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Funny thing about the xbox 360's hardware problems, when people's 360s break the response is not "ugh, this piece of junk sucks, I want my money back, I'm buying a wii" instead it's "ugh, how long is it going to take to get repaired? I really want to play right now!" or "ugh, it's out of warranty? Damnit, now I have to buy a new one!"

These are, as they say, generally the better variety of problems to have, warranty extension costs notwithstanding.
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"Functional programming is like describing your problem to a mathematician. Imperative programming is like giving instructions to an idiot." -- arcus, #scheme on Freenode

(from the Scheme quotes file at http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-fortune-cookies)
This topic was investigated many years ago and was known as "The Physics of Lilliput."

For those who are only familiar with Gulliver's Travels as a movie, the 18th century book also includes a visit to a land of giants (Brobdingnag) and other places (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels).

Thus the physics studied applied to both giants and mini-people (re: @AngryParsley).

(only reference I could find: http://www.brookscole.com/physics_d/templates/student_resour...)
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"Hi John, over here there is no need to talk so loud to get attention"

Vs

"Hey everyone, did you ever notice John talking loudly to get attention?"
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Sorry, I misunderstood that then, my bad.
Bingo. I stopped reading right there.
Why? What does the error mean?
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VW seems to have partial self parking on a lot of models - it steers and you move forwards and backwards. It will also tell you as you drive past a parking space if it is big enough or not.

My wife is going to get a car with this system next week - I'm looking forward to giving it a try.
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When people ask for marketing advice on HN, one of the things I always suggest is getting to know bloggers in your niche because, hey, help them help you. This is generally fairly well-received advice here, and has been practiced by many folks successfully. (I really like Peldi's pitch emails. They're on his blog somewhere, and are very worthy of emulation.)

I am unsure in what relevant respect contacting someone to post something to HN is different than contacting someone to post on their blog. Is it that we have a reflexive allergy to being marketed to? I find that people generally don't mind, as long as they're buying what you're selling. For example, every once in a while I get an email from startups about the new foozit they're working on, particularly for A/B testing.

Heck yes, I want to hear about that. Please, send me email. I understand you're not sending it to me because you woke up this morning and decided "What can I selflessly do to brighten Patrick's day?" That's OK -- we're all businessmen here. If you know my name and have given enough individualized attention to believe I will like it, I'll at least give it a looksie. (Running /bingo/ against whois records does not count as personalized attention -- and no, I'm also not impressed that you have a fake female persona do the letter.)

While it is extremely unlikely that I'd ever submit something from ReadWriteWeb or your tech blog of choice (simply because if it was worth reading y'all would all have already seen it probably days in advance of me), I wouldn't feel particularly dirty submitting something that I discovered via an email. I mean, since you guys are my main source of startup/software/etc news, and I don't submit duplicates, eliminating the "somebody told me about this" route would pretty much mean that the only way to find something to submit would be to write it myself.

Not that I have a problem with that, either. :)
The scoring system is a bit unfair these days. Taiwan and Kiev solved 6 problems each, got the gold. Ural State solved 6 problems, got nothing.
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I don't think even Yahoo tries to cram that many unrelated features into a single website :-)
He said: "I like to mess around with things like that on my own."

He donated his expertise to the community, and had a good time. I'm having a hard time finding the downside.
I think Microsoft is playing its cards very well. They have a very firm foot in ground through their office and OS business. And they have presence almost everywhere from phones to web. They can simply acquire a small time company like Twitter to fill up the Gaps.
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How does a reader benefit from news that is available from fewer sources?

Also, if you're more likely to print a story when given an exclusive, then newsworthiness is not your only criterion in deciding what to print.
Accounts are free, what stops someone from posting it by themselves? If it's good it will float to the top (or at least, it should).

By asking 'well known' people in the community to submit stuff for them they're trying to ride the reputation of others in order to maximize their exposure, while at the same time hiding the fact that these are not 'natural' submissions.

