1. I have a little list of companies looking for employees that I'll send you. Not much just companies that have contacted me looking for people.\\n2. I am a bad ass writer and have a crazy resume, but more importantly I know how to craft resumes and I'll look at yours and help you fix it up.\\n3. If you're in the San Francisco area I'll meet up with you and listen to what happened and see if there's a way to work out of it, or at least listen.\\n4. If you email me at help@learncodethehardway.org I'll talk with you and see if there's other ways I can help.
I'm serious, hit me up on email and I'll help out if I can. In fact, this goes for anyone else looking for work right now. Email the above and I'll reply with my little list. I don't make commissions on placement or anything like that, just a good thing to do.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6805699,"story_title":"Started a stupid company. Failed. ","story_url":"","parent_id":6805699,"created_at_i":1385518716,"_tags":["comment","author_zedshaw","story_6805699"],"objectID":"6805807","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"zedshaw","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Hey, other comments are going to give you a few lines telling you to not quit, that you should hang in there, and that it'll be alright. That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast. Here's what I want to do:
1. I have a little list of companies looking for employees that I'll send you. Not much just companies that have contacted me looking for people.\\n2. I am a bad ass writer and have a crazy resume, but more importantly I know how to craft resumes and I'll look at yours and help you fix it up.\\n3. If you're in the San Francisco area I'll meet up with you and listen to what happened and see if there's a way to work out of it, or at least listen.\\n4. If you email me at help@learncodethehardway.org I'll talk with you and see if there's other ways I can help.
I'm serious, hit me up on email and I'll help out if I can. In fact, this goes for anyone else looking for work right now. Email the above and I'll reply with my little list. I don't make commissions on placement or anything like that, just a good thing to do.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Started a stupid company. Failed. ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-27T07:22:13.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"avalaunch","points":676,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The other commenters are being too nice in their replies.
You're full of shit. JustFab is a shoe of the month club masquerading as a normal online shoe store. The VIP Membership Program is the essence of JustFab's business model and yet it's missing entirely from the home page of their site. It looks like any other shoe store. And yet you think it's clear that the user is being signed up for a shoe of the month membership when they originally clicked through to buy a single pair of shoes.
The entire checkout process is engineered to get people to sign up for the "VIP Membership Program" without realizing what it is. If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page. They'd include it in the list of items that you're purchasing. They'd include the relevant terms (not just a link to them) on the page where you enter your credit card information. They'd put the terms higher on the page so that you're more likely to read them. They'd put the "Checkout as a regular member" link next to the "normal" checkout button and they'd make it just as big. And they'd make it a button. They don't do any of these things.
When a user goes to checkout of any online store, they're not going to read everything on every page. It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly. I know this, you know this, and JustFab knows this. That's why the program details are listed on the first page of the checkout process and not the last. That's why they're listed on a page where the user has but one action to take. Click the big pink button and get on with the checkout process.
JustFab is not an awesome company as you claim. It is a scam and you are a horrible investor for investing in them.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6455391,"story_title":"Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?","story_url":"","parent_id":6455575,"created_at_i":1380266533,"_tags":["comment","author_avalaunch","story_6455391"],"objectID":"6455722","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"avalaunch","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The other commenters are being too nice in their replies.
You're full of shit. JustFab is a shoe of the month club masquerading as a normal online shoe store. The VIP Membership Program is the essence of JustFab's business model and yet it's missing entirely from the home page of their site. It looks like any other shoe store. And yet you think it's clear that the user is being signed up for a shoe of the month membership when they originally clicked through to buy a single pair of shoes.
The entire checkout process is engineered to get people to sign up for the "VIP Membership Program" without realizing what it is. If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page. They'd include it in the list of items that you're purchasing. They'd include the relevant terms (not just a link to them) on the page where you enter your credit card information. They'd put the terms higher on the page so that you're more likely to read them. They'd put the "Checkout as a regular member" link next to the "normal" checkout button and they'd make it just as big. And they'd make it a button. They don't do any of these things.
When a user goes to checkout of any online store, they're not going to read everything on every page. It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly. I know this, you know this, and JustFab knows this. That's why the program details are listed on the first page of the checkout process and not the last. That's why they're listed on a page where the user has but one action to take. Click the big pink button and get on with the checkout process.
JustFab is not an awesome company as you claim. It is a scam and you are a horrible investor for investing in them.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-07-24T17:36:38.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"sivers","points":447,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Theres this great story from the book Art and Fear, that's very appropriate here:
===
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the quantity group: 50 pounds of pots rated an A, 40 pounds a B, and so on.
Those being graded on quality, however, needed to produce only one pot albeit a perfect one to get an A.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
It seems that while the quantity group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes the quality group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
===
Advance congratulations to Jennifer. This is amazing.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6097155,"story_title":"I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115","story_url":"http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180","parent_id":6097155,"created_at_i":1374687398,"_tags":["comment","author_sivers","story_6097155"],"objectID":"6097663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sivers","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Theres this great story from the book Art and Fear, that's very appropriate here:
===
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the quantity group: 50 pounds of pots rated an A, 40 pounds a B, and so on.
Those being graded on quality, however, needed to produce only one pot albeit a perfect one to get an A.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
It seems that while the quantity group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes the quality group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
===
Advance congratulations to Jennifer. This is amazing.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-02-09T16:03:59.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"jbk","points":436,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"As the main developer of VLC, we know about this story since a long time, and this is just Dell putting crap components on their machine and blaming others. Any discussion was impossible with them. So let me explain a bit...
In this case, VLC just uses the Windows APIs (DirectSound), and sends signed integers of 16bits (s16) to the Windows Kernel.
VLC allows amplification of the INPUT above the sound that was decoded. This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files or post-amplification and can lead to saturation.
But this is exactly the same if you put your mp3 file through Audacity and increase it and play with WMP, or if you put a DirectShow filter that amplifies the volume after your codec output.\\nFor example, for a long time, VLC ac3 and mp3 codecs were too low (-6dB) compared to the reference output.
At worse, this will reduce the dynamics and saturate a lot, but this is not going to break your hardware.
VLC does not (and cannot) modify the OUTPUT volume to destroy the speakers. VLC is a Software using the OFFICIAL platforms APIs.
The issue here is that Dell sound cards output power (that can be approached by a factor of the quadratic of the amplitude) that Dell speakers cannot handle. Simply said, the sound card outputs at max 10W, and the speakers only can take 6W in, and neither their BIOS or drivers block this.
And as VLC is present on a lot of machines, it's simple to blame VLC. "Correlation does not mean causation" is something that seems too complex for cheap Dell support...
Maybe Dell should advise against playing Metal music and should only allow Céline Dion music, because Metal saturates more...
EDIT: more details...
PS: they even provide a BIOS update for the fix... So, of course, VLC was the issue... http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/KCS/Kcs...","num_comments":null,"story_id":7205759,"story_title":"Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty","story_url":"http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19492918.aspx","parent_id":7205759,"created_at_i":1391961839,"_tags":["comment","author_jbk","story_7205759"],"objectID":"7205875","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"jbk","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"As the main developer of VLC, we know about this story since a long time, and this is just Dell putting crap components on their machine and blaming others. Any discussion was impossible with them. So let me explain a bit...
In this case, VLC just uses the Windows APIs (DirectSound), and sends signed integers of 16bits (s16) to the Windows Kernel.
VLC allows amplification of the INPUT above the sound that was decoded. This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files or post-amplification and can lead to saturation.
But this is exactly the same if you put your mp3 file through Audacity and increase it and play with WMP, or if you put a DirectShow filter that amplifies the volume after your codec output.\\nFor example, for a long time, VLC ac3 and mp3 codecs were too low (-6dB) compared to the reference output.
At worse, this will reduce the dynamics and saturate a lot, but this is not going to break your hardware.
VLC does not (and cannot) modify the OUTPUT volume to destroy the speakers. VLC is a Software using the OFFICIAL platforms APIs.
The issue here is that Dell sound cards output power (that can be approached by a factor of the quadratic of the amplitude) that Dell speakers cannot handle. Simply said, the sound card outputs at max 10W, and the speakers only can take 6W in, and neither their BIOS or drivers block this.
And as VLC is present on a lot of machines, it's simple to blame VLC. "Correlation does not mean causation" is something that seems too complex for cheap Dell support...
Maybe Dell should advise against playing Metal music and should only allow Céline Dion music, because Metal saturates more...
EDIT: more details...
PS: they even provide a BIOS update for the fix... So, of course, VLC was the issue... http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/KCS/Kcs...","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19492918.aspx","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T13:40:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"6cxs2hd6","points":431,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"As I type this comment, most other comments are pointing out how a 6th grader got this wrong, by failing to suggest the "correct" solution of abandoning printing.
I don't... how do I put this nicely.
This is a kid. He is smart. He looked at the problem from a new angle. He came up with a nice hack. Presumably we want more kids with more of a hacking spirit.
I hope he doesn't read Hacker News.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7486678,"story_title":"Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions","story_url":"http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11","parent_id":7486678,"created_at_i":1396014047,"_tags":["comment","author_6cxs2hd6","story_7486678"],"objectID":"7487115","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"6cxs2hd6","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"As I type this comment, most other comments are pointing out how a 6th grader got this wrong, by failing to suggest the "correct" solution of abandoning printing.
I don't... how do I put this nicely.
This is a kid. He is smart. He looked at the problem from a new angle. He came up with a nice hack. Presumably we want more kids with more of a hacking spirit.
I hope he doesn't read Hacker News.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-25T21:42:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"lawl","points":427,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Damn! I don't like this.
I had hoped they jump in bed with valve.
Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about.
Also from the article:
> After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.
Nah, I'd rather not, thank you. I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn't get all the data about it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7469115,"story_title":"Facebook acquires Oculus VR","story_url":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1","parent_id":7469115,"created_at_i":1395783726,"_tags":["comment","author_lawl","story_7469115"],"objectID":"7469229","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"lawl","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Damn! I don't like this.
I had hoped they jump in bed with valve.
Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about.
Also from the article:
> After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.
Nah, I'd rather not, thank you. I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn't get all the data about it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Facebook acquires Oculus VR","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-06T11:49:22.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"shasta","points":410,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Is she comfortable with the fact that it was primarily an IP acquisition?","num_comments":null,"story_id":2965053,"story_title":"\"I've got an idea for an app\"","story_url":"http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app","parent_id":2965149,"created_at_i":1315309762,"_tags":["comment","author_shasta","story_2965053"],"objectID":"2965166","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"shasta","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Is she comfortable with the fact that it was primarily an IP acquisition?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"\"I've got an idea for an app\"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-15T13:37:16.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jbk","points":407,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I can speak quite a bit about this \"industry\": We (VLC) receive 1 of those offers per day.
They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous.
They have all those great offers for you, but they refuse to give any details as soon as you ask any question. More than half of them are \"the biggest in the world\" (sic). They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actually installed and about their connexions. They even lie on the actual payback price.
If you refuse, they build special websites, copying yours, with your IP and trademark and register adwords with your name, in every way possible.
They also resell their solutions/websites to other people, using \"Affiliate networks\", so that once you take one down, 20 appear. And the guy who you took down had no idea who you were or what the software was...
They also have deals with download.com/softopedia/softonic to change/rewrap your installer, without your agreement, often violating your license; or they give back money to those websites, so they are ranked higher than normal other downloads.
And of course, open source software are never respected.
I believe OP is very polite: There are no good reasons to not shame them publicly.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5059806,"story_title":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","story_url":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","parent_id":5059806,"created_at_i":1358257036,"_tags":["comment","author_jbk","story_5059806"],"objectID":"5059986","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jbk","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I can speak quite a bit about this \"industry\": We (VLC) receive 1 of those offers per day.
They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous.
They have all those great offers for you, but they refuse to give any details as soon as you ask any question. More than half of them are \"the biggest in the world\" (sic). They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actually installed and about their connexions. They even lie on the actual payback price.
If you refuse, they build special websites, copying yours, with your IP and trademark and register adwords with your name, in every way possible.
They also resell their solutions/websites to other people, using \"Affiliate networks\", so that once you take one down, 20 appear. And the guy who you took down had no idea who you were or what the software was...
They also have deals with download.com/softopedia/softonic to change/rewrap your installer, without your agreement, often violating your license; or they give back money to those websites, so they are ranked higher than normal other downloads.
And of course, open source software are never respected.
I believe OP is very polite: There are no good reasons to not shame them publicly.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-11-07T22:55:54.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"mapgrep","points":397,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"This is empty madness. It is, very literally, a celebration of total materialism.
What is ultimately important in life are people -- messy, filthy, bacteria-and-disease-laden, imperfect, emotional, sweating shitting cursing crying screaming laughing farting people and the connections we build to them.
This celebration of spending insane amounts of time choosing the perfect flatware or the perfect wallet is sick. Steve Jobs spent eight years discussing furniture with his family before buying a sofa etc (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_...). I will never do that, and I will never have flatware as nice as Dustin Curtis', and I will never have sound as good as an obsessive audiophile, or the perfect car.
I won't even write a particularly convincing Hacker News comment on this very topic. I've got to go. Life is too short for this shit.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4755470,"story_title":"The Best","story_url":"http://dcurt.is/the-best","parent_id":4755470,"created_at_i":1352328954,"_tags":["comment","author_mapgrep","story_4755470"],"objectID":"4755594","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mapgrep","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"This is empty madness. It is, very literally, a celebration of total materialism.
What is ultimately important in life are people -- messy, filthy, bacteria-and-disease-laden, imperfect, emotional, sweating shitting cursing crying screaming laughing farting people and the connections we build to them.
This celebration of spending insane amounts of time choosing the perfect flatware or the perfect wallet is sick. Steve Jobs spent eight years discussing furniture with his family before buying a sofa etc (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_...). I will never do that, and I will never have flatware as nice as Dustin Curtis', and I will never have sound as good as an obsessive audiophile, or the perfect car.
I won't even write a particularly convincing Hacker News comment on this very topic. I've got to go. Life is too short for this shit.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The Best","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://dcurt.is/the-best","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-08-22T17:54:01.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jwr","points":385,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The land of the free.
As I read more and more of those stories I can't help but wonder at how things changed. I am from a formerly-eastern-europe-soviet-bloc country (Poland) and these kinds of oppressive techniques sound very familiar. The haziness of procedures, lack of basic rights, intimidation, no accountability of state officials -- we've seen all that until 1989. At the time, while the communist regime was imposed on us, the USA seemed like heaven: transparency, procedures, basic rights, free speech, accountable officials.
Look at where we are today. I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country. When entering the country, the passport clerk has exactly two options: let me in, or call the police and get me arrested on the spot. I feel free and I am happy to live in a free country, together with people who because of the past oppressive Soviet regime are quite sensitive to abuses of power.
At the same time, the U.S. is rapidly degenerating into something that isn't quite the sinister oppressive regime, but getting close to the point where it could become one, if a wrong leader gets elected. It's scary.
And the worst thing is -- American people got so used to the idea of living in a free country, that they do not even admit the thought that things are going the wrong way. Most people don't see the signs.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6258422,"story_title":"Don't Fly During Ramadan","story_url":"http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan","parent_id":6258422,"created_at_i":1377194041,"_tags":["comment","author_jwr","story_6258422"],"objectID":"6258742","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jwr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The land of the free.
As I read more and more of those stories I can't help but wonder at how things changed. I am from a formerly-eastern-europe-soviet-bloc country (Poland) and these kinds of oppressive techniques sound very familiar. The haziness of procedures, lack of basic rights, intimidation, no accountability of state officials -- we've seen all that until 1989. At the time, while the communist regime was imposed on us, the USA seemed like heaven: transparency, procedures, basic rights, free speech, accountable officials.
Look at where we are today. I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country. When entering the country, the passport clerk has exactly two options: let me in, or call the police and get me arrested on the spot. I feel free and I am happy to live in a free country, together with people who because of the past oppressive Soviet regime are quite sensitive to abuses of power.
At the same time, the U.S. is rapidly degenerating into something that isn't quite the sinister oppressive regime, but getting close to the point where it could become one, if a wrong leader gets elected. It's scary.
And the worst thing is -- American people got so used to the idea of living in a free country, that they do not even admit the thought that things are going the wrong way. Most people don't see the signs.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Don't Fly During Ramadan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-25T21:46:23.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"dhouston","points":374,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"drew from dropbox here. i hope you guys can give us the benefit of the doubt: when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent (the title on HN was suggesting it could be the successor to torrents), you can imagine how that could ruin the service for everyone -- illegal file sharing has never been permitted and we take great pains to keep it off of dropbox. the internet graveyard is filled with services that didn't take this approach.
so, when something like this gets called to our attention, we have to do something about it. note that this isn't even by choice -- if we don't take action, then we look like we are tacitly encouraging it. the point is not to censor or \"kill\" it (which is obviously impossible and would be idiotic for us to try to do), but we sent kindly worded emails to the author and other people who posted it to take it down for the good of the community so that we don't encourage an army of pirates to flock to dropbox, and they voluntarily did so.
there were no legal threats or any other shenanigans to the author or people hosting -- we just want to spend all our time building a great product and not on cat-and-mouse games with people who try to turn dropbox into an illegal file sharing service against our wishes. (for what it's worth, dropship doesn't even work anymore -- we've fixed the deduplication behavior serverside to prevent \"injection\" of files you don't actually have, for a variety of reasons.)
that said, when we disabled public sharing of that file by hash, it auto-generated an email saying we had received a DMCA takedown notice to the OP, which was incorrect and not what we intended to do, so i apologize to dan that this happened.
(*edited the last paragraph: we didn't send a takedown notice, we sent a note saying that we received a DMCA takedown notice, which was also in error)","num_comments":null,"story_id":2482712,"story_title":"Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project","story_url":"http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/","parent_id":2482712,"created_at_i":1303767983,"_tags":["comment","author_dhouston","story_2482712"],"objectID":"2483053","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dhouston","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"drew from dropbox here. i hope you guys can give us the benefit of the doubt: when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent (the title on HN was suggesting it could be the successor to torrents), you can imagine how that could ruin the service for everyone -- illegal file sharing has never been permitted and we take great pains to keep it off of dropbox. the internet graveyard is filled with services that didn't take this approach.
so, when something like this gets called to our attention, we have to do something about it. note that this isn't even by choice -- if we don't take action, then we look like we are tacitly encouraging it. the point is not to censor or \"kill\" it (which is obviously impossible and would be idiotic for us to try to do), but we sent kindly worded emails to the author and other people who posted it to take it down for the good of the community so that we don't encourage an army of pirates to flock to dropbox, and they voluntarily did so.
there were no legal threats or any other shenanigans to the author or people hosting -- we just want to spend all our time building a great product and not on cat-and-mouse games with people who try to turn dropbox into an illegal file sharing service against our wishes. (for what it's worth, dropship doesn't even work anymore -- we've fixed the deduplication behavior serverside to prevent \"injection\" of files you don't actually have, for a variety of reasons.)
that said, when we disabled public sharing of that file by hash, it auto-generated an email saying we had received a DMCA takedown notice to the OP, which was incorrect and not what we intended to do, so i apologize to dan that this happened.
(*edited the last paragraph: we didn't send a takedown notice, we sent a note saying that we received a DMCA takedown notice, which was also in error)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-30T16:53:07.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"tptacek","points":366,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.
That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making:
Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone on the whole Internet for the adoption of modern TLS with forward-secrecy; they are the world's foremost deployers of ephemeral-keyed elliptic curve cryptography and of certificate pinning, both of which ensure not only the security of the traffic running over the network cables into their data centers, but also minimize the impact of a compromised long-term encryption key or the compromise of the CA system by a state actor.
Not only that, but Google launched a high-profile effort to encrypt the communications inside and between their data centers.
I hope a couple years hindsight will put the importance of Adam Langley's work (and that of the rest of his team; he's just the best-known member of that team) at Google into sharper relief.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6641378,"story_title":"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide","story_url":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost","parent_id":6641378,"created_at_i":1383151987,"_tags":["comment","author_tptacek","story_6641378"],"objectID":"6641483","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"tptacek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.
That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making:
Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone on the whole Internet for the adoption of modern TLS with forward-secrecy; they are the world's foremost deployers of ephemeral-keyed elliptic curve cryptography and of certificate pinning, both of which ensure not only the security of the traffic running over the network cables into their data centers, but also minimize the impact of a compromised long-term encryption key or the compromise of the CA system by a state actor.
Not only that, but Google launched a high-profile effort to encrypt the communications inside and between their data centers.
I hope a couple years hindsight will put the importance of Adam Langley's work (and that of the rest of his team; he's just the best-known member of that team) at Google into sharper relief.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-12T21:46:03.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"MrFoof","points":361,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.
Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names. The new guy was arguably the most talented guy in the company by a considerable margin, so he thought someone building a $700K home might've been overextending themselves. The person buying the home retorted that it was reasonable and asked the new guy why he wouldn't buy the Porsche Boxster he considered his dream car. The new guy responded that would never be prudent. That didn't seem right, as several of us at the table could've nearly swung a Boxster with just our bonus.
The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy's salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.
Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn't a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.
He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.
Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175/hour.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2438980,"story_title":"The Programmer Salary Taboo","story_url":"http://www.thurn.ca/the_programmer_salary_taboo","parent_id":2438980,"created_at_i":1302644763,"_tags":["comment","author_MrFoof","story_2438980"],"objectID":"2439478","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"MrFoof","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.
Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names. The new guy was arguably the most talented guy in the company by a considerable margin, so he thought someone building a $700K home might've been overextending themselves. The person buying the home retorted that it was reasonable and asked the new guy why he wouldn't buy the Porsche Boxster he considered his dream car. The new guy responded that would never be prudent. That didn't seem right, as several of us at the table could've nearly swung a Boxster with just our bonus.
The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy's salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.
Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn't a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.
He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.
Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175/hour.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The Programmer Salary Taboo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.thurn.ca/the_programmer_salary_taboo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-20T22:15:47.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"blhack","points":349,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I would also like a response from Sendgrid here. Somebody they sent to a conference, who was representing their company there, went on a personal vendetta against somebody and got them fired.
That's awful, and I join the people I see online right now in saying that I cannot, in good conscience, ever do business with a company that supports that behavior.
--And to how far Adria has set back womens' rights here--
The common thread I've seen from the women I've worked with in tech has been that they really just wish people didn't even notice their gender. They don't want to get treated like \"a girl\", they just want to get treated like \"a person\".
What Adria has done here is made sure that people in tech are always hyper aware if they're working with one of the \"outsiders\" that she has cast herself as.
It's really sad.
(This comment is also worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407884)","num_comments":null,"story_id":5410515,"story_title":"The PyCon Incident","story_url":"http://pastebin.com/JaNh0w5F","parent_id":5410515,"created_at_i":1363817747,"_tags":["comment","author_blhack","story_5410515"],"objectID":"5410805","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"blhack","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I would also like a response from Sendgrid here. Somebody they sent to a conference, who was representing their company there, went on a personal vendetta against somebody and got them fired.
That's awful, and I join the people I see online right now in saying that I cannot, in good conscience, ever do business with a company that supports that behavior.
--And to how far Adria has set back womens' rights here--
The common thread I've seen from the women I've worked with in tech has been that they really just wish people didn't even notice their gender. They don't want to get treated like \"a girl\", they just want to get treated like \"a person\".
What Adria has done here is made sure that people in tech are always hyper aware if they're working with one of the \"outsiders\" that she has cast herself as.
It's really sad.
(This comment is also worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407884)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The PyCon Incident","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://pastebin.com/JaNh0w5F","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-12T13:12:31.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"edw519","points":336,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I did quit my full-time job.
So did I. Many times. About half the time it worked out great. The other half, it sucked, just like yours does now. You are not alone.
I'm constantly broke, on the verge of poverty...
Then get a job, any job. It doesn't have to be programming. It'll get you out of the house, get you with other people, and put a few bucks in your pocket. If you love programming enough, you'll find time to keep it going on the side.
I'm deeply depressed and contemplating suicide
Don't. Contact me anytime (see my profile). When things are going well, they're never as good as they seem. When they are going poorly, they're never as bad as they seem.
I have to constantly hear my father shout what an idiot I am for quitting a high-paying job
Fathers are sometimes wrong. Yours is now. Don't listen to him.
My friends make fun of me for making a retarded life decision.
When things get tough, you find out who you're friends really are. I know it's not much consolation, but you just did. Be glad you saved a lot of time and energy. Anyone who makes fun of you was never your friend, just an acquaintence.
I can't really do anything else, since apparently finding a new job, is kind of hard and I have to go through the whole step where I admit my failure and start over and I don't even know what I want anymore.
Don't ever say \"can't\" because it's not true. You can. Just find any job and go from there. First you crawl, then you walk, then you run. Many of us have already been there. You can do it too.
I thought I would become free, but I've actually become less free as a result of it.
So far. What you don't see now since you are in the midst of this is that this was just one backward (or sideways) step in a long journey forward. I don't know anyone who is successful that had only forward steps. We have all had these backward steps. It sounds like this may have been your first big one. That might be why it hurts so much.
I'm 20, I have no college diploma, no high school diploma, ...
None of that matters. All that really matters is what's inside your head and your heart. Once you decide to start taking positive steps, you'll see.
I'm an idiot, essentially.
Please don't ever say that. You're not, and I have proof: If you were really an idiot, then you wouldn't have posted this here.
It just didn't work out and it feels very painful.
Thanks for the warning. You may have just saved a lot of people a lot of pain with this post.
And thanks for your story. I have been there (several times) as I imagine many others here have as well. It gets better. I promise. But you have to stop feeling miserable and take a positive step. Posting here was your first step. Talking to some of us off-line may be another. And getting out of the house and finding a job, any job, is probably your next best step.
Please give it a shot a keep us posted. We're not going anywhere and we care. Really.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3102143,"story_title":"I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.","story_url":"","parent_id":3102143,"created_at_i":1318425151,"_tags":["comment","author_edw519","story_3102143"],"objectID":"3102769","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"edw519","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I did quit my full-time job.
So did I. Many times. About half the time it worked out great. The other half, it sucked, just like yours does now. You are not alone.
I'm constantly broke, on the verge of poverty...
Then get a job, any job. It doesn't have to be programming. It'll get you out of the house, get you with other people, and put a few bucks in your pocket. If you love programming enough, you'll find time to keep it going on the side.
I'm deeply depressed and contemplating suicide
Don't. Contact me anytime (see my profile). When things are going well, they're never as good as they seem. When they are going poorly, they're never as bad as they seem.
I have to constantly hear my father shout what an idiot I am for quitting a high-paying job
Fathers are sometimes wrong. Yours is now. Don't listen to him.
My friends make fun of me for making a retarded life decision.
When things get tough, you find out who you're friends really are. I know it's not much consolation, but you just did. Be glad you saved a lot of time and energy. Anyone who makes fun of you was never your friend, just an acquaintence.
I can't really do anything else, since apparently finding a new job, is kind of hard and I have to go through the whole step where I admit my failure and start over and I don't even know what I want anymore.
Don't ever say \"can't\" because it's not true. You can. Just find any job and go from there. First you crawl, then you walk, then you run. Many of us have already been there. You can do it too.
I thought I would become free, but I've actually become less free as a result of it.
So far. What you don't see now since you are in the midst of this is that this was just one backward (or sideways) step in a long journey forward. I don't know anyone who is successful that had only forward steps. We have all had these backward steps. It sounds like this may have been your first big one. That might be why it hurts so much.
I'm 20, I have no college diploma, no high school diploma, ...
None of that matters. All that really matters is what's inside your head and your heart. Once you decide to start taking positive steps, you'll see.
I'm an idiot, essentially.
Please don't ever say that. You're not, and I have proof: If you were really an idiot, then you wouldn't have posted this here.
It just didn't work out and it feels very painful.
Thanks for the warning. You may have just saved a lot of people a lot of pain with this post.
And thanks for your story. I have been there (several times) as I imagine many others here have as well. It gets better. I promise. But you have to stop feeling miserable and take a positive step. Posting here was your first step. Talking to some of us off-line may be another. And getting out of the house and finding a job, any job, is probably your next best step.
Please give it a shot a keep us posted. We're not going anywhere and we care. Really.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-12T17:41:58.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jug6ernaut","points":332,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?
Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5363290,"story_title":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","story_url":"http://teespring.com/hntees","parent_id":5363290,"created_at_i":1363110118,"_tags":["comment","author_jug6ernaut","story_5363290"],"objectID":"5363461","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jug6ernaut","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?
Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://teespring.com/hntees","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T03:35:16.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"moot","points":328,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6409360,"story_title":"Moot: Full House","story_url":"http://www.4chan.org/news?all#114","parent_id":6409360,"created_at_i":1379561716,"_tags":["comment","author_moot","story_6409360"],"objectID":"6409625","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"moot","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Moot: Full House","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.4chan.org/news?all#114","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-04T18:21:54.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"sinak","points":328,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.
When I originally posted this to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020 there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of \"petitions don't have any effect\". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.
Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.
Sign up at http://fixthedmca.org - should be launching the site tomorrow.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5319577,"story_title":"White House Response to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal","story_url":"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update","parent_id":5319577,"created_at_i":1362421314,"_tags":["comment","author_sinak","story_5319577"],"objectID":"5319593","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sinak","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.
When I originally posted this to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020 there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of \"petitions don't have any effect\". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.
Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.
Sign up at http://fixthedmca.org - should be launching the site tomorrow.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"White House Response to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-15T17:53:55.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"nika","points":321,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Reagan is the one who signed \"asset forfeiture\" into law. I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was \"just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets\" and how \"law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend themselves against drug dealers\".
It was obvious to me then that this was a violation of due process. Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act. (There is a federal law that makes it a felony to violate constitutional rights under color of law. Fourth amendment prohibits this.)
Notably, Bush the First, Clinton, Bush the Second and Obama have not made any moves to undo this legislation.
Meanwhile, this has been used to take money from bikers on their way to buy a motorcycle, and random motorists in Florida and Texas who get pulled over for speeding. \"It could be drug money\" says the \"law enforcement officers\" who take life savings and then spend it on themselves.
Just because they haven't seized your assets yet, doesn't mean you aren't at risk.
When the government can take whatever it wants, without any legal restraint, and in violation of the ultimate law of the land, that government is not a legitimate government.
We should be outraged. We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this. It does not matter what party they are from, they are all culpable, and they are all criminals.
Edited: I removed the reference to my property that was stolen by the FBI because it prompted many people to attack me below. I really would rather the discussion be about how to resolve this issue for domain names, or maybe some discussion about how to overturn these seizure laws.
Edited: I've made the legal case in defense of those wrongfully convicted. I cannot keep up with the tide of people who have no citations of the law, but are quick to disparage me personally, for my crime of defending victims here.
Frankly, I think that the ease with which people assume that \"naturally\" these people were \"bad guys\" and therefore what they did was \"illegal\" despite the law and the constitution, is the very proof of my central point that the government is out of control, and they are getting away with it because people can't be bothered to challenge the belief-- taught by government in government schools-- that the \"rule of law\" holds sway.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2451302,"story_title":"FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names","story_url":"http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/fulltiltpoker-com-pokerstars-com-domain-names-confiscated-fbi-1020606/","parent_id":2451302,"created_at_i":1302890035,"_tags":["comment","author_nika","story_2451302"],"objectID":"2451378","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nika","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Reagan is the one who signed \"asset forfeiture\" into law. I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was \"just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets\" and how \"law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend themselves against drug dealers\".
It was obvious to me then that this was a violation of due process. Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act. (There is a federal law that makes it a felony to violate constitutional rights under color of law. Fourth amendment prohibits this.)
Notably, Bush the First, Clinton, Bush the Second and Obama have not made any moves to undo this legislation.
Meanwhile, this has been used to take money from bikers on their way to buy a motorcycle, and random motorists in Florida and Texas who get pulled over for speeding. \"It could be drug money\" says the \"law enforcement officers\" who take life savings and then spend it on themselves.
Just because they haven't seized your assets yet, doesn't mean you aren't at risk.
When the government can take whatever it wants, without any legal restraint, and in violation of the ultimate law of the land, that government is not a legitimate government.
We should be outraged. We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this. It does not matter what party they are from, they are all culpable, and they are all criminals.
Edited: I removed the reference to my property that was stolen by the FBI because it prompted many people to attack me below. I really would rather the discussion be about how to resolve this issue for domain names, or maybe some discussion about how to overturn these seizure laws.
Edited: I've made the legal case in defense of those wrongfully convicted. I cannot keep up with the tide of people who have no citations of the law, but are quick to disparage me personally, for my crime of defending victims here.
Frankly, I think that the ease with which people assume that \"naturally\" these people were \"bad guys\" and therefore what they did was \"illegal\" despite the law and the constitution, is the very proof of my central point that the government is out of control, and they are getting away with it because people can't be bothered to challenge the belief-- taught by government in government schools-- that the \"rule of law\" holds sway.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/fulltiltpoker-com-pokerstars-com-domain-names-confiscated-fbi-1020606/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-01T02:18:08.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jdietrich","points":312,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Success is not validation of an idea and we should be ashamed to think so.
Cigarettes are one of the most successful consumer products on earth. Inhaling a lungful of carcinogenic smoke several hundred times a day is undoubtedly a stupid idea. Tobacco has made a small number of people incomprehensibly rich, to the great detriment of humanity.
Personally, I think nearly all of these 'social' startups are bad news. Not as bad news as a lung cancer epidemic, but bad news nonetheless. I think they feed a culture of passivity and attention deficit. I think they fragment human interaction into the smallest possible dopamine-inducing units. I think they're essentially Skinner boxes in disguise - apps that dress up an intermittent schedule of reward as meaningful activity.
The startup culture talks the talk about \"changing the world\", but in truth most of us couldn't care less so long as we get our next funding round. For every Watsi, we have a hundred bullshit companies with bullshit products, providing yet another means of idle distraction for indolent westerners. We can hardly distinguish between what is worthwhile and what is popular or profitable. It has hardly occurred to Curtis or anyone in these comments that an idea could be both successful and stupid.
Is Pinterest really an innovative sharing tool, or is it merely a collaborative exercise in commodity fetishism? Is Vine really a radical new way to communicate, or is it merely the nadir of audiovisual culture, fragmenting the world into six-second shards of nothingness? Do we even care?","num_comments":null,"story_id":5635437,"story_title":"What a stupid idea","story_url":"http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea","parent_id":5635437,"created_at_i":1367374688,"_tags":["comment","author_jdietrich","story_5635437"],"objectID":"5636090","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jdietrich","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Success is not validation of an idea and we should be ashamed to think so.
Cigarettes are one of the most successful consumer products on earth. Inhaling a lungful of carcinogenic smoke several hundred times a day is undoubtedly a stupid idea. Tobacco has made a small number of people incomprehensibly rich, to the great detriment of humanity.
Personally, I think nearly all of these 'social' startups are bad news. Not as bad news as a lung cancer epidemic, but bad news nonetheless. I think they feed a culture of passivity and attention deficit. I think they fragment human interaction into the smallest possible dopamine-inducing units. I think they're essentially Skinner boxes in disguise - apps that dress up an intermittent schedule of reward as meaningful activity.
The startup culture talks the talk about \"changing the world\", but in truth most of us couldn't care less so long as we get our next funding round. For every Watsi, we have a hundred bullshit companies with bullshit products, providing yet another means of idle distraction for indolent westerners. We can hardly distinguish between what is worthwhile and what is popular or profitable. It has hardly occurred to Curtis or anyone in these comments that an idea could be both successful and stupid.
Is Pinterest really an innovative sharing tool, or is it merely a collaborative exercise in commodity fetishism? Is Vine really a radical new way to communicate, or is it merely the nadir of audiovisual culture, fragmenting the world into six-second shards of nothingness? Do we even care?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"What a stupid idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":1147497,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":3,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:36:04.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"kevingadd","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'm calling out the incredibly common lies that \\na) game consoles use OpenGL\\nb) all major game platforms use OpenGL.
Like it or not, neither of those are true. It might be nice if they were.
OpenGL is obviously still a widely-supported choice on desktop PCs (and mobiles), so that's not in question.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821854,"story_title":"OpenGL Is Broken","story_url":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","parent_id":7822679,"created_at_i":1401467764,"_tags":["comment","author_kevingadd","story_7821854"],"objectID":"7822694","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"kevingadd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'm calling out the incredibly common lies that \\na) game consoles use OpenGL\\nb) all major game platforms use OpenGL.
Like it or not, neither of those are true. It might be nice if they were.
OpenGL is obviously still a widely-supported choice on desktop PCs (and mobiles), so that's not in question.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"OpenGL Is Broken","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:35:16.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"chrisgd","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Solid point","num_comments":null,"story_id":7811145,"story_title":"Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances to Small Businesses","story_url":"http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/square-begins-offering-data-driven-cash-advances-to-small-businesses/?ncid=rss","parent_id":7813233,"created_at_i":1401467716,"_tags":["comment","author_chrisgd","story_7811145"],"objectID":"7822693","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"chrisgd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Solid point","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Square Begins Offering Data Driven Cash Advances to Small Businesses","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/28/square-begins-offering-data-driven-cash-advances-to-small-businesses/?ncid=rss","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:34:54.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mentos","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'd love to see a world where an enormous network of these makes big telecom obsolete. Don't think the issues with big internet will ever push enough people into creating this but at least there's a safety net. Pun intended?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821906,"story_title":"PirateBox 1.0 is here","story_url":"http://piratebox.cc/","parent_id":7821906,"created_at_i":1401467694,"_tags":["comment","author_mentos","story_7821906"],"objectID":"7822691","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mentos","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'd love to see a world where an enormous network of these makes big telecom obsolete. Don't think the issues with big internet will ever push enough people into creating this but at least there's a safety net. Pun intended?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"PirateBox 1.0 is here","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://piratebox.cc/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:34:45.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"unr3al011","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"checkout www.truecrypt71a.com for forums, downloads and information","num_comments":null,"story_id":7812133,"story_title":"TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?","story_url":"http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/","parent_id":7812133,"created_at_i":1401467685,"_tags":["comment","author_unr3al011","story_7812133"],"objectID":"7822690","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"unr3al011","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"checkout www.truecrypt71a.com for forums, downloads and information","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"TrueCrypt suggesting migration to BitLocker?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:34:21.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"lauradhamilton","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Excel killer is worth a billion dollars easily.
Hint: It won't look like Excel.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7781722,"story_title":"ASK PG: What is the next million dollar idea?","story_url":"","parent_id":7781722,"created_at_i":1401467661,"_tags":["comment","author_lauradhamilton","story_7781722"],"objectID":"7822689","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"lauradhamilton","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Excel killer is worth a billion dollars easily.
Hint: It won't look like Excel.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"ASK PG: What is the next million dollar idea?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:34:20.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"freejack","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The activity most likely to lead to more blogging is "more writing". Its easy to blame the CMS/Blogging tool/SSG, etc., but really - those who write, will.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7822233,"story_title":"Static site generators focus on the wrong thing","story_url":"http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing","parent_id":7822233,"created_at_i":1401467660,"_tags":["comment","author_freejack","story_7822233"],"objectID":"7822688","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"freejack","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The activity most likely to lead to more blogging is "more writing". Its easy to blame the CMS/Blogging tool/SSG, etc., but really - those who write, will.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Static site generators focus on the wrong thing","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:33:52.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"josai","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Man. Thanks for posting that. That hits hard.
> Tonight, we tell our children that in some instances, in some cases, killing is right.
> a system that is supposed to protect and uphold what is just and right can be so much like me when I made the same shameful mistake.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822629,"created_at_i":1401467632,"_tags":["comment","author_josai","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822687","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"josai","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Man. Thanks for posting that. That hits hard.
> Tonight, we tell our children that in some instances, in some cases, killing is right.
> a system that is supposed to protect and uphold what is just and right can be so much like me when I made the same shameful mistake.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:33:42.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"resu","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Great design work!
But I have to wonder, how is this different from Pinterest?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7822616,"story_title":"Show HN: NowVia – Save, organize, and discuss the things you find interesting","story_url":"https://www.nowvia.com/","parent_id":7822616,"created_at_i":1401467622,"_tags":["comment","author_resu","story_7822616"],"objectID":"7822684","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"resu","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Great design work!
But I have to wonder, how is this different from Pinterest?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Show HN: NowVia – Save, organize, and discuss the things you find interesting","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.nowvia.com/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:33:08.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"opendais","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Are you talking about the Federal bankruptcy issues, differences in state law, etc?
http://www.keytlaw.com/azllclaw/asset-protection/single-memb...
I think this has a good summary of the potential pitfalls.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821808,"story_title":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","story_url":null,"parent_id":7822549,"created_at_i":1401467588,"_tags":["comment","author_opendais","story_7821808"],"objectID":"7822683","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"opendais","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Are you talking about the Federal bankruptcy issues, differences in state law, etc?
http://www.keytlaw.com/azllclaw/asset-protection/single-memb...
I think this has a good summary of the potential pitfalls.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:32:54.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"gambiting","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Yeah, it sounds likely - but my point is that you would get used to it after a few days,and could continue using your car exactly as you did before. And all new cars would be produced with dials using km/h as the main unit,so the problem would eventually go away on its own. The only problem that I can think of occurs if your car somehow doesn't have a dual kph/mph dial,and shows miles per hour only. Then yes, it becomes an issue.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821242,"story_title":"It's time for the US to use the metric system","story_url":"http://www.vox.com/2014/5/29/5758542/time-for-the-US-to-use-the-metric-system","parent_id":7822050,"created_at_i":1401467574,"_tags":["comment","author_gambiting","story_7821242"],"objectID":"7822682","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"gambiting","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Yeah, it sounds likely - but my point is that you would get used to it after a few days,and could continue using your car exactly as you did before. And all new cars would be produced with dials using km/h as the main unit,so the problem would eventually go away on its own. The only problem that I can think of occurs if your car somehow doesn't have a dual kph/mph dial,and shows miles per hour only. Then yes, it becomes an issue.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"It's time for the US to use the metric system","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.vox.com/2014/5/29/5758542/time-for-the-US-to-use-the-metric-system","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:32:39.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"gcb0","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"...because it's not.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822562,"created_at_i":1401467559,"_tags":["comment","author_gcb0","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822681","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"gcb0","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"...because it's not.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:32:23.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"aSp1de","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I think they have it for free now, and they have showcased a data filtering capability where you can hook your API's into it. They have no documentation for it, but that's what they are going for. So both JS and Server in your control :) I like the idea.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7822625,"story_title":"Looks Interesting","story_url":"https://www.flamehook.com/","parent_id":7822655,"created_at_i":1401467543,"_tags":["comment","author_aSp1de","story_7822625"],"objectID":"7822680","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"aSp1de","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I think they have it for free now, and they have showcased a data filtering capability where you can hook your API's into it. They have no documentation for it, but that's what they are going for. So both JS and Server in your control :) I like the idea.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Looks Interesting","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.flamehook.com/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:32:18.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"Morgawr","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"And how many of those run DirectX? Are we really trying to debate whether or not OpenGL is more portable than DirectX across platforms? Really?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821854,"story_title":"OpenGL Is Broken","story_url":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","parent_id":7822644,"created_at_i":1401467538,"_tags":["comment","author_Morgawr","story_7821854"],"objectID":"7822679","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"Morgawr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"And how many of those run DirectX? Are we really trying to debate whether or not OpenGL is more portable than DirectX across platforms? Really?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"OpenGL Is Broken","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:32:17.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"criley2","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You're being downvoted but you're absolutely correct.
Even today, in the 21st century, the US Congress mandates Solid Rocket Boosters in all NASA heavy lifters, as a Congressional mandate with strong oversight on design to ensure compliance.
The reason is purely political. There is no engineering or scientific benefit to SRB's, not a single one.
But there are benefits to propping up SRB companies with NASA purchase mandates that we source ICBM stuff from.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7819586,"story_title":"Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast","story_url":"http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?","parent_id":7822528,"created_at_i":1401467537,"_tags":["comment","author_criley2","story_7819586"],"objectID":"7822678","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"criley2","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You're being downvoted but you're absolutely correct.
Even today, in the 21st century, the US Congress mandates Solid Rocket Boosters in all NASA heavy lifters, as a Congressional mandate with strong oversight on design to ensure compliance.
The reason is purely political. There is no engineering or scientific benefit to SRB's, not a single one.
But there are benefits to propping up SRB companies with NASA purchase mandates that we source ICBM stuff from.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:32:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"dragonwriter","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"AFAICT, generally (and, of course, as this is mostly a state law question, there will be variations in details from state to state), the single member of a Single Member LLC (SMLLC) receives the same protection from liability as those of a multi-member LLC (or shareholders of a corporation), but in many states an SMLLC is not as protected from liability for the personal debts of its single member as is the case with a multi-member LLC.
Single member LLCs may be more likely to have defective LLC operating agreements (apparently, a common error is to use a template agreement designed for a multi-member LLC) or be more prone to having the owner engage in the kind of behavior that would permit piercing the corporate veil, but that's not the same thing as the SMLLC form not having the same protection as other LLCs.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821808,"story_title":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","story_url":null,"parent_id":7822549,"created_at_i":1401467526,"_tags":["comment","author_dragonwriter","story_7821808"],"objectID":"7822676","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"dragonwriter","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"AFAICT, generally (and, of course, as this is mostly a state law question, there will be variations in details from state to state), the single member of a Single Member LLC (SMLLC) receives the same protection from liability as those of a multi-member LLC (or shareholders of a corporation), but in many states an SMLLC is not as protected from liability for the personal debts of its single member as is the case with a multi-member LLC.
Single member LLCs may be more likely to have defective LLC operating agreements (apparently, a common error is to use a template agreement designed for a multi-member LLC) or be more prone to having the owner engage in the kind of behavior that would permit piercing the corporate veil, but that's not the same thing as the SMLLC form not having the same protection as other LLCs.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:31:55.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"subprotocol","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I use spark a lot and my experience has been quite the opposite. The queries I run against spark are billions of events and results are sub-second.
I could only speculate as to what this users issues were. One difference between hadoop and spark is that it is more sensitive in that you sometimes need to tell it how many tasks to use. In practice it is no big deal at all.
Perhaps the user was running into this- the data for a task in spark runs all in memory, whereas hadoop will load and spill to disk within a task. So if you give a hadoop reducer 1TB of data, it will complete after a very long time. In spark you would need to have 1TB of memory on the executor. I wouldn't give an executor/JVM anything over 10GB. So if you have lots of memory, just be sure to balance it with cores and executors.
I have seen spark use up all the inodes on systems before. A job with 1000 map and 1000 reduce tasks would create 1M spill files on disk. However that was on an earlier version of spark and I was using ext3. I think this has since been improved.
For me spark runs circles around hadoop.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821305,"story_title":"Apache Spark 1.0.0 released","story_url":"http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-0-0.html","parent_id":7822452,"created_at_i":1401467515,"_tags":["comment","author_subprotocol","story_7821305"],"objectID":"7822675","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"subprotocol","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I use spark a lot and my experience has been quite the opposite. The queries I run against spark are billions of events and results are sub-second.
I could only speculate as to what this users issues were. One difference between hadoop and spark is that it is more sensitive in that you sometimes need to tell it how many tasks to use. In practice it is no big deal at all.
Perhaps the user was running into this- the data for a task in spark runs all in memory, whereas hadoop will load and spill to disk within a task. So if you give a hadoop reducer 1TB of data, it will complete after a very long time. In spark you would need to have 1TB of memory on the executor. I wouldn't give an executor/JVM anything over 10GB. So if you have lots of memory, just be sure to balance it with cores and executors.
I have seen spark use up all the inodes on systems before. A job with 1000 map and 1000 reduce tasks would create 1M spill files on disk. However that was on an earlier version of spark and I was using ext3. I think this has since been improved.
For me spark runs circles around hadoop.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Apache Spark 1.0.0 released","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-1-0-0.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:31:54.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"will_brown","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You touch on a very unusual aspect of corporate law...Dissolution
I will not provide any legal advice here, but the concept of letting "it lapse" verse filing articles of dissolution with the State to wind down the business can have significant impact on liabilities/legal rights of the owner/directors/officers/entity. I have seen very bizarre situations where each was the right thing to do under a given set of facts.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821808,"story_title":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","story_url":null,"parent_id":7822557,"created_at_i":1401467514,"_tags":["comment","author_will_brown","story_7821808"],"objectID":"7822674","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"will_brown","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You touch on a very unusual aspect of corporate law...Dissolution
I will not provide any legal advice here, but the concept of letting "it lapse" verse filing articles of dissolution with the State to wind down the business can have significant impact on liabilities/legal rights of the owner/directors/officers/entity. I have seen very bizarre situations where each was the right thing to do under a given set of facts.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:31:39.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mkobar","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"This is what Tails is doing:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_truecrypt/","num_comments":null,"story_id":7812380,"story_title":"Ask HN: How should a software engineer go about making a website?","story_url":"","parent_id":7812380,"created_at_i":1401467499,"_tags":["comment","author_mkobar","story_7812380"],"objectID":"7822673","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mkobar","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"This is what Tails is doing:
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/replace_truecrypt/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Ask HN: How should a software engineer go about making a website?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:31:31.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"happycube","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I remember my version of @home's ad fondly after buying Excite:
"I don't wanna grow, I wanna buy a crappy portal! (let's grow!)"","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821236,"story_title":"When Excite nearly bought Google","story_url":"https://www.submarinecrm.com/blog/when-excite-nearly-bought-google","parent_id":7821236,"created_at_i":1401467491,"_tags":["comment","author_happycube","story_7821236"],"objectID":"7822671","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"happycube","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I remember my version of @home's ad fondly after buying Excite:
"I don't wanna grow, I wanna buy a crappy portal! (let's grow!)"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"When Excite nearly bought Google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.submarinecrm.com/blog/when-excite-nearly-bought-google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:31:28.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"rdtsc","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"> If two actors A and B send a message to an actor C and expect a response from it, they are sharing memory: what's in C's state.
Ok in that respect there is just one big pile of shared memory in the whole world, isn't it (maybe except for military air-gaped system). It is the equivalent of saying if A makes an HTTP post to server C the it shares memory. Well ok, I am not sure what you mean by "shared memory", usually it means living in the same heap. So can access it via a pointer or reference.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821120,"story_title":"8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about","story_url":"http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article","parent_id":7822603,"created_at_i":1401467488,"_tags":["comment","author_rdtsc","story_7821120"],"objectID":"7822670","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"rdtsc","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"> If two actors A and B send a message to an actor C and expect a response from it, they are sharing memory: what's in C's state.
Ok in that respect there is just one big pile of shared memory in the whole world, isn't it (maybe except for military air-gaped system). It is the equivalent of saying if A makes an HTTP post to server C the it shares memory. Well ok, I am not sure what you mean by "shared memory", usually it means living in the same heap. So can access it via a pointer or reference.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":1367353,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":6,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2012-03-23T19:19:37.000Z","title":"Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?","url":null,"author":"GreekOphion","points":2321,"story_text":"What's your favortie programming langauge?
Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't below select other and comment what it is below.
Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":592,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1332530377,"_tags":["poll","author_GreekOphion","story_3746692"],"objectID":"3746692","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"GreekOphion","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"What's your favortie programming langauge?
Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't below select other and comment what it is below.
Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-21T01:41:19.000Z","title":"Poll: Where are you currently living?","url":null,"author":"Systemic33","points":1098,"story_text":"An interesting question, that was last asked according to search, 3,4 and respectively 5 years ago. [1,2,3]
Please read through the list, to find the choice that describes you the best.
I've tried to be more precise than just continents, but still not every country, but rather regions, more or less divided by culture.\\nI apologize if anyone feel left out, please leave a comment then with what region/country that you feel is significant enough to warrant it's own choice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640384
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235585
Remember to upvote the Poll itself, for better results.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":307,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1382319679,"_tags":["poll","author_Systemic33","story_6582647"],"objectID":"6582647","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Where are you currently living?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Systemic33","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"An interesting question, that was last asked according to search, 3,4 and respectively 5 years ago. [1,2,3]
Please read through the list, to find the choice that describes you the best.
I've tried to be more precise than just continents, but still not every country, but rather regions, more or less divided by culture.\\nI apologize if anyone feel left out, please leave a comment then with what region/country that you feel is significant enough to warrant it's own choice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640384
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235585
Remember to upvote the Poll itself, for better results.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-04-02T08:23:08.000Z","title":"Poll: How long have you been programming?","url":null,"author":"michaelkscott","points":992,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":322,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1333354988,"_tags":["poll","author_michaelkscott","story_3786926"],"objectID":"3786926","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How long have you been programming?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"michaelkscott","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-12-01T08:57:22.000Z","title":"Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?","url":null,"author":"sasvari","points":764,"story_text":"So fellow HN readers, where have you set up your residence?
(I'm aware of the fact that the majority is located in the US, but it might still be interesting to see if the HN community is getting more international.)
(Edit: NYC and SF area choice; England -> UK; split up Asia;Australia/+Oceania)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":492,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1322729842,"_tags":["poll","author_sasvari","story_3298905"],"objectID":"3298905","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sasvari","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So fellow HN readers, where have you set up your residence?
(I'm aware of the fact that the majority is located in the US, but it might still be interesting to see if the HN community is getting more international.)
(Edit: NYC and SF area choice; England -> UK; split up Asia;Australia/+Oceania)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-11T23:17:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?","url":null,"author":"zitterbewegung","points":759,"story_text":"I think Hacker News should stand with reddit to go dark in support of SOPA. SOPA seems very important for the future of HN and startups associated with ycombinator.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":290,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326323859,"_tags":["poll","author_zitterbewegung","story_3454179"],"objectID":"3454179","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"zitterbewegung","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I think Hacker News should stand with reddit to go dark in support of SOPA. SOPA seems very important for the future of HN and startups associated with ycombinator.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-01T02:07:11.000Z","title":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?","url":null,"author":"kanzure","points":718,"story_text":"This poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
The previous polls seem to have topped out too low. So here we are again.
Specifically, base salary only. Pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":334,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370052431,"_tags":["poll","author_kanzure","story_5802295"],"objectID":"5802295","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kanzure","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
The previous polls seem to have topped out too low. So here we are again.
Specifically, base salary only. Pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-06-22T19:12:04.000Z","title":"Poll: What database does your company use?","url":null,"author":"daniel_levine","points":686,"story_text":"Upvote please if you think it's an interesting question so that more people will respond
Last year I asked this question (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937) and I think it was useful to a bunch of people. Figured it's worth asking again and the diffs will be interesting.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":358,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1308769924,"_tags":["poll","author_daniel_levine","story_2684620"],"objectID":"2684620","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What database does your company use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"daniel_levine","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Upvote please if you think it's an interesting question so that more people will respond
Last year I asked this question (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937) and I think it was useful to a bunch of people. Figured it's worth asking again and the diffs will be interesting.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-10T12:40:26.000Z","title":"Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?","url":null,"author":"wting","points":683,"story_text":"This is a combination of these two polls:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692\\n https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961\\n https://i.imgur.com/toGKy21.jpg\\nThis poll also adds a few new choices: F#, Go, R, and Rust.
Vote as many choices as you'd like.
Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":468,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1381408826,"_tags":["poll","author_wting","story_6527104"],"objectID":"6527104","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"wting","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This is a combination of these two polls:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692\\n https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961\\n https://i.imgur.com/toGKy21.jpg\\nThis poll also adds a few new choices: F#, Go, R, and Rust.
Vote as many choices as you'd like.
Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-05-29T01:13:53.000Z","title":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","url":null,"author":"pg","points":606,"story_text":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of\\npeople have complained that without comment scores it's harder to\\npick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now\\nyou have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with\\nsufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for\\nitself despite seeing the score.
Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.\\nI'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":280,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1306631633,"_tags":["poll","author_pg","story_2595605"],"objectID":"2595605","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of\\npeople have complained that without comment scores it's harder to\\npick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now\\nyou have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with\\nsufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for\\nitself despite seeing the score.
Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.\\nI'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-14T12:26:33.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you test your code?","url":null,"author":"petenixey","points":605,"story_text":"Do you have tests that run every time you push and ensure that the functionality on your site works?
There's always a lot of debate around testing and I'm interested to see how much people do and how satisfied they are with it
IF YOU'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO ANSWER, PLEASE UPVOTE - TY","comment_text":null,"num_comments":344,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1331727993,"_tags":["poll","author_petenixey","story_3702827"],"objectID":"3702827","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you test your code?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"petenixey","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Do you have tests that run every time you push and ensure that the functionality on your site works?
There's always a lot of debate around testing and I'm interested to see how much people do and how satisfied they are with it
IF YOU'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO ANSWER, PLEASE UPVOTE - TY","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-29T14:46:34.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?","url":null,"author":"jader201","points":538,"story_text":"I know that a lot of Hackers frequent Stack Overflow, so I am curious as to how much actual participation there is from Hackers on SO, and what the general reputation of Hackers is.
I think it would be particularly interesting to cross reference these results with the \"What's Your Favorite Programming Language?\" [1] poll. Unfortunately, that would require way too many options. :)
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
Note: please don't forget to vote the poll itself up if you find it valuable/interesting, in order to gather other participation.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":197,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1333032394,"_tags":["poll","author_jader201","story_3771286"],"objectID":"3771286","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jader201","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I know that a lot of Hackers frequent Stack Overflow, so I am curious as to how much actual participation there is from Hackers on SO, and what the general reputation of Hackers is.
I think it would be particularly interesting to cross reference these results with the \"What's Your Favorite Programming Language?\" [1] poll. Unfortunately, that would require way too many options. :)
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
Note: please don't forget to vote the poll itself up if you find it valuable/interesting, in order to gather other participation.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-04-02T07:03:58.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your primary operating system","url":null,"author":"kamechan","points":508,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":453,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1333350238,"_tags":["poll","author_kamechan","story_3786674"],"objectID":"3786674","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your primary operating system","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kamechan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-01T14:50:58.000Z","title":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?","url":null,"author":"basicallydan","points":469,"story_text":"Inpsired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, this poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in London, UK.
Base salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":403,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370098258,"_tags":["poll","author_basicallydan","story_5804134"],"objectID":"5804134","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"basicallydan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Inpsired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, this poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in London, UK.
Base salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-16T20:57:17.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?","url":null,"author":"codegeek","points":448,"story_text":"Always wondered about this. Real identity means that you have your real name/contact info in your profile even if you username is generic
Please upvote the post as well for others to see if you can.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":290,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1368737837,"_tags":["poll","author_codegeek","story_5721087"],"objectID":"5721087","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"codegeek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Always wondered about this. Real identity means that you have your real name/contact info in your profile even if you username is generic
Please upvote the post as well for others to see if you can.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-05-16T15:07:24.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you support software patents?","url":null,"author":"robryan","points":427,"story_text":"Given the amount of recent (and ongoing) controversy about software patents it is interesting to see how the hacker news community, those who are generally doers, feel about them.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":309,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1305558444,"_tags":["poll","author_robryan","story_2552740"],"objectID":"2552740","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you support software patents?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"robryan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Given the amount of recent (and ongoing) controversy about software patents it is interesting to see how the hacker news community, those who are generally doers, feel about them.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-29T14:47:55.000Z","title":"Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?","url":null,"author":"ColinWright","points":424,"story_text":"One thing that bugs me about HN is the apparently endless repetition of stories. When something is interesting it gets taken up by several \"sources\" and then each of these is dutifully submitted by multiple people.
This has some undesirable consequences. One is that it dilutes the \"newest\" page. That I don't mind so much. What bothers me more is that otherwise interesting discussion gets split over multiple pages, and the same points get made in each discussion, with some non-overlap.
I sometimes revert to my native \"engineer\" mode and try to do something to fix this. Usually I put cross-references into one or the other so point people to where the discussion is, or might be. Some people don't like this and down-vote them. Others do like this and up-vote them. most people don't seem to care.
I really don't mind the constant dribble of down-votes that I get for trying to prevent the splitting of discussions, but I do care that I'm not seen to be harming the \"community\".
Hence this poll.
What, if anything, should be done about the incessant repetition of stories?
PS: If you care enough to vote, please upvote the item so people get a chance to see it. If you think I'm karma-whoring and you want to punish me for that, find some of my comments and downvote them as scapegoats.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":149,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311950875,"_tags":["poll","author_ColinWright","story_2822041"],"objectID":"2822041","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ColinWright","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"One thing that bugs me about HN is the apparently endless repetition of stories. When something is interesting it gets taken up by several \"sources\" and then each of these is dutifully submitted by multiple people.
This has some undesirable consequences. One is that it dilutes the \"newest\" page. That I don't mind so much. What bothers me more is that otherwise interesting discussion gets split over multiple pages, and the same points get made in each discussion, with some non-overlap.
I sometimes revert to my native \"engineer\" mode and try to do something to fix this. Usually I put cross-references into one or the other so point people to where the discussion is, or might be. Some people don't like this and down-vote them. Others do like this and up-vote them. most people don't seem to care.
I really don't mind the constant dribble of down-votes that I get for trying to prevent the splitting of discussions, but I do care that I'm not seen to be harming the \"community\".
Hence this poll.
What, if anything, should be done about the incessant repetition of stories?
PS: If you care enough to vote, please upvote the item so people get a chance to see it. If you think I'm karma-whoring and you want to punish me for that, find some of my comments and downvote them as scapegoats.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-14T01:25:43.000Z","title":"Poll: Display points on comments?","url":null,"author":"pg","points":421,"story_text":"My goal in not showing points on comments was to prevent the sort of contentious exchanges where people (in this case literally) try to score points off one another. I feel like it has done that to some extent, but at a cost in other areas. So which do you prefer?
Here's the earlier thread about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716","comment_text":null,"num_comments":304,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1302744343,"_tags":["poll","author_pg","story_2445039"],"objectID":"2445039","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Display points on comments?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"My goal in not showing points on comments was to prevent the sort of contentious exchanges where people (in this case literally) try to score points off one another. I feel like it has done that to some extent, but at a cost in other areas. So which do you prefer?
Here's the earlier thread about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-19T22:17:02.000Z","title":"Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?","url":null,"author":"daenz","points":416,"story_text":"On Reddit, just from this month alone, there have been some great AMAs that I personally think HN would be great participants in:
Stevin Levitt from Freakonomics http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18tp7t/i_am_steven_levitt_author_of_freakonomics_ask_me/
Bill Gates http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/
Peter Sunde of ThePirateBay http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/187iwo/i_am_peter_sunde_cofounder_of_tpb_ama/
SpaceX Software Engineers http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_software_engineers_we_launch/
Do you think this this is something we could start on HackerNews?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":177,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1361312222,"_tags":["poll","author_daenz","story_5247444"],"objectID":"5247444","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"daenz","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"On Reddit, just from this month alone, there have been some great AMAs that I personally think HN would be great participants in:
Stevin Levitt from Freakonomics http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18tp7t/i_am_steven_levitt_author_of_freakonomics_ask_me/
Bill Gates http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/
Peter Sunde of ThePirateBay http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/187iwo/i_am_peter_sunde_cofounder_of_tpb_ama/
SpaceX Software Engineers http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_software_engineers_we_launch/
Do you think this this is something we could start on HackerNews?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-11-27T22:09:56.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you select text while reading?","url":null,"author":"cpeterso","points":377,"story_text":"I am surprised at how many people, like me, who select text to highlight what they are reading. Some reasons include tracking your reading position, increasing text contrast, or as an \"intra-page\" bookmark. If these are common actions, perhaps browsers (or add-ons) can provide purpose-built features for these functions.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":363,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1354054196,"_tags":["poll","author_cpeterso","story_4839436"],"objectID":"4839436","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you select text while reading?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"cpeterso","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am surprised at how many people, like me, who select text to highlight what they are reading. Some reasons include tracking your reading position, increasing text contrast, or as an \"intra-page\" bookmark. If these are common actions, perhaps browsers (or add-ons) can provide purpose-built features for these functions.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-24T09:59:50.000Z","title":"Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?","url":null,"author":"mrspeaker","points":349,"story_text":"Which programming language makes you most sad/angry/annoyed/... - add a note in any comments on the language you most like, so we can do some correlation.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":356,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1332583190,"_tags":["poll","author_mrspeaker","story_3748961"],"objectID":"3748961","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mrspeaker","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Which programming language makes you most sad/angry/annoyed/... - add a note in any comments on the language you most like, so we can do some correlation.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":1176,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":1,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=poll"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-30T14:00:42.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","url":null,"author":"will_brown","points":54,"story_text":"Not just a poll for startup founders. More generally, if you are a consultant, take contract work, or are an independent contractor have you taken the step to incorporate or organize a LLC for legal protection, or any other reason? Please leave comments about your specific situation.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":82,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401458442,"_tags":["poll","author_will_brown","story_7821808"],"objectID":"7821808","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"will_brown","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Not just a poll for startup founders. More generally, if you are a consultant, take contract work, or are an independent contractor have you taken the step to incorporate or organize a LLC for legal protection, or any other reason? Please leave comments about your specific situation.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-29T21:51:20.000Z","title":"Poll: Unban TempleOS?","url":null,"author":"jacquesm","points":81,"story_text":"Today after reading the article on Emperor Norton a parallel with SF/HN, Emperor Norton and Terry Davis struck me.
More and more HN'ers are re-posting his writings and even if they upset some I suspect that we could survive if we let Terry post as a regular account. Sometimes he has good points to make and he's an interesting fellow, and more of a genuine hacker than many here can lay claim to. All those who wrote an operating system from scratch please raise your hand... He's not always equally easy to follow, sometimes downright offensive but it's all just bits. Since I browse with 'showdead' on it makes little difference to me but I suspect it will make a huge difference for Terry, as far as I can see he means absolutely no harm.
