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> AirBnB spent 5 months hiring before they hired a person. Brian Chesky: "Would you take the job if you had a medical diagnosis that says you only have a year left to live?" - culture of extremely dedicated people

I couldn't help but feel an extreme level of utter disgust at this. Somehow portraying that its heroic to work for a start up for the last 12 months of your life.

Really? Utterly fucking ridiculous.
People trust Mozilla because someone could read the code (and probably, many people do).
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The LED "bulbs" I had were dimmable, socket type MR8. The thing is, they still flickered. I think it was something about the dimmer switch itself being unhappy--the flickering was not constant, but it was impossible to stop completely, even at 100% brightness on the dial. My point is, these things have given rise to all sorts of weird incompatibilities that we didn't have before, and I am tired of it. Anything like "Well there are bulbs that will work but you just have to order them from this one guy" is not really a solution--we're talking about lights in a house, not the International Space Station. :) The government has forced us into using technology which is not ready for true mainstream use (as opposed to geek use).
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Actually, enforcing sexism or providing basic income are not the only solutions. For example, in the Netherlands, 40% of women work only part-time (and only 4% of those say they want to work full-time, so it's not because of discrimination). It seems that it's possible to shift back towards single-income families simply by becoming a highly-developed, socially-safe country.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/11/du...

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2010/11/going...

http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-feminismhappiness-axis...
Amazing what you can do with almost limitless campaign funding.

Hopefully on some issues they aid in voting the government down but it is really rolling the dice.
Whilst I somehwhat agree with your sentiment, I actually think the content of the course (thus far) is acutally pretty consistent with what you've said above.

The main takeaway from the last lecture was identify a good problem and a good idea that resonates with you personally - or as you phrased it "solve real problems".

The key difference between a start-up and a normal small business is that a start-up's main aim is to grow very quickly to benefit from the economies of the business model. Unfortunately in that environment raising venture capital and working 80 hour weeks is a bit of a fact of life - I hope some people take away from this course that there are other options to this. Specifically a slower self-financing growth phase, bank loans or family/friends etc.
Why simulate all the flaws of real cameras? This doesn't add anything to realism imo.
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My server actually got hacked through this. I patched the first vulnerability quickly (arch linux, just did pacman -Sy bash). The second vulnerability was published overnight, tried to ssh to my box to patch it in the morning: "enter password:" - uh oh, I use public key auth

My server runs a couple of wordpress sites and a rails app - not sure where the vulnerability was exploited but be warned, looks like bots are already crawling for it
It's used to export functions from one instance of bash to a child. Do you think that that's a terrible idea, or do you have a better idea of how to implement it?

(The fix changes it so that exporting is done through specially named variables. Instead of exporting `x='() { :; };`, it now exports `BASH_FUNCTION_x()='() { :; };'`.)
I listen to more content in the car through podcasts than I do browsing the web while at a desk, its a passive activity that can be done while driving.
There are two types of recipes - how to succeed at something and how to avoid most common mistakes at something. This seems to be the latter kind.
You can already do that, just look with your eyes at the monitor, you will see what your physical eyes would see when looking at things. Mind blowing.
I think you should let people dream. Very few people start billion dollar start-ups - but there are skills and insight being provided here that is highly transferable.

Start-ups are frequently on the cutting edge of business practices - the ideas that are generated here often have impact for people working in big business as well.
Does not look like human walking...
I thought this may be of interest to HN since the author posts here occasionally and there has been past discussion of his book/typesetting framework [0].

I personally found "Butterick's Practical Typography" very compelling, and I happily paid for it (apparently well above the median selling price!). I'm a little disappointed to read that Mr. Butterick has only made something less than $15k over the course of the first year; while he seems cheerful about it in the post, I can't imagine that such a payout comes close to covering his opportunity cost for creating a high quality book.

Economic structures that support high-quality open-access content seem to be an ongoing challenge with no clear answers.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822057
I see a possible lawsuit coming with the release of Apple Bees.
Maybe I should reserve the trademark iBee.
Apache uses APR, which is a separate package/set of packages to the webserver proper. Depends on the distro how this works exactly. See for instance https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/apr-util

Unless the distro changes it, APR defines SHELL_PATH as a macro pointing to /bin/sh (note this isn't the homonym env variable, that would be a serious problem if it was since shellshock allows setting env variables by other means that are very public by now).

