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Hi mynameishere,

I'm the developer on the Growth Team @ Pinterest that built the experience in question.

First, thanks for the candid feedback. We always strive to understand users and better their experience (in this instance from the very first second they come in touch with Pinterest).

The overhaul of the unauth home page, which is internally dubbed "inspired wall", is a concept that we introduced and refined over a period of a few months. As the name suggests the idea behind it is to instantly connect with you on the level of a story(or a use case) of Pinterest that can inspire you and stick with you as you go through the signup and orientation process. It is a hint of what Pinterest could be for you not written in words but rather expressed through a visual composition. The further you get into the product the more we tailor the experience around things that you love and the story that they tell about you.

We actually did quite extensive testing around this experience because it is such an essential and sensitive part of the product. This included concept research (where we tried to identify what got people to use Pinterest), A/B testing (where we quantitatively showed that results were better than the previous home page), and user testing (where we qualitatively showed that people get better understanding and satisfaction with the product). One of the key findings was that people were able to instantly grasp how Pinterest is different from other popular services such as Instagram or Flickr. To put in music channel terms - it did a good job at explaining how MTV is different than VH1.

Obviously the work is not done and things can be improved. The inspired wall is still a relatively fresh concept and we continue iterating over it.

We plan on releasing an engineering blog post soon that will detail the process of rebuilding our unauth home page and the several iterations that it went through to be successful. Stay tuned and again thanks for the feedback.

Ludo
You find a library on the Internet somewhere. What entitles you to copy it onto your machines? Copyright does not allow to do this, so you are reliant on a license to give you permission to do this. GPL gives you permission to do this, as long as when you distribute any modifications of it, you also pass along the source code. AGPL gives you permission to do this, as long as you give the source code to all of your users should they request it. If you can't meet the conditions, than you don't get the rights acquired by the license, and you fall back to default copyright, which says it's illegal to have copied the library to your own machines in the first place.
NYT is a newpaper read worldwide (as an example, I'm french and I read it). People read it to have deep insight on subjects at first, even if they may be interested secondary in topics like album reviews.

I do not think it is relevant for them to cover everything in american towns even if most of their reader are in USA. Local newspapers are the ones who should do that. They cannot cover everything without expanding greatly their number of journalists. And I do not think they have the resources for that.
They wanted to become a viral news agency, you won’t believe what happend next…
A simple solution that works now tends to beat a complex solution still on the drawing board. I'd say go ahead with the torrents plus distributed off-line index.
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They are undoubtedly for those customers, but legally you have to enforce copyrights to keep them. There is no way that Adobe could argue that they are still enforcing copyright restrictions on the binaries of CS2.
I believe this is what Square Cash works http://www.quora.com/Square-Cash/How-does-Square-Cash-work-t...
16 bytes is the limit?
I hasn't worked at all in most other cases, particularly in eastern European and ex-soviet countries.

But the world is not black and white. There is a vast space between 'free for all'-capitalism and state socialism.

You can empower people by giving everyone access to good education and giving decent social security. Where 'decent' means: being able to afford housing, eat, and travel for interviews. But not so much that it makes working unattractive.

Another method for empowering people is to make it possible to make a living with an 8 hour work day by introducing a minimum wage.
This was interesting but disturbing nonetheless…
> It's sad, but as a foreigner I don't see that

In particular I find the constant harking back to "Well, we don't spy on US citizens, only everyone else." particularly annoying.

Like that's OK.
What We Have Been Up to at Circle
Dunno, I suspect revolutionary socialism is out of fashion as a solution.
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There most certainly are differences in interests and priorities between the demographic groups, and many of them are conflicting. Teams isn't a bad analogy.
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Editorialized title alert! The post's actual title is "FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management", and the words "greatest" and "mistake" don't appear anywhere in the entire article.
You might get a massive increase in personal freedom and privacy from using bitcoin. But there is a difference between Pure Bitcoin, so-to-speak -- everyone is their own bank -- and a bitcoin-based service.

On Circle's website, it states: "Keeping your money safe is our top priority." That suggests Circle, too, is in actual control of your money -- like the retail bank service they aim to improve.

So how do you know the things you write -- recording transactions, storing your data, restricting access, hacker susceptibility -- won't apply here?

My point is that faced between two choices where a consumer gives someone else control of their money, the traditional system in many places is so far ahead in terms of reach, convenience and regulation compliance that a startup has a lot of work to do.
I'm not advocating just throwing caution to the wind and hoping everything works out. But this culture of fear that drives people to nearly always take the safest path is not one that will lead people to happiness. My best friend took the opposite route as me. He drugged out for several years and recently joined the navy. Now he has learned some cool skills that can transfer to other jobs and, more importantly, he's gotten a huge build in self confidence. But with his personality he would have been miserable just taking some safe job somewhere and settling down. He needed to find something that inspired him and only then did he really turn his life around.
and should be in a list of articles submitted most often
I finished college in 1999.
This was discussed less than a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749108
Controlling the exact manner in which you consume that content is the icing on the cake.