So I propose we re-instate TempleOS as a full member, if that has popular support and dang agrees.
I recognize HN is not a democracy and that the 'management' has every right to ignore this petition if the answer is positive.
If you vote in the poll remember that is not the same as voting for the poll.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":87,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401400280,"_tags":["poll","author_jacquesm","story_7818823"],"objectID":"7818823","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Unban TempleOS?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jacquesm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Today after reading the article on Emperor Norton a parallel with SF/HN, Emperor Norton and Terry Davis struck me.
More and more HN'ers are re-posting his writings and even if they upset some I suspect that we could survive if we let Terry post as a regular account. Sometimes he has good points to make and he's an interesting fellow, and more of a genuine hacker than many here can lay claim to. All those who wrote an operating system from scratch please raise your hand... He's not always equally easy to follow, sometimes downright offensive but it's all just bits. Since I browse with 'showdead' on it makes little difference to me but I suspect it will make a huge difference for Terry, as far as I can see he means absolutely no harm.
So I propose we re-instate TempleOS as a full member, if that has popular support and dang agrees.
I recognize HN is not a democracy and that the 'management' has every right to ignore this petition if the answer is positive.
If you vote in the poll remember that is not the same as voting for the poll.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-29T01:33:20.000Z","title":"Poll: what is your hourly contracting rate?","url":null,"author":"mkempe","points":4,"story_text":"Criteria: 3+ months relationship with your client. Software engineers and UX/UI designers only.
What is your hourly USD rate, or your daily/weekly converted-to-hourly rate?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401327200,"_tags":["poll","author_mkempe","story_7814121"],"objectID":"7814121","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: what is your hourly contracting rate?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mkempe","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Criteria: 3+ months relationship with your client. Software engineers and UX/UI designers only.
What is your hourly USD rate, or your daily/weekly converted-to-hourly rate?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-28T15:19:31.000Z","title":"Poll: which programming language you love?","url":null,"author":"justplay","points":2,"story_text":"Tip: Use ctrl/cmd + f to find language","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401290371,"_tags":["poll","author_justplay","story_7810423"],"objectID":"7810423","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: which programming language you love?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"justplay","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Tip: Use ctrl/cmd + f to find language","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-23T22:10:11.000Z","title":"Poll: Where do you host your production environments?","url":null,"author":"joshmn","points":69,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":97,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400883011,"_tags":["poll","author_joshmn","story_7791612"],"objectID":"7791612","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Where do you host your production environments?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"joshmn","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-20T21:05:00.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you use marijuana","url":null,"author":"evo_9","points":79,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":108,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400619900,"_tags":["poll","author_evo_9","story_7775173"],"objectID":"7775173","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you use marijuana","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"evo_9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T22:35:18.000Z","title":"Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?","url":null,"author":"plg","points":40,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":118,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400538918,"_tags":["poll","author_plg","story_7770171"],"objectID":"7770171","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"plg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T02:44:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","url":null,"author":"hodgesmr","points":1,"story_text":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400467479,"_tags":["poll","author_hodgesmr","story_7765404"],"objectID":"7765404","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hodgesmr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T19:27:36.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you regret not going to college or university?","url":null,"author":"coffeecodecouch","points":15,"story_text":"Those who chose not to go to college or university after high school, do you regret that decision?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":16,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400095656,"_tags":["poll","author_coffeecodecouch","story_7745750"],"objectID":"7745750","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you regret not going to college or university?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"coffeecodecouch","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Those who chose not to go to college or university after high school, do you regret that decision?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T17:38:50.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you Tweet?","url":null,"author":"codegeek","points":2,"story_text":"I never got the hang of twitter even though twitter's value cannot be undermined in today's world specially in media,communication etc. Just wondering what HN folks are upto with twitter ? If you do tweet, what kind of stuff are you tweeting ?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400089130,"_tags":["poll","author_codegeek","story_7744978"],"objectID":"7744978","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you Tweet?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"codegeek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I never got the hang of twitter even though twitter's value cannot be undermined in today's world specially in media,communication etc. Just wondering what HN folks are upto with twitter ? If you do tweet, what kind of stuff are you tweeting ?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-13T03:19:42.000Z","title":"Poll: Are you married?","url":null,"author":"Walkman","points":5,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":4,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399951182,"_tags":["poll","author_Walkman","story_7736452"],"objectID":"7736452","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Are you married?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Walkman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-11T20:50:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Are you burnt out?","url":null,"author":"ShaneCurran","points":9,"story_text":"This is a question that gets asked quite regularly here on HN and I think it would be interesting to see what kind of results we can gather.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":9,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399841422,"_tags":["poll","author_ShaneCurran","story_7729935"],"objectID":"7729935","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Are you burnt out?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ShaneCurran","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This is a question that gets asked quite regularly here on HN and I think it would be interesting to see what kind of results we can gather.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-11T19:27:56.000Z","title":"Poll: What database does your company/you use?","url":null,"author":"roryhughes","points":210,"story_text":"Please upvote this if you would like to see more people take the poll.
This has been asked on occasion in the past but like all things, database preference/technology changes quickly. Let's see what people are using today.
If you think I've left out an important one, leave a comment and I will try and edit the post.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":99,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399836476,"_tags":["poll","author_roryhughes","story_7729603"],"objectID":"7729603","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What database does your company/you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"roryhughes","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Please upvote this if you would like to see more people take the poll.
This has been asked on occasion in the past but like all things, database preference/technology changes quickly. Let's see what people are using today.
If you think I've left out an important one, leave a comment and I will try and edit the post.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-10T06:11:21.000Z","title":"Poll: Which is your primary browser?","url":null,"author":"Walkman","points":2,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399702281,"_tags":["poll","author_Walkman","story_7724663"],"objectID":"7724663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which is your primary browser?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Walkman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-08T02:25:42.000Z","title":"Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?","url":null,"author":"plg","points":48,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":86,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399515942,"_tags":["poll","author_plg","story_7713656"],"objectID":"7713656","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"plg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-06T21:45:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Would you take $10M now or start your own company?","url":null,"author":"Walkman","points":36,"story_text":"In the series 'Silicon Valley' Richard get an option to choose between $10 million dollar right now for his algorithm, or get some seed money ($200,000) and all the help for 5% to start his own company.\\nWhich type are you? Please elaborate!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":59,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399412722,"_tags":["poll","author_Walkman","story_7707275"],"objectID":"7707275","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would you take $10M now or start your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Walkman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"In the series 'Silicon Valley' Richard get an option to choose between $10 million dollar right now for his algorithm, or get some seed money ($200,000) and all the help for 5% to start his own company.\\nWhich type are you? Please elaborate!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-05T20:56:13.000Z","title":"Poll: How do you manage your passwords?","url":null,"author":"malanj","points":24,"story_text":"I used to memorize a few passwords; mentally graded as "very secure" (for things like my Google Apps and my laptop's disk encryption password), "somewhat secure" (for services like DropBox or HipChat) and then "probably insecure" (for services like Facebook or Skype). Recently I decided that the approach is simply too insecure and started using 1Password to create and manage strong, unique, passwords for every service that I used.
I'm really interested to find out what HN tends to do.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":60,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399323373,"_tags":["poll","author_malanj","story_7701178"],"objectID":"7701178","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How do you manage your passwords?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"malanj","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I used to memorize a few passwords; mentally graded as "very secure" (for things like my Google Apps and my laptop's disk encryption password), "somewhat secure" (for services like DropBox or HipChat) and then "probably insecure" (for services like Facebook or Skype). Recently I decided that the approach is simply too insecure and started using 1Password to create and manage strong, unique, passwords for every service that I used.
I'm really interested to find out what HN tends to do.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-02T13:18:14.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you take any pills/medication/supplements to improve your performance?","url":null,"author":"jqueryin","points":1,"story_text":"I'm interested in finding out how many of you regularly take some form of pill, supplement, energy drink, caffeine, etc to improve your performance while on the job. I'm mainly interested in those that are in front of a computer all day.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399036694,"_tags":["poll","author_jqueryin","story_7685442"],"objectID":"7685442","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you take any pills/medication/supplements to improve your performance?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jqueryin","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm interested in finding out how many of you regularly take some form of pill, supplement, energy drink, caffeine, etc to improve your performance while on the job. I'm mainly interested in those that are in front of a computer all day.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-04-30T12:50:36.000Z","title":"Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?","url":null,"author":"chrisBob","points":287,"story_text":"Lots of people have been banned by AdSense, and for obvious reasons the most vocal are the people who were a few days from payout. Lets try and figure out if there really is a pattern here. If you had an account banned please answer when in the payout cycle it happened to you.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":163,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1398862236,"_tags":["poll","author_chrisBob","story_7672910"],"objectID":"7672910","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Were you banned by AdSense? When in the cycle were you notified?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"chrisBob","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Lots of people have been banned by AdSense, and for obvious reasons the most vocal are the people who were a few days from payout. Lets try and figure out if there really is a pattern here. If you had an account banned please answer when in the payout cycle it happened to you.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-04-27T23:53:28.000Z","title":"Poll: how many productive hours do you have in a day?","url":null,"author":"caio1982","points":104,"story_text":"The other day at work we had a debate about being productive and a few people were surprised when someone said "if you work with computers it's nearly impossible to have your brain wired in productive tasks for more than, on average, 4 hours a day" :-)
Definition of productive hours for this poll: time spent on researching, designing, debugging, testing, coding, supporting, refactoring or any other technical task directly related to these which makes you get in "the zone" or totally focused on a problem.
Exclude: time spent on meetings (no matter the subject, as they can be productive for the team but not for you), managing people (only indirectly related to technical stuff), lunch time, coffee breaks and browsing the web (decompressing) and other minutes not spent on solving problems with computers.
Consider: a somewhat long time span, not just the current week or month.
...and have a happy monday :-)
PS: related poll on how people feel about their working hours at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810289","comment_text":null,"num_comments":83,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1398642808,"_tags":["poll","author_caio1982","story_7657502"],"objectID":"7657502","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: how many productive hours do you have in a day?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"caio1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"The other day at work we had a debate about being productive and a few people were surprised when someone said "if you work with computers it's nearly impossible to have your brain wired in productive tasks for more than, on average, 4 hours a day" :-)
Definition of productive hours for this poll: time spent on researching, designing, debugging, testing, coding, supporting, refactoring or any other technical task directly related to these which makes you get in "the zone" or totally focused on a problem.
Exclude: time spent on meetings (no matter the subject, as they can be productive for the team but not for you), managing people (only indirectly related to technical stuff), lunch time, coffee breaks and browsing the web (decompressing) and other minutes not spent on solving problems with computers.
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Apple used to be careful not to alienate hackers. And Microsoft has been gradually digging itself out of a hole in that respect for several years. Now in my mind they are both the enemy.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Patent war goes nuclear: Microsoft, Apple-owned Rockstar sues Google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-nuclear-microsoft-apple-owned-rockstar-sues-google/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-08-17T17:20:32.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":272,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It's a genuine problem and has been growing gradually worse for a while. I think the cause is simply growth. When a good community grows, it becomes worse in two ways: (a) more recent arrivals don't have as much of whatever quality distinguished the original members, and (b) the large size of the group makes people behave worse, because there is more anonymity in a larger group.
I've spent many hours over the past several years trying to understand and mitigate such problems. I've come up with a bunch of tweaks that worked, and I have hopes I'll be able to come up with more.
The idea I'm currently investigating, in case anyone is curious, is that votes rather than comments may be the easiest place to attack this problem. Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work. So I'm going to try to see if it's possible to identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments and if so count their votes less.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4396747,"story_title":"Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..","story_url":"","parent_id":4396747,"created_at_i":1345224032,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4396747"],"objectID":"4397542","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It's a genuine problem and has been growing gradually worse for a while. I think the cause is simply growth. When a good community grows, it becomes worse in two ways: (a) more recent arrivals don't have as much of whatever quality distinguished the original members, and (b) the large size of the group makes people behave worse, because there is more anonymity in a larger group.
I've spent many hours over the past several years trying to understand and mitigate such problems. I've come up with a bunch of tweaks that worked, and I have hopes I'll be able to come up with more.
The idea I'm currently investigating, in case anyone is curious, is that votes rather than comments may be the easiest place to attack this problem. Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work. So I'm going to try to see if it's possible to identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments and if so count their votes less.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-12T06:54:37.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":260,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change.
However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5536734,"story_title":"Poll: What is your age? ","story_url":null,"parent_id":5536734,"created_at_i":1365749677,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5536734"],"objectID":"5537023","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change.
However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Poll: What is your age? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-08T06:18:50.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":257,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality.
Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3678744,"story_title":"Viral Video About Body Scanners","story_url":"http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners.html","parent_id":3678744,"created_at_i":1331187530,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3678744"],"objectID":"3678796","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality.
Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Viral Video About Body Scanners","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-14T03:14:06.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":256,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mistake to alienate the sort of people Quora has been alienating by doing this, even if they end up numerically ahead in the short term.
I'm one of them. Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site. Every time it happens, I dislike them more, and become more resistant to creating an account. I now think of it as a site for other people, who are willing to put up with the stuff they do. I'm pleased to find there are others like me.
I like Adam, but I wish he'd stop doing this.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5217052,"story_title":"I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora","story_url":"http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IdLikeToUseTheWebMyWayThankYouVeryMuchQuora.aspx","parent_id":5217052,"created_at_i":1360811646,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5217052"],"objectID":"5217449","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mistake to alienate the sort of people Quora has been alienating by doing this, even if they end up numerically ahead in the short term.
I'm one of them. Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site. Every time it happens, I dislike them more, and become more resistant to creating an account. I now think of it as a site for other people, who are willing to put up with the stuff they do. I'm pleased to find there are others like me.
I like Adam, but I wish he'd stop doing this.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IdLikeToUseTheWebMyWayThankYouVeryMuchQuora.aspx","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-03-11T19:10:26.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":245,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine.","num_comments":null,"story_id":512145,"story_title":"Why HN is slow lately","story_url":"","parent_id":512145,"created_at_i":1236798626,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_512145"],"objectID":"512280","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Why HN is slow lately","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-07-22T06:50:33.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":225,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You have to consider the number of users. HN now gets 60k unique visitors on weekdays. That's a decent sized stadium full of people. Of course they seem overwhelming collectively, but most individuals are only experts in a few areas.
If it makes you feel any better, my biggest worry about this site is the opposite: that the median awesomeness is decreasing as the number of users increases.
If you want to feel less overwhelmed, try reading the comments starting at the bottom of the page instead of the top.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1537461,"story_title":"Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?","story_url":"","parent_id":1537461,"created_at_i":1279781433,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_1537461"],"objectID":"1537527","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You have to consider the number of users. HN now gets 60k unique visitors on weekdays. That's a decent sized stadium full of people. Of course they seem overwhelming collectively, but most individuals are only experts in a few areas.
If it makes you feel any better, my biggest worry about this site is the opposite: that the median awesomeness is decreasing as the number of users increases.
If you want to feel less overwhelmed, try reading the comments starting at the bottom of the page instead of the top.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-06-03T17:08:29.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":223,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Thanks to dfranke for giving us time to release a fix, and in fact writing part of it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":639976,"story_title":"How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)","story_url":"","parent_id":639976,"created_at_i":1244048909,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_639976"],"objectID":"640021","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Thanks to dfranke for giving us time to release a fix, and in fact writing part of it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-24T21:34:05.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":222,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Unfortunately it's true. I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says \"He died peacefully in his sleep last night.\"","num_comments":null,"story_id":3151233,"story_title":"John McCarthy Has Died","story_url":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)","parent_id":3151233,"created_at_i":1319492045,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3151233"],"objectID":"3151705","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Unfortunately it's true. I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says \"He died peacefully in his sleep last night.\"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"John McCarthy Has Died","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-15T19:01:39.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":197,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"We're investigating. It will take at least a couple days,\nbecause we'll need to meet with the founders in person.
FWIW, the install window Patrick overlaid on top of InstallMonetizer's site in that screenshot is not actually InstallMonetizer.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5059806,"story_title":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","story_url":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","parent_id":5059806,"created_at_i":1358276499,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5059806"],"objectID":"5062133","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"We're investigating. It will take at least a couple days,\nbecause we'll need to meet with the founders in person.
FWIW, the install window Patrick overlaid on top of InstallMonetizer's site in that screenshot is not actually InstallMonetizer.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-12-22T18:59:57.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":192,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3381822,"story_title":"GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes \"Move your Domain Day\"","story_url":"http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/","parent_id":3382735,"created_at_i":1324580397,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3381822"],"objectID":"3382765","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes \"Move your Domain Day\"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-03-16T02:47:05.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":192,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Don't worry, it doesn't mean anything. The software for ranking applications runs on the same server, and it is horribly inefficient (something 4 people use every 6 months doesn't tend to get optimized much). This weekend all of us were reading applications at the same time, and the system was getting so slow that I banned crawlers for a bit to buy us some margin. (Traffic from crawlers is much more expensive for us than traffic from human users, because it interacts badly with lazy item loading.) We only finished reading applications an hour before I had to leave for SXSW, so I forgot to set robots.txt back to the normal one, but I just did now.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1194421,"story_title":"Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines","story_url":"http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt","parent_id":1194421,"created_at_i":1268707625,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_1194421"],"objectID":"1194797","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Don't worry, it doesn't mean anything. The software for ranking applications runs on the same server, and it is horribly inefficient (something 4 people use every 6 months doesn't tend to get optimized much). This weekend all of us were reading applications at the same time, and the system was getting so slow that I banned crawlers for a bit to buy us some margin. (Traffic from crawlers is much more expensive for us than traffic from human users, because it interacts badly with lazy item loading.) We only finished reading applications an hour before I had to leave for SXSW, so I forgot to set robots.txt back to the normal one, but I just did now.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-12-09T05:12:56.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":187,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Among other things, this is the tipping point for how Snowden will be viewed.
If all these powerful companies agree, in an unprecedented show of unanimity, that this is an important problem, then Snowden is ipso facto a hero for bringing it to our attention.
The curious thing is, I feel the linkage works in the other direction too. If Snowden had been caught and was now having his brains scrambled by solitary confinement in some secret prison, these companies would have been at least slightly more reluctant to issue such a statement, because it would have seemed to be espousing the cause of someone people were hearing described on the news as a criminal.
Snowden made his disclosures much more effective by escaping.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6872856,"story_title":"Reform Government Surveillance","story_url":"http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/","parent_id":6872856,"created_at_i":1386565976,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_6872856"],"objectID":"6872899","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Among other things, this is the tipping point for how Snowden will be viewed.
If all these powerful companies agree, in an unprecedented show of unanimity, that this is an important problem, then Snowden is ipso facto a hero for bringing it to our attention.
The curious thing is, I feel the linkage works in the other direction too. If Snowden had been caught and was now having his brains scrambled by solitary confinement in some secret prison, these companies would have been at least slightly more reluctant to issue such a statement, because it would have seemed to be espousing the cause of someone people were hearing described on the news as a criminal.
Snowden made his disclosures much more effective by escaping.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Reform Government Surveillance","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-20T22:50:13.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":184,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Incidentally, Paul Buchheit deserves all the credit for this idea. The YC partners were having lunch yesterday and he suggested posting this RFS. Whereupon we all turned to Jessica, who is usually the one who talks us out of doing crazy things. I was kind of surprised she didn't try to talk us out of it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3491542,"story_title":"Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.","story_url":"http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html","parent_id":3491542,"created_at_i":1327099813,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3491542"],"objectID":"3491584","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Incidentally, Paul Buchheit deserves all the credit for this idea. The YC partners were having lunch yesterday and he suggested posting this RFS. Whereupon we all turned to Jessica, who is usually the one who talks us out of doing crazy things. I was kind of surprised she didn't try to talk us out of it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-15T21:17:27.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":179,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5714197,"story_title":"Send money with Gmail","story_url":"http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/","parent_id":5714197,"created_at_i":1368652647,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5714197"],"objectID":"5715001","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Send money with Gmail","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-11-19T02:13:12.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":177,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"My life has been a search for quiet for as long as I can remember.
I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking.
When I was living in Providence, working on On Lisp, I told my loud but well-meaning neighbors that I was writing a hard computer book, and that made them be quiet. Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework. What they don't grasp is that someone would want their mind to work that way all the time, as a matter of course.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4802118,"story_title":"The Quiet Ones","story_url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all","parent_id":4802118,"created_at_i":1353291192,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4802118"],"objectID":"4802581","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"My life has been a search for quiet for as long as I can remember.
I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking.
When I was living in Providence, working on On Lisp, I told my loud but well-meaning neighbors that I was writing a hard computer book, and that made them be quiet. Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework. What they don't grasp is that someone would want their mind to work that way all the time, as a matter of course.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The Quiet Ones","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-10-27T18:08:02.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":175,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Don't worry, these things always run their course. At least this is driven by generosity. Plus you have to admit it's sort of interesting to watch new forms of internet behavior evolve.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1839723,"story_title":"Tell HN: Please stop offering your services","story_url":"","parent_id":1839723,"created_at_i":1288202882,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_1839723"],"objectID":"1839740","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Don't worry, these things always run their course. At least this is driven by generosity. Plus you have to admit it's sort of interesting to watch new forms of internet behavior evolve.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Tell HN: Please stop offering your services","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-24T20:26:45.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":171,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5603675,"story_title":"Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills","story_url":"http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab","parent_id":5603675,"created_at_i":1366835205,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5603675"],"objectID":"5603742","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-07-09T15:52:16.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":168,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"\"And most importantly, drive.\"
This advice is disastrously wrong. That's not how YC interviews work. They're interviews, not presentations. We want random access to your thoughts, not to listen to a single path through them, prepared in advance.
When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're determined to stick to, things usually end badly.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4218178,"story_title":"What We Should Have Said To PG","story_url":"http://blog.rocketr.com/what-we-should-have-said-to-pg/","parent_id":4218178,"created_at_i":1341849136,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4218178"],"objectID":"4218716","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"\"And most importantly, drive.\"
This advice is disastrously wrong. That's not how YC interviews work. They're interviews, not presentations. We want random access to your thoughts, not to listen to a single path through them, prepared in advance.
When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're determined to stick to, things usually end badly.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"What We Should Have Said To PG","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.rocketr.com/what-we-should-have-said-to-pg/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-10-22T21:50:38.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":165,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Convenient that we're too backward to use AWS. That means everyone can at least talk about it here when AWS is down.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4684384,"story_title":"Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others","story_url":"http://status.aws.amazon.com/?t","parent_id":4684384,"created_at_i":1350942638,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4684384"],"objectID":"4685737","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Convenient that we're too backward to use AWS. That means everyone can at least talk about it here when AWS is down.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://status.aws.amazon.com/?t","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":8789,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":15,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment%2Cauthor_pg"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment%2Cauthor_pg","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-03-30T00:12:35.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":8,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Is there a forum that doesn't ban people?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494175,"created_at_i":1396138355,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494555","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Is there a forum that doesn't ban people?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T23:57:54.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":5,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I know almost nothing about Clojure. I saw some example code around 7 years ago, but I don't remember it well.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494055,"created_at_i":1396137474,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494520","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I know almost nothing about Clojure. I saw some example code around 7 years ago, but I don't remember it well.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:43:35.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":8,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494102,"created_at_i":1396129415,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494119","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:29:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":11,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Actually we're pretty sure there is less of that now than a couple years ago, because Daniel has written some amazingly effective software for detecting it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494031,"created_at_i":1396128587,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494059","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Actually we're pretty sure there is less of that now than a couple years ago, because Daniel has written some amazingly effective software for detecting it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:22:59.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":10,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It's ok to ask something of general interest. The point is that HN is not YC customer support.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493987,"created_at_i":1396128179,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494011","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It's ok to ask something of general interest. The point is that HN is not YC customer support.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:19:20.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":18,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'm going to keep writing essays. I don't usually decide what to write very far in advance though.
Yes, I'll be working on Arc again. (I've been working in Arc regularly, since HN is written in it, but I haven't been able to spend much time thinking about the core language for the last 5 years or so.)","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493927,"created_at_i":1396127960,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493993","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'm going to keep writing essays. I don't usually decide what to write very far in advance though.
Yes, I'll be working on Arc again. (I've been working in Arc regularly, since HN is written in it, but I haven't been able to spend much time thinking about the core language for the last 5 years or so.)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:57:50.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":16,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"YC doesn't have budgets.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493883,"created_at_i":1396126670,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493897","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"YC doesn't have budgets.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:56:24.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":37,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"What I was doing before I started YC: writing and programming.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493884,"created_at_i":1396126584,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493891","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"What I was doing before I started YC: writing and programming.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:51:11.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":14,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Good point; added them.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493870,"created_at_i":1396126271,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493874","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Good point; added them.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T07:03:18.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":2,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Seems unlikely. YC doesn't need the money, so it would just be a distraction.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7481160,"story_title":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","story_url":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","parent_id":7484268,"created_at_i":1395990198,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7481160"],"objectID":"7485734","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Seems unlikely. YC doesn't need the money, so it would just be a distraction.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T07:01:02.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It depends on what the company is building. Some things take a long time to launch. With others it's a bad sign if the company takes more than a month or two to launch.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7481160,"story_title":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","story_url":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","parent_id":7484911,"created_at_i":1395990062,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7481160"],"objectID":"7485725","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It depends on what the company is building. Some things take a long time to launch. 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It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the mostly highly valued companies are never the recent ones.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7481160,"story_title":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","story_url":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","parent_id":7484161,"created_at_i":1395989934,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7481160"],"objectID":"7485722","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I mentioned those because they have the highest valuations. It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the mostly highly valued companies are never the recent ones.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T06:43:27.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":12,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Oops, I get it now. It should decrease the sort of comment people attack HN for, but that wasn't the purpose of it. Those comments are just a subset of the more general problem of users saying mean and/or stupid things about any topic.
The real motivation for pending comments, incidentally, was simply that I found, as a user, that I didn't like reading comment threads as much as I used to. HN was an instance of me following the advice I often give founders: to build something you yourself want.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485658,"created_at_i":1395989007,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485690","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Oops, I get it now. It should decrease the sort of comment people attack HN for, but that wasn't the purpose of it. Those comments are just a subset of the more general problem of users saying mean and/or stupid things about any topic.
The real motivation for pending comments, incidentally, was simply that I found, as a user, that I didn't like reading comment threads as much as I used to. HN was an instance of me following the advice I often give founders: to build something you yourself want.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T05:59:20.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":13,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"If our goal were to decrease criticism of YC, this wouldn't work. In fact, it wouldn't work as a way to eliminate any specific type of critical comment, because all it takes to make a comment visible is a small number of the many people who can endorse comments. To ensure a comment would be suppressed, the endorsers would have to be unanimously opposed to it, and it's hard to think of opinions that many HN users are unanimous about. Certainly an uncritical admiration for YC is not one of them.
What you say about YC being a good target for a symbolic victory is very insightful though. That is a real conundrum. I think it explains why any company over a certain size tends to express itself pretty blandly.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485532,"created_at_i":1395986360,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485590","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"If our goal were to decrease criticism of YC, this wouldn't work. In fact, it wouldn't work as a way to eliminate any specific type of critical comment, because all it takes to make a comment visible is a small number of the many people who can endorse comments. To ensure a comment would be suppressed, the endorsers would have to be unanimously opposed to it, and it's hard to think of opinions that many HN users are unanimous about. Certainly an uncritical admiration for YC is not one of them.
What you say about YC being a good target for a symbolic victory is very insightful though. That is a real conundrum. I think it explains why any company over a certain size tends to express itself pretty blandly.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T05:16:44.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":6,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"That's a variable the moderator can tune as well. We actually ended up setting the limit at 5 when we launched, which I don't think inconvenienced anyone.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485454,"created_at_i":1395983804,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485487","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"That's a variable the moderator can tune as well. We actually ended up setting the limit at 5 when we launched, which I don't think inconvenienced anyone.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:31:03.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":4,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Good catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7484870,"created_at_i":1395981063,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485361","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Good catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:28:44.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":3,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The moderator is concerned about that too. But if it did start to happen it would be pretty obvious. So it seems worth trying to see if pending comments can be tuned to cut obvious crap without eliminating stuff that's merely controversial.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7484780,"created_at_i":1395980924,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485356","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The moderator is concerned about that too. But if it did start to happen it would be pretty obvious. So it seems worth trying to see if pending comments can be tuned to cut obvious crap without eliminating stuff that's merely controversial.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:25:14.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":7,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"If we didn't have prior restraints on people speaking about places where you could buy cheap Ugg boots, HN would be so overrun with spam that it would be unusable.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7484990,"created_at_i":1395980714,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485346","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"If we didn't have prior restraints on people speaking about places where you could buy cheap Ugg boots, HN would be so overrun with spam that it would be unusable.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:22:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":6,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Given that endorsement is a mechanism which can only reduce the quantity of discussion on HN
That seems a mistaken assumption. The presence of existing comments often causes me to refrain from posting comments. Often I've been about to reply to something, then notice someone else has already said substantially the same thing, and as a result don't.
And this is not a contrived example. As I said when I first launched pending comments, if someone says something important in a nasty way, it may well turn out to be safe not to endorse it, because someone else will probably show up and make the same point without nastiness.
Plus if HN gets more civil, it may encourage people to comment who might not have before. I know from my own experience that incivility has decreased the number of comments I make. I often find myself about to say something, then decide I have work to do and don't have time to spend the afternoon fighting, and so don't say it.
Only experience can tell us whether one or both of these factors will increase the number of comments, but we can't assume that pending comments can only reduce discussion.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485133,"created_at_i":1395980526,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485333","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Given that endorsement is a mechanism which can only reduce the quantity of discussion on HN
That seems a mistaken assumption. The presence of existing comments often causes me to refrain from posting comments. Often I've been about to reply to something, then notice someone else has already said substantially the same thing, and as a result don't.
And this is not a contrived example. As I said when I first launched pending comments, if someone says something important in a nasty way, it may well turn out to be safe not to endorse it, because someone else will probably show up and make the same point without nastiness.
Plus if HN gets more civil, it may encourage people to comment who might not have before. I know from my own experience that incivility has decreased the number of comments I make. I often find myself about to say something, then decide I have work to do and don't have time to spend the afternoon fighting, and so don't say it.
Only experience can tell us whether one or both of these factors will increase the number of comments, but we can't assume that pending comments can only reduce discussion.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T01:34:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":5,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The cars are too clean. The pictures would look even more realistic if he sprayed them with dust.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7483752,"story_title":"Photographing A Town That Never Was – The Meta Picture","story_url":"http://themetapicture.com/photographing-a-town-that-never-was/","parent_id":7483752,"created_at_i":1395970446,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7483752"],"objectID":"7484737","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The cars are too clean. The pictures would look even more realistic if he sprayed them with dust.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Photographing A Town That Never Was – The Meta Picture","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://themetapicture.com/photographing-a-town-that-never-was/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":8789,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":18,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment%2Cauthor_pg"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?tags=poll%2Cauthor_pg","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2011-05-29T01:13:53.000Z","title":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","url":null,"author":"pg","points":606,"story_text":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of\\npeople have complained that without comment scores it's harder to\\npick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now\\nyou have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with\\nsufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for\\nitself despite seeing the score.
Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.\\nI'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":280,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1306631633,"_tags":["poll","author_pg","story_2595605"],"objectID":"2595605","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
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On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings\ninstead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.\nBut then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in\nthe repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments\nand created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its\nown grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,\nthe server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The\nstory in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.
For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to\nsee if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted\nby something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit\nlater when the server seemed to be swamped.
When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked\na lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts\nGCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems\ncan usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But\nfirst, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest\nversion to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart\nHN, I might as well get a fresh version.
After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed\nthe problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that\nday, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the\nserver again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because\nby this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in\nresidence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old\nserver, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked\nfine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So\nwe tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick\nsucceeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.
When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.\nThe bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the\nfrontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there\nwere still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg\ndidn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the\nloop in it.
Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a\ncertain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what\nmust have happened.
So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,\nand everything seems fine now.
Sorry about that.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":292,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1361211965,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5239673"],"objectID":"5239673","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Why HN was down","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hacker News was down all last night. The problem was not due to\nthe new server. In fact the cause was embarrassingly stupid.
On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings\ninstead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.\nBut then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in\nthe repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments\nand created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its\nown grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,\nthe server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The\nstory in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.
For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to\nsee if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted\nby something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit\nlater when the server seemed to be swamped.
When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked\na lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts\nGCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems\ncan usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But\nfirst, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest\nversion to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart\nHN, I might as well get a fresh version.
After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed\nthe problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that\nday, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the\nserver again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because\nby this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in\nresidence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old\nserver, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked\nfine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So\nwe tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick\nsucceeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.
When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.\nThe bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the\nfrontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there\nwere still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg\ndidn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the\nloop in it.
Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a\ncertain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what\nmust have happened.
So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,\nand everything seems fine now.
Sorry about that.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-18T18:46:33.000Z","title":"No New Accounts Today","url":"","author":"pg","points":703,"story_text":"Traffic is unprecedentedly high today, presumably because Reddit is blacked out. I don't want to repay them for their impressive stand by stealing their users, so I've temporarily turned off the ability to create new accounts.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":94,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326912393,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_3481174"],"objectID":"3481174","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"No New Accounts Today","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Traffic is unprecedentedly high today, presumably because Reddit is blacked out. I don't want to repay them for their impressive stand by stealing their users, so I've temporarily turned off the ability to create new accounts.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-25T20:17:44.000Z","title":"Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit","url":"http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html","author":"pg","points":690,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":168,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1359145064,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5117385"],"objectID":"5117385","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-13T22:41:20.000Z","title":"New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea","url":"http://ycombinator.com/noidea.html","author":"pg","points":682,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":296,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1331678480,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_3700712"],"objectID":"3700712","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/noidea.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-21T23:49:31.000Z","title":"Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments","url":"","author":"pg","points":603,"story_text":"A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I\\nmentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on\\nHacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523
Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this\\nYC cycle, this was my last chance to get this done.\\nI didn't want the people who are going to inherit\\nHN from me to have to build it as their\\nfirst project, because it interacts with so many\\ndifferent bits of the code in such subtle ways.
So I found time to implement pending comments this\\npast week, and with any luck it will launch tonight.\\nSince it's a big change, I wanted to warn HN users in\\nadvance.
Here's how it currently works. From now on, when\\nyou post a comment, it won't initially be live.\\nIt will be in a new state called pending. Comments\\nget from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple\\nHN users with over 1000 karma. Those users will see\\npending comments, and will be able to endorse them by\\nclicking on an "endorse" link next to the "flag" link.
Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till\\nit goes live to post another. We're hoping that good\\ncomments will get endorsed so quickly that there won't\\nbe a noticeable delay.
You can currently beat the system by posting an innocuous\\ncomment, waiting for it to be endorsed, and then after\\nit's live, changing it to say something worse. We explicitly\\nask people not to do this. While we have no software\\nfor catching it, humans will notice, and we'll ban you.
Along with the change in software will come a change in\\npolicy. We're going to ask users with the ability to\\nendorse comments only to endorse those that:
1. Say something substantial. E.g. not just a throwaway remark,\\nor the kind of "Yes you did, No I didn't" bickering\\nthat races toward the right side of the page and no\\none cares about except the participants.
2. Say it without gratuitous nastiness. In particular,\\na comment in reply to another comment should be written\\nin the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith\\nto figure out the truth about something, not\\npoliticians trying to ridicule and misrepresent\\nthe other side.
People who regularly endorse comments that fail one\\nor both of these tests will lose the ability to\\nendorse comments. So if you're not sure whether you\\nshould endorse a comment, don't. There are a lot of\\npeople on HN. If a point is important, someone else\\nwill probably come along and make it without gratuitous\\nnastiness.
I hope this will improve the quality of HN comments\\nsignificantly, but we'll need your help to make it work,\\nand your forbearance if, as usually happens, some\\nthings go wrong initially.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":834,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1395445771,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_7445761"],"objectID":"7445761","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I\\nmentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on\\nHacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523
Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this\\nYC cycle, this was my last chance to get this done.\\nI didn't want the people who are going to inherit\\nHN from me to have to build it as their\\nfirst project, because it interacts with so many\\ndifferent bits of the code in such subtle ways.
So I found time to implement pending comments this\\npast week, and with any luck it will launch tonight.\\nSince it's a big change, I wanted to warn HN users in\\nadvance.
Here's how it currently works. From now on, when\\nyou post a comment, it won't initially be live.\\nIt will be in a new state called pending. Comments\\nget from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple\\nHN users with over 1000 karma. Those users will see\\npending comments, and will be able to endorse them by\\nclicking on an "endorse" link next to the "flag" link.
Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till\\nit goes live to post another. We're hoping that good\\ncomments will get endorsed so quickly that there won't\\nbe a noticeable delay.
You can currently beat the system by posting an innocuous\\ncomment, waiting for it to be endorsed, and then after\\nit's live, changing it to say something worse. We explicitly\\nask people not to do this. While we have no software\\nfor catching it, humans will notice, and we'll ban you.
Along with the change in software will come a change in\\npolicy. We're going to ask users with the ability to\\nendorse comments only to endorse those that:
1. Say something substantial. E.g. not just a throwaway remark,\\nor the kind of "Yes you did, No I didn't" bickering\\nthat races toward the right side of the page and no\\none cares about except the participants.
2. Say it without gratuitous nastiness. In particular,\\na comment in reply to another comment should be written\\nin the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith\\nto figure out the truth about something, not\\npoliticians trying to ridicule and misrepresent\\nthe other side.
People who regularly endorse comments that fail one\\nor both of these tests will lose the ability to\\nendorse comments. So if you're not sure whether you\\nshould endorse a comment, don't. There are a lot of\\npeople on HN. If a point is important, someone else\\nwill probably come along and make it without gratuitous\\nnastiness.
I hope this will improve the quality of HN comments\\nsignificantly, but we'll need your help to make it work,\\nand your forbearance if, as usually happens, some\\nthings go wrong initially.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:43:24.000Z","title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","author":"pg","points":578,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":290,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1396125804,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493856","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-09-27T20:24:25.000Z","title":"What Happens At Y Combinator","url":"http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html","author":"pg","points":546,"story_text":null,"comment_text":null,"num_comments":143,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1285619065,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_1733236"],"objectID":"1733236","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"What Happens At Y Combinator","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-01-31T06:36:50.000Z","title":"New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.","url":"","author":"pg","points":533,"story_text":"There's been a big spike in new users the last couple days.\nUnfortunately it's been visible not only in the traffic stats\nbut in the character of the comment threads.
New users: we'd appreciate it if you'd please read the site\nguidelines before commenting. Most importantly, the principle\nthat you shouldn't say anything in a comment that you\nwouldn't say to someone's face.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hacker News is an experiment. We're\ntrying to see whether by asking people to be civil we can \navoid the kind of nastiness that anonymity breeds by default.\nThe experiment has worked so far. And while the new users\nmay not realize it, this is why they're here. People like it here because one can have a civil conversation.
The principle that you shouldn't say things you wouldn't\nsay to someone's face means you can't express yourself the\nway you might be used to doing on Reddit or Slashdot.\nThis, for example, would not stand out on either of those\nsites,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459250
but it's not cool here.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":138,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1233383810,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_459289"],"objectID":"459289","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"There's been a big spike in new users the last couple days.\nUnfortunately it's been visible not only in the traffic stats\nbut in the character of the comment threads.
New users: we'd appreciate it if you'd please read the site\nguidelines before commenting. Most importantly, the principle\nthat you shouldn't say anything in a comment that you\nwouldn't say to someone's face.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hacker News is an experiment. We're\ntrying to see whether by asking people to be civil we can \navoid the kind of nastiness that anonymity breeds by default.\nThe experiment has worked so far. And while the new users\nmay not realize it, this is why they're here. People like it here because one can have a civil conversation.
The principle that you shouldn't say things you wouldn't\nsay to someone's face means you can't express yourself the\nway you might be used to doing on Reddit or Slashdot.\nThis, for example, would not stand out on either of those\nsites,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459250
but it's not cool here.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2008-07-19T16:33:35.000Z","title":"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund","url":"http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html","author":"pg","points":530,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":384,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1216485215,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_250704"],"objectID":"250704","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-14T16:27:29.000Z","title":"The Handshake Deal Protocol","url":"http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html","author":"pg","points":513,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":216,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1363278449,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5375929"],"objectID":"5375929","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"The Handshake Deal Protocol","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-06-01T17:55:17.000Z","title":"Y Combinator Numbers","url":"http://ycombinator.com/nums.html","author":"pg","points":498,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":116,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1306950917,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_2608440"],"objectID":"2608440","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Y Combinator Numbers","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/nums.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-03T20:05:27.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?","url":"","author":"pg","points":462,"story_text":"I was just asking RiderofGiraffes if he had any suggestions for fixing the decreasing quality of comment threads on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403449) and it occurred to me that I might as well ask everyone.
Anyone have any suggestions? We're on mostly uncharted territory here.
The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":685,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1301861127,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_2403696","ask_hn"],"objectID":"2403696","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I was just asking RiderofGiraffes if he had any suggestions for fixing the decreasing quality of comment threads on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403449) and it occurred to me that I might as well ask everyone.
Anyone have any suggestions? We're on mostly uncharted territory here.
The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-12T17:24:32.000Z","title":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","url":"http://teespring.com/hntees","author":"pg","points":454,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":314,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1363109072,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5363290"],"objectID":"5363290","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://teespring.com/hntees","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-14T17:11:59.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?","url":"","author":"pg","points":448,"story_text":"I've long suspected bitcoin was created by a government. Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers. Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by governments.
The part that puzzles me is why a government would do this. I can imagine several possibilities:
1. To finance their own black operations.
2. Because they thought digital currencies were inevitable, and they preferred bitcoin to some potentially more malevolent form. (Could bitcoin have been worse from a government's point of view?)
3. A friend suggested this: because they felt their currency would never become the standard reserve currency, and they felt it was better that no one's be if theirs couldn't be.
4. A variant of the above: the US did it because it seemed inevitable that the dollar would eventually lose its place as the standard reserve currency, and better to have it replaced by bitcoin that the yuan.
I realize some of these explanations are pretty far fetched, but so is an individual cooking up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. Whatever the explanation of bitcoin's origin turns out to be, it will probably be pretty weird.
Anyone have opinions about these possible explanations, or other ones?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":298,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1365959519,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5547423","ask_hn"],"objectID":"5547423","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've long suspected bitcoin was created by a government. Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers. Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by governments.
The part that puzzles me is why a government would do this. I can imagine several possibilities:
1. To finance their own black operations.
2. Because they thought digital currencies were inevitable, and they preferred bitcoin to some potentially more malevolent form. (Could bitcoin have been worse from a government's point of view?)
3. A friend suggested this: because they felt their currency would never become the standard reserve currency, and they felt it was better that no one's be if theirs couldn't be.
4. A variant of the above: the US did it because it seemed inevitable that the dollar would eventually lose its place as the standard reserve currency, and better to have it replaced by bitcoin that the yuan.
I realize some of these explanations are pretty far fetched, but so is an individual cooking up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. Whatever the explanation of bitcoin's origin turns out to be, it will probably be pretty weird.
Anyone have opinions about these possible explanations, or other ones?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-06T17:30:09.000Z","title":"YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too","url":"http://ycombinator.com/np.html","author":"pg","points":439,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":110,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1378488609,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_6341568"],"objectID":"6341568","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/np.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-20T22:21:20.000Z","title":"HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning","url":"http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6.png","author":"pg","points":436,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":115,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1361398880,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5253773"],"objectID":"5253773","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6.png","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-03T00:05:58.000Z","title":"What HN users don't mean to be","url":"http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27t+mean+to+be%22&sortby=create_ts+asc","author":"pg","points":434,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":130,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1330733158,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_3658860"],"objectID":"3658860","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"What HN users don't mean to be","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27t+mean+to+be%22&sortby=create_ts+asc","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-08-08T23:57:18.000Z","title":"Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming","url":"","author":"pg","points":423,"story_text":"Every cycle we warn startups not to wait\ntill 2 weeks before Demo Day to launch if they can\navoid it, because there's always a glut of startups\nlaunching then. Every cycle they do anyway.
It's now 2 weeks before Demo Day, so there are \ngoing to be a lot of new startups launching in the\ncoming week.
Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be\n\"yet another YC startup,\" but for each individual startup\nthis is their big moment.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":92,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1312847838,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_2862067"],"objectID":"2862067","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Every cycle we warn startups not to wait\ntill 2 weeks before Demo Day to launch if they can\navoid it, because there's always a glut of startups\nlaunching then. Every cycle they do anyway.
It's now 2 weeks before Demo Day, so there are \ngoing to be a lot of new startups launching in the\ncoming week.
Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be\n\"yet another YC startup,\" but for each individual startup\nthis is their big moment.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-18T17:06:39.000Z","title":"Why we revert to original titles","url":"","author":"pg","points":414,"story_text":"In the HN guidelines, we ask submitters to use original titles when\npossible. When they don't, we often change the title of a post\nback to the original title of the article.
There is an ongoing trickle of complaints about this, as if we were\nengaged in some sort of sinister conspiracy.
Titles on HN are not self-expression the way comments are. Titles\nare common property. The person who happens to submit something\nfirst shouldn't thereby get the right to choose the title for\neveryone else. This would be clearer if we didn't let submitters\nenter a title-- if our software simply let people submit urls, and\nretrieved the title from the page. We don't do this because it's\ntoo inflexible. Some articles have titles that are too long. In\nothers the subtitle makes a better title. But the fact that a title\nfield is editable doesn't make it comment.
It's true that when submitters change titles, their new titles often\ncontain more information than the article's original title. But a\nsignificant percentage of the extra information added in this way\nis false. The only way we can tell if a newly created title is\naccurate is to read the article, and we're not about to read every\narticle submitted to HN. The only option is to revert to the\noriginal title, which is at least what the author intended.
(We do sometimes change titles from the original when the original\ntitle is egregious linkbait, or false. We have also, since the\nbeginning when our users were largely YC alumni, put e.g. (YC S13)\nafter the names of YC companies in titles. But these are not the\ntypes of changes users mean when they complain about moderators\nchanging titles.)
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There is an ongoing trickle of complaints about this, as if we were\nengaged in some sort of sinister conspiracy.
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw. They don't give a single shit about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that. Never comes up there, except maybe to laugh about it. Their facilities are dirt-smeared cube farms without a dime spent on decor or common meeting areas. Their pay and benefits suck, although much less so lately due to local competition from Google and Facebook. But they don't have any of our perks or extras -- they just try to match the offer-letter numbers, and that's the end of it. Their code base is a disaster, with no engineering standards whatsoever except what individual teams choose to put in place.
To be fair, they do have a nice versioned-library system that we really ought to emulate, and a nice publish-subscribe system that we also have no equivalent for. But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases. We wouldn't take most of it even if it were free.
I think the pubsub system and their library-shelf system were two out of the grand total of three things Amazon does better than google.
I guess you could make an argument that their bias for launching early and iterating like mad is also something they do well, but you can argue it either way. They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run. So even though it's given them some competitive advantages in the marketplace, it's created enough other problems to make it something less than a slam-dunk.
But there's one thing they do really really well that pretty much makes up for ALL of their political, philosophical and technical screw-ups.
Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.
Micro-managing isn't that third thing that Amazon does better than us, by the way. I mean, yeah, they micro-manage really well, but I wouldn't list it as a strength or anything. I'm just trying to set the context here, to help you understand what happened. We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people \"who runs the company\" when they disagree with him. The guy is a regular... well, Steve Jobs, I guess. Except without the fashion or design sense. Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.
His Big Mandate went something along these lines:
1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
7) Thank you; have a nice day!
Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress, headed up by Uber-Chief Bear Bulldog Rick Dalzell. Rick is an ex-Armgy Ranger, West Point Academy graduate, ex-boxer, ex-Chief Torturer slash CIO at Wal*Mart, and is a big genial scary man who used the word \"hardened interface\" a lot. Rick was a walking, talking hardened interface himself, so needless to say, everyone made LOTS of forward progress and made sure Rick knew about it.
Over the next couple of years, Amazon transformed internally into a service-oriented architecture. They learned a tremendous amount while effecting this transformation. There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street. Amazon's dev staff made a lot of discoveries along the way. A teeny tiny sampling of these discoveries included:
- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified. If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.
- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker. Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.
- monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says \"oh yes, I'm fine\", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say \"I'm fine, roger roger, over and out\" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.
- if you have hundreds of services, and your code MUST communicate with other groups' code via these services, then you won't be able to find any of them without a service-discovery mechanism. And you can't have that without a service registration mechanism, which itself is another service. So Amazon has a universal service registry where you can find out reflectively (programmatically) about every service, what its APIs are, and also whether it is currently up, and where.
- debugging problems with someone else's code gets a LOT harder, and is basically impossible unless there is a universal standard way to run every service in a debuggable sandbox.
That's just a very small sample. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of individual learnings like these that Amazon had to discover organically. There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think. Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
This effort was still underway when I left to join Google in mid-2005, but it was pretty far advanced. From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion. It is now fundamental to how they approach all designs, including internal designs for stuff that might never see the light of day externally.
At this point they don't even do it out of fear of being fired. I mean, they're still afraid of that; it's pretty much part of daily life there, working for the Dread Pirate Bezos and all. But they do services because they've come to understand that it's the Right Thing. There are without question pros and cons to the SOA approach, and some of the cons are pretty long. But overall it's the right thing because SOA-driven design enables Platforms.
That's what Bezos was up to with his edict, of course. He didn't (and doesn't) care even a tiny bit about the well-being of the teams, nor about what technologies they use, nor in fact any detail whatsoever about how they go about their business unless they happen to be screwing up. But Bezos realized long before the vast majority of Amazonians that Amazon needs to be a platform.
You wouldn't really think that an online bookstore needs to be an extensible, programmable platform. Would you?
Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform. So now they have the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and the Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and the Amazon Relational Database Service, and a whole passel' o' other services browsable at aws.amazon.com. These services host the backends for some pretty successful companies, reddit being my personal favorite of the bunch.
The other big realization he had was that he can't always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website. It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.
I'm not really sure how Bezos came to this realization -- the insight that he can't build one product and have it be right for everyone. But it doesn't matter, because he gets it. There's actually a formal name for this phenomenon. It's called Accessibility, and it's the most important thing in the computing world.
The. Most. Important. Thing.
If you're sorta thinking, \"huh? You mean like, blind and deaf people Accessibility?\" then you're not alone, because I've come to understand that there are lots and LOTS of people just like you: people for whom this idea does not have the right Accessibility, so it hasn't been able to get through to you yet. It's not your fault for not understanding, any more than it would be your fault for being blind or deaf or motion-restricted or living with any other disability. When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.
Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown into an equally powerful Arch-Nemesis (yes, there's more than one nemesis to accessibility) named Security. And boy howdy are the two ever at odds.
But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.
So yeah. In case you hadn't noticed, I could actually write a book on this topic. A fat one, filled with amusing anecdotes about ants and rubber mallets at companies I've worked at. But I will never get this little rant published, and you'll never get it read, unless I start to wrap up.
That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't \"get\" platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully clear to me over the past six years. I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services. Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.
But no. No, it's like our tenth or eleventh priority. Or fifteenth, I don't know. It's pretty low. There are a few teams who treat the idea very seriously, but most teams either don't think about it all, ever, or only a small percentage of them think about it in a very small way.
It's a big stretch even to get most teams to offer a stubby service to get programmatic access to their data and computations. Most of them think they're building products. And a stubby service is a pretty pathetic service. Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of them. Stubby's great, but it's like parts when you need a car.
A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: \"So is it the Stalker API?\" She got all glum and said \"Yeah.\" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Microsoft has known about the Dogfood rule for at least twenty years. It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now. You don't eat People Food and give your developers Dog Food. Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes. Platforms are all about long-term thinking.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: \"Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us.\" Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now? The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them.
You can't do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.
Larry Tesler may have convinced Bezos that he was no Steve Jobs, but Bezos realized that he didn't need to be a Steve Jobs in order to provide everyone with the right products: interfaces and workflows that they liked and felt at ease with. He just needed to enable third-party developers to do it, and it would happen automatically.
I apologize to those (many) of you for whom all this stuff I'm saying is incredibly obvious, because yeah. It's incredibly frigging obvious. Except we're not doing it. We don't get Platforms, and we don't get Accessibility. The two are basically the same thing, because platforms solve accessibility. A platform is accessibility.
So yeah, Microsoft gets it. And you know as well as I do how surprising that is, because they don't \"get\" much of anything, really. But they understand platforms as a purely accidental outgrowth of having started life in the business of providing platforms. So they have thirty-plus years of learning in this space. And if you go to msdn.com, and spend some time browsing, and you've never seen it before, prepare to be amazed. Because it's staggeringly huge. They have thousands, and thousands, and THOUSANDS of API calls. They have a HUGE platform. Too big in fact, because they can't design for squat, but at least they're doing it.
Amazon gets it. Amazon's AWS (aws.amazon.com) is incredible. Just go look at it. Click around. It's embarrassing. We don't have any of that stuff.
Apple gets it, obviously. They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform. But they understand accessibility and they understand the power of third-party development and they eat their dogfood. And you know what? They make pretty good dogfood. Their APIs are a hell of a lot cleaner than Microsoft's, and have been since time immemorial.
Facebook gets it. That's what really worries me. That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing. I hate blogging. I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful. And I do! I mean, Facebook wants me there, and it'd be pretty easy to just go. But Google is home, so I'm insisting that we have this little family intervention, uncomfortable as it might be.
After you've marveled at the platform offerings of Microsoft and Amazon, and Facebook I guess (I didn't look because I didn't want to get too depressed), head over to developers.google.com and browse a little. Pretty big difference, eh? It's like what your fifth-grade nephew might mock up if he were doing an assignment to demonstrate what a big powerful platform company might be building if all they had, resource-wise, was one fifth grader.
Please don't get me wrong here -- I know for a fact that the dev-rel team has had to FIGHT to get even this much available externally. They're kicking ass as far as I'm concerned, because they DO get platforms, and they are struggling heroically to try to create one in an environment that is at best platform-apathetic, and at worst often openly hostile to the idea.
I'm just frankly describing what developers.google.com looks like to an outsider. It looks childish. Where's the Maps APIs in there for Christ's sake? Some of the things in there are labs projects. And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry. They were obviously dog food. Not even good organic stuff. Compared to our internal APIs it's all snouts and horse hooves.
And also don't get me wrong about Google+. They're far from the only offenders. This is a cultural thing. What we have going on internally is basically a war, with the underdog minority Platformers fighting a more or less losing battle against the Mighty Funded Confident Producters.
Any teams that have successfully internalized the notion that they should be externally programmable platforms from the ground up are underdogs -- Maps and Docs come to mind, and I know GMail is making overtures in that direction. But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture. Maestro's funding is a feeble thing compared to the gargantuan Microsoft Office programming platform: it's a fluffy rabbit versus a T-Rex. The Docs team knows they'll never be competitive with Office until they can match its scripting facilities, but they're not getting any resource love. I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API. That team looks pretty unloved to me.
Ironically enough, Wave was a great platform, may they rest in peace. But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app. Facebook -- that is, the stock service they offer with walls and friends and such -- is the killer app for the Facebook Platform. And it is a very serious mistake to conclude that the Facebook App could have been anywhere near as successful without the Facebook Platform.
You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant? I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as \"doing everything right\". We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines. They're inferring arrogance because it makes them feel better.
But when we take the stance that we know how to design the perfect product for everyone, and believe you me, I hear that a lot, then we're being fools. You can attribute it to arrogance, or naivete, or whatever -- it doesn't matter in the end, because it's foolishness. There IS no perfect product for everyone.
And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.
It's not just them. It's everyone. The problem is that we're a Product Company through and through. We built a successful product with broad appeal -- our search, that is -- and that wild success has biased us.
Amazon was a product company too, so it took an out-of-band force to make Bezos understand the need for a platform. That force was their evaporating margins; he was cornered and had to think of a way out. But all he had was a bunch of engineers and all these computers... if only they could be monetized somehow... you can see how he arrived at AWS, in hindsight.
Microsoft started out as a platform, so they've just had lots of practice at it.
Facebook, though: they worry me. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they started off as a Product and they rode that success pretty far. So I'm not sure exactly how they made the transition to a platform. It was a relatively long time ago, since they had to be a platform before (now very old) things like Mafia Wars could come along.
Maybe they just looked at us and asked: \"How can we beat Google? What are they missing?\"
The problem we face is pretty huge, because it will take a dramatic cultural change in order for us to start catching up. We don't do internal service-oriented platforms, and we just as equally don't do external ones. This means that the \"not getting it\" is endemic across the company: the PMs don't get it, the engineers don't get it, the product teams don't get it, nobody gets it. Even if individuals do, even if YOU do, it doesn't matter one bit unless we're treating it as an all-hands-on-deck emergency. We can't keep launching products and pretending we'll turn them into magical beautiful extensible platforms later. We've tried that and it's not working.
The Golden Rule of Platforms, \"Eat Your Own Dogfood\", can be rephrased as \"Start with a Platform, and Then Use it for Everything.\" You can't just bolt it on later. Certainly not easily at any rate -- ask anyone who worked on platformizing MS Office. Or anyone who worked on platformizing Amazon. If you delay it, it'll be ten times as much work as just doing it correctly up front. You can't cheat. You can't have secret back doors for internal apps to get special priority access, not for ANY reason. You need to solve the hard problems up front.
I'm not saying it's too late for us, but the longer we wait, the closer we get to being Too Late.
I honestly don't know how to wrap this up. I've said pretty much everything I came here to say today. This post has been six years in the making. I'm sorry if I wasn't gentle enough, or if I misrepresented some product or team or person, or if we're actually doing LOTS of platform stuff and it just so happens that I and everyone I ever talk to has just never heard about it. I'm sorry.
But we've gotta start doing this right.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3101876,"story_title":"Steve's Google Platform rant","story_url":"https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/WugKtXSp7We","parent_id":3101876,"created_at_i":1318425713,"_tags":["comment","author_pitdesi","story_3101876"],"objectID":"3102800","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pitdesi","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It now 404's so I've posted it here:
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw. They don't give a single shit about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that. Never comes up there, except maybe to laugh about it. Their facilities are dirt-smeared cube farms without a dime spent on decor or common meeting areas. Their pay and benefits suck, although much less so lately due to local competition from Google and Facebook. But they don't have any of our perks or extras -- they just try to match the offer-letter numbers, and that's the end of it. Their code base is a disaster, with no engineering standards whatsoever except what individual teams choose to put in place.
To be fair, they do have a nice versioned-library system that we really ought to emulate, and a nice publish-subscribe system that we also have no equivalent for. But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases. We wouldn't take most of it even if it were free.
I think the pubsub system and their library-shelf system were two out of the grand total of three things Amazon does better than google.
I guess you could make an argument that their bias for launching early and iterating like mad is also something they do well, but you can argue it either way. They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run. So even though it's given them some competitive advantages in the marketplace, it's created enough other problems to make it something less than a slam-dunk.
But there's one thing they do really really well that pretty much makes up for ALL of their political, philosophical and technical screw-ups.
Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.
Micro-managing isn't that third thing that Amazon does better than us, by the way. I mean, yeah, they micro-manage really well, but I wouldn't list it as a strength or anything. I'm just trying to set the context here, to help you understand what happened. We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people \"who runs the company\" when they disagree with him. The guy is a regular... well, Steve Jobs, I guess. Except without the fashion or design sense. Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.
His Big Mandate went something along these lines:
1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
7) Thank you; have a nice day!
Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress, headed up by Uber-Chief Bear Bulldog Rick Dalzell. Rick is an ex-Armgy Ranger, West Point Academy graduate, ex-boxer, ex-Chief Torturer slash CIO at Wal*Mart, and is a big genial scary man who used the word \"hardened interface\" a lot. Rick was a walking, talking hardened interface himself, so needless to say, everyone made LOTS of forward progress and made sure Rick knew about it.
Over the next couple of years, Amazon transformed internally into a service-oriented architecture. They learned a tremendous amount while effecting this transformation. There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street. Amazon's dev staff made a lot of discoveries along the way. A teeny tiny sampling of these discoveries included:
- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified. If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.
- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker. Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.
- monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says \"oh yes, I'm fine\", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say \"I'm fine, roger roger, over and out\" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.
- if you have hundreds of services, and your code MUST communicate with other groups' code via these services, then you won't be able to find any of them without a service-discovery mechanism. And you can't have that without a service registration mechanism, which itself is another service. So Amazon has a universal service registry where you can find out reflectively (programmatically) about every service, what its APIs are, and also whether it is currently up, and where.
- debugging problems with someone else's code gets a LOT harder, and is basically impossible unless there is a universal standard way to run every service in a debuggable sandbox.
That's just a very small sample. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of individual learnings like these that Amazon had to discover organically. There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think. Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
This effort was still underway when I left to join Google in mid-2005, but it was pretty far advanced. From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion. It is now fundamental to how they approach all designs, including internal designs for stuff that might never see the light of day externally.
At this point they don't even do it out of fear of being fired. I mean, they're still afraid of that; it's pretty much part of daily life there, working for the Dread Pirate Bezos and all. But they do services because they've come to understand that it's the Right Thing. There are without question pros and cons to the SOA approach, and some of the cons are pretty long. But overall it's the right thing because SOA-driven design enables Platforms.
That's what Bezos was up to with his edict, of course. He didn't (and doesn't) care even a tiny bit about the well-being of the teams, nor about what technologies they use, nor in fact any detail whatsoever about how they go about their business unless they happen to be screwing up. But Bezos realized long before the vast majority of Amazonians that Amazon needs to be a platform.
You wouldn't really think that an online bookstore needs to be an extensible, programmable platform. Would you?
Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform. So now they have the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and the Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and the Amazon Relational Database Service, and a whole passel' o' other services browsable at aws.amazon.com. These services host the backends for some pretty successful companies, reddit being my personal favorite of the bunch.
The other big realization he had was that he can't always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website. It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.
I'm not really sure how Bezos came to this realization -- the insight that he can't build one product and have it be right for everyone. But it doesn't matter, because he gets it. There's actually a formal name for this phenomenon. It's called Accessibility, and it's the most important thing in the computing world.
The. Most. Important. Thing.
If you're sorta thinking, \"huh? You mean like, blind and deaf people Accessibility?\" then you're not alone, because I've come to understand that there are lots and LOTS of people just like you: people for whom this idea does not have the right Accessibility, so it hasn't been able to get through to you yet. It's not your fault for not understanding, any more than it would be your fault for being blind or deaf or motion-restricted or living with any other disability. When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.
Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown into an equally powerful Arch-Nemesis (yes, there's more than one nemesis to accessibility) named Security. And boy howdy are the two ever at odds.
But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.
So yeah. In case you hadn't noticed, I could actually write a book on this topic. A fat one, filled with amusing anecdotes about ants and rubber mallets at companies I've worked at. But I will never get this little rant published, and you'll never get it read, unless I start to wrap up.
That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't \"get\" platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully clear to me over the past six years. I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services. Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.
But no. No, it's like our tenth or eleventh priority. Or fifteenth, I don't know. It's pretty low. There are a few teams who treat the idea very seriously, but most teams either don't think about it all, ever, or only a small percentage of them think about it in a very small way.
It's a big stretch even to get most teams to offer a stubby service to get programmatic access to their data and computations. Most of them think they're building products. And a stubby service is a pretty pathetic service. Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of them. Stubby's great, but it's like parts when you need a car.
A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: \"So is it the Stalker API?\" She got all glum and said \"Yeah.\" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Microsoft has known about the Dogfood rule for at least twenty years. It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now. You don't eat People Food and give your developers Dog Food. Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes. Platforms are all about long-term thinking.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: \"Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us.\" Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now? The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them.
You can't do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.
Larry Tesler may have convinced Bezos that he was no Steve Jobs, but Bezos realized that he didn't need to be a Steve Jobs in order to provide everyone with the right products: interfaces and workflows that they liked and felt at ease with. He just needed to enable third-party developers to do it, and it would happen automatically.
I apologize to those (many) of you for whom all this stuff I'm saying is incredibly obvious, because yeah. It's incredibly frigging obvious. Except we're not doing it. We don't get Platforms, and we don't get Accessibility. The two are basically the same thing, because platforms solve accessibility. A platform is accessibility.
So yeah, Microsoft gets it. And you know as well as I do how surprising that is, because they don't \"get\" much of anything, really. But they understand platforms as a purely accidental outgrowth of having started life in the business of providing platforms. So they have thirty-plus years of learning in this space. And if you go to msdn.com, and spend some time browsing, and you've never seen it before, prepare to be amazed. Because it's staggeringly huge. They have thousands, and thousands, and THOUSANDS of API calls. They have a HUGE platform. Too big in fact, because they can't design for squat, but at least they're doing it.
Amazon gets it. Amazon's AWS (aws.amazon.com) is incredible. Just go look at it. Click around. It's embarrassing. We don't have any of that stuff.
Apple gets it, obviously. They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform. But they understand accessibility and they understand the power of third-party development and they eat their dogfood. And you know what? They make pretty good dogfood. Their APIs are a hell of a lot cleaner than Microsoft's, and have been since time immemorial.
