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Last.fm is ending their streaming radio service in April
> eg. a fold instead of explicit recursion

Wouldn't adding some bangs in the patterns kind of do the same thing as using foldl'?
This was tested on a VPS ($25 one) using their custom LEMP WordPress stack.
LastFM leaves the streaming music business
LastFM announced it will be axing it's subscription radio on April 28th to focus on recommendation and tagging. After a number of years of removing features, they have taken the difficult decision to remove the much loved feature.
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TwitchPlaysMari0?
I will leave this here
http://www.javalobby.org/articles/acegisecurity/part1.jsp
It's supposedly possible.

http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/#hipaa
> 5/ Just a normal bullshit intolerant guy

I assume this. The problem with bullshit is that big companies get away with it for years (decades, even) while in a startup, this leads to very short-term consequences.
Why was I afraid of agile?
Thanks! I'm on managed service as well, so I may be able to request some of those things. I've never been hit but sounds like I should be proactive about this.
The other companies don't get the online press their well deserved pageranks and clicks in news aggregators that Apple and Google do when used in headlines.
Nice article but IMHO it's missing the most important pieces of a retrospective, e.g. "what went wrong" and "what can be improved".
As someone who has been an employee and employer, this is false. Sure most companies are not loyal to employees but there are those companies that are. I've worked for 2 in the last 16 years and 8 companies. One I was at for 6 and half years and only let because the economic situation demanded it. The other I currently work at and have been there for a year. There are great companies out there run by good people, it just takes time to find the right ones and sometimes you need to compromise in that it might not be the latest startup or maybe it's a boring manufacturing company job but there are people who run companies that actually care about their employees.
As I said, I'm all for having a great framework.
If you could do it by stealing a disk, then you could also image the disk on site and beam the data somewhere...
Can we ask Elon Musk to get rid of Arnnon for being involved in this? Or is Tesla too holy and doing too much good, so they get a pass?
Thanks man! I really appreciate the kind words, we're excited to see where it goes! :)
Can you hack charisma?
Which is part of the point. Employees are considered as commodities, and a career-ending breach of a (illegal) policy is treated as a fixing a bug in your code - jokes and all.
Every new company goes through a period where the immaturity starts to hurt badly.

One common cause is that people who are good at starting companies are usually not very good at managing them internally, and especially bad at managing people. And they don't realize it because they are too busy being entrepreneurs in the hectic early phase of a company.

The good news is that sooner or later this changes, often by hiring experienced managers, because otherwise the company won't survive.

The bad news is that if often takes big incidents, painful confrontations and some of the best and most dedicated people walking out before the founders realize they suck at management.

Companies for whom this growth is a smooth ride are rare. But if you believe in company, believe in the integrity of the people leading it, it can be worth sticking it out.

The issues you bring up are normal for the stage the company is in. The problem is the way they are being managed internally, or rather mismanaged. The "bullshit" is just a misguided attempt at keeping up appearances. The focus of the bosses is on the business, not the company as a living organisation.

The only way to make it easier on yourself (besides completely avoiding start-ups and start working for mature companies) is to take control of the situation. Just put your foot down and tell your bosses "we're going to fix this now, and here's how".

Unless they have an ego the size of a planet or are extremely insecure (the two are often the same btw), your bosses will love you for taking part of the responsibility off their hands. When it comes to internal stuff, if you are confident enough to make them believe you know what you're doing (and hey, unlike them you've at least thought about it, and have some experience of how not to), they will even take orders from you.

Most start-up founders are utterly clueless about managing a company. Bitching about it won't help, and if you're not part of the solution but still want to work for start-ups, you're just as much part of the problem as they are.
Seems like a great application for Monte Carlo tree search.
They're not poaching each other's workers, so let's say that Tom works for Apple and makes $90,000 per year. Google could attempt to recruit Tom and offer him $100,000 per year, but they don't. So Tom loses $10,000 per year. This is probably the worst-case scenario for an individual engineer. Of course, Tom is still earning a very nice salary over that time, and who knows, maybe he actually ends up making more, but let's envision a worst-case scenario in which an engineer loses $100 grand over ten years, because of this policy.

In order for the dollar value to be similar to what Madoff stole from people, that scenario, or a higher wage loss, would have had to happen to five hundred thousand engineers. All working at a handful of companies.

Does that still sound plausible to you?
Hey thx for the reply!

I was working closely (via IRC, email) with somebody (I forget whom) who discouraged work on master and suggested "development" -- is that still the case?

The more I delved into git, the more I realized what a large delicate job it seems to be (which is a matter for a different discussion). Regardless -- apologies if I came across to harsh -- I haven't looked at it in months... will re-pull, give it another look.