It's like using other HN users as your personal sock puppets.
LLVM is designed to be more than just a compiler. It's different stages can be used separately by other code, making it well suited for building things like static analysis tools. Apple (sponsor and de facto leader of LLVM) has been taking advantage of this to integrate clang-based static analysis into XCode, the proprietary IDE that ships with Mac OS X. Even if GCC had a clean enough architecture to be used this way, the licensing restrictions would force all of XCode to be open-sourced.
I don't think there's any shame to discussing this in public and I don't think any less of RWW or Dana for inadvertently sparking it. It affirms what the HN community values and let's "outsiders" know what expectations are. This isn't a witch-hunt, it's just public discourse.
I don't think this is a major lapse in judgement. It's standard practice for newspapers/magazines to ask for a certain number of pages of advertisements in exchange for a feature article. In fact, I know that for many smaller trade magazines, the articles are actually written by the marketing staff of the featured company.
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Does your (1) point refer just to Flash? It's certainly possible to get a JVM to run on an ARM-based CPU.

As regards (3), Java the language may be outdated (possibly a debatable point) but Java the virtual machine probably isn't. Both Scala and Clojure are written by seemingly bright people who chose to use the JVM rather than another alternative (Scala code can in theory be compiled to run on the .NET runtime but in practise I understand that's somewhat difficult to achieve). It's easy to write Scala apps for Android phones and I don't see any reason why they wouldn't run just fine on an iPad/iPhone.
MongoEngine includes MongoDB backends for Django auth and sessions frameworks. Also the API overlap with Django's ORM means that in some simple cases, MongoEngine Documents may be used in place of Django's models (e.g. this appears to work with Django's pagination). Not complete support, but a step or two closer!
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I know academia is considered a dirty word among some people here, but seriously if you want to see cutting edge cool stuff that is the place to go. Pick something off your list, find out which university as at the cutting edge of that field and apply for a PhD position.
The population of the world keeps increasing. The supply of non-renewable resources keeps diminishing. Sooner or later, some generation is not going to live as well as its parents. It seems we decided to let that happen.

Living in a world without fossil fuel reserves, endless supply of fresh water, plastic, minerals, rare earths, etc. will be nothing like the 20th century. And that world is guaranteed. Those who anticipate what that world will look like have an opportunity to be ready for it. My hunch is that the steady-state of the world could at best look like, say, the Song Dynasty era.
Rather than using an identifiable person for my example I'll use non-existent Bob. Suppose Bob has been here for the last 3 years and has a bazillion karma and is well known to everyone as The Freaking Man on the subject of email marketing. (Sidenote: Do we have a Bob here? We could really use a Bob here. Show yourself, Bob!)

Anyhow, suppose some random email startup convinces Bob that their thingee is worthwhile enough to post about. Yes, I would trust that endorsement more than I'd trust randomHacker123's post. That is because Bob's endorsement matters to me, because I can use it as a filter for things I am likely to enjoy.

I understand they're using Bob's endorsement to maximize their exposure. I'm just not troubled by that. Bob's endorsement matters to me, at least on the subject of email marketing. He's doing the work sifting through the email marketing pitches so I don't have to. Yay! Bully for Bob.
> In that case the differential will spin the wheel with no traction while not sending any power to the wheel that does have traction

Boy do I ever get reminded of this every winter. It's a shame that cars that have the option to lock the differential gear are a lot more expensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_panic
I am not that high profile and I have been approached because I have a midrange karma.
I've found it hard to find a convincing argument why posts should be anonymous, most of them seemed pretty contrived, but I think you may have just found one.
None of the people you site were in anything resembling a desperate situation. HP was founded by 2 college fellowship students. TJ Watson was the frontman for NCR before moving to lead IBM. And Woz was so comfortable at HP that he was reluctant to leave to start a company. All these people were financially well-heeled. They all took risks starting a company, but not out of financial desperation.

The one person you didn't mention that even remotely fits the profile of desperate entrepreneur is Steve Jobs, which you failed to include.
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"Natural" submissions? What are "natural" submissions? Submissions that arose naturally out of the movements of the Great Magnet? Every article that ends up on here ends up here because someone (whether the author or not) has deliberately submitted it, and other people have deliberately upvoted it. This is true whether or not the person who submitted it was the author, and whether or not they were asked by the author if they would be willing to submit the article. Who are you to declare one set of articles "natural" and the other "unnatural"?

I think you need to get off your puritanical high horse about "keeping HN pure". You're doing more harm than good. So far, the main HN problem I see with "canvassing" or "voting rings" or whatever other cabalistic conspiration theory you think up, is the fact that you're polluting HN with these pointless finger-pointing exercises.