I'd rather put that as "attempting to control the exact manner in which you consume that content is how you lose valuable business".

But that's just me.
Joe Duffy has a really interesting retrospective on his team's attempt to build a STM for .NET:

http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/01/03/a-brief-retrospective-on-...
My understanding is that, as a non US-citizen, I'd be generally considered 'fair game' for a lot of blanket surveillance that would not be applied to Americans. Maybe this is what scrrr is referring to? [Edit: I see this is what harkyns_castle alludes to as well.]
All of them record every thing you pay for

Unlike bitcoin, which records all of your transactions in a globally readable log?

Bitcoin pseudonymity is weak unless you're very careful, and if people work out your wallet address(es) then you actually lose a lot of privacy.

any two-bit hacker that ever breaches their security

The personal data is somewhat vulnerable, but the actual money is more secure. For almost everyone, the bank computer is going to be more secure than their home PC.
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microsoft really earnt their 5 stars, what with them working covertly with the FBI to break SSL
When you were young, things were different. Colleges cost less, capital was weaker compared to workers, computers haven't yet taken over as many jobs as today. Plus, we have the biggest financial crisis in the past 80 years. Still, I'm sure you can find many people in their 40s, 50s that are much less successful than you, doing rote, unexciting jobs, living paycheck to paycheck. Not everyone can be a manager, business owner, investment banker, lawyer or doctor - you need garbagemen, farmers, nurses, clerks, bartenders, in other words, people in dead-end jobs. It is in no way their fault for not achieving "greateness", that holds especially true for the stupid and for people from poorer backgrounds, who by definition have less opportunities in life.

Furthermore, my generation (20-somethings) grew up in boom years, when everything was improving and there was a very bright light at the end of the tunnel, but when we actually reached adulthood, everything turned to shit and many of my friends can't even get a bad job (I'm lucky, as I'm a programmer). No wonder half of the young population is suicidal, and the other half apathetic, we were raised with high expectations and then reality hit everyone without a warning, it fucked up many people's emotions.
Mozilla just -made- their greatest mistake.
Every citizen of every country is fair game for every government, especially their own.
Here's the selection of various artists' demands/riders: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage

Sometimes these riders serve a purpose (Van Halen's case), sometimes they are indeed a caprice, or a joke. If I recall correctly it was Pearl Jam, who once demanded their M&M's to be segregated into jars, and each jar could only contain one color of a candy. There were photos floating around the net with the band members laughing and posing with that jars and the guy who felt into the trap. Oh, life of a rock star ;)
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In the last few releases, HP has overtaken Rackspace in a number of development metrics.

Poking around here is interesting: http://www.stackalytics.com
Ask HN: Did You Ever See an HTML5 App That Feels Like a Native App?
I see more and more article saying that modern HTML5 frameworks removed the gap between web apps and native apps. However, on a xperia U (2-cores 1GHz + Mali 400mp gpu) every sample apps I can find are far more laggy than any native apps I have installed on this phone.

I have two questions :

Did you ever see an HTML5 app as smooth as a native app even on a 150$ smartphone ?

Javascript and Java seem pretty close today: both benefit from highly optimized VMs, and both have to pause to garbage collect memory. CSS3 allows to directly tap into the GPU to accelerate the rendering of web app. Asmjs allows to write code running close to native assembly code. With all these great technologies, I do not see why web apps can be slower but the difference is still big. Did we miss something?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy that's an old story...
If people are interested in a more in-depth view about this, check out https://transparency-reports.silk.co/. It covers other countries too and has more raw data on both companies and governments.

The EFF collaborated with us [1] on this and we're very excited about being able to provide the data in an accessible and easily comparable way on the web.

[1] https://www.eff.org/press/releases/which-tech-companies-help...
Wonderful; like OS X's "Slow Keys" but for the mouse pointer instead. This should be included as a built-in accessibility option in every operating system.

Have you thought about open-sourcing your implementation to encourage others to take a jab at it and port it to other platforms?
The UK has a bank regulator agency which isn't totally ineffective. Their main success was ending the sale of "payment protection insurance", which was overpriced and worthless in almost all cases.