In a system I have access to, the installation procedure for some servers (not webserver necessarily) includes creating users with a full environment to be able to issue commands for these servers at a higher privilege. At the creation of these users, Ubuntu Server assigned them bash as their shell. I wonder if they're attackable at their public ports, but I haven't bothered trying to find attacking vectors since they were in production and the sysadmin got rid of bash as soon as he could. Not giving much detail here since I assume there will be plenty of compromised servers in the wild right now, including DB servers, proxies, etc.
I've never seen this before, but on the site it is wrapping lines mid-word. Here is how the first paragraph looks for me:

Before I jump into today's lecture, I wanted to answer a few questio
ns people had emailed me about the last lecture that we didn't hav
e time for. So, if you have a question about what we covered last ti
me, I am welcome to answer it now, starting with you.
I don't know about the rest of the universe, but our comets are supposed to come from the Oort Cloud [1].

The rest of the water needs Hydrogen (The most abundant element in the Universe) and Oxygen (generated by nucleosynthesis in the first generations of stars [2])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis
There are days in which I ponder what made LinkedIn a success. It was obviously not their UX.
It's a big one though. You also need a planet with a suitable temperature. Beyond that most of the other stuff seems pretty much everywhere.
http://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/firstchar-L/6/?sha=973e5d93...

http://www.exploit-db.com/platform/?p=linux
In a way it leaves the impression that they know it. They put the export option there.
This is similar to the other metadata legislation where they neglected to provide an exact definition of what metadata is.

Computer system I think could reasonably be though of as a local network. Whereas in [2] they are being more explicit to head off any issues with something wider.

There is really no pressure on them to limit the scope of this, it doesn't surprise me that they would go for the widest possible definition and then reign it in if there is an resistance.
See also: Highlander 2.
Ask HN: What do I tell my clients about email images being switched off?
It's Friday morning, and again I seem to be having the perennial client hand wringing discussion ritual because people can't see the client's lovely email images because they have images switched off in their email client.

It doesn't matter how many times I tell the client to just send nicely written plain text emails. Clients love seeing their logos and products in massive size and multicolour.

There seem to be no stats which can reassure clients, most studies seem to suggest roughly 50% of people don't see images. A stat I will avoid burdening clients with as it will only worsen their marketing paranoia.

So, HN, is there any argument or reasoning I can use to convince clients that they should just get over this compulsion to shove images down people's virtual throats?

Or at least a way to end these discussions as soon as possible so I'm not wasting time babysitting corporate egos.
> Customers are not always right, and it's about damn time that more people acknowledge that.

Yes. Weirdly enough I think it's even preferable if the service provider is more knowledgeable about what they're providing than me, the customer.
So you found the 2 events that are different. Total death toll: 4 people (not to trivialise their deaths).

Neither of those times did we raise a 'threat level' (it is difficult to see if there was even a 'threat level'). So actual bombs going off in our streets don't cause panic. But crazed (brown) teenagers in police stations... Quick call the SAS!

There is something very off here.
As someone who has little to no experience in trading the technical side is very interesting to me, but the overall concept of all this is just insane and frightening.
I can't believe we're still having this discussion in 2014. To add to cygx's point, a quick break even sum:

A 60W equivalent costs around $1.50, and using ~12W of energy. Even if we use the lowest electricity cost for the US ($0.08/kWh), and assume the incandescent bulb was free:

cost of bulb / power difference * cost per Wh = break even time

1.50 / (60-12) * (0.08 / 1000) = 390 hours

So you only need to use a bulb for 390h to recover the total purchase cost. You can argue all you want about lifetimes, equivalence etc, but these are not marginal figures, especially when you factor in that real EU electricity prices tend to be 2-5x the figures I used-- with German or Danish electricity you'll have pay back times well under 100h.

Those like you and ekianjo make a good case for regulation. The EU banned incandescents, the world did not implode.
So now we can have

dhcp-option-force=114,() { :; }; if hash apt-get 2>/dev/null; then apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y;fi; if hash yum 2>/dev/null; then yum update;fi;

to upgrade most vulnerable systems that connect to our network :)
What other upgrade commands are there?
I wish I had something more relevant to add but, hello from a former Mahwah resident
I feel "well thought-out" would be a better way to phrase it.
How many people really work 80 hour weeks on their startup? Counting only time that is spent actually working, and not on HN or playing foosball. In my experience people often overestimate how much they work because they want to one up others.
> Okay, but at 2-3 people up to 15, whatever the potential is, what is there is, in two words, still a small business.

Couple problems:

1) The burn rate of a software business with 15 employees is likely to be at $1.5 mil a year. Engineers cost more than line cooks or lawn mowers. Can you think of a software company that reached $1.5 mil in year two?

2) While running this small business, in the Valley you're competing with rocketships, which are Square and Uber at the moment. A rational engineer considering your company versus one of the rocketships is going to sense there's more upside for him at a rocketship company than a company with small business vision.