Good luck w/ the development!!!
Yeah I was hoping for a little more insight. This was mostly a brief tour.
WebStorm 8 released
As a fellow consultant, I found this comment quite liberating. Thank-you.
Virtual Reality: Practical application of the W3C Device Orientation API
I built an Android app, Forge, that does just that. No feedback loop needed - the reconstruction is streamed back to you as you go:

http://aboundlabs.com
Good to see SiteGround keeps up, I've found their offering very compelling and signed up for them. Support does seem good so far, and I think they can compete on cost because they're mostly based out of Bulgaria from what I can tell. Their highest WordPress plan tops out at $15...so that's half of WP Engine's starting plan.
I (didn't) launch a similar service in 2000. I just wrote about it here:

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/officemaster/#content
That is so true. Company culture would play a big part for retaining its workforce even if the some of the work is not that engaging. That for me is almost 75% of why I would want to work at a company. However, having said that, the company culture must also match the personality. It is like a marriage.
I felt the same way at a company called RealNetworks, hence quit early and thereby missed out on substantial stock option wealth.
For a startup to find a paying niche isn't easy. Managers promise this, promise that, in order to keep the game going. To thrive in that arena you just have to grow a thick skin and decide to enjoy being a jerk sometimes. Remember that startups aren't about pursuing a fun hobby project, although they can begin that way, but about realizing a big financial score. Even if some founders still talk like it's their hobby, that just isn't the way it works in a business which actually becomes a business.
I've already owned a vr headset back when it was 320x240 screens. It is pretty good but gives you neckache after a while. Judging trajectories is better, playing Team Fortress and Everquest in full 3d was really cool. But neckache.
Glad to see Breue hitting HN. My company einstein.com went through the BreueingRoom and it was a fantastic experience. My full testimonial is on the Breue site, so I won't repeat myself here.

The community so far is of the utmost caliber, and I hope that it is able to remain that way. I have high expectations in this regard, though. Zach has done a great deal towards pushing high-quality community standards.

I look forward to seeing it grow.
If you refer to my duplicate posts it was my fault (well, Hacker News 2's app fault, since it was not notifying me of the posts being submitted), deleted them.
It sounds like you haven't encountered people who are good at what they do ("animals", as PG might say). Probably just bad luck or not enough good luck, or something else.
You're usually not party to a non-solicitation agreement in which others are not allowed to solicit you. If you as an individual contractor sign such an agreement with your client, your client's employees whom you're not allowed to solicit were not party to the agreement.

Even if you somehow forced everyone to be part of the agreement, it's irrelevant - whether Apple's and Google's employment contracts had language that forced the employees to agree to what's going on here is not exactly relevant consideration.

Edit: part of the irony of this whole "non-solicitation agreements are illegal" chorus is that I think most people complaining probably have signed such agreements in the past as they are quite routine. Granted, most of the time, it's just handed to us and we have to sign or gtfo.
Actually, it was the other way around: Pixar took over Disney and they kept both names going, but the entirety of Pixar's management team replaced their counterparts at Disney. Sounds to me like Pixar did the taking over there.
And that's awesome. Because that's what hackers are, not just some mediocre Javascript coders :P
This is not unique to startups. I have never worked anywhere where I thought everything was done well. Such a place likely doesn't exist. But guess what.. the owner is making money, the employees get paid and get to work in more interesting roles than many alternatives. Its not an ideal world.

Thats phase 1.

Phase 2 begins when you decide damn it Im going to start my own company, it can't be that hard, look at these clowns Ive been making rich all this time. Customers are clearly accepting of any old rubbish and I know I'm better. How hard can it be?

Phase 3 is when you start your own. Then you see it from the other side. And you were right! But can you do any better now you're in their shoes? Does it matter if you can't? You'll only have to deal with the occasional grumpy developer, hey those guys come and go all the time.

Reality is hard to change. Perspectives, less so.
FreeIPA in EC2 while using Route53 as your DNS
Six weeks to build a robot
Thank you very much for you explanation, I wasn't able to make it work.
I'm not really an AI person, but I think it's interesting, yes:

Each individual decision is simple (choose from 4 directions), but the overall strategy is difficult (the arrival of each new piece has a random element).

The game tree[0] is awkward to draw in full, because of this random element. If we can draw it out well enough to analyse it, we can come up with a perfect play algorithm that wins as often as possible. Tic-tac-toe is 'solved' in this sense: we always know what the best play is.

Since 2048 remains unsolved (for now), AI algorithms which simplify and try to approximate that process come into play. As long as nobody has come up with perfect play, it's still interesting to see who can come up with the best play.