There's still a level of BS fees, worse for business bank accounts, but the general consumer experience is fairly good at the moment.
I've been constantly surprised about how little scrutiny that kind of statement has received in the media - American or otherwise. I thought it would've publicly raised more hackles here in New Zealand (but I guess we all ultimately just feel powerless in the face of such determined surveillance might).
May be that foreign governments aren't any better (but I bet that no EU government spend as much money as the USA in wiretapping), but if you're not an US citizen (and so no warranties are valid for you) I think it's better to have your data in a jurisdiction where you can defend yourself in court, if the need arises.
I'm part of that small subset (there is intentional tremor, which actually made a Parkinsonism diagnosis a bit of a bitch).

That's not a rebuttal; the device would be far more useful for essential tremor or Huntington's-like disease sufferer's than it would be for the ordinary Parkinson's sufferer. (For some value of "ordinary", which is hard to come by in the Parkinson's world. Among my peer group - people I've actually met through neurologists, support services, and so forth - there have been a relatively small number of people who have a textbook presentation. But intentional tremor is not a frequent symptom.) The spoon (and similar devices) would be absolutely transformative for some people's quality of life, but putting the "Parkinson's" label on it won't get it into the right hands.
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I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand contract law, delivering something "close enough" is all that's required to satisfy a contract. Let's pretend everything's perfect except for one brown M&M. I'm sure a lawyer can explain it better, but if everything else is in order, I think Van Halen would have to perform their end of the deal.
I guess http://jezebel.com isn't that bad. I should have just snuck it into the list.
That's really great. It wasn't enough that they made all French start-ups that ever took money from a government source tainted, now they do it to all French start-ups.

This is a real pity. France has a ton of talented people and a fairly unique view on the web and online services dating back all the way to minitel.

What once was a leadership position has been eroded over the years into a real-world fight for survival. With 'help' like this from the French government the fight is all but lost, why on earth would a French person or team with a good or even great idea for a start-up found that business in France when they could just as easily do it in any other EU country without the risk of having an exit blocked?

What an absolutely dumb move.

The Daily Motion affair should have had the opposite effect.
A life of comfortable idleness is not a very good one. They can develop hobbies, but it's hard in a work dominated culture to derive sufficient meaning and pride from that.
What solution do you propose? I've been thinking about it, but I can't think of a way to (1) tax landlords (i.e. disincentivize property hoarding) without (2) passing the tax on to those who rent. In the UK, for example, tenants pay council tax, and I expect any increases of said tax to affect tenants, not landlords.
BitCom, a trashy DOS based terminal program, would lower the signal on the DTR pin, which would hang up the modem instantly, when it saw the text, "NO CARRIER" on a line by itself. Obviously, that line got dropped in forums and chat rooms as the "word of the day for BitCom users" on a regular basis.
You shouldn't use that anyway, that's a trust needing operation. A bootstrap.dat file is what you want, which wouldn't have the obfuscation applied.
Yeah, I severely doubt Van Halen were such primadonnas, and that clause was just a sanity check. I'm somehow sure more modern pop artists took cases like this as an excuse to make exorbitant demands and throw a fit if they weren't met though.
You really, really, really missed the point of the M & M's thing.
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That is what VM's are for.....
I've read ZATAOMM, but remember it as a discussion about Quality as the alignment/connection between objective and subjective worlds. Did I miss something?
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Finder/Help/Search: keyboard shortcuts. Second topic.
Microsoft Security Essentials reporting false positives in the blockchain
While Jeremy is talking in terms of dollars in the presentation, the software is actually keeping balances in terms of bitcoins. You can see on the screen below the two green add/withdraw funds buttons a bitcoin price ticker, e.g. 1 BTC = $446.87 at the start of the video. As he is talking and doing transactions this exchange rate is being updated, maybe as often as every 30 seconds. And you can see even when he's not doing anything his dollar balance is fluctuating to reflect the changes (it goes from $10.00 to $10.05 to $10.01 at the start of the video without him doing anything). But the number of bitcoins remains constant.

So that's a fault of the video I think, that he doesn't explain this clearly and talks too much in terms of dollars rather than bitcoins. They'll need to present this more clearly for their actual user video.
In general, you go with 'what would a reasonable person say'. Now, for a rock concert, the color a backstage M&Ms in isolation is probably not enough to convince a judge that it was a good reason to break the contract.

