keeping gold and silver pieces in an old sock. The only true value store is in-your-hand allodial, and never, ever abstracted to ones and zeros (or paper.)
Yes, there's a non-hallucinogenic derivative of LSD that might be an effective treatment for cluster headaches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Bromo-LSD

My wife suffers from refractory migraine headaches - somewhat different from cluster headaches, but near neighbors on the chronic headache agony spectrum. I wish there were a clinical trial of 2-B-LSD she could join. Absent that, I'm building a TCDS system for her. Necessity & invention, etc.
What can you do when someone blatantly plagiarizes an entire blog post?
Having volunteers spend countless hours to setup and maintain their own CDN is a preposterous idea.
First Meta Bitcoin Exchange CEO Autumn Radtke Dies
Works for me. Hold the spacebar down, and keep holding it to see the message. Needs to be made more apparent.
> ...just the architectural diagram of how it works scares the shit out of me. When you need 7 arrow colours to describe where data is going in a monitoring system, I’m starting to fear it slightly.

This strikes me as a pretty lazy argument. Admittedly, that diagram is not the best. But that you can separate the components of Sensu isn't a bug, it's a feature. No one says you have to do it this way. In fact, you can exactly replicate the architecture of Nagios by having a single server. The point is you have choices, choices which are dependent not on the monitoring software (which is very lightweight by design in the case of Sensu), but on the other open source software it relies on (Redis, RMQ).

So I would argue that the "server instance" scope is way too broad a category to measure complexity. If you attempted to diagram the workflow Nagios uses (ignoring for a moment what server instance each component is on), you would come up with something equally bad (if not worse). That's if you even understood anything at all about how Nagios works to know what to diagram.

So let's replace one crude measure with another. The Sensu core repo is ~3MB total. Nagios core is about 10x that (30MB). NRPE is about 1MB all by itself. Mod_gearman (to pick out an add-on) comes in at a whopping 6MB. Suffice it to say, but for something that's basically a glorified exit code validator, this seems like a lot of complexity. Sure, Nagios has a lot of features that Sensu doesn't have, and that accounts for some of this. But there's a lot to be said for modular systems vs. monolithic ones.
It's possible the OP negotiated for more salary and less equity.
Side note: there's a recent push towards "physically based rendering" (in games; film folks have made that a few years ago). This means making light behave in a physically plausible way. This is different from "photo realistic rendering".

Probably best example is Pixar's rendering style - it's not "realistic", but it is very much at the forefront of "physically based".
This was on the front page today.
For people questioning why the other people are pissed, it could be because the company lied to them during the process and said they could only afford to pay a certain amount when being hired now this comes out and they feel they got swindled and he just happens to be in the crosshairs
Most of the growth in smartphone adoption will undoubtedly come from low-end devices. However, much of the growth in profit will come from people moving into the segment that buys higher end devices and pay for apps/services.
You mean like the Ford Focus, which sells more units in Europe every year than Tesla has made, ever?
The thing I've come to learn about salaries over the years is that, and I quote (myself): "If that person can get that, good for them. It's probably not their fault I didn't get it."
Accessibility would be cooler than auto sizing.
The first thing I looked for was a geographic search feature. Add this for job seekers like me who want to learn more about the good stuff in their communities!
>The commercial supplier has a financial incentive to get it right
Is this why Microsoft dominated the market for 15 years with the worst security model of all contemporary operating systems?

No, that's why Microsoft after XP tightened their security. Because they had an incentive to "get it right".
It's not about being superior he's posting on bitcointalk the audience would be very familiar about the sequence of events. It's posted in "speculation" I.e. It's a hypothesis based on what everyone in the bitcoin world observed and he created a plausible yet possibly completely fictional technical hypothesis for what happened behind the scenes. There's no "sources" to back it up.

It's like when HN goes offline. It's an observable fact. Writing what you "think" happened to explain this fact is the speculation part.
Mirrors shouldn't be a security concern, the signatures of packages should come from "headquarters", same goes for reliability, clients should be able to, and SHOULD pull from multiple sites simultaneously.
He could have interviewed the junior employees. Perhaps even gave them their offers
Why not link the press release directly? The content is quite a bit better.

http://www.thestrong.org/press/releases/2014/03/4721-br-derb...

Where I found a link to a brief summary of each item donated http://www.libraryandarchivesofplay.org/sites/www.libraryand...
eh, you're probably right. I was thinking a street like 5th ave which has hundred thousand people walking up it every day.
The second and fourth are still unknown:

> Author makes 3x the juniors

That assumes the author accurately knows the salaries and equity positions of the employees, which is unclear and raises more questions if true.

> the HR person was a bad hire

This is a clever way to get someone to leave the company: create in-company tension in a way that drives the person to leave.
E&O is almost impossible to get if you are considered to be trading.
Looks pretty. I can't think of any situation where I would use it though.
I can't help it. Everything like this reminds me of Powers of Ten [1].

1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0