There's far more a problem of awesome posts getting zero upvotes than of crappy posts getting too many. Far too many times I stumble on something that is a great, great post, I submit it, and I find that it was submitted 2 days ago and got no upvotes. This sucks.

* TO CLARIFY:

If anyone runs a blog and thinks their last post is AWESOME and they reckon HN will love it, but for whatever reason they don't wish to post it under their own nickname, please DO send it to me. I will read it, and if I like it and I feel it is indeed an AWESOME post worth putting up on HN, I will post it.

PS: I will not post things that I don't think are in fact worth posting.

PPS: If you can't figure out my contact details by yourself, then you can't send me stuff.
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There is one reason, and one reason only, Apple won't let Flash or Java on the iPad or iPhone.

It's competition to the App Store and they don't want you circumventing that cash cow.
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> If it's good it will float to the top (or at least, it should)

I think that's part of the problem. (not that it justifies things).

Asking a mate for a bit of support or to help (see wolfire comments below) is fine IMO. But contacting fairly random individuals with the aim the build a relationship and get you to post stuff is clearly well over the line.

(ironically they can't have done much research into the community because anyone who did would realise that your a poor target for this kind of social engineering :P)

Incidentally I've had some completely unrelated contact with the French part of RWW and I find them charming and ethical. :) Could be just one bad egg?
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Except that a NeXTCube cost $10k at the same time that a decent windows PC cost $1.5-2k. Even though both NeXTStep and NT represented full, proper 32-bit "modern" operating systems and were both invented in the early 90s it took until 2001/2002 for both to come of age as consumer grade operating systems (NeXTStep as OS X, NT as Windows XP). In the meantime MS put forth an interim solution (Windows 9x) that was still suitable for consumer-grade PC hardware, resulting in a continuation of Windows market dominance and billions of dollars in profits for Microsoft. In contrast, NeXT took the intellectual high road, stubbornly refusing to compromise its vision of the future, resulting in massive financial losses, being forced to lay off 2/3 of its employees, and a long, slow slide into bankruptcy and irrelevancy before being acquired by Apple (which had stretched the decrepit Mac OS to its breaking point).

Had NeXT maintained a little more pragmatism and a little less stubborn pride it's possible that they could have become the next Apple or the next Microsoft, rather than merely a juicy intellectual property morsel for the real players in the industry to pick up and take advantage of.
It doesn't matter how much karma you have though - the top users were probably targeted because the leaderboard was a convenient list of active users.
Anyone tried it out? How's the memory usage compare to older releases?
There is rarely, if ever, one and only one reason for anything Apple does. Their holistic approach to product design is integral to the success of their products.
He was too lonely.
The fact that this happened to Techcrunch makes it peripherally related to technology, and thus the interest here. But I think thi sis pretty-much exactly what separates news about technology people from hacker news.

The fact that one or two articles in techcrunch were unreliable is hardly news, this is an isolated incident. The actual apology--from a 17 year-old who is not himself a hacker nor a startup founder and whether it is sincere or not--not hacker news in my opinion.

That being said, who died and made me King?
Clang and LLVM take a library based approach. They're designed so that tools that need to work with C/C++/Objective-C can simply link Clang.

GCC was never designed to do this, and even if it were, it's under the GPL and not the LGPL, which makes it unsuitable for linking as a library in non-GPL'd code. In contrast LLVM/Clang has a BSD-like licence.
He's 17. Think of the dumbest thing you did at 17. Now imagine it made TechCrunch.

What a joke.
I would tend to agree but one piece of information is still missing. Was the policy of TC relative to "compensations" made very clear to Daniel when he started ? If it was, then Daniel has no excuse since he transgressed clearly stated rules. If the rules were only implicit and assumed to be known and followed by authors then Daniel may be excused by his age since his education is not yet complete and he still needs time to mature.

The knowledge of good and bad builds up and refines itself with age through experiences. Note that a lot of adults are still confused about this limit in some domains like for instance exchanging and using unpayed copies of films and musics.

The integrity and reputation of TC is in play here so the prompt and radical reaction was legitimate. The communication was also a good move to make clear that such behavior is not in line with TC ethics.
Whether the collaboration with Daniel should have been terminated or not depends on his responsibility.

Turning public about this incident is a clear error of Daniel which may be another demonstration of his inexperience or bad advice given to him. This new error would have remained unnoticed if TC didn't advertise it.

My impression is that TC behaves with Daniel as if he was an adult, which he clearly isn't. This makes it much more difficult for Daniel to learn from his errors because the back burn is quite devastating and probably excessive.

I hope Daniel manage to learn the lessons, and I hope TC used this opportunity to learn some lessons too.

So in conclusion it is still not clear if Daniel is the only one to blame here. However the aim shouldn't be to know who to blame, but to make sure that everyone managed to learn what has to be learned and correct his behavior in consequence.
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I clicked on "boxing" for fun and a bunch of results came up.

The left side filters work well, but I have a question. Why can someone click on beginner, intermediate and advanced at the same time? Doesn't seem to make sense to me. I think it should be a radio button, not check boxes.

Edit: Two more things.

1) A personal pet peeve, please have the "Remember Me" default unchecked.

2) For some activities, the gender is important. E.g. for some kinds of dance, you need to parter with someone of the opposite sex. For other activities, some people might want to partner with someone of the same sex (e.g. self defense). I know having a gender indicator can be abused... but any kind of meetup site will run this risk.
Daniel,

You are simply mad with me because I pointed out your little group voting each others stuff up under the banner of being 'the defenders of HN', whereas that sort of behaviour is a part of the problem, not part of the solution.

I'm sure you didn't like that but to pretend I'm making it up is really funny, here is a transcript of #startups:

<swombat> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103439

<swombat> fuck jacquesm.

<wheels> swombat: +1 for mention of the great magnet.

<raz> who is that?

<wheels> And clearing up that there is no cabal.

<swombat> there is no cabal, just a more efficient mechanism for bringing cool articles to the attention of more than 1 person so that they have a snowflake's chance in hell of actually being read

<wheels> raz: It's like the force, except that it wipes your hard drive.

<tomh-> free upvote for your comment swombat

<tomh-> that jaques guy has to know his place and stop being such an asshat

<raz> ya, belt him!
As a fan of idiom and language, I'm glad to see the "mistakes were made" meme continuing in strength.

People make mistakes. Kids make more of them. Now with the internet, this mistake is going to live with Daniel for the next 80 years.

I'm really thankful that I lived in a time where you acted like an idiot when you were a teenager, just like all teenagers, and then folks forgot about it. But those days are long gone.

Meta note: It's very interesting to note the tone of some of the commenters here.
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In spite of the "metric ton" of research, you have yet to cite any of it. Can you cite a single source showing that laziness is not a contributing factor to poverty?

Also, I never claimed it was a complete picture of what causes poverty. I claimed it was one possible cause of the correlation between parent and child poverty. This debunks Bowle's claim that a correlation between parent and child poverty implies hard work could not be a cause of poverty. It may or may not be, but his statistic proves absolutely nothing unless he can also show that laziness is not hereditary. Other things, e.g. bad luck, might also cause poverty, but would not be correlated between parent and child.

Incidentally, the same research about why I might prefer a "hard work" theory also shows why you would emotionally prefer a "it's not their fault" theory. My reasoning signals to my tribe that I'm hard working, and raises my status. Your reasoning signals you are caring, and raises your status. How clever, and probably true. (Except of course for the fact that I'm a member of your tribe and expressing my opinion lowers my status. But hey, I'm a sucker for statistics.)
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It's my understanding that Apple maintained and released Java for OS X for Sun. Now that Oracle is in control of Java will this continue? I haven't read anything about this and I have noticed that the newest version of XCode does not have Java project templates anymore. We also know what Apple really thinks of Java. Comments?
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Just wow. I must have been good and/or lucky at choosing where I work and with whom, because in my 15-year career I've never encountered this kind of stupidity. I've certainly never encountered the likes of Baltar.
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Hardly. This "voting ring", as you call it, is responsible for many great articles getting notice. It is not responsible for any crap articles getting upvotes.

Also, apologies for the "fuck jacquesm", but I do get annoyed by puritanism and other moral crusades.
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It was a woman.
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100 billion instructions per second is what.. fast than the current Intel i7s? Am I reading this right?
Check the career pages of weapons manufacturers.

http://www.heckler-koch.de/Apprenticeship
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I've always wondered what would happen to all those comments if disqus goes belly up.
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The passive voice forgives all sins.
See http://www.chidalgo.com/productspace/Gallery/ProductSpacePla... for a nice map.
ah, thanks for the clarification. was still a pretty good strategy on their part i thought...