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> Blockbuster is a horrible example. A lot of good that deal did them! This monopolized monoculture you describe has been crushed and blown to bits long ago by Netflix, Amazon, Apple and the rest of the internet.

Too bad Verizon hadn't thought about shaking down online video rental companies a few years ago. Blockbuster could have given them a sweet deal.
Thanks, the technical background makes things clearer (I wasn't familiar with the details of how the different services get distributed).
Utah company creates Web Mashup Development Platform
Probably because most projects are JavaScript and people don't want to admit it :)

We have an extensive list of library-type files and paths that we ignore.
Beautiful article. Quick summary for the lazy hackers: people don't walk for the sake of walking anymore.

The last few paragraphs were the most interesting in my opinion if you don't have the time to read it all.
This is cute, but fwiw, I've been to the top of Kilimanjaro, and eating ice cream was about the last thing I wanted to do at the time.
I'd suggest you skip the Google Adsense for now; you could always reconsider later. My first impression was "they want me to click on an ad" - that's their model. And yes, to echo angumagu, I'd recommend a modification to the thumbnail too. Good luck!
This doesn't need to be hard or confusing. Let's start with the basics -

* It needs to be tasty and satisfying, or you won't stick with it. Don't start with some extreme diet: e.g. "only raw food", "only stuff grown within 20 yards of your house", "No X where x is some macronutrient".

* Set a goal of eating zero processed foods. If it comes in a box, don't eat it. If it comes in a can and it isn't just preserved, pure veggies (e.g., canned tomatoes) or fish (e.g., sardines), don't eat it. What can be done in a typical kitchen is about the max amount of processing you should regularly tolerate.

Very few will argue with the above points, unless they have some sort of agenda or ideology beyond just eating well. If that's all you do, you'll be eating more healthily than the vast majority of Americans. You'll probably feel better.

If you want to go further, you can:

* If you're going to eat animals, stick to animals that eat a diet for which they've evolved. i.e., prefer grass-fed beef to corn-fed.

* Prefer a variety of plants, and prefer plants that have been raised without chemical fertilizers or insecticides. We don't have enough data to know, but it seems likely that plants have evolved all sorts of chemicals to protect themselves from their environment that may also help protect us from their environment.

The theme of the above two points is- "let's not fuck with the diet that kept humans alive since the development of agriculture and cooking. Let's let other poor saps be the experimental subjects"

I also prefer to do things whose benefits are less obvious, such as eating very little meat. That's likely healthy, but I do it more to be a decent neighbor.

That's my reasoning, and how I eat. Changing to eat that way was surprisingly easy and enjoyable, and I no longer feel like I need to change my diet. I physically feel better: fewer headaches, better sleep, more energy, better "digestion". When I started eating that way, I dropped 10 pounds without trying (I wasn't overweight to begin with, and I'm not underweight now).

Here are the downsides - I expect them to apply to any reasonable diet:

* It's more expensive.

* It's more time-consuming. I cook more. I enjoy it, but it is less convenient.

* It's a challenge to not come across as a snob, especially when around less urban folks. I most frequently compromise on my diet when with family members.

* It's hard to eat that way outside of real cities. Produce at major supermarkets is frequently awful. Chain restaurants sell preprocessed garbage.
I've thought about hiring a boss for weekly meetings next semester. If it worked the better grades and reduced stress would totally be worth it.
How can a site showing some HTML5 reset templates be so ugly. Unreadable font, blue navy, some white stars floating randomly. Common.
The ribbonfarm guy really impresses me.
"promising unrealistic delivery dates" seems like something few of us could plausibly claim not to have done. Perhaps the question should be "promise dates you know for sure you cannot deliver on".
Google Agonizes on Privacy as Advertising World Vaults Ahead
Skype has a big 'it just works' factor. With most sip and other products you had to deal with arcane stun server setup, and other configuration that would confuse most people. And on top of that the quality was significantly better than other options at the time such as msn and others. The combination of higher voip quality, ease of use, and no tech wizardry required (and a lot of marketing after they got rid of the tech hindrances) it went off.
And a great job they've done at that up till now. My cable internet providers in the past couple years (3 of them) have all been complete crap.
Ask HN: What tools are you using to manage your servers
Well, the 'S' of the SNMP stands for simple, yet, I wonder what is out there that can be described as "SNMP Made Easy".

I am looking for a suite of software which not standing in my way, easy to work with (install, configure), and basically requires no maintenance once installed.

I am about to deploy my software on around around 180 remote Linux servers and wants to monitor the servers and configure my daemons all from a centralized point.

Open Source is mandatory.

Since most of YC startups are basically SAAS shaped companies I guess there is enough knowledge amongst us that can be shared and useful for others.

And last thing, I strongly believe providing such suite, end to end solutions, can be a great business for a startup (but that is another story...)
According to "Stealing MySpace" the guys that made MySpace were about as shady as they come: spyware, porn, spam, and snake oil about sums it up.

Comparatively, spamming Harvard seems pretty innocent.
Beautiful indeed!

summary for the lazy hackers / if you don't have the time to read it all

Had to laugh when I read this though, since this article is in so many ways talking about the same ones that will read that summary and click on to some other article on here.

Walking as the author describes is one of those simple pleasures that we have been gifted, but so few of us ever slow down to realize it and to receive it.
Unfortunately there was also another one in the youtube embedding feature, took half an hour to find :)
Annoys me too. But overall, a nice thingy.
Vim Introduction and Tutorial
At the risk of sounding childish I'd say Batman is my hero. One could even consider him a hacker based on his technological prowess.
Can't stress this enough.

The languages we use here is for the code in GitHub. So it's a lot more robust than simply counting the dominating language of a repository. For example if there were only two repositories on GitHub, both were classified "Ruby" but they were 51% ruby / 49% js — we'd report ruby as 51%, while his method would report 100%.
forgive the hyperbole, I know these two things aren't the same degree of bad, but it's the same logic.

this is like saying that someone isn't promoting racism just yet, they are just against the government regulating businesses so that they can't deny service to someone based on race.

They may be two different means, but they come to the same end.
I think it's great CalTech has done so much work on such a marketable, revolutionary product. With all the money that flows to universities for research, I hope for more this. Looking through the patents for liquid metal, they are assigned to liquid metal technologies and not the university, but perhaps caltech has some equity (doubt it though).
Also another neat thing would be a favicon. I say that because I got the channel pinned as an application (Google Chrome) and it shows a default icon.
There has also a lot of studies looking at this problem in Fish & Birds ~ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=mate%20choice%20copying&...

But the most interesting is how Women hunt in packs ~ http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201006/c... and more interesting how Men adapt to this.
It took far, far too long for Blockbuster to feel the effects of that. I really don't want things to be terrible for 15 years while a practice like this catches up to them. Besides, it sets a terrible precedent.

And there are many services that are ripoffs that are largely below the consciousness of consumers.
I like that. A lot of heroes go quietly about their business of making the world a little better, without having to wear their underpants on the outside to draw attention to themselves.
Somewhat off-topic, but the first thing I noticed in the video is that Gates isn't wearing a seatbelt, and that kept bugging me for the whole thing.
for many cash businesses, the equity is much smaller than you would think. I run what is essentially a hosting company, right? I've gotten a few offers, and do you know how hosting companies are valued?

approximately one year revenue plus the value of your hardware.

And this is a growing company in a rapidly growing market (I double every 6-8 months)

I mean, it's something, but not compared to what you expect from equity businesses, and not nearly enough to cause a rational agent to sell at the margins we see, I mean, unless you were just sick of doing it.
Richard Feynman: part hacker, part physicist, all work, and all fun.
Same, I laugh when I wrote "don't have the time" since it was exactly what the article was talking about. Good catch.
What would be the devil's term for HTML pages? Chiseled in stone?
Microsoft bashing seems so dated now. Poor MS. Had no idea how to build a decent shell.
Yea, I have roommates in all the rooms.
I simply hope you were ironic since both phrases should be avoided when writing about science.
And since almost all C# devs are on windows, mercurial is the source control of choice as opposed to git as hg "feels" better on windows that git. So no github.
I've made a habit of taking a walk around 2 pm every Sunday. No matter how busy things get between school and business, an hour or so walk helps keep me grounded.

In much the same way that starting the day with breakfast gives my days a sense of rhythm, walking once a week gives my weeks a good demarcation.
Roadmap to the President's White House Economic Advisors
that sounds like a marketing plan to me (rather than a business plan).

and as marketing plans go for unknown products, it's not bad.
Apple acquired a real gem. I hope they don't just sit on the IP for their own use, this material can make many other great products.

Liquidmetal alloys achieved yield strength of over 1723 MPa, nearly twice the strength of conventional crystalline titanium alloys.

That's some material science porn, liquid metal products can use a fraction the amount of material to achieve the same strength as other metals. This will be great for bikes, electric cars, knives, all types of springs, spaceships, hammers, more efficient engines, those desktop swinging balls... Breakthroughs like this don't happen often.
This is an R from Bush #43's National Economic Council describing what all these people (SecT, Commerce, CEA, OMB, etc) do. Read at least from the middle on down, where he runs the example of "should we support a $1 gas tax increase".

h/t Marginal Revolution.
I think I would be more impressed if this used WebSockets or something. How many Node chat apps have we seen? .. Actually, how many AJAX chat apps have we seen? I'd like to see a different network project, or at least one that uses sockets instead of AJAX polling ..
> while deregulating everything else

Yeah, like deregulating energy. That turned out great for California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
Just turn off the dedicated TV, leaving 50 megabits for internet.
I mean ITU-T
Good points. However, think of all the talent buys or technology buys or "strategic buys" that companies make. E.g. Aardvark was acquired by Google for $50 million and I doubt they had any revenue. For early stage technology companies, most of the value is often in the equity. So you don't need to be a huge company to have most of the value in the equity.
I'd agree that crowd sourcing might not always be the best way to approach things. But the general situation that the person who gets the final result wins very likely does inhibit effective work on the solution of very difficult problems.

I mean, I think there's a consensus that if Wiles had been publishing his results as he went along, Fermat would have been solved earlier but probably not by Wiles himself. Whether the current N/NP proof is right or not, it also is clearly the product of long work in a vacuum. That's not the best way to do things if nothing else as a matter of sanity. If you're publishing as you go along, you've got a lot more of a sanity check. Further, if research is open, you can do single person, small-committee and crowd-sourced versions.

Still, I don't think this primarily a matter of the Millennium Prizes in particular but of the tremendous competition of academia in general - Wiles' effort happened before the Millennium Prizes - and he couldn't get Fields Medal either - too old.

Oddly enough, the Netflix prize actually seems to have produced a fusion of efforts in the end. Perhaps future prize creators could think about that. Both the Millennium Prize and the Fields Medal seem deeply problematic in their effect on mathematics in general.
I like F and HB grades, they are soft enough to make a much darker line, but don't smear anywhere near as bad as the B-grades. Another advantage of softer grades like F is that you don't have to press as hard to get a dark line, so they are easier to erase. I did 2 years of drafting in high school and worked as an architectural draftsman in the late 1980s. I have used everything from 9H - very, very hard lead for making fine guidelines, to 6B very soft for messy sketching.
Do you have the right background to win at small business?
Willie Crowther. Worked on ARPANet, wrote colossal cave, caver and climber.
I agree. A couple of years ago, I saw someone here on HN praising Moleskine notebooks. I looked it up, and was perplexed at the high price... for a notebook? But somehow that thought stuck in my head, and a few months later I bought one.

It's great. Nicest thing to write in I've ever owned. I just wish I could explain more precisely why.
I'm not really a fan of the underscore/dash naming scheme that they are using to keep the files on the top of the directory listing. Also, if you're going to do that, why have it be dash for the top level and underscore for the second levels?
I agree with you about the basic productivity gains from technology, which is why I hang out on HN rather than BackToNature.com or something - and I've been a technology evangelist for most of my life, and still think of myself as one.

Where we differ is about where the benefits go. Of course, we can all benefit as customers from cheaper books or more reliable vehicles and so forth; indeed, Walmart exemplifies the benefits of scale and modern supply chains in a way that substantially lowers the cost of living for a very large number of people. But it is not true that all of society benefits evenly when dull jobs are eliminated by automation.

Sure, those warehouse workers never get that job, but there are jobs at the robot makers, robot technicians, systems designers. The freeing up of this labour enables it to be deployed elsewhere, making everyones lives better.

See, if we had low unemployment and steady growth I'd agree, because industrial policy props up inefficient businesses and labor shortages drive up wages and act as a brake on growth. But what we have now is unusually high unemployment following a long period of wage stagnation, even though we had a period of record GDP growth at the same time. Between technology, outsourcing, and a shift towards services, it's not clear where less skilled labor can be efficiently deployed in the US at the moment. Youth unemployment is something like 40% because there's just not much demand for the inexperienced. One approach might be to abolish the minimum wage so that people could be busy doing something, even if only for $1/hour - but that's not a realistic policy, and would probably lead to riots.

It's no good being able to deploy your labor elsewhere if you lack skills that are in demand or the place demanding them is far away. Of course, you can up and move. I've done it myself, on several occasions - but I was young, free and single, and more importantly I had portable skills that were in high demand. The sad fact is that a lot of people aren't very entrepreneurial or smart - half the population is on the left side of the IQ distribution. A cheerful distribution and a good work ethic are important for anyone, but absent the skills most in demand, or the knowledge of what those even are, the opportunities are limited. We can easily come up with suggestions for a given individual but it's much harder to do across a population. And part of the reason for this is that neither government nor the economy as a whole operates like a business. We don't have the option of just firing 10 or 20% of the least productive citizens.

There's plenty of capital sitting unused in the private sector right now, but not enough new demand to invest it in new equipment or hiring. The ~30 million unemployed and the bottom 50% of earners don't have enough money to do much shopping, so it's not going to come from them. Europe and Japan are in a similar situation. Where is the demand going to come from?
Install Basketball court at White House
Burger with Russian President (done)
Sign stuff

:P
I can read it, but performance of the page is terrible in Chrome.
I liked the article; it expressed something that had been lingering on the edges of my subconscious, but that I had never brought to light - like most good articles do.

What I don't see is why it had to have an anti-American bias. It doesn't help make your point, and all it does is antagonize your American readers. I am an American, I also take walks.
For all you know, his competitors were trying to do the same thing to him, but his company had better security.

Suddenly the company with superior security is winning; is that bad? Especially considering this company ran email & auth servers.
Correction: Verizon used to push fiber-to-the-home. They shelved FiOS months ago: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/verizon-shelves-plans-for...
Socrates.
> refusal to let private enterprise get on with making, doing, exporting, building

Agreed. However, blatant consumerism is causing massive global environmental damage. Industry & private enterprise should produce things that help society & the world, not pillage and destroy it.

Face it, the economy was on hyper-drive for too many years. We have for too long deferred paying our debts and missed making fundamental changes to our economy and society that would make our society (not just the environment) more sustainable.

Joblessness and a down economy would have happened with or without California regulations.

> The only way the energy problems are going to be solved is by letting free enterprise innovate and compete to a solution. Governments can't and shouldn't pick winners. Let any energy solution live and die on it's merits.

Exactly, that would be wonderful. Unfortunately the government has & still gives enormous subsidies to many environmentally (both sociologically and environmentally) damaging industries.

For example, why is food so cheap to mass produce in a centralized location and ship, so we can enjoy fattening and nutrient-starved meals at our local Micky D's? Government subsidies.

Why is oil so prevalent as our only energy source. Government subsidies of the auto industry. Let them go out of business so manufacturers make cars that people actually want.

Why is planned obsolescence such a mainstay in consumer goods, when more practical solutions exist? The all-mighty dollar has served as a Siren's song to the unchecked finance gambling machine.

Why do we have to spend billions of hours commuting, away from our families, when we can focus on making industries more localized and developing telecommuting technologies?

And how about the military as a vehicle of subsidization. Why are we fighting two wars based on false premises while pillaging social security?

Why is there a war on drugs? Subsidies.

I would rather have subsidies spent on encouraging more sustainable behavior, as the world population's resource usage is rapidly increasing. It just makes sense.
Alex Bogusky Tells All: He Left the World's Hottest Agency to Find His Soul
It's been a while since I played with Services-For-Unix, but I recall it's better than Cygwin in that it's not a POSIX shim sitting on top of Win32, but actually sits beside Win32 on top of the NT kernel (which was always designed to support POSIX to some degree). It integrates the POSIX notion of user IDs with ActiveDirectory, etc.

Where it all falls down, of course, is the usual bane of proprietary unicies - packaging. I think there's a 'freeware' site with tarballs of various useful tools you can download, but nothing approaching even Cygwin's small and limited packaging and upgrade system, let alone a real distro like Debian.
apart from this, is'nt a pencil almost unequivocally better. Assuming you have a soft-enough lead and with the right thickness, a pencil is almost always better than a pen.

Is marketing and sex appeal a large part of the charm of a pen ? For example there is no "Mont Blanc" for pencils...
Would they pursue for the proof in the first place, if not for the prizes (recognition, among others)? I think it's just analogous to how businesses work, with competition, secrecy, etc. And the debate on whether this approach to proof is good or not overall is similar to the debate of capitalism vs. communism.
Still vulnerable to XSS...
This is what's great about the web. Not only is the code in plain text and freely shared, but when you give it away, everyone just complains about it.
My thought as well.

So, blow through about $4.3 million in money from your scam, pay back $10k, and oh, they can't scam people using the scam they used that was already illegal.

I'm seriously in the wrong business, with the wrong ethics.
Perhaps the most un-biased comparison I've ever seen. It even includes a bit about different VMS filesystems, a neglected topic.

But I think this misses a lot of key points. You cannot compare operating systems without comparing a few key points:

1. What is a "process" (a.k.a "task", or "job") on this system? In traditional Unix, a process was an address space, a thread of control (the schedulable unit, another key comparison point), a signal mask, a (set of) signal handler(s), a UID, and effective UID, a group ID, and a set of file descriptors, and maybe some other stuff like priority. What's the equivalent in VMS? Nobody ever charts that out.

2. What's the lifecycle of a program? That's not the same as the lifecycle of a process in VMS, if I understand correctly. Contrast and compare. Extra points for complete explanation of starting a process (fork/exec vs CREATE$PROCESS or whatever VMS has).

3. What's the on-disk format of an executable file? How does the OS decide if it can execute a file? How does the OS decide to interpret a file (#!/usr/bin/env perl) or directly execute it?

4. How does a process do I/O? Synchronous or asynch? Are different classes of devices treated differently?

5. Does a file have a "type"? What, precisely does the "type" mean? On-disk format (fixed length records for example, or stream-of-bytes) or "a document's owner"?
Excellent and refreshingly non-ideological guide to how government administration works on a practical level. Even for the simplest decisions there are a lot of stakeholders whose views have to be taken into account.
Even if no one does it though it's probably still worth it for the anchor value - you get anchored high and then a $5 scoop doesn't seem so unreasonable.
The Demoscene Documentary
Pie-oneers
Apple to buy Chinese game developer?