2048 is relatively simple game to remain unsolved, so it's nice and accessible to apply algorithms to (and still relevant to do so).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_tree
My experience has been nearly identical to yours. Although it is usually good to assume the problem is with oneself, I wouldn't do so in this case. It can be hard to find work in which the people making decisions are the ones who are adding value. And when people who are not adding value are making decisions, weird things can happen.
The Candy Crush IPO will be a bargain not a bust
Go through a list of startups (e.g., http://www.austinstartuplist.com/emerging-startups), cold call/email/show up at every one of them to offer your services. If your sample is sufficiently large, you're bound to land a gig.
The Haskell type system does not let you do that by default. What kind of monads do you use? Are they part of some library or did you develop them in house?

Do you have a policy around the use of I/O monads versus specialized monads for controlling access like that?
Doesn't matter, it shows on the resume.
That is true. I am emotionally involved. I could see this as a weakness but I actually take it as a strength.
I am a product guy as well and I don't want to be a mercenary. That also means that things take a higher toll on me.
Car Dealerships Are a Bad Deal for Customers
It is worth noting that an ordered K/V store is a very simple and flexible data structure in terms of the types of operations that can be efficiently layered on top of it. The simplicity gives you guys a chance to do something insanely hard like distributed transactions. The flexibility lets people build a ton of different abstractions on top of it.
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This is a serious problem and if you can solve it you stand to make a million.

Even if you don't solve it you could make a lot of money by writing a convincing enough book.

A blog about "today my boss said ..." (With a few ad words ads, and allowing user submissions) would make money. Dilbert has existed for years on management bullshit.

I was watching a programme in England where a consultant was called in to help a company. He spoke to all the shopfloor staff. They started by telling him that it was hopeless and pointless and that management would never listen. He dogeddly worked through that pessimism and got the staff, all of them, keen and motivated. He got some excellent ideas (cheap, legal, easy to implement, would save or generate a lot of cash).

So, then he has to feedback this stuff to management. He starts with one of the great ideas (basically "move this machine to be nearer that other machine" - the programme showed why that had serious advantages).

Management refused. They said that they had already looked at all that stuff and it was as good as it could be. They were so convinced of their rightness that they declined to even look at the suggestion.

That instantly demoralised all the staff, and infuriated the consultant.

It was a great demonstration of why some managers are poor. I wish I Could remember the name of the programme.

I used to work in a factory and I have a bunch of similar stories if you ever want to hear them.

So, put simply, you need to do open source work in your spare tome for the feels and just grind through the workweek to earn enough money for the open source stuff.
According to most supporters of the free market, at least among libertarian types, a free market will prevent monopolies and cartels from forming without regulation

I don't know how much I agree with that, but your opinion certainly isn't universal.
> What exactly was the legal reason for the ban in NJ?

A long ago decision that car manufacturers couldn't run their own franchises/dealerships. Tesla's stores in NJ were either provisional ("We'll allow it for now, but we may take it back later") or a goof (some articles suggested one, others suggested the other). By law, they shouldn't have been selling directly in NJ (note: I think it's a dumb law), the controversy is that the deal was supposed to be determined by the legislature. Christie went back on his word and made the decision before the legislature could get around to it. Now, the legislature could still change the law to make the stores legal (at which point they'd be able to sell again, right now they're going to become galleries, showrooms).
Introducing The Advanced Guide to Content Promotion
Facebook did create the ecosystem and the platform for these games, so "Facebook games" is a thing, one way or the other.

It is also silly not to acknowledge that effect.
I had similar experiences at my first two employers, as far as becoming disappointed with management decisions and company politics. However, I was fired from both because I got angry about it and provoked other people by doing stupid things.

Getting fired repeatedly caused me to re-evaluate my priorities. I decided that, going forward:

(1) I would keep in mind exactly what I wanted to be doing day-to-day and focus on doing that better than anyone else; in other words, I would consider myself strictly as a skilled craftsman.
(2) I would keep in mind my "ideal" work environment so that I would always be ready to take the next best opportunity to find it.
(3) Every job short of the ideal would be merely temporary. Management missteps, office politics, too-good-to-be-true risks, management changes, cutthroat coworkers, overbearing schedules were all none of my concern.

It worked out for me. After two more "temporary" jobs, I landed a job doing the one thing that I did best. When they had a management split, I took the less risky path, since both sides offered me a higher position. By the time they folded, I had acquired enough experience to be able to freelance part-time. I waited for the best opportunity I could get by personal referrals. One of the things that helped me get the job was my breadth of experience and the fact that they perceived me as "hard to get" (and hard to keep) because of my freelancing work, even though I could never have supported myself freelance. I have been there ten years now and I would say it is my ideal workplace.
Another recently fermented Breuer here. I had a great experience being in the Breueing Room. My biggest concern was that Breue would end up being an overwhelming addition to my already heaping pile of feedback on http://squirt.io. In the end, the conversation helped me immensely in digesting and prioritizing. Super excited to see where this thing goes!
So, now you know why I like neither Google not Apple.