Facebook gets it. That's what really worries me. That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing. I hate blogging. I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful. And I do! I mean, Facebook wants me there, and it'd be pretty easy to just go. But Google is home, so I'm insisting that we have this little family intervention, uncomfortable as it might be.
After you've marveled at the platform offerings of Microsoft and Amazon, and Facebook I guess (I didn't look because I didn't want to get too depressed), head over to developers.google.com and browse a little. Pretty big difference, eh? It's like what your fifth-grade nephew might mock up if he were doing an assignment to demonstrate what a big powerful platform company might be building if all they had, resource-wise, was one fifth grader.
Please don't get me wrong here -- I know for a fact that the dev-rel team has had to FIGHT to get even this much available externally. They're kicking ass as far as I'm concerned, because they DO get platforms, and they are struggling heroically to try to create one in an environment that is at best platform-apathetic, and at worst often openly hostile to the idea.
I'm just frankly describing what developers.google.com looks like to an outsider. It looks childish. Where's the Maps APIs in there for Christ's sake? Some of the things in there are labs projects. And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry. They were obviously dog food. Not even good organic stuff. Compared to our internal APIs it's all snouts and horse hooves.
And also don't get me wrong about Google+. They're far from the only offenders. This is a cultural thing. What we have going on internally is basically a war, with the underdog minority Platformers fighting a more or less losing battle against the Mighty Funded Confident Producters.
Any teams that have successfully internalized the notion that they should be externally programmable platforms from the ground up are underdogs -- Maps and Docs come to mind, and I know GMail is making overtures in that direction. But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture. Maestro's funding is a feeble thing compared to the gargantuan Microsoft Office programming platform: it's a fluffy rabbit versus a T-Rex. The Docs team knows they'll never be competitive with Office until they can match its scripting facilities, but they're not getting any resource love. I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API. That team looks pretty unloved to me.
Ironically enough, Wave was a great platform, may they rest in peace. But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app. Facebook -- that is, the stock service they offer with walls and friends and such -- is the killer app for the Facebook Platform. And it is a very serious mistake to conclude that the Facebook App could have been anywhere near as successful without the Facebook Platform.
You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant? I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as \"doing everything right\". We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines. They're inferring arrogance because it makes them feel better.
But when we take the stance that we know how to design the perfect product for everyone, and believe you me, I hear that a lot, then we're being fools. You can attribute it to arrogance, or naivete, or whatever -- it doesn't matter in the end, because it's foolishness. There IS no perfect product for everyone.
And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.
It's not just them. It's everyone. The problem is that we're a Product Company through and through. We built a successful product with broad appeal -- our search, that is -- and that wild success has biased us.
Amazon was a product company too, so it took an out-of-band force to make Bezos understand the need for a platform. That force was their evaporating margins; he was cornered and had to think of a way out. But all he had was a bunch of engineers and all these computers... if only they could be monetized somehow... you can see how he arrived at AWS, in hindsight.
Microsoft started out as a platform, so they've just had lots of practice at it.
Facebook, though: they worry me. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they started off as a Product and they rode that success pretty far. So I'm not sure exactly how they made the transition to a platform. It was a relatively long time ago, since they had to be a platform before (now very old) things like Mafia Wars could come along.
Maybe they just looked at us and asked: \"How can we beat Google? What are they missing?\"
The problem we face is pretty huge, because it will take a dramatic cultural change in order for us to start catching up. We don't do internal service-oriented platforms, and we just as equally don't do external ones. This means that the \"not getting it\" is endemic across the company: the PMs don't get it, the engineers don't get it, the product teams don't get it, nobody gets it. Even if individuals do, even if YOU do, it doesn't matter one bit unless we're treating it as an all-hands-on-deck emergency. We can't keep launching products and pretending we'll turn them into magical beautiful extensible platforms later. We've tried that and it's not working.
The Golden Rule of Platforms, \"Eat Your Own Dogfood\", can be rephrased as \"Start with a Platform, and Then Use it for Everything.\" You can't just bolt it on later. Certainly not easily at any rate -- ask anyone who worked on platformizing MS Office. Or anyone who worked on platformizing Amazon. If you delay it, it'll be ten times as much work as just doing it correctly up front. You can't cheat. You can't have secret back doors for internal apps to get special priority access, not for ANY reason. You need to solve the hard problems up front.
I'm not saying it's too late for us, but the longer we wait, the closer we get to being Too Late.
I honestly don't know how to wrap this up. I've said pretty much everything I came here to say today. This post has been six years in the making. I'm sorry if I wasn't gentle enough, or if I misrepresented some product or team or person, or if we're actually doing LOTS of platform stuff and it just so happens that I and everyone I ever talk to has just never heard about it. I'm sorry.
But we've gotta start doing this right.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Steve's Google Platform rant","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/WugKtXSp7We","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-10T16:35:58.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"terabytest","points":261,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :)
I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224) and a spinoff called 2048 (http://saming.fr/p/2048/). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them.
I discovered Threes only today, and I had no idea it looked so similar. I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :P
The code is also open-source. You can find it here: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048
Feel free to ask me anything, and thanks to everyone for the attention! :)
By the way, my highscore is somewhere around 6000. Admittedly, I'm quite bad at playing my own game :P
EDIT: Make sure not to get addicted!
EDIT 2: The game now has swipe gestures and vim keys support (added by @rayhaanj)!","num_comments":null,"story_id":7373566,"story_title":"2048","story_url":"http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/","parent_id":7373566,"created_at_i":1394469358,"_tags":["comment","author_terabytest","story_7373566"],"objectID":"7373927","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"terabytest","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :)
I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224) and a spinoff called 2048 (http://saming.fr/p/2048/). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them.
I discovered Threes only today, and I had no idea it looked so similar. I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :P
The code is also open-source. You can find it here: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048
Feel free to ask me anything, and thanks to everyone for the attention! :)
By the way, my highscore is somewhere around 6000. Admittedly, I'm quite bad at playing my own game :P
EDIT: Make sure not to get addicted!
EDIT 2: The game now has swipe gestures and vim keys support (added by @rayhaanj)!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"2048","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-12-19T23:31:44.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"dctoedt","points":230,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"A few points to help put this in context:
1. Technically, the USPTO hasn't yet \"invalidated\" the patent; it issued a first \"Office action\" in which it stated that all of the patents claims were unpatentable in view of varying combinations of prior-art references.
2. Institutionally the USPTO is very much aware of the significance of reexamination for a patent in litigation.
3. The Office action was signed by a \"primary\" examiner, i.e., someone who has been around the block a few times. Another primary examiner and a supervisory primary examiner are listed as \"conferees.\" You would be right to read this as a signal that the USPTO takes these matters very seriously; the detailed written analysis (which I haven't studied) seems to bear this out.
4. The primary reference cited is a patent [1] filed in November 2005 whose lead inventor was Danny Hillis --- dare I say, the legendary Danny Hillis [2].
Another main reference is a Japanese patent publication from 2000, referred to as the Nomura reference.
5. In responding to the rejection, Apple can try to establish that their inventors predated Hillis's November 2005 filing date. This is referred to as \"swearing behind\" the Hillis patent's filing date [3]. But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge. (I won't go into the details of the statute and regulation unless people are interested.)
Apple can't swear behind the 2000 Nomura publication because it was published more than one year before Apple's January 2007 filing date --- see 35 USC 102(b).
6. Paragraph 14 on page 34 is pretty typical: It says, in effect, \"you'd better take your best shot at contesting this rejection now, Apple, because the next time around it will be a final rejection.\"
7. If, as seems likely, the USPTO does issue a final rejection, Apple can appeal, first to an administrative appellate body in the USPTO, and if necessary to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit is required by Supreme Court precedent to be fairly deferential to the USPTO's findings in some respects, but it's not entirely clear to me how that would play out here.
[EDITED FOR STYLE]
[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US7724242
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_back_of_a_reference","num_comments":null,"story_id":4945181,"story_title":"Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO","story_url":"http://www.scribd.com/doc/117432798/Pinch-to-Zoom-Patent-Invalidated","parent_id":4945181,"created_at_i":1355959904,"_tags":["comment","author_dctoedt","story_4945181"],"objectID":"4945449","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dctoedt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"A few points to help put this in context:
1. Technically, the USPTO hasn't yet \"invalidated\" the patent; it issued a first \"Office action\" in which it stated that all of the patents claims were unpatentable in view of varying combinations of prior-art references.
2. Institutionally the USPTO is very much aware of the significance of reexamination for a patent in litigation.
3. The Office action was signed by a \"primary\" examiner, i.e., someone who has been around the block a few times. Another primary examiner and a supervisory primary examiner are listed as \"conferees.\" You would be right to read this as a signal that the USPTO takes these matters very seriously; the detailed written analysis (which I haven't studied) seems to bear this out.
4. The primary reference cited is a patent [1] filed in November 2005 whose lead inventor was Danny Hillis --- dare I say, the legendary Danny Hillis [2].
Another main reference is a Japanese patent publication from 2000, referred to as the Nomura reference.
5. In responding to the rejection, Apple can try to establish that their inventors predated Hillis's November 2005 filing date. This is referred to as \"swearing behind\" the Hillis patent's filing date [3]. But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge. (I won't go into the details of the statute and regulation unless people are interested.)
Apple can't swear behind the 2000 Nomura publication because it was published more than one year before Apple's January 2007 filing date --- see 35 USC 102(b).
6. Paragraph 14 on page 34 is pretty typical: It says, in effect, \"you'd better take your best shot at contesting this rejection now, Apple, because the next time around it will be a final rejection.\"
7. If, as seems likely, the USPTO does issue a final rejection, Apple can appeal, first to an administrative appellate body in the USPTO, and if necessary to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit is required by Supreme Court precedent to be fairly deferential to the USPTO's findings in some respects, but it's not entirely clear to me how that would play out here.
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[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US7724242
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_back_of_a_reference","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.scribd.com/doc/117432798/Pinch-to-Zoom-Patent-Invalidated","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-04-08T20:46:46.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"icey","points":211,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1250799,"story_title":"New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others","story_url":"http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler","parent_id":1250799,"created_at_i":1270759606,"_tags":["comment","author_icey","story_1250799"],"objectID":"1250850","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"icey","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-18T04:00:08.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"mitchellh","points":206,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I worked at an Apple store for over a year as a "salesperson" (we called them Mac Specialists at the time). Let me input my two cents:
I was trained to do this. From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money. This requires using the APPLE technique (acronym, google it). The second P stands for "Present a solution for the customer to take home today." It was common knowledge at the time (4 years ago) that consumers were brainwashed to thinking faster/more is always better. But when we can save them hundreds of dollars, this isn't the case. There were many many times I talked someone out of a $2,000 MacBook Pro for a $1200 entry-level iMac with double the specs because after probing (the first "P") I learned they didn't need to be mobile. This was really, really common.
And note, this isn't about trying to convince people to spend less. Sometimes after probing, we learned they needed _more_. It is about the RIGHT solution.
To add to this: specialists don't earn commission. We weren't ranked based on financial sales numbers (there are other metrics, however). There is no incentive for specialists to sell more expensive or less expensive things. It is about the right thing.
So, this guy was just doing what he was trained to do. It is Apple store standard.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5897301,"story_title":"Buying the new MacBook Air","story_url":"http://virtualpants.com/post/53248259631/buying-the-new-macbook-air","parent_id":5897301,"created_at_i":1371528008,"_tags":["comment","author_mitchellh","story_5897301"],"objectID":"5897440","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mitchellh","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I worked at an Apple store for over a year as a "salesperson" (we called them Mac Specialists at the time). Let me input my two cents:
I was trained to do this. From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money. This requires using the APPLE technique (acronym, google it). The second P stands for "Present a solution for the customer to take home today." It was common knowledge at the time (4 years ago) that consumers were brainwashed to thinking faster/more is always better. But when we can save them hundreds of dollars, this isn't the case. There were many many times I talked someone out of a $2,000 MacBook Pro for a $1200 entry-level iMac with double the specs because after probing (the first "P") I learned they didn't need to be mobile. This was really, really common.
And note, this isn't about trying to convince people to spend less. Sometimes after probing, we learned they needed _more_. It is about the RIGHT solution.
To add to this: specialists don't earn commission. We weren't ranked based on financial sales numbers (there are other metrics, however). There is no incentive for specialists to sell more expensive or less expensive things. It is about the right thing.
So, this guy was just doing what he was trained to do. It is Apple store standard.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Buying the new MacBook Air","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://virtualpants.com/post/53248259631/buying-the-new-macbook-air","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-01-25T22:56:53.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mikehar","points":203,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"As a co-founder of Picnik, I was surprised by this article. It contained several errors which is pretty astonishing given its brevity. Here are a few corrections:
1) Sposato was not a founder of Picnik. He was hired by the two founders, myself and Darrin Massena.\\n2) Sposato did not decide to sell Picnik. Naturally he was very involved in the process, but the decision was ultimately made by the board (which Sposato was not on). I can tell you that it was not an easy choice. \\n3) Picnik was not a "photo-sharing" site, it was a photo editing site with very limited photo sharing.\\n4) "One-third of our 25-person team, including my two business partners, quit right off the bat”. Both co-founders worked at Google for slightly more than a year. Sposato was there for about two years. Most of the people who left were marketing support or office management. We did lose our lead designer to Apple, but I don't recall any other product related departures in the first year.
Picnik was amazing. Great team, we had a lot of fun and millions of amazing customers. It was very rewarding to work on a product that your customers love. Selling was a tough choice. Picnik was very healthy, profitable and growing. We felt like we were able to capture much of that value in the sale price and also have the opportunity to work on a product at Google that we felt would have a huge impact.
Unfortunately for us, within our first six months Google decided to focus on Google+ and there wasn't room for any other photo product outside of Google+. I completely understood at the time why Google+ was important to Google, it just wasn't important to me. So I left. I don't know how we could have been able to predict the shift in focus to Google+ even with perfect visibility into Google. From what I gather, such a large shift in focus and investment was a unprecedented in Google before Google+.
I think Google is a great company, I have a super high opinion of the people that I met there. Perhaps this wasn't the optimal exit for the Picnik team, but it was pretty damn good.
-mike harrington","num_comments":null,"story_id":7121692,"story_title":"What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google","story_url":"http://www.inc.com/magazine/201402/jonathan-sposato/lessons-from-selling-to-google.html","parent_id":7121692,"created_at_i":1390690613,"_tags":["comment","author_mikehar","story_7121692"],"objectID":"7122906","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mikehar","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"As a co-founder of Picnik, I was surprised by this article. It contained several errors which is pretty astonishing given its brevity. Here are a few corrections:
1) Sposato was not a founder of Picnik. He was hired by the two founders, myself and Darrin Massena.\\n2) Sposato did not decide to sell Picnik. Naturally he was very involved in the process, but the decision was ultimately made by the board (which Sposato was not on). I can tell you that it was not an easy choice. \\n3) Picnik was not a "photo-sharing" site, it was a photo editing site with very limited photo sharing.\\n4) "One-third of our 25-person team, including my two business partners, quit right off the bat”. Both co-founders worked at Google for slightly more than a year. Sposato was there for about two years. Most of the people who left were marketing support or office management. We did lose our lead designer to Apple, but I don't recall any other product related departures in the first year.
Picnik was amazing. Great team, we had a lot of fun and millions of amazing customers. It was very rewarding to work on a product that your customers love. Selling was a tough choice. Picnik was very healthy, profitable and growing. We felt like we were able to capture much of that value in the sale price and also have the opportunity to work on a product at Google that we felt would have a huge impact.
Unfortunately for us, within our first six months Google decided to focus on Google+ and there wasn't room for any other photo product outside of Google+. I completely understood at the time why Google+ was important to Google, it just wasn't important to me. So I left. I don't know how we could have been able to predict the shift in focus to Google+ even with perfect visibility into Google. From what I gather, such a large shift in focus and investment was a unprecedented in Google before Google+.
I think Google is a great company, I have a super high opinion of the people that I met there. Perhaps this wasn't the optimal exit for the Picnik team, but it was pretty damn good.
-mike harrington","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.inc.com/magazine/201402/jonathan-sposato/lessons-from-selling-to-google.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-07T22:03:35.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"dkulchenko","points":198,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Look at the two writeups (Zuckerberg's and Page's) side by side. Each has 4 paragraphs. Each of the pairs of paragraphs addresses the same thing.
1st paragraph: we wanted to respond to these claims. 2nd paragraph: never heard of PRISM, don't give direct access. 3rd paragraph: each request goes through legal channels. 4th paragraph: encourage governments to be more transparent.
Terrifying.
EDIT: It gets worse. Here's Apple: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."
Here's Paltalk: "We have not heard of PRISM. Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law. Paltalk does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers.”
Here's AOL: "We do not have any knowledge of the PRISM program. We do not disclose user information to government agencies without a court order, subpoena or formal legal process, nor do we provide any government agency with access to our servers."
And here's Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network."
Microsoft refused to issue a direct denial of involvement in PRISM.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5842173,"story_title":"Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM","story_url":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631","parent_id":5842173,"created_at_i":1370642615,"_tags":["comment","author_dkulchenko","story_5842173"],"objectID":"5842291","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"dkulchenko","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Look at the two writeups (Zuckerberg's and Page's) side by side. Each has 4 paragraphs. Each of the pairs of paragraphs addresses the same thing.
1st paragraph: we wanted to respond to these claims. 2nd paragraph: never heard of PRISM, don't give direct access. 3rd paragraph: each request goes through legal channels. 4th paragraph: encourage governments to be more transparent.
Terrifying.
EDIT: It gets worse. Here's Apple: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."
Here's Paltalk: "We have not heard of PRISM. Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law. Paltalk does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers.”
Here's AOL: "We do not have any knowledge of the PRISM program. We do not disclose user information to government agencies without a court order, subpoena or formal legal process, nor do we provide any government agency with access to our servers."
And here's Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network."
Microsoft refused to issue a direct denial of involvement in PRISM.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-22T20:54:30.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"abalone","points":193,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Just to keep things in perspective, the goal of Touch ID is not to be unhackable. The goal is to get more consumers to move from zero security to pretty good security.
A very large number of people don't put any kind of passcode of any kind on their phone, simply because it's inconvenient. Touch ID is designed for them. It's not designed to secure nuclear footballs.
Touch ID is going to massively reduce the number of totally unsecured iPhones that require zero effort to access. That's the goal.
I think some people see "fingerprint scanner" and think "military-grade security" because that's where we've seen scanners before in movies and such. But this is really very much a solution for the consumer market, where convenience and usability are critical features of a security system. Sometimes infosec folks forget that. If you make it too hard to use (passcodes), people just bypass it. So you can blame the user, or you can try to design something easier to use. If in the end you've improved the overall security landscape, you've succeeded. I think that's what Apple is doing here.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6427390,"story_title":"Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID","story_url":"http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid","parent_id":6427390,"created_at_i":1379883270,"_tags":["comment","author_abalone","story_6427390"],"objectID":"6427964","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"abalone","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Just to keep things in perspective, the goal of Touch ID is not to be unhackable. The goal is to get more consumers to move from zero security to pretty good security.
A very large number of people don't put any kind of passcode of any kind on their phone, simply because it's inconvenient. Touch ID is designed for them. It's not designed to secure nuclear footballs.
Touch ID is going to massively reduce the number of totally unsecured iPhones that require zero effort to access. That's the goal.
I think some people see "fingerprint scanner" and think "military-grade security" because that's where we've seen scanners before in movies and such. But this is really very much a solution for the consumer market, where convenience and usability are critical features of a security system. Sometimes infosec folks forget that. If you make it too hard to use (passcodes), people just bypass it. So you can blame the user, or you can try to design something easier to use. If in the end you've improved the overall security landscape, you've succeeded. I think that's what Apple is doing here.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-27T19:02:05.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"foob","points":183,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF. People make fun of him and make comments about how he has a net negative impact on software and computing. It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots. He's had more of a far reaching and positive impact on software than people with such naive views will probably ever realize.
What I really wanted to comment about though (I couldn't hold back a short rant...) is how these Steve Jobs comments relate to the E-Parasites Act that was discussed yesterday. I read a lot of great comments there about how we're losing our freedoms incrementally and how this will shape the future. In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general. If the US ever ends up in a place where there's widespread censorship on the internet then you can bet that it can trace its ancestry back to the DMCA and something like the E-Parasites act which will allow entire sites to get shut down with lots of room for abuse. Every step we take in that direction makes it easier to keep stepping in that direction.
So why don't as many people feel this way about Apple? Because we like their products? Iphones have made it normal to buy a computing device that has artificial restrictions preventing you from running whatever software you want on it. If they had their way then it would have actually been illegal to jailbreak your phone in order to circumvent this. Sure, iphones are really cool but this is a step in a terrifying direction. If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple. Laws like that might seem laughably extreme now but with every step in that direction they seem less and less so.
Stallman sees this and he has dedicated his life to moving us in the opposite direction. He's been hugely successful at this and he's been almost prophetic in his opinions about what we should be worrying about. He was criticizing Apple for trying to take away peoples' freedoms and Steve Jobs for steering the company in this direction. He wasn't condemning him as a person, as he said \"My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong, since I barely knew him.\" I don't see expressing this view after Steve Jobs' death as being particularly disrespectful. Steve Jobs is known to the majority of people only for his role at Apple. This role is what he was praised for across the internet and in magazines after his death. This role is what Stallman condemned.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3163920,"story_title":"Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction","story_url":"http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html?ohai#27_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29","parent_id":3163920,"created_at_i":1319742125,"_tags":["comment","author_foob","story_3163920"],"objectID":"3164929","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"foob","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF. People make fun of him and make comments about how he has a net negative impact on software and computing. It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots. He's had more of a far reaching and positive impact on software than people with such naive views will probably ever realize.
What I really wanted to comment about though (I couldn't hold back a short rant...) is how these Steve Jobs comments relate to the E-Parasites Act that was discussed yesterday. I read a lot of great comments there about how we're losing our freedoms incrementally and how this will shape the future. In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general. If the US ever ends up in a place where there's widespread censorship on the internet then you can bet that it can trace its ancestry back to the DMCA and something like the E-Parasites act which will allow entire sites to get shut down with lots of room for abuse. Every step we take in that direction makes it easier to keep stepping in that direction.
So why don't as many people feel this way about Apple? Because we like their products? Iphones have made it normal to buy a computing device that has artificial restrictions preventing you from running whatever software you want on it. If they had their way then it would have actually been illegal to jailbreak your phone in order to circumvent this. Sure, iphones are really cool but this is a step in a terrifying direction. If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple. Laws like that might seem laughably extreme now but with every step in that direction they seem less and less so.
Stallman sees this and he has dedicated his life to moving us in the opposite direction. He's been hugely successful at this and he's been almost prophetic in his opinions about what we should be worrying about. He was criticizing Apple for trying to take away peoples' freedoms and Steve Jobs for steering the company in this direction. He wasn't condemning him as a person, as he said \"My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong, since I barely knew him.\" I don't see expressing this view after Steve Jobs' death as being particularly disrespectful. Steve Jobs is known to the majority of people only for his role at Apple. This role is what he was praised for across the internet and in magazines after his death. This role is what Stallman condemned.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html?ohai#27_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-09-21T03:46:37.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"mladenkovacevic","points":182,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"No, no, no you guys don't understand. This is not a cheap rip-off. It's an homage and the Swiss will be honoured that their famous clock has been elevated to the high-art status of Apple design and innovation. The critical eye of an average iPhone user will appreciate the fine craftsmanship & precision of the painstaking work that went into translating the iconic clock into an exact digital replica.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4551943,"story_title":"Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design","story_url":"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517054-37/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famous-swiss-clock-design/","parent_id":4551943,"created_at_i":1348199197,"_tags":["comment","author_mladenkovacevic","story_4551943"],"objectID":"4552098","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mladenkovacevic","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"No, no, no you guys don't understand. This is not a cheap rip-off. It's an homage and the Swiss will be honoured that their famous clock has been elevated to the high-art status of Apple design and innovation. The critical eye of an average iPhone user will appreciate the fine craftsmanship & precision of the painstaking work that went into translating the iconic clock into an exact digital replica.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517054-37/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famous-swiss-clock-design/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-23T20:11:48.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"zaroth","points":181,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack".
At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying.
How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?
This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted. In other words, it should be a lot harder to "Accept" these profiles outside an enterprise setting, because it sounds exploitable. What else can you configure "so easily" I wonder?
Then you get into how they are hacking CSS and iframes into the email body, to substitute for Javascript, and actually create a workable user interface. Now this is fascinating, impressive, and deserves further study... Without fully understanding exactly what they are doing, however, it sounds highly abusive of the Mail app's rendering capabilities, and points to exploitable paths within the Mail app that probably need to be tightened up by Apple. If LinkedIn can make an email "act" like that without any opt-in on my part, how would Mallory use the same "feature" in their latest SPAM campaign?
<s>Thanks LinkedIn... really, I'm impressed. When exactly did Walter Bishop start working for you?</s>
P.S. I look forward to following your pending class-action lawsuit for violation of US federal wiretapping laws. Cheers!","num_comments":null,"story_id":6600597,"story_title":"LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS","story_url":"http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios","parent_id":6600597,"created_at_i":1382559108,"_tags":["comment","author_zaroth","story_6600597"],"objectID":"6601334","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"zaroth","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack".
At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying.
How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?
This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted. In other words, it should be a lot harder to "Accept" these profiles outside an enterprise setting, because it sounds exploitable. What else can you configure "so easily" I wonder?
Then you get into how they are hacking CSS and iframes into the email body, to substitute for Javascript, and actually create a workable user interface. Now this is fascinating, impressive, and deserves further study... Without fully understanding exactly what they are doing, however, it sounds highly abusive of the Mail app's rendering capabilities, and points to exploitable paths within the Mail app that probably need to be tightened up by Apple. If LinkedIn can make an email "act" like that without any opt-in on my part, how would Mallory use the same "feature" in their latest SPAM campaign?
<s>Thanks LinkedIn... really, I'm impressed. When exactly did Walter Bishop start working for you?</s>
P.S. I look forward to following your pending class-action lawsuit for violation of US federal wiretapping laws. Cheers!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-09-04T03:56:30.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"saulrh","points":178,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Money quote for the people that don't want to wade through ten pages of rant:
During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by\n Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action\n Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the\n AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files\n were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of\n \"NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv\" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS\n devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device,\n type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone\n numbers, addresses, etc. During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by\n Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action\n Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the\n AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files\n were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of\n \"NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv\" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS\n devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device,\n type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone\n numbers, addresses, etc.You know what makes me sick to the stomach? Developers starving themselves to death because of a complete disregard to basic business sense and a misguided sense of righteousness.
5 easy steps to homelessness:
1. Spend years building products for a platform, where $1.99 is a high price.
2. Avoid doing even the most basic mental arithmetic to figure out how many units you need to sell at $1.99 to be able to pay rent.
3. Then set the price to zero, because you're a nice guy.
4. Sell in-app purchases for the super duper high price of $2.99, thus raising your customer's LTV to a magnificent $2.99. But, don't be an asshole. Ask for the upgrade politely and quietly, in the third screen of the settings. Remember, you don't work for $ZNGA!
5. Make it up in volume
\"We really want to stick to the free and pay 2.99 to unlock model, but if only .5% of users buy our game, were going to have to figure something else out. Its very malleable at this point. Perhaps were giving too much away for free, its really hard to say until we see more data.
6. Look a bonus step no.6! If after following steps 1-5 you're still not quite homeless, then it's time for some more data collection. Spend another year or so A/B testing the gradients of your upgrade button. And oh maybe, your upgrade price is too high? Yeah, test that.
Excuse me while I relieve myself of the agony of watching people do this over and over again.
AAAAAAAAAARGHH!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, STOP IT!!!!!
Why do developers worship Apple, but absolutely refuse to take the slightest hint from them on how to do business?
Read this - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
And repeat after me:
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
The app store is the most brilliant and brutal execution of this strategy. Apple is selling $500 phones - the most expensive phones - while simultaneously making developers fall over each other and well, go homeless, to make software for their platform to give away for free.
As if that's not tragic enough, the celebration of the lottery winners has the public and developers believe that making apps is a great business to be in!
patio11 has been trying to drill these things into people's heads for ages. But, all he seems to get is upvotes and not enough people getting his point.
You don't have to suddenly go all Zynga on your users. There's a vast chasm between selling virtual sheep to addicted grandmas and giving away the farm for less than the price of a toilet roll. You can charge a good price, which does not depend on huge scale to pay the rent.
Edited to add: Lest I sound like some smug business know-it-all on a high horse, I've made the same mistakes. Most of us are like this. We need to make a conscious effort to be good at business.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4387127,"story_title":"How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness","story_url":"http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/going-broke-with-success-how-an-app-with-200000-downloads-led-to-devel","parent_id":4387127,"created_at_i":1345057921,"_tags":["comment","author_revorad","story_4387127"],"objectID":"4387637","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"revorad","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"\"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion.\"
You know what makes me sick to the stomach? Developers starving themselves to death because of a complete disregard to basic business sense and a misguided sense of righteousness.
5 easy steps to homelessness:
1. Spend years building products for a platform, where $1.99 is a high price.
2. Avoid doing even the most basic mental arithmetic to figure out how many units you need to sell at $1.99 to be able to pay rent.
3. Then set the price to zero, because you're a nice guy.
4. Sell in-app purchases for the super duper high price of $2.99, thus raising your customer's LTV to a magnificent $2.99. But, don't be an asshole. Ask for the upgrade politely and quietly, in the third screen of the settings. Remember, you don't work for $ZNGA!
5. Make it up in volume
\"We really want to stick to the free and pay 2.99 to unlock model, but if only .5% of users buy our game, were going to have to figure something else out. Its very malleable at this point. Perhaps were giving too much away for free, its really hard to say until we see more data.
6. Look a bonus step no.6! If after following steps 1-5 you're still not quite homeless, then it's time for some more data collection. Spend another year or so A/B testing the gradients of your upgrade button. And oh maybe, your upgrade price is too high? Yeah, test that.
Excuse me while I relieve myself of the agony of watching people do this over and over again.
AAAAAAAAAARGHH!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, STOP IT!!!!!
Why do developers worship Apple, but absolutely refuse to take the slightest hint from them on how to do business?
Read this - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
And repeat after me:
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
The app store is the most brilliant and brutal execution of this strategy. Apple is selling $500 phones - the most expensive phones - while simultaneously making developers fall over each other and well, go homeless, to make software for their platform to give away for free.
As if that's not tragic enough, the celebration of the lottery winners has the public and developers believe that making apps is a great business to be in!
patio11 has been trying to drill these things into people's heads for ages. But, all he seems to get is upvotes and not enough people getting his point.
You don't have to suddenly go all Zynga on your users. There's a vast chasm between selling virtual sheep to addicted grandmas and giving away the farm for less than the price of a toilet roll. You can charge a good price, which does not depend on huge scale to pay the rent.
Edited to add: Lest I sound like some smug business know-it-all on a high horse, I've made the same mistakes. Most of us are like this. We need to make a conscious effort to be good at business.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/going-broke-with-success-how-an-app-with-200000-downloads-led-to-devel","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-11T21:49:32.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"kunai","points":174,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Google has overstayed the web's welcome.
What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.
Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they can't afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.
This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.
Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I hope they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.
And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5534882,"story_title":"You know, Google, the web already had this feature","story_url":"http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/","parent_id":5534882,"created_at_i":1365716972,"_tags":["comment","author_kunai","story_5534882"],"objectID":"5535006","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kunai","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Google has overstayed the web's welcome.
What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.
Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they can't afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.
This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.
Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I hope they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.
And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"You know, Google, the web already had this feature","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-14T16:14:12.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jrockway","points":174,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"So, as a UNIX hacker, here's what I don't get about the iOS community. There is way too much excitement over the simplest things ever. Let's break down some of the copy for this app:
Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH client
What does that mean? What does a clean ssh client do; not commit any protocol violations? What is crisp? When you bite into it, it's like a ripe apple? What does cheerful mean? Is the ssh client really happy that it can make a TCP connection to the intarwebs, especially for me?
What does this sentence mean to someone that wants to ssh from their phone?
it helps you when you need it, and stays out of your way when you dont
So when I want to be sshing, I can run it, and when I don't want to be sshing, I don't have to run it? Splendid. It works like every other computer program ever made.
Perfect for system administrators, web developers, movie-style hackers (Let me just TCP/IP into the UNIX port!), or any person who needs to connect remotely and type some magic.
So I googled for \"ssh client\", found your page, and you're telling me who uses ssh clients. How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?
Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2447256,"story_title":"Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.","story_url":"http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/","parent_id":2447256,"created_at_i":1302797652,"_tags":["comment","author_jrockway","story_2447256"],"objectID":"2447362","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jrockway","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"So, as a UNIX hacker, here's what I don't get about the iOS community. There is way too much excitement over the simplest things ever. Let's break down some of the copy for this app:
Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH client
What does that mean? What does a clean ssh client do; not commit any protocol violations? What is crisp? When you bite into it, it's like a ripe apple? What does cheerful mean? Is the ssh client really happy that it can make a TCP connection to the intarwebs, especially for me?
What does this sentence mean to someone that wants to ssh from their phone?
it helps you when you need it, and stays out of your way when you dont
So when I want to be sshing, I can run it, and when I don't want to be sshing, I don't have to run it? Splendid. It works like every other computer program ever made.
Perfect for system administrators, web developers, movie-style hackers (Let me just TCP/IP into the UNIX port!), or any person who needs to connect remotely and type some magic.
So I googled for \"ssh client\", found your page, and you're telling me who uses ssh clients. How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?
Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-03T21:09:13.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"Firehed","points":172,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information (which is fine, but not interesting to me).
I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos.
Edit: scrolling down further, there are some other UI refreshes that I do think improve the experience overall - the calendar and photo album views stood out to me. But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production! The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5004483,"story_title":"A New Look for Facebook","story_url":"http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-New-Look-Concept/6504647","parent_id":5004483,"created_at_i":1357247353,"_tags":["comment","author_Firehed","story_5004483"],"objectID":"5004682","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Firehed","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information (which is fine, but not interesting to me).
I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos.
Edit: scrolling down further, there are some other UI refreshes that I do think improve the experience overall - the calendar and photo album views stood out to me. But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production! The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"A New Look for Facebook","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-New-Look-Concept/6504647","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-08-24T23:04:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"danilocampos","points":170,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Apple's going to be fine. Steve's most extraordinary work isn't the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It's rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good.
Fuck, I'll miss him, though. I'll miss the way he got up there each and every time like he was selling you your own personal Jesus in a box. Not out of hucksterism, but because he really was that excited to share what he and his people had been working on. Excited to do things better. Excited to solve problems in a way that was far more tasteful, more satisfying, than anything anyone had bothered to try before. Maybe he'll still do announcements as his health allows – but maybe that would send a weird message.
He's a man who was lucky enough to find out exactly what he did best – and to seize upon it with every cell in his body.
I'm a better person for his example. The resurrection of Apple was one of the most enjoyable things I followed in my childhood. No matter how you feel about his approach, this is a guy who loves his work with an intensity that couldn't be faked and won't be soon matched.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2922756,"story_title":"Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple","story_url":"http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-bw-19285464.html?x=0&.v=1","parent_id":2922756,"created_at_i":1314227046,"_tags":["comment","author_danilocampos","story_2922756"],"objectID":"2922950","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"danilocampos","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Apple's going to be fine. Steve's most extraordinary work isn't the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It's rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good.
Fuck, I'll miss him, though. I'll miss the way he got up there each and every time like he was selling you your own personal Jesus in a box. Not out of hucksterism, but because he really was that excited to share what he and his people had been working on. Excited to do things better. Excited to solve problems in a way that was far more tasteful, more satisfying, than anything anyone had bothered to try before. Maybe he'll still do announcements as his health allows – but maybe that would send a weird message.
He's a man who was lucky enough to find out exactly what he did best – and to seize upon it with every cell in his body.
I'm a better person for his example. The resurrection of Apple was one of the most enjoyable things I followed in my childhood. No matter how you feel about his approach, this is a guy who loves his work with an intensity that couldn't be faked and won't be soon matched.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-bw-19285464.html?x=0&.v=1","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-04-29T13:47:21.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"gfunk911","points":168,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I love this. Apple clearly laid out their reasoning, using facts and persuasive argument. The world needs more of this.
Obviously, there is some spin in the post, and I don't completely agree with 100% of it, but I love the level of discourse.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1304310,"story_title":"Thoughts on Flash","story_url":"http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/","parent_id":1304310,"created_at_i":1272548841,"_tags":["comment","author_gfunk911","story_1304310"],"objectID":"1304353","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"gfunk911","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I love this. Apple clearly laid out their reasoning, using facts and persuasive argument. The world needs more of this.
Obviously, there is some spin in the post, and I don't completely agree with 100% of it, but I love the level of discourse.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Thoughts on Flash","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-12T09:30:39.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jacquesm","points":162,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Man this so sucks.
If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap. This in response to those that claim the DOJ didn't have anything to do with Aaron killing himself.
For some people the mere fact of being suspected of a crime they didn't commit is enough to push them over the edge. When you're placed in a holding cell the police will remove your laces from your boots so you don't hang yourself, that's how heavy being imprisoned can weigh on some.
Aaron did something that he thought was right, that he truly believed in and that upset a large number of applecarts and that had far reaching implications, had the proverbial book thrown at him and then some. The prospect of significant amounts of jail time (35 years for downloading scientific papers, it shouldn't even be a crime) and/or a felony record must have weighed very heavy on him.
For a person that is of a very stable mental make-up that would already be extreme pressure.
For someone with a mental issue it may very well be all it takes.
Aaron was inspiring to me, I think that no copyrighted piece of paper is worth a human life and that the DOJ, even if they are not directly responsible at least indirectly carry some of the responsibility here for beating down someone who was fighting for an extremely good cause in a somewhat haphazard way. The letter of the law and the spirit of the law should both be taken into account.
I hope those that had a hand in Aarons' continued prosecution will sleep miserably for a long time to come. Likely it won't weigh on their consciousness at all.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5046845,"story_title":"Aaron Swartz commits suicide","story_url":"http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html","parent_id":5046845,"created_at_i":1357983039,"_tags":["comment","author_jacquesm","story_5046845"],"objectID":"5047187","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jacquesm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Man this so sucks.
If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap. This in response to those that claim the DOJ didn't have anything to do with Aaron killing himself.
For some people the mere fact of being suspected of a crime they didn't commit is enough to push them over the edge. When you're placed in a holding cell the police will remove your laces from your boots so you don't hang yourself, that's how heavy being imprisoned can weigh on some.
Aaron did something that he thought was right, that he truly believed in and that upset a large number of applecarts and that had far reaching implications, had the proverbial book thrown at him and then some. The prospect of significant amounts of jail time (35 years for downloading scientific papers, it shouldn't even be a crime) and/or a felony record must have weighed very heavy on him.
For a person that is of a very stable mental make-up that would already be extreme pressure.
For someone with a mental issue it may very well be all it takes.
Aaron was inspiring to me, I think that no copyrighted piece of paper is worth a human life and that the DOJ, even if they are not directly responsible at least indirectly carry some of the responsibility here for beating down someone who was fighting for an extremely good cause in a somewhat haphazard way. The letter of the law and the spirit of the law should both be taken into account.
I hope those that had a hand in Aarons' continued prosecution will sleep miserably for a long time to come. Likely it won't weigh on their consciousness at all.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Aaron Swartz commits suicide","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":192302,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":12,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=comment","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:31:25.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"massysett","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"This list is yet another example of how the condemned receive something that neither their victims nor most other convicts get: a ceremonial death. They get last words. A last meal. Last rites with the clergy. Candlelight vigil by those against capital punishment. Final appeals to the courts and to the governor for clemency. Witnesses to the execution. To rot in obscurity would be greater punishment for these people. Instead they get to go out as celebrities, complete with profiles on an official government website. Disgusting.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7821917,"created_at_i":1401467485,"_tags":["comment","author_massysett","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822669","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"massysett","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"This list is yet another example of how the condemned receive something that neither their victims nor most other convicts get: a ceremonial death. They get last words. A last meal. Last rites with the clergy. Candlelight vigil by those against capital punishment. Final appeals to the courts and to the governor for clemency. Witnesses to the execution. To rot in obscurity would be greater punishment for these people. Instead they get to go out as celebrities, complete with profiles on an official government website. Disgusting.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:29:59.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"kevingadd","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Apple absolutely has graphics driver teams for iOS and OS X. They control a significant portion of the driver stack, not to mention the rendering APIs.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821854,"story_title":"OpenGL Is Broken","story_url":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","parent_id":7822303,"created_at_i":1401467399,"_tags":["comment","author_kevingadd","story_7821854"],"objectID":"7822656","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"kevingadd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Apple absolutely has graphics driver teams for iOS and OS X. They control a significant portion of the driver stack, not to mention the rendering APIs.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"OpenGL Is Broken","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:28:21.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"dfc","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Because in politics the cover up is often more damaging than the initial transgression? Because the state does not feel that they have done anything wrong and therefore has nothing to gain by appearing to hide information from the public?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822562,"created_at_i":1401467301,"_tags":["comment","author_dfc","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822639","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"dfc","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Because in politics the cover up is often more damaging than the initial transgression? Because the state does not feel that they have done anything wrong and therefore has nothing to gain by appearing to hide information from the public?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:28:14.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"cm2012","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I personally appreciated the full paste - I generally dislike leaving HN through links if I can.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822324,"created_at_i":1401467294,"_tags":["comment","author_cm2012","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822636","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"cm2012","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I personally appreciated the full paste - I generally dislike leaving HN through links if I can.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:27:53.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"goblue96","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"No, I didn't. If, for even an instant, you ever buy the argument that a JIT is better for real-world application tuning than static code analysis, you see my point.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821120,"story_title":"8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about","story_url":"http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article","parent_id":7821759,"created_at_i":1401467273,"_tags":["comment","author_goblue96","story_7821120"],"objectID":"7822633","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"goblue96","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"No, I didn't. If, for even an instant, you ever buy the argument that a JIT is better for real-world application tuning than static code analysis, you see my point.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:18:30.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"smacktoward","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"This is an argument that literally goes back to the dawn of the CMS.
CMS designs tend to fall somewhere between two extremes: completely static (grinding out HTML files) and completely dynamic (generating new pages for each request). Static is appealing because it scales like crazy, but it's also unappealing because it requires a "compilation"/"rebuilding" step that gets longer and longer as your site gets bigger. Dynamic is appealing because it requires no "rebuilding" step, you just click "Save" and your words immediately appear, but it's also unappealing because "live pages" equals "lots of hits to the database", which makes scaling to handle even moderate amounts of traffic a problem. In other words, there is no "silver bullet" approach, just a set of tradeoffs.
The market oscillates between these two extremes, usually on the basis of whatever product is fashionable at the moment -- a new It Product gets lots of buzz for the positive elements of its choice of static/dynamic, which are apparent immediately, but its newness means it hasn't been used long enough for people to experience the downsides. Those come later. And when they do, people flee to a new It Product on the other end of the spectrum, where the process repeats.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7822233,"story_title":"Static site generators focus on the wrong thing","story_url":"http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing","parent_id":7822233,"created_at_i":1401466710,"_tags":["comment","author_smacktoward","story_7822233"],"objectID":"7822580","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"smacktoward","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"This is an argument that literally goes back to the dawn of the CMS.
CMS designs tend to fall somewhere between two extremes: completely static (grinding out HTML files) and completely dynamic (generating new pages for each request). Static is appealing because it scales like crazy, but it's also unappealing because it requires a "compilation"/"rebuilding" step that gets longer and longer as your site gets bigger. Dynamic is appealing because it requires no "rebuilding" step, you just click "Save" and your words immediately appear, but it's also unappealing because "live pages" equals "lots of hits to the database", which makes scaling to handle even moderate amounts of traffic a problem. In other words, there is no "silver bullet" approach, just a set of tradeoffs.
The market oscillates between these two extremes, usually on the basis of whatever product is fashionable at the moment -- a new It Product gets lots of buzz for the positive elements of its choice of static/dynamic, which are apparent immediately, but its newness means it hasn't been used long enough for people to experience the downsides. Those come later. And when they do, people flee to a new It Product on the other end of the spectrum, where the process repeats.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Static site generators focus on the wrong thing","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:17:30.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"danielweber","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'm not sure you can apply Occam's Razor here. You will only break your blades as you search for a simple answer.
Maybe he was pissed.
Maybe he really didn't want to support it any more, and would feel really bad if people's stuff got compromised on his watch, so he wanted everyone to stop using his stuff as hard as possible.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7819727,"story_title":"TrueCrypt must not die","story_url":"http://truecrypt.ch/","parent_id":7822467,"created_at_i":1401466650,"_tags":["comment","author_danielweber","story_7819727"],"objectID":"7822575","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"danielweber","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'm not sure you can apply Occam's Razor here. You will only break your blades as you search for a simple answer.
Maybe he was pissed.
Maybe he really didn't want to support it any more, and would feel really bad if people's stuff got compromised on his watch, so he wanted everyone to stop using his stuff as hard as possible.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"TrueCrypt must not die","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://truecrypt.ch/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T16:15:43.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"baldfat","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Wasn't aware of his case:
From the judge denying a new trail: “The questions raised during post-judgment factual development about Will’s actual innocence create disturbing uncertainties,” he wrote. “Federal law does not recognize actual innocence as a mechanism to overturn an otherwise valid conviction.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/texas-death-row-appeal-...","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822471,"created_at_i":1401466543,"_tags":["comment","author_baldfat","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822564","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"baldfat","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Wasn't aware of his case:
From the judge denying a new trail: “The questions raised during post-judgment factual development about Will’s actual innocence create disturbing uncertainties,” he wrote. “Federal law does not recognize actual innocence as a mechanism to overturn an otherwise valid conviction.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/texas-death-row-appeal-...","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:59:18.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"dmm","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"There is a reasonable debate surrounding whether an execution is more expensive than simply incarcerating for life, mostly because of the numerous appeals involved with a death sentence. I have no opinion regarding capital punishment.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822374,"created_at_i":1401465558,"_tags":["comment","author_dmm","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822480","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"dmm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"There is a reasonable debate surrounding whether an execution is more expensive than simply incarcerating for life, mostly because of the numerous appeals involved with a death sentence. I have no opinion regarding capital punishment.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:50:51.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"untog","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"On the flip side (and I haven't used this site on iOS, so can't weigh in) the fact that Apple decided to turn over 50px of usable space at the bottom of the page to their UI and effectively make it unusable for touch events is really, utterly infuriating.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821236,"story_title":"When Excite nearly bought Google","story_url":"https://www.submarinecrm.com/blog/when-excite-nearly-bought-google","parent_id":7822325,"created_at_i":1401465051,"_tags":["comment","author_untog","story_7821236"],"objectID":"7822432","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"untog","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"On the flip side (and I haven't used this site on iOS, so can't weigh in) the fact that Apple decided to turn over 50px of usable space at the bottom of the page to their UI and effectively make it unusable for touch events is really, utterly infuriating.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"When Excite nearly bought Google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.submarinecrm.com/blog/when-excite-nearly-bought-google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:45:11.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"eropple","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"> Then again, these people wantonly killed others (as judged by juries and appeals judges and governors).
Did they? Or did they have the misfortune of, say, being black?
Attempting to excuse the barbarism of the state and its documented tendency to murder and imprison-for-life people who are Not White just for the fun of it by appealing to those monsters under the bed is fucked.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822314,"created_at_i":1401464711,"_tags":["comment","author_eropple","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822391","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"eropple","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"> Then again, these people wantonly killed others (as judged by juries and appeals judges and governors).
Did they? Or did they have the misfortune of, say, being black?
Attempting to excuse the barbarism of the state and its documented tendency to murder and imprison-for-life people who are Not White just for the fun of it by appealing to those monsters under the bed is fucked.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:42:05.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"swanson","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It partially depends on how you choose to deploy. If you are compiling your site locally and then pushing the static HTML to a server, you might experience some delay in generating the site. If you use GitHub pages, you just git push and the changes show up almost instantly. I've never run into the case where I felt like it took too long to go from my git push to seeing the post live in the browser - by the time I switch to the browser and refresh the page, the post is there.
I do think that most of the static site generators focus on the wrong thing. The main appeal of a SSG to me is that you can focus solely on the content and none of the other crap typically associated with blogging (updating wordpress/security issues, trying to write in some stupid WYSIWYG web form, dicking around with formatting tags, setting up caching plugins because my blog falls over when it's on HN) - all I do is write some Markdown and I'm done.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7822233,"story_title":"Static site generators focus on the wrong thing","story_url":"http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing","parent_id":7822233,"created_at_i":1401464525,"_tags":["comment","author_swanson","story_7822233"],"objectID":"7822371","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"swanson","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It partially depends on how you choose to deploy. If you are compiling your site locally and then pushing the static HTML to a server, you might experience some delay in generating the site. If you use GitHub pages, you just git push and the changes show up almost instantly. I've never run into the case where I felt like it took too long to go from my git push to seeing the post live in the browser - by the time I switch to the browser and refresh the page, the post is there.
I do think that most of the static site generators focus on the wrong thing. The main appeal of a SSG to me is that you can focus solely on the content and none of the other crap typically associated with blogging (updating wordpress/security issues, trying to write in some stupid WYSIWYG web form, dicking around with formatting tags, setting up caching plugins because my blog falls over when it's on HN) - all I do is write some Markdown and I'm done.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Static site generators focus on the wrong thing","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.pankajmore.in/static-site-generators-focus-on-the-wrong-thing","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:39:53.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"PauloManrique","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"My 2 cents: if you pay for Adwords, you'll be on the top of the page, so you can buy from Google your way to the top of search results. Sure some people realize the first results are paid, but still, get a decent title on your campaign and you're on the top of the page.
We should also mention that Google tells people to "merge" adsense on the website, so it doesn't appear to be an ad, inducing people to think that it's part of the website. Have you ever been on a download website with ads with graphics saying "Download" right next to the button just to make confusion and make you click on them? Yeah, I see plenty of those using adsense.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821006,"story_title":"Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?","story_url":"","parent_id":7821006,"created_at_i":1401464393,"_tags":["comment","author_PauloManrique","story_7821006"],"objectID":"7822355","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"PauloManrique","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"My 2 cents: if you pay for Adwords, you'll be on the top of the page, so you can buy from Google your way to the top of search results. Sure some people realize the first results are paid, but still, get a decent title on your campaign and you're on the top of the page.
We should also mention that Google tells people to "merge" adsense on the website, so it doesn't appear to be an ad, inducing people to think that it's part of the website. Have you ever been on a download website with ads with graphics saying "Download" right next to the button just to make confusion and make you click on them? Yeah, I see plenty of those using adsense.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Ask HN: How do you justify Google’s SEO policy of not allowing paid links?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:35:07.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"fixermark","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Quite a few of these issues (especially in the "Too many ways to do the same thing" category) relate to OpenGL's age as an API, which is something Direct3D's design was able to learn from and improve upon. OpenGL's origin was as a vector-based drawing tool for CAD applications which was repurposed to games; D3D was targeted for performant rendering with games as a specific target. This is demonstrated by some key features necessary for performant games (clock synchronization to avoid 'tearing' comes immediately to mind) that are core to the D3D spec and extensions to the OpenGL spec. There's also a bit of a cultural issue; if you learn OpenGL from the 'red book,' you'll learn the function-per-primitive API first, which is precisely the wrong tool for the job in making a performant game. Really, the OpenGL API is almost multiple APIs these days; if you're using one flow of how to render your primitives, the other flow is downright toxic to your rendering engine (in that it's going to muck about with your GL state in ways that you shouldn't burn mental energy predicting).
Some of this is ameliorated by the OpenGL ES standard, which throws away a big chunk of the redundancy. But I'm not yet convinced that OpenGL has gotten away from its philosophical roots as a performance-secondary CAD API, which continues to dog its efforts to grow to serve game development needs. The fact that it's functionally the only choice for 3D rendering on non-Windows platforms is more testament to the nature of the hardware-software ecosystem of graphics accelerators (and the creative doggedness of game developers) than the merits of the language.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821854,"story_title":"OpenGL Is Broken","story_url":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","parent_id":7821854,"created_at_i":1401464107,"_tags":["comment","author_fixermark","story_7821854"],"objectID":"7822322","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"fixermark","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Quite a few of these issues (especially in the "Too many ways to do the same thing" category) relate to OpenGL's age as an API, which is something Direct3D's design was able to learn from and improve upon. OpenGL's origin was as a vector-based drawing tool for CAD applications which was repurposed to games; D3D was targeted for performant rendering with games as a specific target. This is demonstrated by some key features necessary for performant games (clock synchronization to avoid 'tearing' comes immediately to mind) that are core to the D3D spec and extensions to the OpenGL spec. There's also a bit of a cultural issue; if you learn OpenGL from the 'red book,' you'll learn the function-per-primitive API first, which is precisely the wrong tool for the job in making a performant game. Really, the OpenGL API is almost multiple APIs these days; if you're using one flow of how to render your primitives, the other flow is downright toxic to your rendering engine (in that it's going to muck about with your GL state in ways that you shouldn't burn mental energy predicting).
Some of this is ameliorated by the OpenGL ES standard, which throws away a big chunk of the redundancy. But I'm not yet convinced that OpenGL has gotten away from its philosophical roots as a performance-secondary CAD API, which continues to dog its efforts to grow to serve game development needs. The fact that it's functionally the only choice for 3D rendering on non-Windows platforms is more testament to the nature of the hardware-software ecosystem of graphics accelerators (and the creative doggedness of game developers) than the merits of the language.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"OpenGL Is Broken","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:33:33.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"crusso","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Yeah, a list like this tugs at your humanity.
Then again, these people wantonly killed others (as judged by juries and appeals judges and governors).
Where are the last words of their victims?
[edited for clarity]","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821917,"story_title":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","story_url":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","parent_id":7822142,"created_at_i":1401464013,"_tags":["comment","author_crusso","story_7821917"],"objectID":"7822314","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"crusso","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Yeah, a list like this tugs at your humanity.
Then again, these people wantonly killed others (as judged by juries and appeals judges and governors).
Where are the last words of their victims?
[edited for clarity]","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Death Row – Last words of every inmate executed since 1982","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:33:30.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"rbanffy","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Their typographic choices are appalling. Microgramma is, obviously, a much better choice for space applications, specially for white-on-black text.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7819586,"story_title":"Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast","story_url":"http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?","parent_id":7819982,"created_at_i":1401464010,"_tags":["comment","author_rbanffy","story_7819586"],"objectID":"7822313","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"rbanffy","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Their typographic choices are appalling. Microgramma is, obviously, a much better choice for space applications, specially for white-on-black text.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Dragon V2 Unveil – Webcast","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.spacex.com/webcast/?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:32:34.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"simulate","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"16.6% CAGR over 33 years is astronomical. Apple, one of the most successful corporations in history, has achieved an 18.95% CAGR since its launch in 1984. $100,000 invested in Apple in 1984 yields $18 million today. You can play with that here: http://forio.com/contour/examples/investment/investment.html
Achieving a double digit CAGR over multiple decades is extremely rare.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7819188,"story_title":"Steve Ballmer to buy LA Clippers for $2 billion","story_url":"http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sn-clippers-sale-ballmer-20140529-story.html","parent_id":7819556,"created_at_i":1401463954,"_tags":["comment","author_simulate","story_7819188"],"objectID":"7822306","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"simulate","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"16.6% CAGR over 33 years is astronomical. Apple, one of the most successful corporations in history, has achieved an 18.95% CAGR since its launch in 1984. $100,000 invested in Apple in 1984 yields $18 million today. You can play with that here: http://forio.com/contour/examples/investment/investment.html
Achieving a double digit CAGR over multiple decades is extremely rare.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Steve Ballmer to buy LA Clippers for $2 billion","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-sn-clippers-sale-ballmer-20140529-story.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:32:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"vetinari","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"> Apple designs its own chips for its mobile device so I'd think the OpenGL on iOS would have better driver support.
Apple licenses Imagination Technology's PowerVR GPUs, they do not design them themselves. The OpenGL driver also comes from IT.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821854,"story_title":"OpenGL Is Broken","story_url":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","parent_id":7822222,"created_at_i":1401463926,"_tags":["comment","author_vetinari","story_7821854"],"objectID":"7822303","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"vetinari","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"> Apple designs its own chips for its mobile device so I'd think the OpenGL on iOS would have better driver support.
Apple licenses Imagination Technology's PowerVR GPUs, they do not design them themselves. The OpenGL driver also comes from IT.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"OpenGL Is Broken","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:27:10.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"ZoFreX","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Backward compatibility - you could run an application that uses generics, introduced in Java 1.5, on a Java 1.4 VM. At the time that was pretty amazing. These days, with so many backward compatibility-breaking changes being introduced, it doesn't feel so great.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7821120,"story_title":"8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about","story_url":"http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article","parent_id":7822250,"created_at_i":1401463630,"_tags":["comment","author_ZoFreX","story_7821120"],"objectID":"7822283","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"ZoFreX","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Backward compatibility - you could run an application that uses generics, introduced in Java 1.5, on a Java 1.4 VM. At the time that was pretty amazing. These days, with so many backward compatibility-breaking changes being introduced, it doesn't feel so great.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"8 Great Java 8 Features No One's Talking about","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.infoq.com/articles/Java-8-Quiet-Features?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=8java_article","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T15:25:42.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"ColinWright","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"
> To be clear, I don't advocate outright deception\\n > in most cases.\\n "Not ready yet - sign here to\\n get an invitation to join the\\n beta test when it's ready."\\n To "actively take steps never to use your service"\\n doesn't make much sense to me: I definitely understand\\n the frustration that comes from having a pain point,\\n then finding what appears to be a solution, only to be\\n disappointed. If you have a real pain though, surely\\n you'd want to know when the solution was ready, since\\n it sounded like a good enough solution when you clicked\\n on the ad?\\nb) When I feel like I've been deceived, when something appears to have been promised and then it turns out not to exist, I ask myself: Why should I trust these people at all, ever?
c) I know it's a ploy, and I'm getting tired of it. If something's genuinely good, really worth my time, so excellent that I immediately see that I will save time, money, effort, and frustration, then of course I'll use it.
What's the last service you saw that genuinely delivers on such a promise?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7818604,"story_title":"Ask HN: Please, validate my idea","story_url":"","parent_id":7821458,"created_at_i":1401463542,"_tags":["comment","author_ColinWright","story_7818604"],"objectID":"7822277","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"ColinWright","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"
> To be clear, I don't advocate outright deception\\n > in most cases.\\n "Not ready yet - sign here to\\n get an invitation to join the\\n beta test when it's ready."\\n To "actively take steps never to use your service"\\n doesn't make much sense to me: I definitely understand\\n the frustration that comes from having a pain point,\\n then finding what appears to be a solution, only to be\\n disappointed. If you have a real pain though, surely\\n you'd want to know when the solution was ready, since\\n it sounded like a good enough solution when you clicked\\n on the ad?\\nb) When I feel like I've been deceived, when something appears to have been promised and then it turns out not to exist, I ask myself: Why should I trust these people at all, ever?
c) I know it's a ploy, and I'm getting tired of it. If something's genuinely good, really worth my time, so excellent that I immediately see that I will save time, money, effort, and frustration, then of course I'll use it.
What's the last service you saw that genuinely delivers on such a promise?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Ask HN: Please, validate my idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":98627,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":12,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?query=apple&tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2009-06-09T18:56:10.000Z","title":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","url":null,"author":"sayhello","points":11,"story_text":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":26,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1244573770,"_tags":["poll","author_sayhello","story_649663"],"objectID":"649663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"sayhello","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-09T20:36:57.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","url":null,"author":"jmonegro","points":1,"story_text":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326141417,"_tags":["poll","author_jmonegro","story_3444124"],"objectID":"3444124","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"jmonegro","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-10T16:03:08.000Z","title":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","url":null,"author":"smaili","points":1,"story_text":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370880188,"_tags":["poll","author_smaili","story_5855275"],"objectID":"5855275","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"smaili","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T10:14:49.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","url":null,"author":"steipete","points":1,"story_text":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317118489,"_tags":["poll","author_steipete","story_3042642"],"objectID":"3042642","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"steipete","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-24T04:29:34.000Z","title":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","url":null,"author":"alexgartrell","points":1,"story_text":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1293164974,"_tags":["poll","author_alexgartrell","story_2036556"],"objectID":"2036556","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"alexgartrell","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2008-04-14T00:54:53.000Z","title":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","url":null,"author":"pius","points":1,"story_text":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
(http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72)
How quickly will Apple shut them down?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1208134493,"_tags":["poll","author_pius","story_162723"],"objectID":"162723","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"pius","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
(http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72)
How quickly will Apple shut them down?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T02:16:11.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","url":null,"author":"jhuckestein","points":73,"story_text":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":43,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317089771,"_tags":["poll","author_jhuckestein","story_3041545"],"objectID":"3041545","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jhuckestein","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-15T12:55:32.000Z","title":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","url":null,"author":"markokocic","points":28,"story_text":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":47,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1360932932,"_tags":["poll","author_markokocic","story_5225884"],"objectID":"5225884","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"markokocic","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-19T18:22:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","url":null,"author":"lacker","points":28,"story_text":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":34,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311099742,"_tags":["poll","author_lacker","story_2782329"],"objectID":"2782329","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"lacker","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-22T18:03:17.000Z","title":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","url":null,"author":"nico_h","points":8,"story_text":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311357797,"_tags":["poll","author_nico_h","story_2794511"],"objectID":"2794511","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nico_h","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-03-26T00:04:03.000Z","title":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","url":null,"author":"dave1619","points":5,"story_text":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":11,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1301097843,"_tags":["poll","author_dave1619","story_2370878"],"objectID":"2370878","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dave1619","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-17T18:44:17.000Z","title":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","url":null,"author":"0x12","points":2,"story_text":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318877057,"_tags":["poll","author_0x12","story_3121813"],"objectID":"3121813","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"0x12","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-31T17:57:41.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","url":null,"author":"Zigurd","points":2,"story_text":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370023061,"_tags":["poll","author_Zigurd","story_5800128"],"objectID":"5800128","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Zigurd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-01T21:37:47.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","url":"","author":"minecraftman","points":2,"story_text":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1325453867,"_tags":["poll","author_minecraftman","story_3413914"],"objectID":"3413914","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"minecraftman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-24T12:53:37.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","url":null,"author":"oneeyedpigeon","points":1,"story_text":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1382619217,"_tags":["poll","author_oneeyedpigeon","story_6604931"],"objectID":"6604931","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"oneeyedpigeon","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-02-22T13:05:01.000Z","title":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","url":null,"author":"stefanve","points":1,"story_text":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1329915901,"_tags":["poll","author_stefanve","story_3620658"],"objectID":"3620658","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"stefanve","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-16T11:45:09.000Z","title":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","url":null,"author":"progga","points":1,"story_text":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318765509,"_tags":["poll","author_progga","story_3117120"],"objectID":"3117120","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"progga","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T02:44:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","url":null,"author":"hodgesmr","points":1,"story_text":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400467479,"_tags":["poll","author_hodgesmr","story_7765404"],"objectID":"7765404","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hodgesmr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}}],"nbHits":18,"page":0,"nbPages":1,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":4,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=poll"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-19T02:44:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","url":null,"author":"hodgesmr","points":1,"story_text":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400467479,"_tags":["poll","author_hodgesmr","story_7765404"],"objectID":"7765404","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hodgesmr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-24T12:53:37.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","url":null,"author":"oneeyedpigeon","points":1,"story_text":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1382619217,"_tags":["poll","author_oneeyedpigeon","story_6604931"],"objectID":"6604931","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"oneeyedpigeon","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-10T16:03:08.000Z","title":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","url":null,"author":"smaili","points":1,"story_text":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370880188,"_tags":["poll","author_smaili","story_5855275"],"objectID":"5855275","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"smaili","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-31T17:57:41.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","url":null,"author":"Zigurd","points":2,"story_text":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370023061,"_tags":["poll","author_Zigurd","story_5800128"],"objectID":"5800128","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Zigurd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-15T12:55:32.000Z","title":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","url":null,"author":"markokocic","points":28,"story_text":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":47,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1360932932,"_tags":["poll","author_markokocic","story_5225884"],"objectID":"5225884","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"markokocic","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-02-22T13:05:01.000Z","title":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","url":null,"author":"stefanve","points":1,"story_text":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1329915901,"_tags":["poll","author_stefanve","story_3620658"],"objectID":"3620658","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"stefanve","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-09T20:36:57.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","url":null,"author":"jmonegro","points":1,"story_text":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326141417,"_tags":["poll","author_jmonegro","story_3444124"],"objectID":"3444124","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"jmonegro","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-01T21:37:47.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","url":"","author":"minecraftman","points":2,"story_text":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1325453867,"_tags":["poll","author_minecraftman","story_3413914"],"objectID":"3413914","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"minecraftman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-17T18:44:17.000Z","title":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","url":null,"author":"0x12","points":2,"story_text":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318877057,"_tags":["poll","author_0x12","story_3121813"],"objectID":"3121813","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"0x12","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-16T11:45:09.000Z","title":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","url":null,"author":"progga","points":1,"story_text":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318765509,"_tags":["poll","author_progga","story_3117120"],"objectID":"3117120","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"progga","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T10:14:49.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","url":null,"author":"steipete","points":1,"story_text":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317118489,"_tags":["poll","author_steipete","story_3042642"],"objectID":"3042642","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"steipete","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T02:16:11.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","url":null,"author":"jhuckestein","points":73,"story_text":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":43,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317089771,"_tags":["poll","author_jhuckestein","story_3041545"],"objectID":"3041545","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jhuckestein","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-22T18:03:17.000Z","title":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","url":null,"author":"nico_h","points":8,"story_text":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311357797,"_tags":["poll","author_nico_h","story_2794511"],"objectID":"2794511","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nico_h","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-19T18:22:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","url":null,"author":"lacker","points":28,"story_text":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":34,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311099742,"_tags":["poll","author_lacker","story_2782329"],"objectID":"2782329","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"lacker","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-03-26T00:04:03.000Z","title":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","url":null,"author":"dave1619","points":5,"story_text":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":11,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1301097843,"_tags":["poll","author_dave1619","story_2370878"],"objectID":"2370878","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dave1619","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-24T04:29:34.000Z","title":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","url":null,"author":"alexgartrell","points":1,"story_text":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1293164974,"_tags":["poll","author_alexgartrell","story_2036556"],"objectID":"2036556","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"alexgartrell","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-06-09T18:56:10.000Z","title":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","url":null,"author":"sayhello","points":11,"story_text":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":26,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1244573770,"_tags":["poll","author_sayhello","story_649663"],"objectID":"649663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"sayhello","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2008-04-14T00:54:53.000Z","title":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","url":null,"author":"pius","points":1,"story_text":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
(http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72)
How quickly will Apple shut them down?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1208134493,"_tags":["poll","author_pius","story_162723"],"objectID":"162723","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"pius","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
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How do measure performance of someone like that on your team?
