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I think "scumbag flags" is an extremely inflammatory conclusion to jump to. How about these are all signs for "just getting started"?

Sure, if you don't want to do business with a brand new startup, just wait a bit for them to mature. But no need to sound the snake oil alarm.

That being said, putting ToS and privacy policy links on the signup and main page would be a good idea.
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This is my understanding as well - you don't just get all the IBM software you want, but there are ways to internally acquire what you need on funded projects (or similarly, I would assume, acquisitions).

It's worth noting that more and more of IBM's software/platforms are cloud-based and even publicly available (e.g. Bluemix) so I imagine the landscape for this type of software acquisition is changing even internally.
Thought process: "Hmm.. that sucks I like rice. I wonder what I can eat instead" .. check comments .. learn about Quinoa = relevant.
I am in love with IFTTT's Do apps. The UX is purely phenomenon and has become part of my daily life. I hope they keep up these types of projects!
As an IBM'er, I think this is awesome news!

Cloudant is awesome for CouchDB, but if you want mongo or redis, we didn't have a lot to offer before today.

Looking forward to working with you guys!
I don't know but in the end I stopped caring about themes, vanilla emacs (light) is good 99% of the time.
Docker does not provide any security.
Citation needed!

Not just being pedantic here for the sake of it, I think it would be good to know how much safer experts generally are. Just saying "we're better than them!" isn't very convincing or useful.
Is his entire complaint that the syntax looks too much like Java? The fact is, people are already using prototypes to share common methods across objects, and classes are really nice short syntactic sugar for doing that. His comment on classes there is too flippant to even know the meaning of his complaint.

Beyond that I'd argue that classes give you more guarantees about how an object will behave at the expense of flexibility, although they give you escape hatches if you like. The reduced flexibility is really nice because you can define safe subsets of the language in which tools that analyze and refactor code are possible, even across files if you're using the module system. Moving the language in a direction where consistent universal tooling is possible to write is something that I love about classes, and is often overlooked in discussions about it. I don't care that classes are just a simplified subset feature of what's possible using prototypes, it covers the common case well enough and makes it possible to write really nice code completetion and refactoring tools that don't randomly break. That's worth all the extra magic in my opinion.
Hi there,

Recently I started a research on startup studios. I'd like to identify best practices, so more and more successful studios can emerge.

In this part 1, the main challenge was to gather detailed information about startup studio exits. I could find 14 companies that exited, but no solid info about deal sizes.

I'll definitely try to contact the ex founders and acquirers of these companies. Also if you might have any info on the following deals, please let me know:

raytracker.com (founded: 2009, studio: IdeaLab) acquired in 2011 by First Solar

marvia.nl (founded: 2007, studio: Disrupted) acquired in 2012 by PostNL

shoppinglive.ru (founded: 2011, studio: Fastlane Venture) acquired in 2013 by Home Shopping Europe

mdotapp.com (founded: 2010, studio: Archimede Labs) acquired in 2013 by GoDaddy

gopollgo.com (founded: 2011, studio: IdeaLab) acquired in 2013 by Yahoo

sticky9.com (founded: 2011, studio: Mint Digital) acquired in 2014 by PhotoBox

justbook.com (founded: 2011, studio: Venture Stars) acquired in 2014 by Secret Escapes

lieferando.de (founded: 2008, studio: Rheingau Founders) acquired in 2014 by Takeaway.com

loopit.com (founded: 2012, studio: RedStar) acquired in 2014 by Nanigans

perfectmarket.com (founded: 2007, studio: IdeaLab) acquired in 2014 by Taboola

cra.sh (founded: 2012, studio: IdeaLab) acquired in 2014 by Oversee.net

pressking.com (founded: 2010, studio: eFounders) acquired in 2015 by ePressPack

refame.com (founded: 2014, studio: Science.inc) acquired in 2015 by Famebit

minbildinbil.dk (founded: 2013, studio: Founders) acquired in 2015 by SnappCar
They would likely have extrapolated the savagery they saw and realized that we may pose some problems for the galactic community. RKKVs are probably on their way towards Earth as we speak.
Until a gamma beam disrupts the connection and you miss the best part, that is!
You're setting yourself up for data loss if you use RAID-5 with large consumer drives -- I wouldn't trust less than RAID-6 because the chance of a second failure while rebuilding the array after the first drive failed is too great. Especially since you likely don't have a cold spare on hand, so you have to wait a week to get the replacement drive. RAID-1 may be better since the rebuild is faster and doesn't stress the disks so much.
In the interests of being pedantic, and local pride: Seattle's viaduct replacement isn't over budget-- yet.