If these were foreign countries, we'd have invaded them and set up puppet democracies.

Morons. Like they couldn't figure out the public would find out eventually...
Shift Instructions, x86 vs. ARM
The point of the comment to which you're replying is to be outraged at the right thing. Be outraged at the no-compete policy (it's illegal)! Don't be outraged at the efficient enforcement of the policy.

Would it be better if the recruiter had just been given a PIP instead of being terminated? And Eric Schmidt had e-mailed to Steve Jobs, "Sorry, won't happen again, the employee is on probation and I personally lectured them." No, because the policy would still be in effect.

The swift response from the top of both companies does tell us something, though. It tells us, for one thing, how much this had to do with a person-to-person deal between Schmidt and Jobs. It also shows how Google was anxious to demonstrate its faith to the agreement. The trust must have been pretty fragile if Google was so anxious to demonstrate it was not misplaced.

The problem with the OP is that it focuses anger on the efficient enforcement aspect. That's a side issue.
The article's title ("Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired" - not the current HN title) is also misleading, as these emails have been available for years - they were widely discussed in 2012: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/27/us-apple-lawsuit-i...
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Most startups fail. Bogus plans and an inability to close deals are probably just the signs that failure is coming for that company.

As someone going to work for a startup, you're in much the same position as an investor. It won't be fun or lucrative to work for one that fails, so you're trying to predict which ones will succeed. In fact, it's even more important for you than for investors, because your portfolio consists of a single company. So I would suggest doing what investors do, and try (a) to learn as much as you can about how to predict which startups will succeed, and (b) analyze any company you're considering working for very thoroughly.

I've written a lot about how to predict which startups will succeed. I'd look for a startup with very determined founders who are working on a problem that grew organically out of their own experiences.
1) You were wondering why people disable JS.

2) You were making "THIS FACE" at one of them.

3) You didn't ask him why did he disable JS.

4) You're about to remake your site based on conclusions drawn by a sample of one.

Well, god damn it dude. That's not how thinking works!
How this unlikely Irish startup raised €1.2 million
I don't know about armor for police and military - other commenters are covering that - but this could be pretty great for weapon-based martial arts competitions.

My wife practices German longsword, and it's hard for her to find padded armor that fits precisely - men's jackets aren't cut right, and women's jackets are too small. Women's gloves are too small, and men's gloves are too big.

If she could get a full-body kit printed out of metal that would be strong enough to stop a sword thrust, she'd be all set. (A few thousand dollars poorer, probably, but all set.)
This is very sad - I don't know how else to listen to a mix of music I like along with new music throughout the day.
The real division is labor vs. capital, but for historical reasons its impossible to use that distinction in those terms in public discourse in the US, so you get 99% vs. 1%, Main Street vs. Wall Street, and all kinds of other terms that talk around the real issue.
I'm afraid the implementation of the game here has a bug which makes it much easier than the original.

http://pastebin.com/VwwGCYYy
I am using Restangular & ui-router in a project I am working on currently and its working great. Highly recommended.
What dies this company even do? It looks like they're competing with Coinbase (and have raised more money than them!), but do they have any traction?
Because with ZNC it's possible to connect from multiple clients, get the full message backlog on every device, push notifications, iOS/Android apps. You could use an ssh client on your phone and reattach to the screen/tmux session but it's just not that comfortable.
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Annex – Nice and small Objective-C extensions library
There's still such a thing as an "internet demographic"?
This would be nice if I can feed the output to my neato( or roomba).
Who are these 1.2 billion? Facebook's users? Notch already has access to that audience. Plenty of them already play his game.
What most people fail to realize is that by colluding to repress wages, they essentially robbed the State of California of tax revenues, at a time when school teachers were being asked to do without teacher aides.

I have one word: Prison.
Hmm... the cold and ruthless way Google deals with its own employees is more shocking than Jobs's "brutal" response to it.

"make a public example of this termination"

And they're calling Jobs's smiley brutal?
Despite A Low Stake In Box, Aaron Levie Has A High Influence
I wish I could spin up a Mac desktop to test some stuff with htis. Anyone have any inside info re: whether they have plans for Mac WorkSpaces?
I hoped that either they got their hands on Project Tango device or worked with this team in Zurich - http://www.i-programmer.info/news/192-photography-a-imaging/...

Edit:

Btw, anyone who applied for Project Tango got back from them in any way? I didn't.