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> And most startup jobs are actually underpaid compared to "boring" IT.

Most tech workers don't realize this. I can work an exciting, below market startup job (infrastructure/devops), and then hop back into enterprise IT (it manager/vp engineering/senior linux admin) when the going gets tough and get paid more (ie market rate) until the next startup wave comes through.
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I disagree. Unless "method of operation" is some godforsaken legalistic bastardization of the language, APIs are methods of operation, not a description. In Java you must use those exact symbols to use the software... the description would be the documentation and Javadoc comments about the code, which I agree could certainly be eligible for copyright protection
Well keep in mind that we are still in a low production rate situation. Production will ramp up greatly in the next few years, driving costs down further.
Thinking the same thing here.
Several of those are projects that were never hosted at SourceForge, aren't they? Firefox, for example, I don't believe was ever an SF project. WordPress, I don't recall ever seeing on SourceForge. Are they altering the binaries they are posting on their "mirror"?

This is very confusing.
if you use facebook or any facebook service in any way, shape, or form, you are an incredibly stupid human being.
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... because we aren't actually making any money.
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A simple tool to add to your developer toolbox. Its a menubar app to launch your project in your preferred editor and terminal with options to do git pulls and open in finder. Start developing quicker.
It seems perhaps the NY Times has it out for Google recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9612129
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I had to switch based on my company only supporting ios on a BYOD plan. But once I switched I sorta prefer ios. But I could be swayed back, especially if Android phones start decreasing in price as they commoditize themselves like PCs did.
Granting that education is an IQ multiplier, let's remember that both sides of the multiplication sign affect the product. The multiplier found at the private school charging private-college level tuition is going to be a good deal larger than the multiplier at the public school in a bad neighborhood.
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The patent for LYMErix has expired [1] and the vaccine is still considered to be safe and effective by the FDA [2]. Someone want to start producing it again?

[1] http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...

[2] http://www.jefftk.com/fda-lymerix.pdf
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But talking about an investigation into FIFA is somehow on-topic and relevant to HackerNews?!
Facebook groups don't require a cellphone. I participate in one (much to my dismay... but that's where the group is...) and I never "Facebook" on my cell phone - messenger, "app," website... none are loaded on my phone or ever used on my phone.
Leftists love "definitions" just like Christians like quoting from the bible. You can quote from definitions given by your priests, the academics, all you want. Of course they've defined things to make themselves look good.

Leftist churches, I mean, universities, defined leftism to be good and fuzzy and caring and they defined the right to mean evil discriminating people that can't give speeches on campus because leftists won't let them? I'm so surprised.

I'm sorry if the world isn't neatly defined the way you wish but there's no political difference between Hitler and Obama - both think it's OK to bring legalized violence into the free market and both were OK taking money from a group of people and giving that money to another group of people (rich/poor, jew/german).

Your State-sanctioned wikipedia articles are cute but how would you explain to a kid that it's OK to steal from the rich except if they are jewish?

Easy, you tell them the Left has redefined the political axis to make themselves look good, and you tell them there's a group of people in the Right that believe stealing is not OK period, not from the rich, not from jewish people, not from anyone. Kids understand that. Stealing is wrong, even if Obama does it.

In summary, if you think the definition of Left and Right are those given by some French people hundreds of years ago and that the term "evolved in its meaning" then you would benefit from the Chinese proverb:

"the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names"

First, why do we drop the "traditional definitions"? Because they change throughout time. Easy. We need constants. So Philosophy decided that Left is totalitarianism and right is anarchy, that way we neatly have a spectrum where we can place all political ideas! Isn't that neat? Isn't that more useful than a changing definition that people have to consult Encyclopedias to talk about? That old leftist strategy of delaying the debate by saying "you don't even know what such and such means", lately seen employed by feminists (another group that only looks at the definition of the word, and not the actions of those who say they espouse the ideology).
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Great book on debugging issues on Linux \w strace, gdb, core dumps, etc.
> Question: what the fuck?

American here.

