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> Sarcasm on the internet is really not a good idea.

Then sarcasm in print must not be a good idea either, because if you can't convey tone and emotional nuance in text on the internet, certainly text in a dead-tree publication suffers from the same problem, right? What's fundamentally different between the two? The level of possible distribution? The ease at which one can be a publisher on the internet vs. in a print medium?

Or is there another reason why internet sarcasm is a bad idea that I'm not seeing?

> Don't feel bad, it's never the readers fault when sarcasm isn't obvious, that's always the fault of the writer

Preposterous. Some of the best sarcasm I've read isn't immediately obviously sarcastic. If you don't get it, you don't get it. Sometimes the writer sucks at being sarcastic, and sometimes the reader has a poorly-developed sense of humor. But that's ok! An ability to understand well-crafted sarcasm isn't a prerequisite for living in the world.
Their focus on one particular famous guy makes it not that convincing, either. "Famous men have no trouble picking up women, even if they're jerks" hasn't ever been unusual.
My favourite quote: "If somebody in 1999 had said 'Build me a massive data storage system that would be available to a hundred million users around the world, would be capable of terabytes of data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and robust to attack from armed people bringing down attacks,' you would say 'Give me a billion bucks and ten years.' You wouldn't say, give me Shawn Fanning in a dorm room, building peer-to-peer (p-to-p) file sharing systems."
Man... I wish all I had to do was push static content. Must be nice.
Shareholders care only about relative performance. Absolute performance is irrelevant. So as long as all big companies in a particular sector waste X on consultants, that's fine for the shareholder. It doesn't even affect the dividend as you might think, because if everyone does it the cost can be passed on to clients.

Shareholders start to care once a lean competitor enters the scene. Someone who does away with all the fluff and is more profitable. These things happen. But my reaction as a shareholder is to become a shareholder of the better company and dump the stock of the inefficient one. I'm not trying to make the inefficient company more efficient. Some activist shareholders do that, but most don't.

There is one very important truth that too few people are considering: Shareholders are not entrepreneurs. Most shareholders have no interest in improving a particular company. Their interest is in choosing undervalued companies and selling them when they are not undervalued any longer, preferably at a higher price.

The distinction between investors and speculators is a lie. There is no difference between the two. The important difference is the one between owners and entrepreneurs.
The problem with "African American" is that, in America, it is less general than "black." Black can encompass Afro-Caribbeans as well, for example.

"American blacks" or "American-born blacks" might be phrases of high utility, since they seem to balance both of our concerns with over- or under-generalization.
I expect google could easily beat that with a few services combined.
What if Opera gains significant share on the iPhone? Now Apple doesn't have as much leverage against Google.

That's really what I meant to say.
Really? I program and I've spent a while fixing non-obvious markdown errors. I believe that was the whole reason it was forked by markdownsharp. How would learning any language be easier than not learning anything at all?
I doubt that Afro-Caribbeans are being addressed in the article though. The article seems to be speaking about the U.S only.
I can't cite where I've seen the statistics, but I recall seeing a similar discrepancy for other races in the United States.

I suppose it's to be expected: women, compared to men, tend to face more pressure from their families (and society) to conform to "tradition."
Presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/smartrevolution/how-a-clojure-pet-...

And the todo manager itself: https://the-deadline.appspot.com/
Apple provokes an almost religious zeal in some. Adobe provokes an equally religious hatred. Hoping for a reasoned civil debate is perhaps... optimistic.
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If it comes to that, Apple will ban it's use. No biggie. As long as Apple thinks they have no competition to fear they can limit developers as they wish.

So let's all hope Android (or any other mobile platform) is very successful. Yes, you iPhone-Developers, too should wish for Androids success!
Pretty much, yes. It never excited me and I never figured out why would it be cool to write iPhone apps. And that was at the time when iPhone was cool and Apple was still seen as benign.

I was never a developer/user/anything to Java either and I've only later learned that I certainly didn't miss anything. ;)
Governments protect companies all over the world. Why shouldn't they protect consumers (or in this case companies against other companies) as well?
It's all true. The effectiveness of the approach is amazing, I lost every single bit of respect in the female gender in the process of trying it out myself.
Now I'm searching for someone on which this stuff doesn't work. I'm afraid i'll end up alone.
I think the article is clear in stating this is about the US.
Thus blacks, whites, educated, uneducated.. are all understood to be in the US.
tldr;

Just Lessigs long account of the story.

Lessig made practical law mistakes because he acted like an academic.
He corrected Supreme court justices rather than answering their
questions.

He thinks a more practical lawyer could have won the case, maybe but
he never says how, and there is no clear single mistake.
The contributors section names four people. If only four people wrote something like this, that's ridiculously impressive.
I increasingly see the term 'hemochromatosis' used to describe damaging iron overload even when caused by factors other than the specific 'HFE' gene, such as other diseases (hereditary or not).

I also see a growing trickle of advice -- often from the kinds of cranks who sometimes turn out to be right -- pointing at iron exposure/accumulation, below levels that would result in a formal diagnosis of overload, as contributing to other chronic diseases and symptoms of aging. (Perhaps, the evolved mechanisms for iron regulation are optimized for 40-year lifespans, and not 80+-year lifespans.)

My layman's hunch is that the consensus view on iron will shift in coming decades. We'll see.
The way I understood was that the content (animation shown in the video) was created in Flash and exported for HTML5/Canvas. Meaning you can create content in Flash (the animation package) and export it for HTML5 making Adobe less depended on their Flash Player platform.

The video was demonstrating that the exported content runs slower in HTML5/Canvas than in Flash Player.
Is WebOS honestly that good? The last I heard that I was paying attention to was jwz giving up on his for performance reasons (http://jwz.livejournal.com/1108212.html)

I know there's a lot to like about it; I loved (in my brief exposure) the cards metaphor, and I imagine that development could be quite nice, but have they solved the issues he refers to?

[disclaimer: I have had a brief play with a Pre, but you can't get them in Australia. I would have considered getting one].
So this is the level of maturity we're to expect in the future from news.ycombinator?

This is the level of maturity it's always had; as jrockway courteously points out, he's been foaming at the mouth in iPhone-related threads since before you signed up.

More importantly, though, I'd recommend you spend some time reading through Clay Shirky's writings on online communities; the "once upon a time it was wonderful, now all the new people are ruining it" myth is pervasive and can be a sign of deep trouble (see, in particular, "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy").
I remember when palm was worth more than 3com, even though 3com owned 95% of palm.
Looking at my comment again, I think you're right. I'm succumbing to the same cheap temptation. Morals for me intertwine much more with politics than with tech -- and I feel strongly enough sometimes that I can't contain myself. How to constructively debate with people who seem as if in another world? That I would even say that surely indicates I haven't figured it out yet; it seems impossible that we could see things so differently -- it's almost painful to think about.
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Why does he write "baaaahhhhssstttaaaarrrrdddddssss" when he means to write "bastards" ?! Reads very silly to me. Is he trying to be cute? Or trying to get around content-blocking systems? (One would think he could just write "batsards")
"Absent negative externalities or monopoly effects, a man receives from the free market what he gives to it, his material worth is a running tally of the net benefit that he has provided to his fellow man"

I'm not surprised that someone whose ideology makes him believe that Einstein's contribution to society was smaller than that of the bosses of Lehman or AIG would be disappointed by reality. Or is it that reality itself is a "negative externality"?

No, I think the issue is one of faulty interpretation of that ideology. It's a serious mistake that people make all the time. They mix up statistical probabilities and individual causality. The average efficiency of markets includes scams as well as geniuses. It includes people who contribute a lot but market themselves badly and it includes the exact opposite.
We're light years away from that happening.

I think Apple isn't used to being in control. Cross platform on OSX generally means poor versions of programs designed for other platforms. That isn't an inherent factor of cross platform tools, its because OSX is a minority OS. For instance in all the complaints about Firefox on OSX noone has stopped to think that Firefox on Windows is equally developed on a compatibility layer.

With the iPhone OS dominance in handheld software compatibility layers, Android and other platforms will be the minorities dealing with poor ports. Cross platform tools will be designed for iPhone OS.

Having said all I've said against section 3.1.1, I'd have to say I support banning Flash CS5 from the App Store, there is just no need to blanket ban compatibility layers. Maybe Apple should institute a framework whitelist - it'd certainly be up their alley in terms of control, and would let decent platforms like Unity continue.
Studies have shown that at least 10% of people don't suffer from eye strain when staring at LCD screens for long stretches of time: http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/irritated.htm

So you're probably one of the lucky ones. But for those who aren't the Kindle is a significantly better choice for long term reading.
Bear in mind that it took weeks for Spotify to be approved too, and they are a significant competitor to Apple's music store.
I agree there's no clear single mistake, but his main conclusion is that he erred by not trying to convince the justices that as a policy matter, extending copyright in this way was a bad idea. Instead, he thought he had a legal argument for why it was unconstitutional that the justices, given their previous views, would have to accept. What he didn't count on was that they didn't want to accept it, and so dodged the issue. So he concludes he should've spent more effort convincing them that not only did they have to accept his argument legally, but that they should also want the outcome it produced.

He correctly guessed that Ginsburg would vote to uphold, and Stevens would vote to overturn, and those were both consistent with their previous opinions. He incorrectly thought Breyer would vote with Ginsburg, against him, and didn't know what Souter would do.

But he thought he had an argument that the 5 conservative justices would have to accept, given their previous opinions. What he didn't count on was that, since they as a political issue didn't want to strike down the law, they would just sign on to Ginsburg's opinion without comment. That is, the conservative justices didn't explain anywhere why this decision was consistent with their previously expressed views on tests for limiting enumerated powers. They just ignored that argument entirely, and silently voted for Ginsburg's opinion, which analyzed things from Ginsburg's perspective, with a heavy focus on legislative precedent and no discussion of originalist arguments. The 5 conservatives didn't write separately to explain how they could possibly agree with Ginsburg's reasoning, given their previous views (especially the originalist ones, who were usually skeptical of legislative precedent).
This is stated again and again on HN, but it is just not true. You could run interpreted code, it just wasn't allowed to download and run modules, everything had to be linked into the application.
I agree that it's not apples/apples. From the first few minutes, I think the main strength of Neo4j is the rich ecosystem and functionality on top of it, and the fact that it stores an infinite-levels deep graph. In comparison FlockDB stores one level (e.g. user -> followers). The main strength of FlockDB seems to be that it has built-in distribution, which is something we're working on for Neo4j but it's not yet generally available.

All this of course based on just a quick glance, so I may come back all the wiser and revise my opinion later. :)

-EE [http://neo4j.org]
What's the upload/download speed of your parents connection?
Tch, I'd probably blame the human species, not the gender. Simple tricks like these work on men, too (although not the same tricks).
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I wasn't trying to be so general, and wanted to talk mostly about Apple and Appstore :-) But thank you, it's a good answer. Anyway, I think that while market will usually find a workable solution, we cannot expect it to ever find the best one (well, and especially socially responsible one, whatever it means :-)). Of course, regulation, even in the best interests, can fail badly and make things much much worse. Still, I think it would be better for us all if Apple was forced to make iPhone development more open, and the risks of doing so are not so great. But I agree that those risks could be seen as a good reason to avoid it. After all, we can live quite happily even with closed iPhone (or no iPhone at all :-)).
There are many black people in the US who consider themselves culturally Caribbean and not African.
Well, it's on a website. Imagine opening the website and reading the start of the article:

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Title: Sex and the single black woman

Subtitle: How the mass incarceration of black men hurts black women

IMAGINE that the world consists of 20 men and 20 women, all of them heterosexual and in search of a mate. Since the numbers are even, everyone can find a partner. But what happens if you take away one man? You might not think this would make much difference. You would be wrong, argues Tim Harford, a British economist, in a book called "The Logic of Life". With 20 women pursuing 19 men, one woman faces the prospect of spinsterhood. So she ups her game. Perhaps she dresses more seductively. Perhaps she makes an extra effort to be obliging. Somehow or other, she "steals" a man from one of her fellow women. That newly single woman then ups her game, too, to steal a man from someone else. A chain reaction ensues. Before long, every woman has to try harder, and every man can relax a little.

---

If this were a local newspaper, then it would be fine. But for something on the internet, it's not at all clear what is meant. A magazine which writes for the internet has to be more specific when it speaks about regional problems, so that it's clear that this does not affect other people.

The opening paragraphs speaks about the world and about the british, so it could very well be a world-wide phenomena.

Journalism is now global, and appropriate care has to be taken, in my opinion.
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Someone from Google Switzerland wrote up a study on browser upgrades: http://www.techzoom.net/publications/silent-updates/index.en . He came to the same conclusion, namely that aggressive automatic-upgrades lead to faster distribution of the stabler more secure versions.

Google seems to be taking a "website for the desktop" approach to the browser upgrades. If Google updates their homepage, the user gets the new version the next time they visit it. Ditto for their browser - the next time they start Chrome it's upgraded seamlessly without bothering the user with the details.

We take the same approach as Google Chrome with our suite of updater tools (http://wyday.com/wybuild/ for anyone interested). We've found it's lead to better input (less duplicate bug reports) and faster sales turnaround. We haven't done a definitive study of our customers' customers, it'd be interesting to see if they got the same results.
Excuse me, where can I download the significant investment I've made to the iPlatform (_not_ the only platform i was targeting).
My consequence is to leave Apple and its customers in their walled garden. Indeed I'm going to write for Android and Maemo...
As a black American, I'm glad they didn't use the term African-American. It's insulting. While I love the African people, many (if not most) blacks in America have no African ties (at least not for the past few centuries). It's just PC nonsense and a gross misnomer.
I doubt that African-Americans are culturally "african".
Isn't the "billion dollars destroyed" argument he makes just the broken window fallacy in reverse?
"Complete guarantee of security" is not just overkill, it's impossible. Security is about risk management -- and your examples illustrate that.
Then how about they use Black-American? The article is not about blacks in general, it's about black people within the U.S.
What probably goes missing is that the article is written for the hardcopy magazine and the article is in the US section of the magazine.
If by, "broken window fallacy in reverse" you mean "pointing out that the broken window fallacy is a fallacy", yes. He is troubled by the fact that he is earning money by breaking windows.
I've had an (iPad) app approved in hours & then an iPad update fixing critical bugs for the same app blocked for one week. It's still a crapshoot. If you go into 'extended review', I suggest retracting the binary & submitting again, hoping that you get a different reviewer. Joy!
Then all would have been well. ;-)
That was true given early revisions of the agreement. If you revisit the language you'll find that the phrase "download and run" has been replaced with "download or run."

That said, there was talk about moving Wax to llvm-lua such that the resulting application would be compiled machine code. The new clause precludes this option entirely.

The only uncertainty left, now, centers around enforcement. There are a number of PhoneGap and Wax powered apps already in the store, and PhoneGap was even blessed as an approved framework. Only time will tell if that blessing stands.
The iPad may be a spiffy glitzy flash platform for multi-media, but it's not going to kill reading or books. At least, not for people with intellectual curiosity. Written materials, fiction or non-fiction, are a good way to present complex ideas efficiently. Multimedia is not. Descarte's Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences (1637), which lays some of the foundations of modern science, is a worthwhile read. What would an iPad version look like if it's not a book. What about Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground, which some say is the best exposition of Existentialist thought? How would it play as a iPad application? Or Hemingway's Old Man of the Sea? I suspect that multimedia iPad applications will be, like movies based on books, always lacking nuance, complexity, and depth.
This is true, but not helpful. :(
Yeah, this is a general feature of how The Economist writes. Sometimes, as an American, it's a bit jarring to open to a random page and start reading an article that launches right into a discussion of some current event in the UK without even pointing out, "hey this is a thing happening in the UK". But when it's in the UK section, they just write assuming you already have that context, and often that you are even up to date on ongoing issues (e.g. they don't explain who David Cameron is in every single article that mentions him).
The term "African-American" clearly implies "African": it's one of only two words in the phrase!

You just demonstrated that you are using it to refer to the concept of "black". This is a very poor choice as not everyone from Africa is black, and not everyone black is from or has parents from Africa. And if you are using the logic "well he obviously has SOME ancestor originally from Africa", technically EVERYONE does.
Losing respect for women is not problem. A real tragedy would be if you lost your lust for them. If it makes you happy, women who know how to manipulate men say the same about us.
Very very well put.
OH YEAH!! Because users are renowned for updating their browsers. Flash has 99% of the market. I would gather that 90% of users on the internet don't have a friggin' clue what this whole debate is about and wont care how they view their videos. I like the idea of HTML5, but if it takes off like many preach, users will probably notice how everything is a little less polished and a little more crappy. Then they'll still not care.
So what your saying is that they can't copy themselves into a global leader?

This point aside, cheating is also rampant here. And I have to say the students are quite clever in how they do it. Although some of them are not so clever (caught a student who copied their homework off the net, the English was too good for it to be them).
Hmmm... This looks to only store first order relations efficiently, its seems that to traverse many nodes, you would need to repeatedly query the database (e.g. I can only get my friends, not the friends of my friends etc...). This severely limits the use for most problem domains you would want to use a graph Db for. Still, possibly useful if you have to solve a problem that looks alot like twitter's.
It seems there must be some race where the opposite's true? Sort of by definition, there have to be the same total number of women as men in heterosexual interracial couples...
How is it insulting? It just references past ties. Would someone with an Irish heritage be insulted by being called Irish American? I don't care if someone calls me Black or African American or even Black American. If you have a preference, then that's fine. I just found it weird to be insulted by it.
Black-Americans do not have any cultural link to Africa, so I was pointing out that saying Carribean-American is not the same thing as saying African-American. Carribean-American implies a direct cultural link to the carribean islands, much like Arab-American would imply some type of cultural link to Arab culture. African-American is special in that it does not imply any link to Africa at all.

African-American is a known term used to refer to people of a particular population group within the United States, and as such, it is much more accurate for the purposes of the article than the very broad term "Black".

Black is not the same as African-American. Black is a broad group, and African-American is a subgroup of black that lives within the United States. You can also refer to this group as Black-American or so on, but it remains that this particular article was not speaking of the broader "black" group, it was speaking of the more specific American-Born Blacks, which are also commonly refered to as African-Americans, irrespective of any cultural ties to Africa.