It's extremely likely to go over budget, but don't count the chickens before they've hatched. The last budget review came to the conclusion that it's still possible to finish the project as budgeted and scheduled.

http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/04/23/ber...
DoulCi+for+iOS+8.4/+iOS+8.3+remove+iCloud+lock+activation
We changed the URL from https://mixpanel.com/blog/2015/07/23/introducing-codeless-mo... to what looks like the main page for this announcement, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936693.
You mean like the ES7 decorators proposal[1], or something else?

[1] https://github.com/wycats/javascript-decorators
Tell me about your devolution. (He said to ask him to in his profile.)
Planet Four: Terrains – Zooniverse
My gut reaction to your question was to answer "by train". Another option might (considering it's in Norfolk), by canal.

Then I thought I'd better look it up.

The comment in the article was about Berney Arms[1]. Looking on the map, it looks like the station is indeed unserved by roads. However, the nearest road does appear to be 500 metres away (much closer than three miles). The pub and windmill are on that road, rather than at the roadless station.

The next junction along that road is about 2km away (still not 3 miles), and the nearest meaningful junction (i.e. that gives you a choice of destination) 3.5km (still not 3 miles).

The nearest junction with an A road is about 3 miles away, following the road. It is also the closest you can get with Google Streetview[2]

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Berney+Arms,+Great+Yarmo...

[2]https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.621769,1.651184,3a,75y,187...
Hi,

I am planning the next version. I would appreciate some suggestions for it. I opened an issue at github to gather this wishes.

Your suggestions are welcome here: https://github.com/rafael-santiago/pig/issues/4

Thanks!
Government sanctioned marriage, per se, is completely neutral to religion or its absence, out neither files rules that are particular to religion, not only annoys the religious. So, no, it doesn't violate the rule laid down in Everson.
I am starting to believe that large, established, companies with large market share and large patent portfolios have little use for 95% of their patent portfolio. First, many patents are either weak or outdated by the time they issue. Maybe the company has changed directions from the time the patent application was filed. Or, there also might be a "file first and ask questions later policy" for many companies, so that valuable inventions are captured along with the junk patents, a bycatch of sorts. Then, the company can enhance their reputation in some communities by giving away patent rights. Second, the purpose of patents is to exclude others from making your invention for a period of time in exchange for teaching the invention to the public. This can be useful for smaller players, including individual inventors, who do not have a large market share and comparatively little money. Larger companies do not have as much need to exclude competition through use of IP, because they have already excluded competition in the market. Although, there are still the clash of the titans, such as Apple and Samsung.
Since IE11 comes with Windows 10 - yes.
Seriously? IBM has a whole portfolio of technology with plenty being very competitive. It's one part of how they're the largest tech company. Getting their software free or hardware at cost internally would be a strong enabler for about anything.

This would be a nice start for a division or project: Rational w/ all analysis & productivity addons; the management software; cloud services (i.e. backups); security services/software (basic); an IBM i (comes with DB2) for critical stuff. Add in some servers and storage appliances [from IBM] where needed as growth occurs. Also remember that that Microsoft used to run their whole business on one AS/400 until they were called out and replaced it with 20+ Windows servers to match performance/reliability. Funny stuff.

They have all kinds of good tech. A permissive policy on its use, even if for limited time, could greatly aid internal projects and growth of companies they acquire. If I was them, I'd throw my weight into everything on the software side given it would be as easy as an order, a license, and a download. ;)
What are the odds that this is just a sunspot?
I actually did want to make something similar, born out of a desire to digitize my local transit schedules. I tried emailing my local transit agency, but they were uninterested and I didn't realize the kind of hustle you needed to get such stuff started.

I then had an idea using SMS and windows pocket PCs to basically make something like Uber for a software taxi dispatch system. You would SMS a number and then get updates via SMS on the status of your cab. Cabs would have the pocket PCs installed with an external GPS module. I would sell it to taxi dispatch companies as a way to make more money. I was just starting university although, and felt quite overwhelmed with the idea of actually selling it to anyone.
Well ... enjoy the show :( Too bad that this stupidity persists so much.
"Help planetary scientists characterize surfaces on Mars by examining images taken with the Context Camera"

Super interesting. I had no idea this was going on.
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Marcin, CEO of UXPin, here. Thanks for posting the news. We're very excited about the investment and having Jeff on board! Now back to work. Time to make design collaboration easy! :)
Didn't the big tech companies make an agreement to not poach employees from each other?
For .NET 1.0, there was no msbuild - csproj files were not build files, and they weren't part of .NET, but part of VS. And until James Duncan Davidson got fed up with maintaining batch files and threw together Ant to manage his Tomcat build process, there was no build solution for Java, either.
In the American West, Canada, Russia, and myriad places throughout the world, it's not hard to get three miles away from a road.

It depends on where you are. In a lot of places west of the Mississippi, there are still pretty regular grids, spaced less than three miles apart, of roads. Without them, access for agriculture and ranching would be difficult/impossible.