We are aware of the problem, but due to high call volume and a totally corrupt/captured/entrenched corporate & government bureaucracy, you may experience long wait times.
My question is: if my (outrageous) tuition bill isn't going towards paying my professors a livable wage, then were is all of that money going?
Lyme disease is one of those diseases that present in so many different ways, and often looks like a million different things (see Avril Lavigne's case). Therefore people get sick and are unwell for a very long time before it's finally properly diagnosed. So for those that go outdoors a lot and live in an area with high population of infected ticks, vaccine is a good prevention strategy.
I would recommend to others to sample the Moldbuggery list, and not to start with Scott Alexander's writings. The point of Moldbug's writings is not to be 100% accurate. The point is to expose you to new ideas and old forgotten books, so that you yourself can create a more accurate version of reality. You won't get this by reading Scott Alexander. To really get the value of the writings, you need to actually read the old books that Moldbug recommends reading. It is very, very interesting to read an account of the Revolutionary War from a Tory or Loyalist who was actually there.

"I do not at all get neoreactionaries"

The first thing to understand is that many neoreactionaries live in once great American cities where the schools look like this: ( http://www.philly.com/philly/news/special_packages/inquirer/... ), many of the neighborhoods look like this: https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1_____enUS368US369&q=urb... and if you move to the wrong neighborhood this will happen: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Father-Memorial-Da...

When that is your daily lived experience, you start asking questions about when it all went wrong.
When I was in art school years ago we were told the same thing. If you make a 'mistake', it is better to amend it, reshape it, draw over it, rather than trying to pretend it didn't happen.

It definitely makes you freer in a fine art context.

Probably similarities with programming. Better to write bad code than no code at all (at least when it comes to your own projects).
I will second the Discovery aspect as being something that I like about SF when I first used it in the early 2000s. The reason I liked it so much was because I was a kid looking for free games to play on my PC, who soon learned to equate opensource == free, who then started browsing SF's games category (played a lot of BZflag).

That said, with projects and people leaving SF, and their UI leaving a lot to be desired, there are so many more options I'd first use for project discovery.
>Thousands of people have died building soccer stadiums and people are saying that is wrong.

Over 1100 people have died in a span of a few weeks from the heat wave currently happening in India. This sort of thing happens. Obviously, the Qataris could be doing a lot more to reduce deaths and improve condition of workers, but this is not exactly news, nor is it due to slavery.

I still think that a lot of the hate haslittle to do with slavery and more to do with the fact that :-

1. Football fans from England/Europe/America pissed off that they couldn't host the world cup and are annoyed that the Qataris were able to buy their way into the world cup. This group has been running an effective smear campaign ever since the selection happened.

2. Undercurrent racism from football fans and non-fans (Why is this article even in Hacker News? Are there that many football, sorry soccer fans here?)
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I'm with bad_user. In the interest of mvp-ness, not showing this image at all (and not requesting these permissions) would have resulted in me installing the extension with no extra effort on your part (presumably.) As it is, I won't install this :/
The world didn't really need yet another example to contribute to Betteridge's law of headlines.
A fair point. btrfs would have a much easier time of it. We then have the interesting consequence that we can observe times and sizes of COW updates, but in truth SSDs have that anyway.
Looks neat, please add a license file.
Some are chasing tenure-track positions of which there are fewer and fewer, but to get one requires staying active in academia. Some are industry professionals who may teach on the side for extra income or because they really want to teach.

Oversupply is part of it, but there's also the issue of Universities offering fewer and fewer full-time tenure track positions. This is a disservice to the students who are paying a fortune in tuition only to be taught by someone who, despite their best efforts, isn't given the resources to teach to the best of their ability.
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If a COO does not listen to what the CTO say is important for productivity, you have bigger problems than non-IT people not understanding you.
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> But talking about an investigation into FIFA is somehow on-topic and relevant to HackerNews?!

To the extent that the FIFA discussion is inappropriate for HN, the correct response is to flag the article, not post things off-topic to the article in the thread.

Whether the FIFA-related article is appropriate to HN is completely irrelevant, in any case, to discussion of whether the attack on Clinton is itself on-topic to the thread discussing the FIFA article.
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I'm looking to manage a support group for a small community of not very tech-savvy users discussing sensitive health topics. Best suggestion I got so far was Yahoo groups but I'm wondering if there are better alternatives. I can help set up people manually, so ease of configuration is not a priority, but ease of use would be. Open to hosting myself but ideally it'd be a service so I don't have to worry about managing a server. At a minimum it should support mailing lists, but having a calendar and document hosting would be nice. Thanks!
We’re not going to sell this extension to be turned into malware! I suspect I’m not going to be able to convince you with a comment, though. :-)
Ah awesome! Thanks for sharing. Definitely going to add this on my to-do list; would love to add some already-made AI to it. :D
I was a developer for 17 years and switched into enterprise sales a couple of years ago (with a short stint as a technical account manager in between). The upside of the transition is that sales is still a job for problem-solvers, although you'll be much less hands on. The downside is that there are expectations for performance that come along with the upsides of being paid based on that performance. I still hack on stuff in my spare time, but that time seems much less abundant now (certainly less time to surf HN, for example ;)).