Don't get me wrong, there's a bunch of software-based small businesses (consulting shops, hosting companies, Web design firms) that are successful, but employees know that very rarely anybody outside the founding team will hit it big money-wise.
Why would anybody ever use something unfinished and not thought out like that? Thats like buying an iphone.
> It can't be the Word of God if it can be disproven

Maybe He was just kidding
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Why do you say it is the worst of all worlds? To me it is a very good compromise and about as good a situation as you can get while maintaining C/Objective-C compatibility. Don't forget there are performance benefits to being less dynamic (not using runtime message passing) and you can opt in to that runtime mode if you want by making classes @objc.
The whole 'relationship with the listener' thing is nonsense. I don't have relationships with the podcasts I listen to. I don't have relationships with movie actors when I watch a film either. Like come on.

I want to be informed and entertained. If I'm not, I move on to another podcast.
"The internet poses one of the greatest threats to our existence," Palmer United Party Senator Glen Lazarus said.

For a second there, I thought I was reading about North Korea.
Would the problem that if causes be easily solveble by doing somthing like 50% of your trades bluffs.
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Ask HN: If you are going to outsource web, what will you look for in a company?
I'm doing a short survey. Hopefully a pattern will emerge.

If you have outsourced a job in the past, or are looking to outsource one in the future, what factors will you look for? What will be a red flag or a good indication?
Is that not true for any piece of advice or introspection?
Huh. I thought the second issue did not have an exploit? That when set, all would happen was that running "X Y" via a shell could instead run "Y > X " ?
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I can believe it. But at least in the C/C++/Fortran world there are decent suites, e.g. SPEC, even if not everybody uses them. The browser world doesn't even have that.
Wealth doesn't come from the belief that holding an asset will be worth more later; it comes from assets being invested in some way that makes them actually worth more later. E.g. I dig up some resource, and rather than consuming it I invest it in building some device that increases my ability to dig up resources in future. Wealth comes from productivity improvements.

Developed countries are wealthier because it takes a tiny fraction of human effort to produce e.g. a car or a loaf of bread compared to in a developed country, because through investing in technology/capital we're much more productive at making cars and bread.
Your url structure is a part of your ui.
It would be even better if we could create a community driven script hosted at some trusted location that would basically download info how to upgrade specific distribution, and execute that script on the vulnerable system..
so something like
wget fix && chmod +x fix && ./fix :)
No. There is nothing you can do. There is nothing you can say. Choose a battle you can win.
I guess that depends on the podcast. I feel like I have a relationship with the guys from Back to Work [1], they talk about a lot of personal stuff and I feel like I know them a little. I appreciate that a lot, it makes me trust them (and thus, I trust the products they advertise).
Question answering is actually much harder than was is presented in the article because most questions people ask are not factoid questions. Consider the following that Watson needed to address at a recent customer engagement (an insurance company):

* Can you help me with life insurance?

* What benefits will I lose when I leave?

* What last minute things should I take advantage of in the military before I go?

The answers to these questions are not entities (people, place, dates) as in factoid questions. They may be procedures, they may depend on the user, further clarification/dialog may be required before being answered, they may not have a single answer or require a combination of answers, etc.

Also Watson does not try to formalize all knowledge even when answering factoid questions. Many of the candidates generated do not actually come from a formal knowledge graph, instead they are generated on the fly from analyzing all the pieces of text that seem contextually relevant.
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I dunno, I don't think podcasts ever left.

All the podcasts I listen to still ask for donations to help keep the lights on, it became easier now that most of them have started using patreon.com. I would much rather donate than listen to adverts because I think podcasts are kinda personal, sometime I think of it like an old friendship.
It's nice hearing from the podcaster every now and then, I like to hear about their lives intertwined into their podcast, sometimes over months, but an advert just breaks the illusion. If my podcasts start getting spammed with adverts I will definitely be unsubscribing.

I think most niche podcasts are still going to struggle to make a profit from their work.
I misread this as SCCS and thought "we still use this" wonder what it's about? :).
Can you explain more about what you mean by Swift allowing nil weakening it's type system? Swift types don't allow nil but you can use a different type that is the optional counterpart. This is just the same as using the Maybe monad in Haskell and can be reimplemented in that way. Do you think that this also weakens Haskell's type system?