But the M&Ms aren't used in isolation. They're used as a flag, where their presence suggests that the venue did not follow through on their technical demands. Once you know that, then you just look for problems (probably the demands immediately around the M&M line first). Once you found an actual problem, well then, there you go.
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Maybe something like this should appear in the legal stuff everyone always just clicks I agree -> next on. Instead of an 'I agree', you are to send a picture of a jar of M&M's with a certain color missing. Cleverly hidden somewhere deep in legalese.
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Not in SF but in London, I had a cyclist run a red whilst I was on a green crossing who almost bowled me over. I kind of tried to push him out of the way of me. He then tracks me down and follows me and wanted to fight.
I'd like to hope there are some governments out there without that kind of mentality. Even if not, most countries wouldn't or couldn't be pumping in this kind of cash [1] to broad-spectrum warrantless hoovering. I imagine it'd be a lot more than the below figures too if you take into account contractors and creative accounting.

To say its all about 'terrorism' is laughable, and I wonder just how many trade deals etc have fallen foul of this, or how many people manipulated into doing what the likes of George Bush wanted. How could you trust doing business with someone in the US after these revelations? Just blatant lies all over the place, from the top echelons down. They've made it to the point where if you wanted to develop something you don't want them to grab, it means an air-gapped workstation. That probably doesn't have much mileage either.

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-...
> Colleges cost less

My college cost $16k per year plus living expenses. It's a long story why I was going there as opposed to a cheaper state school. My parents did pay for part of it though I had to take out $20k+ in student loans and pay for the last year or so outright.

> from poorer backgrounds

I'm from a military family, lower middle class.

> It is in no way their fault for not achieving "greateness"

I haven't personally and that really wasn't what I was suggesting.

> Furthermore, my generation (20-somethings) grew up in boom years

I was in college in the 90s, boom years. Things went to shit a year after I was out.

> we have the biggest financial crisis in the past 80 years

While the current economy might be as bad as the Great Depression by some measure, you are not living through the Great Depression.

[Edited for clarity and civility]
OK, but there were still job openings outside of tech.
Because the world doesn't want for examples of what civil wars look like, yet still you advocate for them.
I'm American and all these things are true of my bank (Ally). I don't quite understand why so many of my compatriots choose such crummy banks given the excellent alternatives available, but given that they're quite attached to brick-and-mortar big name banks that charge usurious fees, I can't imagine they'll flock to Circle.
I recall reading that the "no brown M&M's" clause was added after a near-fatal accident on stage where a member of the Van Halen band got electrocuted because of bad wiring on the stage.
I have a hard time even grasping the argument. When I read:

"Instead, dismiss any other rules than yours immediately. Show them that this is your game and they have to play by your rules and not otherwise. Introduce them confidently on your playground."

I think about rules like "you must use version control" and "the test suite must pass before you push to the main repository."

These might be hard and fast rules at one organization, but not another. I interpreted the quoted statement to mean that it's okay for someone from the latter to dismiss a strict "don't break Jenkins" rule immediately.

Using the underlying playground metaphor, that's quickly going to leave the person playing alone in a playground that no one visits.

I prefer the suggestion of the old maxim: "Know the rules before you break them", which is pretty well aligned with your suggestion.

Also, the closing line - "You can be shark or fish. Not both." - is biologically wrong. A shark is a fish. Indeed, I like the metaphor as well: No matter how hard a shark may try, it's still a fish.
Thanks for a sensible explanation about the possible rationale of the actors. Perhaps a different way to distil your point: the film industry is stuck in a particular local optimum, and one needs to take into account the position of the actors when assessing their actions.
I think it's more likely that they used it as a flag to go double-check the safety measures.

They made huge money from the concerts, nevermind the fans. They weren't looking for out-clauses
I'm from Gen Y. I don't think that previous generations had it easier than we do, but I think it's an undeniable fact that you have it easier.

Except for the past few years, the world has been constantly improving all your life; USSR, Berlin Wall, computers, internet, technology, ... In contrast, most of my adult life has been nothing but shit (objectively; things have been quite good for me, but I'm a programmer, so...): financial crisis, terrorism, low employment, home foreclosures, high tuition. It doesn't seem to be improving for the average person. Furthermore, things have turned to shit almost exactly when we became adults; when we were children, we were brought up in a time of abundance, when life was easy, and hopes for the future were high. Now, life is hard, especially for people with no homes and no jobs and no work experience, and there is nothing to look forward to, except global warming.
I don't think that's true. The key is to approach something, whatever it is, with focus and discipline. I've never met a person that satisfied that criteria that I didn't like. My thinking is very unexceptional in this regard.

On the other hand, feeling that global market forces and dynamics should just turn around and succumb to your desire for a job just so you won't be depressed seems quite silly to me.
I have a suspicion that 90% of platform/editor/etc nerd-rage is really motivated by occasionally being 'forced' to use one that you don't know the keyboard shortcuts for.
That only work for 90 days though once the counter hits 90 you're screwed.

You still code that can either crack the software or act is a server for it.
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There was significant unemployment among people I graduated with.