If this is something you're interested in, many organizations are in need of sales engineers (pre-sales technical folks) who have real experience from the trenches. If you are comfortable talking with technical and non-technical people alike, sales engineering is probably the best place to start. The challenge with getting into a purely sales role is that many places expect a level of experience before hiring people. Negotiations and proposal building can be surprisingly complex, and there aren't many organizations interested in training-up sales people. Sales engineering would serve the purpose of giving you exposure to the pre-negotiation piece of the sales process, as well as introducing you to a lot of people with deep experience in the negotiation / closing process.

I'd be happy to chat with you offline about my experiences as well -- my email is in my profile.
For anyone interested, here's a video Facebook released of the system in action:

https://www.facebook.com/Engineering/videos/1015212866009720...
In other (unrelated) blu-ray news, blu-ray is finally getting a UHD (aka 4K) high dynamic range spec.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/01/4k-blu-ray-p...
Consider using ServiceWorker notifications for an extension-free way to do this.
GIMP did move off Sourceforge back in November 2013[1]. Unfortunately, because there were a bunch of links pointing there it still ranks very highly in searches for GIMP. I'm not sure if there's even any way to delete a Sourceforge project.

[1] See the top story on http://www.gimp.org/
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I think they're conflating "intelligent individual" as sharing their own personal opinions on sharing meta data.

I could say that "intelligent individuals" don't project their personal views on favorable demographics, but then I would be doing the same.
Are there any services out there that do this by email, and in particular that have domain filters? I'd love to get a notification when any domain I'm associated with gets posted to HN.
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But who wants a phone that is going to junk out on every second OS version update?
The system just hasn't been set up with the idea that it's important to protect the public against bad patents. I don't know if a lawsuit of the kind you suggest could possibly succeed. What I think is more likely is that Congress will eventually absorb the idea that a counterbalance of some kind is necessary.

My own proposal is that bringing an infringement case should require the plaintiff to provide objective evidence that the invention is nonobvious. This evidence could be along the lines of what are called the "Graham factors" [0]: commercial success; long-felt but unsolved needs; and failure of others to solve the same problem. This evidence could be challenged by the defendant and would be weighed by the court.

This would weaken the presumption that an issued patent is valid; but not, in my opinion, to the point of making the patent valueless.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_v._John_Deere_Co.#The_Pa...
"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander

https://archive.org/details/APatternLanguage
I was building the MVP for another product, but after seeing tons of other pre-launch startups starting to gamify their waitlist (by letting users move up the list by referring others to sign up) I decided I want to take advantage of that too so I started building that out.

Then I thought, "hell, why don't I try to actually turn this into something?"

Three-ish weeks later, HelloList.com was born.

Take a peek! Going to try to make this something that nearly anyone can use to build a waiting list, so would love to hear any feedback on how to make it more useful.
But these aren't phishing victims. The IRS deployed a system which returns a treasure trove of personal information to anyone who presents a few shared secrets. This is a fundamentally flawed authentication mechanism devised by the IRS.
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Come on. Even if snapchat rapidly declines I am guessing Spiegel is going to end up doing alright. Why not go for it like Zuckerberg did instead of selling?

Can't succeed if you don't try. Good for the founders for deciding to run with it.
Perhaps it's just because I consider humans to be machines (or at least minimally different from other animals, which tend to be referred to as "it" when a gender is unknown) that I don't also bristle at the idea of someone being called "it". I call squirrels and dogs and dolphins and giraffes "it", so why should humans get special treatment?

I bristle more at the use of a plural pronoun for a singular entity, which would be the case by adopting "they" as such a pronoun. To me, it implies even more impersonality by lumping folks whose gender is indeterminate or non-binary into a plural group, as if only people in the male/female binary deserve a singular, personal pronoun. That, to me, seems more wrong than "it".