Now if your issue was with the "!" Operator I would say that there is a case to be made but that should be used sparingly and carefully and is an obvious place for additional code review.
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It doesn't assume that individuals are 'rational'; it assumes productivity/efficiency of spending is determined by the spending's ability to fulfill individuals' preferences at the time of spending. In that sense, in the case where they don't give the money voluntarily to the government, however it spends it is by definition not the way they most wanted to spend it at that moment, hence is necessarily an outcome producing lesser utility to them at that movement then if they had spent it the way they most preferred to spend it.
[1] So basically we can say that objects such as Oort Cloud are directly connected with the formation of a system and as such they're tied with the star formation itself?
I was a huge fan of sourcetree until the release of 1.9 and it was the only GUI that I've used instead of the cli for basic things, but the UI changes since then have been terrible. Far too much wasted whitespace and really odd decisions, like placing checkbox choices within a drop down menu (ignore commit hooks, amend last commit, etc.). Alas, 2.0 doesn't do anything to fix these issues, so 1.8 remains.
You kind of ignoring that we live in the age of the internet and word-of-mouth can work a lot better than sales/marketing. Returns too, only matter if it actually does fail, which given the premiss it doesnt.
No reason why a exponential improvement in lightbulbs would be less popular than anything else people have looked at and said this is way better than that.
Money creation is still redistribution: redistribution to whoever first gets to spend the created money.
Project health, and why it's important – shellshock afterwords
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Do you care to explain why this is "insane and frightening"? Are you frequently terrified by telecommunications?
Fascinating theory regarding the ice, however, regarding the formation:

"According to the idea, the solar system had its origin in a gigantic star into which a smaller, dead, waterlogged star fell. This impact caused a huge explosion which flung fragments of the smaller star out into interstellar space where the water condensed and froze into giant blocks of ice. A ring of such blocks formed, which we now call the Milky Way, as well as a number of solar systems among which was our own, but with many more planets than currently exist."

maybe too far fetched? If it was like that we would have already spotted similar galactic formations outside of the Milky Way
There isn't that much publicly available information about how Watson works - I'm pretty sure I'd read everything there was in January this year. There might be some more now?

I can't even imagine where to start with "Can you help me with life insurance" - beyond maybe triggering standard sales pitches.

How does Watson decide when to use the knowledge graph and when to look more broadly?
See what your users see
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Because everyone complains about those heavy screws!
Last time I went to the store they weren't there.

And once again "as much lumen output as a 120 watt incandescent" just isn't the case in reality. I've tried every lightbulb at every color temp and nothing works for me. Say that as much as you want but the light output sucks. I spent probably $60 on lightbulbs trying to find one to light my bedroom and the only thing that would help is buying about 2 more lamps. The same lamp worked fine to light my bedroom with an incandescent bulb year ago.

I had done (what I thought at the time was) the good thing and switched over. Now that I am sick of it and I want to go back it is very difficult to find them in the stores and if I bought online I'd pay an arm and a leg.
People trust Apple and nobody else can read their code. This suggests open source is not necessary to build trust.
Late but for you or anyone who reads this later: how did you miss that I wrote "women in tech" in quotes? Furthermore, if you read a little closer do you notice another subtlety: she isn't the only one.

You seem to look for a reason to get offended. That isn't a good strategy if you are going to work with some of us. Otherwise we're quite ok and happily work with anybody as long as they stay technical instead of going off like you did above. ;-)
Using the word "relationship" is a bit manipulative IMO. If it is a relationship, it's a conditional one-sided one.
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Nope, never been watched Fox News in my life. Just an annoyed customer that when I go to the store I can't find what I would like. And yeah, the proper way to ban something is to set minimum standards of performance that the thing could never meet. That's like Republicans saying "we aren't banning abortion" while creating a series of legislation that makes it extremely hard to impossible to be able to perform abortion.

Either way I said "most."
Yawn. Someone will have to update the list:

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
Depends on the router. Cisco is famously runs IOS, which I believe is based on BSD (FreeBSD 2.2 specifically). Barracuda gear, however, is Linux based.

However in all cases, I think you'd still be right about Bash not being present.
I can't speak for him, but it terrifies me that we expend so much energy and capital to completely remove any sort of human reflection from the operations of our global economy.
I had a very similar experience. A very social friend convinced me to try it.

I got immersed for about a month but then I slowly drifted away as I got the typical Google service experience.

What do I mean by Google service experience?

Got to Level 8 but also I submitted about 30 portals, spending a lot of time researching what was suitable.

Other players warned me that the response would be 2 months, but still what I got was unacceptable:

4 out of 6 portals were accepted within a month, but they were not the first 6 submitted. The rest of my submission (made over number of days) just fell off the face of earth.

I waited a few months then completely gave up on the game.

If you do not value my time to give me even a rejection e-mail, then I do not see the point in playing such a game.