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I just read about three bisexual men who were disqualified from playing in the Gay Softball World Series because they were not deemed to be "Gay enough." I was offended.

Sometimes people are offended by what they perceive as injustice or impropriety even when it doesn't directly appear to harm them. You may not be such a person, but I am not surprised they exist.

I'm astounded that they outed the engineer who they claim "lost" the phone. They appear to have taken the word of a law-breaker with a $5,000 incentive to lie that the phone was lost and not stolen, and on that basis they publicly humiliate the engineer. They are either exceedingly cruel or this is an act of misdirection intended to bolster their "defense" that the phone was actually lost and that neither the person who approached them or themselves were able to return the phone promptly.

A very nasty bit of business indeed.
Remind me: Was it a PR nightmare when they sued various rumours sites for offering a bounty to anyone who would break their confidentiality agreements?
I don't consider most theater to be art in that sense. Art in the sense of craft or technique, certainly. But not a kind of derivative of fine art.
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Ask HN: Is there a cloud replacement for Blackberry Enterprise Server Express?
There is a nice free version of blackberry enterprise server for smaller businesses - http://na.blackberry.com/eng/services/business/server/express/ - but it requires Windows Small Business Server + Exchange Server.

Is there another way to do the same things that Enterprise Server does on the blackberry, with a cloud app or some other cheaper (more distributed) alternative?
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First, congratulations on your success with your business. 300% growth over multiple years is very impressive. Second, I didn't mean to be negative or snarky (I can be abrasive sometimes, so sorry about that). It's just that no one experiences detection rates that high in the real world. If AV actually worked that well, it would be incredible. I'd be the first person to publicize it.

In regards to AV Comparatives, I responded to why their tests aren't relevant in in the real world here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1284321. The bottom line is that detection rates as high as 97% are generally regarded by industry experts as inflated (John Viega says in one of his books that some people estimate actual detection rates to be around 30%). AV companies themselves would never use that number as a part of their marketing campaigns. You'll note that on the product pages of the AV products tested, the numbers aren't listed. If a 99.6% detection rate was actually. valid, don't you think it would be displayed in large and bold letters on the product page?

I'm not saying people shouldn't run AV, but we need to be honest about the actual capabilities of these products. Even if actual detection is only 30%, 30% is better than 0%.
Ehm, what!? The important thing isn't that he "learned a lesson". His actions had real consequences, and an apology (sincere as it may be) does not absolve him. Not in the least.

It's doubtful he's really changed, because he apparently needed advise from many people to figure out that his actions were far from honorable. For all we know he's simply in damage-control mode. Especially to sum it up as "Made a mistake. Lesson learned." (post title) strikes me as especially glib. An apology is now in his best interest, so of course he's going to apologize. It's not as if he has a choice.

That said, I do believe he feels bad about the situation, and I think the apology is sincere. But I also think that his original actions were scummy, and that his instinctive reaction (cover up / hope it blows over / attacking victim on internet) shows his character. And people don't really change overnight, so he's still that kind of guy.

So the important lesson, if there is one, is to stay away from bootuplabs.
It's a great week to see Boulder too. The weather should be awesome. Sunny, and amazing view of the mountains. Lots of hiking and climbing opportunities. -- from a guy who lives about 20 minutes away, went to school at CU-Boulder and visits Boulder regularly.
The "ask" is not that a shared hosting account support 83 hits/second. It's that the hosting company demonstrate the bare minimum of respect and professionalism in contacting the hostee ASAP when their site is being shut down due to excess traffic. This isn't bitbucket or geocities, dollars are changing hands. If you don't like running a business that makes money then by all means, treat your paying customers like they are a burden to you, they will get the hint and go elsewhere.
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offend |əˈfend|
verb
1 [ trans. ] (often be offended) cause to feel upset, annoyed, or resentful
• be displeasing to
That was just one of many, most of which simply can't be done as iPhone apps (and several of which already exist for Android).
> Facebook users are generally careful about what they broadcast.

Seriously? Maybe among your tech-savvy friends, but the majority of Facebook users have no idea what they're doing when they type something into the box and click "Share."

A few minutes over at http://failbook.com/ is enough to point that out, and those are just the egregiously bad / hilarious cases.
Why doesn't the new Parallel.For support BigInteger?
And you deserve neither(?)
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> Antitrust problems generally happen when you coerce a company into something using your monopoly power

So Microsoft buying Intel wouldn't generate antitrust problems?
Looks like statusly is for sale. http://statuslyforsale.tumblr.com/

The post that talks about this:
http://livejamie.com/post/522093261/booted-out-of-bootup-lab...
Absolutely wrong. That technology exists and is being used millions of times a day at sites all over the world. DreamHost, for example, employs just such a technology for their shared hosting: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/CPU_minutes
I should add that I thought it was a strange way of stating how he felt too. That response is probably due to the popular usage of offend to mean more than just upset/resentful.

Gruber is the type of guy who is more likely to go by the dictionary definition than popular usage.
Selection bias is not necessarily a bad thing. I bet the articles and papers are also skewed in that they disproportionately aren't written by folks that think that there are large bears on Mars, invisible unicorns in Kansas and that wrestling is the greatest sport ever.

Just a comment on one of your points. On the whole, I think your hypothesis is reasonable.
Why is he personally offended by this?

Gruber is a tech journalist. When another person who claims the role of tech journalist acts like a sociopath, it reflects badly on everyone in the profession.

And that's not some abstract philosophical exercise. Gruber's job just got a lot harder. Who among us would trust a journalist now? How many Apple engineers just said a silent prayer and swore to never breathe a word to any journalist, ever? Hell, with guys like this on the loose who needs the legendary wrath of Steve Jobs? I might rather be denounced and fired by Steve Jobs [1] than publicly humiliated in the tech press.

Journalists with ethics need to complain about this loudly and forcefully. Otherwise they will be presumed to be among the journalists without ethics.

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[1] Once the shock wore off, it would be something of an honor to be personally denounced by Steve Jobs. It's not like you wouldn't be in elite company.
For me the FAQ was empty, maybe a compatability problem with Android's browser. I'll check it out on a real computer.
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Those with AMD/ATI graphic cards with fglrx drivers would have faced this issue of eye-candy effects not working, let alone the problem here is the straight dope for it.
Super cool! I was /just thinking/ about a project like Apsurd in class today. I guess you beat me to it!

I'm part of a lot of student orgs on my campus; I'll try it out some time soon.
Not gay enough? Hell, the olympics have a hard time even telling if people are woman enough:

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/OlympicGenderTesti...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/30/olympicgames2008...
Here's my stream-of-consciousness:

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I saw a huge "scroll down to learn more" arrow and thought "why don't you just put what I'm supposed to learn right here?". Why do I have to scroll for it? And what's this stuff underneath?

Reluctantly, I scrolled. Write a response? No... Curtis? Who is Curtis? Some acme inc files? No, that's not it either... Braintrust Features? Oh, finally, I'm here. So I see a list of features, and I see some benefits....but what is Braintrust? So I scroll all the way back up and look to my right, I see....Social Collaboration for your company. So now that I finally have some context, let me re-read everything....

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I think the whole "fake mockup of a real interface" concept is flawed. Nothing I see on first glance (a) works or (b) means anything to me. I totally missed the big yellow box the first time through, so I had zero context.

This is unrelated, but your logo looks like Ubuntu+Joomla to me.

Finally, I'd rethink the "pimping" analogy on your philosophy page.
Thanks for pointing that out. I knew what the meaning of the word was but I just thought that it was kind of weird. I also have this impression that Gruber takes anything negative towards Apple very personally, more than an average independent observer.

While others might find what gizmodo did distasteful, Gruber finds it offensive. When I think about the word "offended", I always think about it something personal that has been directed at you as opposed to your feelings towards something happened to someone you have never met in your life. But again, english is not my first language so it might seem off to me more than a native speaker.
Why not? It's your hardware and you can do what you want with it.

Apple have never complained about people installing Linux on MacBooks. In fact back in the G4 days they turned a blind eye to Mac on Linux which let you virtualize OS X on top of Linux (at about 95% of full speed!)

Link: http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/
Very few films are "art". Who's the video game equivalent of Kubrick or Kurosawa or Bergman?

Penny Arcade's comment on this is wonderfully wrong: "If a hundred artists create art for five years, how could the result not be art?"

Interestingly, that's exactly the sort of film that fails to be art. Great films are, without exception, products of a single driving vision, not designed by committee.

The only way to really claim that video games are art is to say, "Here, this game X is the equivalent to The Seven Samurai." Only that's not going to happen, because it doesn't exist. And because it doesn't exist, Ebert gets pummeled with long screeds of gamer angst rather than the only answer that would matter: "Game X is art."
There are too many grammar errors for it to be auto-generated (I hope).
i agree that gizmodo shouldn't have published the guy's name at all. though how it was reported etc is hardly surprising. this is exactly how journalism works. people are all hotheaded in this situation because it's an apple product that's been unveiled. i doubt gruber would be "offended" by a similar case for any other company's gadget.
It would be interesting if some topic in the field of software got as much public attention and debate by non-practioners as does climate change.

On one side (because there have to be two sides, and presented in a "fair and balanced" way, of course), you'd have the vast majority of working programmers all agree with the position that, say, writing software in a high level language is much more productive and useful than writing everything in machine language. And on the other side you'd have some non-programmers who are "skeptical" and coming up with all kinds of arguments why machine language is best. The skeptics would point out what they say are flaws in the reasoning, gaps in the data, etc.

This line of thought is not meant to argue that man-made global warming or catastrophic climate change are true and urgent, but rather to argue that perhaps that it doesn't make sense for non-scientists to take a stand on this issue -- especially taking a stand against the position of those who have vastly more knowledge and experience with the topic. Might they be wrong? Of course. But they are probably way more likely to be right than the average bloke on the street.
I agree, for me owning a home is about quality of life and having complete control over my housing. When my fridge started going south, I replaced it. When my girlfriend's fridge started making loud noises and running constantly, she complained to the landlord who had it fixed enough so it was quieter, but it still ran constantly, running up her electricity bill.
I agree so much with this that it hurts (slightly paraphrased): "When everyone at the company does customer support, it changes what kind of programmer you are and what kind of entrepreneur you are. You don't take customers for granted anymore. You have a real stake in ensuring the ease of use of your service and sanding down the rough edges."

There have been more than a few times when I've gotten a new feature functionally complete but not polished, exhausted myself, and on the cusp of hitting the deploy button I think "If I show this to folks now, I'm going to have a full inbox tomorrow morning. Blech. OK, no deploy, come back to it next week and get it presentable prior to test-launching it."
Obviously there were screw-ups. But it's possible a major factor was someone else fell through on their investment commitment to Bootup Labs. They hinted at that, though quite rightly Bootup hasn't specifically named who fell through on them. They've taken the hit themselves. Depending on what the inside story is, some might respect them for that.

When trying to make something new happen, you almost have to express preemptive confidence, and gloss over some of the caveats applying to outlier possibilities. You say, "We have the investors all lined up", not "We have the investors all lined up, as long as the people I believe are solidly reliable remain reliable". 99 times out of 100, avoiding such pedantic qualifications helps the joint effort. Sometimes it blows up. Here it blew up, and then slow communication made it worse, but such mistakes happen among the ever-hopeful.
That's your usage pattern, but it does not say anything about that partner, so it may be less safe than it appears.
I don't understand why everybody is trying to quote the law and take strict meaning of it to prove Gizmodo did wrong. All are ignoring the fact that Gizmodo brought it to light, which everybody is really interested to know anyway!

As per the strict letter of law, many of our day to day activities would be wrong too! Considering that there were no deaths or loss of money, and Gizmodo is willing to return it back to Apple, I would give Gizmodo a clear pass!
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Might be interesting to treat this as a game theory problem where suitors have their own agendas too, and wouldn't like to be in the initial group that gets unconditionally discarded.
Exactly. It would be useful if you could set the starting point of the period you're interested in.
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Why didn't he move? First thing I would have done is skipped town to Japan or something, & maybe come back after a decade.
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Considering the fact that, a guy did suicide recently for the nature of Apple's secrecy, i think publishing his name is actually a better step by Gizmodo.

We really don't know what would have Apple security team done to this guy if this issue didn't become to public eye, don't you think?
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I just don't trust Facebook with the internet.
Whoa, I would not like to be this guy right now.
The 'relative' graph is rubbish. The 'absolute' graph says something that I think is fairly obvious: If you want a job, you'll have an easier time finding it if you can write Java (or C++, or C#).

I did a bit of clicking around, and most of the Ruby jobs were for Ruby on Rails, which is a little disappointing, but not surprising.

Most of the Python jobs seem to mention python as a secondary skill next to PHP, or are otherwise a massive mash of keywords. Which is even more disappointing; even though I'm more of a Ruby guy, Python is an excellent language for any serious number crunching. I can't think of anything in any other general-purpose language that comes close to SciPy/NumPy.
> this is exactly how journalism works

No, this is "industrial espionage" through illegal methods, and it's only OK-ish to do if it serves some public good (justice). And no, this is not journalism, unless by that you mean intentionally breaking the law for your own profit.

I really hope the person that stole that phone and Gizmodo are prosecuted for theft.

Because of dicks like these we ended up with the current patent system.
This statement sums up at least 70% of the success the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad will see:

>Apple philosophically believes that by delivering a closed system [to the customer] they can deliver a better consumer product.

Brackets added for context, as he was referring to delivering that experience to customers. That's when it hits me. My contention with Apple as of late because of the way they parade their control of these markets with revolutionary phones and revolutionary tablet computers isn't with Apple at all. It's with the ordinary consumer.

We're all aware that consumers outnumber developers at least 3:1, and if they clamor for products, they get those products because they're affecting the bottom line. Developers, are inherently the casualty to a hyper-consumerist marketplace.

There was a time when the iPhone first came out that I would mock it as a "Playschool phone for idiots with huge buttons telling you what to do". It seems that's exactly the case; in Apple's attempt to define to the customer, what the customer needed best, they got tunnel-sighted and everybody else paid the price. Except, of course, for those customers who keep consuming apps regardless of how useful it actually is.

Paradoxically, sometimes developers turn into consumers, and consumers turn into developers.

It's nasty.
all i think is that everyone is making a mountain out of a molehill in this situation. this is blown way out of proportion.
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Thanks James. I got many of these from Hacker News. I thought there would be some sort of push against this getting any traction because I submitted it, but I figured the community would enjoy it.
Games are mechanisms for play. Play is not art. Play is dynamic, art is static. Play engages, art coerces.

I think Ebert is mostly right, but we shouldn't give much serious attention to someone who has had so little experience with games. That's like arguing about Hermann Hesse with someone who staunchly refuses to read anything longer than a road sign. We should be proud of the distinction between play and art. If we're going to argue at all, our position should be that play is potentially as important as art, if not more so.

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(Emphasis on "potentially". Game developers still have a lot of ground to cover. The linked article was praising games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect as positive examples of storytelling in games. Yikes.)

BioWare has got lost in the dense tangle of what it was trying to
accomplish. It hasn't been able to see the wood for the trees. It
has summoned an entire world into existence in the most meticulous
detail, but failed to give it an identity beyond the blandest
cliché. It has created living characters that respond like humans,
but speak like dictionaries and move like mannequins. It has
engineered solidly absorbing RPG gameplay and character progression
and stranded them in a succession of hackneyed and hide-bound
scenarios.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/dragon-age-origins-review
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I don't know about you, but just about everyone I know who knows about this deeply dislikes Gizmodo right now. I would be happy if Apple sued Giz, and if criminal charges were brought - and I won't be the only one by a long shot.
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I'd prefer that the submitters submit the full page stories or printer friendly versions as the submission.

But in this case the printer friendly version omits the sound clips, which are what make the article.
That looks really cool. I'll be in a position to give it a go in a few months. One thing that would make me hesitate though, is not knowing what the potential pricing would be when you move from non-free.
This is very confusing! By default add 6 apps on the first page, which the user can then customize and change afterwards. Only after I had an app on the first page did I understand what the service was about.
Use php-fpm with enginx and you're golden. I ran a website getting millions of requests daily and it worked a treat on a small EC2 instance.
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Not quite the same but many years ago I got bored and wanted to know how far the toolbar game could go: http://moot.mooh.org/archives/2005/02/super-toolbar.html
David, Nginx is awesome.
I agree that in the short term FaceBook could turn its current information content into money by disclosing it in ways that will displease the people who create the content. And it is possible that foolish management of the company could make this happen. But there seems to be a long term destruction of the value of the company in doing that because the content creators will migrate to more pleasant sites. The current information content of FaceBook is a fixed resource that will lose value over time. What they need is to have people continually adding new content. Otherwise their visitors will decline and their advertisers will have no audience.
Yes, lots of people who like RDF dislike the RDF/XML serialization of it. It's ridiculously verbose, hard to process with XML tools, not very human-readable, and there can be many equally valid RDF/XML serializations for any given RDF graph.

N3 is much more widely liked - http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer - as is RDFa - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/
Bug report:

customize URL => copy paste in an URL from browser with https://xyz => the link becomes http://https://xyz and does not work.

Seems to fail at http:// at start of URLs also. For me the natural thing was to copy&paste it in from a browser window.
I recommend GRC's DNS benchmark. http://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm - which lets you compare a range of publicly available dns servers, and measures their responsiveness. 8.8.8.8 or 4.2.2.2 maybe easy to remember, but depending where you are on the planet, they aren't necessarily the fastest.
sometimes and sometimes a bit more often there is a thought coming up my mind and (attention ironic) I dont know why, but always apple got to do with it:
what if...?

... never heard of viral marketing?
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I syndicated his blog for the better part of a year and found most of his posts to be misguided. I think you're right that he just doesn't like it when things change.