Once upon a time, "he" was usable in gender-neutral contexts in the same way that "man" was equated to "human" rather than "male" (i.e. the "generic he"). If the words "she" and "woman" hadn't been introduced (and if certain lawyers had taken "he" and "man" by their intended, original meanings rather than those in common vernacular), we'd be avoiding all sorts of problems, but seeing as that cat's already out of the bag, we now need a proper neuter singular third-person pronoun to replace "he". I don't particularly care for "xe" either (though I can see where the precedent comes from; some countries - like Australia - have formally recognized an 'X' gender for those who fall outside the male/female binary system), but so far it's the best we've come up with that doesn't make English even less grammatically consistent than it already is.

I personally use "one" in a lot of these circumstances, however; while it, too, lacks perfection, one could use it for a lot of situations where one's writing would normally include a more typical pronoun.
Possibly dumb question: why don't they unionize?
> Do you have a wishlist of features to add to GitHub pages? Maybe allowing minimal sandboxed server side computation with a max runtime of say 1ms, setting headers, redirects or other stuff? I am guessing every little addition would eat away at the alternatives.

Moving from WordPress, the fact that you couldn't constantly tweak a thousand little things was extremely liberating. That's the zen-like simplicity of GitHub Pages that to me, makes it an attractive option over heavyweight alternatives. Just push and your site is live. Fewer things to break and fewer things to worry about means more time to focus on what matters: your content.
Damn right. I choked on the "...as colleges attempt to rein in costs" bit. Last I heard, prices for private colleges are somewhere in the 60k range now (up from ~40k 10 years ago I believe?) and Jerry Brown is duking it out with the UC system over tuition increases.
I have seen it with my eyes in the last 6 months and it seems to be a model that never stops working. I'll specifically name Adobe, HP and Oracle as offenders. There is only 1 sales model I'll accept. A 30-day limited developer license to install/access and tinker with your product. Maybe companies exist that are "doing it right" but the old way is still alive and kicking and raking in millions.

EDIT: Exhibit A-Z is the current $240M lawsuit by the State of Oregon v Oracle: http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/201...
No that won't matter, imho, because it's not a value-based investment. It's a growth investment and the only question that needs to be answered is - will the stock go up? An S-1 on a company that has no profits and very few hard assets will tell you very little. But that won't stop investment, because that's not what they're looking for.
Higher ed administrators have rebranded themselves as corporate executives, with salary increases and accelerated hiring of non-faculty assistants and managers to match:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-26/ivy-league...

http://necir.org/2014/02/06/new-analysis-shows-problematic-b...
Great comment! The data shows a quickly growing social network and ad business (despite a lot of the naysaying in these comments).

From my personal observations, younger folks are spending a lot more time on Instagram and Snapchat, and a lot less time on FB and Twitter. And on Instagram, a lot of Snapchat content gets re-posted with their username in the comments.

Also, the amount of content I see created by people on Snapchat is way larger than what you see anywhere else. The expectation of curation is much lower so engagement is higher.

A few things about the product that I really like that illustrate Snapchat's transformation into a revenue generating business:

- The new "Live" stories from different places around the world are amazing and one of the most intimate forms of cultural exchange outside of physically visiting a place that I've experienced. Advertising has started in these streams already.

- The attempt with Discover to replace conventional TV programming with a mobile-first format is bold and has the potential to grow as younger folks find themselves consuming more media on their phones and as Snapchat builds out better relationships with content creators in the LA area.

- Snapcash is a smart first attempt at getting people's payment information so that peer-to-peer but eventually brand driven commerce can happen on the platform.
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Facebook doesn't only know what you are telling it - Facebook knows a lot about you even if you don't have a Facebook account. They create "shadow profiles" of non-users through info about you your friends give to Facebook. They may also track non-users through Facebook beacons and "like" buttons placed on other sites.

Plus Facebook can very trivially figure out where you work without you telling them. Let's say a colleague lists they work at Initech. They then create a group called "co-workers" and add you to it. Now Facebook can do some very simple datamining and figure out you work at Initech. You betcha they do that.

Even if you don't have an account and browse the web like RMS, you still probably have a shadow profile unless you have no friends. If a friend gives the Facebook app permission to view it's phonebook (typical) and you are in it now Facebook knows and stores everything about you that's in your friend's phonebook - name, email, phone number, possibly home address, etc. This is one way it creates shadow profiles.

Facebook has face recognition software - need I say how much they can gather about you if your friends post pictures of you online?
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What do you mean by commercial offering? A paid version of GitHub Pages? What would you want to see in a paid offering that couldn't be baked into the current version?