Just like devs, we want to measure by quality, not quantity. I've done a lot of Dev team management, where estimates, sprints and retrospectives work. But with something like customer satisfaction (where the focus is on the satisfaction rather than simply support), how do you know whether someone is performing well?
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Just like devs, we want to measure by quality, not quantity. I've done a lot of Dev team management, where estimates, sprints and retrospectives work. But with something like customer satisfaction (where the focus is on the satisfaction rather than simply support), how do you know whether someone is performing well?
Any help is appreciated.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-29T23:23:53.000Z","title":"Ask HN: \"Invisible\" Internet presence – technologically feasible? ","url":"","author":"christianbryant","points":3,"story_text":"I've read dozens of papers on how to "anonymously" connect to the Internet, and be "invisible". However, each has fallen short of the idea of a truly invisible presence by offering examples of well-placed network lies as the cloak of invisibility, rather than by pure virtue of being a specific type of (as-yet-undefined) technology, then being unseen and untraceable as a connected net (non)presence. In other words, Tor shouldn't even enter the conversation proceeding the question, or even Summary-Invisible Networking (SIN).
So is true network invisibility possible? How do you bypass handshakes, or get information without actually asking for it? Where in the OSI model can one modify/hack/make a new way of interaction that is no longer visible, traceable; has no footprint? From the Application layer, Presentation layer, Session layer, Transport layer, to the (especially) Network layer and Data link layer, and finally the Physical layer - what would be required to create an "invisible node"?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401405833,"_tags":["story","author_christianbryant","story_7819235","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7819235","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: \"Invisible\" Internet presence – technologically feasible? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"christianbryant","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've read dozens of papers on how to "anonymously" connect to the Internet, and be "invisible". However, each has fallen short of the idea of a truly invisible presence by offering examples of well-placed network lies as the cloak of invisibility, rather than by pure virtue of being a specific type of (as-yet-undefined) technology, then being unseen and untraceable as a connected net (non)presence. In other words, Tor shouldn't even enter the conversation proceeding the question, or even Summary-Invisible Networking (SIN).
So is true network invisibility possible? How do you bypass handshakes, or get information without actually asking for it? Where in the OSI model can one modify/hack/make a new way of interaction that is no longer visible, traceable; has no footprint? From the Application layer, Presentation layer, Session layer, Transport layer, to the (especially) Network layer and Data link layer, and finally the Physical layer - what would be required to create an "invisible node"?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-29T22:51:14.000Z","title":"The tutorial Apple made to teach people who to use a mouse in 1984","url":"http://gizmodo.com/heres-how-a-macintosh-tutorial-taught-people-to-use-a-m-1583366354","author":"jinxyte","points":2,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401403874,"_tags":["story","author_jinxyte","story_7819123"],"objectID":"7819123","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"The tutorial Apple made to teach people who to use a mouse in 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deployment","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"http://www.zdnet.com/applied-micro-canonical-claim-the-first-arm-64-bit-server-production-software-deployment-7000029958/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"tanglesome","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":23974,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":15,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=story"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?tags=ask_hn&query=apple&page=2","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2010-09-02T20:35:38.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","url":"","author":"curtisspope","points":6,"story_text":"Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1283459738,"_tags":["story","author_curtisspope","story_1657564","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1657564","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"curtisspope","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-05-17T16:14:56.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How would you feel if Apple open-sourced all their software tommorow?","url":"","author":"_feda_","points":6,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":8,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1337271296,"_tags":["story","author__feda_","story_3987658","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3987658","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How would you feel if Apple open-sourced all their software tommorow?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"_feda_","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-05T16:33:00.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Will Apple ever reject apps with unethical in-app purchase schemes?","url":"","author":"japhyr","points":6,"story_text":"I teach high school, and I watch otherwise reasonable students sink significant money into silly click-bait games. Their eyes open a bit when I objectively help them understand how they are being manipulated. They laugh a bit, and then go right back to playing the games.
Do you think Apple will ever reject apps that have abusive in-app purchase schemes? It would mean turning away from a lot of money in the short term, but it might be a smart move if these games are likely to create a really strong backlash anyway.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370449980,"_tags":["story","author_japhyr","story_5826670","ask_hn"],"objectID":"5826670","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Will Apple ever reject apps with unethical in-app purchase schemes?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"japhyr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I teach high school, and I watch otherwise reasonable students sink significant money into silly click-bait games. Their eyes open a bit when I objectively help them understand how they are being manipulated. They laugh a bit, and then go right back to playing the games.
Do you think Apple will ever reject apps that have abusive in-app purchase schemes? It would mean turning away from a lot of money in the short term, but it might be a smart move if these games are likely to create a really strong backlash anyway.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-02T04:11:45.000Z","title":"Ask HN: IT concerns using an apple laptop in a windows environment?","url":"","author":"kaisdavisOR","points":6,"story_text":"Howdy HN,
I'm upgrading my laptop at work and I'm campaigning to have a Mac Book Pro instead of a Dell Laptop. IT has concerns about the security of integrating OSX into what is solely a Windows 7 / Windows XP environment. I was hoping you could help me out:
* What resources can you point me to that would help assess the security concerns?
* Are there any immediate security concerns that come to mind? (I'm meeting with the IT Manager later this week and I'd like to have an understanding of his possible objections)
* Any advice that you'd give?
Thanks!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1291263105,"_tags":["story","author_kaisdavisOR","story_1960983","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1960983","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: IT concerns using an apple laptop in a windows environment?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kaisdavisOR","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Howdy HN,
I'm upgrading my laptop at work and I'm campaigning to have a Mac Book Pro instead of a Dell Laptop. IT has concerns about the security of integrating OSX into what is solely a Windows 7 / Windows XP environment. I was hoping you could help me out:
* What resources can you point me to that would help assess the security concerns?
* Are there any immediate security concerns that come to mind? (I'm meeting with the IT Manager later this week and I'd like to have an understanding of his possible objections)
* Any advice that you'd give?
Thanks!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-08-22T15:46:48.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why has'nt Samsung used the argument that Apple copied Braun?","url":"","author":"qatalo","points":6,"story_text":"I am curious. Apple has been obviously been \"inspired by\" Braun in many if not all their products. How could Samsung use this fact in the case thats currently going on? and if if they cant, Why?
Exhibit: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future","comment_text":null,"num_comments":5,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1345650408,"_tags":["story","author_qatalo","story_4417922","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4417922","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why has'nt Samsung used the argument that Apple copied Braun?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"qatalo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am curious. Apple has been obviously been \"inspired by\" Braun in many if not all their products. How could Samsung use this fact in the case thats currently going on? and if if they cant, Why?
Exhibit: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2009-01-31T08:46:47.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Another Brand To Beat Apple In The Future","url":"","author":"jmdev","points":5,"story_text":"Do you guys think that in the future (5, 10 years) another brand will emerge and defeat Apple in the \"coolness\" and \"in\" factor?
Imagine, in say 3 years, every stupid teenage girl will have an iPhone/iPod/Mac and clearly the geeks would like to \"separate\" once again via a sleek electronics brand that not many people have.
So, the question is, do you think such brand will/could emerge? If so, what would you expect it to fell/look like?
Maybe there's substantial wealth to be created in starting another electronics underdog brand now (but doing it differently). Look at the existing notebook brands now - Asus, Lenovo, Dell etc... - they ALL suck - they provide horrible experience usually and all fall in the same group defined as \"not a Mac\".","comment_text":null,"num_comments":12,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1233391607,"_tags":["story","author_jmdev","story_459393","ask_hn"],"objectID":"459393","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Another Brand To Beat Apple In The Future","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jmdev","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Do you guys think that in the future (5, 10 years) another brand will emerge and defeat Apple in the \"coolness\" and \"in\" factor?
Imagine, in say 3 years, every stupid teenage girl will have an iPhone/iPod/Mac and clearly the geeks would like to \"separate\" once again via a sleek electronics brand that not many people have.
So, the question is, do you think such brand will/could emerge? If so, what would you expect it to fell/look like?
Maybe there's substantial wealth to be created in starting another electronics underdog brand now (but doing it differently). Look at the existing notebook brands now - Asus, Lenovo, Dell etc... - they ALL suck - they provide horrible experience usually and all fall in the same group defined as \"not a Mac\".","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-02-28T17:45:00.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why is Apple App store asking password for free apps?","url":"","author":"alexeichemenda","points":5,"story_text":"I get that Apple should (and does) ask password when you want to download paid apps. But even in the case of stolen iPhones, why is it important to check identity for free apps ? Is is anyhow related to avoid fake downloads / bots ?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":9,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1393609500,"_tags":["story","author_alexeichemenda","story_7320247","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7320247","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why is Apple App store asking password for free apps?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"alexeichemenda","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I get that Apple should (and does) ask password when you want to download paid apps. But even in the case of stolen iPhones, why is it important to check identity for free apps ? Is is anyhow related to avoid fake downloads / bots ?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-11-28T19:19:07.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Will Apple/Google/FB ever reduce the 30% fee off their payment gateways?","url":"","author":"kunle","points":5,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":8,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1322507947,"_tags":["story","author_kunle","story_3287170","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3287170","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Will Apple/Google/FB ever reduce the 30% fee off their payment gateways?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kunle","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-12T23:50:45.000Z","title":"Ask HN: chances Apple buys a cell carrier in 2011?","url":"","author":"zoomzoom","points":5,"story_text":"Chance to vertically integrate and capital intensive. Seems to make some sense. Is it crazy?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1292197845,"_tags":["story","author_zoomzoom","story_1998541","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1998541","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: chances Apple buys a cell carrier in 2011?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"zoomzoom","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Chance to vertically integrate and capital intensive. Seems to make some sense. Is it crazy?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-11-22T18:38:13.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why does Apple make my enter my password when downloading free apps?","url":"","author":"sciguy77","points":5,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1385145493,"_tags":["story","author_sciguy77","story_6782758","ask_hn"],"objectID":"6782758","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why does Apple make my enter my password when downloading free apps?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sciguy77","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-11-15T20:37:08.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page?","url":"","author":"hook","points":5,"story_text":"http://www.apple.com","comment_text":null,"num_comments":4,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1289853428,"_tags":["story","author_hook","story_1907750","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1907750","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hook","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"http://www.apple.com","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-23T06:07:56.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Website that generates promotional screenshots on Apple Devices","url":"","author":"Sealy","points":5,"story_text":"Hi HN,
A little while ago somebody created a site that enabled you to upload an image ie a screenshot of your web page and it would automatically overlay the image onto a photo of a guy's macbook... or ipad or whatever else you wanted it to be. I can't for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone have the link to it?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1379916476,"_tags":["story","author_Sealy","story_6429370","ask_hn"],"objectID":"6429370","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Website that generates promotional screenshots on Apple Devices","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Sealy","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi HN,
A little while ago somebody created a site that enabled you to upload an image ie a screenshot of your web page and it would automatically overlay the image onto a photo of a guy's macbook... or ipad or whatever else you wanted it to be. I can't for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone have the link to it?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-09-19T03:15:40.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Your thoughts on Apple's ITunes Store Refund Policy?","url":"","author":"jason_slack","points":5,"story_text":"So I accidentally purchased the HD version of Sons of Anarchy Season 5 instead of the SD version. I immediately tried to resolve this with Apple and my reply from them:
Dear Jason,
Ritchie here. Thank you for contacting iTunes Support. I understand you had an ongoing issue with a refund. I apologize for any difficulties you experienced.
Jason, as the previous advisor Anna has stated, we are unable to fulfill the refund request due to the fact that you received a refund for an accidental purchase on 08/09/2011. This issue has been considered closed, and any future emails concerning this refund request will go unanswered. Please accept my apologies.
Thank you for being an iTunes customer, have a great day Jason.
Sincerely,
Ritchie\niTunes Store Customer Support\nhttp://www.apple.com.support/itunes/ww
Please note: I work Monday - Thursday 3:30 - 11:30 pm EST, Saturday 3:30 - 11:30 EST
1. I had a refund over a YEAR AGO for an incompatible OpenGL app that wouldn't work on my iPad and they are counting that against me.
2. They force the HD content in your face, you have to scroll down in order to but the SD version.
3. I dont want a complete refund, just the price difference between the HD and the SD version (approx 10.00).
4. I had to exchange almost 12 e-mails before I got someone who understood what I was asking for as the other CSR responses seemed very cut and paste style.
This leads me to ask what others think of Apple's ITunes Store policies? Am I the only one that find them unfair and dealing with Apple CSR's leaves a lot to be desirable?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1348024540,"_tags":["story","author_jason_slack","story_4541872","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4541872","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Your thoughts on Apple's ITunes Store Refund Policy?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jason_slack","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So I accidentally purchased the HD version of Sons of Anarchy Season 5 instead of the SD version. I immediately tried to resolve this with Apple and my reply from them:
Dear Jason,
Ritchie here. Thank you for contacting iTunes Support. I understand you had an ongoing issue with a refund. I apologize for any difficulties you experienced.
Jason, as the previous advisor Anna has stated, we are unable to fulfill the refund request due to the fact that you received a refund for an accidental purchase on 08/09/2011. This issue has been considered closed, and any future emails concerning this refund request will go unanswered. Please accept my apologies.
Thank you for being an iTunes customer, have a great day Jason.
Sincerely,
Ritchie\niTunes Store Customer Support\nhttp://www.apple.com.support/itunes/ww
Please note: I work Monday - Thursday 3:30 - 11:30 pm EST, Saturday 3:30 - 11:30 EST
1. I had a refund over a YEAR AGO for an incompatible OpenGL app that wouldn't work on my iPad and they are counting that against me.
2. They force the HD content in your face, you have to scroll down in order to but the SD version.
3. I dont want a complete refund, just the price difference between the HD and the SD version (approx 10.00).
4. I had to exchange almost 12 e-mails before I got someone who understood what I was asking for as the other CSR responses seemed very cut and paste style.
This leads me to ask what others think of Apple's ITunes Store policies? Am I the only one that find them unfair and dealing with Apple CSR's leaves a lot to be desirable?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-07-02T10:35:02.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Meeting Apple Marketing person for first time tomorrow - any advice?","url":"","author":"nvsp","points":5,"story_text":"I'm building a Mac app targeting the educational iBooks market. We're still in private beta, but several people from Apple have signed up to our launch email list already.
Today, I was contacted by a Business Development Manager at Apple's Marketing team. He requested a phone meeting with him tomorrow, to learn more about what we're building and how we envision it being used in schools.
Any advice on what I should and should not say / ask?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1341225302,"_tags":["story","author_nvsp","story_4188249","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4188249","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Meeting Apple Marketing person for first time tomorrow - any advice?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nvsp","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm building a Mac app targeting the educational iBooks market. We're still in private beta, but several people from Apple have signed up to our launch email list already.
Today, I was contacted by a Business Development Manager at Apple's Marketing team. He requested a phone meeting with him tomorrow, to learn more about what we're building and how we envision it being used in schools.
Any advice on what I should and should not say / ask?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-10-19T21:12:58.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple Buy Adobe?","url":"","author":"evo_9","points":5,"story_text":"I've long wondered why Apple doesn't buy Adobe.
The two companies have a long and storied history together going back to the good old days when Adobe created/supplied the Postscript printer language, not to mention Display Postscript used in the NeXT computer built by Jobs; but the reality is Apple has always needed Adobe more than the other way around.
With the recent news that Microsoft and Adobe are getting chummy together, I would think this is a perfect opportunity for Apple to buy Adobe. They could even site the potential damage of a rumored purchase from Microsoft as primary reason for the move (a pre-emtive strike).
The Creative Suite as an Apple product would round out their professional software offering nicely alongside Logic and Final Cut. Not only would this protect Apple from Adobe becoming a Microsoft exclusive, they would be able to make the mac version of Adobe products either mac exclusive or at the very least the top priority. The would also have ownership of Flash, which I have to believe would almost be worth it alone. All together I'd think this is a huge win-win for Apple.
So why not? Anti-trust? It would seem they (Apple) are such a small fish in the over-all PC market, Anti-trust just doesn't add up to me.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1287522778,"_tags":["story","author_evo_9","story_1808784","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1808784","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple Buy Adobe?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"evo_9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've long wondered why Apple doesn't buy Adobe.
The two companies have a long and storied history together going back to the good old days when Adobe created/supplied the Postscript printer language, not to mention Display Postscript used in the NeXT computer built by Jobs; but the reality is Apple has always needed Adobe more than the other way around.
With the recent news that Microsoft and Adobe are getting chummy together, I would think this is a perfect opportunity for Apple to buy Adobe. They could even site the potential damage of a rumored purchase from Microsoft as primary reason for the move (a pre-emtive strike).
The Creative Suite as an Apple product would round out their professional software offering nicely alongside Logic and Final Cut. Not only would this protect Apple from Adobe becoming a Microsoft exclusive, they would be able to make the mac version of Adobe products either mac exclusive or at the very least the top priority. The would also have ownership of Flash, which I have to believe would almost be worth it alone. All together I'd think this is a huge win-win for Apple.
So why not? Anti-trust? It would seem they (Apple) are such a small fish in the over-all PC market, Anti-trust just doesn't add up to me.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-12T21:33:03.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How desired is working at Apple?","url":"","author":"throwaway432","points":5,"story_text":"I'm a CS student looking for full-time employment (as a software developer) for after I graduate in May.
I'm strongly considering Apple. A couple of pieces have shown up over the past few weeks about the culture of privacy at Apple, and that's left me a little concerned. When people talk about large companies ideal for developers in the valley, I usually hear Google/Facebook/Twitter, and I'm wondering why I don't usually hear Apple on that list.
I'd really like to get a sense of some of the following from current/former employees or just people in Silicon Valley that have heard stories:
- is Apple desired more or less than Google/Facebook/Twitter?
- how selective is Apple compared to Google/Facebook/Twitter? i.e., is getting a job at Apple considered a big deal in the tech industry, or do people consider Google harder to get into?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1331587983,"_tags":["story","author_throwaway432","story_3695679","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3695679","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How desired is working at Apple?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"throwaway432","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm a CS student looking for full-time employment (as a software developer) for after I graduate in May.
I'm strongly considering Apple. A couple of pieces have shown up over the past few weeks about the culture of privacy at Apple, and that's left me a little concerned. When people talk about large companies ideal for developers in the valley, I usually hear Google/Facebook/Twitter, and I'm wondering why I don't usually hear Apple on that list.
I'd really like to get a sense of some of the following from current/former employees or just people in Silicon Valley that have heard stories:
- is Apple desired more or less than Google/Facebook/Twitter?
- how selective is Apple compared to Google/Facebook/Twitter? i.e., is getting a job at Apple considered a big deal in the tech industry, or do people consider Google harder to get into?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-03-12T01:42:29.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Getting featured by Apple","url":"","author":"mikek","points":5,"story_text":"I have an iOS app that I feel has great potential and I'm wondering what it would take to get featured by Apple. After reading about Rovio and Angry Birds, it seems to me that having a publisher who has a relationship with Apple is one way. And I'm sure that they pick things at their whim as well. But, looking at the picks each week, it is clear that there is a lot of branded stuff that gets featured, and apps from well known companies. And not a lot of apps from indie developers. Is there anyone here who has been featured on Apple and could give me some insight as to how this works?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1299894149,"_tags":["story","author_mikek","story_2315681","ask_hn"],"objectID":"2315681","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Getting featured by Apple","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mikek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have an iOS app that I feel has great potential and I'm wondering what it would take to get featured by Apple. After reading about Rovio and Angry Birds, it seems to me that having a publisher who has a relationship with Apple is one way. And I'm sure that they pick things at their whim as well. But, looking at the picks each week, it is clear that there is a lot of branded stuff that gets featured, and apps from well known companies. And not a lot of apps from indie developers. Is there anyone here who has been featured on Apple and could give me some insight as to how this works?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-06-12T16:09:12.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Is Apple on the decline?","url":"","author":"EzGraphs","points":4,"story_text":"There have been a number of stories recently indicating that development of new/updated Apple products has sort of stalled. A few die-hard Apple fans I know have migrated recently to non-Apple products (e.g. from iPhone to Android). Is excitement about Apple beginning to wane? Apple is obviously on a solid footing financially but are \"alpha geeks\" now are finding their shiniest new toys elsewhere?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":22,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1339517352,"_tags":["story","author_EzGraphs","story_4101131","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4101131","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Is Apple on the decline?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"EzGraphs","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"There have been a number of stories recently indicating that development of new/updated Apple products has sort of stalled. A few die-hard Apple fans I know have migrated recently to non-Apple products (e.g. from iPhone to Android). Is excitement about Apple beginning to wane? Apple is obviously on a solid footing financially but are \"alpha geeks\" now are finding their shiniest new toys elsewhere?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-12-24T01:32:36.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why is it difficult for Apple to create more than 1 tolerable ring-tone?","url":"","author":"andrewhillman","points":4,"story_text":"I've been thinking about this for a while... I find it interesting that everyone w/ an iPhone uses the Marimba ring-tone. This makes me wonder why it's so difficult for a company like Apple to create more than one popular ring tone. I wish Apple would come up with another tolerable ring tone so I am not always reaching for my phone when it's someone else's phone is ringing Marimba.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1356312756,"_tags":["story","author_andrewhillman","story_4961435","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4961435","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why is it difficult for Apple to create more than 1 tolerable ring-tone?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"andrewhillman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've been thinking about this for a while... I find it interesting that everyone w/ an iPhone uses the Marimba ring-tone. This makes me wonder why it's so difficult for a company like Apple to create more than one popular ring tone. I wish Apple would come up with another tolerable ring tone so I am not always reaching for my phone when it's someone else's phone is ringing Marimba.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-06-29T17:28:01.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Anybody here do the Apple MFI Program?","url":"","author":"spikefromspace","points":4,"story_text":"I have an idea for a hardware accessory for iPhones. I was reading into the Apple MFi program and see that I need some initial investment even just to understand what the NDA/royalty agreement is. Apple requires a legal entity name for which I need to register a business license and they require to buy a credit review for which they don't specify the price. So, I am just wondering if anybody else on here has already done this and can offer some tips or suggestions.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1340990881,"_tags":["story","author_spikefromspace","story_4177805","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4177805","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Anybody here do the Apple MFI Program?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"spikefromspace","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have an idea for a hardware accessory for iPhones. I was reading into the Apple MFi program and see that I need some initial investment even just to understand what the NDA/royalty agreement is. Apple requires a legal entity name for which I need to register a business license and they require to buy a credit review for which they don't specify the price. So, I am just wondering if anybody else on here has already done this and can offer some tips or suggestions.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}}],"nbHits":870,"page":2,"nbPages":44,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":8,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&page=2&query=apple&tags=ask_hn"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=ask_hn&query=apple&page=2","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-20T02:13:14.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Standard Java webapp for managing user accounts?","url":"","author":"MarkMc","points":1,"story_text":"I'm creating a Java servlet-based web application that needs to have the standard user account functions such as:
- Creating a new user accounting including name, email and password
- Storing the user details in a JDBC database using a strong password hash
- Log in / logging out
- Sending an email if the user forgot their password
- Allow user to change their profile details, including password and email
Is there a standard, open-source project I can use to save me the time of implementing this myself?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400551994,"_tags":["story","author_MarkMc","story_7770903","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7770903","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Standard Java webapp for managing user accounts?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"MarkMc","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm creating a Java servlet-based web application that needs to have the standard user account functions such as:
- Creating a new user accounting including name, email and password
- Storing the user details in a JDBC database using a strong password hash
- Log in / logging out
- Sending an email if the user forgot their password
- Allow user to change their profile details, including password and email
Is there a standard, open-source project I can use to save me the time of implementing this myself?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T20:28:19.000Z","title":"Ask HN: My boss gave me 3 choices, all bad. Which should I choose?","url":"","author":"livingyes","points":5,"story_text":"tl;dr my boss gave me the option to a) quit, b) resign with "dignity" or, c) continue working but on commission only. Which should I choose?
I work for a 10 person web/mobile software company and I've been working for them for the past 4 years.
Last year my girlfriend got into nursing school in a different state. My boss let me move with her and continue working as a remote employer. I was of course, grateful!
Coinciding with me taking a new remote role, I was also working on a new sales strategy for the company focused on doing outbound lead gen work. The short of it is that it never really worked out well. I brought in leads, but nothing closed. A number of reasons made this unsuccessful namely 1) trying a new sales strategy while also trying remote work and 2) no time from leadership
Last week my boss told me things weren't working out. I could resign and "save face" with the team. I could be "let go" and claim unemployment. Or, I could continue working for the company, but on a commission only basis (so presumably a higher commission, but no salary.. ergo I take on the risk but with the opportunity for higher rewards).
I'm torn as to what to do. I still have a great relationship with the boss and my teammates so "saving face" has some appeal. But i'll also be out of work in two weeks and am considering unemployment. I"m concerned as to how being on unemployment will affect my job search process. I'm also not sure that working commission only will be in my best interest, given the rate of success that has been evident over the past months.
So, my questions to HN are:\\n1) which of the 3 choices should I take?\\n2) If I take unemployment, will that affect my job search process negatively?\\n3) i've been there for 4 years, should I be expecting a severance package of some sort?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":8,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400531299,"_tags":["story","author_livingyes","story_7769560","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7769560","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: My boss gave me 3 choices, all bad. Which should I choose?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"livingyes","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"tl;dr my boss gave me the option to a) quit, b) resign with "dignity" or, c) continue working but on commission only. Which should I choose?
I work for a 10 person web/mobile software company and I've been working for them for the past 4 years.
Last year my girlfriend got into nursing school in a different state. My boss let me move with her and continue working as a remote employer. I was of course, grateful!
Coinciding with me taking a new remote role, I was also working on a new sales strategy for the company focused on doing outbound lead gen work. The short of it is that it never really worked out well. I brought in leads, but nothing closed. A number of reasons made this unsuccessful namely 1) trying a new sales strategy while also trying remote work and 2) no time from leadership
Last week my boss told me things weren't working out. I could resign and "save face" with the team. I could be "let go" and claim unemployment. Or, I could continue working for the company, but on a commission only basis (so presumably a higher commission, but no salary.. ergo I take on the risk but with the opportunity for higher rewards).
I'm torn as to what to do. I still have a great relationship with the boss and my teammates so "saving face" has some appeal. But i'll also be out of work in two weeks and am considering unemployment. I"m concerned as to how being on unemployment will affect my job search process. I'm also not sure that working commission only will be in my best interest, given the rate of success that has been evident over the past months.
So, my questions to HN are:\\n1) which of the 3 choices should I take?\\n2) If I take unemployment, will that affect my job search process negatively?\\n3) i've been there for 4 years, should I be expecting a severance package of some sort?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T19:48:22.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Promoted beyond my level of competence?","url":"","author":"direngthrow","points":11,"story_text":"Throwaway. September of last year, I had been at my (small, non-engineering focused) company for 6 months as a Lead Engineer. My boss quit, and as the highest ranking / most qualified, I was offered the position of Director of Engineering, with the promise that a CTO would be hired soon. Received a 20% raise and a lot more responsibility. I looked at it as a challenge, but probably would not have applied for the job. Fast forward, I've now been in charge for 8 months (no CTO hire yet) too stressed, and not really enjoying all of the random troubleshooting, prioritizing, politics, and managing the team. I don't get to write code too much anymore.
Anyone else been in a situation? Is this an example of the Peter Principle? Is it ok that I don't enjoy these challenges as much as I enjoy technical challenges?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":13,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400528902,"_tags":["story","author_direngthrow","story_7769391","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7769391","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Promoted beyond my level of competence?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"direngthrow","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Throwaway. September of last year, I had been at my (small, non-engineering focused) company for 6 months as a Lead Engineer. My boss quit, and as the highest ranking / most qualified, I was offered the position of Director of Engineering, with the promise that a CTO would be hired soon. Received a 20% raise and a lot more responsibility. I looked at it as a challenge, but probably would not have applied for the job. Fast forward, I've now been in charge for 8 months (no CTO hire yet) too stressed, and not really enjoying all of the random troubleshooting, prioritizing, politics, and managing the team. I don't get to write code too much anymore.
Anyone else been in a situation? Is this an example of the Peter Principle? Is it ok that I don't enjoy these challenges as much as I enjoy technical challenges?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T19:24:27.000Z","title":"Ask HN: someone infringes my code on GitHub, what should I do?","url":"","author":"taw_9292433","points":2,"story_text":"(Written from a throwaway username.)
I built a fairly popular project licensed under MIT and hosted on GitHub. Someone forked it, made some changes and gradually removed my name in each revision.
At first, he changed the author name in the copyright notice, manifest files etc. to his name and leaved an attribution with link to my repo in the readme. In the most recent commit, he removed that attribution. Now the only way somebody knows this is my work is looking at the tiny "forked from..." line in GitHub (guess he hasn't figured a way to remove it, yet).
At this moment, his repo is basically a refactoring of mine (both code and documentation) with some features he added. If he sells or distributes this software, the audiences would never know I'm the original author.
While I'm make no money (zero dollar) from this software, I feel very upset because the least I would expect from someone who builds something from both my idea and code is an attribution. Otherwise I would have released the software under the public domain.
My questions are:\\n* Is this a violation of the MIT license? \\n* What should I do about it? (I don't want to lawyers, again, I'm not making money from this project.)
Any opinion is much appreciated.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400527467,"_tags":["story","author_taw_9292433","story_7769251","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7769251","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: someone infringes my code on GitHub, what should I do?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"taw_9292433","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"(Written from a throwaway username.)
I built a fairly popular project licensed under MIT and hosted on GitHub. Someone forked it, made some changes and gradually removed my name in each revision.
At first, he changed the author name in the copyright notice, manifest files etc. to his name and leaved an attribution with link to my repo in the readme. In the most recent commit, he removed that attribution. Now the only way somebody knows this is my work is looking at the tiny "forked from..." line in GitHub (guess he hasn't figured a way to remove it, yet).
At this moment, his repo is basically a refactoring of mine (both code and documentation) with some features he added. If he sells or distributes this software, the audiences would never know I'm the original author.
While I'm make no money (zero dollar) from this software, I feel very upset because the least I would expect from someone who builds something from both my idea and code is an attribution. Otherwise I would have released the software under the public domain.
My questions are:\\n* Is this a violation of the MIT license? \\n* What should I do about it? (I don't want to lawyers, again, I'm not making money from this project.)
Any opinion is much appreciated.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T19:19:49.000Z","title":"Ask HN: IT Management in SF","url":"","author":"yunyeng","points":1,"story_text":"Hello Everyone, Nowadays I have a big life decision to make. I am graduating from my undergraduate Industrial & Systems Engineering degree actually I kind of graduated on January I have only one class left and I have been working as a front-end developer since February anyhow to be honest I was not very good student in first years of school so my GPA is pretty low. I studied no one ever has in my last 2 years but because of GPA calculations it is only up to 2.5 at last. I did everything else I could, TOEFL, GRE, Coursera courses, software projects, programming languages etc... So I applied for 5 schools in California for Master Degrees. 4 of them was Software Eng. and the last one was IT Management in Golden Gate University. I was declined from all of the Software Engineering Universities, and the reason was of course the GPA. Today I got my application denial as SE from the Santa Clara University. And now I only have GGU IT Management Approval, I think the advantages are San Francisco area, Cheaper related to other choices, I think they give Scholarship and I am damn ready to study for it and from what I hear the alumnis are all working big companies in SF even internationals. The disadvantage is you know it is not Software Engineering. I want to hear you HN readers thoughts on this. Should I skip and for half or 1 year for re-application ? But even I skip I cannot increase my GPA because I am graduating. Should I consider other choices ? Other cities maybe Europe ? Should I accept and maybe study to transfer next year to Software Engineering schools? Is it so deadly that I should study MS in Software Engineering ? The thing is I am 25 and live in Turkey. Money is not big problem for me at the moment. But I want to create cool things and contribute! and this is not possible at where I am now. I would like to hear you HN readers thoughts. Thank you everyone...","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400527189,"_tags":["story","author_yunyeng","story_7769228","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7769228","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: IT Management in SF","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"yunyeng","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hello Everyone, Nowadays I have a big life decision to make. I am graduating from my undergraduate Industrial & Systems Engineering degree actually I kind of graduated on January I have only one class left and I have been working as a front-end developer since February anyhow to be honest I was not very good student in first years of school so my GPA is pretty low. I studied no one ever has in my last 2 years but because of GPA calculations it is only up to 2.5 at last. I did everything else I could, TOEFL, GRE, Coursera courses, software projects, programming languages etc... So I applied for 5 schools in California for Master Degrees. 4 of them was Software Eng. and the last one was IT Management in Golden Gate University. I was declined from all of the Software Engineering Universities, and the reason was of course the GPA. Today I got my application denial as SE from the Santa Clara University. And now I only have GGU IT Management Approval, I think the advantages are San Francisco area, Cheaper related to other choices, I think they give Scholarship and I am damn ready to study for it and from what I hear the alumnis are all working big companies in SF even internationals. The disadvantage is you know it is not Software Engineering. I want to hear you HN readers thoughts on this. Should I skip and for half or 1 year for re-application ? But even I skip I cannot increase my GPA because I am graduating. Should I consider other choices ? Other cities maybe Europe ? Should I accept and maybe study to transfer next year to Software Engineering schools? Is it so deadly that I should study MS in Software Engineering ? The thing is I am 25 and live in Turkey. Money is not big problem for me at the moment. But I want to create cool things and contribute! and this is not possible at where I am now. I would like to hear you HN readers thoughts. Thank you everyone...","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T13:17:44.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How much shall we sell our site for?","url":"","author":"justwondered","points":1,"story_text":"Hi guys,
We have a site that pulls in next to no traffic. However, we've built up 18 months worth of excellent content, have 3000 people registered to the site who receive emails daily and we have a few customers who pay us money each month via our get your own template service (we sell a basic template of our site to users who can then have their own website, we host it for them).
The site is popular amongst the people who do visit it each day (less than 1000). We've been featured by Mashable, BBC and Techcrunch and have around about 500 Twitter users.
Problem is we've reached a point where we can't spend the time updating the site any longer. Someone has emailed us saying they're interested in buying the site and wondered how much we'd sell it for.
We've spent 18 months curating content and developing the site into what we consider a nice product. If someone spent some proper time on it, and focused on SEO, then we think it could do ok. Is a price of $1000-$5000 fair or is that way too much? We would like some money in return for our efforts these last 18 months but appreciate it will be a small amount.
Any advice you can give would be great! Thanks!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400505464,"_tags":["story","author_justwondered","story_7767230","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7767230","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How much shall we sell our site for?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"justwondered","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi guys,
We have a site that pulls in next to no traffic. However, we've built up 18 months worth of excellent content, have 3000 people registered to the site who receive emails daily and we have a few customers who pay us money each month via our get your own template service (we sell a basic template of our site to users who can then have their own website, we host it for them).
The site is popular amongst the people who do visit it each day (less than 1000). We've been featured by Mashable, BBC and Techcrunch and have around about 500 Twitter users.
Problem is we've reached a point where we can't spend the time updating the site any longer. Someone has emailed us saying they're interested in buying the site and wondered how much we'd sell it for.
We've spent 18 months curating content and developing the site into what we consider a nice product. If someone spent some proper time on it, and focused on SEO, then we think it could do ok. Is a price of $1000-$5000 fair or is that way too much? We would like some money in return for our efforts these last 18 months but appreciate it will be a small amount.
Any advice you can give would be great! Thanks!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-18T22:35:41.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Looking for validation (HR and Decision Makers)","url":"","author":"actraub","points":2,"story_text":"If you deal with HR in any capacity at a company with between 20 and 200 employees, we would appreciate if you would take three minutes to fill out a survey. We want to make sure that our efforts are focused on solving the right problems and could really use your feedback.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GR5V5LL
Thanks for your time!\\nSincerely,\\nTeam HuddleHR\\nwww.huddlehr.com\\ninfo@huddlehr.com","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400452541,"_tags":["story","author_actraub","story_7764681","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7764681","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Looking for validation (HR and Decision Makers)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"actraub","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"If you deal with HR in any capacity at a company with between 20 and 200 employees, we would appreciate if you would take three minutes to fill out a survey. We want to make sure that our efforts are focused on solving the right problems and could really use your feedback.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GR5V5LL
Thanks for your time!\\nSincerely,\\nTeam HuddleHR\\nwww.huddlehr.com\\ninfo@huddlehr.com","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-18T17:37:19.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What would you use an epic supercomputer for?","url":"","author":"EleventhSun","points":2,"story_text":"If you had a computer in your possession that was 100, or even 1000, times more powerful than supercomputers available today, what would you use it for?
What kind of commercial applications could processing power of that kind provide do you think? Out of the box ideas are more than welcome :).
Hypothetical question... of course :)
I'm thinking such a system could have some interesting implications for cryptoanalysis, for one.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400434639,"_tags":["story","author_EleventhSun","story_7763664","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7763664","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What would you use an epic supercomputer for?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"EleventhSun","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"If you had a computer in your possession that was 100, or even 1000, times more powerful than supercomputers available today, what would you use it for?
What kind of commercial applications could processing power of that kind provide do you think? Out of the box ideas are more than welcome :).
Hypothetical question... of course :)
I'm thinking such a system could have some interesting implications for cryptoanalysis, for one.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-18T04:20:09.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Freelancing in the Bay Area","url":"","author":"_august","points":9,"story_text":"I'm interested in doing freelance web development work in the SF/Berkeley bay area, and was hoping some of you could share your experiences and advice.
I fully expect it to be more work than a full-time position in a tech company, and that I will have to delve more into the business side of things.
However, my concerns are about the types of freelance opportunities in the area, and if most are wordpress type jobs. Is front-end javascript and iOS development relegated to full-time positions?
I have a CS background and worked full-time for some time, but quit to work on my own projects instead. I've found some part time work improving a Meteor app, and am liking working this way much more. I'd like to take it to the next step, where I can work mostly on client projects and work on my own projects as well.
I'd appreciate any insights and advice. Thank you.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400386809,"_tags":["story","author__august","story_7762170","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7762170","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Freelancing in the Bay Area","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"_august","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm interested in doing freelance web development work in the SF/Berkeley bay area, and was hoping some of you could share your experiences and advice.
I fully expect it to be more work than a full-time position in a tech company, and that I will have to delve more into the business side of things.
However, my concerns are about the types of freelance opportunities in the area, and if most are wordpress type jobs. Is front-end javascript and iOS development relegated to full-time positions?
I have a CS background and worked full-time for some time, but quit to work on my own projects instead. I've found some part time work improving a Meteor app, and am liking working this way much more. I'd like to take it to the next step, where I can work mostly on client projects and work on my own projects as well.
I'd appreciate any insights and advice. Thank you.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-16T22:00:28.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Feedback on enterprise group text messaging idea","url":"","author":"palidanx","points":1,"story_text":"I'm working on a group enterprise text messaging idea for churches, and was wondering if this product might be applicable for your domain (non-profits, organization, etc?). Basically it has the capability of
+ Doing one to many text messaging\\n+ The ability to schedule texts\\n+ The ability to schedule weekly tasks
Here is a quick youtube video demoing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREaVIyy20Y
If anyone wants to beta test an account let me know! Each provisioned phone number costs me money through nexmo.com so pm me through my profile.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400277628,"_tags":["story","author_palidanx","story_7758179","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7758179","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Feedback on enterprise group text messaging idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"palidanx","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm working on a group enterprise text messaging idea for churches, and was wondering if this product might be applicable for your domain (non-profits, organization, etc?). Basically it has the capability of
+ Doing one to many text messaging\\n+ The ability to schedule texts\\n+ The ability to schedule weekly tasks
Here is a quick youtube video demoing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VREaVIyy20Y
If anyone wants to beta test an account let me know! Each provisioned phone number costs me money through nexmo.com so pm me through my profile.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-16T20:40:17.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What IM services do you use?","url":"","author":"beyondcompute","points":7,"story_text":"Which applications Hacker News readers use for communication with their friends/family? For chatting with co-workers/team members? Which is your favorite mobile IM app?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":17,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400272817,"_tags":["story","author_beyondcompute","story_7757788","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7757788","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What IM services do you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"beyondcompute","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Which applications Hacker News readers use for communication with their friends/family? For chatting with co-workers/team members? Which is your favorite mobile IM app?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-16T19:54:09.000Z","title":"Ask HN: what to do if an app you use gets abandoned?","url":"","author":"Serow225","points":1,"story_text":"I've been using an iOS app called MiniHack[0] to interact with Hacker News on the go; it's the only app I've found that lets you comment/vote/etc. However, I've encountered some bugs, and have tried to contact the app developer via the support email listed on their website 42mini.co, but the emails bounce back. Similarly their twitter feed has not been updated for quite a while. I tried WHOIS on the website, but their contact info is private; I've sent an email through their privacy provider and we'll see if that goes anywhere. I've tried a web search for the name of the developer (Cai GuongShao), but can't locate any other website or contact info for them.
Any other ideas or suggestions? How have you dealt with similar situations? Thanks!
[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id631108846?ls=1&mt=8","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400270049,"_tags":["story","author_Serow225","story_7757568","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7757568","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: what to do if an app you use gets abandoned?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Serow225","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've been using an iOS app called MiniHack[0] to interact with Hacker News on the go; it's the only app I've found that lets you comment/vote/etc. However, I've encountered some bugs, and have tried to contact the app developer via the support email listed on their website 42mini.co, but the emails bounce back. Similarly their twitter feed has not been updated for quite a while. I tried WHOIS on the website, but their contact info is private; I've sent an email through their privacy provider and we'll see if that goes anywhere. I've tried a web search for the name of the developer (Cai GuongShao), but can't locate any other website or contact info for them.
Any other ideas or suggestions? How have you dealt with similar situations? Thanks!
[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-for-hacker-news/id631108846?ls=1&mt=8","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-16T00:07:51.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How do you approach salary negotiation when you know the upper range?","url":"","author":"nhayden","points":10,"story_text":"I'm interviewing for an entry level front-end web developer job. I have a friend who works there, is endorsing me, and is part of the hiring process. He told me the upper range of salary that his employer is willing to pay.
I'm a big fan of the Kalzumeus school of negotiation: never saying a number first, for any reason. However, given the situation of knowing their upper range (55K), should I maybe just say a number like 60K so they're likely to offer me the 55K? If I remain silent and refuse to give a number, I'm afraid they might think they can get away with offering something around 50K.
Not sure if it matters - I'm coming in as an analyst in a different industry and I do currently make more than I would at this new job. I do web dev as a hobby and sometimes as a freelancing thing, but have no professional developer experience (though I use SQL/VBA tons as an analyst). I'm willing to take the small pay cut because I think it's more what I want to do long-term.
Also not sure if it matters: the longest I'm going to be able to stay at this position is just at one year. Having to move out of state for various reasons after this.
I appreciate any help - thank you!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":13,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400198871,"_tags":["story","author_nhayden","story_7753063","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7753063","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How do you approach salary negotiation when you know the upper range?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nhayden","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm interviewing for an entry level front-end web developer job. I have a friend who works there, is endorsing me, and is part of the hiring process. He told me the upper range of salary that his employer is willing to pay.
I'm a big fan of the Kalzumeus school of negotiation: never saying a number first, for any reason. However, given the situation of knowing their upper range (55K), should I maybe just say a number like 60K so they're likely to offer me the 55K? If I remain silent and refuse to give a number, I'm afraid they might think they can get away with offering something around 50K.
Not sure if it matters - I'm coming in as an analyst in a different industry and I do currently make more than I would at this new job. I do web dev as a hobby and sometimes as a freelancing thing, but have no professional developer experience (though I use SQL/VBA tons as an analyst). I'm willing to take the small pay cut because I think it's more what I want to do long-term.
Also not sure if it matters: the longest I'm going to be able to stay at this position is just at one year. Having to move out of state for various reasons after this.
I appreciate any help - thank you!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-15T22:05:35.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Internal Transfers from Acquired Companies","url":"","author":"EleventhSun","points":1,"story_text":"Im currently doing e-commerce research within a company acquired by Google, but may be better situated in a different department located within the main campus. However I hear a rumor that there is a company policy which states that I would need to sit a coding interview before this would be allowed. Can anyone verify for/against this? I'm thinking it may be a bit hit or miss in terms of whether it routinely happens or not?
Note: This question applies specifically for Google, but Im interested in what other companies' practices are.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400191535,"_tags":["story","author_EleventhSun","story_7752530","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7752530","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Internal Transfers from Acquired Companies","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"EleventhSun","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Im currently doing e-commerce research within a company acquired by Google, but may be better situated in a different department located within the main campus. However I hear a rumor that there is a company policy which states that I would need to sit a coding interview before this would be allowed. Can anyone verify for/against this? I'm thinking it may be a bit hit or miss in terms of whether it routinely happens or not?
Note: This question applies specifically for Google, but Im interested in what other companies' practices are.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-15T00:27:27.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Thinking on creating a blog and need help (platform)","url":"","author":"ncage","points":1,"story_text":"Hi everyone, i'm thinking on creating a blog and need some advice. It will be a programming based blog. I don't know if it matters but i'm primarily a .net developer. First, my main question, is about which blog platform to choose. Here are some of my requirements:\\n1. Really low maintenance - I already have enough to do. I don't want to add to the trying to maintenance on software/hardware a blog system unless its a no brainer.
2. Custom Domain Name
3. Ability to customize look/feel as much as i want including custom CSS
4. I don't know how possible it is but i would like the ability to migrate from one platform to another if i so choose. So if i choose blog platform x i can switch to blog platform Y if i like.
5. Ability to put whatever scripts i choose like google analystics.
6 Different Comment Engines - I don't much about it but i do want users to be able to leave comments so maybe Disqus?
Of course since i'm just starting i don't know what else i should be looking for.
I've looked at a variety of them (its hard to choose with so many) like wordpress, squarespace, silvrback, Ghost, Roon, Ect... One of them i looked at is "Postach" was pretty cool in that the publishing platform for your blog was evernote (which i'm a big advocate of) just don't how great it is.
I don't mind paying for a platform as long as its worth it. ($5-$6 a month).
On an aside when creating a blog do you recommend just using your main site such as "mysite.com/blog" or do you recommend creating a domain specific to a topic? For example i plan to do some post about Angular. So would it be better to create a domain like "angularisgreat.com". That kind of limits you when you want to talk about something else though :P.
Anyways, any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.....","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400113647,"_tags":["story","author_ncage","story_7747361","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7747361","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Thinking on creating a blog and need help (platform)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ncage","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi everyone, i'm thinking on creating a blog and need some advice. It will be a programming based blog. I don't know if it matters but i'm primarily a .net developer. First, my main question, is about which blog platform to choose. Here are some of my requirements:\\n1. Really low maintenance - I already have enough to do. I don't want to add to the trying to maintenance on software/hardware a blog system unless its a no brainer.
2. Custom Domain Name
3. Ability to customize look/feel as much as i want including custom CSS
4. I don't know how possible it is but i would like the ability to migrate from one platform to another if i so choose. So if i choose blog platform x i can switch to blog platform Y if i like.
5. Ability to put whatever scripts i choose like google analystics.
6 Different Comment Engines - I don't much about it but i do want users to be able to leave comments so maybe Disqus?
Of course since i'm just starting i don't know what else i should be looking for.
I've looked at a variety of them (its hard to choose with so many) like wordpress, squarespace, silvrback, Ghost, Roon, Ect... One of them i looked at is "Postach" was pretty cool in that the publishing platform for your blog was evernote (which i'm a big advocate of) just don't how great it is.
I don't mind paying for a platform as long as its worth it. ($5-$6 a month).
On an aside when creating a blog do you recommend just using your main site such as "mysite.com/blog" or do you recommend creating a domain specific to a topic? For example i plan to do some post about Angular. So would it be better to create a domain like "angularisgreat.com". That kind of limits you when you want to talk about something else though :P.
Anyways, any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.....","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T21:04:56.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Porting Browser Game to Android and Apple store good idea?","url":"","author":"ionwake","points":1,"story_text":"Do I need to use PhoneGap for example to convert the code into Apps people can "easily" browse ,pay and download? I ask as I am unsure how else I could increase my client base. If anyone with experience in selling html5 games on these platforms could give me their opinion I would appreciate it. Thank you!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400101496,"_tags":["story","author_ionwake","story_7746431","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7746431","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Porting Browser Game to Android and Apple store good idea?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ionwake","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Do I need to use PhoneGap for example to convert the code into Apps people can "easily" browse ,pay and download? I ask as I am unsure how else I could increase my client base. If anyone with experience in selling html5 games on these platforms could give me their opinion I would appreciate it. Thank you!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T18:08:18.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How to visualize active record associations","url":"","author":"orky56","points":1,"story_text":"I'm new to Ruby on Rails and having trouble getting my head around Active Record associations. I would like to map it or visualize it in some manner but have not found any resources or tools to get this going. Clearly there is some mental model/map that precedes the code. If anyone has any tips or suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400090898,"_tags":["story","author_orky56","story_7745179","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7745179","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How to visualize active record associations","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"orky56","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm new to Ruby on Rails and having trouble getting my head around Active Record associations. I would like to map it or visualize it in some manner but have not found any resources or tools to get this going. Clearly there is some mental model/map that precedes the code. If anyone has any tips or suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T08:39:33.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How can a Stanford developer get an internship in Stockholm?","url":"","author":"jesseclay","points":1,"story_text":"I'm graduating from Stanford University in just a few weeks and would absolutely love to live and work in Sweden for this upcoming summer (anywhere from 2-6 months). While I grew up in the United States and don't speak Swedish, I do have French citizenship. I love full-stack web-development and have also made several iOS applications. I can contribute from day one but also want to be in an environment where I can learn a ton.
Anyone here know of any places I might look? Better yet, anyone looking for someone like me? Thanks HN!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":5,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400056773,"_tags":["story","author_jesseclay","story_7742768","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7742768","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How can a Stanford developer get an internship in Stockholm?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jesseclay","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm graduating from Stanford University in just a few weeks and would absolutely love to live and work in Sweden for this upcoming summer (anywhere from 2-6 months). While I grew up in the United States and don't speak Swedish, I do have French citizenship. I love full-stack web-development and have also made several iOS applications. I can contribute from day one but also want to be in an environment where I can learn a ton.
Anyone here know of any places I might look? Better yet, anyone looking for someone like me? Thanks HN!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T03:30:26.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Ideas for load balancing under Apache?","url":"","author":"JohnQUnknown","points":1,"story_text":"I am currently facing a challenge were I must load balance a series of domains for a client/friend, but there are some issues that I've been unable to fix just yet, allow me to explain:
* Solution must be a low-cost solution as money is a determining factor here.\\n* Client currently only has 2 VPS servers (and can't afford to get more)\\n* Server specs are: 2.3 GHz monocore CPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD Storage (both of them).\\n* Both servers are running Debian 7.5 Wheezy.\\n* Client has already installed and running zPanel in one of the servers and has configured a series of Wordpress sites.\\n* Client uses some WP Plugins to generate content, this hangs the server every time as CPU consumption is a lot.\\n* I have transfered the DB Server to the second server to help leverage the load.\\n* Client can't afford downtime in the websites.\\n* Just managed to convince him that zPanel would not be necessary (I will write a couple of bash scripts to automate vhost creation and wordpress configuration).
My question/challenge here is: How can I help leverage CPU load in the server with little to no downtime?\\nI have read about HAPROXY and I know for sure that this would be relatively easy with nginx, but the main setup is done with Apache and one of the sites refused to work properly under nginx (still can't figure out why, probably .htaccess or the use of some other Apache Module, I haven't investigated enough).\\nAny ideas? Any help is much appreciated.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400038226,"_tags":["story","author_JohnQUnknown","story_7742037","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7742037","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Ideas for load balancing under Apache?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"JohnQUnknown","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am currently facing a challenge were I must load balance a series of domains for a client/friend, but there are some issues that I've been unable to fix just yet, allow me to explain:
* Solution must be a low-cost solution as money is a determining factor here.\\n* Client currently only has 2 VPS servers (and can't afford to get more)\\n* Server specs are: 2.3 GHz monocore CPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD Storage (both of them).\\n* Both servers are running Debian 7.5 Wheezy.\\n* Client has already installed and running zPanel in one of the servers and has configured a series of Wordpress sites.\\n* Client uses some WP Plugins to generate content, this hangs the server every time as CPU consumption is a lot.\\n* I have transfered the DB Server to the second server to help leverage the load.\\n* Client can't afford downtime in the websites.\\n* Just managed to convince him that zPanel would not be necessary (I will write a couple of bash scripts to automate vhost creation and wordpress configuration).
My question/challenge here is: How can I help leverage CPU load in the server with little to no downtime?\\nI have read about HAPROXY and I know for sure that this would be relatively easy with nginx, but the main setup is done with Apache and one of the sites refused to work properly under nginx (still can't figure out why, probably .htaccess or the use of some other Apache Module, I haven't investigated enough).\\nAny ideas? Any help is much appreciated.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-12T20:37:49.000Z","title":"Ask HN: About the application architecture Flux","url":"","author":"diggan","points":4,"story_text":"I recently got the word about Flux from a colleague of mine. It's an application architecture Facebook uses for developing web applications. It's all about single direction data flow where it's easy to predict the changes that happens. To me, it sounds good but trying to find more information about it is not easy... Neither is there any bigger examples on the website.
So do anyone here on HN have any examples of similar architectures that have been used for a longer time, with some testimonials? Or maybe someone already have gone crazy and implemented it already and have some pointers of gotchas.
Some links:\\nFrom React documentation - https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/flux-overview.html\\nRecent blogpost on React blog - https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/05/06/flux.html","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399927069,"_tags":["story","author_diggan","story_7735283","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7735283","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: About the application architecture Flux","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"diggan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I recently got the word about Flux from a colleague of mine. It's an application architecture Facebook uses for developing web applications. It's all about single direction data flow where it's easy to predict the changes that happens. To me, it sounds good but trying to find more information about it is not easy... Neither is there any bigger examples on the website.
So do anyone here on HN have any examples of similar architectures that have been used for a longer time, with some testimonials? Or maybe someone already have gone crazy and implemented it already and have some pointers of gotchas.
Some links:\\nFrom React documentation - https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/flux-overview.html\\nRecent blogpost on React blog - https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/05/06/flux.html","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}}],"nbHits":870,"page":2,"nbPages":44,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":10,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&page=2&query=apple&tags=ask_hn"}}] \ No newline at end of file +[{"url":"/api/v1/search?tags=comment","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2013-11-27T02:18:36.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"zedshaw","points":1081,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Hey, other comments are going to give you a few lines telling you to not quit, that you should hang in there, and that it'll be alright. That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast. Here's what I want to do:
1. I have a little list of companies looking for employees that I'll send you. Not much just companies that have contacted me looking for people.\\n2. I am a bad ass writer and have a crazy resume, but more importantly I know how to craft resumes and I'll look at yours and help you fix it up.\\n3. If you're in the San Francisco area I'll meet up with you and listen to what happened and see if there's a way to work out of it, or at least listen.\\n4. If you email me at help@learncodethehardway.org I'll talk with you and see if there's other ways I can help.
I'm serious, hit me up on email and I'll help out if I can. In fact, this goes for anyone else looking for work right now. Email the above and I'll reply with my little list. I don't make commissions on placement or anything like that, just a good thing to do.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6805699,"story_title":"Started a stupid company. Failed. ","story_url":"","parent_id":6805699,"created_at_i":1385518716,"_tags":["comment","author_zedshaw","story_6805699"],"objectID":"6805807","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"zedshaw","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Hey, other comments are going to give you a few lines telling you to not quit, that you should hang in there, and that it'll be alright. That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast. Here's what I want to do:
1. I have a little list of companies looking for employees that I'll send you. Not much just companies that have contacted me looking for people.\\n2. I am a bad ass writer and have a crazy resume, but more importantly I know how to craft resumes and I'll look at yours and help you fix it up.\\n3. If you're in the San Francisco area I'll meet up with you and listen to what happened and see if there's a way to work out of it, or at least listen.\\n4. If you email me at help@learncodethehardway.org I'll talk with you and see if there's other ways I can help.
I'm serious, hit me up on email and I'll help out if I can. In fact, this goes for anyone else looking for work right now. Email the above and I'll reply with my little list. I don't make commissions on placement or anything like that, just a good thing to do.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Started a stupid company. Failed. ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-27T07:22:13.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"avalaunch","points":676,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The other commenters are being too nice in their replies.
You're full of shit. JustFab is a shoe of the month club masquerading as a normal online shoe store. The VIP Membership Program is the essence of JustFab's business model and yet it's missing entirely from the home page of their site. It looks like any other shoe store. And yet you think it's clear that the user is being signed up for a shoe of the month membership when they originally clicked through to buy a single pair of shoes.
The entire checkout process is engineered to get people to sign up for the "VIP Membership Program" without realizing what it is. If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page. They'd include it in the list of items that you're purchasing. They'd include the relevant terms (not just a link to them) on the page where you enter your credit card information. They'd put the terms higher on the page so that you're more likely to read them. They'd put the "Checkout as a regular member" link next to the "normal" checkout button and they'd make it just as big. And they'd make it a button. They don't do any of these things.
When a user goes to checkout of any online store, they're not going to read everything on every page. It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly. I know this, you know this, and JustFab knows this. That's why the program details are listed on the first page of the checkout process and not the last. That's why they're listed on a page where the user has but one action to take. Click the big pink button and get on with the checkout process.
JustFab is not an awesome company as you claim. It is a scam and you are a horrible investor for investing in them.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6455391,"story_title":"Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?","story_url":"","parent_id":6455575,"created_at_i":1380266533,"_tags":["comment","author_avalaunch","story_6455391"],"objectID":"6455722","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"avalaunch","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The other commenters are being too nice in their replies.
You're full of shit. JustFab is a shoe of the month club masquerading as a normal online shoe store. The VIP Membership Program is the essence of JustFab's business model and yet it's missing entirely from the home page of their site. It looks like any other shoe store. And yet you think it's clear that the user is being signed up for a shoe of the month membership when they originally clicked through to buy a single pair of shoes.
The entire checkout process is engineered to get people to sign up for the "VIP Membership Program" without realizing what it is. If they wanted to be up front about it, they'd explain it on the home page. They'd include it in the list of items that you're purchasing. They'd include the relevant terms (not just a link to them) on the page where you enter your credit card information. They'd put the terms higher on the page so that you're more likely to read them. They'd put the "Checkout as a regular member" link next to the "normal" checkout button and they'd make it just as big. And they'd make it a button. They don't do any of these things.
When a user goes to checkout of any online store, they're not going to read everything on every page. It's a process they're very familiar with so they're going to skim and click through quickly. I know this, you know this, and JustFab knows this. That's why the program details are listed on the first page of the checkout process and not the last. That's why they're listed on a page where the user has but one action to take. Click the big pink button and get on with the checkout process.
JustFab is not an awesome company as you claim. It is a scam and you are a horrible investor for investing in them.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-07-24T17:36:38.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"sivers","points":447,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Theres this great story from the book Art and Fear, that's very appropriate here:
===
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the quantity group: 50 pounds of pots rated an A, 40 pounds a B, and so on.
Those being graded on quality, however, needed to produce only one pot albeit a perfect one to get an A.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
It seems that while the quantity group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes the quality group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
===
Advance congratulations to Jennifer. This is amazing.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6097155,"story_title":"I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115","story_url":"http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180","parent_id":6097155,"created_at_i":1374687398,"_tags":["comment","author_sivers","story_6097155"],"objectID":"6097663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sivers","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Theres this great story from the book Art and Fear, that's very appropriate here:
===
The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups.
All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality.
His procedure was simple: on the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom scales and weigh the work of the quantity group: 50 pounds of pots rated an A, 40 pounds a B, and so on.
Those being graded on quality, however, needed to produce only one pot albeit a perfect one to get an A.
Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity.
It seems that while the quantity group was busily churning out piles of work-and learning from their mistakes the quality group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.
===
Advance congratulations to Jennifer. This is amazing.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.jenniferdewalt.com/post/56319597560/im-learning-to-code-by-building-180-websites-in-180","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-02-09T16:03:59.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"jbk","points":436,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"As the main developer of VLC, we know about this story since a long time, and this is just Dell putting crap components on their machine and blaming others. Any discussion was impossible with them. So let me explain a bit...
In this case, VLC just uses the Windows APIs (DirectSound), and sends signed integers of 16bits (s16) to the Windows Kernel.
VLC allows amplification of the INPUT above the sound that was decoded. This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files or post-amplification and can lead to saturation.
But this is exactly the same if you put your mp3 file through Audacity and increase it and play with WMP, or if you put a DirectShow filter that amplifies the volume after your codec output.\\nFor example, for a long time, VLC ac3 and mp3 codecs were too low (-6dB) compared to the reference output.
At worse, this will reduce the dynamics and saturate a lot, but this is not going to break your hardware.
VLC does not (and cannot) modify the OUTPUT volume to destroy the speakers. VLC is a Software using the OFFICIAL platforms APIs.
The issue here is that Dell sound cards output power (that can be approached by a factor of the quadratic of the amplitude) that Dell speakers cannot handle. Simply said, the sound card outputs at max 10W, and the speakers only can take 6W in, and neither their BIOS or drivers block this.
And as VLC is present on a lot of machines, it's simple to blame VLC. "Correlation does not mean causation" is something that seems too complex for cheap Dell support...
Maybe Dell should advise against playing Metal music and should only allow Céline Dion music, because Metal saturates more...
EDIT: more details...
PS: they even provide a BIOS update for the fix... So, of course, VLC was the issue... http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/KCS/Kcs...","num_comments":null,"story_id":7205759,"story_title":"Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty","story_url":"http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19492918.aspx","parent_id":7205759,"created_at_i":1391961839,"_tags":["comment","author_jbk","story_7205759"],"objectID":"7205875","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"jbk","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"As the main developer of VLC, we know about this story since a long time, and this is just Dell putting crap components on their machine and blaming others. Any discussion was impossible with them. So let me explain a bit...
In this case, VLC just uses the Windows APIs (DirectSound), and sends signed integers of 16bits (s16) to the Windows Kernel.
VLC allows amplification of the INPUT above the sound that was decoded. This is just like replay gain, broken codecs, badly recorded files or post-amplification and can lead to saturation.
But this is exactly the same if you put your mp3 file through Audacity and increase it and play with WMP, or if you put a DirectShow filter that amplifies the volume after your codec output.\\nFor example, for a long time, VLC ac3 and mp3 codecs were too low (-6dB) compared to the reference output.
At worse, this will reduce the dynamics and saturate a lot, but this is not going to break your hardware.
VLC does not (and cannot) modify the OUTPUT volume to destroy the speakers. VLC is a Software using the OFFICIAL platforms APIs.
The issue here is that Dell sound cards output power (that can be approached by a factor of the quadratic of the amplitude) that Dell speakers cannot handle. Simply said, the sound card outputs at max 10W, and the speakers only can take 6W in, and neither their BIOS or drivers block this.
And as VLC is present on a lot of machines, it's simple to blame VLC. "Correlation does not mean causation" is something that seems too complex for cheap Dell support...
Maybe Dell should advise against playing Metal music and should only allow Céline Dion music, because Metal saturates more...
EDIT: more details...
PS: they even provide a BIOS update for the fix... So, of course, VLC was the issue... http://www.dell.com/support/troubleshooting/us/en/04/KCS/Kcs...","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3517/t/19492918.aspx","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T13:40:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"6cxs2hd6","points":431,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"As I type this comment, most other comments are pointing out how a 6th grader got this wrong, by failing to suggest the "correct" solution of abandoning printing.
I don't... how do I put this nicely.
This is a kid. He is smart. He looked at the problem from a new angle. He came up with a nice hack. Presumably we want more kids with more of a hacking spirit.
I hope he doesn't read Hacker News.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7486678,"story_title":"Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions","story_url":"http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11","parent_id":7486678,"created_at_i":1396014047,"_tags":["comment","author_6cxs2hd6","story_7486678"],"objectID":"7487115","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"6cxs2hd6","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"As I type this comment, most other comments are pointing out how a 6th grader got this wrong, by failing to suggest the "correct" solution of abandoning printing.
I don't... how do I put this nicely.
This is a kid. He is smart. He looked at the problem from a new angle. He came up with a nice hack. Presumably we want more kids with more of a hacking spirit.
I hope he doesn't read Hacker News.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-25T21:42:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"lawl","points":427,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Damn! I don't like this.
I had hoped they jump in bed with valve.
Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about.
Also from the article:
> After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.
Nah, I'd rather not, thank you. I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn't get all the data about it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7469115,"story_title":"Facebook acquires Oculus VR","story_url":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1","parent_id":7469115,"created_at_i":1395783726,"_tags":["comment","author_lawl","story_7469115"],"objectID":"7469229","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"lawl","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Damn! I don't like this.
I had hoped they jump in bed with valve.
Yes, I just really dislike facebook, so I hate to see them aquiring something i was really excited about.
Also from the article:
> After games, we're going to make Oculus a platform for many other experiences. Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face-to-face -- just by putting on goggles in your home.
Nah, I'd rather not, thank you. I prefer to actually visit my doctor where facebook doesn't get all the data about it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Facebook acquires Oculus VR","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-06T11:49:22.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"shasta","points":410,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Is she comfortable with the fact that it was primarily an IP acquisition?","num_comments":null,"story_id":2965053,"story_title":"\"I've got an idea for an app\"","story_url":"http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app","parent_id":2965149,"created_at_i":1315309762,"_tags":["comment","author_shasta","story_2965053"],"objectID":"2965166","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"shasta","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Is she comfortable with the fact that it was primarily an IP acquisition?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"\"I've got an idea for an app\"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://chriseidhof.tumblr.com/post/9873846899/ive-got-an-idea-for-an-app","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-15T13:37:16.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jbk","points":407,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I can speak quite a bit about this \"industry\": We (VLC) receive 1 of those offers per day.
They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous.
They have all those great offers for you, but they refuse to give any details as soon as you ask any question. More than half of them are \"the biggest in the world\" (sic). They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actually installed and about their connexions. They even lie on the actual payback price.
If you refuse, they build special websites, copying yours, with your IP and trademark and register adwords with your name, in every way possible.
They also resell their solutions/websites to other people, using \"Affiliate networks\", so that once you take one down, 20 appear. And the guy who you took down had no idea who you were or what the software was...
They also have deals with download.com/softopedia/softonic to change/rewrap your installer, without your agreement, often violating your license; or they give back money to those websites, so they are ranked higher than normal other downloads.
And of course, open source software are never respected.
I believe OP is very polite: There are no good reasons to not shame them publicly.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5059806,"story_title":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","story_url":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","parent_id":5059806,"created_at_i":1358257036,"_tags":["comment","author_jbk","story_5059806"],"objectID":"5059986","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jbk","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I can speak quite a bit about this \"industry\": We (VLC) receive 1 of those offers per day.
They are liars, shady business, IP violators and are downright dangerous.
They have all those great offers for you, but they refuse to give any details as soon as you ask any question. More than half of them are \"the biggest in the world\" (sic). They lie about download numbers, about download size, about number of software actually installed and about their connexions. They even lie on the actual payback price.
If you refuse, they build special websites, copying yours, with your IP and trademark and register adwords with your name, in every way possible.
They also resell their solutions/websites to other people, using \"Affiliate networks\", so that once you take one down, 20 appear. And the guy who you took down had no idea who you were or what the software was...
They also have deals with download.com/softopedia/softonic to change/rewrap your installer, without your agreement, often violating your license; or they give back money to those websites, so they are ranked higher than normal other downloads.
And of course, open source software are never respected.
I believe OP is very polite: There are no good reasons to not shame them publicly.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-11-07T22:55:54.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"mapgrep","points":397,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"This is empty madness. It is, very literally, a celebration of total materialism.
What is ultimately important in life are people -- messy, filthy, bacteria-and-disease-laden, imperfect, emotional, sweating shitting cursing crying screaming laughing farting people and the connections we build to them.
This celebration of spending insane amounts of time choosing the perfect flatware or the perfect wallet is sick. Steve Jobs spent eight years discussing furniture with his family before buying a sofa etc (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_...). I will never do that, and I will never have flatware as nice as Dustin Curtis', and I will never have sound as good as an obsessive audiophile, or the perfect car.
I won't even write a particularly convincing Hacker News comment on this very topic. I've got to go. Life is too short for this shit.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4755470,"story_title":"The Best","story_url":"http://dcurt.is/the-best","parent_id":4755470,"created_at_i":1352328954,"_tags":["comment","author_mapgrep","story_4755470"],"objectID":"4755594","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mapgrep","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"This is empty madness. It is, very literally, a celebration of total materialism.
What is ultimately important in life are people -- messy, filthy, bacteria-and-disease-laden, imperfect, emotional, sweating shitting cursing crying screaming laughing farting people and the connections we build to them.
This celebration of spending insane amounts of time choosing the perfect flatware or the perfect wallet is sick. Steve Jobs spent eight years discussing furniture with his family before buying a sofa etc (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_...). I will never do that, and I will never have flatware as nice as Dustin Curtis', and I will never have sound as good as an obsessive audiophile, or the perfect car.
I won't even write a particularly convincing Hacker News comment on this very topic. I've got to go. Life is too short for this shit.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The Best","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://dcurt.is/the-best","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-08-22T17:54:01.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jwr","points":385,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The land of the free.
As I read more and more of those stories I can't help but wonder at how things changed. I am from a formerly-eastern-europe-soviet-bloc country (Poland) and these kinds of oppressive techniques sound very familiar. The haziness of procedures, lack of basic rights, intimidation, no accountability of state officials -- we've seen all that until 1989. At the time, while the communist regime was imposed on us, the USA seemed like heaven: transparency, procedures, basic rights, free speech, accountable officials.
Look at where we are today. I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country. When entering the country, the passport clerk has exactly two options: let me in, or call the police and get me arrested on the spot. I feel free and I am happy to live in a free country, together with people who because of the past oppressive Soviet regime are quite sensitive to abuses of power.
At the same time, the U.S. is rapidly degenerating into something that isn't quite the sinister oppressive regime, but getting close to the point where it could become one, if a wrong leader gets elected. It's scary.
And the worst thing is -- American people got so used to the idea of living in a free country, that they do not even admit the thought that things are going the wrong way. Most people don't see the signs.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6258422,"story_title":"Don't Fly During Ramadan","story_url":"http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan","parent_id":6258422,"created_at_i":1377194041,"_tags":["comment","author_jwr","story_6258422"],"objectID":"6258742","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jwr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The land of the free.
As I read more and more of those stories I can't help but wonder at how things changed. I am from a formerly-eastern-europe-soviet-bloc country (Poland) and these kinds of oppressive techniques sound very familiar. The haziness of procedures, lack of basic rights, intimidation, no accountability of state officials -- we've seen all that until 1989. At the time, while the communist regime was imposed on us, the USA seemed like heaven: transparency, procedures, basic rights, free speech, accountable officials.
Look at where we are today. I can't even imagine being held captive without arrest for hours, being questioned about the purpose of my trip, about my religion and habits, all while travelling within my country. When entering the country, the passport clerk has exactly two options: let me in, or call the police and get me arrested on the spot. I feel free and I am happy to live in a free country, together with people who because of the past oppressive Soviet regime are quite sensitive to abuses of power.
At the same time, the U.S. is rapidly degenerating into something that isn't quite the sinister oppressive regime, but getting close to the point where it could become one, if a wrong leader gets elected. It's scary.
And the worst thing is -- American people got so used to the idea of living in a free country, that they do not even admit the thought that things are going the wrong way. Most people don't see the signs.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Don't Fly During Ramadan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-during-ramadan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-25T21:46:23.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"dhouston","points":374,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"drew from dropbox here. i hope you guys can give us the benefit of the doubt: when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent (the title on HN was suggesting it could be the successor to torrents), you can imagine how that could ruin the service for everyone -- illegal file sharing has never been permitted and we take great pains to keep it off of dropbox. the internet graveyard is filled with services that didn't take this approach.
so, when something like this gets called to our attention, we have to do something about it. note that this isn't even by choice -- if we don't take action, then we look like we are tacitly encouraging it. the point is not to censor or \"kill\" it (which is obviously impossible and would be idiotic for us to try to do), but we sent kindly worded emails to the author and other people who posted it to take it down for the good of the community so that we don't encourage an army of pirates to flock to dropbox, and they voluntarily did so.
there were no legal threats or any other shenanigans to the author or people hosting -- we just want to spend all our time building a great product and not on cat-and-mouse games with people who try to turn dropbox into an illegal file sharing service against our wishes. (for what it's worth, dropship doesn't even work anymore -- we've fixed the deduplication behavior serverside to prevent \"injection\" of files you don't actually have, for a variety of reasons.)
that said, when we disabled public sharing of that file by hash, it auto-generated an email saying we had received a DMCA takedown notice to the OP, which was incorrect and not what we intended to do, so i apologize to dan that this happened.
(*edited the last paragraph: we didn't send a takedown notice, we sent a note saying that we received a DMCA takedown notice, which was also in error)","num_comments":null,"story_id":2482712,"story_title":"Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project","story_url":"http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/","parent_id":2482712,"created_at_i":1303767983,"_tags":["comment","author_dhouston","story_2482712"],"objectID":"2483053","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dhouston","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"drew from dropbox here. i hope you guys can give us the benefit of the doubt: when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent (the title on HN was suggesting it could be the successor to torrents), you can imagine how that could ruin the service for everyone -- illegal file sharing has never been permitted and we take great pains to keep it off of dropbox. the internet graveyard is filled with services that didn't take this approach.
so, when something like this gets called to our attention, we have to do something about it. note that this isn't even by choice -- if we don't take action, then we look like we are tacitly encouraging it. the point is not to censor or \"kill\" it (which is obviously impossible and would be idiotic for us to try to do), but we sent kindly worded emails to the author and other people who posted it to take it down for the good of the community so that we don't encourage an army of pirates to flock to dropbox, and they voluntarily did so.
there were no legal threats or any other shenanigans to the author or people hosting -- we just want to spend all our time building a great product and not on cat-and-mouse games with people who try to turn dropbox into an illegal file sharing service against our wishes. (for what it's worth, dropship doesn't even work anymore -- we've fixed the deduplication behavior serverside to prevent \"injection\" of files you don't actually have, for a variety of reasons.)
that said, when we disabled public sharing of that file by hash, it auto-generated an email saying we had received a DMCA takedown notice to the OP, which was incorrect and not what we intended to do, so i apologize to dan that this happened.
(*edited the last paragraph: we didn't send a takedown notice, we sent a note saying that we received a DMCA takedown notice, which was also in error)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Dropbox Attempts To Kill Open Source Project","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://razorfast.com/2011/04/25/dropbox-attempts-to-kill-open-source-project/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-30T16:53:07.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"tptacek","points":366,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.
That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making:
Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone on the whole Internet for the adoption of modern TLS with forward-secrecy; they are the world's foremost deployers of ephemeral-keyed elliptic curve cryptography and of certificate pinning, both of which ensure not only the security of the traffic running over the network cables into their data centers, but also minimize the impact of a compromised long-term encryption key or the compromise of the CA system by a state actor.
Not only that, but Google launched a high-profile effort to encrypt the communications inside and between their data centers.
I hope a couple years hindsight will put the importance of Adam Langley's work (and that of the rest of his team; he's just the best-known member of that team) at Google into sharper relief.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6641378,"story_title":"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide","story_url":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost","parent_id":6641378,"created_at_i":1383151987,"_tags":["comment","author_tptacek","story_6641378"],"objectID":"6641483","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"tptacek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.
That aside, let me re-make a point I keep making:
Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. But still, they pushed harder than anyone on the whole Internet for the adoption of modern TLS with forward-secrecy; they are the world's foremost deployers of ephemeral-keyed elliptic curve cryptography and of certificate pinning, both of which ensure not only the security of the traffic running over the network cables into their data centers, but also minimize the impact of a compromised long-term encryption key or the compromise of the CA system by a state actor.
Not only that, but Google launched a high-profile effort to encrypt the communications inside and between their data centers.
I hope a couple years hindsight will put the importance of Adam Langley's work (and that of the rest of his team; he's just the best-known member of that team) at Google into sharper relief.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-infiltrates-links-to-yahoo-google-data-centers-worldwide-snowden-documents-say/2013/10/30/e51d661e-4166-11e3-8b74-d89d714ca4dd_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-12T21:46:03.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"MrFoof","points":361,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.
Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names. The new guy was arguably the most talented guy in the company by a considerable margin, so he thought someone building a $700K home might've been overextending themselves. The person buying the home retorted that it was reasonable and asked the new guy why he wouldn't buy the Porsche Boxster he considered his dream car. The new guy responded that would never be prudent. That didn't seem right, as several of us at the table could've nearly swung a Boxster with just our bonus.
The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy's salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.
Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn't a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.
He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.
Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175/hour.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2438980,"story_title":"The Programmer Salary Taboo","story_url":"http://www.thurn.ca/the_programmer_salary_taboo","parent_id":2438980,"created_at_i":1302644763,"_tags":["comment","author_MrFoof","story_2438980"],"objectID":"2439478","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"MrFoof","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Salaries never stay secrets forever. Hiding them only delays the inevitable.
Last year we were having a discussion at lunch. Coworker was building a new house, and when it came to the numbers it was let loose that it was going to cost about $700K. This didn't seem like much, except to a young guy that joined the previous year and had done nothing but kick ass and take names. The new guy was arguably the most talented guy in the company by a considerable margin, so he thought someone building a $700K home might've been overextending themselves. The person buying the home retorted that it was reasonable and asked the new guy why he wouldn't buy the Porsche Boxster he considered his dream car. The new guy responded that would never be prudent. That didn't seem right, as several of us at the table could've nearly swung a Boxster with just our bonus.
The conversation ended up in numbers. Coworker building the house pulled about $140K base (median for a programmer was probably $125K), and his bonus nearly matched the new guy's salary, which was an insulting $60K -- and got cut out of the bonus and raise in January for not being there a full year, only 11 months.
Turns out he was a doormat in negotiating, though his salary history was cringeworthy. It pained everyone to hear it, considering how nice of a guy he was. In all honestly, $60K was a big step up for him. Worst of all, this wasn't a cheap market (Boston). The guy probably shortchanged himself well over a half-million dollars in the past decade. This was someone who voluntarily put in long hours and went out of his way to teach others, and did everything he could to help other departments like operations and other teams. On top, he was beyond frugal. Supposedly he saved something around 40% of his take home pay, despite living alone in Boston. He grew up in a trailer park.
He spent the next day in non-stop meetings with HR, his manager and the CTO. That Friday he simply handed in his badge without a word, walked out and never came back.
Until 3 months later. As a consultant. At $175/hour.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The Programmer Salary Taboo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.thurn.ca/the_programmer_salary_taboo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-20T22:15:47.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"blhack","points":349,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I would also like a response from Sendgrid here. Somebody they sent to a conference, who was representing their company there, went on a personal vendetta against somebody and got them fired.
That's awful, and I join the people I see online right now in saying that I cannot, in good conscience, ever do business with a company that supports that behavior.
--And to how far Adria has set back womens' rights here--
The common thread I've seen from the women I've worked with in tech has been that they really just wish people didn't even notice their gender. They don't want to get treated like \"a girl\", they just want to get treated like \"a person\".
What Adria has done here is made sure that people in tech are always hyper aware if they're working with one of the \"outsiders\" that she has cast herself as.
It's really sad.
(This comment is also worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407884)","num_comments":null,"story_id":5410515,"story_title":"The PyCon Incident","story_url":"http://pastebin.com/JaNh0w5F","parent_id":5410515,"created_at_i":1363817747,"_tags":["comment","author_blhack","story_5410515"],"objectID":"5410805","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"blhack","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I would also like a response from Sendgrid here. Somebody they sent to a conference, who was representing their company there, went on a personal vendetta against somebody and got them fired.
That's awful, and I join the people I see online right now in saying that I cannot, in good conscience, ever do business with a company that supports that behavior.
--And to how far Adria has set back womens' rights here--
The common thread I've seen from the women I've worked with in tech has been that they really just wish people didn't even notice their gender. They don't want to get treated like \"a girl\", they just want to get treated like \"a person\".
What Adria has done here is made sure that people in tech are always hyper aware if they're working with one of the \"outsiders\" that she has cast herself as.
It's really sad.
(This comment is also worth reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407884)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The PyCon Incident","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://pastebin.com/JaNh0w5F","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-12T13:12:31.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"edw519","points":336,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I did quit my full-time job.
So did I. Many times. About half the time it worked out great. The other half, it sucked, just like yours does now. You are not alone.
I'm constantly broke, on the verge of poverty...
Then get a job, any job. It doesn't have to be programming. It'll get you out of the house, get you with other people, and put a few bucks in your pocket. If you love programming enough, you'll find time to keep it going on the side.
I'm deeply depressed and contemplating suicide
Don't. Contact me anytime (see my profile). When things are going well, they're never as good as they seem. When they are going poorly, they're never as bad as they seem.
I have to constantly hear my father shout what an idiot I am for quitting a high-paying job
Fathers are sometimes wrong. Yours is now. Don't listen to him.
My friends make fun of me for making a retarded life decision.
When things get tough, you find out who you're friends really are. I know it's not much consolation, but you just did. Be glad you saved a lot of time and energy. Anyone who makes fun of you was never your friend, just an acquaintence.
I can't really do anything else, since apparently finding a new job, is kind of hard and I have to go through the whole step where I admit my failure and start over and I don't even know what I want anymore.
Don't ever say \"can't\" because it's not true. You can. Just find any job and go from there. First you crawl, then you walk, then you run. Many of us have already been there. You can do it too.
I thought I would become free, but I've actually become less free as a result of it.
So far. What you don't see now since you are in the midst of this is that this was just one backward (or sideways) step in a long journey forward. I don't know anyone who is successful that had only forward steps. We have all had these backward steps. It sounds like this may have been your first big one. That might be why it hurts so much.
I'm 20, I have no college diploma, no high school diploma, ...
None of that matters. All that really matters is what's inside your head and your heart. Once you decide to start taking positive steps, you'll see.
I'm an idiot, essentially.
Please don't ever say that. You're not, and I have proof: If you were really an idiot, then you wouldn't have posted this here.
It just didn't work out and it feels very painful.
Thanks for the warning. You may have just saved a lot of people a lot of pain with this post.
And thanks for your story. I have been there (several times) as I imagine many others here have as well. It gets better. I promise. But you have to stop feeling miserable and take a positive step. Posting here was your first step. Talking to some of us off-line may be another. And getting out of the house and finding a job, any job, is probably your next best step.
Please give it a shot a keep us posted. We're not going anywhere and we care. Really.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3102143,"story_title":"I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.","story_url":"","parent_id":3102143,"created_at_i":1318425151,"_tags":["comment","author_edw519","story_3102143"],"objectID":"3102769","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"edw519","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I did quit my full-time job.
So did I. Many times. About half the time it worked out great. The other half, it sucked, just like yours does now. You are not alone.
I'm constantly broke, on the verge of poverty...
Then get a job, any job. It doesn't have to be programming. It'll get you out of the house, get you with other people, and put a few bucks in your pocket. If you love programming enough, you'll find time to keep it going on the side.
I'm deeply depressed and contemplating suicide
Don't. Contact me anytime (see my profile). When things are going well, they're never as good as they seem. When they are going poorly, they're never as bad as they seem.
I have to constantly hear my father shout what an idiot I am for quitting a high-paying job
Fathers are sometimes wrong. Yours is now. Don't listen to him.
My friends make fun of me for making a retarded life decision.
When things get tough, you find out who you're friends really are. I know it's not much consolation, but you just did. Be glad you saved a lot of time and energy. Anyone who makes fun of you was never your friend, just an acquaintence.
I can't really do anything else, since apparently finding a new job, is kind of hard and I have to go through the whole step where I admit my failure and start over and I don't even know what I want anymore.
Don't ever say \"can't\" because it's not true. You can. Just find any job and go from there. First you crawl, then you walk, then you run. Many of us have already been there. You can do it too.
I thought I would become free, but I've actually become less free as a result of it.
So far. What you don't see now since you are in the midst of this is that this was just one backward (or sideways) step in a long journey forward. I don't know anyone who is successful that had only forward steps. We have all had these backward steps. It sounds like this may have been your first big one. That might be why it hurts so much.
I'm 20, I have no college diploma, no high school diploma, ...
None of that matters. All that really matters is what's inside your head and your heart. Once you decide to start taking positive steps, you'll see.
I'm an idiot, essentially.
Please don't ever say that. You're not, and I have proof: If you were really an idiot, then you wouldn't have posted this here.
It just didn't work out and it feels very painful.
Thanks for the warning. You may have just saved a lot of people a lot of pain with this post.
And thanks for your story. I have been there (several times) as I imagine many others here have as well. It gets better. I promise. But you have to stop feeling miserable and take a positive step. Posting here was your first step. Talking to some of us off-line may be another. And getting out of the house and finding a job, any job, is probably your next best step.
Please give it a shot a keep us posted. We're not going anywhere and we care. Really.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-12T17:41:58.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jug6ernaut","points":332,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?
Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5363290,"story_title":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","story_url":"http://teespring.com/hntees","parent_id":5363290,"created_at_i":1363110118,"_tags":["comment","author_jug6ernaut","story_5363290"],"objectID":"5363461","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jug6ernaut","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T?
Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://teespring.com/hntees","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T03:35:16.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"moot","points":328,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6409360,"story_title":"Moot: Full House","story_url":"http://www.4chan.org/news?all#114","parent_id":6409360,"created_at_i":1379561716,"_tags":["comment","author_moot","story_6409360"],"objectID":"6409625","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"moot","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Moot: Full House","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.4chan.org/news?all#114","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-04T18:21:54.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"sinak","points":328,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.
When I originally posted this to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020 there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of \"petitions don't have any effect\". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.
Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.
Sign up at http://fixthedmca.org - should be launching the site tomorrow.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5319577,"story_title":"White House Response to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal","story_url":"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update","parent_id":5319577,"created_at_i":1362421314,"_tags":["comment","author_sinak","story_5319577"],"objectID":"5319593","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sinak","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Hey guys, petition starter here. Just wanted to thank anyone who signed for their support. I just got off the phone with the White House and they're really enthusiastic about getting this fixed. We also discussed fixing Section 1201 of the DMCA permanently, and they've agreed to continue the conversation on that.
When I originally posted this to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5112020 there were a lot of very skeptical responses to the effect of \"petitions don't have any effect\". The optimist in me is glad they were wrong. The White House seem to be genuinely committed to helping push through a piece of legislation to fix this. If there's something about government that bugs you, it's worth trying to do something about it.
Also, we're launching a campaign to ask Congress to change Section 1201 of the DMCA, with backing from the EFF, Reddit and others.
Sign up at http://fixthedmca.org - should be launching the site tomorrow.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"White House Response to Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cell-phones-legal/1g9KhZG7?update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-15T17:53:55.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"nika","points":321,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Reagan is the one who signed \"asset forfeiture\" into law. I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was \"just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets\" and how \"law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend themselves against drug dealers\".
It was obvious to me then that this was a violation of due process. Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act. (There is a federal law that makes it a felony to violate constitutional rights under color of law. Fourth amendment prohibits this.)
Notably, Bush the First, Clinton, Bush the Second and Obama have not made any moves to undo this legislation.
Meanwhile, this has been used to take money from bikers on their way to buy a motorcycle, and random motorists in Florida and Texas who get pulled over for speeding. \"It could be drug money\" says the \"law enforcement officers\" who take life savings and then spend it on themselves.
Just because they haven't seized your assets yet, doesn't mean you aren't at risk.
When the government can take whatever it wants, without any legal restraint, and in violation of the ultimate law of the land, that government is not a legitimate government.
We should be outraged. We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this. It does not matter what party they are from, they are all culpable, and they are all criminals.
Edited: I removed the reference to my property that was stolen by the FBI because it prompted many people to attack me below. I really would rather the discussion be about how to resolve this issue for domain names, or maybe some discussion about how to overturn these seizure laws.
Edited: I've made the legal case in defense of those wrongfully convicted. I cannot keep up with the tide of people who have no citations of the law, but are quick to disparage me personally, for my crime of defending victims here.
Frankly, I think that the ease with which people assume that \"naturally\" these people were \"bad guys\" and therefore what they did was \"illegal\" despite the law and the constitution, is the very proof of my central point that the government is out of control, and they are getting away with it because people can't be bothered to challenge the belief-- taught by government in government schools-- that the \"rule of law\" holds sway.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2451302,"story_title":"FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names","story_url":"http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/fulltiltpoker-com-pokerstars-com-domain-names-confiscated-fbi-1020606/","parent_id":2451302,"created_at_i":1302890035,"_tags":["comment","author_nika","story_2451302"],"objectID":"2451378","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nika","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Reagan is the one who signed \"asset forfeiture\" into law. I remember at the time reading newspaper articles claiming this was \"just going to be used to keep drugs off the streets\" and how \"law enforcement are outgunned and now can defend themselves against drug dealers\".
It was obvious to me then that this was a violation of due process. Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act. (There is a federal law that makes it a felony to violate constitutional rights under color of law. Fourth amendment prohibits this.)
Notably, Bush the First, Clinton, Bush the Second and Obama have not made any moves to undo this legislation.
Meanwhile, this has been used to take money from bikers on their way to buy a motorcycle, and random motorists in Florida and Texas who get pulled over for speeding. \"It could be drug money\" says the \"law enforcement officers\" who take life savings and then spend it on themselves.
Just because they haven't seized your assets yet, doesn't mean you aren't at risk.
When the government can take whatever it wants, without any legal restraint, and in violation of the ultimate law of the land, that government is not a legitimate government.
We should be outraged. We should be throwing the bums out-- from Obama down to the local state congresspeople or local sheriffs and judges who fail to take actions overturning this, or who themselves participate in this. It does not matter what party they are from, they are all culpable, and they are all criminals.
Edited: I removed the reference to my property that was stolen by the FBI because it prompted many people to attack me below. I really would rather the discussion be about how to resolve this issue for domain names, or maybe some discussion about how to overturn these seizure laws.
Edited: I've made the legal case in defense of those wrongfully convicted. I cannot keep up with the tide of people who have no citations of the law, but are quick to disparage me personally, for my crime of defending victims here.
Frankly, I think that the ease with which people assume that \"naturally\" these people were \"bad guys\" and therefore what they did was \"illegal\" despite the law and the constitution, is the very proof of my central point that the government is out of control, and they are getting away with it because people can't be bothered to challenge the belief-- taught by government in government schools-- that the \"rule of law\" holds sway.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"FBI seized PokerStars.com, FullTiltPoker.com, UB.com,... domain names","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/fulltiltpoker-com-pokerstars-com-domain-names-confiscated-fbi-1020606/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-01T02:18:08.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jdietrich","points":312,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Success is not validation of an idea and we should be ashamed to think so.
Cigarettes are one of the most successful consumer products on earth. Inhaling a lungful of carcinogenic smoke several hundred times a day is undoubtedly a stupid idea. Tobacco has made a small number of people incomprehensibly rich, to the great detriment of humanity.
Personally, I think nearly all of these 'social' startups are bad news. Not as bad news as a lung cancer epidemic, but bad news nonetheless. I think they feed a culture of passivity and attention deficit. I think they fragment human interaction into the smallest possible dopamine-inducing units. I think they're essentially Skinner boxes in disguise - apps that dress up an intermittent schedule of reward as meaningful activity.
The startup culture talks the talk about \"changing the world\", but in truth most of us couldn't care less so long as we get our next funding round. For every Watsi, we have a hundred bullshit companies with bullshit products, providing yet another means of idle distraction for indolent westerners. We can hardly distinguish between what is worthwhile and what is popular or profitable. It has hardly occurred to Curtis or anyone in these comments that an idea could be both successful and stupid.
Is Pinterest really an innovative sharing tool, or is it merely a collaborative exercise in commodity fetishism? Is Vine really a radical new way to communicate, or is it merely the nadir of audiovisual culture, fragmenting the world into six-second shards of nothingness? Do we even care?","num_comments":null,"story_id":5635437,"story_title":"What a stupid idea","story_url":"http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea","parent_id":5635437,"created_at_i":1367374688,"_tags":["comment","author_jdietrich","story_5635437"],"objectID":"5636090","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jdietrich","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Success is not validation of an idea and we should be ashamed to think so.
Cigarettes are one of the most successful consumer products on earth. Inhaling a lungful of carcinogenic smoke several hundred times a day is undoubtedly a stupid idea. Tobacco has made a small number of people incomprehensibly rich, to the great detriment of humanity.
Personally, I think nearly all of these 'social' startups are bad news. Not as bad news as a lung cancer epidemic, but bad news nonetheless. I think they feed a culture of passivity and attention deficit. I think they fragment human interaction into the smallest possible dopamine-inducing units. I think they're essentially Skinner boxes in disguise - apps that dress up an intermittent schedule of reward as meaningful activity.
The startup culture talks the talk about \"changing the world\", but in truth most of us couldn't care less so long as we get our next funding round. For every Watsi, we have a hundred bullshit companies with bullshit products, providing yet another means of idle distraction for indolent westerners. We can hardly distinguish between what is worthwhile and what is popular or profitable. It has hardly occurred to Curtis or anyone in these comments that an idea could be both successful and stupid.
Is Pinterest really an innovative sharing tool, or is it merely a collaborative exercise in commodity fetishism? Is Vine really a radical new way to communicate, or is it merely the nadir of audiovisual culture, fragmenting the world into six-second shards of nothingness? Do we even care?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"What a stupid idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":1164741,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":4,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=comment","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:30:03.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"aagha","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":""Recently, the Tallahassee police department revealed it had used stingrays at least 200 times since 2010 without telling any judge because the device’s manufacturer made the police department sign a non-disclosure agreement that police claim prevented them from disclosing use of the device to the courts"
What complete and utter BS. Does that mean that the DA too had no idea about the use of stingray because the police couldn't tell them either. I think figuring out who should know (and who shouldn't) is probably very very selective!","num_comments":null,"story_id":7845921,"story_title":"U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU","story_url":"http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-seize-stingray-documents/","parent_id":7845921,"created_at_i":1401939003,"_tags":["comment","author_aagha","story_7845921"],"objectID":"7850069","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"aagha","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":""Recently, the Tallahassee police department revealed it had used stingrays at least 200 times since 2010 without telling any judge because the device’s manufacturer made the police department sign a non-disclosure agreement that police claim prevented them from disclosing use of the device to the courts"
What complete and utter BS. Does that mean that the DA too had no idea about the use of stingray because the police couldn't tell them either. I think figuring out who should know (and who shouldn't) is probably very very selective!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"U.S. Marshals Seize Cops’ Spying Records to Keep Them From the ACLU","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.wired.com/2014/06/feds-seize-stingray-documents/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:29:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"jfoster","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"How about releasing the vulnerability in stages? The author jumps from unresponsive vendor to releasing exploit code. What if you add steps between the two?
For example:
- Announcing a vulnerability has been found and identifying the unresponsive vendor.
- Announcing what the disclosure timeline will be.
- Detailing the product lines known to be affected by the vulnerability.
- Publishing communication with the vendor so far with any details about the vulnerability redacted.
- Private disclosure to professionals (doctors & journalists) to have them independently verify that the vulnerability exists and help with raising awareness.
- Full details about the vulnerability, but no exploit code.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849453,"story_title":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","story_url":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","parent_id":7849453,"created_at_i":1401938946,"_tags":["comment","author_jfoster","story_7849453"],"objectID":"7850068","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"jfoster","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"How about releasing the vulnerability in stages? The author jumps from unresponsive vendor to releasing exploit code. What if you add steps between the two?
For example:
- Announcing a vulnerability has been found and identifying the unresponsive vendor.
- Announcing what the disclosure timeline will be.
- Detailing the product lines known to be affected by the vulnerability.
- Publishing communication with the vendor so far with any details about the vulnerability redacted.
- Private disclosure to professionals (doctors & journalists) to have them independently verify that the vulnerability exists and help with raising awareness.
- Full details about the vulnerability, but no exploit code.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:28:54.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pistle","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You should probably get acquainted with the details around copyright and fair use before telling someone what laws they didn't break in their country or another's.
This same story has played out at various levels and it gets repeatedly delivered to this audience through the prism of a "victim." Virtual pitchforks get raised, etc.
The talented young programmer makes some assumptions and, benefit of the doubt, "naive" mistakes in standing on the shoulders of others. Then, he cries about how his massive effort is wasted and the powers that be have dashed the dreams of someone obviously superior in skill and/or intellect to "the man."
And again... the victim pretty obviously ran afoul of cultural norms, if not fairly well-known ethical and legal lines. In this case, even the narrator tells you that the adults are merely using this a teachable moment. He would get sued and lose. He also decided he couldn't wait for approval... just had to go run out and assume things - things which would mean everything was in his favor. Until it wasn't.
That data wasn't his. He turned "free" data into a paid app. He forced the hand of the school to shut him down. He still hasn't learned one of the most important lessons for devs... Don't build exclusively on top of a single platform that is out of your control and/or has no incentive to support you.
I would have broken his parser a couple times before dropping the copyright argument on him. More teachable moments were available.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849381,"story_title":"How my school rejected an app made for students","story_url":"http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story","parent_id":7849817,"created_at_i":1401938934,"_tags":["comment","author_pistle","story_7849381"],"objectID":"7850067","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pistle","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You should probably get acquainted with the details around copyright and fair use before telling someone what laws they didn't break in their country or another's.
This same story has played out at various levels and it gets repeatedly delivered to this audience through the prism of a "victim." Virtual pitchforks get raised, etc.
The talented young programmer makes some assumptions and, benefit of the doubt, "naive" mistakes in standing on the shoulders of others. Then, he cries about how his massive effort is wasted and the powers that be have dashed the dreams of someone obviously superior in skill and/or intellect to "the man."
And again... the victim pretty obviously ran afoul of cultural norms, if not fairly well-known ethical and legal lines. In this case, even the narrator tells you that the adults are merely using this a teachable moment. He would get sued and lose. He also decided he couldn't wait for approval... just had to go run out and assume things - things which would mean everything was in his favor. Until it wasn't.
That data wasn't his. He turned "free" data into a paid app. He forced the hand of the school to shut him down. He still hasn't learned one of the most important lessons for devs... Don't build exclusively on top of a single platform that is out of your control and/or has no incentive to support you.
I would have broken his parser a couple times before dropping the copyright argument on him. More teachable moments were available.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"How my school rejected an app made for students","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:28:03.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mikeash","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Oddly, hybrids seem to be really reliable, despite the additional stuff to break. Priuses get top marks for reliability. I'm not sure why, but I imagine it comes down to the electric stuff being extremely reliable due to the nature of the beast, and the gasoline end being treated more nicely (more consistent RPMs and throttle settings, no idling, not being used at all for a substantial fraction of your miles) more than compensates for the tiny increase in potential failures from adding the electric system. Also consider that there is essentially no transmission in the more advanced hybrids, which removes a potentially expensive breakage that regular gas cars are subject to.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847829,"story_title":"Electric car with massive range in demo by Phinergy, Alcoa","story_url":"http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/electric-car-with-massive-range-in-demo-by-phinergy-alcoa-1.2664653","parent_id":7849675,"created_at_i":1401938883,"_tags":["comment","author_mikeash","story_7847829"],"objectID":"7850065","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mikeash","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Oddly, hybrids seem to be really reliable, despite the additional stuff to break. Priuses get top marks for reliability. I'm not sure why, but I imagine it comes down to the electric stuff being extremely reliable due to the nature of the beast, and the gasoline end being treated more nicely (more consistent RPMs and throttle settings, no idling, not being used at all for a substantial fraction of your miles) more than compensates for the tiny increase in potential failures from adding the electric system. Also consider that there is essentially no transmission in the more advanced hybrids, which removes a potentially expensive breakage that regular gas cars are subject to.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Electric car with massive range in demo by Phinergy, Alcoa","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/electric-car-with-massive-range-in-demo-by-phinergy-alcoa-1.2664653","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:26:49.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"seanewest","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I think it is good practice to license packages on npm, even when you are not the original author (which is very common on npm).","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849555,"story_title":"Quicksort in Swift","story_url":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","parent_id":7850011,"created_at_i":1401938809,"_tags":["comment","author_seanewest","story_7849555"],"objectID":"7850063","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"seanewest","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I think it is good practice to license packages on npm, even when you are not the original author (which is very common on npm).","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Quicksort in Swift","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:26:33.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"IgorPartola","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I speak Russian as my first language. We use "sobaka" the Russian word for dog.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849715,"story_title":"At","story_url":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","parent_id":7849715,"created_at_i":1401938793,"_tags":["comment","author_IgorPartola","story_7849715"],"objectID":"7850061","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"IgorPartola","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I speak Russian as my first language. We use "sobaka" the Russian word for dog.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"At","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:26:26.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"gojomo","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"There is a deficiency - but it'd be hard to exploit at great scale, because as you bet the advantage goes away, and then later bettors might leave your stake with bad odds. Only being the 'last mover' in all the pools allows definite arbitrage.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847627,"story_title":"Bitbookie: Parimutuel Bitcoin Sports Betting","story_url":"http://bitbook.ie","parent_id":7849175,"created_at_i":1401938786,"_tags":["comment","author_gojomo","story_7847627"],"objectID":"7850059","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"gojomo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"There is a deficiency - but it'd be hard to exploit at great scale, because as you bet the advantage goes away, and then later bettors might leave your stake with bad odds. Only being the 'last mover' in all the pools allows definite arbitrage.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Bitbookie: Parimutuel Bitcoin Sports Betting","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://bitbook.ie","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:26:00.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"EGreg","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Everything except shorting their stock. If you wrote a hard-hitting exposé or a John Stossel-type broadcast you aren't likely to be branded a terrorist. Make sure you don't reveal how it's actually done, but the fact that it can be.
In short - media showing the potential results (and dramatizing them) puts heat on the company to fix it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849453,"story_title":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","story_url":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","parent_id":7849632,"created_at_i":1401938760,"_tags":["comment","author_EGreg","story_7849453"],"objectID":"7850056","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"EGreg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Everything except shorting their stock. If you wrote a hard-hitting exposé or a John Stossel-type broadcast you aren't likely to be branded a terrorist. Make sure you don't reveal how it's actually done, but the fact that it can be.
In short - media showing the potential results (and dramatizing them) puts heat on the company to fix it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:25:29.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mattzito","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"There is a double standard to a limited degree- I can't remember the source of this, but a good explanation I saw described it thusly - it's the difference between "punching up" and "punching down". When a woman makes a joke about a male stereotype, it's "punching up", the classically lower status individual tweaking the nose of those in power. When a man makes fun of a female stereotype, it's punching down, or picking on someone.
That doesn't necessarily make it right in either direction or represents a set of absolutes, of course, but it does explain the willingness of people to excuse a certain amount of one type of stereotyping and not another.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849377,"story_title":"Atlassian developer apologizes to \"all getting offended\" by his sexist joke","story_url":"http://thetarah.com/2014/06/05/atlassian-developer-apologizes-to-all-getting-offended-by-his-sexist-joke/","parent_id":7849982,"created_at_i":1401938729,"_tags":["comment","author_mattzito","story_7849377"],"objectID":"7850055","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mattzito","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"There is a double standard to a limited degree- I can't remember the source of this, but a good explanation I saw described it thusly - it's the difference between "punching up" and "punching down". When a woman makes a joke about a male stereotype, it's "punching up", the classically lower status individual tweaking the nose of those in power. When a man makes fun of a female stereotype, it's punching down, or picking on someone.
That doesn't necessarily make it right in either direction or represents a set of absolutes, of course, but it does explain the willingness of people to excuse a certain amount of one type of stereotyping and not another.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Atlassian developer apologizes to \"all getting offended\" by his sexist joke","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://thetarah.com/2014/06/05/atlassian-developer-apologizes-to-all-getting-offended-by-his-sexist-joke/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:24:36.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"brownbat","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"In addition to the review, provides a great picture of the future of SSDs, and a thorough explanation of why SATA and AHCI weren't sustainable choices given the low latency of SSDs.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7840973,"story_title":"Intel SSD DC P3700 (NVMe PCIe SSD) Review","story_url":"http://www.anandtech.com/show/8104/intel-ssd-dc-p3700-review-the-pcie-ssd-transition-begins-with-nvme","parent_id":7840973,"created_at_i":1401938676,"_tags":["comment","author_brownbat","story_7840973"],"objectID":"7850054","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"brownbat","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"In addition to the review, provides a great picture of the future of SSDs, and a thorough explanation of why SATA and AHCI weren't sustainable choices given the low latency of SSDs.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Intel SSD DC P3700 (NVMe PCIe SSD) Review","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.anandtech.com/show/8104/intel-ssd-dc-p3700-review-the-pcie-ssd-transition-begins-with-nvme","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:24:33.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"lnanek2","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"atto is about the closest their writing rules allow. It is all pairs like ka, ki, ko, ku, except for n. So all loan words have to be extended if they end illegally.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849715,"story_title":"At","story_url":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","parent_id":7849985,"created_at_i":1401938673,"_tags":["comment","author_lnanek2","story_7849715"],"objectID":"7850053","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"lnanek2","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"atto is about the closest their writing rules allow. It is all pairs like ka, ki, ko, ku, except for n. So all loan words have to be extended if they end illegally.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"At","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:24:13.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"Alupis","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"someone said there is already quicksort in the standard lib... so this code snippet is really only academic...","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849555,"story_title":"Quicksort in Swift","story_url":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","parent_id":7850040,"created_at_i":1401938653,"_tags":["comment","author_Alupis","story_7849555"],"objectID":"7850052","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"Alupis","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"someone said there is already quicksort in the standard lib... so this code snippet is really only academic...","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Quicksort in Swift","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:23:27.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"rrggrr","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Notify the manufacturer's products liability insurer through a respectable and concerned PI lawyer. Action will be swift.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849453,"story_title":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","story_url":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","parent_id":7849453,"created_at_i":1401938607,"_tags":["comment","author_rrggrr","story_7849453"],"objectID":"7850050","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"rrggrr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Notify the manufacturer's products liability insurer through a respectable and concerned PI lawyer. Action will be swift.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:51.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"wslh","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Bitcoin futures market? ;-)","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849893,"story_title":"Andreessen Horowitz Purchases Startup Accelerator Y Combinator For $266 Billion","story_url":"http://shrturl.co/BA9vk","parent_id":7849994,"created_at_i":1401938571,"_tags":["comment","author_wslh","story_7849893"],"objectID":"7850049","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"wslh","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Bitcoin futures market? ;-)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Andreessen Horowitz Purchases Startup Accelerator Y Combinator For $266 Billion","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://shrturl.co/BA9vk","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:49.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"RollAHardSix","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Start with a consonant, follow by a vowel, and being four syllables.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847709,"story_title":"Ask HN: How did you choose the name of your startup/product?","story_url":"","parent_id":7847709,"created_at_i":1401938569,"_tags":["comment","author_RollAHardSix","story_7847709"],"objectID":"7850048","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"RollAHardSix","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Start with a consonant, follow by a vowel, and being four syllables.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Ask HN: How did you choose the name of your startup/product?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"catshirt","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"you think the university board wouldn't appeal to a good argument? possible they are bluffing, but if they get the right response they may shut up.
i find it hard to believe they would be spiteful, but maybe i am being too optimistic.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849381,"story_title":"How my school rejected an app made for students","story_url":"http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story","parent_id":7849975,"created_at_i":1401938567,"_tags":["comment","author_catshirt","story_7849381"],"objectID":"7850047","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"catshirt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"you think the university board wouldn't appeal to a good argument? possible they are bluffing, but if they get the right response they may shut up.
i find it hard to believe they would be spiteful, but maybe i am being too optimistic.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"How my school rejected an app made for students","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:43.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"bgruber","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"there's also the 'intense pc' from compulab: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/ipc2/","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849215,"story_title":"World's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC","story_url":"http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/06/historic-moment-zotacs-fanless-zbox.html","parent_id":7849812,"created_at_i":1401938563,"_tags":["comment","author_bgruber","story_7849215"],"objectID":"7850046","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"bgruber","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"there's also the 'intense pc' from compulab: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/ipc2/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"World's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/06/historic-moment-zotacs-fanless-zbox.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:40.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"rlanday","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Why are you complaining on an American internet community about our choice of unit system and the terminology we use for naming different sports? The United States has distinct cultural features just like every other country. I waste a fair amount of time arguing on the internet, but I’ve never felt the need to find articles about European football and complain that people shouldn’t call soccer “football” because American football is better, that people who use the metric system feel compelled to tell other people they’re stupid for using different systems, and that Europeans are jerks for charging for restroom access and restaurants not giving free soda refills.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847082,"story_title":"NFL players: height and weight over time ","story_url":"http://noahveltman.com/nflplayers/","parent_id":7848594,"created_at_i":1401938560,"_tags":["comment","author_rlanday","story_7847082"],"objectID":"7850045","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"rlanday","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Why are you complaining on an American internet community about our choice of unit system and the terminology we use for naming different sports? The United States has distinct cultural features just like every other country. I waste a fair amount of time arguing on the internet, but I’ve never felt the need to find articles about European football and complain that people shouldn’t call soccer “football” because American football is better, that people who use the metric system feel compelled to tell other people they’re stupid for using different systems, and that Europeans are jerks for charging for restroom access and restaurants not giving free soda refills.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"NFL players: height and weight over time ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://noahveltman.com/nflplayers/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:31.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"gregrata","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Oh WAIT! It might be because I always have a RPG strapped to my back... ?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849755,"story_title":"Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware","story_url":"http://www.kltv.com/story/25635541/gun-homicides-down-dramatically-americans-unaware","parent_id":7850037,"created_at_i":1401938551,"_tags":["comment","author_gregrata","story_7849755"],"objectID":"7850044","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"gregrata","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Oh WAIT! It might be because I always have a RPG strapped to my back... ?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Gun homicides down dramatically, Americans unaware","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.kltv.com/story/25635541/gun-homicides-down-dramatically-americans-unaware","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:24.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"kosei","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"All I can think is how much longer it must be to speak tweets aloud in other languages. As opposed to "at Jim Lipsey, at Gruber, at Chockenberry, at The Talk Show", now it's "chee-o-cho-la Jim Lipsey, chee-o-cho-la Gruber..."
Sounds like a mouthful already.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849715,"story_title":"At","story_url":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","parent_id":7849715,"created_at_i":1401938544,"_tags":["comment","author_kosei","story_7849715"],"objectID":"7850043","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"kosei","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"All I can think is how much longer it must be to speak tweets aloud in other languages. As opposed to "at Jim Lipsey, at Gruber, at Chockenberry, at The Talk Show", now it's "chee-o-cho-la Jim Lipsey, chee-o-cho-la Gruber..."
Sounds like a mouthful already.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"At","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":1392018,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":3,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2012-03-23T19:19:37.000Z","title":"Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?","url":null,"author":"GreekOphion","points":2321,"story_text":"What's your favortie programming langauge?
Below are the most popular languages. If your favorite isn't below select other and comment what it is below.
Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":592,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1332530377,"_tags":["poll","author_GreekOphion","story_3746692"],"objectID":"3746692","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"GreekOphion","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"What's your favortie programming langauge?
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Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-21T01:41:19.000Z","title":"Poll: Where are you currently living?","url":null,"author":"Systemic33","points":1098,"story_text":"An interesting question, that was last asked according to search, 3,4 and respectively 5 years ago. [1,2,3]
Please read through the list, to find the choice that describes you the best.
I've tried to be more precise than just continents, but still not every country, but rather regions, more or less divided by culture.\\nI apologize if anyone feel left out, please leave a comment then with what region/country that you feel is significant enough to warrant it's own choice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640384
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235585
Remember to upvote the Poll itself, for better results.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":307,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1382319679,"_tags":["poll","author_Systemic33","story_6582647"],"objectID":"6582647","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Where are you currently living?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Systemic33","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"An interesting question, that was last asked according to search, 3,4 and respectively 5 years ago. [1,2,3]
Please read through the list, to find the choice that describes you the best.
I've tried to be more precise than just continents, but still not every country, but rather regions, more or less divided by culture.\\nI apologize if anyone feel left out, please leave a comment then with what region/country that you feel is significant enough to warrant it's own choice.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527681
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640384
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235585
Remember to upvote the Poll itself, for better results.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-04-02T08:23:08.000Z","title":"Poll: How long have you been programming?","url":null,"author":"michaelkscott","points":992,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":322,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1333354988,"_tags":["poll","author_michaelkscott","story_3786926"],"objectID":"3786926","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How long have you been programming?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"michaelkscott","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-12-01T08:57:22.000Z","title":"Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?","url":null,"author":"sasvari","points":764,"story_text":"So fellow HN readers, where have you set up your residence?
(I'm aware of the fact that the majority is located in the US, but it might still be interesting to see if the HN community is getting more international.)
(Edit: NYC and SF area choice; England -> UK; split up Asia;Australia/+Oceania)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":492,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1322729842,"_tags":["poll","author_sasvari","story_3298905"],"objectID":"3298905","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sasvari","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So fellow HN readers, where have you set up your residence?
(I'm aware of the fact that the majority is located in the US, but it might still be interesting to see if the HN community is getting more international.)
(Edit: NYC and SF area choice; England -> UK; split up Asia;Australia/+Oceania)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-11T23:17:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?","url":null,"author":"zitterbewegung","points":759,"story_text":"I think Hacker News should stand with reddit to go dark in support of SOPA. SOPA seems very important for the future of HN and startups associated with ycombinator.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":290,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326323859,"_tags":["poll","author_zitterbewegung","story_3454179"],"objectID":"3454179","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you think HN should go dark in protest of SOPA?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"zitterbewegung","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I think Hacker News should stand with reddit to go dark in support of SOPA. SOPA seems very important for the future of HN and startups associated with ycombinator.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-01T02:07:11.000Z","title":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?","url":null,"author":"kanzure","points":718,"story_text":"This poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
The previous polls seem to have topped out too low. So here we are again.
Specifically, base salary only. Pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":334,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370052431,"_tags":["poll","author_kanzure","story_5802295"],"objectID":"5802295","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kanzure","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
The previous polls seem to have topped out too low. So here we are again.
Specifically, base salary only. Pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-06-22T19:12:04.000Z","title":"Poll: What database does your company use?","url":null,"author":"daniel_levine","points":686,"story_text":"Upvote please if you think it's an interesting question so that more people will respond
Last year I asked this question (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937) and I think it was useful to a bunch of people. Figured it's worth asking again and the diffs will be interesting.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":358,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1308769924,"_tags":["poll","author_daniel_levine","story_2684620"],"objectID":"2684620","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What database does your company use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"daniel_levine","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Upvote please if you think it's an interesting question so that more people will respond
Last year I asked this question (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411937) and I think it was useful to a bunch of people. Figured it's worth asking again and the diffs will be interesting.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-10T12:40:26.000Z","title":"Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?","url":null,"author":"wting","points":683,"story_text":"This is a combination of these two polls:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692\\n https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961\\n https://i.imgur.com/toGKy21.jpg\\nThis poll also adds a few new choices: F#, Go, R, and Rust.
Vote as many choices as you'd like.
Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":468,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1381408826,"_tags":["poll","author_wting","story_6527104"],"objectID":"6527104","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What are your liked and disliked programming languages?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"wting","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This is a combination of these two polls:
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Note: By voting for a language you are not up voting this poll. Please up vote this poll to keep it alive.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-05-29T01:13:53.000Z","title":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","url":null,"author":"pg","points":606,"story_text":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of\\npeople have complained that without comment scores it's harder to\\npick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now\\nyou have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with\\nsufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for\\nitself despite seeing the score.
Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.\\nI'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":280,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1306631633,"_tags":["poll","author_pg","story_2595605"],"objectID":"2595605","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of\\npeople have complained that without comment scores it's harder to\\npick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now\\nyou have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with\\nsufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for\\nitself despite seeing the score.
Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.\\nI'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-14T12:26:33.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you test your code?","url":null,"author":"petenixey","points":605,"story_text":"Do you have tests that run every time you push and ensure that the functionality on your site works?
There's always a lot of debate around testing and I'm interested to see how much people do and how satisfied they are with it
IF YOU'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO ANSWER, PLEASE UPVOTE - TY","comment_text":null,"num_comments":344,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1331727993,"_tags":["poll","author_petenixey","story_3702827"],"objectID":"3702827","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you test your code?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"petenixey","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Do you have tests that run every time you push and ensure that the functionality on your site works?
There's always a lot of debate around testing and I'm interested to see how much people do and how satisfied they are with it
IF YOU'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO ANSWER, PLEASE UPVOTE - TY","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-29T14:46:34.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?","url":null,"author":"jader201","points":538,"story_text":"I know that a lot of Hackers frequent Stack Overflow, so I am curious as to how much actual participation there is from Hackers on SO, and what the general reputation of Hackers is.
I think it would be particularly interesting to cross reference these results with the \"What's Your Favorite Programming Language?\" [1] poll. Unfortunately, that would require way too many options. :)
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
Note: please don't forget to vote the poll itself up if you find it valuable/interesting, in order to gather other participation.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":197,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1333032394,"_tags":["poll","author_jader201","story_3771286"],"objectID":"3771286","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jader201","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I know that a lot of Hackers frequent Stack Overflow, so I am curious as to how much actual participation there is from Hackers on SO, and what the general reputation of Hackers is.
I think it would be particularly interesting to cross reference these results with the \"What's Your Favorite Programming Language?\" [1] poll. Unfortunately, that would require way too many options. :)
[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692
Note: please don't forget to vote the poll itself up if you find it valuable/interesting, in order to gather other participation.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-04-02T07:03:58.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your primary operating system","url":null,"author":"kamechan","points":508,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":453,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1333350238,"_tags":["poll","author_kamechan","story_3786674"],"objectID":"3786674","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your primary operating system","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kamechan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-01T14:50:58.000Z","title":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?","url":null,"author":"basicallydan","points":469,"story_text":"Inpsired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, this poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in London, UK.
Base salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":403,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370098258,"_tags":["poll","author_basicallydan","story_5804134"],"objectID":"5804134","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"basicallydan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Inpsired by the poll of SF & the Bay Area, this poll is targeting current full-time software engineers and software developers in London, UK.
Base salary only, pre-tax. No options, shares, bonuses, adjustments for inflation, or benefits.
(Don't forget to up-vote the poll to get more data.)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-16T20:57:17.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?","url":null,"author":"codegeek","points":448,"story_text":"Always wondered about this. Real identity means that you have your real name/contact info in your profile even if you username is generic
Please upvote the post as well for others to see if you can.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":290,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1368737837,"_tags":["poll","author_codegeek","story_5721087"],"objectID":"5721087","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you use your real identity on HN?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"codegeek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Always wondered about this. Real identity means that you have your real name/contact info in your profile even if you username is generic
Please upvote the post as well for others to see if you can.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-05-16T15:07:24.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you support software patents?","url":null,"author":"robryan","points":427,"story_text":"Given the amount of recent (and ongoing) controversy about software patents it is interesting to see how the hacker news community, those who are generally doers, feel about them.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":309,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1305558444,"_tags":["poll","author_robryan","story_2552740"],"objectID":"2552740","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you support software patents?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"robryan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Given the amount of recent (and ongoing) controversy about software patents it is interesting to see how the hacker news community, those who are generally doers, feel about them.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-29T14:47:55.000Z","title":"Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?","url":null,"author":"ColinWright","points":424,"story_text":"One thing that bugs me about HN is the apparently endless repetition of stories. When something is interesting it gets taken up by several \"sources\" and then each of these is dutifully submitted by multiple people.
This has some undesirable consequences. One is that it dilutes the \"newest\" page. That I don't mind so much. What bothers me more is that otherwise interesting discussion gets split over multiple pages, and the same points get made in each discussion, with some non-overlap.
I sometimes revert to my native \"engineer\" mode and try to do something to fix this. Usually I put cross-references into one or the other so point people to where the discussion is, or might be. Some people don't like this and down-vote them. Others do like this and up-vote them. most people don't seem to care.
I really don't mind the constant dribble of down-votes that I get for trying to prevent the splitting of discussions, but I do care that I'm not seen to be harming the \"community\".
Hence this poll.
What, if anything, should be done about the incessant repetition of stories?
PS: If you care enough to vote, please upvote the item so people get a chance to see it. If you think I'm karma-whoring and you want to punish me for that, find some of my comments and downvote them as scapegoats.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":149,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311950875,"_tags":["poll","author_ColinWright","story_2822041"],"objectID":"2822041","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What should be done about the endless repetition of stories?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ColinWright","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"One thing that bugs me about HN is the apparently endless repetition of stories. When something is interesting it gets taken up by several \"sources\" and then each of these is dutifully submitted by multiple people.
This has some undesirable consequences. One is that it dilutes the \"newest\" page. That I don't mind so much. What bothers me more is that otherwise interesting discussion gets split over multiple pages, and the same points get made in each discussion, with some non-overlap.
I sometimes revert to my native \"engineer\" mode and try to do something to fix this. Usually I put cross-references into one or the other so point people to where the discussion is, or might be. Some people don't like this and down-vote them. Others do like this and up-vote them. most people don't seem to care.
I really don't mind the constant dribble of down-votes that I get for trying to prevent the splitting of discussions, but I do care that I'm not seen to be harming the \"community\".
Hence this poll.
What, if anything, should be done about the incessant repetition of stories?
PS: If you care enough to vote, please upvote the item so people get a chance to see it. If you think I'm karma-whoring and you want to punish me for that, find some of my comments and downvote them as scapegoats.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-14T01:25:43.000Z","title":"Poll: Display points on comments?","url":null,"author":"pg","points":421,"story_text":"My goal in not showing points on comments was to prevent the sort of contentious exchanges where people (in this case literally) try to score points off one another. I feel like it has done that to some extent, but at a cost in other areas. So which do you prefer?
Here's the earlier thread about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716","comment_text":null,"num_comments":304,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1302744343,"_tags":["poll","author_pg","story_2445039"],"objectID":"2445039","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Display points on comments?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"My goal in not showing points on comments was to prevent the sort of contentious exchanges where people (in this case literally) try to score points off one another. I feel like it has done that to some extent, but at a cost in other areas. So which do you prefer?
Here's the earlier thread about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403716","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-19T22:17:02.000Z","title":"Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?","url":null,"author":"daenz","points":416,"story_text":"On Reddit, just from this month alone, there have been some great AMAs that I personally think HN would be great participants in:
Stevin Levitt from Freakonomics http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18tp7t/i_am_steven_levitt_author_of_freakonomics_ask_me/
Bill Gates http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/
Peter Sunde of ThePirateBay http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/187iwo/i_am_peter_sunde_cofounder_of_tpb_ama/
SpaceX Software Engineers http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_software_engineers_we_launch/
Do you think this this is something we could start on HackerNews?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":177,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1361312222,"_tags":["poll","author_daenz","story_5247444"],"objectID":"5247444","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would HN benefit from Reddit's AMA-style posts from technologists?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"daenz","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"On Reddit, just from this month alone, there have been some great AMAs that I personally think HN would be great participants in:
Stevin Levitt from Freakonomics http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18tp7t/i_am_steven_levitt_author_of_freakonomics_ask_me/
Bill Gates http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/
Peter Sunde of ThePirateBay http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/187iwo/i_am_peter_sunde_cofounder_of_tpb_ama/
SpaceX Software Engineers http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1853ap/we_are_spacex_software_engineers_we_launch/
Do you think this this is something we could start on HackerNews?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-11-27T22:09:56.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you select text while reading?","url":null,"author":"cpeterso","points":377,"story_text":"I am surprised at how many people, like me, who select text to highlight what they are reading. Some reasons include tracking your reading position, increasing text contrast, or as an \"intra-page\" bookmark. If these are common actions, perhaps browsers (or add-ons) can provide purpose-built features for these functions.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":363,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1354054196,"_tags":["poll","author_cpeterso","story_4839436"],"objectID":"4839436","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you select text while reading?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"cpeterso","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am surprised at how many people, like me, who select text to highlight what they are reading. Some reasons include tracking your reading position, increasing text contrast, or as an \"intra-page\" bookmark. If these are common actions, perhaps browsers (or add-ons) can provide purpose-built features for these functions.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-24T09:59:50.000Z","title":"Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?","url":null,"author":"mrspeaker","points":349,"story_text":"Which programming language makes you most sad/angry/annoyed/... - add a note in any comments on the language you most like, so we can do some correlation.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":356,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1332583190,"_tags":["poll","author_mrspeaker","story_3748961"],"objectID":"3748961","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What's Your Most Disliked Programming Language?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mrspeaker","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Which programming language makes you most sad/angry/annoyed/... - add a note in any comments on the language you most like, so we can do some correlation.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":1178,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":1,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=poll"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-06-04T17:24:10.000Z","title":"Poll: Does your company have a hack time?","url":null,"author":"gk1","points":1,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401902650,"_tags":["poll","author_gk1","story_7846867"],"objectID":"7846867","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Does your company have a hack time?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"gk1","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-31T23:05:47.000Z","title":"Poll: Designers, do you have a design degree?","url":null,"author":"OafTobark","points":2,"story_text":"My wife is debating on whether or not to go back to school for design. She knows how to do decent enough web design and some photo editing via photoshop but feels she needs to both learn more and/or potentially get a degree. Anyone have any advice for her if you are a designer?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401577547,"_tags":["poll","author_OafTobark","story_7827570"],"objectID":"7827570","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Designers, do you have a design degree?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"OafTobark","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"My wife is debating on whether or not to go back to school for design. She knows how to do decent enough web design and some photo editing via photoshop but feels she needs to both learn more and/or potentially get a degree. Anyone have any advice for her if you are a designer?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-30T14:00:42.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","url":null,"author":"will_brown","points":89,"story_text":"Not just a poll for startup founders. More generally, if you are a consultant, take contract work, or are an independent contractor have you taken the step to incorporate or organize a LLC for legal protection, or any other reason? Please leave comments about your specific situation.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":116,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401458442,"_tags":["poll","author_will_brown","story_7821808"],"objectID":"7821808","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you have your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"will_brown","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Not just a poll for startup founders. More generally, if you are a consultant, take contract work, or are an independent contractor have you taken the step to incorporate or organize a LLC for legal protection, or any other reason? Please leave comments about your specific situation.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-29T21:51:20.000Z","title":"Poll: Unban TempleOS?","url":null,"author":"jacquesm","points":86,"story_text":"Today after reading the article on Emperor Norton a parallel with SF/HN, Emperor Norton and Terry Davis struck me.
More and more HN'ers are re-posting his writings and even if they upset some I suspect that we could survive if we let Terry post as a regular account. Sometimes he has good points to make and he's an interesting fellow, and more of a genuine hacker than many here can lay claim to. All those who wrote an operating system from scratch please raise your hand... He's not always equally easy to follow, sometimes downright offensive but it's all just bits. Since I browse with 'showdead' on it makes little difference to me but I suspect it will make a huge difference for Terry, as far as I can see he means absolutely no harm.
So I propose we re-instate TempleOS as a full member, if that has popular support and dang agrees.
I recognize HN is not a democracy and that the 'management' has every right to ignore this petition if the answer is positive.
If you vote in the poll remember that is not the same as voting for the poll.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":88,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401400280,"_tags":["poll","author_jacquesm","story_7818823"],"objectID":"7818823","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Unban TempleOS?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jacquesm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Today after reading the article on Emperor Norton a parallel with SF/HN, Emperor Norton and Terry Davis struck me.
More and more HN'ers are re-posting his writings and even if they upset some I suspect that we could survive if we let Terry post as a regular account. Sometimes he has good points to make and he's an interesting fellow, and more of a genuine hacker than many here can lay claim to. All those who wrote an operating system from scratch please raise your hand... He's not always equally easy to follow, sometimes downright offensive but it's all just bits. Since I browse with 'showdead' on it makes little difference to me but I suspect it will make a huge difference for Terry, as far as I can see he means absolutely no harm.
So I propose we re-instate TempleOS as a full member, if that has popular support and dang agrees.
I recognize HN is not a democracy and that the 'management' has every right to ignore this petition if the answer is positive.
If you vote in the poll remember that is not the same as voting for the poll.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-29T01:33:20.000Z","title":"Poll: what is your hourly contracting rate?","url":null,"author":"mkempe","points":4,"story_text":"Criteria: 3+ months relationship with your client. Software engineers and UX/UI designers only.
What is your hourly USD rate, or your daily/weekly converted-to-hourly rate?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401327200,"_tags":["poll","author_mkempe","story_7814121"],"objectID":"7814121","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: what is your hourly contracting rate?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mkempe","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Criteria: 3+ months relationship with your client. Software engineers and UX/UI designers only.
What is your hourly USD rate, or your daily/weekly converted-to-hourly rate?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-28T15:19:31.000Z","title":"Poll: which programming language you love?","url":null,"author":"justplay","points":2,"story_text":"Tip: Use ctrl/cmd + f to find language","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401290371,"_tags":["poll","author_justplay","story_7810423"],"objectID":"7810423","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: which programming language you love?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"justplay","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Tip: Use ctrl/cmd + f to find language","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-23T22:10:11.000Z","title":"Poll: Where do you host your production environments?","url":null,"author":"joshmn","points":69,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":97,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400883011,"_tags":["poll","author_joshmn","story_7791612"],"objectID":"7791612","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Where do you host your production environments?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"joshmn","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-20T21:05:00.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you use marijuana","url":null,"author":"evo_9","points":79,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":108,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400619900,"_tags":["poll","author_evo_9","story_7775173"],"objectID":"7775173","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you use marijuana","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"evo_9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T22:35:18.000Z","title":"Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?","url":null,"author":"plg","points":40,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":118,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400538918,"_tags":["poll","author_plg","story_7770171"],"objectID":"7770171","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"plg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T02:44:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","url":null,"author":"hodgesmr","points":1,"story_text":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400467479,"_tags":["poll","author_hodgesmr","story_7765404"],"objectID":"7765404","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hodgesmr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T19:27:36.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you regret not going to college or university?","url":null,"author":"coffeecodecouch","points":15,"story_text":"Those who chose not to go to college or university after high school, do you regret that decision?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":16,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400095656,"_tags":["poll","author_coffeecodecouch","story_7745750"],"objectID":"7745750","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you regret not going to college or university?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"coffeecodecouch","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Those who chose not to go to college or university after high school, do you regret that decision?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-14T17:38:50.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you Tweet?","url":null,"author":"codegeek","points":2,"story_text":"I never got the hang of twitter even though twitter's value cannot be undermined in today's world specially in media,communication etc. Just wondering what HN folks are upto with twitter ? If you do tweet, what kind of stuff are you tweeting ?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400089130,"_tags":["poll","author_codegeek","story_7744978"],"objectID":"7744978","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you Tweet?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"codegeek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I never got the hang of twitter even though twitter's value cannot be undermined in today's world specially in media,communication etc. Just wondering what HN folks are upto with twitter ? If you do tweet, what kind of stuff are you tweeting ?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-13T03:19:42.000Z","title":"Poll: Are you married?","url":null,"author":"Walkman","points":5,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":4,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399951182,"_tags":["poll","author_Walkman","story_7736452"],"objectID":"7736452","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Are you married?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Walkman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-11T20:50:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Are you burnt out?","url":null,"author":"ShaneCurran","points":9,"story_text":"This is a question that gets asked quite regularly here on HN and I think it would be interesting to see what kind of results we can gather.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":9,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399841422,"_tags":["poll","author_ShaneCurran","story_7729935"],"objectID":"7729935","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Are you burnt out?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ShaneCurran","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This is a question that gets asked quite regularly here on HN and I think it would be interesting to see what kind of results we can gather.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-11T19:27:56.000Z","title":"Poll: What database does your company/you use?","url":null,"author":"roryhughes","points":210,"story_text":"Please upvote this if you would like to see more people take the poll.
This has been asked on occasion in the past but like all things, database preference/technology changes quickly. Let's see what people are using today.
If you think I've left out an important one, leave a comment and I will try and edit the post.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":99,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399836476,"_tags":["poll","author_roryhughes","story_7729603"],"objectID":"7729603","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What database does your company/you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"roryhughes","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Please upvote this if you would like to see more people take the poll.
This has been asked on occasion in the past but like all things, database preference/technology changes quickly. Let's see what people are using today.
If you think I've left out an important one, leave a comment and I will try and edit the post.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-10T06:11:21.000Z","title":"Poll: Which is your primary browser?","url":null,"author":"Walkman","points":2,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399702281,"_tags":["poll","author_Walkman","story_7724663"],"objectID":"7724663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which is your primary browser?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Walkman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-08T02:25:42.000Z","title":"Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?","url":null,"author":"plg","points":48,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":86,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399515942,"_tags":["poll","author_plg","story_7713656"],"objectID":"7713656","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: what smartphone do you use as your primary smartphone?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"plg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-06T21:45:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Would you take $10M now or start your own company?","url":null,"author":"Walkman","points":36,"story_text":"In the series 'Silicon Valley' Richard get an option to choose between $10 million dollar right now for his algorithm, or get some seed money ($200,000) and all the help for 5% to start his own company.\\nWhich type are you? Please elaborate!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":59,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1399412722,"_tags":["poll","author_Walkman","story_7707275"],"objectID":"7707275","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would you take $10M now or start your own company?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Walkman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"In the series 'Silicon Valley' Richard get an option to choose between $10 million dollar right now for his algorithm, or get some seed money ($200,000) and all the help for 5% to start his own company.\\nWhich type are you? Please elaborate!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-05T20:56:13.000Z","title":"Poll: How do you manage your passwords?","url":null,"author":"malanj","points":24,"story_text":"I used to memorize a few passwords; mentally graded as "very secure" (for things like my Google Apps and my laptop's disk encryption password), "somewhat secure" (for services like DropBox or HipChat) and then "probably insecure" (for services like Facebook or Skype). Recently I decided that the approach is simply too insecure and started using 1Password to create and manage strong, unique, passwords for every service that I used.
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I've spent many hours over the past several years trying to understand and mitigate such problems. I've come up with a bunch of tweaks that worked, and I have hopes I'll be able to come up with more.
The idea I'm currently investigating, in case anyone is curious, is that votes rather than comments may be the easiest place to attack this problem. Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work. So I'm going to try to see if it's possible to identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments and if so count their votes less.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4396747,"story_title":"Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..","story_url":"","parent_id":4396747,"created_at_i":1345224032,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4396747"],"objectID":"4397542","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It's a genuine problem and has been growing gradually worse for a while. I think the cause is simply growth. When a good community grows, it becomes worse in two ways: (a) more recent arrivals don't have as much of whatever quality distinguished the original members, and (b) the large size of the group makes people behave worse, because there is more anonymity in a larger group.
I've spent many hours over the past several years trying to understand and mitigate such problems. I've come up with a bunch of tweaks that worked, and I have hopes I'll be able to come up with more.
The idea I'm currently investigating, in case anyone is curious, is that votes rather than comments may be the easiest place to attack this problem. Although snarky comments themselves are the most obvious symptom, I suspect that voting is on average dumber than commenting, because it requires so much less work. So I'm going to try to see if it's possible to identify people who consistently upvote nasty comments and if so count their votes less.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-12T06:54:37.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":260,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change.
However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5536734,"story_title":"Poll: What is your age? ","story_url":null,"parent_id":5536734,"created_at_i":1365749677,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5536734"],"objectID":"5537023","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change.
However, it's an ill wind that blows no good. When I'm done reading applications, I'll add a little tweak to HN to make the fonts super big for all the users over 80.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Poll: What is your age? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-08T06:18:50.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":257,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality.
Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3678744,"story_title":"Viral Video About Body Scanners","story_url":"http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners.html","parent_id":3678744,"created_at_i":1331187530,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3678744"],"objectID":"3678796","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality.
Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Viral Video About Body Scanners","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.tsa.gov/2012/03/viral-video-about-body-scanners.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-14T03:14:06.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":256,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mistake to alienate the sort of people Quora has been alienating by doing this, even if they end up numerically ahead in the short term.
I'm one of them. Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site. Every time it happens, I dislike them more, and become more resistant to creating an account. I now think of it as a site for other people, who are willing to put up with the stuff they do. I'm pleased to find there are others like me.
I like Adam, but I wish he'd stop doing this.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5217052,"story_title":"I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora","story_url":"http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IdLikeToUseTheWebMyWayThankYouVeryMuchQuora.aspx","parent_id":5217052,"created_at_i":1360811646,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5217052"],"objectID":"5217449","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I think Adam's mistake here is to go too much by the numbers. He presumably has numbers that show that Quora ends up net ahead if they force people to create accounts to read answers. He grew Facebook very effectively by following the numbers. But he may not realize how different this case is from Facebook's. It may well be that for a site like Quora, at this stage in its life, users are not all equal. It may be a mistake to alienate the sort of people Quora has been alienating by doing this, even if they end up numerically ahead in the short term.
I'm one of them. Quora has now spent several years training me to be bummed out every time I click on a link to their site. Every time it happens, I dislike them more, and become more resistant to creating an account. I now think of it as a site for other people, who are willing to put up with the stuff they do. I'm pleased to find there are others like me.
I like Adam, but I wish he'd stop doing this.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IdLikeToUseTheWebMyWayThankYouVeryMuchQuora.aspx","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-03-11T19:10:26.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":245,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine.","num_comments":null,"story_id":512145,"story_title":"Why HN is slow lately","story_url":"","parent_id":512145,"created_at_i":1236798626,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_512145"],"objectID":"512280","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Ok, ok, enough Erlang submissions. You guys are like the crowdsourced version of one of those troublesome overliteral genies. I meant more that it would be better not to submit and upvote the fluffier type of link. Without those we'll be fine.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Why HN is slow lately","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-07-22T06:50:33.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":225,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You have to consider the number of users. HN now gets 60k unique visitors on weekdays. That's a decent sized stadium full of people. Of course they seem overwhelming collectively, but most individuals are only experts in a few areas.
If it makes you feel any better, my biggest worry about this site is the opposite: that the median awesomeness is decreasing as the number of users increases.
If you want to feel less overwhelmed, try reading the comments starting at the bottom of the page instead of the top.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1537461,"story_title":"Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?","story_url":"","parent_id":1537461,"created_at_i":1279781433,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_1537461"],"objectID":"1537527","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You have to consider the number of users. HN now gets 60k unique visitors on weekdays. That's a decent sized stadium full of people. Of course they seem overwhelming collectively, but most individuals are only experts in a few areas.
If it makes you feel any better, my biggest worry about this site is the opposite: that the median awesomeness is decreasing as the number of users increases.
If you want to feel less overwhelmed, try reading the comments starting at the bottom of the page instead of the top.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Ask HN: Does reading HN ever make you feel like shit?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-06-03T17:08:29.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":223,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Thanks to dfranke for giving us time to release a fix, and in fact writing part of it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":639976,"story_title":"How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)","story_url":"","parent_id":639976,"created_at_i":1244048909,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_639976"],"objectID":"640021","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Thanks to dfranke for giving us time to release a fix, and in fact writing part of it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-24T21:34:05.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":222,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Unfortunately it's true. I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says \"He died peacefully in his sleep last night.\"","num_comments":null,"story_id":3151233,"story_title":"John McCarthy Has Died","story_url":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)","parent_id":3151233,"created_at_i":1319492045,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3151233"],"objectID":"3151705","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Unfortunately it's true. I just heard back from Peter Norvig, who says \"He died peacefully in his sleep last night.\"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"John McCarthy Has Died","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-15T19:01:39.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":197,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"We're investigating. It will take at least a couple days,\nbecause we'll need to meet with the founders in person.
FWIW, the install window Patrick overlaid on top of InstallMonetizer's site in that screenshot is not actually InstallMonetizer.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5059806,"story_title":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","story_url":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","parent_id":5059806,"created_at_i":1358276499,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5059806"],"objectID":"5062133","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"We're investigating. It will take at least a couple days,\nbecause we'll need to meet with the founders in person.
FWIW, the install window Patrick overlaid on top of InstallMonetizer's site in that screenshot is not actually InstallMonetizer.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.istartedsomething.com/20130115/y-combinator-is-funding-the-future-of-spam-in-windows-drive-by-crapware-installers/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-12-22T18:59:57.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":192,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3381822,"story_title":"GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes \"Move your Domain Day\"","story_url":"http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/","parent_id":3382735,"created_at_i":1324580397,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3381822"],"objectID":"3382765","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Actually that's exactly what I thought when I saw the list yesterday. Several of those companies send people to Demo Day, and when I saw the list I thought: we should stop inviting them. So yes, we'll remove anyone from those companies from the Demo Day invite list.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"GoDaddy supports SOPA, redditor proposes \"Move your Domain Day\"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/nmnie/godaddy_supports_sopa_im_transferring_51_domains/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-03-16T02:47:05.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":192,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Don't worry, it doesn't mean anything. The software for ranking applications runs on the same server, and it is horribly inefficient (something 4 people use every 6 months doesn't tend to get optimized much). This weekend all of us were reading applications at the same time, and the system was getting so slow that I banned crawlers for a bit to buy us some margin. (Traffic from crawlers is much more expensive for us than traffic from human users, because it interacts badly with lazy item loading.) We only finished reading applications an hour before I had to leave for SXSW, so I forgot to set robots.txt back to the normal one, but I just did now.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1194421,"story_title":"Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines","story_url":"http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt","parent_id":1194421,"created_at_i":1268707625,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_1194421"],"objectID":"1194797","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Don't worry, it doesn't mean anything. The software for ranking applications runs on the same server, and it is horribly inefficient (something 4 people use every 6 months doesn't tend to get optimized much). This weekend all of us were reading applications at the same time, and the system was getting so slow that I banned crawlers for a bit to buy us some margin. (Traffic from crawlers is much more expensive for us than traffic from human users, because it interacts badly with lazy item loading.) We only finished reading applications an hour before I had to leave for SXSW, so I forgot to set robots.txt back to the normal one, but I just did now.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Hacker News bans Google and all other search engines","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-12-09T05:12:56.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":187,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Among other things, this is the tipping point for how Snowden will be viewed.
If all these powerful companies agree, in an unprecedented show of unanimity, that this is an important problem, then Snowden is ipso facto a hero for bringing it to our attention.
The curious thing is, I feel the linkage works in the other direction too. If Snowden had been caught and was now having his brains scrambled by solitary confinement in some secret prison, these companies would have been at least slightly more reluctant to issue such a statement, because it would have seemed to be espousing the cause of someone people were hearing described on the news as a criminal.
Snowden made his disclosures much more effective by escaping.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6872856,"story_title":"Reform Government Surveillance","story_url":"http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/","parent_id":6872856,"created_at_i":1386565976,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_6872856"],"objectID":"6872899","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Among other things, this is the tipping point for how Snowden will be viewed.
If all these powerful companies agree, in an unprecedented show of unanimity, that this is an important problem, then Snowden is ipso facto a hero for bringing it to our attention.
The curious thing is, I feel the linkage works in the other direction too. If Snowden had been caught and was now having his brains scrambled by solitary confinement in some secret prison, these companies would have been at least slightly more reluctant to issue such a statement, because it would have seemed to be espousing the cause of someone people were hearing described on the news as a criminal.
Snowden made his disclosures much more effective by escaping.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Reform Government Surveillance","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-20T22:50:13.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":184,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Incidentally, Paul Buchheit deserves all the credit for this idea. The YC partners were having lunch yesterday and he suggested posting this RFS. Whereupon we all turned to Jessica, who is usually the one who talks us out of doing crazy things. I was kind of surprised she didn't try to talk us out of it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3491542,"story_title":"Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.","story_url":"http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html","parent_id":3491542,"created_at_i":1327099813,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_3491542"],"objectID":"3491584","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Incidentally, Paul Buchheit deserves all the credit for this idea. The YC partners were having lunch yesterday and he suggested posting this RFS. Whereupon we all turned to Jessica, who is usually the one who talks us out of doing crazy things. I was kind of surprised she didn't try to talk us out of it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-15T21:17:27.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":179,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5714197,"story_title":"Send money with Gmail","story_url":"http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/","parent_id":5714197,"created_at_i":1368652647,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5714197"],"objectID":"5715001","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I think this is going to be really big. But it might require actual customer service; that must have made them think twice.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Send money with Gmail","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.google.com/wallet/send-money/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-11-19T02:13:12.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":177,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"My life has been a search for quiet for as long as I can remember.
I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking.
When I was living in Providence, working on On Lisp, I told my loud but well-meaning neighbors that I was writing a hard computer book, and that made them be quiet. Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework. What they don't grasp is that someone would want their mind to work that way all the time, as a matter of course.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4802118,"story_title":"The Quiet Ones","story_url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all","parent_id":4802118,"created_at_i":1353291192,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4802118"],"objectID":"4802581","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"My life has been a search for quiet for as long as I can remember.
I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is not that they're inconsiderate, but that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt, and they thus don't realize the havoc they're wreaking.
When I was living in Providence, working on On Lisp, I told my loud but well-meaning neighbors that I was writing a hard computer book, and that made them be quiet. Ordinary people can understand that you need quiet if you're working on some specific, hard task, like doing math homework. What they don't grasp is that someone would want their mind to work that way all the time, as a matter of course.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"The Quiet Ones","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/opinion/sunday/the-quiet-ones.html?pagewanted=all","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-10-27T18:08:02.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":175,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Don't worry, these things always run their course. At least this is driven by generosity. Plus you have to admit it's sort of interesting to watch new forms of internet behavior evolve.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1839723,"story_title":"Tell HN: Please stop offering your services","story_url":"","parent_id":1839723,"created_at_i":1288202882,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_1839723"],"objectID":"1839740","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Don't worry, these things always run their course. At least this is driven by generosity. Plus you have to admit it's sort of interesting to watch new forms of internet behavior evolve.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Tell HN: Please stop offering your services","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-24T20:26:45.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":171,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5603675,"story_title":"Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills","story_url":"http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab","parent_id":5603675,"created_at_i":1366835205,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_5603675"],"objectID":"5603742","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Spark Capital will now pay their own legal bills","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://nabeelhyatt.com/post/48791551517/picking-up-our-own-tab","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-07-09T15:52:16.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":168,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"\"And most importantly, drive.\"
This advice is disastrously wrong. That's not how YC interviews work. They're interviews, not presentations. We want random access to your thoughts, not to listen to a single path through them, prepared in advance.
When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're determined to stick to, things usually end badly.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4218178,"story_title":"What We Should Have Said To PG","story_url":"http://blog.rocketr.com/what-we-should-have-said-to-pg/","parent_id":4218178,"created_at_i":1341849136,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4218178"],"objectID":"4218716","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"\"And most importantly, drive.\"
This advice is disastrously wrong. That's not how YC interviews work. They're interviews, not presentations. We want random access to your thoughts, not to listen to a single path through them, prepared in advance.
When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're determined to stick to, things usually end badly.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"What We Should Have Said To PG","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.rocketr.com/what-we-should-have-said-to-pg/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-10-22T21:50:38.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"pg","points":165,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Convenient that we're too backward to use AWS. That means everyone can at least talk about it here when AWS is down.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4684384,"story_title":"Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others","story_url":"http://status.aws.amazon.com/?t","parent_id":4684384,"created_at_i":1350942638,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_4684384"],"objectID":"4685737","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Convenient that we're too backward to use AWS. That means everyone can at least talk about it here when AWS is down.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Amazon EC2 currently down. 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I saw some example code around 7 years ago, but I don't remember it well.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494055,"created_at_i":1396137474,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494520","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I know almost nothing about Clojure. I saw some example code around 7 years ago, but I don't remember it well.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:43:35.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":8,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494102,"created_at_i":1396129415,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494119","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:29:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":11,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Actually we're pretty sure there is less of that now than a couple years ago, because Daniel has written some amazingly effective software for detecting it.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7494031,"created_at_i":1396128587,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494059","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Actually we're pretty sure there is less of that now than a couple years ago, because Daniel has written some amazingly effective software for detecting it.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:22:59.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":10,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It's ok to ask something of general interest. The point is that HN is not YC customer support.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493987,"created_at_i":1396128179,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7494011","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It's ok to ask something of general interest. The point is that HN is not YC customer support.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T21:19:20.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":18,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'm going to keep writing essays. I don't usually decide what to write very far in advance though.
Yes, I'll be working on Arc again. (I've been working in Arc regularly, since HN is written in it, but I haven't been able to spend much time thinking about the core language for the last 5 years or so.)","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493927,"created_at_i":1396127960,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493993","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'm going to keep writing essays. I don't usually decide what to write very far in advance though.
Yes, I'll be working on Arc again. (I've been working in Arc regularly, since HN is written in it, but I haven't been able to spend much time thinking about the core language for the last 5 years or so.)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:57:50.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":16,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"YC doesn't have budgets.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493883,"created_at_i":1396126670,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493897","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"YC doesn't have budgets.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:56:24.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":37,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"What I was doing before I started YC: writing and programming.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493884,"created_at_i":1396126584,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493891","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"What I was doing before I started YC: writing and programming.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:51:11.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":14,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Good point; added them.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7493856,"story_title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","story_url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","parent_id":7493870,"created_at_i":1396126271,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493874","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Good point; added them.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T07:03:18.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":2,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Seems unlikely. YC doesn't need the money, so it would just be a distraction.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7481160,"story_title":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","story_url":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","parent_id":7484268,"created_at_i":1395990198,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7481160"],"objectID":"7485734","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Seems unlikely. YC doesn't need the money, so it would just be a distraction.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T07:01:02.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"It depends on what the company is building. Some things take a long time to launch. With others it's a bad sign if the company takes more than a month or two to launch.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7481160,"story_title":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","story_url":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","parent_id":7484911,"created_at_i":1395990062,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7481160"],"objectID":"7485725","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It depends on what the company is building. Some things take a long time to launch. 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It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the mostly highly valued companies are never the recent ones.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7481160,"story_title":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","story_url":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","parent_id":7484161,"created_at_i":1395989934,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7481160"],"objectID":"7485722","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I mentioned those because they have the highest valuations. It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the mostly highly valued companies are never the recent ones.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://sandersak.posthaven.com/after-reviewing-about-30-yc-apps-heres-some-general-advice","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T06:43:27.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":12,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Oops, I get it now. It should decrease the sort of comment people attack HN for, but that wasn't the purpose of it. Those comments are just a subset of the more general problem of users saying mean and/or stupid things about any topic.
The real motivation for pending comments, incidentally, was simply that I found, as a user, that I didn't like reading comment threads as much as I used to. HN was an instance of me following the advice I often give founders: to build something you yourself want.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485658,"created_at_i":1395989007,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485690","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Oops, I get it now. It should decrease the sort of comment people attack HN for, but that wasn't the purpose of it. Those comments are just a subset of the more general problem of users saying mean and/or stupid things about any topic.
The real motivation for pending comments, incidentally, was simply that I found, as a user, that I didn't like reading comment threads as much as I used to. HN was an instance of me following the advice I often give founders: to build something you yourself want.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T05:59:20.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":13,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"If our goal were to decrease criticism of YC, this wouldn't work. In fact, it wouldn't work as a way to eliminate any specific type of critical comment, because all it takes to make a comment visible is a small number of the many people who can endorse comments. To ensure a comment would be suppressed, the endorsers would have to be unanimously opposed to it, and it's hard to think of opinions that many HN users are unanimous about. Certainly an uncritical admiration for YC is not one of them.
What you say about YC being a good target for a symbolic victory is very insightful though. That is a real conundrum. I think it explains why any company over a certain size tends to express itself pretty blandly.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485532,"created_at_i":1395986360,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485590","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"If our goal were to decrease criticism of YC, this wouldn't work. In fact, it wouldn't work as a way to eliminate any specific type of critical comment, because all it takes to make a comment visible is a small number of the many people who can endorse comments. To ensure a comment would be suppressed, the endorsers would have to be unanimously opposed to it, and it's hard to think of opinions that many HN users are unanimous about. Certainly an uncritical admiration for YC is not one of them.
What you say about YC being a good target for a symbolic victory is very insightful though. That is a real conundrum. I think it explains why any company over a certain size tends to express itself pretty blandly.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T05:16:44.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":6,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"That's a variable the moderator can tune as well. We actually ended up setting the limit at 5 when we launched, which I don't think inconvenienced anyone.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485454,"created_at_i":1395983804,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485487","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"That's a variable the moderator can tune as well. We actually ended up setting the limit at 5 when we launched, which I don't think inconvenienced anyone.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:31:03.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":4,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Good catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7484870,"created_at_i":1395981063,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485361","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Good catch. But strictly speaking that wasn't doing development in the repl, but repairing data. The live server is the only place you can repair data on the live server.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:28:44.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":3,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The moderator is concerned about that too. But if it did start to happen it would be pretty obvious. So it seems worth trying to see if pending comments can be tuned to cut obvious crap without eliminating stuff that's merely controversial.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7484780,"created_at_i":1395980924,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485356","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The moderator is concerned about that too. But if it did start to happen it would be pretty obvious. So it seems worth trying to see if pending comments can be tuned to cut obvious crap without eliminating stuff that's merely controversial.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:25:14.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":7,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"If we didn't have prior restraints on people speaking about places where you could buy cheap Ugg boots, HN would be so overrun with spam that it would be unusable.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7484990,"created_at_i":1395980714,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485346","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"If we didn't have prior restraints on people speaking about places where you could buy cheap Ugg boots, HN would be so overrun with spam that it would be unusable.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T04:22:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":6,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Given that endorsement is a mechanism which can only reduce the quantity of discussion on HN
That seems a mistaken assumption. The presence of existing comments often causes me to refrain from posting comments. Often I've been about to reply to something, then notice someone else has already said substantially the same thing, and as a result don't.
And this is not a contrived example. As I said when I first launched pending comments, if someone says something important in a nasty way, it may well turn out to be safe not to endorse it, because someone else will probably show up and make the same point without nastiness.
Plus if HN gets more civil, it may encourage people to comment who might not have before. I know from my own experience that incivility has decreased the number of comments I make. I often find myself about to say something, then decide I have work to do and don't have time to spend the afternoon fighting, and so don't say it.
Only experience can tell us whether one or both of these factors will increase the number of comments, but we can't assume that pending comments can only reduce discussion.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7484304,"story_title":"Pending Comments Update","story_url":"","parent_id":7485133,"created_at_i":1395980526,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7484304"],"objectID":"7485333","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Given that endorsement is a mechanism which can only reduce the quantity of discussion on HN
That seems a mistaken assumption. The presence of existing comments often causes me to refrain from posting comments. Often I've been about to reply to something, then notice someone else has already said substantially the same thing, and as a result don't.
And this is not a contrived example. As I said when I first launched pending comments, if someone says something important in a nasty way, it may well turn out to be safe not to endorse it, because someone else will probably show up and make the same point without nastiness.
Plus if HN gets more civil, it may encourage people to comment who might not have before. I know from my own experience that incivility has decreased the number of comments I make. I often find myself about to say something, then decide I have work to do and don't have time to spend the afternoon fighting, and so don't say it.
Only experience can tell us whether one or both of these factors will increase the number of comments, but we can't assume that pending comments can only reduce discussion.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Pending Comments Update","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-28T01:34:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pg","points":5,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"The cars are too clean. The pictures would look even more realistic if he sprayed them with dust.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7483752,"story_title":"Photographing A Town That Never Was – The Meta Picture","story_url":"http://themetapicture.com/photographing-a-town-that-never-was/","parent_id":7483752,"created_at_i":1395970446,"_tags":["comment","author_pg","story_7483752"],"objectID":"7484737","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"The cars are too clean. The pictures would look even more realistic if he sprayed them with dust.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_title":{"value":"Photographing A Town That Never Was – The Meta Picture","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://themetapicture.com/photographing-a-town-that-never-was/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":8789,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":16,"query":"","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&tags=comment%2Cauthor_pg"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?tags=poll%2Cauthor_pg","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2011-05-29T01:13:53.000Z","title":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","url":null,"author":"pg","points":606,"story_text":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
I realize there is another side to the story, though. Lots of\\npeople have complained that without comment scores it's harder to\\npick out the good comments. Some say that's better, because now\\nyou have to judge a comment for itself. On the other hand, with\\nsufficient discipline one could presumably judge a comment for\\nitself despite seeing the score.
Last time I tried asking this question, the voting was roughly even.\\nI'm curious if there has been any drift toward a consensus.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":280,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1306631633,"_tags":["poll","author_pg","story_2595605"],"objectID":"2595605","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Should HN display comment scores?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"It's now been long enough since I hid comment scores that we know\\nwhat the site will be like without them. Do you prefer the site\\nnow or the way it used to be?
I hid comment scores after tptacek suggested it as a way to reduce\\narguments. There was a nasty kind of argument that used to happen,\\nwhere people would literally try to score points off one another,\\nand users voting on the thread became like a mob egging on two\\npeople fighting. I prefer HN without comment scores, because those\\nfights really disturbed me, and they've practically gone away since\\nI hid comment scores.
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On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings\ninstead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.\nBut then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in\nthe repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments\nand created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its\nown grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,\nthe server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The\nstory in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.
For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to\nsee if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted\nby something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit\nlater when the server seemed to be swamped.
When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked\na lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts\nGCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems\ncan usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But\nfirst, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest\nversion to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart\nHN, I might as well get a fresh version.
After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed\nthe problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that\nday, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the\nserver again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because\nby this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in\nresidence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old\nserver, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked\nfine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So\nwe tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick\nsucceeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.
When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.\nThe bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the\nfrontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there\nwere still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg\ndidn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the\nloop in it.
Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a\ncertain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what\nmust have happened.
So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,\nand everything seems fine now.
Sorry about that.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":292,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1361211965,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5239673"],"objectID":"5239673","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Why HN was down","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hacker News was down all last night. The problem was not due to\nthe new server. In fact the cause was embarrassingly stupid.
On a comment thread, a new user had posted some replies as siblings\ninstead of children. I posted a comment explaining how HN worked.\nBut then I decided to just fix it for him by doing some surgery in\nthe repl. Unfortunately I used the wrong id for one of the comments\nand created a loop in the comment tree; I caused an item to be its\nown grandchild. After which, when anyone tried to view the thread,\nthe server would try to generate an infinitely long page. The\nstory in question was on the frontpage, so this happened a lot.
For some reason I didn't check the comments after the surgery to\nsee if they were in the right place. I must have been distracted\nby something. So I didn't notice anything was wrong till a bit\nlater when the server seemed to be swamped.
When I tailed the logs to see what was going on, the pattern looked\na lot like what happens when HN runs short of memory and starts\nGCing too much. Whether it was that or something else, such problems\ncan usually be fixed by restarting HN. So that's what I did. But\nfirst, since I had been writing code that day, I pushed the latest\nversion to the server. As long as I was going to have to restart\nHN, I might as well get a fresh version.
After I restarted HN, the problem was still there. So I guessed\nthe problem must be due to something in the code I'd written that\nday, and tried reverting to the previous version, and restarting the\nserver again. But the problem was still there. Then we (because\nby this point I'd managed to get hold of Nick Sivo, YC's hacker in\nresidence) tried reverting to the version of HN that was on the old\nserver, and that didn't work either. We knew that code had worked\nfine, so we figured the problem must be with the new server. So\nwe tried to switch back to the old server. I don't know if Nick\nsucceeded, because in the middle of this I gave up and went to bed.
When I woke up this morning, Rtm had HN running on the new server.\nThe bad thread was still there, but it had been pushed off the\nfrontpage by newer stuff. So HN as a whole wasn't dying, but there\nwere still signs something was amiss, e.g. that /threads?id=pg\ndidn't work, because of the comment I made on the thread with the\nloop in it.
Eventually Rtm noticed that the problem seemed to be related to a\ncertain item id. When I looked at the item on disk I realized what\nmust have happened.
So I did some more surgery in the repl, this time more carefully,\nand everything seems fine now.
Sorry about that.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-18T18:46:33.000Z","title":"No New Accounts Today","url":"","author":"pg","points":703,"story_text":"Traffic is unprecedentedly high today, presumably because Reddit is blacked out. I don't want to repay them for their impressive stand by stealing their users, so I've temporarily turned off the ability to create new accounts.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":94,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326912393,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_3481174"],"objectID":"3481174","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"No New Accounts Today","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Traffic is unprecedentedly high today, presumably because Reddit is blacked out. I don't want to repay them for their impressive stand by stealing their users, so I've temporarily turned off the ability to create new accounts.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-25T20:17:44.000Z","title":"Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit","url":"http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html","author":"pg","points":690,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":168,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1359145064,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5117385"],"objectID":"5117385","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/watsi.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-13T22:41:20.000Z","title":"New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea","url":"http://ycombinator.com/noidea.html","author":"pg","points":682,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":296,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1331678480,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_3700712"],"objectID":"3700712","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/noidea.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-21T23:49:31.000Z","title":"Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments","url":"","author":"pg","points":603,"story_text":"A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I\\nmentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on\\nHacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523
Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this\\nYC cycle, this was my last chance to get this done.\\nI didn't want the people who are going to inherit\\nHN from me to have to build it as their\\nfirst project, because it interacts with so many\\ndifferent bits of the code in such subtle ways.
So I found time to implement pending comments this\\npast week, and with any luck it will launch tonight.\\nSince it's a big change, I wanted to warn HN users in\\nadvance.
Here's how it currently works. From now on, when\\nyou post a comment, it won't initially be live.\\nIt will be in a new state called pending. Comments\\nget from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple\\nHN users with over 1000 karma. Those users will see\\npending comments, and will be able to endorse them by\\nclicking on an "endorse" link next to the "flag" link.
Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till\\nit goes live to post another. We're hoping that good\\ncomments will get endorsed so quickly that there won't\\nbe a noticeable delay.
You can currently beat the system by posting an innocuous\\ncomment, waiting for it to be endorsed, and then after\\nit's live, changing it to say something worse. We explicitly\\nask people not to do this. While we have no software\\nfor catching it, humans will notice, and we'll ban you.
Along with the change in software will come a change in\\npolicy. We're going to ask users with the ability to\\nendorse comments only to endorse those that:
1. Say something substantial. E.g. not just a throwaway remark,\\nor the kind of "Yes you did, No I didn't" bickering\\nthat races toward the right side of the page and no\\none cares about except the participants.
2. Say it without gratuitous nastiness. In particular,\\na comment in reply to another comment should be written\\nin the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith\\nto figure out the truth about something, not\\npoliticians trying to ridicule and misrepresent\\nthe other side.
People who regularly endorse comments that fail one\\nor both of these tests will lose the ability to\\nendorse comments. So if you're not sure whether you\\nshould endorse a comment, don't. There are a lot of\\npeople on HN. If a point is important, someone else\\nwill probably come along and make it without gratuitous\\nnastiness.
I hope this will improve the quality of HN comments\\nsignificantly, but we'll need your help to make it work,\\nand your forbearance if, as usually happens, some\\nthings go wrong initially.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":834,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1395445771,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_7445761"],"objectID":"7445761","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I\\nmentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on\\nHacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523
Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this\\nYC cycle, this was my last chance to get this done.\\nI didn't want the people who are going to inherit\\nHN from me to have to build it as their\\nfirst project, because it interacts with so many\\ndifferent bits of the code in such subtle ways.
So I found time to implement pending comments this\\npast week, and with any luck it will launch tonight.\\nSince it's a big change, I wanted to warn HN users in\\nadvance.
Here's how it currently works. From now on, when\\nyou post a comment, it won't initially be live.\\nIt will be in a new state called pending. Comments\\nget from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple\\nHN users with over 1000 karma. Those users will see\\npending comments, and will be able to endorse them by\\nclicking on an "endorse" link next to the "flag" link.
Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till\\nit goes live to post another. We're hoping that good\\ncomments will get endorsed so quickly that there won't\\nbe a noticeable delay.
You can currently beat the system by posting an innocuous\\ncomment, waiting for it to be endorsed, and then after\\nit's live, changing it to say something worse. We explicitly\\nask people not to do this. While we have no software\\nfor catching it, humans will notice, and we'll ban you.
Along with the change in software will come a change in\\npolicy. We're going to ask users with the ability to\\nendorse comments only to endorse those that:
1. Say something substantial. E.g. not just a throwaway remark,\\nor the kind of "Yes you did, No I didn't" bickering\\nthat races toward the right side of the page and no\\none cares about except the participants.
2. Say it without gratuitous nastiness. In particular,\\na comment in reply to another comment should be written\\nin the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith\\nto figure out the truth about something, not\\npoliticians trying to ridicule and misrepresent\\nthe other side.
People who regularly endorse comments that fail one\\nor both of these tests will lose the ability to\\nendorse comments. So if you're not sure whether you\\nshould endorse a comment, don't. There are a lot of\\npeople on HN. If a point is important, someone else\\nwill probably come along and make it without gratuitous\\nnastiness.
I hope this will improve the quality of HN comments\\nsignificantly, but we'll need your help to make it work,\\nand your forbearance if, as usually happens, some\\nthings go wrong initially.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-29T20:43:24.000Z","title":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","url":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","author":"pg","points":578,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":290,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1396125804,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_7493856"],"objectID":"7493856","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Meet the People Taking over Hacker News","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-09-27T20:24:25.000Z","title":"What Happens At Y Combinator","url":"http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html","author":"pg","points":546,"story_text":null,"comment_text":null,"num_comments":143,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1285619065,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_1733236"],"objectID":"1733236","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"What Happens At Y Combinator","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/atyc.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-01-31T06:36:50.000Z","title":"New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.","url":"","author":"pg","points":533,"story_text":"There's been a big spike in new users the last couple days.\nUnfortunately it's been visible not only in the traffic stats\nbut in the character of the comment threads.
New users: we'd appreciate it if you'd please read the site\nguidelines before commenting. Most importantly, the principle\nthat you shouldn't say anything in a comment that you\nwouldn't say to someone's face.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hacker News is an experiment. We're\ntrying to see whether by asking people to be civil we can \navoid the kind of nastiness that anonymity breeds by default.\nThe experiment has worked so far. And while the new users\nmay not realize it, this is why they're here. People like it here because one can have a civil conversation.
The principle that you shouldn't say things you wouldn't\nsay to someone's face means you can't express yourself the\nway you might be used to doing on Reddit or Slashdot.\nThis, for example, would not stand out on either of those\nsites,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459250
but it's not cool here.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":138,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1233383810,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_459289"],"objectID":"459289","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"New users: Welcome. Please read the site guidelines.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"There's been a big spike in new users the last couple days.\nUnfortunately it's been visible not only in the traffic stats\nbut in the character of the comment threads.
New users: we'd appreciate it if you'd please read the site\nguidelines before commenting. Most importantly, the principle\nthat you shouldn't say anything in a comment that you\nwouldn't say to someone's face.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hacker News is an experiment. We're\ntrying to see whether by asking people to be civil we can \navoid the kind of nastiness that anonymity breeds by default.\nThe experiment has worked so far. And while the new users\nmay not realize it, this is why they're here. People like it here because one can have a civil conversation.
The principle that you shouldn't say things you wouldn't\nsay to someone's face means you can't express yourself the\nway you might be used to doing on Reddit or Slashdot.\nThis, for example, would not stand out on either of those\nsites,
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=459250
but it's not cool here.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2008-07-19T16:33:35.000Z","title":"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund","url":"http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html","author":"pg","points":530,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":384,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1216485215,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_250704"],"objectID":"250704","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-14T16:27:29.000Z","title":"The Handshake Deal Protocol","url":"http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html","author":"pg","points":513,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":216,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1363278449,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5375929"],"objectID":"5375929","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"The Handshake Deal Protocol","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-06-01T17:55:17.000Z","title":"Y Combinator Numbers","url":"http://ycombinator.com/nums.html","author":"pg","points":498,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":116,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1306950917,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_2608440"],"objectID":"2608440","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Y Combinator Numbers","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/nums.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-03T20:05:27.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?","url":"","author":"pg","points":462,"story_text":"I was just asking RiderofGiraffes if he had any suggestions for fixing the decreasing quality of comment threads on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403449) and it occurred to me that I might as well ask everyone.
Anyone have any suggestions? We're on mostly uncharted territory here.
The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":685,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1301861127,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_2403696","ask_hn"],"objectID":"2403696","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How to stave off decline of HN?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I was just asking RiderofGiraffes if he had any suggestions for fixing the decreasing quality of comment threads on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403449) and it occurred to me that I might as well ask everyone.
Anyone have any suggestions? We're on mostly uncharted territory here.
The problem has several components: comments that are (a) mean and/or (b) dumb that (c) get massively upvoted.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-03-12T17:24:32.000Z","title":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","url":"http://teespring.com/hntees","author":"pg","points":454,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":314,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1363109072,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5363290"],"objectID":"5363290","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Official Hacker News T-Shirt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://teespring.com/hntees","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-14T17:11:59.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?","url":"","author":"pg","points":448,"story_text":"I've long suspected bitcoin was created by a government. Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers. Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by governments.
The part that puzzles me is why a government would do this. I can imagine several possibilities:
1. To finance their own black operations.
2. Because they thought digital currencies were inevitable, and they preferred bitcoin to some potentially more malevolent form. (Could bitcoin have been worse from a government's point of view?)
3. A friend suggested this: because they felt their currency would never become the standard reserve currency, and they felt it was better that no one's be if theirs couldn't be.
4. A variant of the above: the US did it because it seemed inevitable that the dollar would eventually lose its place as the standard reserve currency, and better to have it replaced by bitcoin that the yuan.
I realize some of these explanations are pretty far fetched, but so is an individual cooking up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. Whatever the explanation of bitcoin's origin turns out to be, it will probably be pretty weird.
Anyone have opinions about these possible explanations, or other ones?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":298,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1365959519,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5547423","ask_hn"],"objectID":"5547423","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've long suspected bitcoin was created by a government. Bulletproof protocols usually require peer review, yet there have been zero leaks from the reviewers. Pools of crypto guys who don't leak stuff are usually employed by governments.
The part that puzzles me is why a government would do this. I can imagine several possibilities:
1. To finance their own black operations.
2. Because they thought digital currencies were inevitable, and they preferred bitcoin to some potentially more malevolent form. (Could bitcoin have been worse from a government's point of view?)
3. A friend suggested this: because they felt their currency would never become the standard reserve currency, and they felt it was better that no one's be if theirs couldn't be.
4. A variant of the above: the US did it because it seemed inevitable that the dollar would eventually lose its place as the standard reserve currency, and better to have it replaced by bitcoin that the yuan.
I realize some of these explanations are pretty far fetched, but so is an individual cooking up bitcoin as an intellectual exercise. Whatever the explanation of bitcoin's origin turns out to be, it will probably be pretty weird.
Anyone have opinions about these possible explanations, or other ones?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-06T17:30:09.000Z","title":"YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too","url":"http://ycombinator.com/np.html","author":"pg","points":439,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":110,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1378488609,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_6341568"],"objectID":"6341568","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://ycombinator.com/np.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-20T22:21:20.000Z","title":"HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning","url":"http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6.png","author":"pg","points":436,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":115,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1361398880,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_5253773"],"objectID":"5253773","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"HN is 6 today. Here's traffic since the beginning","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6.png","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-03T00:05:58.000Z","title":"What HN users don't mean to be","url":"http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27t+mean+to+be%22&sortby=create_ts+asc","author":"pg","points":434,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":130,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1330733158,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_3658860"],"objectID":"3658860","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"What HN users don't mean to be","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22I+don%27t+mean+to+be%22&sortby=create_ts+asc","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-08-08T23:57:18.000Z","title":"Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming","url":"","author":"pg","points":423,"story_text":"Every cycle we warn startups not to wait\ntill 2 weeks before Demo Day to launch if they can\navoid it, because there's always a glut of startups\nlaunching then. Every cycle they do anyway.
It's now 2 weeks before Demo Day, so there are \ngoing to be a lot of new startups launching in the\ncoming week.
Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be\n\"yet another YC startup,\" but for each individual startup\nthis is their big moment.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":92,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1312847838,"_tags":["story","author_pg","story_2862067"],"objectID":"2862067","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Warn HN: Lots of Launches Coming","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pg","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Every cycle we warn startups not to wait\ntill 2 weeks before Demo Day to launch if they can\navoid it, because there's always a glut of startups\nlaunching then. Every cycle they do anyway.
It's now 2 weeks before Demo Day, so there are \ngoing to be a lot of new startups launching in the\ncoming week.
Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be\n\"yet another YC startup,\" but for each individual startup\nthis is their big moment.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-18T17:06:39.000Z","title":"Why we revert to original titles","url":"","author":"pg","points":414,"story_text":"In the HN guidelines, we ask submitters to use original titles when\npossible. When they don't, we often change the title of a post\nback to the original title of the article.
There is an ongoing trickle of complaints about this, as if we were\nengaged in some sort of sinister conspiracy.
Titles on HN are not self-expression the way comments are. Titles\nare common property. The person who happens to submit something\nfirst shouldn't thereby get the right to choose the title for\neveryone else. This would be clearer if we didn't let submitters\nenter a title-- if our software simply let people submit urls, and\nretrieved the title from the page. We don't do this because it's\ntoo inflexible. Some articles have titles that are too long. In\nothers the subtitle makes a better title. But the fact that a title\nfield is editable doesn't make it comment.
It's true that when submitters change titles, their new titles often\ncontain more information than the article's original title. But a\nsignificant percentage of the extra information added in this way\nis false. The only way we can tell if a newly created title is\naccurate is to read the article, and we're not about to read every\narticle submitted to HN. The only option is to revert to the\noriginal title, which is at least what the author intended.
(We do sometimes change titles from the original when the original\ntitle is egregious linkbait, or false. We have also, since the\nbeginning when our users were largely YC alumni, put e.g. (YC S13)\nafter the names of YC companies in titles. But these are not the\ntypes of changes users mean when they complain about moderators\nchanging titles.)
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There is an ongoing trickle of complaints about this, as if we were\nengaged in some sort of sinister conspiracy.
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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw. They don't give a single shit about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that. Never comes up there, except maybe to laugh about it. Their facilities are dirt-smeared cube farms without a dime spent on decor or common meeting areas. Their pay and benefits suck, although much less so lately due to local competition from Google and Facebook. But they don't have any of our perks or extras -- they just try to match the offer-letter numbers, and that's the end of it. Their code base is a disaster, with no engineering standards whatsoever except what individual teams choose to put in place.
To be fair, they do have a nice versioned-library system that we really ought to emulate, and a nice publish-subscribe system that we also have no equivalent for. But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases. We wouldn't take most of it even if it were free.
I think the pubsub system and their library-shelf system were two out of the grand total of three things Amazon does better than google.
I guess you could make an argument that their bias for launching early and iterating like mad is also something they do well, but you can argue it either way. They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run. So even though it's given them some competitive advantages in the marketplace, it's created enough other problems to make it something less than a slam-dunk.
But there's one thing they do really really well that pretty much makes up for ALL of their political, philosophical and technical screw-ups.
Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.
Micro-managing isn't that third thing that Amazon does better than us, by the way. I mean, yeah, they micro-manage really well, but I wouldn't list it as a strength or anything. I'm just trying to set the context here, to help you understand what happened. We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people \"who runs the company\" when they disagree with him. The guy is a regular... well, Steve Jobs, I guess. Except without the fashion or design sense. Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.
His Big Mandate went something along these lines:
1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
7) Thank you; have a nice day!
Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress, headed up by Uber-Chief Bear Bulldog Rick Dalzell. Rick is an ex-Armgy Ranger, West Point Academy graduate, ex-boxer, ex-Chief Torturer slash CIO at Wal*Mart, and is a big genial scary man who used the word \"hardened interface\" a lot. Rick was a walking, talking hardened interface himself, so needless to say, everyone made LOTS of forward progress and made sure Rick knew about it.
Over the next couple of years, Amazon transformed internally into a service-oriented architecture. They learned a tremendous amount while effecting this transformation. There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street. Amazon's dev staff made a lot of discoveries along the way. A teeny tiny sampling of these discoveries included:
- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified. If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.
- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker. Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.
- monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says \"oh yes, I'm fine\", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say \"I'm fine, roger roger, over and out\" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.
- if you have hundreds of services, and your code MUST communicate with other groups' code via these services, then you won't be able to find any of them without a service-discovery mechanism. And you can't have that without a service registration mechanism, which itself is another service. So Amazon has a universal service registry where you can find out reflectively (programmatically) about every service, what its APIs are, and also whether it is currently up, and where.
- debugging problems with someone else's code gets a LOT harder, and is basically impossible unless there is a universal standard way to run every service in a debuggable sandbox.
That's just a very small sample. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of individual learnings like these that Amazon had to discover organically. There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think. Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
This effort was still underway when I left to join Google in mid-2005, but it was pretty far advanced. From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion. It is now fundamental to how they approach all designs, including internal designs for stuff that might never see the light of day externally.
At this point they don't even do it out of fear of being fired. I mean, they're still afraid of that; it's pretty much part of daily life there, working for the Dread Pirate Bezos and all. But they do services because they've come to understand that it's the Right Thing. There are without question pros and cons to the SOA approach, and some of the cons are pretty long. But overall it's the right thing because SOA-driven design enables Platforms.
That's what Bezos was up to with his edict, of course. He didn't (and doesn't) care even a tiny bit about the well-being of the teams, nor about what technologies they use, nor in fact any detail whatsoever about how they go about their business unless they happen to be screwing up. But Bezos realized long before the vast majority of Amazonians that Amazon needs to be a platform.
You wouldn't really think that an online bookstore needs to be an extensible, programmable platform. Would you?
Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform. So now they have the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and the Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and the Amazon Relational Database Service, and a whole passel' o' other services browsable at aws.amazon.com. These services host the backends for some pretty successful companies, reddit being my personal favorite of the bunch.
The other big realization he had was that he can't always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website. It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.
I'm not really sure how Bezos came to this realization -- the insight that he can't build one product and have it be right for everyone. But it doesn't matter, because he gets it. There's actually a formal name for this phenomenon. It's called Accessibility, and it's the most important thing in the computing world.
The. Most. Important. Thing.
If you're sorta thinking, \"huh? You mean like, blind and deaf people Accessibility?\" then you're not alone, because I've come to understand that there are lots and LOTS of people just like you: people for whom this idea does not have the right Accessibility, so it hasn't been able to get through to you yet. It's not your fault for not understanding, any more than it would be your fault for being blind or deaf or motion-restricted or living with any other disability. When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.
Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown into an equally powerful Arch-Nemesis (yes, there's more than one nemesis to accessibility) named Security. And boy howdy are the two ever at odds.
But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.
So yeah. In case you hadn't noticed, I could actually write a book on this topic. A fat one, filled with amusing anecdotes about ants and rubber mallets at companies I've worked at. But I will never get this little rant published, and you'll never get it read, unless I start to wrap up.
That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't \"get\" platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully clear to me over the past six years. I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services. Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.
But no. No, it's like our tenth or eleventh priority. Or fifteenth, I don't know. It's pretty low. There are a few teams who treat the idea very seriously, but most teams either don't think about it all, ever, or only a small percentage of them think about it in a very small way.
It's a big stretch even to get most teams to offer a stubby service to get programmatic access to their data and computations. Most of them think they're building products. And a stubby service is a pretty pathetic service. Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of them. Stubby's great, but it's like parts when you need a car.
A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: \"So is it the Stalker API?\" She got all glum and said \"Yeah.\" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Microsoft has known about the Dogfood rule for at least twenty years. It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now. You don't eat People Food and give your developers Dog Food. Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes. Platforms are all about long-term thinking.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: \"Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us.\" Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now? The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them.
You can't do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.
Larry Tesler may have convinced Bezos that he was no Steve Jobs, but Bezos realized that he didn't need to be a Steve Jobs in order to provide everyone with the right products: interfaces and workflows that they liked and felt at ease with. He just needed to enable third-party developers to do it, and it would happen automatically.
I apologize to those (many) of you for whom all this stuff I'm saying is incredibly obvious, because yeah. It's incredibly frigging obvious. Except we're not doing it. We don't get Platforms, and we don't get Accessibility. The two are basically the same thing, because platforms solve accessibility. A platform is accessibility.
So yeah, Microsoft gets it. And you know as well as I do how surprising that is, because they don't \"get\" much of anything, really. But they understand platforms as a purely accidental outgrowth of having started life in the business of providing platforms. So they have thirty-plus years of learning in this space. And if you go to msdn.com, and spend some time browsing, and you've never seen it before, prepare to be amazed. Because it's staggeringly huge. They have thousands, and thousands, and THOUSANDS of API calls. They have a HUGE platform. Too big in fact, because they can't design for squat, but at least they're doing it.
Amazon gets it. Amazon's AWS (aws.amazon.com) is incredible. Just go look at it. Click around. It's embarrassing. We don't have any of that stuff.
Apple gets it, obviously. They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform. But they understand accessibility and they understand the power of third-party development and they eat their dogfood. And you know what? They make pretty good dogfood. Their APIs are a hell of a lot cleaner than Microsoft's, and have been since time immemorial.
Facebook gets it. That's what really worries me. That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing. I hate blogging. I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful. And I do! I mean, Facebook wants me there, and it'd be pretty easy to just go. But Google is home, so I'm insisting that we have this little family intervention, uncomfortable as it might be.
After you've marveled at the platform offerings of Microsoft and Amazon, and Facebook I guess (I didn't look because I didn't want to get too depressed), head over to developers.google.com and browse a little. Pretty big difference, eh? It's like what your fifth-grade nephew might mock up if he were doing an assignment to demonstrate what a big powerful platform company might be building if all they had, resource-wise, was one fifth grader.
Please don't get me wrong here -- I know for a fact that the dev-rel team has had to FIGHT to get even this much available externally. They're kicking ass as far as I'm concerned, because they DO get platforms, and they are struggling heroically to try to create one in an environment that is at best platform-apathetic, and at worst often openly hostile to the idea.
I'm just frankly describing what developers.google.com looks like to an outsider. It looks childish. Where's the Maps APIs in there for Christ's sake? Some of the things in there are labs projects. And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry. They were obviously dog food. Not even good organic stuff. Compared to our internal APIs it's all snouts and horse hooves.
And also don't get me wrong about Google+. They're far from the only offenders. This is a cultural thing. What we have going on internally is basically a war, with the underdog minority Platformers fighting a more or less losing battle against the Mighty Funded Confident Producters.
Any teams that have successfully internalized the notion that they should be externally programmable platforms from the ground up are underdogs -- Maps and Docs come to mind, and I know GMail is making overtures in that direction. But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture. Maestro's funding is a feeble thing compared to the gargantuan Microsoft Office programming platform: it's a fluffy rabbit versus a T-Rex. The Docs team knows they'll never be competitive with Office until they can match its scripting facilities, but they're not getting any resource love. I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API. That team looks pretty unloved to me.
Ironically enough, Wave was a great platform, may they rest in peace. But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app. Facebook -- that is, the stock service they offer with walls and friends and such -- is the killer app for the Facebook Platform. And it is a very serious mistake to conclude that the Facebook App could have been anywhere near as successful without the Facebook Platform.
You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant? I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as \"doing everything right\". We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines. They're inferring arrogance because it makes them feel better.
But when we take the stance that we know how to design the perfect product for everyone, and believe you me, I hear that a lot, then we're being fools. You can attribute it to arrogance, or naivete, or whatever -- it doesn't matter in the end, because it's foolishness. There IS no perfect product for everyone.
And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.
It's not just them. It's everyone. The problem is that we're a Product Company through and through. We built a successful product with broad appeal -- our search, that is -- and that wild success has biased us.
Amazon was a product company too, so it took an out-of-band force to make Bezos understand the need for a platform. That force was their evaporating margins; he was cornered and had to think of a way out. But all he had was a bunch of engineers and all these computers... if only they could be monetized somehow... you can see how he arrived at AWS, in hindsight.
Microsoft started out as a platform, so they've just had lots of practice at it.
Facebook, though: they worry me. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they started off as a Product and they rode that success pretty far. So I'm not sure exactly how they made the transition to a platform. It was a relatively long time ago, since they had to be a platform before (now very old) things like Mafia Wars could come along.
Maybe they just looked at us and asked: \"How can we beat Google? What are they missing?\"
The problem we face is pretty huge, because it will take a dramatic cultural change in order for us to start catching up. We don't do internal service-oriented platforms, and we just as equally don't do external ones. This means that the \"not getting it\" is endemic across the company: the PMs don't get it, the engineers don't get it, the product teams don't get it, nobody gets it. Even if individuals do, even if YOU do, it doesn't matter one bit unless we're treating it as an all-hands-on-deck emergency. We can't keep launching products and pretending we'll turn them into magical beautiful extensible platforms later. We've tried that and it's not working.
The Golden Rule of Platforms, \"Eat Your Own Dogfood\", can be rephrased as \"Start with a Platform, and Then Use it for Everything.\" You can't just bolt it on later. Certainly not easily at any rate -- ask anyone who worked on platformizing MS Office. Or anyone who worked on platformizing Amazon. If you delay it, it'll be ten times as much work as just doing it correctly up front. You can't cheat. You can't have secret back doors for internal apps to get special priority access, not for ANY reason. You need to solve the hard problems up front.
I'm not saying it's too late for us, but the longer we wait, the closer we get to being Too Late.
I honestly don't know how to wrap this up. I've said pretty much everything I came here to say today. This post has been six years in the making. I'm sorry if I wasn't gentle enough, or if I misrepresented some product or team or person, or if we're actually doing LOTS of platform stuff and it just so happens that I and everyone I ever talk to has just never heard about it. I'm sorry.
But we've gotta start doing this right.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3101876,"story_title":"Steve's Google Platform rant","story_url":"https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/WugKtXSp7We","parent_id":3101876,"created_at_i":1318425713,"_tags":["comment","author_pitdesi","story_3101876"],"objectID":"3102800","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"pitdesi","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"It now 404's so I've posted it here:
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't really have SREs and they make engineers pretty much do everything, which leaves almost no time for coding - though again this varies by group, so it's luck of the draw. They don't give a single shit about charity or helping the needy or community contributions or anything like that. Never comes up there, except maybe to laugh about it. Their facilities are dirt-smeared cube farms without a dime spent on decor or common meeting areas. Their pay and benefits suck, although much less so lately due to local competition from Google and Facebook. But they don't have any of our perks or extras -- they just try to match the offer-letter numbers, and that's the end of it. Their code base is a disaster, with no engineering standards whatsoever except what individual teams choose to put in place.
To be fair, they do have a nice versioned-library system that we really ought to emulate, and a nice publish-subscribe system that we also have no equivalent for. But for the most part they just have a bunch of crappy tools that read and write state machine information into relational databases. We wouldn't take most of it even if it were free.
I think the pubsub system and their library-shelf system were two out of the grand total of three things Amazon does better than google.
I guess you could make an argument that their bias for launching early and iterating like mad is also something they do well, but you can argue it either way. They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run. So even though it's given them some competitive advantages in the marketplace, it's created enough other problems to make it something less than a slam-dunk.
But there's one thing they do really really well that pretty much makes up for ALL of their political, philosophical and technical screw-ups.
Jeff Bezos is an infamous micro-manager. He micro-manages every single pixel of Amazon's retail site. He hired Larry Tesler, Apple's Chief Scientist and probably the very most famous and respected human-computer interaction expert in the entire world, and then ignored every goddamn thing Larry said for three years until Larry finally -- wisely -- left the company. Larry would do these big usability studies and demonstrate beyond any shred of doubt that nobody can understand that frigging website, but Bezos just couldn't let go of those pixels, all those millions of semantics-packed pixels on the landing page. They were like millions of his own precious children. So they're all still there, and Larry is not.
Micro-managing isn't that third thing that Amazon does better than us, by the way. I mean, yeah, they micro-manage really well, but I wouldn't list it as a strength or anything. I'm just trying to set the context here, to help you understand what happened. We're talking about a guy who in all seriousness has said on many public occasions that people should be paying him to work at Amazon. He hands out little yellow stickies with his name on them, reminding people \"who runs the company\" when they disagree with him. The guy is a regular... well, Steve Jobs, I guess. Except without the fashion or design sense. Bezos is super smart; don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
So one day Jeff Bezos issued a mandate. He's doing that all the time, of course, and people scramble like ants being pounded with a rubber mallet whenever it happens. But on one occasion -- back around 2002 I think, plus or minus a year -- he issued a mandate that was so out there, so huge and eye-bulgingly ponderous, that it made all of his other mandates look like unsolicited peer bonuses.
His Big Mandate went something along these lines:
1) All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces.
2) Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces.
3) There will be no other form of interprocess communication allowed: no direct linking, no direct reads of another team's data store, no shared-memory model, no back-doors whatsoever. The only communication allowed is via service interface calls over the network.
4) It doesn't matter what technology they use. HTTP, Corba, Pubsub, custom protocols -- doesn't matter. Bezos doesn't care.
5) All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable. That is to say, the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
6) Anyone who doesn't do this will be fired.
7) Thank you; have a nice day!
Ha, ha! You 150-odd ex-Amazon folks here will of course realize immediately that #7 was a little joke I threw in, because Bezos most definitely does not give a shit about your day.
#6, however, was quite real, so people went to work. Bezos assigned a couple of Chief Bulldogs to oversee the effort and ensure forward progress, headed up by Uber-Chief Bear Bulldog Rick Dalzell. Rick is an ex-Armgy Ranger, West Point Academy graduate, ex-boxer, ex-Chief Torturer slash CIO at Wal*Mart, and is a big genial scary man who used the word \"hardened interface\" a lot. Rick was a walking, talking hardened interface himself, so needless to say, everyone made LOTS of forward progress and made sure Rick knew about it.
Over the next couple of years, Amazon transformed internally into a service-oriented architecture. They learned a tremendous amount while effecting this transformation. There was lots of existing documentation and lore about SOAs, but at Amazon's vast scale it was about as useful as telling Indiana Jones to look both ways before crossing the street. Amazon's dev staff made a lot of discoveries along the way. A teeny tiny sampling of these discoveries included:
- pager escalation gets way harder, because a ticket might bounce through 20 service calls before the real owner is identified. If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.
- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker. Nobody can make any real forward progress until very serious quotas and throttling are put in place in every single service.
- monitoring and QA are the same thing. You'd never think so until you try doing a big SOA. But when your service says \"oh yes, I'm fine\", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say \"I'm fine, roger roger, over and out\" in a cheery droid voice. In order to tell whether the service is actually responding, you have to make individual calls. The problem continues recursively until your monitoring is doing comprehensive semantics checking of your entire range of services and data, at which point it's indistinguishable from automated QA. So they're a continuum.
- if you have hundreds of services, and your code MUST communicate with other groups' code via these services, then you won't be able to find any of them without a service-discovery mechanism. And you can't have that without a service registration mechanism, which itself is another service. So Amazon has a universal service registry where you can find out reflectively (programmatically) about every service, what its APIs are, and also whether it is currently up, and where.
- debugging problems with someone else's code gets a LOT harder, and is basically impossible unless there is a universal standard way to run every service in a debuggable sandbox.
That's just a very small sample. There are dozens, maybe hundreds of individual learnings like these that Amazon had to discover organically. There were a lot of wacky ones around externalizing services, but not as many as you might think. Organizing into services taught teams not to trust each other in most of the same ways they're not supposed to trust external developers.
This effort was still underway when I left to join Google in mid-2005, but it was pretty far advanced. From the time Bezos issued his edict through the time I left, Amazon had transformed culturally into a company that thinks about everything in a services-first fashion. It is now fundamental to how they approach all designs, including internal designs for stuff that might never see the light of day externally.
At this point they don't even do it out of fear of being fired. I mean, they're still afraid of that; it's pretty much part of daily life there, working for the Dread Pirate Bezos and all. But they do services because they've come to understand that it's the Right Thing. There are without question pros and cons to the SOA approach, and some of the cons are pretty long. But overall it's the right thing because SOA-driven design enables Platforms.
That's what Bezos was up to with his edict, of course. He didn't (and doesn't) care even a tiny bit about the well-being of the teams, nor about what technologies they use, nor in fact any detail whatsoever about how they go about their business unless they happen to be screwing up. But Bezos realized long before the vast majority of Amazonians that Amazon needs to be a platform.
You wouldn't really think that an online bookstore needs to be an extensible, programmable platform. Would you?
Well, the first big thing Bezos realized is that the infrastructure they'd built for selling and shipping books and sundry could be transformed an excellent repurposable computing platform. So now they have the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, and the Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and the Amazon Relational Database Service, and a whole passel' o' other services browsable at aws.amazon.com. These services host the backends for some pretty successful companies, reddit being my personal favorite of the bunch.
The other big realization he had was that he can't always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website. It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobody's mom can use the goddamn website. In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade. I've just learned to kinda defocus my eyes and concentrate on the million or so pixels near the center of the page above the fold.
I'm not really sure how Bezos came to this realization -- the insight that he can't build one product and have it be right for everyone. But it doesn't matter, because he gets it. There's actually a formal name for this phenomenon. It's called Accessibility, and it's the most important thing in the computing world.
The. Most. Important. Thing.
If you're sorta thinking, \"huh? You mean like, blind and deaf people Accessibility?\" then you're not alone, because I've come to understand that there are lots and LOTS of people just like you: people for whom this idea does not have the right Accessibility, so it hasn't been able to get through to you yet. It's not your fault for not understanding, any more than it would be your fault for being blind or deaf or motion-restricted or living with any other disability. When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.
Like anything else big and important in life, Accessibility has an evil twin who, jilted by the unbalanced affection displayed by their parents in their youth, has grown into an equally powerful Arch-Nemesis (yes, there's more than one nemesis to accessibility) named Security. And boy howdy are the two ever at odds.
But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas dialing Security to zero can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the Playstation Network.
So yeah. In case you hadn't noticed, I could actually write a book on this topic. A fat one, filled with amusing anecdotes about ants and rubber mallets at companies I've worked at. But I will never get this little rant published, and you'll never get it read, unless I start to wrap up.
That one last thing that Google doesn't do well is Platforms. We don't understand platforms. We don't \"get\" platforms. Some of you do, but you are the minority. This has become painfully clear to me over the past six years. I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services. Not in some sort of ad-hoc, half-assed way, but in more or less the same way Amazon did it: all at once, for real, no cheating, and treating it as our top priority from now on.
But no. No, it's like our tenth or eleventh priority. Or fifteenth, I don't know. It's pretty low. There are a few teams who treat the idea very seriously, but most teams either don't think about it all, ever, or only a small percentage of them think about it in a very small way.
It's a big stretch even to get most teams to offer a stubby service to get programmatic access to their data and computations. Most of them think they're building products. And a stubby service is a pretty pathetic service. Go back and look at that partial list of learnings from Amazon, and tell me which ones Stubby gives you out of the box. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of them. Stubby's great, but it's like parts when you need a car.
A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call. One of the team members marched in and told me about it when they launched, and I asked: \"So is it the Stalker API?\" She got all glum and said \"Yeah.\" I mean, I was joking, but no... the only API call we offer is to get someone's stream. So I guess the joke was on me.
Microsoft has known about the Dogfood rule for at least twenty years. It's been part of their culture for a whole generation now. You don't eat People Food and give your developers Dog Food. Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes. Platforms are all about long-term thinking.
Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.
Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: \"Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us.\" Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now? The problem is that we are trying to predict what people want and deliver it for them.
You can't do that. Not really. Not reliably. There have been precious few people in the world, over the entire history of computing, who have been able to do it reliably. Steve Jobs was one of them. We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.
Larry Tesler may have convinced Bezos that he was no Steve Jobs, but Bezos realized that he didn't need to be a Steve Jobs in order to provide everyone with the right products: interfaces and workflows that they liked and felt at ease with. He just needed to enable third-party developers to do it, and it would happen automatically.
I apologize to those (many) of you for whom all this stuff I'm saying is incredibly obvious, because yeah. It's incredibly frigging obvious. Except we're not doing it. We don't get Platforms, and we don't get Accessibility. The two are basically the same thing, because platforms solve accessibility. A platform is accessibility.
So yeah, Microsoft gets it. And you know as well as I do how surprising that is, because they don't \"get\" much of anything, really. But they understand platforms as a purely accidental outgrowth of having started life in the business of providing platforms. So they have thirty-plus years of learning in this space. And if you go to msdn.com, and spend some time browsing, and you've never seen it before, prepare to be amazed. Because it's staggeringly huge. They have thousands, and thousands, and THOUSANDS of API calls. They have a HUGE platform. Too big in fact, because they can't design for squat, but at least they're doing it.
Amazon gets it. Amazon's AWS (aws.amazon.com) is incredible. Just go look at it. Click around. It's embarrassing. We don't have any of that stuff.
Apple gets it, obviously. They've made some fundamentally non-open choices, particularly around their mobile platform. But they understand accessibility and they understand the power of third-party development and they eat their dogfood. And you know what? They make pretty good dogfood. Their APIs are a hell of a lot cleaner than Microsoft's, and have been since time immemorial.
Facebook gets it. That's what really worries me. That's what got me off my lazy butt to write this thing. I hate blogging. I hate... plussing, or whatever it's called when you do a massive rant in Google+ even though it's a terrible venue for it but you do it anyway because in the end you really do want Google to be successful. And I do! I mean, Facebook wants me there, and it'd be pretty easy to just go. But Google is home, so I'm insisting that we have this little family intervention, uncomfortable as it might be.
After you've marveled at the platform offerings of Microsoft and Amazon, and Facebook I guess (I didn't look because I didn't want to get too depressed), head over to developers.google.com and browse a little. Pretty big difference, eh? It's like what your fifth-grade nephew might mock up if he were doing an assignment to demonstrate what a big powerful platform company might be building if all they had, resource-wise, was one fifth grader.
Please don't get me wrong here -- I know for a fact that the dev-rel team has had to FIGHT to get even this much available externally. They're kicking ass as far as I'm concerned, because they DO get platforms, and they are struggling heroically to try to create one in an environment that is at best platform-apathetic, and at worst often openly hostile to the idea.
I'm just frankly describing what developers.google.com looks like to an outsider. It looks childish. Where's the Maps APIs in there for Christ's sake? Some of the things in there are labs projects. And the APIs for everything I clicked were... they were paltry. They were obviously dog food. Not even good organic stuff. Compared to our internal APIs it's all snouts and horse hooves.
And also don't get me wrong about Google+. They're far from the only offenders. This is a cultural thing. What we have going on internally is basically a war, with the underdog minority Platformers fighting a more or less losing battle against the Mighty Funded Confident Producters.
Any teams that have successfully internalized the notion that they should be externally programmable platforms from the ground up are underdogs -- Maps and Docs come to mind, and I know GMail is making overtures in that direction. But it's hard for them to get funding for it because it's not part of our culture. Maestro's funding is a feeble thing compared to the gargantuan Microsoft Office programming platform: it's a fluffy rabbit versus a T-Rex. The Docs team knows they'll never be competitive with Office until they can match its scripting facilities, but they're not getting any resource love. I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API. That team looks pretty unloved to me.
Ironically enough, Wave was a great platform, may they rest in peace. But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app. Facebook -- that is, the stock service they offer with walls and friends and such -- is the killer app for the Facebook Platform. And it is a very serious mistake to conclude that the Facebook App could have been anywhere near as successful without the Facebook Platform.
You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant? I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. I did start this post -- if you'll reach back into distant memory -- by describing Google as \"doing everything right\". We do mean well, and for the most part when people say we're arrogant it's because we didn't hire them, or they're unhappy with our policies, or something along those lines. They're inferring arrogance because it makes them feel better.
But when we take the stance that we know how to design the perfect product for everyone, and believe you me, I hear that a lot, then we're being fools. You can attribute it to arrogance, or naivete, or whatever -- it doesn't matter in the end, because it's foolishness. There IS no perfect product for everyone.
And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size. Talk about an affront to Accessibility. I mean, as I get older I'm actually going blind. For real. I've been nearsighted all my life, and once you hit 40 years old you stop being able to see things up close. So font selection becomes this life-or-death thing: it can lock you out of the product completely. But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever. Hit Ctrl-+ on every single page visit for the rest of your life.
It's not just them. It's everyone. The problem is that we're a Product Company through and through. We built a successful product with broad appeal -- our search, that is -- and that wild success has biased us.
Amazon was a product company too, so it took an out-of-band force to make Bezos understand the need for a platform. That force was their evaporating margins; he was cornered and had to think of a way out. But all he had was a bunch of engineers and all these computers... if only they could be monetized somehow... you can see how he arrived at AWS, in hindsight.
Microsoft started out as a platform, so they've just had lots of practice at it.
Facebook, though: they worry me. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they started off as a Product and they rode that success pretty far. So I'm not sure exactly how they made the transition to a platform. It was a relatively long time ago, since they had to be a platform before (now very old) things like Mafia Wars could come along.
Maybe they just looked at us and asked: \"How can we beat Google? What are they missing?\"
The problem we face is pretty huge, because it will take a dramatic cultural change in order for us to start catching up. We don't do internal service-oriented platforms, and we just as equally don't do external ones. This means that the \"not getting it\" is endemic across the company: the PMs don't get it, the engineers don't get it, the product teams don't get it, nobody gets it. Even if individuals do, even if YOU do, it doesn't matter one bit unless we're treating it as an all-hands-on-deck emergency. We can't keep launching products and pretending we'll turn them into magical beautiful extensible platforms later. We've tried that and it's not working.
The Golden Rule of Platforms, \"Eat Your Own Dogfood\", can be rephrased as \"Start with a Platform, and Then Use it for Everything.\" You can't just bolt it on later. Certainly not easily at any rate -- ask anyone who worked on platformizing MS Office. Or anyone who worked on platformizing Amazon. If you delay it, it'll be ten times as much work as just doing it correctly up front. You can't cheat. You can't have secret back doors for internal apps to get special priority access, not for ANY reason. You need to solve the hard problems up front.
I'm not saying it's too late for us, but the longer we wait, the closer we get to being Too Late.
I honestly don't know how to wrap this up. I've said pretty much everything I came here to say today. This post has been six years in the making. I'm sorry if I wasn't gentle enough, or if I misrepresented some product or team or person, or if we're actually doing LOTS of platform stuff and it just so happens that I and everyone I ever talk to has just never heard about it. I'm sorry.
But we've gotta start doing this right.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Steve's Google Platform rant","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/WugKtXSp7We","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-03-10T16:35:58.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"terabytest","points":261,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :)
I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224) and a spinoff called 2048 (http://saming.fr/p/2048/). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them.
I discovered Threes only today, and I had no idea it looked so similar. I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :P
The code is also open-source. You can find it here: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048
Feel free to ask me anything, and thanks to everyone for the attention! :)
By the way, my highscore is somewhere around 6000. Admittedly, I'm quite bad at playing my own game :P
EDIT: Make sure not to get addicted!
EDIT 2: The game now has swipe gestures and vim keys support (added by @rayhaanj)!","num_comments":null,"story_id":7373566,"story_title":"2048","story_url":"http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/","parent_id":7373566,"created_at_i":1394469358,"_tags":["comment","author_terabytest","story_7373566"],"objectID":"7373927","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"terabytest","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :)
I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224) and a spinoff called 2048 (http://saming.fr/p/2048/). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them.
I discovered Threes only today, and I had no idea it looked so similar. I searched a bit and it appears as if 1024 is also inspired by Threes, so my game is probably the last of a long chain of clones :P
The code is also open-source. You can find it here: https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048
Feel free to ask me anything, and thanks to everyone for the attention! :)
By the way, my highscore is somewhere around 6000. Admittedly, I'm quite bad at playing my own game :P
EDIT: Make sure not to get addicted!
EDIT 2: The game now has swipe gestures and vim keys support (added by @rayhaanj)!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"2048","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-12-19T23:31:44.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"dctoedt","points":230,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"A few points to help put this in context:
1. Technically, the USPTO hasn't yet \"invalidated\" the patent; it issued a first \"Office action\" in which it stated that all of the patents claims were unpatentable in view of varying combinations of prior-art references.
2. Institutionally the USPTO is very much aware of the significance of reexamination for a patent in litigation.
3. The Office action was signed by a \"primary\" examiner, i.e., someone who has been around the block a few times. Another primary examiner and a supervisory primary examiner are listed as \"conferees.\" You would be right to read this as a signal that the USPTO takes these matters very seriously; the detailed written analysis (which I haven't studied) seems to bear this out.
4. The primary reference cited is a patent [1] filed in November 2005 whose lead inventor was Danny Hillis --- dare I say, the legendary Danny Hillis [2].
Another main reference is a Japanese patent publication from 2000, referred to as the Nomura reference.
5. In responding to the rejection, Apple can try to establish that their inventors predated Hillis's November 2005 filing date. This is referred to as \"swearing behind\" the Hillis patent's filing date [3]. But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge. (I won't go into the details of the statute and regulation unless people are interested.)
Apple can't swear behind the 2000 Nomura publication because it was published more than one year before Apple's January 2007 filing date --- see 35 USC 102(b).
6. Paragraph 14 on page 34 is pretty typical: It says, in effect, \"you'd better take your best shot at contesting this rejection now, Apple, because the next time around it will be a final rejection.\"
7. If, as seems likely, the USPTO does issue a final rejection, Apple can appeal, first to an administrative appellate body in the USPTO, and if necessary to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit is required by Supreme Court precedent to be fairly deferential to the USPTO's findings in some respects, but it's not entirely clear to me how that would play out here.
[EDITED FOR STYLE]
[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US7724242
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_back_of_a_reference","num_comments":null,"story_id":4945181,"story_title":"Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO","story_url":"http://www.scribd.com/doc/117432798/Pinch-to-Zoom-Patent-Invalidated","parent_id":4945181,"created_at_i":1355959904,"_tags":["comment","author_dctoedt","story_4945181"],"objectID":"4945449","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dctoedt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"A few points to help put this in context:
1. Technically, the USPTO hasn't yet \"invalidated\" the patent; it issued a first \"Office action\" in which it stated that all of the patents claims were unpatentable in view of varying combinations of prior-art references.
2. Institutionally the USPTO is very much aware of the significance of reexamination for a patent in litigation.
3. The Office action was signed by a \"primary\" examiner, i.e., someone who has been around the block a few times. Another primary examiner and a supervisory primary examiner are listed as \"conferees.\" You would be right to read this as a signal that the USPTO takes these matters very seriously; the detailed written analysis (which I haven't studied) seems to bear this out.
4. The primary reference cited is a patent [1] filed in November 2005 whose lead inventor was Danny Hillis --- dare I say, the legendary Danny Hillis [2].
Another main reference is a Japanese patent publication from 2000, referred to as the Nomura reference.
5. In responding to the rejection, Apple can try to establish that their inventors predated Hillis's November 2005 filing date. This is referred to as \"swearing behind\" the Hillis patent's filing date [3]. But the Apple inventors' filing date is January 2007; swearing behind that far would be a real challenge. (I won't go into the details of the statute and regulation unless people are interested.)
Apple can't swear behind the 2000 Nomura publication because it was published more than one year before Apple's January 2007 filing date --- see 35 USC 102(b).
6. Paragraph 14 on page 34 is pretty typical: It says, in effect, \"you'd better take your best shot at contesting this rejection now, Apple, because the next time around it will be a final rejection.\"
7. If, as seems likely, the USPTO does issue a final rejection, Apple can appeal, first to an administrative appellate body in the USPTO, and if necessary to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit is required by Supreme Court precedent to be fairly deferential to the USPTO's findings in some respects, but it's not entirely clear to me how that would play out here.
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[1] http://www.google.com/patents/US7724242
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swear_back_of_a_reference","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent invalidated by USPTO","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.scribd.com/doc/117432798/Pinch-to-Zoom-Patent-Invalidated","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-04-08T20:46:46.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"icey","points":211,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1250799,"story_title":"New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others","story_url":"http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler","parent_id":1250799,"created_at_i":1270759606,"_tags":["comment","author_icey","story_1250799"],"objectID":"1250850","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"icey","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I don't really have a politically correct way to say this: What a horseshit maneuver by Apple.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"New iPhone Agreement Bans Flash-to-iPhone Compiler & Others","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flash_compiler","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-18T04:00:08.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"mitchellh","points":206,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I worked at an Apple store for over a year as a "salesperson" (we called them Mac Specialists at the time). Let me input my two cents:
I was trained to do this. From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money. This requires using the APPLE technique (acronym, google it). The second P stands for "Present a solution for the customer to take home today." It was common knowledge at the time (4 years ago) that consumers were brainwashed to thinking faster/more is always better. But when we can save them hundreds of dollars, this isn't the case. There were many many times I talked someone out of a $2,000 MacBook Pro for a $1200 entry-level iMac with double the specs because after probing (the first "P") I learned they didn't need to be mobile. This was really, really common.
And note, this isn't about trying to convince people to spend less. Sometimes after probing, we learned they needed _more_. It is about the RIGHT solution.
To add to this: specialists don't earn commission. We weren't ranked based on financial sales numbers (there are other metrics, however). There is no incentive for specialists to sell more expensive or less expensive things. It is about the right thing.
So, this guy was just doing what he was trained to do. It is Apple store standard.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5897301,"story_title":"Buying the new MacBook Air","story_url":"http://virtualpants.com/post/53248259631/buying-the-new-macbook-air","parent_id":5897301,"created_at_i":1371528008,"_tags":["comment","author_mitchellh","story_5897301"],"objectID":"5897440","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mitchellh","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I worked at an Apple store for over a year as a "salesperson" (we called them Mac Specialists at the time). Let me input my two cents:
I was trained to do this. From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money. This requires using the APPLE technique (acronym, google it). The second P stands for "Present a solution for the customer to take home today." It was common knowledge at the time (4 years ago) that consumers were brainwashed to thinking faster/more is always better. But when we can save them hundreds of dollars, this isn't the case. There were many many times I talked someone out of a $2,000 MacBook Pro for a $1200 entry-level iMac with double the specs because after probing (the first "P") I learned they didn't need to be mobile. This was really, really common.
And note, this isn't about trying to convince people to spend less. Sometimes after probing, we learned they needed _more_. It is about the RIGHT solution.
To add to this: specialists don't earn commission. We weren't ranked based on financial sales numbers (there are other metrics, however). There is no incentive for specialists to sell more expensive or less expensive things. It is about the right thing.
So, this guy was just doing what he was trained to do. It is Apple store standard.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Buying the new MacBook Air","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://virtualpants.com/post/53248259631/buying-the-new-macbook-air","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-01-25T22:56:53.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mikehar","points":203,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"As a co-founder of Picnik, I was surprised by this article. It contained several errors which is pretty astonishing given its brevity. Here are a few corrections:
1) Sposato was not a founder of Picnik. He was hired by the two founders, myself and Darrin Massena.\\n2) Sposato did not decide to sell Picnik. Naturally he was very involved in the process, but the decision was ultimately made by the board (which Sposato was not on). I can tell you that it was not an easy choice. \\n3) Picnik was not a "photo-sharing" site, it was a photo editing site with very limited photo sharing.\\n4) "One-third of our 25-person team, including my two business partners, quit right off the bat”. Both co-founders worked at Google for slightly more than a year. Sposato was there for about two years. Most of the people who left were marketing support or office management. We did lose our lead designer to Apple, but I don't recall any other product related departures in the first year.
Picnik was amazing. Great team, we had a lot of fun and millions of amazing customers. It was very rewarding to work on a product that your customers love. Selling was a tough choice. Picnik was very healthy, profitable and growing. We felt like we were able to capture much of that value in the sale price and also have the opportunity to work on a product at Google that we felt would have a huge impact.
Unfortunately for us, within our first six months Google decided to focus on Google+ and there wasn't room for any other photo product outside of Google+. I completely understood at the time why Google+ was important to Google, it just wasn't important to me. So I left. I don't know how we could have been able to predict the shift in focus to Google+ even with perfect visibility into Google. From what I gather, such a large shift in focus and investment was a unprecedented in Google before Google+.
I think Google is a great company, I have a super high opinion of the people that I met there. Perhaps this wasn't the optimal exit for the Picnik team, but it was pretty damn good.
-mike harrington","num_comments":null,"story_id":7121692,"story_title":"What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google","story_url":"http://www.inc.com/magazine/201402/jonathan-sposato/lessons-from-selling-to-google.html","parent_id":7121692,"created_at_i":1390690613,"_tags":["comment","author_mikehar","story_7121692"],"objectID":"7122906","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mikehar","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"As a co-founder of Picnik, I was surprised by this article. It contained several errors which is pretty astonishing given its brevity. Here are a few corrections:
1) Sposato was not a founder of Picnik. He was hired by the two founders, myself and Darrin Massena.\\n2) Sposato did not decide to sell Picnik. Naturally he was very involved in the process, but the decision was ultimately made by the board (which Sposato was not on). I can tell you that it was not an easy choice. \\n3) Picnik was not a "photo-sharing" site, it was a photo editing site with very limited photo sharing.\\n4) "One-third of our 25-person team, including my two business partners, quit right off the bat”. Both co-founders worked at Google for slightly more than a year. Sposato was there for about two years. Most of the people who left were marketing support or office management. We did lose our lead designer to Apple, but I don't recall any other product related departures in the first year.
Picnik was amazing. Great team, we had a lot of fun and millions of amazing customers. It was very rewarding to work on a product that your customers love. Selling was a tough choice. Picnik was very healthy, profitable and growing. We felt like we were able to capture much of that value in the sale price and also have the opportunity to work on a product at Google that we felt would have a huge impact.
Unfortunately for us, within our first six months Google decided to focus on Google+ and there wasn't room for any other photo product outside of Google+. I completely understood at the time why Google+ was important to Google, it just wasn't important to me. So I left. I don't know how we could have been able to predict the shift in focus to Google+ even with perfect visibility into Google. From what I gather, such a large shift in focus and investment was a unprecedented in Google before Google+.
I think Google is a great company, I have a super high opinion of the people that I met there. Perhaps this wasn't the optimal exit for the Picnik team, but it was pretty damn good.
-mike harrington","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"What I Wish I Had Known Before Selling to Google","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.inc.com/magazine/201402/jonathan-sposato/lessons-from-selling-to-google.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-07T22:03:35.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"dkulchenko","points":198,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Look at the two writeups (Zuckerberg's and Page's) side by side. Each has 4 paragraphs. Each of the pairs of paragraphs addresses the same thing.
1st paragraph: we wanted to respond to these claims. 2nd paragraph: never heard of PRISM, don't give direct access. 3rd paragraph: each request goes through legal channels. 4th paragraph: encourage governments to be more transparent.
Terrifying.
EDIT: It gets worse. Here's Apple: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."
Here's Paltalk: "We have not heard of PRISM. Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law. Paltalk does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers.”
Here's AOL: "We do not have any knowledge of the PRISM program. We do not disclose user information to government agencies without a court order, subpoena or formal legal process, nor do we provide any government agency with access to our servers."
And here's Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network."
Microsoft refused to issue a direct denial of involvement in PRISM.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5842173,"story_title":"Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM","story_url":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631","parent_id":5842173,"created_at_i":1370642615,"_tags":["comment","author_dkulchenko","story_5842173"],"objectID":"5842291","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"dkulchenko","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Look at the two writeups (Zuckerberg's and Page's) side by side. Each has 4 paragraphs. Each of the pairs of paragraphs addresses the same thing.
1st paragraph: we wanted to respond to these claims. 2nd paragraph: never heard of PRISM, don't give direct access. 3rd paragraph: each request goes through legal channels. 4th paragraph: encourage governments to be more transparent.
Terrifying.
EDIT: It gets worse. Here's Apple: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."
Here's Paltalk: "We have not heard of PRISM. Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law. Paltalk does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers.”
Here's AOL: "We do not have any knowledge of the PRISM program. We do not disclose user information to government agencies without a court order, subpoena or formal legal process, nor do we provide any government agency with access to our servers."
And here's Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network."
Microsoft refused to issue a direct denial of involvement in PRISM.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10100828955847631","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-22T20:54:30.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"abalone","points":193,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Just to keep things in perspective, the goal of Touch ID is not to be unhackable. The goal is to get more consumers to move from zero security to pretty good security.
A very large number of people don't put any kind of passcode of any kind on their phone, simply because it's inconvenient. Touch ID is designed for them. It's not designed to secure nuclear footballs.
Touch ID is going to massively reduce the number of totally unsecured iPhones that require zero effort to access. That's the goal.
I think some people see "fingerprint scanner" and think "military-grade security" because that's where we've seen scanners before in movies and such. But this is really very much a solution for the consumer market, where convenience and usability are critical features of a security system. Sometimes infosec folks forget that. If you make it too hard to use (passcodes), people just bypass it. So you can blame the user, or you can try to design something easier to use. If in the end you've improved the overall security landscape, you've succeeded. I think that's what Apple is doing here.","num_comments":null,"story_id":6427390,"story_title":"Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID","story_url":"http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid","parent_id":6427390,"created_at_i":1379883270,"_tags":["comment","author_abalone","story_6427390"],"objectID":"6427964","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"abalone","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Just to keep things in perspective, the goal of Touch ID is not to be unhackable. The goal is to get more consumers to move from zero security to pretty good security.
A very large number of people don't put any kind of passcode of any kind on their phone, simply because it's inconvenient. Touch ID is designed for them. It's not designed to secure nuclear footballs.
Touch ID is going to massively reduce the number of totally unsecured iPhones that require zero effort to access. That's the goal.
I think some people see "fingerprint scanner" and think "military-grade security" because that's where we've seen scanners before in movies and such. But this is really very much a solution for the consumer market, where convenience and usability are critical features of a security system. Sometimes infosec folks forget that. If you make it too hard to use (passcodes), people just bypass it. So you can blame the user, or you can try to design something easier to use. If in the end you've improved the overall security landscape, you've succeeded. I think that's what Apple is doing here.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Chaos Computer Club breaks Apple TouchID","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-27T19:02:05.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"foob","points":183,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF. People make fun of him and make comments about how he has a net negative impact on software and computing. It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots. He's had more of a far reaching and positive impact on software than people with such naive views will probably ever realize.
What I really wanted to comment about though (I couldn't hold back a short rant...) is how these Steve Jobs comments relate to the E-Parasites Act that was discussed yesterday. I read a lot of great comments there about how we're losing our freedoms incrementally and how this will shape the future. In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general. If the US ever ends up in a place where there's widespread censorship on the internet then you can bet that it can trace its ancestry back to the DMCA and something like the E-Parasites act which will allow entire sites to get shut down with lots of room for abuse. Every step we take in that direction makes it easier to keep stepping in that direction.
So why don't as many people feel this way about Apple? Because we like their products? Iphones have made it normal to buy a computing device that has artificial restrictions preventing you from running whatever software you want on it. If they had their way then it would have actually been illegal to jailbreak your phone in order to circumvent this. Sure, iphones are really cool but this is a step in a terrifying direction. If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple. Laws like that might seem laughably extreme now but with every step in that direction they seem less and less so.
Stallman sees this and he has dedicated his life to moving us in the opposite direction. He's been hugely successful at this and he's been almost prophetic in his opinions about what we should be worrying about. He was criticizing Apple for trying to take away peoples' freedoms and Steve Jobs for steering the company in this direction. He wasn't condemning him as a person, as he said \"My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong, since I barely knew him.\" I don't see expressing this view after Steve Jobs' death as being particularly disrespectful. Steve Jobs is known to the majority of people only for his role at Apple. This role is what he was praised for across the internet and in magazines after his death. This role is what Stallman condemned.","num_comments":null,"story_id":3163920,"story_title":"Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction","story_url":"http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html?ohai#27_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29","parent_id":3163920,"created_at_i":1319742125,"_tags":["comment","author_foob","story_3163920"],"objectID":"3164929","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"foob","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Every time an article involving Richard Stallman gets posted here I cringe as I read through the comments. There are a range of opinions so I don't want to overgeneralize but there are a large number of people here that seem to almost despise Stallman and the FSF. People make fun of him and make comments about how he has a net negative impact on software and computing. It pains me to see so many people, who quite likely rely on emacs, Xcode with gcc, gnu coreutils, or an operating system that would've never been possible without the Free software movement, sit around and ridicule RMS because he eats toe jam or really, really likes parrots. He's had more of a far reaching and positive impact on software than people with such naive views will probably ever realize.
What I really wanted to comment about though (I couldn't hold back a short rant...) is how these Steve Jobs comments relate to the E-Parasites Act that was discussed yesterday. I read a lot of great comments there about how we're losing our freedoms incrementally and how this will shape the future. In the US we've seen this ratchet effect taking place to a frightening extent in the last decades both inside of computing and in general. If the US ever ends up in a place where there's widespread censorship on the internet then you can bet that it can trace its ancestry back to the DMCA and something like the E-Parasites act which will allow entire sites to get shut down with lots of room for abuse. Every step we take in that direction makes it easier to keep stepping in that direction.
So why don't as many people feel this way about Apple? Because we like their products? Iphones have made it normal to buy a computing device that has artificial restrictions preventing you from running whatever software you want on it. If they had their way then it would have actually been illegal to jailbreak your phone in order to circumvent this. Sure, iphones are really cool but this is a step in a terrifying direction. If it ever becomes illegal to upgrade the RAM in your laptop yourself or to install third party software on it then you can bet that you can trace the ancestry of those laws back to the shifts in public perception of computing freedom caused by companies like Apple. Laws like that might seem laughably extreme now but with every step in that direction they seem less and less so.
Stallman sees this and he has dedicated his life to moving us in the opposite direction. He's been hugely successful at this and he's been almost prophetic in his opinions about what we should be worrying about. He was criticizing Apple for trying to take away peoples' freedoms and Steve Jobs for steering the company in this direction. He wasn't condemning him as a person, as he said \"My feelings about Jobs as a person are not strong, since I barely knew him.\" I don't see expressing this view after Steve Jobs' death as being particularly disrespectful. Steve Jobs is known to the majority of people only for his role at Apple. This role is what he was praised for across the internet and in magazines after his death. This role is what Stallman condemned.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Richard Stallman on Steve Jobs: correction","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html?ohai#27_October_2011_%28Steve_Jobs%29","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-09-21T03:46:37.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"mladenkovacevic","points":182,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"No, no, no you guys don't understand. This is not a cheap rip-off. It's an homage and the Swiss will be honoured that their famous clock has been elevated to the high-art status of Apple design and innovation. The critical eye of an average iPhone user will appreciate the fine craftsmanship & precision of the painstaking work that went into translating the iconic clock into an exact digital replica.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4551943,"story_title":"Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design","story_url":"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517054-37/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famous-swiss-clock-design/","parent_id":4551943,"created_at_i":1348199197,"_tags":["comment","author_mladenkovacevic","story_4551943"],"objectID":"4552098","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mladenkovacevic","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"No, no, no you guys don't understand. This is not a cheap rip-off. It's an homage and the Swiss will be honoured that their famous clock has been elevated to the high-art status of Apple design and innovation. The critical eye of an average iPhone user will appreciate the fine craftsmanship & precision of the painstaking work that went into translating the iconic clock into an exact digital replica.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Apple accused of ripping off famous Swiss clock design","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57517054-37/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famous-swiss-clock-design/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-23T20:11:48.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"zaroth","points":181,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack".
At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying.
How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?
This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted. In other words, it should be a lot harder to "Accept" these profiles outside an enterprise setting, because it sounds exploitable. What else can you configure "so easily" I wonder?
Then you get into how they are hacking CSS and iframes into the email body, to substitute for Javascript, and actually create a workable user interface. Now this is fascinating, impressive, and deserves further study... Without fully understanding exactly what they are doing, however, it sounds highly abusive of the Mail app's rendering capabilities, and points to exploitable paths within the Mail app that probably need to be tightened up by Apple. If LinkedIn can make an email "act" like that without any opt-in on my part, how would Mallory use the same "feature" in their latest SPAM campaign?
<s>Thanks LinkedIn... really, I'm impressed. When exactly did Walter Bishop start working for you?</s>
P.S. I look forward to following your pending class-action lawsuit for violation of US federal wiretapping laws. Cheers!","num_comments":null,"story_id":6600597,"story_title":"LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS","story_url":"http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios","parent_id":6600597,"created_at_i":1382559108,"_tags":["comment","author_zaroth","story_6600597"],"objectID":"6601334","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"zaroth","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I don't think I've ever gagged quite like that while reading a technical article describing a "neat hack".
At first I'm thinking, oh, I wonder how they convinced Apple to let them use some private APIs, and then... curiosity turns to revulsion as soon as I saw that proxy diagram. Good god... LinkedIn MITM IMAP. That is truly terrifying.
How would you even go about installing that on the user's phone? Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?
This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted. In other words, it should be a lot harder to "Accept" these profiles outside an enterprise setting, because it sounds exploitable. What else can you configure "so easily" I wonder?
Then you get into how they are hacking CSS and iframes into the email body, to substitute for Javascript, and actually create a workable user interface. Now this is fascinating, impressive, and deserves further study... Without fully understanding exactly what they are doing, however, it sounds highly abusive of the Mail app's rendering capabilities, and points to exploitable paths within the Mail app that probably need to be tightened up by Apple. If LinkedIn can make an email "act" like that without any opt-in on my part, how would Mallory use the same "feature" in their latest SPAM campaign?
<s>Thanks LinkedIn... really, I'm impressed. When exactly did Walter Bishop start working for you?</s>
P.S. I look forward to following your pending class-action lawsuit for violation of US federal wiretapping laws. Cheers!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing-impossible-ios","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-09-04T03:56:30.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"saulrh","points":178,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Money quote for the people that don't want to wade through ten pages of rant:
During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by\n Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action\n Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the\n AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files\n were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of\n \"NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv\" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS\n devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device,\n type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone\n numbers, addresses, etc. During the second week of March 2012, a Dell Vostro notebook, used by\n Supervisor Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl from FBI Regional Cyber Action\n Team and New York FBI Office Evidence Response Team was breached using the\n AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability on Java, during the shell session some files\n were downloaded from his Desktop folder one of them with the name of\n \"NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv\" turned to be a list of 12,367,232 Apple iOS\n devices including Unique Device Identifiers (UDID), user names, name of device,\n type of device, Apple Push Notification Service tokens, zipcodes, cellphone\n numbers, addresses, etc.You know what makes me sick to the stomach? Developers starving themselves to death because of a complete disregard to basic business sense and a misguided sense of righteousness.
5 easy steps to homelessness:
1. Spend years building products for a platform, where $1.99 is a high price.
2. Avoid doing even the most basic mental arithmetic to figure out how many units you need to sell at $1.99 to be able to pay rent.
3. Then set the price to zero, because you're a nice guy.
4. Sell in-app purchases for the super duper high price of $2.99, thus raising your customer's LTV to a magnificent $2.99. But, don't be an asshole. Ask for the upgrade politely and quietly, in the third screen of the settings. Remember, you don't work for $ZNGA!
5. Make it up in volume
\"We really want to stick to the free and pay 2.99 to unlock model, but if only .5% of users buy our game, were going to have to figure something else out. Its very malleable at this point. Perhaps were giving too much away for free, its really hard to say until we see more data.
6. Look a bonus step no.6! If after following steps 1-5 you're still not quite homeless, then it's time for some more data collection. Spend another year or so A/B testing the gradients of your upgrade button. And oh maybe, your upgrade price is too high? Yeah, test that.
Excuse me while I relieve myself of the agony of watching people do this over and over again.
AAAAAAAAAARGHH!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, STOP IT!!!!!
Why do developers worship Apple, but absolutely refuse to take the slightest hint from them on how to do business?
Read this - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
And repeat after me:
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
The app store is the most brilliant and brutal execution of this strategy. Apple is selling $500 phones - the most expensive phones - while simultaneously making developers fall over each other and well, go homeless, to make software for their platform to give away for free.
As if that's not tragic enough, the celebration of the lottery winners has the public and developers believe that making apps is a great business to be in!
patio11 has been trying to drill these things into people's heads for ages. But, all he seems to get is upvotes and not enough people getting his point.
You don't have to suddenly go all Zynga on your users. There's a vast chasm between selling virtual sheep to addicted grandmas and giving away the farm for less than the price of a toilet roll. You can charge a good price, which does not depend on huge scale to pay the rent.
Edited to add: Lest I sound like some smug business know-it-all on a high horse, I've made the same mistakes. Most of us are like this. We need to make a conscious effort to be good at business.","num_comments":null,"story_id":4387127,"story_title":"How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness","story_url":"http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/going-broke-with-success-how-an-app-with-200000-downloads-led-to-devel","parent_id":4387127,"created_at_i":1345057921,"_tags":["comment","author_revorad","story_4387127"],"objectID":"4387637","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"revorad","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"\"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion.\"
You know what makes me sick to the stomach? Developers starving themselves to death because of a complete disregard to basic business sense and a misguided sense of righteousness.
5 easy steps to homelessness:
1. Spend years building products for a platform, where $1.99 is a high price.
2. Avoid doing even the most basic mental arithmetic to figure out how many units you need to sell at $1.99 to be able to pay rent.
3. Then set the price to zero, because you're a nice guy.
4. Sell in-app purchases for the super duper high price of $2.99, thus raising your customer's LTV to a magnificent $2.99. But, don't be an asshole. Ask for the upgrade politely and quietly, in the third screen of the settings. Remember, you don't work for $ZNGA!
5. Make it up in volume
\"We really want to stick to the free and pay 2.99 to unlock model, but if only .5% of users buy our game, were going to have to figure something else out. Its very malleable at this point. Perhaps were giving too much away for free, its really hard to say until we see more data.
6. Look a bonus step no.6! If after following steps 1-5 you're still not quite homeless, then it's time for some more data collection. Spend another year or so A/B testing the gradients of your upgrade button. And oh maybe, your upgrade price is too high? Yeah, test that.
Excuse me while I relieve myself of the agony of watching people do this over and over again.
AAAAAAAAAARGHH!!! FOR FUCK'S SAKE, STOP IT!!!!!
Why do developers worship Apple, but absolutely refuse to take the slightest hint from them on how to do business?
Read this - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
And repeat after me:
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
\"Commoditize your complements.\"
The app store is the most brilliant and brutal execution of this strategy. Apple is selling $500 phones - the most expensive phones - while simultaneously making developers fall over each other and well, go homeless, to make software for their platform to give away for free.
As if that's not tragic enough, the celebration of the lottery winners has the public and developers believe that making apps is a great business to be in!
patio11 has been trying to drill these things into people's heads for ages. But, all he seems to get is upvotes and not enough people getting his point.
You don't have to suddenly go all Zynga on your users. There's a vast chasm between selling virtual sheep to addicted grandmas and giving away the farm for less than the price of a toilet roll. You can charge a good price, which does not depend on huge scale to pay the rent.
Edited to add: Lest I sound like some smug business know-it-all on a high horse, I've made the same mistakes. Most of us are like this. We need to make a conscious effort to be good at business.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"How an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/going-broke-with-success-how-an-app-with-200000-downloads-led-to-devel","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-04-11T21:49:32.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"kunai","points":174,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Google has overstayed the web's welcome.
What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.
Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they can't afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.
This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.
Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I hope they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.
And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5534882,"story_title":"You know, Google, the web already had this feature","story_url":"http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/","parent_id":5534882,"created_at_i":1365716972,"_tags":["comment","author_kunai","story_5534882"],"objectID":"5535006","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kunai","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Google has overstayed the web's welcome.
What started out as a quirky, innovative company that bucked all of the suit-and-tie trends (see Microsoft, HP, even Apple in some regards) of Silicon Valley, has now turned into a monstrous calamity with no regard for its users. Up until 2009, it was breezy and beautiful, but right now, at this moment, it's a different story altogether.
Don't be evil? Pfeh. The only thing left of Google that they haven't managed to screw up or cause outrage over is search. The only thing they can't afford to change, for fear people will stop using it.
This harkens back far before Google, far before any company dared invest in the Internet. This type of corporate mentality is one we see often, but tend to forget quickly. Apple did it in the 1990s. Microsoft is doing it now; look at Windows 8.
Any corporation that strays too far from its roots with fail. Not in a fiscal sense, but in an ethical sense, and that's the worst type of failure there is. Do I hope they get their shit together and start being Google again? Of course. They could start by fixing YouTube, exhuming Google Reader, and rethinking the decision to end iGoogle.
And please, PLEASE, reinvent that horrid thing called Google+. Even the name sucks.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"You know, Google, the web already had this feature","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.vrypan.net/2013/4/11/Googleplus-pages-notifications/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-04-14T16:14:12.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jrockway","points":174,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"So, as a UNIX hacker, here's what I don't get about the iOS community. There is way too much excitement over the simplest things ever. Let's break down some of the copy for this app:
Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH client
What does that mean? What does a clean ssh client do; not commit any protocol violations? What is crisp? When you bite into it, it's like a ripe apple? What does cheerful mean? Is the ssh client really happy that it can make a TCP connection to the intarwebs, especially for me?
What does this sentence mean to someone that wants to ssh from their phone?
it helps you when you need it, and stays out of your way when you dont
So when I want to be sshing, I can run it, and when I don't want to be sshing, I don't have to run it? Splendid. It works like every other computer program ever made.
Perfect for system administrators, web developers, movie-style hackers (Let me just TCP/IP into the UNIX port!), or any person who needs to connect remotely and type some magic.
So I googled for \"ssh client\", found your page, and you're telling me who uses ssh clients. How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?
Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2447256,"story_title":"Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.","story_url":"http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/","parent_id":2447256,"created_at_i":1302797652,"_tags":["comment","author_jrockway","story_2447256"],"objectID":"2447362","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jrockway","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"So, as a UNIX hacker, here's what I don't get about the iOS community. There is way too much excitement over the simplest things ever. Let's break down some of the copy for this app:
Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH client
What does that mean? What does a clean ssh client do; not commit any protocol violations? What is crisp? When you bite into it, it's like a ripe apple? What does cheerful mean? Is the ssh client really happy that it can make a TCP connection to the intarwebs, especially for me?
What does this sentence mean to someone that wants to ssh from their phone?
it helps you when you need it, and stays out of your way when you dont
So when I want to be sshing, I can run it, and when I don't want to be sshing, I don't have to run it? Splendid. It works like every other computer program ever made.
Perfect for system administrators, web developers, movie-style hackers (Let me just TCP/IP into the UNIX port!), or any person who needs to connect remotely and type some magic.
So I googled for \"ssh client\", found your page, and you're telling me who uses ssh clients. How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?
Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-03T21:09:13.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"Firehed","points":172,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information (which is fine, but not interesting to me).
I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos.
Edit: scrolling down further, there are some other UI refreshes that I do think improve the experience overall - the calendar and photo album views stood out to me. But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production! The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5004483,"story_title":"A New Look for Facebook","story_url":"http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-New-Look-Concept/6504647","parent_id":5004483,"created_at_i":1357247353,"_tags":["comment","author_Firehed","story_5004483"],"objectID":"5004682","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Firehed","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information (which is fine, but not interesting to me).
I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos.
Edit: scrolling down further, there are some other UI refreshes that I do think improve the experience overall - the calendar and photo album views stood out to me. But I think it's important to use ugly people with weird names in your designs to gauge how it will actually look in production! The dark theme on pages, for example, looks very clean with Apple and Adobe as featured, but I imagine will look pretty dreary to stare at all day.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"A New Look for Facebook","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.behance.net/gallery/Facebook-New-Look-Concept/6504647","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-08-24T23:04:06.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"danilocampos","points":170,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Apple's going to be fine. Steve's most extraordinary work isn't the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It's rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good.
Fuck, I'll miss him, though. I'll miss the way he got up there each and every time like he was selling you your own personal Jesus in a box. Not out of hucksterism, but because he really was that excited to share what he and his people had been working on. Excited to do things better. Excited to solve problems in a way that was far more tasteful, more satisfying, than anything anyone had bothered to try before. Maybe he'll still do announcements as his health allows – but maybe that would send a weird message.
He's a man who was lucky enough to find out exactly what he did best – and to seize upon it with every cell in his body.
I'm a better person for his example. The resurrection of Apple was one of the most enjoyable things I followed in my childhood. No matter how you feel about his approach, this is a guy who loves his work with an intensity that couldn't be faked and won't be soon matched.","num_comments":null,"story_id":2922756,"story_title":"Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple","story_url":"http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-bw-19285464.html?x=0&.v=1","parent_id":2922756,"created_at_i":1314227046,"_tags":["comment","author_danilocampos","story_2922756"],"objectID":"2922950","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"danilocampos","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Apple's going to be fine. Steve's most extraordinary work isn't the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It's rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good.
Fuck, I'll miss him, though. I'll miss the way he got up there each and every time like he was selling you your own personal Jesus in a box. Not out of hucksterism, but because he really was that excited to share what he and his people had been working on. Excited to do things better. Excited to solve problems in a way that was far more tasteful, more satisfying, than anything anyone had bothered to try before. Maybe he'll still do announcements as his health allows – but maybe that would send a weird message.
He's a man who was lucky enough to find out exactly what he did best – and to seize upon it with every cell in his body.
I'm a better person for his example. The resurrection of Apple was one of the most enjoyable things I followed in my childhood. No matter how you feel about his approach, this is a guy who loves his work with an intensity that couldn't be faked and won't be soon matched.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_url":{"value":"http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Steve-Jobs-Resigns-as-CEO-of-bw-19285464.html?x=0&.v=1","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-04-29T13:47:21.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"gfunk911","points":168,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I love this. Apple clearly laid out their reasoning, using facts and persuasive argument. The world needs more of this.
Obviously, there is some spin in the post, and I don't completely agree with 100% of it, but I love the level of discourse.","num_comments":null,"story_id":1304310,"story_title":"Thoughts on Flash","story_url":"http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/","parent_id":1304310,"created_at_i":1272548841,"_tags":["comment","author_gfunk911","story_1304310"],"objectID":"1304353","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"gfunk911","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I love this. Apple clearly laid out their reasoning, using facts and persuasive argument. The world needs more of this.
Obviously, there is some spin in the post, and I don't completely agree with 100% of it, but I love the level of discourse.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Thoughts on Flash","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-01-12T09:30:39.000Z","title":"","url":"","author":"jacquesm","points":162,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Man this so sucks.
If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap. This in response to those that claim the DOJ didn't have anything to do with Aaron killing himself.
For some people the mere fact of being suspected of a crime they didn't commit is enough to push them over the edge. When you're placed in a holding cell the police will remove your laces from your boots so you don't hang yourself, that's how heavy being imprisoned can weigh on some.
Aaron did something that he thought was right, that he truly believed in and that upset a large number of applecarts and that had far reaching implications, had the proverbial book thrown at him and then some. The prospect of significant amounts of jail time (35 years for downloading scientific papers, it shouldn't even be a crime) and/or a felony record must have weighed very heavy on him.
For a person that is of a very stable mental make-up that would already be extreme pressure.
For someone with a mental issue it may very well be all it takes.
Aaron was inspiring to me, I think that no copyrighted piece of paper is worth a human life and that the DOJ, even if they are not directly responsible at least indirectly carry some of the responsibility here for beating down someone who was fighting for an extremely good cause in a somewhat haphazard way. The letter of the law and the spirit of the law should both be taken into account.
I hope those that had a hand in Aarons' continued prosecution will sleep miserably for a long time to come. Likely it won't weigh on their consciousness at all.","num_comments":null,"story_id":5046845,"story_title":"Aaron Swartz commits suicide","story_url":"http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html","parent_id":5046845,"created_at_i":1357983039,"_tags":["comment","author_jacquesm","story_5046845"],"objectID":"5047187","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jacquesm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Man this so sucks.
If you hit someone with enough felony counts sooner or later something can snap. This in response to those that claim the DOJ didn't have anything to do with Aaron killing himself.
For some people the mere fact of being suspected of a crime they didn't commit is enough to push them over the edge. When you're placed in a holding cell the police will remove your laces from your boots so you don't hang yourself, that's how heavy being imprisoned can weigh on some.
Aaron did something that he thought was right, that he truly believed in and that upset a large number of applecarts and that had far reaching implications, had the proverbial book thrown at him and then some. The prospect of significant amounts of jail time (35 years for downloading scientific papers, it shouldn't even be a crime) and/or a felony record must have weighed very heavy on him.
For a person that is of a very stable mental make-up that would already be extreme pressure.
For someone with a mental issue it may very well be all it takes.
Aaron was inspiring to me, I think that no copyrighted piece of paper is worth a human life and that the DOJ, even if they are not directly responsible at least indirectly carry some of the responsibility here for beating down someone who was fighting for an extremely good cause in a somewhat haphazard way. The letter of the law and the spirit of the law should both be taken into account.
I hope those that had a hand in Aarons' continued prosecution will sleep miserably for a long time to come. Likely it won't weigh on their consciousness at all.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Aaron Swartz commits suicide","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":194468,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":13,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=comment","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:22:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"catshirt","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"you think the university board wouldn't appeal to a good argument? possible they are bluffing, but if they get the right response they may shut up.
i find it hard to believe they would be spiteful, but maybe i am being too optimistic.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849381,"story_title":"How my school rejected an app made for students","story_url":"http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story","parent_id":7849975,"created_at_i":1401938567,"_tags":["comment","author_catshirt","story_7849381"],"objectID":"7850047","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"catshirt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"you think the university board wouldn't appeal to a good argument? possible they are bluffing, but if they get the right response they may shut up.
i find it hard to believe they would be spiteful, but maybe i am being too optimistic.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"How my school rejected an app made for students","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://theiostream.tumblr.com/post/87830445451/portoapp-a-story","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:19:47.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mantrax5","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Those are not negative news, just the speculation of Some Dude on the Internet.
Apple is not abandoning OpenGL, heck, SpriteKit and SceneKit are both laid on top of OpenGL.
The fact is OpenGL doesn't allow the underlying hardware to be fully utilized, so now those demanding best performance can use Metal. A good example would be a high-end gaming engine like Unreal. And those who don't, can keep using OpenGL forever.
All the FUD about walled garden and proprietary APIs ignore how Metal is supposed to be used. Engines like Unreal already support OpenGL, DirectX, the PlayStation variation of OpenGL-ish API, Mantle (AMD) and so on.
Now it'll support also Metal.
People who use the Unreal engine can still write cross-platform games for it, but now they'll get even better performance under iOS thanks to Metal.
That's really it. No conspiracy theories.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7845848,"story_title":"WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView","story_url":"http://blog.ludei.com/webgl-ios-8-safari-webview/","parent_id":7847177,"created_at_i":1401938387,"_tags":["comment","author_mantrax5","story_7845848"],"objectID":"7850038","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mantrax5","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Those are not negative news, just the speculation of Some Dude on the Internet.
Apple is not abandoning OpenGL, heck, SpriteKit and SceneKit are both laid on top of OpenGL.
The fact is OpenGL doesn't allow the underlying hardware to be fully utilized, so now those demanding best performance can use Metal. A good example would be a high-end gaming engine like Unreal. And those who don't, can keep using OpenGL forever.
All the FUD about walled garden and proprietary APIs ignore how Metal is supposed to be used. Engines like Unreal already support OpenGL, DirectX, the PlayStation variation of OpenGL-ish API, Mantle (AMD) and so on.
Now it'll support also Metal.
People who use the Unreal engine can still write cross-platform games for it, but now they'll get even better performance under iOS thanks to Metal.
That's really it. No conspiracy theories.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.ludei.com/webgl-ios-8-safari-webview/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:12:12.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"hollerith","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"There's a concept called "max TDP" which essentially means how much heat the cooling system (fans, heat sinks, heat pipes and case) will need to dissipate in the worst realistic case.
For the CPU in the base model 2013 Macbook Air (the Core i5-4250U), max TDP is 15 watts.
For my 2011 Sandy Bridge base model Mac mini, max TDP is 35 watts. Full-sized desktop gaming PCs have max TDPs over 100 watts if the heat generated by the discrete video card is included.
Max TDP for the CPU in this Zotac box is significantly less than even the 15 watts on the 2013 MBA. To achieve such a low max TDP, the clock needs to run slower, the chip needs to use lower voltages and other compromises need to be made.
My guess is that one place such a low TDP is desirable is in small tablets (or even smartphones??) where space considerations make cooling thing difficult even with a fan.
And of course it is desirable in fanless applications. Having just one fan, like an Intel NUC has or a Mac mini has, greatly increases the amount of heat the system can dissipate. The 2011 Mac mini server edition, for example, has a CPU with a max TDP of 45 watts and just one fan. But sometime even one fan is a bad idea: in boxes designed for dusty conditions, e.g., in a factory, or a remote location where it is difficult for someone to come by to clean out the insides of the system.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849215,"story_title":"World's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC","story_url":"http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/06/historic-moment-zotacs-fanless-zbox.html","parent_id":7849939,"created_at_i":1401937932,"_tags":["comment","author_hollerith","story_7849215"],"objectID":"7850023","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"hollerith","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"There's a concept called "max TDP" which essentially means how much heat the cooling system (fans, heat sinks, heat pipes and case) will need to dissipate in the worst realistic case.
For the CPU in the base model 2013 Macbook Air (the Core i5-4250U), max TDP is 15 watts.
For my 2011 Sandy Bridge base model Mac mini, max TDP is 35 watts. Full-sized desktop gaming PCs have max TDPs over 100 watts if the heat generated by the discrete video card is included.
Max TDP for the CPU in this Zotac box is significantly less than even the 15 watts on the 2013 MBA. To achieve such a low max TDP, the clock needs to run slower, the chip needs to use lower voltages and other compromises need to be made.
My guess is that one place such a low TDP is desirable is in small tablets (or even smartphones??) where space considerations make cooling thing difficult even with a fan.
And of course it is desirable in fanless applications. Having just one fan, like an Intel NUC has or a Mac mini has, greatly increases the amount of heat the system can dissipate. The 2011 Mac mini server edition, for example, has a CPU with a max TDP of 45 watts and just one fan. But sometime even one fan is a bad idea: in boxes designed for dusty conditions, e.g., in a factory, or a remote location where it is difficult for someone to come by to clean out the insides of the system.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"World's first fanless Core i5 mini-PC","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.fanlesstech.com/2014/06/historic-moment-zotacs-fanless-zbox.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:03:33.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"ChrisNorstrom","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You Sir, are correct. The only time I ever hear about "security through obscurity" is when it fails, not when it succeeds. I got so used to the open source model where everything is known and flaws are more likely to be fixed. I guess that doesn't work for every application.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7848945,"story_title":"Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93","story_url":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/04/318873830/last-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-dies-at-93","parent_id":7849195,"created_at_i":1401937413,"_tags":["comment","author_ChrisNorstrom","story_7848945"],"objectID":"7849983","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"ChrisNorstrom","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You Sir, are correct. The only time I ever hear about "security through obscurity" is when it fails, not when it succeeds. I got so used to the open source model where everything is known and flaws are more likely to be fixed. I guess that doesn't work for every application.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Last Of The Navajo 'Code Talkers' Dies At 93","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/04/318873830/last-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-dies-at-93","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T03:03:22.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"davekeck","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'm trying to imagine the reverse situation with a female speaker playing on negative male stereotypes with a primarily-female audience. E.g.:
X is my boyfriend: physically strong, just wants sex, doesn't do laundry, generally messy, checks out my friends
Personally I wouldn't be offended if someone presented the slide above, and I have a hard time imagining that there'd be an uprising about it. To me this clearly indicates a double standard. So where should we draw the line on gender stereotypes, to be applied equally to both sexes? I can't answer that, but I think the above analogy shows that people are being hypersensitive.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849377,"story_title":"Atlassian developer apologizes to \"all getting offended\" by his sexist joke","story_url":"http://thetarah.com/2014/06/05/atlassian-developer-apologizes-to-all-getting-offended-by-his-sexist-joke/","parent_id":7849377,"created_at_i":1401937402,"_tags":["comment","author_davekeck","story_7849377"],"objectID":"7849982","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"davekeck","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'm trying to imagine the reverse situation with a female speaker playing on negative male stereotypes with a primarily-female audience. E.g.:
X is my boyfriend: physically strong, just wants sex, doesn't do laundry, generally messy, checks out my friends
Personally I wouldn't be offended if someone presented the slide above, and I have a hard time imagining that there'd be an uprising about it. To me this clearly indicates a double standard. So where should we draw the line on gender stereotypes, to be applied equally to both sexes? I can't answer that, but I think the above analogy shows that people are being hypersensitive.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Atlassian developer apologizes to \"all getting offended\" by his sexist joke","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://thetarah.com/2014/06/05/atlassian-developer-apologizes-to-all-getting-offended-by-his-sexist-joke/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:56:11.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"taharvey","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Why does Google get kudos for inventing new languages (Go), and Apple gets mocked? (Swift)","num_comments":null,"story_id":7835099,"story_title":"Introducing Swift","story_url":"https://developer.apple.com/swift/","parent_id":7837844,"created_at_i":1401936971,"_tags":["comment","author_taharvey","story_7835099"],"objectID":"7849954","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"taharvey","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Why does Google get kudos for inventing new languages (Go), and Apple gets mocked? (Swift)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Introducing Swift","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://developer.apple.com/swift/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:53:20.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"wtallis","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"> Your line of reasoning is an instance of a common strain of intellectual laziness: "I don't agree with you, therefore your motives and intentions must be bad or self-serving."
That's not really intellectual laziness. If two people disagree on an issue that's not purely subjective, then the disagreement must ultimately stem from at least one of three things: (1) the parties are working from different facts; (2) the parties are working toward different goals with different motives and intentions; (3) at least one of the parties' reasoning is flawed. When appellate judges so clearly spend a lot of time gathering information and thinking through their reasoning, it makes (2) seem relatively more likely.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847824,"story_title":"The Supreme Court is struggling to rein in America's rogue patent court","story_url":"http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5776642/the-supreme-court-is-struggling-to-rein-in-americas-rogue-patent-court","parent_id":7848602,"created_at_i":1401936800,"_tags":["comment","author_wtallis","story_7847824"],"objectID":"7849941","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"wtallis","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"> Your line of reasoning is an instance of a common strain of intellectual laziness: "I don't agree with you, therefore your motives and intentions must be bad or self-serving."
That's not really intellectual laziness. If two people disagree on an issue that's not purely subjective, then the disagreement must ultimately stem from at least one of three things: (1) the parties are working from different facts; (2) the parties are working toward different goals with different motives and intentions; (3) at least one of the parties' reasoning is flawed. When appellate judges so clearly spend a lot of time gathering information and thinking through their reasoning, it makes (2) seem relatively more likely.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"The Supreme Court is struggling to rein in America's rogue patent court","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5776642/the-supreme-court-is-struggling-to-rein-in-americas-rogue-patent-court","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:52:10.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"taharvey","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"What about the special snowflake projects of google, mozilla, or sun? Apples language development is no less valid than google developing Go, or mozilla developing rust. This just shows your inherent bias.
I've been amazed recently how many open-source projects that we rolled into our linux product were Apple sourced: LLVM, Clang, libdispatch, webkit, OpenCL, zeroConf. Can't think of anything google has done for me recently.
And if there is anyone who will knock-this out of the park, its Chris Lattner. LLVM, Clang, and openCL is all him. He has done more for compiler tech than anyone in 30 years.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7835099,"story_title":"Introducing Swift","story_url":"https://developer.apple.com/swift/","parent_id":7835959,"created_at_i":1401936730,"_tags":["comment","author_taharvey","story_7835099"],"objectID":"7849938","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"taharvey","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"What about the special snowflake projects of google, mozilla, or sun? Apples language development is no less valid than google developing Go, or mozilla developing rust. This just shows your inherent bias.
I've been amazed recently how many open-source projects that we rolled into our linux product were Apple sourced: LLVM, Clang, libdispatch, webkit, OpenCL, zeroConf. Can't think of anything google has done for me recently.
And if there is anyone who will knock-this out of the park, its Chris Lattner. LLVM, Clang, and openCL is all him. He has done more for compiler tech than anyone in 30 years.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Introducing Swift","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://developer.apple.com/swift/","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:49:45.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"mahranch","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"From the abstract of the paper: "The expected amplitude of the dust polarization power spectrum remains uncertain by about a factor of three. The lower end of the prediction leaves room for a primordial contribution, but at the higher end the dust in combination with the standard CMB lensing signal could account for the BICEP2 observations, without requiring the existence of primordial gravitational waves."
Two things to note. First, they aren't saying that is is wrong, only that it could be wrong. Second, the source of this doubt appears to come from a single professor at Princeton.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849726,"story_title":"Big Bang finding challenged","story_url":"http://www.nature.com/news/big-bang-finding-challenged-1.15352","parent_id":7849726,"created_at_i":1401936585,"_tags":["comment","author_mahranch","story_7849726"],"objectID":"7849933","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"mahranch","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"From the abstract of the paper: "The expected amplitude of the dust polarization power spectrum remains uncertain by about a factor of three. The lower end of the prediction leaves room for a primordial contribution, but at the higher end the dust in combination with the standard CMB lensing signal could account for the BICEP2 observations, without requiring the existence of primordial gravitational waves."
Two things to note. First, they aren't saying that is is wrong, only that it could be wrong. Second, the source of this doubt appears to come from a single professor at Princeton.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Big Bang finding challenged","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.nature.com/news/big-bang-finding-challenged-1.15352","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:33:32.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"ketralnis","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Objective-C is open source, but without Foundation et al it's pretty useless. As tied as Swift is to Cocoa, it's almost certainly going to be in the same boat.
Put another way, how well does Objective-C do outside of Apple development?","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849555,"story_title":"Quicksort in Swift","story_url":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","parent_id":7849718,"created_at_i":1401935612,"_tags":["comment","author_ketralnis","story_7849555"],"objectID":"7849883","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"ketralnis","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Objective-C is open source, but without Foundation et al it's pretty useless. As tied as Swift is to Cocoa, it's almost certainly going to be in the same boat.
Put another way, how well does Objective-C do outside of Apple development?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Quicksort in Swift","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:33:19.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"pooper","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Don't quote me on this but this seemed to be the consensus in the spring pad shutdown thread right here on HN. How is this any different? Well, Apple doesn't sell nearly as many phones as Samsung but they are probably an anomaly as they have high margins and are sitting on a huge pile of cash. They can afford to tough it out. I see your point now actually. I doubt if Apple ever needs to be in "first place". They are doing perfectly well where they are and I guess holding a fourth to fifth of all app phones is a pretty good spot when the bill of materials is less than $200 and the sale price is $600.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829901","num_comments":null,"story_id":7836748,"story_title":"Safari to Include DuckDuckGo as a Built-In Search Option","story_url":"http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/02/duckduckgo","parent_id":7838480,"created_at_i":1401935599,"_tags":["comment","author_pooper","story_7836748"],"objectID":"7849882","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"pooper","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Don't quote me on this but this seemed to be the consensus in the spring pad shutdown thread right here on HN. How is this any different? Well, Apple doesn't sell nearly as many phones as Samsung but they are probably an anomaly as they have high margins and are sitting on a huge pile of cash. They can afford to tough it out. I see your point now actually. I doubt if Apple ever needs to be in "first place". They are doing perfectly well where they are and I guess holding a fourth to fifth of all app phones is a pretty good spot when the bill of materials is less than $200 and the sale price is $600.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829901","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Safari to Include DuckDuckGo as a Built-In Search Option","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/02/duckduckgo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:28:37.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"int19h","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Does this build of chameleon still rock fakesmc? FakeSMC is unambiguously illegal - it violates Apple copyright.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847852,"story_title":"Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM","story_url":"http://blog.definedcode.com/osx-qemu-kvm","parent_id":7847852,"created_at_i":1401935317,"_tags":["comment","author_int19h","story_7847852"],"objectID":"7849870","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"int19h","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Does this build of chameleon still rock fakesmc? FakeSMC is unambiguously illegal - it violates Apple copyright.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.definedcode.com/osx-qemu-kvm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:27:08.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"gumby","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Well, swift does a lot of type inference it's true but it doesn't appear to be more to be more strongly typed than ObjC (I could be wrong because I have only skimmed the ebook). A lot of ObjC code simply returns an id when it could return a tighter type. They seem semantically equivalent to me.
Typically a language's efficiency comes from its ability to restrict ambiguity. E.g. a scoped sequence of expressions without gotos allows the compiler to eliminate variables, reorder statements, unroll loops etc because it can see 100% of the uses of a variable by examining that scope. On the other extreme a language like BASIC is harder to optimize in such a fashion because the program counter could be set into the middle of the loop, and because all variables are global, they have to survive the scope.
I am genuinely interested if their are features in swift that aren't also in ObjC.
A language can be equivalent to another and still be easier to program in because the cognitive load on the programmer is lower so good code can be written more quickly. Swift seems to be an interesting attempt at doing that. But that's orthogonal to the question of compiled efficiency.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849213,"story_title":"Swift is not","story_url":"http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798","parent_id":7849692,"created_at_i":1401935228,"_tags":["comment","author_gumby","story_7849213"],"objectID":"7849865","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"gumby","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Well, swift does a lot of type inference it's true but it doesn't appear to be more to be more strongly typed than ObjC (I could be wrong because I have only skimmed the ebook). A lot of ObjC code simply returns an id when it could return a tighter type. They seem semantically equivalent to me.
Typically a language's efficiency comes from its ability to restrict ambiguity. E.g. a scoped sequence of expressions without gotos allows the compiler to eliminate variables, reorder statements, unroll loops etc because it can see 100% of the uses of a variable by examining that scope. On the other extreme a language like BASIC is harder to optimize in such a fashion because the program counter could be set into the middle of the loop, and because all variables are global, they have to survive the scope.
I am genuinely interested if their are features in swift that aren't also in ObjC.
A language can be equivalent to another and still be easier to program in because the cognitive load on the programmer is lower so good code can be written more quickly. Swift seems to be an interesting attempt at doing that. But that's orthogonal to the question of compiled efficiency.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Swift is not","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:20:55.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"userbinator","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"> How can we network everything while maintaining at least some scrap of security, especially in the long term?
Another question that we should be asking more is should we network everything that could be?
As for a pacemaker, personally I think the answer is a definite NO. It has only one function, to keep someone alive, and any extra functionality only represents an increased risk of malfunction. If there is any firmware in it then that firmware should be as simple as it can be. Preferably open-source and subject to being reviewed/corrected by many, before it gets permanently embedded in a device.
> how can we prevent them from occuring in the first place?
The obvious way is by doing it right the first time. Sadly, this is something that seems to have fallen out of fashion, as the prevalent mentality is more like "we can always issue an update, so it doesn't matter that much". A dangerous mentality indeed, when it's in truly safety-critical applications. Companies are increasingly pushing for "smartness" in their products, espousing all the ostensible advantages, while not giving much exposure to the possible downsides too.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849453,"story_title":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","story_url":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","parent_id":7849577,"created_at_i":1401934855,"_tags":["comment","author_userbinator","story_7849453"],"objectID":"7849851","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"userbinator","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"> How can we network everything while maintaining at least some scrap of security, especially in the long term?
Another question that we should be asking more is should we network everything that could be?
As for a pacemaker, personally I think the answer is a definite NO. It has only one function, to keep someone alive, and any extra functionality only represents an increased risk of malfunction. If there is any firmware in it then that firmware should be as simple as it can be. Preferably open-source and subject to being reviewed/corrected by many, before it gets permanently embedded in a device.
> how can we prevent them from occuring in the first place?
The obvious way is by doing it right the first time. Sadly, this is something that seems to have fallen out of fashion, as the prevalent mentality is more like "we can always issue an update, so it doesn't matter that much". A dangerous mentality indeed, when it's in truly safety-critical applications. Companies are increasingly pushing for "smartness" in their products, espousing all the ostensible advantages, while not giving much exposure to the possible downsides too.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:13:32.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"nemasu","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Apperently it's собака (sobaka, meaning "dog").","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849715,"story_title":"At","story_url":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","parent_id":7849791,"created_at_i":1401934412,"_tags":["comment","author_nemasu","story_7849715"],"objectID":"7849824","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"nemasu","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Apperently it's собака (sobaka, meaning "dog").","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"At","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:08:28.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"dsuth","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Then this is where the pressure needs to be applied - at the certification process. It needs to be made a legal requirement to attain certification (if not already), and the certifiers need to follow best practices for vulnerability detection. And it needs to be an ongoing, open process.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849453,"story_title":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","story_url":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","parent_id":7849676,"created_at_i":1401934108,"_tags":["comment","author_dsuth","story_7849453"],"objectID":"7849804","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"dsuth","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Then this is where the pressure needs to be applied - at the certification process. It needs to be made a legal requirement to attain certification (if not already), and the certifiers need to follow best practices for vulnerability detection. And it needs to be an ongoing, open process.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Can I drop a pacemaker 0day?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T02:04:19.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"reaperhulk","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"You don't even need it to be an OS X host, only Apple hardware. VMware allows you to install OS X on ESXi hosts that run on Mac mini or Mac Pro (but disables that functionality on all non-Apple hardware).","num_comments":null,"story_id":7847852,"story_title":"Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM","story_url":"http://blog.definedcode.com/osx-qemu-kvm","parent_id":7848523,"created_at_i":1401933859,"_tags":["comment","author_reaperhulk","story_7847852"],"objectID":"7849792","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"reaperhulk","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"You don't even need it to be an OS X host, only Apple hardware. VMware allows you to install OS X on ESXi hosts that run on Mac mini or Mac Pro (but disables that functionality on all non-Apple hardware).","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Running OS X Mavericks under QEMU with KVM","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://blog.definedcode.com/osx-qemu-kvm","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T01:58:45.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"melling","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"I'm sorry but that's silly. While I really hope that Swift does become a cross-platform language, it's pretty safe to assume that it will become the defacto Apple development language. It offers way too much in terms of developer productivity.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849555,"story_title":"Quicksort in Swift","story_url":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","parent_id":7849718,"created_at_i":1401933525,"_tags":["comment","author_melling","story_7849555"],"objectID":"7849766","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"melling","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"I'm sorry but that's silly. While I really hope that Swift does become a cross-platform language, it's pretty safe to assume that it will become the defacto Apple development language. It offers way too much in terms of developer productivity.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Quicksort in Swift","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"https://gist.github.com/fjcaetano/b0c00a889dc2a17efad9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T01:57:14.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"SoftwareMaven","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Not always[1] (though, of course, when it does, it should take advantage of it). As TFA mentioned, there will also be a difference between class-based references and C scalar values. Of course, if that is the difference the author is seeing, it is probably far less meaningful for most applications (games would be an obvious exception, but that may be where Metal comes in).
1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24022172/does-swift-use-m...","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849213,"story_title":"Swift is not","story_url":"http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798","parent_id":7849464,"created_at_i":1401933434,"_tags":["comment","author_SoftwareMaven","story_7849213"],"objectID":"7849759","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"SoftwareMaven","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Not always[1] (though, of course, when it does, it should take advantage of it). As TFA mentioned, there will also be a difference between class-based references and C scalar values. Of course, if that is the difference the author is seeing, it is probably far less meaningful for most applications (games would be an obvious exception, but that may be where Metal comes in).
1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24022172/does-swift-use-m...","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Swift is not","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2014-06-05T01:56:00.000Z","title":null,"url":null,"author":"axman6","points":1,"story_text":null,"comment_text":"Shock news: Marketing puts company's products in positive light!
All companies tweak the truth to make themselves look good (which company was touting their huge sales numbers when they had barely sold any products to actual customers, just retailers?). Apple aren't alone, they just get the most press.","num_comments":null,"story_id":7849213,"story_title":"Swift is not","story_url":"http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798","parent_id":7849519,"created_at_i":1401933360,"_tags":["comment","author_axman6","story_7849213"],"objectID":"7849752","_highlightResult":{"author":{"value":"axman6","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"comment_text":{"value":"Shock news: Marketing puts company's products in positive light!
All companies tweak the truth to make themselves look good (which company was touting their huge sales numbers when they had barely sold any products to actual customers, just retailers?). Apple aren't alone, they just get the most press.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"story_title":{"value":"Swift is not","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_url":{"value":"http://www.splasmata.com/?p=2798","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}}],"nbHits":100793,"page":0,"nbPages":50,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":14,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=comment"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search?query=apple&tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2009-06-09T18:56:10.000Z","title":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","url":null,"author":"sayhello","points":11,"story_text":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":26,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1244573770,"_tags":["poll","author_sayhello","story_649663"],"objectID":"649663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"sayhello","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-09T20:36:57.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","url":null,"author":"jmonegro","points":1,"story_text":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326141417,"_tags":["poll","author_jmonegro","story_3444124"],"objectID":"3444124","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"jmonegro","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-10T16:03:08.000Z","title":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","url":null,"author":"smaili","points":1,"story_text":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370880188,"_tags":["poll","author_smaili","story_5855275"],"objectID":"5855275","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"smaili","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T10:14:49.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","url":null,"author":"steipete","points":1,"story_text":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317118489,"_tags":["poll","author_steipete","story_3042642"],"objectID":"3042642","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"steipete","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-24T04:29:34.000Z","title":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","url":null,"author":"alexgartrell","points":1,"story_text":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1293164974,"_tags":["poll","author_alexgartrell","story_2036556"],"objectID":"2036556","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"alexgartrell","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2008-04-14T00:54:53.000Z","title":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","url":null,"author":"pius","points":1,"story_text":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
(http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72)
How quickly will Apple shut them down?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1208134493,"_tags":["poll","author_pius","story_162723"],"objectID":"162723","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"pius","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
(http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72)
How quickly will Apple shut them down?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T02:16:11.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","url":null,"author":"jhuckestein","points":73,"story_text":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":43,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317089771,"_tags":["poll","author_jhuckestein","story_3041545"],"objectID":"3041545","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jhuckestein","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-15T12:55:32.000Z","title":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","url":null,"author":"markokocic","points":28,"story_text":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":47,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1360932932,"_tags":["poll","author_markokocic","story_5225884"],"objectID":"5225884","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"markokocic","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-19T18:22:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","url":null,"author":"lacker","points":28,"story_text":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":34,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311099742,"_tags":["poll","author_lacker","story_2782329"],"objectID":"2782329","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"lacker","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-22T18:03:17.000Z","title":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","url":null,"author":"nico_h","points":8,"story_text":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311357797,"_tags":["poll","author_nico_h","story_2794511"],"objectID":"2794511","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nico_h","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-03-26T00:04:03.000Z","title":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","url":null,"author":"dave1619","points":5,"story_text":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":11,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1301097843,"_tags":["poll","author_dave1619","story_2370878"],"objectID":"2370878","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dave1619","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-17T18:44:17.000Z","title":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","url":null,"author":"0x12","points":2,"story_text":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318877057,"_tags":["poll","author_0x12","story_3121813"],"objectID":"3121813","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"0x12","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-31T17:57:41.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","url":null,"author":"Zigurd","points":2,"story_text":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370023061,"_tags":["poll","author_Zigurd","story_5800128"],"objectID":"5800128","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Zigurd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-01T21:37:47.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","url":"","author":"minecraftman","points":2,"story_text":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1325453867,"_tags":["poll","author_minecraftman","story_3413914"],"objectID":"3413914","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"minecraftman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-24T12:53:37.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","url":null,"author":"oneeyedpigeon","points":1,"story_text":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1382619217,"_tags":["poll","author_oneeyedpigeon","story_6604931"],"objectID":"6604931","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"oneeyedpigeon","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-02-22T13:05:01.000Z","title":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","url":null,"author":"stefanve","points":1,"story_text":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1329915901,"_tags":["poll","author_stefanve","story_3620658"],"objectID":"3620658","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"stefanve","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-16T11:45:09.000Z","title":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","url":null,"author":"progga","points":1,"story_text":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318765509,"_tags":["poll","author_progga","story_3117120"],"objectID":"3117120","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"progga","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-19T02:44:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","url":null,"author":"hodgesmr","points":1,"story_text":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400467479,"_tags":["poll","author_hodgesmr","story_7765404"],"objectID":"7765404","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hodgesmr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}}],"nbHits":18,"page":0,"nbPages":1,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":7,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&query=apple&tags=poll"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=poll","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-19T02:44:39.000Z","title":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","url":null,"author":"hodgesmr","points":1,"story_text":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400467479,"_tags":["poll","author_hodgesmr","story_7765404"],"objectID":"7765404","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which news sources do you frequent","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hodgesmr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Most of these will probably only apply to US","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-10-24T12:53:37.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","url":null,"author":"oneeyedpigeon","points":1,"story_text":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1382619217,"_tags":["poll","author_oneeyedpigeon","story_6604931"],"objectID":"6604931","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iPad(s) do you use?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"oneeyedpigeon","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"In 3.5 years, Apple has released a whopping 7 models of iPad. As a (frustrated) user of the 1st generation iPad, I often feel like I'm part of a tiny minority. Sales figures and usage stats by individual model are hard to come by, so I'm interested in which models HN readers regularly use.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-10T16:03:08.000Z","title":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","url":null,"author":"smaili","points":1,"story_text":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370880188,"_tags":["poll","author_smaili","story_5855275"],"objectID":"5855275","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who will be attending Apple's WWDC?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"smaili","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Don't forget to upvote the poll with your choice!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-05-31T17:57:41.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","url":null,"author":"Zigurd","points":2,"story_text":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370023061,"_tags":["poll","author_Zigurd","story_5800128"],"objectID":"5800128","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your home ecosystem?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Zigurd","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Even though many, perhaps most people, choose an a la carte selection of sites for search, email, documents, photography, social network, etc. you probably have one that you consider your \"home\" in the cloud.
It could be a comprehensive provider of device software and cloud services, like Microsoft’s Bing/Azure/SkyDrive, Apple iCloud, or Google (or, even, Ubuntu One). It could be an Internet portal like Baidu, Yahoo, or AOL. It could be Facebook, or some other social network.
What is the center of gravity of your online life and work?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-02-15T12:55:32.000Z","title":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","url":null,"author":"markokocic","points":28,"story_text":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":47,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1360932932,"_tags":["poll","author_markokocic","story_5225884"],"objectID":"5225884","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Would you like to have \"hide\" button for stories","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"markokocic","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Ability to hide submissions from the front page is the thing I miss the most on HN. Sometimes, I'm just not interested to 10 Tesla articles or 20 Apple articles that clutter front page, but don't have a way to remove them from my view other that not visiting HN. I don't have that that articles don't belong there, it's just that I don't see any value in them.
What do you think, would you use the \"hide\" button if it were ever implemented?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-02-22T13:05:01.000Z","title":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","url":null,"author":"stefanve","points":1,"story_text":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1329915901,"_tags":["poll","author_stefanve","story_3620658"],"objectID":"3620658","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: would you switch to Opensource OS b/c privacy issues?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"stefanve","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"since both MS and Apple are running now lots of different services (iTunes, iCloud, Live, Office 360 etc) and are integrating these services more and more in there OS (stores etc). Would you be put off upgrading to a new version because of possible privacy issues regarding this tight integration, and instead switch to a Linux variant?<p>(I didn't mention Google because you can easily switch to GM and leaf off the Gapps and Chrome OS is not that bigg)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-09T20:36:57.000Z","title":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","url":null,"author":"jmonegro","points":1,"story_text":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1326141417,"_tags":["poll","author_jmonegro","story_3444124"],"objectID":"3444124","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Do you own Apple devices?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"jmonegro","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"The recent This American Life piece on the Apple factories sparked my interest.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-01-01T21:37:47.000Z","title":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","url":"","author":"minecraftman","points":2,"story_text":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1325453867,"_tags":["poll","author_minecraftman","story_3413914"],"objectID":"3413914","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What is your stance on iOS jailbreaking?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"minecraftman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"What is your stance on jailreaking Apple iDevices?
Want some info on jailbreaking? You should check this link out:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
Please note the link above is not associated with me in any way","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-17T18:44:17.000Z","title":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","url":null,"author":"0x12","points":2,"story_text":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318877057,"_tags":["poll","author_0x12","story_3121813"],"objectID":"3121813","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Ipad, 18 months later","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"0x12","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hey there HN
In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-10-16T11:45:09.000Z","title":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","url":null,"author":"progga","points":1,"story_text":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318765509,"_tags":["poll","author_progga","story_3117120"],"objectID":"3117120","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: If you ruled Earth, would you let the sell of Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"progga","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Apple is suing Samsung for patent and design infringement [0]. Apple has tried similar tactics in the past without success [1]. Things are going better for Apple this time. What is your position on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1?
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_10.1#Apple_patent_lawsuit\\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T10:14:49.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","url":null,"author":"steipete","points":1,"story_text":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317118489,"_tags":["poll","author_steipete","story_3042642"],"objectID":"3042642","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you prefer? Working at Apple or at a Medium-Sized Startup?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"steipete","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have a job offer at a good YC startup, and yesterday the opportunity opened up to also get a job as iOS/Mac developer at Apple. \\nOn the startup, I would work (most likely) on an iPad app, which is basically the same that I do for two years now. At Apple, it would be more unknown ;)","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-09-27T02:16:11.000Z","title":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","url":null,"author":"jhuckestein","points":73,"story_text":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":43,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1317089771,"_tags":["poll","author_jhuckestein","story_3041545"],"objectID":"3041545","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: What would you pay for a SF SV Startup Shuttle? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jhuckestein","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Many SV commuters work in offices without a peninsula shuttle service. Naturally, some are jealous of the fancy buses of the Apples and Googles and all the amenities (wifi, gadget charging etc) that caltrain lacks... but perhaps not for long! ;)
If there is enough interest, this is going to happen.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-22T18:03:17.000Z","title":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","url":null,"author":"nico_h","points":8,"story_text":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311357797,"_tags":["poll","author_nico_h","story_2794511"],"objectID":"2794511","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: iOS users : one, two or? iDevices","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nico_h","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi
In light of the recent Apple numbers, I am starting to believe I am not the only one to have both an iPad and an iPhone.
So I would be interested in seeing how the hacker news community of early adopters contributes to this 'trend'.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-07-19T18:22:22.000Z","title":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","url":null,"author":"lacker","points":28,"story_text":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":34,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1311099742,"_tags":["poll","author_lacker","story_2782329"],"objectID":"2782329","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Which iOS version do you require?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"lacker","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Each iOS app has a minimum iOS version that's required. You can see this on iTunes in the left column. For example, foursquare requires iOS 4.0:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foursquare/id306934924?mt=8
If you're an iOS developer, which version do you require for your apps? If it's different for different apps, just pick the most common one.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-03-26T00:04:03.000Z","title":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","url":null,"author":"dave1619","points":5,"story_text":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":11,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1301097843,"_tags":["poll","author_dave1619","story_2370878"],"objectID":"2370878","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Is Steve Jobs passion hardware or software?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"dave1619","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Steve Jobs and Apple have led the mobile hardware and software revolution of the past few years with iPhone, iPad and iOS. Also, arguably Apple makes the best laptops and desktops, and to some the best desktop OS as well. So, what do you think... Is Steve Jobs passion more with hardware innovation and design or software innovation and design? Or both?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-24T04:29:34.000Z","title":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","url":null,"author":"alexgartrell","points":1,"story_text":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1293164974,"_tags":["poll","author_alexgartrell","story_2036556"],"objectID":"2036556","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: Who works at Apple/Facebook/Google/Microsoft?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"alexgartrell","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So obviously, this is not an exhaustive list, but I figured it could be interesting to see who works at these large companies, as they're often discussed on HN.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2009-06-09T18:56:10.000Z","title":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","url":null,"author":"sayhello","points":11,"story_text":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":26,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1244573770,"_tags":["poll","author_sayhello","story_649663"],"objectID":"649663","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: App rejected. Is this offensive? Seriously Apple?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"sayhello","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Our second attempt at the submission of the free version of our app, Comicstrips Lite got rejected again.
The first time was acceptable, but this time, they seem to be pushing it. They rejected the app due to the content linked below.
http://getcomicstrips.com/public/img_0067.png
It does not seem to me that it is \"obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory\". Wolfenstein 3D is on the app store and got approved and is way more violent.
Am I missing something here? Comments are most welcome.","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2008-04-14T00:54:53.000Z","title":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","url":null,"author":"pius","points":1,"story_text":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
(http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72)
How quickly will Apple shut them down?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1208134493,"_tags":["poll","author_pius","story_162723"],"objectID":"162723","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Poll: How long will it take Apple to force Psystar to stop selling the $399 OpenMac?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"author":{"value":"pius","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"On Sunday night around 8:15pm, Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News received reports of a company named PsyStar selling a $399 Mac on commodity hardware.
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Some backstory.
I had begun work on this app in 2009 but got distracted thanks to a hectic life (marriage etc) and had early this year started working on it again. I registered the *app.com domain and submitted a basic binary to Apple for Review. I pulled the binary and began working on it, trying a whole heap of ideas and talking to family and friends on what they'd want in the app.
I work a day job and money is tight so I don't have tons of time to spend, and definitely not the money to register the trademark locally (Australia) let alone the US. I'd say I was about 2 months off of release at this stage after spending a ton of time working with server components to store and share the information on a budget. The site is also blank as I didn't have the bandwidth to set it up nicely and I wanted to be a bit stealthy as the name gives an extremely obvious indication of what it does.
So now Apple has released an App with the exact same spelling as my app (and obviously a very similar functionality based on the name) while mine is still in iTunesConnect ready for binary submission and approval.
I just feel gutted, I'm not sure I can release the App now (since it directly competes) and I don't want to rebrand all the artwork and domain. If I do release it, I feel like I'd look bad for trying to hang off Apples success and not sure I can cope with the support required for users who install my app and wonder why their friends aren't on it. I didn't even get a notice from Apple about any of this. Do they even check for existing apps?
Does anyone have any input on where to go from here?
Thanks","comment_text":null,"num_comments":11,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1318480182,"_tags":["story","author_imothee","story_3106078","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3106078","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Apple copied my App Name, what do I do now?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"imothee","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I woke up this morning to see some really confusing news. An app with the exact same name as my soon to be released app had been released by Apple. What do I do now?
Some backstory.
I had begun work on this app in 2009 but got distracted thanks to a hectic life (marriage etc) and had early this year started working on it again. I registered the *app.com domain and submitted a basic binary to Apple for Review. I pulled the binary and began working on it, trying a whole heap of ideas and talking to family and friends on what they'd want in the app.
I work a day job and money is tight so I don't have tons of time to spend, and definitely not the money to register the trademark locally (Australia) let alone the US. I'd say I was about 2 months off of release at this stage after spending a ton of time working with server components to store and share the information on a budget. The site is also blank as I didn't have the bandwidth to set it up nicely and I wanted to be a bit stealthy as the name gives an extremely obvious indication of what it does.
So now Apple has released an App with the exact same spelling as my app (and obviously a very similar functionality based on the name) while mine is still in iTunesConnect ready for binary submission and approval.
I just feel gutted, I'm not sure I can release the App now (since it directly competes) and I don't want to rebrand all the artwork and domain. If I do release it, I feel like I'd look bad for trying to hang off Apples success and not sure I can cope with the support required for users who install my app and wonder why their friends aren't on it. I didn't even get a notice from Apple about any of this. Do they even check for existing apps?
Does anyone have any input on where to go from here?
Thanks","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-09-02T20:35:38.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","url":"","author":"curtisspope","points":6,"story_text":"Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1283459738,"_tags":["story","author_curtisspope","story_1657564","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1657564","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"curtisspope","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Did Apple create Ping to eventually compete with Facebook?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-05-17T16:14:56.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How would you feel if Apple open-sourced all their software tommorow?","url":"","author":"_feda_","points":6,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":8,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1337271296,"_tags":["story","author__feda_","story_3987658","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3987658","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How would you feel if Apple open-sourced all their software tommorow?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"_feda_","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-06-05T16:33:00.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Will Apple ever reject apps with unethical in-app purchase schemes?","url":"","author":"japhyr","points":6,"story_text":"I teach high school, and I watch otherwise reasonable students sink significant money into silly click-bait games. Their eyes open a bit when I objectively help them understand how they are being manipulated. They laugh a bit, and then go right back to playing the games.
Do you think Apple will ever reject apps that have abusive in-app purchase schemes? It would mean turning away from a lot of money in the short term, but it might be a smart move if these games are likely to create a really strong backlash anyway.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1370449980,"_tags":["story","author_japhyr","story_5826670","ask_hn"],"objectID":"5826670","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Will Apple ever reject apps with unethical in-app purchase schemes?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"japhyr","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I teach high school, and I watch otherwise reasonable students sink significant money into silly click-bait games. Their eyes open a bit when I objectively help them understand how they are being manipulated. They laugh a bit, and then go right back to playing the games.
Do you think Apple will ever reject apps that have abusive in-app purchase schemes? It would mean turning away from a lot of money in the short term, but it might be a smart move if these games are likely to create a really strong backlash anyway.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-02T04:11:45.000Z","title":"Ask HN: IT concerns using an apple laptop in a windows environment?","url":"","author":"kaisdavisOR","points":6,"story_text":"Howdy HN,
I'm upgrading my laptop at work and I'm campaigning to have a Mac Book Pro instead of a Dell Laptop. IT has concerns about the security of integrating OSX into what is solely a Windows 7 / Windows XP environment. I was hoping you could help me out:
* What resources can you point me to that would help assess the security concerns?
* Are there any immediate security concerns that come to mind? (I'm meeting with the IT Manager later this week and I'd like to have an understanding of his possible objections)
* Any advice that you'd give?
Thanks!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1291263105,"_tags":["story","author_kaisdavisOR","story_1960983","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1960983","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: IT concerns using an apple laptop in a windows environment?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kaisdavisOR","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Howdy HN,
I'm upgrading my laptop at work and I'm campaigning to have a Mac Book Pro instead of a Dell Laptop. IT has concerns about the security of integrating OSX into what is solely a Windows 7 / Windows XP environment. I was hoping you could help me out:
* What resources can you point me to that would help assess the security concerns?
* Are there any immediate security concerns that come to mind? (I'm meeting with the IT Manager later this week and I'd like to have an understanding of his possible objections)
* Any advice that you'd give?
Thanks!","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-08-22T15:46:48.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why has'nt Samsung used the argument that Apple copied Braun?","url":"","author":"qatalo","points":6,"story_text":"I am curious. Apple has been obviously been \"inspired by\" Braun in many if not all their products. How could Samsung use this fact in the case thats currently going on? and if if they cant, Why?
Exhibit: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future","comment_text":null,"num_comments":5,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1345650408,"_tags":["story","author_qatalo","story_4417922","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4417922","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why has'nt Samsung used the argument that Apple copied Braun?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"qatalo","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am curious. Apple has been obviously been \"inspired by\" Braun in many if not all their products. How could Samsung use this fact in the case thats currently going on? and if if they cant, Why?
Exhibit: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2009-01-31T08:46:47.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Another Brand To Beat Apple In The Future","url":"","author":"jmdev","points":5,"story_text":"Do you guys think that in the future (5, 10 years) another brand will emerge and defeat Apple in the \"coolness\" and \"in\" factor?
Imagine, in say 3 years, every stupid teenage girl will have an iPhone/iPod/Mac and clearly the geeks would like to \"separate\" once again via a sleek electronics brand that not many people have.
So, the question is, do you think such brand will/could emerge? If so, what would you expect it to fell/look like?
Maybe there's substantial wealth to be created in starting another electronics underdog brand now (but doing it differently). Look at the existing notebook brands now - Asus, Lenovo, Dell etc... - they ALL suck - they provide horrible experience usually and all fall in the same group defined as \"not a Mac\".","comment_text":null,"num_comments":12,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1233391607,"_tags":["story","author_jmdev","story_459393","ask_hn"],"objectID":"459393","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Another Brand To Beat Apple In The Future","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jmdev","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Do you guys think that in the future (5, 10 years) another brand will emerge and defeat Apple in the \"coolness\" and \"in\" factor?
Imagine, in say 3 years, every stupid teenage girl will have an iPhone/iPod/Mac and clearly the geeks would like to \"separate\" once again via a sleek electronics brand that not many people have.
So, the question is, do you think such brand will/could emerge? If so, what would you expect it to fell/look like?
Maybe there's substantial wealth to be created in starting another electronics underdog brand now (but doing it differently). Look at the existing notebook brands now - Asus, Lenovo, Dell etc... - they ALL suck - they provide horrible experience usually and all fall in the same group defined as \"not a Mac\".","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-02-28T17:45:00.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why is Apple App store asking password for free apps?","url":"","author":"alexeichemenda","points":5,"story_text":"I get that Apple should (and does) ask password when you want to download paid apps. But even in the case of stolen iPhones, why is it important to check identity for free apps ? Is is anyhow related to avoid fake downloads / bots ?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":9,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1393609500,"_tags":["story","author_alexeichemenda","story_7320247","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7320247","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why is Apple App store asking password for free apps?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"alexeichemenda","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I get that Apple should (and does) ask password when you want to download paid apps. But even in the case of stolen iPhones, why is it important to check identity for free apps ? Is is anyhow related to avoid fake downloads / bots ?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-11-28T19:19:07.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Will Apple/Google/FB ever reduce the 30% fee off their payment gateways?","url":"","author":"kunle","points":5,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":8,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1322507947,"_tags":["story","author_kunle","story_3287170","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3287170","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Will Apple/Google/FB ever reduce the 30% fee off their payment gateways?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"kunle","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-12-12T23:50:45.000Z","title":"Ask HN: chances Apple buys a cell carrier in 2011?","url":"","author":"zoomzoom","points":5,"story_text":"Chance to vertically integrate and capital intensive. Seems to make some sense. Is it crazy?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1292197845,"_tags":["story","author_zoomzoom","story_1998541","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1998541","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: chances Apple buys a cell carrier in 2011?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"zoomzoom","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Chance to vertically integrate and capital intensive. Seems to make some sense. Is it crazy?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2013-11-22T18:38:13.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why does Apple make my enter my password when downloading free apps?","url":"","author":"sciguy77","points":5,"story_text":"","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1385145493,"_tags":["story","author_sciguy77","story_6782758","ask_hn"],"objectID":"6782758","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why does Apple make my enter my password when downloading free apps?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"sciguy77","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2010-11-15T20:37:08.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page?","url":"","author":"hook","points":5,"story_text":"http://www.apple.com","comment_text":null,"num_comments":4,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1289853428,"_tags":["story","author_hook","story_1907750","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1907750","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What is the meaning of Apple's front page?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"hook","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"http://www.apple.com","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2013-09-23T06:07:56.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Website that generates promotional screenshots on Apple Devices","url":"","author":"Sealy","points":5,"story_text":"Hi HN,
A little while ago somebody created a site that enabled you to upload an image ie a screenshot of your web page and it would automatically overlay the image onto a photo of a guy's macbook... or ipad or whatever else you wanted it to be. I can't for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone have the link to it?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1379916476,"_tags":["story","author_Sealy","story_6429370","ask_hn"],"objectID":"6429370","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Website that generates promotional screenshots on Apple Devices","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Sealy","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi HN,
A little while ago somebody created a site that enabled you to upload an image ie a screenshot of your web page and it would automatically overlay the image onto a photo of a guy's macbook... or ipad or whatever else you wanted it to be. I can't for the life of me find it again.
Does anyone have the link to it?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]}}},{"created_at":"2012-09-19T03:15:40.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Your thoughts on Apple's ITunes Store Refund Policy?","url":"","author":"jason_slack","points":5,"story_text":"So I accidentally purchased the HD version of Sons of Anarchy Season 5 instead of the SD version. I immediately tried to resolve this with Apple and my reply from them:
Dear Jason,
Ritchie here. Thank you for contacting iTunes Support. I understand you had an ongoing issue with a refund. I apologize for any difficulties you experienced.
Jason, as the previous advisor Anna has stated, we are unable to fulfill the refund request due to the fact that you received a refund for an accidental purchase on 08/09/2011. This issue has been considered closed, and any future emails concerning this refund request will go unanswered. Please accept my apologies.
Thank you for being an iTunes customer, have a great day Jason.
Sincerely,
Ritchie\niTunes Store Customer Support\nhttp://www.apple.com.support/itunes/ww
Please note: I work Monday - Thursday 3:30 - 11:30 pm EST, Saturday 3:30 - 11:30 EST
1. I had a refund over a YEAR AGO for an incompatible OpenGL app that wouldn't work on my iPad and they are counting that against me.
2. They force the HD content in your face, you have to scroll down in order to but the SD version.
3. I dont want a complete refund, just the price difference between the HD and the SD version (approx 10.00).
4. I had to exchange almost 12 e-mails before I got someone who understood what I was asking for as the other CSR responses seemed very cut and paste style.
This leads me to ask what others think of Apple's ITunes Store policies? Am I the only one that find them unfair and dealing with Apple CSR's leaves a lot to be desirable?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1348024540,"_tags":["story","author_jason_slack","story_4541872","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4541872","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Your thoughts on Apple's ITunes Store Refund Policy?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"jason_slack","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"So I accidentally purchased the HD version of Sons of Anarchy Season 5 instead of the SD version. I immediately tried to resolve this with Apple and my reply from them:
Dear Jason,
Ritchie here. Thank you for contacting iTunes Support. I understand you had an ongoing issue with a refund. I apologize for any difficulties you experienced.
Jason, as the previous advisor Anna has stated, we are unable to fulfill the refund request due to the fact that you received a refund for an accidental purchase on 08/09/2011. This issue has been considered closed, and any future emails concerning this refund request will go unanswered. Please accept my apologies.
Thank you for being an iTunes customer, have a great day Jason.
Sincerely,
Ritchie\niTunes Store Customer Support\nhttp://www.apple.com.support/itunes/ww
Please note: I work Monday - Thursday 3:30 - 11:30 pm EST, Saturday 3:30 - 11:30 EST
1. I had a refund over a YEAR AGO for an incompatible OpenGL app that wouldn't work on my iPad and they are counting that against me.
2. They force the HD content in your face, you have to scroll down in order to but the SD version.
3. I dont want a complete refund, just the price difference between the HD and the SD version (approx 10.00).
4. I had to exchange almost 12 e-mails before I got someone who understood what I was asking for as the other CSR responses seemed very cut and paste style.
This leads me to ask what others think of Apple's ITunes Store policies? Am I the only one that find them unfair and dealing with Apple CSR's leaves a lot to be desirable?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-07-02T10:35:02.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Meeting Apple Marketing person for first time tomorrow - any advice?","url":"","author":"nvsp","points":5,"story_text":"I'm building a Mac app targeting the educational iBooks market. We're still in private beta, but several people from Apple have signed up to our launch email list already.
Today, I was contacted by a Business Development Manager at Apple's Marketing team. He requested a phone meeting with him tomorrow, to learn more about what we're building and how we envision it being used in schools.
Any advice on what I should and should not say / ask?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1341225302,"_tags":["story","author_nvsp","story_4188249","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4188249","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Meeting Apple Marketing person for first time tomorrow - any advice?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nvsp","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm building a Mac app targeting the educational iBooks market. We're still in private beta, but several people from Apple have signed up to our launch email list already.
Today, I was contacted by a Business Development Manager at Apple's Marketing team. He requested a phone meeting with him tomorrow, to learn more about what we're building and how we envision it being used in schools.
Any advice on what I should and should not say / ask?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2010-10-19T21:12:58.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple Buy Adobe?","url":"","author":"evo_9","points":5,"story_text":"I've long wondered why Apple doesn't buy Adobe.
The two companies have a long and storied history together going back to the good old days when Adobe created/supplied the Postscript printer language, not to mention Display Postscript used in the NeXT computer built by Jobs; but the reality is Apple has always needed Adobe more than the other way around.
With the recent news that Microsoft and Adobe are getting chummy together, I would think this is a perfect opportunity for Apple to buy Adobe. They could even site the potential damage of a rumored purchase from Microsoft as primary reason for the move (a pre-emtive strike).
The Creative Suite as an Apple product would round out their professional software offering nicely alongside Logic and Final Cut. Not only would this protect Apple from Adobe becoming a Microsoft exclusive, they would be able to make the mac version of Adobe products either mac exclusive or at the very least the top priority. The would also have ownership of Flash, which I have to believe would almost be worth it alone. All together I'd think this is a huge win-win for Apple.
So why not? Anti-trust? It would seem they (Apple) are such a small fish in the over-all PC market, Anti-trust just doesn't add up to me.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":3,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1287522778,"_tags":["story","author_evo_9","story_1808784","ask_hn"],"objectID":"1808784","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple Buy Adobe?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"evo_9","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've long wondered why Apple doesn't buy Adobe.
The two companies have a long and storied history together going back to the good old days when Adobe created/supplied the Postscript printer language, not to mention Display Postscript used in the NeXT computer built by Jobs; but the reality is Apple has always needed Adobe more than the other way around.
With the recent news that Microsoft and Adobe are getting chummy together, I would think this is a perfect opportunity for Apple to buy Adobe. They could even site the potential damage of a rumored purchase from Microsoft as primary reason for the move (a pre-emtive strike).
The Creative Suite as an Apple product would round out their professional software offering nicely alongside Logic and Final Cut. Not only would this protect Apple from Adobe becoming a Microsoft exclusive, they would be able to make the mac version of Adobe products either mac exclusive or at the very least the top priority. The would also have ownership of Flash, which I have to believe would almost be worth it alone. All together I'd think this is a huge win-win for Apple.
So why not? Anti-trust? It would seem they (Apple) are such a small fish in the over-all PC market, Anti-trust just doesn't add up to me.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-03-12T21:33:03.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How desired is working at Apple?","url":"","author":"throwaway432","points":5,"story_text":"I'm a CS student looking for full-time employment (as a software developer) for after I graduate in May.
I'm strongly considering Apple. A couple of pieces have shown up over the past few weeks about the culture of privacy at Apple, and that's left me a little concerned. When people talk about large companies ideal for developers in the valley, I usually hear Google/Facebook/Twitter, and I'm wondering why I don't usually hear Apple on that list.
I'd really like to get a sense of some of the following from current/former employees or just people in Silicon Valley that have heard stories:
- is Apple desired more or less than Google/Facebook/Twitter?
- how selective is Apple compared to Google/Facebook/Twitter? i.e., is getting a job at Apple considered a big deal in the tech industry, or do people consider Google harder to get into?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1331587983,"_tags":["story","author_throwaway432","story_3695679","ask_hn"],"objectID":"3695679","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How desired is working at Apple?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"throwaway432","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm a CS student looking for full-time employment (as a software developer) for after I graduate in May.
I'm strongly considering Apple. A couple of pieces have shown up over the past few weeks about the culture of privacy at Apple, and that's left me a little concerned. When people talk about large companies ideal for developers in the valley, I usually hear Google/Facebook/Twitter, and I'm wondering why I don't usually hear Apple on that list.
I'd really like to get a sense of some of the following from current/former employees or just people in Silicon Valley that have heard stories:
- is Apple desired more or less than Google/Facebook/Twitter?
- how selective is Apple compared to Google/Facebook/Twitter? i.e., is getting a job at Apple considered a big deal in the tech industry, or do people consider Google harder to get into?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2011-03-12T01:42:29.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Getting featured by Apple","url":"","author":"mikek","points":5,"story_text":"I have an iOS app that I feel has great potential and I'm wondering what it would take to get featured by Apple. After reading about Rovio and Angry Birds, it seems to me that having a publisher who has a relationship with Apple is one way. And I'm sure that they pick things at their whim as well. But, looking at the picks each week, it is clear that there is a lot of branded stuff that gets featured, and apps from well known companies. And not a lot of apps from indie developers. Is there anyone here who has been featured on Apple and could give me some insight as to how this works?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1299894149,"_tags":["story","author_mikek","story_2315681","ask_hn"],"objectID":"2315681","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Getting featured by Apple","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"mikek","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have an iOS app that I feel has great potential and I'm wondering what it would take to get featured by Apple. After reading about Rovio and Angry Birds, it seems to me that having a publisher who has a relationship with Apple is one way. And I'm sure that they pick things at their whim as well. But, looking at the picks each week, it is clear that there is a lot of branded stuff that gets featured, and apps from well known companies. And not a lot of apps from indie developers. Is there anyone here who has been featured on Apple and could give me some insight as to how this works?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-06-12T16:09:12.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Is Apple on the decline?","url":"","author":"EzGraphs","points":4,"story_text":"There have been a number of stories recently indicating that development of new/updated Apple products has sort of stalled. A few die-hard Apple fans I know have migrated recently to non-Apple products (e.g. from iPhone to Android). Is excitement about Apple beginning to wane? Apple is obviously on a solid footing financially but are \"alpha geeks\" now are finding their shiniest new toys elsewhere?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":22,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1339517352,"_tags":["story","author_EzGraphs","story_4101131","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4101131","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Is Apple on the decline?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"EzGraphs","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"There have been a number of stories recently indicating that development of new/updated Apple products has sort of stalled. A few die-hard Apple fans I know have migrated recently to non-Apple products (e.g. from iPhone to Android). Is excitement about Apple beginning to wane? Apple is obviously on a solid footing financially but are \"alpha geeks\" now are finding their shiniest new toys elsewhere?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2012-12-24T01:32:36.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Why is it difficult for Apple to create more than 1 tolerable ring-tone?","url":"","author":"andrewhillman","points":4,"story_text":"I've been thinking about this for a while... I find it interesting that everyone w/ an iPhone uses the Marimba ring-tone. This makes me wonder why it's so difficult for a company like Apple to create more than one popular ring tone. I wish Apple would come up with another tolerable ring tone so I am not always reaching for my phone when it's someone else's phone is ringing Marimba.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1356312756,"_tags":["story","author_andrewhillman","story_4961435","ask_hn"],"objectID":"4961435","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Why is it difficult for Apple to create more than 1 tolerable ring-tone?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"andrewhillman","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I've been thinking about this for a while... I find it interesting that everyone w/ an iPhone uses the Marimba ring-tone. This makes me wonder why it's so difficult for a company like Apple to create more than one popular ring tone. I wish Apple would come up with another tolerable ring tone so I am not always reaching for my phone when it's someone else's phone is ringing Marimba.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}}],"nbHits":892,"page":2,"nbPages":45,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":5,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&page=2&query=apple&tags=ask_hn"}},{"url":"/api/v1/search_by_date?tags=ask_hn&query=apple&page=2","reply":{"hits":[{"created_at":"2014-05-25T17:56:59.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Anyone attending AngelHack Toronto Spring 2014 (June 21-22)","url":"","author":"annapurna","points":1,"story_text":"AngelHack: http://bit.ly/1p8aJGE
My background is in Electrical Engineering and I have worked in the power industry for about three years. I have been learning Python on the side for a few months and attended the my first Datathon back in March (Data for Good). I have sent out some emails to my friends and also thought it might be a good idea to see if anyone from HN is attending as well. If you are, I would love to brainstorm ideas and/or discuss some ideas I have. My email can be found on my profile page.
Finally, any tips (I have read some blogs already) regarding attending/preparing for my first hackathon would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading everyone.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401040619,"_tags":["story","author_annapurna","story_7796973","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7796973","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Anyone attending AngelHack Toronto Spring 2014 (June 21-22)","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"annapurna","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"AngelHack: http://bit.ly/1p8aJGE
My background is in Electrical Engineering and I have worked in the power industry for about three years. I have been learning Python on the side for a few months and attended the my first Datathon back in March (Data for Good). I have sent out some emails to my friends and also thought it might be a good idea to see if anyone from HN is attending as well. If you are, I would love to brainstorm ideas and/or discuss some ideas I have. My email can be found on my profile page.
Finally, any tips (I have read some blogs already) regarding attending/preparing for my first hackathon would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading everyone.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-25T17:19:29.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Anyone implemented SETI Code in Lisp?","url":"","author":"christianbryant","points":4,"story_text":"While I appreciate BOINC, I'm looking for something in Lisp (any variation, Emacs, Common, etc) that takes SETI data and analyzes it against search/analysis criteria the user can modify. Cheers.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401038369,"_tags":["story","author_christianbryant","story_7796849","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7796849","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Anyone implemented SETI Code in Lisp?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"christianbryant","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"While I appreciate BOINC, I'm looking for something in Lisp (any variation, Emacs, Common, etc) that takes SETI data and analyzes it against search/analysis criteria the user can modify. Cheers.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-25T14:25:58.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Do you care about your software being pirated?","url":"","author":"tjosten","points":2,"story_text":"During the past weeks, I developed and published a small OS X utility app that sells for ~$3 in the Mac App Store. However, due do French export laws for apps that include encryption mechanisms, the app is not available in the French app store.
(It ships and uses libssh2 and implements SCP over SSH, and therefor does not use "encryption mechanisms that are provided by the operating system" - the registration process for that is all in French and neither Apple nor the French government seems to be able to help with that.)
As I got a bunch of emails asking why the app is not available in the French Mac App Store by now, I thought about offering a non-MAS version of the app. Coming to my initial question, I'm not sure if I want to spend time on implementing any kind of license key check etc., or just offer that version completely without DRM / license checks as it surely will be cracked either way. (The Mac App Store version is available as a torrent for quite some time now, so whoever wants to steal the app will do no matter what I finally do.)
So, I'd like to ask you guys how you handle this, or how you would handle this if you were in my situation? Spend time on implementing a license key check that will be cracked either way, or just offer a non-DRM version that'll sell in France to make everyone happy?
Thanks.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":8,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1401027958,"_tags":["story","author_tjosten","story_7796397","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7796397","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Do you care about your software being pirated?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"tjosten","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"During the past weeks, I developed and published a small OS X utility app that sells for ~$3 in the Mac App Store. However, due do French export laws for apps that include encryption mechanisms, the app is not available in the French app store.
(It ships and uses libssh2 and implements SCP over SSH, and therefor does not use "encryption mechanisms that are provided by the operating system" - the registration process for that is all in French and neither Apple nor the French government seems to be able to help with that.)
As I got a bunch of emails asking why the app is not available in the French Mac App Store by now, I thought about offering a non-MAS version of the app. Coming to my initial question, I'm not sure if I want to spend time on implementing any kind of license key check etc., or just offer that version completely without DRM / license checks as it surely will be cracked either way. (The Mac App Store version is available as a torrent for quite some time now, so whoever wants to steal the app will do no matter what I finally do.)
So, I'd like to ask you guys how you handle this, or how you would handle this if you were in my situation? Spend time on implementing a license key check that will be cracked either way, or just offer a non-DRM version that'll sell in France to make everyone happy?
Thanks.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-25T00:17:32.000Z","title":"Ask HN: how would you monetize moviemagnet.net?","url":"","author":"cantbecool","points":1,"story_text":"Hey HN, I created http://moviemagnet.net its a minimalist movie torrent search engine that returns torrents in addition basic movie information for each film in its database. I'm having difficulty trying to think of how I could monetize traffic going to this site without plastering it with obnoxious ads akin to all other torrent sites. I'm leaning towards affiliate marketing, however I'm unsure if it is the proper route.
Any thoughtful feedback would be greatly appreciated.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400977052,"_tags":["story","author_cantbecool","story_7794934","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7794934","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: how would you monetize moviemagnet.net?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"cantbecool","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hey HN, I created http://moviemagnet.net its a minimalist movie torrent search engine that returns torrents in addition basic movie information for each film in its database. I'm having difficulty trying to think of how I could monetize traffic going to this site without plastering it with obnoxious ads akin to all other torrent sites. I'm leaning towards affiliate marketing, however I'm unsure if it is the proper route.
Any thoughtful feedback would be greatly appreciated.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-24T07:06:06.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What are your favorite free web typefaces?","url":"","author":"meisterbrendan","points":5,"story_text":"Great type combinations are also appreciated.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":4,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400915166,"_tags":["story","author_meisterbrendan","story_7792817","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7792817","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What are your favorite free web typefaces?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"meisterbrendan","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Great type combinations are also appreciated.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-24T06:59:12.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Service that gives me a signed iPhone app","url":"","author":"nppc","points":1,"story_text":"I do not have an apple/iOS developer account and do not want to have one. Is there a service where i can upload my iOS app code and get back an enterprise signed app which i can install on my Phone and use for ever ?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400914752,"_tags":["story","author_nppc","story_7792803","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7792803","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Service that gives me a signed iPhone app","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"nppc","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I do not have an apple/iOS developer account and do not want to have one. Is there a service where i can upload my iOS app code and get back an enterprise signed app which i can install on my Phone and use for ever ?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-23T18:50:03.000Z","title":"Ask HN: I want to be good at everything","url":"","author":"josephjrobison","points":9,"story_text":"I want to become a good developer so I can create my own things, I want to become a great marketer so I can promote them, I want to be awesome at design because I love creating and I want to become a great business person because that's been the most appealing my whole live.
Specialization is good says some people, you should have T-shaped skills says others, specialization is for insects says another.[1]
Is the above unrealistic, or does everyone have these goals in some way, but you have to choose what you're good at and delegate the rest/leave them for hobbies?
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400871003,"_tags":["story","author_josephjrobison","story_7790745","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7790745","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: I want to be good at everything","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"josephjrobison","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I want to become a good developer so I can create my own things, I want to become a great marketer so I can promote them, I want to be awesome at design because I love creating and I want to become a great business person because that's been the most appealing my whole live.
Specialization is good says some people, you should have T-shaped skills says others, specialization is for insects says another.[1]
Is the above unrealistic, or does everyone have these goals in some way, but you have to choose what you're good at and delegate the rest/leave them for hobbies?
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-23T16:51:35.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Good 15-20 min. CS challenge for high school students?","url":"","author":"Micand","points":1,"story_text":"I am helping design a CS-related activity for a Let's Talk Science competition (http://www.letstalkscience.ca), which promotes STEM amongst high school students. In the competition, teams of six students will move from station to station, trying to complete each as quickly as possible.
One station might give the team a metre stick, then ask them to measure the height of a building. (This can be solved by using similar triangles to estimate the building's height.) Time penalties are added to the team's completion time depending on how close their answer was.
My constraints are thus:
* Most students won't have CS/programming knowledge\\n * Challenge should not require a computer\\n * Idea should challenge teams of six students for 15-20 minutes\\n * Challenge must have clear answer that can be objectively scored (not judged)\\nThe Caesar cipher idea has been used often in the past, however, and I'm trying to develop something novel. I have been through the various activities on CS Unplugged (http://csunplugged.org/activities), but none appealed to me -- the exercises I saw were generally aimed at illustration and not suitable for competition, were too simple, or required too much explanation of background knowledge.
Do you have any ideas on what would make a fun CS-related challenge for teams of six high school students?
Thanks!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400863895,"_tags":["story","author_Micand","story_7790136","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7790136","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Good 15-20 min. CS challenge for high school students?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"Micand","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am helping design a CS-related activity for a Let's Talk Science competition (http://www.letstalkscience.ca), which promotes STEM amongst high school students. In the competition, teams of six students will move from station to station, trying to complete each as quickly as possible.
One station might give the team a metre stick, then ask them to measure the height of a building. (This can be solved by using similar triangles to estimate the building's height.) Time penalties are added to the team's completion time depending on how close their answer was.
My constraints are thus:
* Most students won't have CS/programming knowledge\\n * Challenge should not require a computer\\n * Idea should challenge teams of six students for 15-20 minutes\\n * Challenge must have clear answer that can be objectively scored (not judged)\\nThe Caesar cipher idea has been used often in the past, however, and I'm trying to develop something novel. I have been through the various activities on CS Unplugged (http://csunplugged.org/activities), but none appealed to me -- the exercises I saw were generally aimed at illustration and not suitable for competition, were too simple, or required too much explanation of background knowledge.
Do you have any ideas on what would make a fun CS-related challenge for teams of six high school students?
Thanks!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-23T11:39:34.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How can foreigners get a job in the USA?","url":"","author":"k-mcgrady","points":6,"story_text":"I was reading another recent Ask HN about living and working in the US [0]. A question that came up a few times is "How do you plan on legally working in the US?". I'm sure there are people here who have experience with moving to the US and getting a job so hopefully we can get some good answers.
Personally I would love to live in the US. I've entered the DV Lottery several times with no luck. The reason I'd rather have a permanent visa is that I don't want to start my life there, lose my job, and get sent back home. However I'm getting older and am becoming more willing to take that risk.
I'm an iOS developer of 5 years and have been freelancing for those 5 years. I'm not a 'rockstar' programmer but I'm a solid developer, enjoy learning new things, and I'm good at picking them up quite quickly.
What chance does someone in my position have of getting a visa to work at a company in the US? Do I even have a chance? What are the best visa options, how much do they cost, and how does the process work (do I apply for jobs and then a visa or vice versa)?
I would like to hear a range of answers that can help everyone but if you want to answer more specifically I'm in the EU and have dual Irish and British citizenship.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788678","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400845174,"_tags":["story","author_k-mcgrady","story_7788878","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7788878","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How can foreigners get a job in the USA?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"k-mcgrady","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I was reading another recent Ask HN about living and working in the US [0]. A question that came up a few times is "How do you plan on legally working in the US?". I'm sure there are people here who have experience with moving to the US and getting a job so hopefully we can get some good answers.
Personally I would love to live in the US. I've entered the DV Lottery several times with no luck. The reason I'd rather have a permanent visa is that I don't want to start my life there, lose my job, and get sent back home. However I'm getting older and am becoming more willing to take that risk.
I'm an iOS developer of 5 years and have been freelancing for those 5 years. I'm not a 'rockstar' programmer but I'm a solid developer, enjoy learning new things, and I'm good at picking them up quite quickly.
What chance does someone in my position have of getting a visa to work at a company in the US? Do I even have a chance? What are the best visa options, how much do they cost, and how does the process work (do I apply for jobs and then a visa or vice versa)?
I would like to hear a range of answers that can help everyone but if you want to answer more specifically I'm in the EU and have dual Irish and British citizenship.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7788678","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-23T08:27:24.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What mouse?","url":"","author":"lewispb","points":1,"story_text":"Looking for some suggestions as to the best mouse to use with my MacBook. I have an apple magic mouse currently but I'm finding it really uncomfortable for long stretches. For a guy I think I have pretty average size hands.\\nI would prefer a bluetooth mouse so that I don't need any extra cables or dongles.\\nThanks!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400833644,"_tags":["story","author_lewispb","story_7788466","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7788466","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What mouse?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"lewispb","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Looking for some suggestions as to the best mouse to use with my MacBook. I have an apple magic mouse currently but I'm finding it really uncomfortable for long stretches. For a guy I think I have pretty average size hands.\\nI would prefer a bluetooth mouse so that I don't need any extra cables or dongles.\\nThanks!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-22T16:57:07.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Trial Freelancing? ","url":"","author":"DaveyStrand","points":1,"story_text":"My business partner and I have been looking for a web developer to help us build a first version of our website. Rather than hire a freelancer outright, we would like to find someone who is interested in doing a "Trial Freelance" period where the developer would get paid to build out an MVP. Upon finishing this initial product and assuming it's satisfactory, both the developer and ourselves can assess if we enjoyed the process / working with each other and perhaps continue on together as our startup evolves.
The Trial Freelance would be a complete standalone deal. If either side didn't enjoy working w/ the other or decided to go another direction for any reason, there would be no pressure to continue working together. A test run of sorts.
We have found that services like Odesk often yield diluted results and set a precedent towards pure freelancing, while headhunting services often pair us with development companies who are only interested in getting us to pay as much as possible for as much as possible. We are trying to find a happy medium.
We have mock-ups, a business plan, and expansion strategy. We both have experience at prestigious companies and are ready to do our own thing with the best of intentions, but have found that many programmers in the freelancing field are weary of starry-eyed MBA grads and wannabe millionaires who have not done their homework. Starting a company is hard enough without delusions of grandeur!
TL;DR: Trial Freelancing is standalone deal where a developer builds an MVP with an eye towards potentially continuing to work with the business (s)he is freelancing for.
Does the idea of Trial Freelancing sound appealing?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":4,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400777827,"_tags":["story","author_DaveyStrand","story_7784823","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7784823","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Trial Freelancing? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"DaveyStrand","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"My business partner and I have been looking for a web developer to help us build a first version of our website. Rather than hire a freelancer outright, we would like to find someone who is interested in doing a "Trial Freelance" period where the developer would get paid to build out an MVP. Upon finishing this initial product and assuming it's satisfactory, both the developer and ourselves can assess if we enjoyed the process / working with each other and perhaps continue on together as our startup evolves.
The Trial Freelance would be a complete standalone deal. If either side didn't enjoy working w/ the other or decided to go another direction for any reason, there would be no pressure to continue working together. A test run of sorts.
We have found that services like Odesk often yield diluted results and set a precedent towards pure freelancing, while headhunting services often pair us with development companies who are only interested in getting us to pay as much as possible for as much as possible. We are trying to find a happy medium.
We have mock-ups, a business plan, and expansion strategy. We both have experience at prestigious companies and are ready to do our own thing with the best of intentions, but have found that many programmers in the freelancing field are weary of starry-eyed MBA grads and wannabe millionaires who have not done their homework. Starting a company is hard enough without delusions of grandeur!
TL;DR: Trial Freelancing is standalone deal where a developer builds an MVP with an eye towards potentially continuing to work with the business (s)he is freelancing for.
Does the idea of Trial Freelancing sound appealing?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-22T16:01:18.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Best laptop and programs for learning to code on the go?","url":"","author":"rblion","points":9,"story_text":"I have a few hours of downtime at work/school. I want to use these hours productively learning code and building stuff with what I learn. My focus is Ruby on Rails.
What laptop do you use? Would you use? \\nWhich programs/applications?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":10,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400774478,"_tags":["story","author_rblion","story_7784466","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7784466","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Best laptop and programs for learning to code on the go?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"rblion","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I have a few hours of downtime at work/school. I want to use these hours productively learning code and building stuff with what I learn. My focus is Ruby on Rails.
What laptop do you use? Would you use? \\nWhich programs/applications?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-22T15:28:01.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Good books about filesystems?","url":"","author":"redxblood","points":1,"story_text":"Aproaching the new Mac OS, i´ve heard a lot of people complain about it´s obsolete filesystem as of now, and how Apple should change to a new one soon.
Thing is, i don´t quite get why one is better than the other, or what is a filesystem exactly, besides the basics.\\nIs there any good book or blogpost with a modern approach as to what they are, and what are the best ones, the basics of how they are programmed, etc?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400772481,"_tags":["story","author_redxblood","story_7784300","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7784300","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Good books about filesystems?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"redxblood","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Aproaching the new Mac OS, i´ve heard a lot of people complain about it´s obsolete filesystem as of now, and how Apple should change to a new one soon.
Thing is, i don´t quite get why one is better than the other, or what is a filesystem exactly, besides the basics.\\nIs there any good book or blogpost with a modern approach as to what they are, and what are the best ones, the basics of how they are programmed, etc?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-22T12:55:33.000Z","title":"Ask HN: What's your earliest web development story?","url":"","author":"smoyer","points":8,"story_text":"This post was inspired by a small comment thread on the "May 2014 Freelancer / Seeking Freelancer" post. In response to a comment I made about an early web adopter [2], rueven [3] responded to my comment with the following message [4]:
The story is that a friend of mine at MIT came back to\\n the student newspaper and said, "I just went to a lecture\\n given by this guy Tim Berners-Lee, describing this thing\\n he's calling the World-Wide Web. We should get on this!"\\n\\n So we set up a Web server with some of the newspaper's\\n archives, and then e-mailed TimBL and said, "Hey, we set\\n up a Web site. What do you think?" His response was\\n something like, "That's great! I'll put it on my list of\\n all of the Web sites in the world." And that's how my\\n career got started; turns out that we were one of the\\n first 100 sites in the world.\\n[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679422
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681366
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reuven
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681874","comment_text":null,"num_comments":6,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400763333,"_tags":["story","author_smoyer","story_7783556","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7783556","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: What's your earliest web development story?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"smoyer","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"This post was inspired by a small comment thread on the "May 2014 Freelancer / Seeking Freelancer" post. In response to a comment I made about an early web adopter [2], rueven [3] responded to my comment with the following message [4]:
The story is that a friend of mine at MIT came back to\\n the student newspaper and said, "I just went to a lecture\\n given by this guy Tim Berners-Lee, describing this thing\\n he's calling the World-Wide Web. We should get on this!"\\n\\n So we set up a Web server with some of the newspaper's\\n archives, and then e-mailed TimBL and said, "Hey, we set\\n up a Web site. What do you think?" His response was\\n something like, "That's great! I'll put it on my list of\\n all of the Web sites in the world." And that's how my\\n career got started; turns out that we were one of the\\n first 100 sites in the world.\\n[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7679422
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681366
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reuven
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7681874","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-22T02:32:50.000Z","title":"Ask HN: I'm looking for new ways to serve museum visitors with content","url":"","author":"eli_oat","points":6,"story_text":"I work at a small museum, and we're currently looking for new ways to serve our visitors with extra content. In the past we've used QR codes that link to webpages. These webpages receive more traffic from google searches than they do from QR redirects, however. I'm curious if anyone has experience with serving up auxiliary content using iBeacons, local network homepage overrides, or something different. Suggestions greatly appreciated.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":9,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400725970,"_tags":["story","author_eli_oat","story_7781842","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7781842","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: I'm looking for new ways to serve museum visitors with content","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"eli_oat","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I work at a small museum, and we're currently looking for new ways to serve our visitors with extra content. In the past we've used QR codes that link to webpages. These webpages receive more traffic from google searches than they do from QR redirects, however. I'm curious if anyone has experience with serving up auxiliary content using iBeacons, local network homepage overrides, or something different. Suggestions greatly appreciated.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-21T22:00:19.000Z","title":"Ask HN: How to deal with a negative SEO campaign?","url":"","author":"ksar","points":1,"story_text":"Hey all, I'd be really appreciative of any advice the HN community has in dealing with a negative SEO campaign against our site's blog (blog.stylekick.com). Whoever is hitting us is using multiple registrars in multiple geographies. Right now my options are to reach out to individual registrars, or use Google's disavow tool. The campaign seems to be ongoing - so I'm not sure if the disavow tool is our best bet.","comment_text":null,"num_comments":2,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400709619,"_tags":["story","author_ksar","story_7781014","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7781014","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: How to deal with a negative SEO campaign?","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"ksar","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hey all, I'd be really appreciative of any advice the HN community has in dealing with a negative SEO campaign against our site's blog (blog.stylekick.com). Whoever is hitting us is using multiple registrars in multiple geographies. Right now my options are to reach out to individual registrars, or use Google's disavow tool. The campaign seems to be ongoing - so I'm not sure if the disavow tool is our best bet.","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-21T18:35:49.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Do you want to buy our website","url":"","author":"desouzt","points":1,"story_text":"Hi guys,
We've been developing our site - getinspired365.com for the last 15 months. We've spent a long time on it but we've reached a point where myself, and my partner, can't spend any more time on it. We would like some return on the work we've put in so we've decided to see if we can sell it. Here is a quick presentation (6 slides) on what the site is about, and why someone may want to buy it.
http://app.emaze.com/414240/gi365#slidenum=1
thanks","comment_text":null,"num_comments":1,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400697349,"_tags":["story","author_desouzt","story_7779929","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7779929","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Do you want to buy our website","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"desouzt","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi guys,
We've been developing our site - getinspired365.com for the last 15 months. We've spent a long time on it but we've reached a point where myself, and my partner, can't spend any more time on it. We would like some return on the work we've put in so we've decided to see if we can sell it. Here is a quick presentation (6 slides) on what the site is about, and why someone may want to buy it.
http://app.emaze.com/414240/gi365#slidenum=1
thanks","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-21T13:20:13.000Z","title":"Ask HN: Security Scanners","url":"","author":"wildmXranat","points":1,"story_text":"I am evaluating tools for web application security scanning.
The tool will be used internally for testing of our own applications.
I have read most recent comparison reports about some of the most popular commercial tools listed on this site: http://projects.webappsec.org/w/page/13246988/Web-Application-Security-Scanner-List
Do you have experience integrating a tool like this into a development workflow ?
What processes do you settle on ?
Which tool(s) are you using and would you recommend it ? Would a tool like NTO Spider be on that list ?
How would you integrate security scanning into an internal team ?","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400678413,"_tags":["story","author_wildmXranat","story_7778013","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7778013","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: Security Scanners","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"wildmXranat","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I am evaluating tools for web application security scanning.
The tool will be used internally for testing of our own applications.
I have read most recent comparison reports about some of the most popular commercial tools listed on this site: http://projects.webappsec.org/w/page/13246988/Web-Application-Security-Scanner-List
Do you have experience integrating a tool like this into a development workflow ?
What processes do you settle on ?
Which tool(s) are you using and would you recommend it ? Would a tool like NTO Spider be on that list ?
How would you integrate security scanning into an internal team ?","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-21T04:08:32.000Z","title":"Ask HN: When to use background jobs vs. one big insert","url":"","author":"yumbutton","points":1,"story_text":"Hi HN, I'm sort of a newer coder and need some advice on building a website (I'm alright with the actual coding, it's just the processes that sometimes confuse me).
I have an application where I'm using a service for embedding Youtube videos (basically you give it a url and it gives you back HTML to embed it).
With background jobs, my initial insert is super fast (because the actual request to the 3rd party service happens later). Unfortunately, after the insert is done, you need to wait a little and then refresh the page for the background job to complete.
Without background jobs (where I just insert and go lookup to the third party service at the same time), the initial insert is slow, but when it's done, so is the video html.
I just wanted to know if any of you have had experience with this kind of problem. Thanks for any tips!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":0,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400645312,"_tags":["story","author_yumbutton","story_7776649","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7776649","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: When to use background jobs vs. one big insert","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"yumbutton","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"Hi HN, I'm sort of a newer coder and need some advice on building a website (I'm alright with the actual coding, it's just the processes that sometimes confuse me).
I have an application where I'm using a service for embedding Youtube videos (basically you give it a url and it gives you back HTML to embed it).
With background jobs, my initial insert is super fast (because the actual request to the 3rd party service happens later). Unfortunately, after the insert is done, you need to wait a little and then refresh the page for the background job to complete.
Without background jobs (where I just insert and go lookup to the third party service at the same time), the initial insert is slow, but when it's done, so is the video html.
I just wanted to know if any of you have had experience with this kind of problem. Thanks for any tips!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}},{"created_at":"2014-05-20T20:46:39.000Z","title":"Ask HN: how can I brief my devs better as non-tech founder? ","url":"","author":"rafweverbergh","points":2,"story_text":"I'm a non tech founder working with outside developers (at least until product market fit).
I'm mostly doing fine with briefings, but occasionally the developers misunderstand how certain roles and permissions interact.
I found an article about "Actor-Role Patterns", which seems like interesting stuff but which is also too advanced for me to create briefings based on it.
Ideally, I would provide my developers with a very clear diagram of what the entire application is supposed to do. The problem is: I have no idea where to begin looking.
You would help me tremendously by throwing me some breadcrumbs. Thank you in advance!","comment_text":null,"num_comments":7,"story_id":null,"story_title":null,"story_url":null,"parent_id":null,"created_at_i":1400618799,"_tags":["story","author_rafweverbergh","story_7775076","ask_hn"],"objectID":"7775076","_highlightResult":{"title":{"value":"Ask HN: how can I brief my devs better as non-tech founder? ","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"url":{"value":"","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"author":{"value":"rafweverbergh","matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[]},"story_text":{"value":"I'm a non tech founder working with outside developers (at least until product market fit).
I'm mostly doing fine with briefings, but occasionally the developers misunderstand how certain roles and permissions interact.
I found an article about "Actor-Role Patterns", which seems like interesting stuff but which is also too advanced for me to create briefings based on it.
Ideally, I would provide my developers with a very clear diagram of what the entire application is supposed to do. The problem is: I have no idea where to begin looking.
You would help me tremendously by throwing me some breadcrumbs. Thank you in advance!","matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["apple"]}}}],"nbHits":892,"page":2,"nbPages":45,"hitsPerPage":20,"processingTimeMS":10,"query":"apple","params":"advancedSyntax=true&analytics=false&page=2&query=apple&tags=ask_hn"}}] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/test/fixtures/generate_fixtures.js b/test/fixtures/generate_fixtures.js index 48e64f0..0796e75 100644 --- a/test/fixtures/generate_fixtures.js +++ b/test/fixtures/generate_fixtures.js @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ var urls = [ '/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=comment', '/api/v1/search?query=apple&tags=poll', '/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=poll', - '/api/v1/search?query=apple&tags=story', - '/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=story', + '/api/v1/search?query=apple&tags=(story%2Cpoll)', + '/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=(story%2Cpoll)', '/api/v1/search?query=apple&tags=story', '/api/v1/search_by_date?query=apple&tags=story', '/api/v1/search?tags=ask_hn&query=apple&page=2',