Plus, even a lot of state and national parks have access roads running through them. You have to go out to places that have no agricultural, industrial or tourism value whatsoever in order to get that far from a road.
Show HN: Multi Forward – Chrome extension to forward multiple emails on Gmail
A response - study has problems like many studies but result is persuasive

http://chrisblattman.com/2015/07/23/dear-journalists-and-pol...
Yes, but the other side of the coin of airline deregulation is that there fewer routes to smaller airports and/or they are more costly. There is a large fixed cost associated with providing service to each airport and because of this, airlines have decided to either hike up prices to make the route semi-viable or stop service altogether.

While this may be good for the airline, it's not necessarily good for the people that are now forced to drive multiple hours to the nearest airport.

I would think that something similar would happen if the trains were deregulated.
I sent an email to your email address at nirvdrum with what I've been looking at.
A solution to the Uber and Airbnb problems that no one will like
The Weird World of Bi-Directional Programming (2006) [pdf]
Well, I get what bsammers said because is what heap have been offering since day one and what made it special. You are even using gradients with that orange that reminded me about them.

I'm happy you took the non-coding approach, it will be much easier for the analytics or marketing team that won't have to wait for the engineers to push changes to the tracking code.

I didn't find it on the website so I'll ask here: Do you do like heap and track all user interactions and then allow to track whatever you need on the fly, event past events?

Hope you take the same approach on the web version. It's the only pain point I see on Mixpanel.

Thx, and keep up the great work, I use MixPanel a lot :)
"Everyone needs to check out https://smugmug.com - for $40 a year you get unlimited photo and video uploads (yes, RAW files are ok). It's like flikr with no ads, only your own stuff on the pages, super customizable (with a power account - $60 a year)"

Unlimited storage at a flat rate can only end two ways:

1) Out of business

2) User hostile behavior where only light usage is tolerated

That's it. There's not a third way. If the space is unlimited and the price is not, eventually non-light users will be throttled or otherwise inconvenienced such that the service is not useful for them.

Your interests are not aligned in this scenario - you want to use as much space as possible and they want you to use as little space as possible.
I had no idea there were so many conspiracies about the airport, despite the fact that I fly out of it all the time. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denver_Airport_conspiracy_theor... debunks several, though all it can really say about the art is, "Huh, yeah, that's weird. So what?" which isn't particularly dispositive.

That demon horse scares the crap out of me, though.
I'm must be missing it: how do I copy pieces, like for building roads? Or is that simply not possible?

Not a huge deal, just kind of assumed that functionality would be there.
There is an attorney here in Orlando that will get you on the list for a fee. It's pretty gross.
>> "You are talking about having 800 people wearing orange vests, sitting on camping stools, holding thermoses filled with coffee, and shouting into their cell phones, 'Open the fire door'?"

Funny thing is, if they had allowed that there would never be an opportunity to fix it correctly. It would require shutting down the airport for quite some time.

The parallels with software and other areas of engineering are a bit disturbing.
Yeah, VR is the overinflated dream from 80's sci-fi, what we want instead is AR, the overinflated dream of oughties sci-fi. :P
If you'd like to force yourself to at least look at a script before piping it in, there's shed [0]

[0] https://github.com/mplewis/shed
I don't understand your reasoning!

There is good evidence that life apeared on earth more or less as soon as it cooled down, so there is just as much reason to think that this new place may have life as not.

However, by the same reasoning it seems to me that the life may be bacteria like!
I'm not sure there's any evidence that "agile," in any of its many forms, had a high success rate for very complex projects.
The problem with this actually is the LinkedIn API. LI has restricted it so heavily that you can't use the API to export data - http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/02/12/linkedin-takes-aim-devel...

The only alternative is to apply to the Partner Program, which will likely be denied given LI's history.
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Apparently whatever number of readers hit your blog made it fall over :-(
In this case, I don't think the technology was as surprising as the fact that it came from outside the Taxi industry. Who would have thought that it would be easier to create a global fleet of drivers from scratch than it would be to utilize existing infrastructure.

I do see your point though. Someone may have been thinking of this concept 10 years ago, but it certainly wasn't me.
> It's jarring to think that if intelligent life were on Kepler 452-b and observing Earth, we're so far away that they would be seeing our "civilizations" in 615 AD: shrinking global population as the old Roman and Byzantine empires are overrun by barbarian hordes and Arab conquest, with some pockets of human progress in China.

