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Interesting. Are you suggesting a voting ring or something? Is flagging usually used as a way to let the moderators know that something fishy might be going on?
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I read the tone as not literally meaning news has broken, but rather an attempt at summoning the spirit of the 1920s newscasts. The rest of the article seems to support that interpretation, with the references to more innocent times and so on.
While parts of his story resonate and it fun to to hear people explain phenomena based on different ideologies, I've never heard an alternative to capitalism that sounded credible at a large scale. (Most any system could work at a small scale.)
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Can you describe your experience trying to port whichever method you were using for strings to bstring approach ? I'm curious as to what you thought about it.
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Would love to try this, but I'm hesitant to give any 3rd party complete access to my account.

Does anyone here work for Apigee? Can someone vouch for their trustworthiness?
For the record,
while (calls.moveToNext() && (count < howMany)) {
will not compile as written in Java without the interior parentheses.
That says more about the law than about Facebook: if something is so socially accepted that it is cool to post about on facebook as long as the police don't find out, it is probably time to change said law. I'm wondering if you could take "I'd post about it on Facebook" as a basis for your peronsal moral code.
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nothing gets points that fast on here so yeah definite something fishy going on and yeah that's what flagging is for
I'd argue that if you're spending ~0% of your time with you kids then you're doing it wrong. Something has to come first, and imho if you have kids then the kids need to come first. That means spending as much time as you can with them, both to help raise them, teach them, and also to experience parenthood.
frustrating too because it makes us The Next Web look like we're manipulating things when we're absolutely not.
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A couple more reference links on the topic:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2009/02/why-are-humans-lo...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2005/04/evolution-longe-1...

Evolutionary histories and their effects on life span are still a rich area for research. New and interesting theories are still being developed. For example, see the recent thoughts on crowding as a path to longevity in some species:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/01/ouroboros-on-the-...
You have no idea how many jokes I've abandoned after realizing that they're scientifically inaccurate.
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No I didn't say that: I support sensible ways of data export. I run websites myself and I know how a badly written scraper can affect performance. And as a user, I want full control of my data.

So the solution is to have both parties figure out how to transfer the data large amounts of data without affecting overall performance. It's a matter of being polite on both sides, and Posterous started the rudeness with this lame campaign, thus losing their moral high ground IMHO. Bringing in the lawyers is a bit blunt, but IMHO it's 100% Twitpic's right.

Service like Twitpic can actually protect themselves from this kind of problem by having APIs for data export, with the APIs having clear rate limiting and other specs any importer needs to adhere to. Then the lawyers are not needed and if the spec is breached, no one can complain if Twitpic blocks them.
Lots of good advice from others... I'll try not to repeat:

0) Regardless of what anyone says - you get one life, and one journey - and the path you take is your own - there is no right or wrong one that anyone can decide for you. It's subjective, and up to you to do what's right for you - which could be anything from being the next Ghandi to being the next Hitler.

1) No matter how much you ask this (good for you) you're still going to be the age you are and make mistakes. Mistakes are how you learn - and that's okay.

2) Don't leave everything for the future. live in the here and now, and cultivate a lifestyle that takes care of your future as well as letting you enjoy life now.

3) Avoid debt at all costs - even when all your peers, even the whole of society seems to think it's "okay" to spend money you have and pay it back later.

4) Avoid investments unless you really understand them - there is nothing fundamentally wrong with cash in the bank. (Despite all the peer pressure to invest over the years, I've been disappointed by almost every single investment I've made, and I've been quite happy at my choices to keep cash - especially when markets crash and things go bad. That cash has kept me worry-free and happy far more than any investment.) (Of course, I might be completely wrong.. but you asked.)
5) As soon as you have an income, make sure you are saving something every paycheck - build up a cushion and keep building it up indefinitely. You should very quickly not care when payday is. IT may seem like a burden at first, but it will very quickly become a source of relief and enjoyment in life - and it keeps you open to far more opportunities.
6) Happiness is something you cultivate internally and is completely up to you - it is not based on ANY external factors unless YOU let it be. Cultivate happiness in your life.
7) Drugs are bad. Some aren't as bad as the media makes things out to be when you grew up, but they're still bad compared to not doing them. (this includes drinking and even caffeine. I'm not saying don't do them - I'm just saying, after a good chunk of your life has passed, someone I met once told me he wished he hadn't done all the substances he had done, and they weren't even what you'd consider bad, and he is still relatively healthy and quite successful.)

8) Variety is good.
9) Sleep is important.
10) Food and diet and exercise are important.
11) You sort of start going downhill around 30 (You notice changes in your body and mind - you realize you aren't going to live forever. The better you take care of yourself before this point (and after of course) the better you'll feel. Health breeds happiness. Don't wreck your health early - you may not even realize you are doing it. Save some of it for when you are older and can afford to blow some more brain cells on enjoyment - otherwise you may not be able to.
12) Never feel stuck - life is full of opportunity and happiness, and the world is a beautiful place. If you wake up and find you don't see it that way, figure out why and do something about it. It's the DOING that's important.
I've always seen those 4 principles listed in the reverse order, you can form an easy to remember mnemonic.
No, that is not the way flagging should be used. My understanding is that flagging leads to automatic killing of stories. If people were to flag the story based on this insignificant evidence, it would get killed even if there isn't anything malicious going on.

Voting rings shouldn't lead to a story getting killed anyway. It's technologically trivial to negate the effects of simple voting rings (e.g. a voting ring that would lead to five votes in a minute), so if it's something that is frowned upon, that should be taken into consideration when ranking stories.

Can we talk about the actual story now?
I also have a publicly accessible email address and phone number for my work. Should it be OK for someone to keep calling me incessantly and lock my phone line such that no one else can come through?

Of course not, and that's why there are tools to protect against phone and email spam, and that's why it's good to be polite and not abuse a service. Especially a free service.
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I love how everyone is weighing in with which DBs are the best without actually mentioning the usage or deployment patterns. You can't discuss faults or merits without knowing what it's going to be used for!
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Woah. This is most emphatically not hacker news.
"Marx was completely wrong" is quite a statement -- you must have read all 2000 or so pages to be able to say this?

The labor theory of value is, indeed, rather silly. Marx did say a lot of other stuff, however. He was a crappy economist, but a great (IMHO) sociologist and philosopher.

One of his many points was that (market and non market) economies are socially embedded and created, generally to support power grabs by certain classes. Market economies have the extra advantage that they allow class structure (the relation between groups of people who are powerful and groups who are screwed-over) to appear scientifically necessary, as inevitable as the orbit of the planets once we know the differential equations and the initial conditions. But really, the economies mask a power struggle that was out in the open during feudal times (e.g. when the Norman lord showed up and said you will farm for us and give up your weapons, or we will kill you now).

When a person can't see this social context for markets, Marx would say such a person was blinded by "commodity fetishism" and a misguided belief in powers of commodity relations (and that such a belief is no more rational than the belief that a blessed doll can inflict misery on your enemies.)
I'm not Zed, but I have taken this approach several times (Primarily Ruby->Objective-C, but also Ruby->C). I often find it helpful to validate an idea in code quickly, and rewrite for speed/scalabilty/platform integration/etc once I'm happy with a design.
Because Scientific American forgets about elephants?
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How very appropriate: http://imgur.com/wxNEJ.png
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I needed something like this 30 minutes ago, and I found Apigee when I Googled for "facebook graph api console". I didn't know it was new. I wonder what else I can will into existence by Googling it...
That wasn't really the point I was making - do I think it's a traffic problem? Probably not.

My point was that it's not about user's "rights" about their data - none of those are really being taken away - I don't like the sense of entitlement everyone wants - it's just going to breed gigantic TOS documents and legal hassles. Twitpic may very well be making a very bad PR move here (rather than spending the money innovating and competing)
I've done this for four years. People never seem to catch on, most of the people who email for free licenses are downright apologetic about it, and in four years I've only felt like I was being taken advantage of maybe twice with regards to free copies. (And I gave them, of course.)

Explicitly asking for something in return would probably be a good idea for me. Most of my customers tell me that they'll tell their friends, which makes me happy but empirically does not do much for the business since they're going to tell a single digit number of people who have no money, and the conversion on that is terrible. I should really tell folks that I'd love if they mentioned it on their class homepage or something.
It's masterful negotiation once you realize that the user had already demonstrated that $9 had more utility than the time it took to write the email. Further, he demonstrated loyalty to the product and a lack of shame. Sounds like the perfect WOM advertiser.
I feel like I should make a comment about Narwhals or something. What is going on here?
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The chances of Twitpic's performance being harmed by this are slim to none. I don't care about Twitpic being rude to Posterous, but Twitpic is being rude to its users.
Hypothetically, if I have something web accessible, and you are accessing it, it becomes unauthorized as soon as I (the owner of the service) tell you that you are no longer authorized to use my service.

Analogies rarely work -but it's sort of like how it's trespassing once I tell you to never come on my property again.
Agreed - I've worked at RH, have the odd bit of code in the distro, and prefer RHEL in other situations (mass deployments at corporates) but for my own projects, the sheer volume of packages in Ubuntu beats EPEL (the RHEL extras repository)
OK, I'll settle this: noname123 is right. Remember, this is Ask HN. I just answered the question "What were your naivetés in your twenties?" That was one of mine. I'm amused that got voted up so much while being misunderstood by some...the dangers of brevity!
Fail Slower: The Dangers of Punting Too Early
As for meeting people, most people are lonely on one level or another. If you can genuinely just say hello to random people, you'll be networking and getting to know people in no time. If it's at a social scene, or a public place, just look for someone sitting or standing by themselves, and ask if they would mind some company. In my experience, over 50% of people say yes. (If they don't, then move on to the next person.) You can combine this with walking for socialization and exercise. Along the same lines, if you are comfortable learning dancing, look for a ballroom/latin/swing with lessons that swap partners. (Every one was a beginner at some point, these places tend to keep people remembering that and therefore happy to help others learn.)

If you tend to be an introvert, then just take more time asking good questions, let them talk, and then expand upon the mutual interests. Most of my friends wouldn't know I tested on the introverted side on Myers Briggs. (I've moved towards the middle since high school, mostly because I like taking this approach to life so the answers as to what I'd do have actually changed.)

Good luck. If you throw out your location, you might be able to make some local connections through here.
600?! Wow. I wish you had been around when I was first learning guitar.
- one of the keys to success is being likable. skills/talent alone won't carry you to the top. they can take you far, but if you want to be a star, you gotta know how to hustle. i.e., networking, getting your name/face out there, being likable. if, like many on HN, you want to be an entrepreneur, never stop selling yourself.

- never, ever put off pursuing things that interest you, because if you get in this habit you'll find years fly by where you did nothing but work and watch tv. and on the same token, never ever let regret about your past decisions hinder you from making the right ones going forward.

- never feel superior because you're younger. yes, society is biased when it comes to age, but focusing on your age as if you're some sort of wunderkind is immature and a huge turnoff.
How can all of those PHP frameworks be the "best"? Seems like "Exhaustive list of PHP frameworks and some for JS, Java, Python" would be a better title.
for me it's the elimination of the fixed costs that is key. my half of the rent is relatively low, and I have a car, but it's paid off. If my income were to drop dramatically next month (as it will... I just handed out north of $10K in service credits because of a huge network problem.) I can pretty instantly drop to a lifestyle that can be supported by four days of contracting a month. When things are good, sure, I buy luxuries. hell, I'll have someone clean my apartment for me- people will work for almost an order of magnitude less than I will, so when I have the money, it makes lots of sense.

The thing I've found is that getting small amounts of money is almost trivially easy... if hiring yourself out for short periods of time for $80-$150/hr is pretty easy (as it seems to be for me) optimizing things that only cost a few dollars a month doesn't make that much sense.

I think this is key to the 'living light' lifestyle. optimize the things where you get a big reward for not very much sacrifice. To me, driving a $30,000 car is nice... but a $3,000 car probably gives me 95% of the value I would get out of the more expensive car, so I drive an old beater, and I don't worry about scratches and dents. But, say, clipping coupons makes little sense, as I'm probably earning min. wage on the time spent.

I will often do my own auto repair. The person cleaning my house? $10-$15/hr. the mechanic? $75-$95/hr. And I enjoy working on my car, while I don't enjoy cleaning the kitchen.
You should. Twitpic isn't obligated to help you, though.
You gave the principles in the wrong order. It should be Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity (CRAP). ;)
Being average at many things allows you to communicate with the wide range of people who are also average at one of those things. For a startup founder, that kind of domain knowledge can be extremely useful.

IMHO, highly specific expertise is overvalued by young people. Academia is the only place where specialization really shines; everywhere else you need to get along with people who don't understand your field.
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This is a wonderful upgrade that might finally convince some users to leave the mess that is MySQL behind.

It's been a long wait but replication is now finally as easy as it gets. And, by design, it can not silently lose or corrupt data. Unlike a certain other popular RDBMS.
My email is bricollins@gmail.com. Why do people still obfuscate their email addresses? When was the last time anyone had a problem with spam?
Not likely. The release date for 4A, sure-- that's scheduled for later this year. 4B and 4C aren't even written, much less available in pre-fascicle form.

Besides, this is an announcement at a TeX conference; it's going to be TeX-related.
This looks rather awesome. I can't redeem a code (am in UK) but checked it out, i was tempted but felt the UI wasn't slick enough.

If you get any early users that love what you're upto I strongly suggest getting a designer on board to prettify it :)
Note that the comment vecter and I are referring to was dissing the attractiveness of MIT etc. undergraduate women.

Vecter also has a point at least WRT to Wellesley women; MIT and Wellesley have maintained a strong relationship starting from their foundings, they can enroll in classes at each other's school, there's a regular shuttle bus ... and yes, they're very nice in their own ways.
I'm not Zed either, but it's worth noting that you can usually do this without having to throw away the higher-level language entirely - most scripting languages have C APIs so that you can profile and move the expensive parts to C. Sometimes it's necessary to change the architecture of the entire project, but more localized changes are often good enough.

Lua and Tcl were designed with this approach in mind (they expect to be embedded), but you can do it with Python, Ruby, Lisp, Erlang, etc. too.
I felt confident when loading the page, but immediately lost that confidence when listing my 'accolades.' I don't look very good on paper!
Why not create and give us a survey? Not only would we be able to provide you with feedback, we'd get a demo!
yes - they just a lost a sale for me. The yellow and the purple tones are too close.
I guess with a two letter domain name, they're probably not a fly-by-night scammer, but this would sure be a great way to get a list of names to grab for ransom.
This is exactly how I feel. The new features look great; we'd be happy to pay extra for them. But with less than 10 developers, we're too small to make full use of them. $78 extra/month is too high a price for the benefit we'd gain.
It means you are last likely to be in a situation where you are completely stumped, and more likely to be able to find and recognize the talent in those you are outsourcing stuff too.

Furthermore, a lot of skill sets transfer over easily to related skill sets. It can help you get better at the areas where you are already strong, by pointing out specific aspects in them that you may have been overlooking.

shrugs I've usually been too much of a generalist, so I'm currently trying to specialize a bit more. Your mileage may vary.
Thanks that seems like good advice. I am living in Pittsburgh with my girlfriend so I am not entirely alone. However, she is busy with graduate school and I am severely lacking in the friends department.
Would someone care to explain what "punt" means in this context? It's a word that turns up reasonably often ...

http://searchyc.com/punt

... but I really don't have a clue what it means. Is it some kind of sporting metaphor?

Thanks.
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It means to give up. To punt on something is to set it aside or to give up on it. At least that the definition I was going for. :)
Do it a lot, then talk to people.
I don't think it's necessarily incompetence, since in the OpenXava description, they mention that developing with OpenXava is faster than Rails. So, it's not that the author has never heard of it. Truthfully, this article is just a shotgun blast of frameworks that doesn't even tell you what makes them "best".

I also find it astonishing that nothing Ruby-based is even mentioned. I mean old crusty Java web frameworks like Struts and slightly newer bloated Java frameworks like JSF make the best list, but Rails and Sinatra don't?
Wait - you just said you "desoldered a half-dozen [capacitors] and replaced them" because you "didn't want to mess with it too much"?

Hmm. "LogicHoleFlaw" seems an appropriate name...

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