Is there something uncivilized about the Arab conquest of Byzantine lands? Had the Kepler 452-b-ians been observing Earthians but a few hundred years prior, they'd have seen the Romans doing much the same to expand their own empire. And the Arabs did quite a good job to not only preserve the Roman intellectual and scientific state of the art, but to contribute their own advancements of those fields.
Nice post. What tools do you use to understand which line of the code is creating a bottleneck? For instance, the "if statement has too many false positives" in Solution #4. Do you locate these bottlenecks simply by manual inspection of the code?
Deutsche Bahn actually runs train services in the UK (as do Dutch operator Abellio and French operator SNCF). Sadly, their arrival hasn't brought with it the cheap, reliable travel that we view enviously on the continent. Instead, we get the same expensive, poor-to-mediocre service as every other train operator.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/12/rail-privati...
Of course there is. Even if the chip is never released to the public, the IP and processes used to produce a 7nm chip have great patent value.
The war of deeplinking standards
Rice grown in the southern US has relatively high levels of arsenic - some quick math based on UN standards for the developing world says that you could plausibly eat enough to reach the low end of measurable cancer risk. Most of us don't though.

If you don't like this answer, eat Asian-grown rice (~75% less arsenic), rinse your rice (~25% less arsenic), or cook it in substantially more water (~50% less arsenic).
That's correct. You're stuck as a fixed point, although you can still get a stereoscopic perspective.

Companies like Lytro have started working on solutions to let you move your head around a little bit, but that's about the extend of video for the foreseeable future.

Still, you don't always want to be moving around in a scene. People sit and watch movies all the time, so there's going to be a place for it.
Loaded for me after a few refreshes.
This one is not about management.

There is no way you can silently stop working and turn your focus on private side projects.
At least you need to talk to your coworkers and your management about running out of work. It´s up to you.
For the VCS, do you mean Clearcase?

Clearcase was a good idea in 2001, when the alternative was CVS. In 2015, I am wholeheartedly unconvinced it offers anything over git. (And I'm not a devoted booster of git.)

(I was nominally responsible for a Clearcase setup at Ericsson in 2001. I mentioned it in passing on the 2002 version of my CV, and no later version. I still get pings from those last few Clearcase shops, desperate to find someone willing to touch the thing.)

You may disagree, and perhaps Clearcase has substantially changed its model since then. What in detail do you like about Clearcase over (say) git?
> with a power account you can point your own URL at your account and no one even needs to know the files are on smugmug

Really? I use smugmug and am quite happy with it, and I use a custom url, but I never dived into having a custom gallery where no smugmug info would be present.

I asked support how to remove the "buy" option and they said you can't have it off by default, although you can turn it off for specific galleries.

How do you use smugmug, and do you use it as your portfolio?

Would be very interested in learning more about what's possible.
OP - if you have a VPS on which you can set up Varnish and need a hand in doing so, feel free to email me at the address in my profile.
What a strange bit of information to make public. Blogging is a good way to blow off steam, but I don't see how this could turn out to be positive for the OP. It could make it worse by publicly admitting that he went against company policies. If the company decides to pursue legal action (for whatever reason) this blog post provides them with ammunition. I'd remove it from the blog and take a couple of days to learn about the situation.
'Earth 2.0' found in Nasa Kepler telescope haul
I am sure I am sticking around as long as possible, but it is always good idea to be ready for all eventualities. Especially when you are running legacy apps that you have no time to update, but still don't want to let them die.

Thanks to MongoHQ I was able to move one particular app three times to different providers. It took no time, just upload the code, change DNS and you are good.
I have some bad news for you; companies imposing costs on others to reduce their own cost is extremely common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
I think there's a difference between working on side projects that are open-source, and actually trying to build another company while you are at work - also dangerous, because they can claim ownership of what you create.

I have friends at other companies that I sometimes give a bit of advice in the evening over drinks, or even do a little work for on weekends, but when I'm at work, or even "working from home", I'm working for my employer.

You can always find opportunities to 'sharpen the saw', so to speak, when your official duties are blocked by someone else or you are ahead of schedule.

I've even heard of people being fired for connecting over ssh to external servers that clearly belonged to another company. Not only are there technical ways to avoid being that obvious, but there are other ways to balance side projects.
any recommendations for approaching management on this? i know a junior dev that shows up to work with nothing ever assigned and his managers seem to give no shits about keeping him busy. is that a sign to jump shit or rephrase the conversation?
Rational's pricing model has always been "how much have you got?"
Seems like another attempt of google to get phone numbers from users. Experts are using two factor authentication, review your security settings and give us your phone number. Maybe I am a bit paranoid...
Lots of exploits fit in a tweet. Lots don't. That really doesn't have anything to do with how "bad" or "trivial" it is.
Better to have ghost trains than the short-sighted Beeching Cuts[0]. For example, the town I grew up in once had two stations where it was possible to catch trains to both Glasgow and Edinburgh, but by the 1960s these were both closed, and now the roads are pretty clogged up with commuters every day, with little hope of ever reopening the lines given much of the land was sold off and redeveloped.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts