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You say:

> Ditch the lot, have the artists go back to designing ...

But then how do the designers make money? There is a huge gulf between really, really good designs, and the stuff that hacks produce, just as there is a huge gulf between well-designed web sites and the stuff my uncle's friend's son does (say). There is virtually no market for design to commission, so how does an excellent designer make money?

Currently designs are produced, then the work is stitched, photographed, and a kit made up. Sometimes the chart is sold alone (fronted by the photo of the finished work) and sometimes with the material and thread included. There is a market for these designs, thin though the margins be.

But now people buy a design, scan both the design and the photo, and make them freely available. People then download them with no compensation to the original designer.

I know this is how the world currently is. I know this is what happens. I know it's not going to change.

But I lament the loss of the craftsperson who can no longer make a living.

If there were no copying then I could go to a shop and purchase a high-quality design at a reasonable price, with the designer making money on volume. But there is copying, and many of the best designers are now turning to other means of making money, often completely unrelated, and less beloved of themselves and others. I can't afford to commission work, so now I have no high-quality designs at all.

Tell me how this is a good thing. Tell me how gifted and skilled designers can make money in the face of wholesale copying. Tell me how I can benefit at a reasonable cost from the hard-won skills of these talented people.

I don't think I can, and now that's my loss.

(In truth, this isn't my thing, but I know someone who is hurting badly because of the situation, and I speak for them as best I can.)
IRC is one of the best ways to communicate. There's a lot to learn, and a lot to be taught.

Sometimes the best experience can be had by just reading what other people write.

For example... Erica Sadun is in #iphonedev and #ipaddev on Freenode. Know who she is? :)
Angel investing advice from YC AngelConf, Part 2: Mike Maples et al.
How Label Printing Companies Can Be Useful For Marketing?
The printing companies offer a number of services that are used for the purpose of marketing and advertisement. Their products have great importance for businesses and other commercial concerns. Some of these products are small while the others have good visible sizes. Some are used as accessories while some as necessaries. A product that is shipped from the manufacturing plant to the retail stores or warehouses must be properly labeled for easy identification. This is where a printed label plays an important role as it is the simplest item to recognize any product.
I disagree. How a company interviews candidates affects which candidates get hired which over time has a big effect on corporate culture.
> On a desktop, getting to 100% memory usage is a big deal, because it means you're already using a lot of swap.

No it doesn't. Linux, OS X and Windows all use memory not used by apps to cache storage (and other things). When an app needs more, dirty stuff (that's changed) is quickly flushed to disk and clean stuff (already on disk) is immediately thrown away.
They intend for you to handle this by having read slaves (or using replica sets in 1.6). If your master fails, you can manually fail over to a read slave. Replica sets handle this for you automatically.

You can also pull a read slave out and do whatever you need to with it, then reconnect and have it catch up.

MongoDB is really designed to be run on at least 2 servers.
The "Mumba" Botnet Disclosed
The mysteries of Apple's secret battery charging methods
We run every single e-mail we get through Flowtown so we know a bit about who’s coming in through the open door.

For some reason, and I'm not 100% sure why, this makes me do a 180. I understand it's a beta and closed and the information is freely available anyway but it does not sit well with me.

The rest of these ideas are great though.
It's hard not to like laptop with 500GB SSD.
TCP connections are identified by the (src ip, src port, dest ip, dest port) tuple. The server only needs one port. So theoretically a server can handle 64k connections per client.
>Alt-Tabbing seems really neutered in comparison to the gnome/kde/windows equivalents...and the solution that is offered is the expose' key (which works, but involves using the mouse).

I agree with a lot of your other points re: the keyboard layout, but FYI on this -- OS X is app-centric in its WM rather than window-centric. (Coincidentally, W7 has moved in this same direction with the Superbar).

CMD-tab cycles through applications; once you've gotten to the application you want, use CMD-` to cycle through individual windows. It's a little bit weird at first, but once you get used to it, I honestly think it scales better for navigating large numbers of windows.

HTH.
Yeah I looked at them a little bit. The reason I went with Mongo for my purposes was because it works the way I thought of the data and also it has a very helpful community. It's also very easy to set up and get going with PHP.
for those confused about what he means by "that Godwin"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
Hi, I'm interested in your website, is it live ? I have an error when trying to access it : Solr service not responding.
7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used to Grow to 500 Million Users
I've been playing on FICS recently. I've always been an average player - good enough to beat my friends but usually lose against anyone who has 'studied' the game. However I decided to try a new strategy: knock them out of their opening book at the earliest opportunity. Spectacular results so far: beat a player rated 300 Elo above me in 9 moves! Probably a fluke though, but still it generally seems to give me a much better chance (I don't have the patience to learn the opening theory).
a small note site. Pages are written in markdown, and then displayed in HTML. It exports to plain text, and syncs with Simplenote. The goal is a super low barrier to entry. I want it to be a middle ground between my thoughts and my hard drive.

I'm also working on my first iPad app.
I love macs too! Sadly, I like money rather a lot as well, and those two loves conflict strongly.
I haven't heard of this before, but thanks for sharing. This is a remarkably simple yet well balanced portfolio that should work for retirement at any age.
How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup
“HTML5” — let’s move on, shall we?
When a country decides to go to war

That's just it, we as a country never declared war. Bush went to war under resolutions. I highly recommend a read of this article "Is Bush's War Illegal? Let Us Count the Ways" by Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle0917.html
> What are you talking about? Members of VA, Medicare and Medicaid love their programs. You'd be hard pressed to find someone willing to give up their Medicare or VA benefits.

You're overstating their satisfaction. However, since they're not paying, of course they won't give it up.

And, if you have a dispute, you're more likely to have it resolved in your favor if it's with a private company.

Medicare et al are pretty efficient at cutting a check. However, the low estimates of fraud are $50B/year.

> Medicare would do what a single payer advocates, if only we didn't include sweetheart deals.

And what makes you think that any new govt program will be any different? (Obamacare is full of such deals, so that's not a Republican thing.) You don't get to assume unicorns and puppies when the experience is very different.

That's why I wanted to give Obama free rein - to see if he could do better. However, Obamacare as passed ....

> Thankfully my President helped to change that, and for the first time in over a year I'll finally be able to see my Neurologist and get that MRI I desperately need.

Not to be rude, but "my president" isn't paying - I am.
Interesting and undeniably clever. However given you're looking for so many people you sure make it sound like you're doing me a favour whereas I see it as doing you a favour.

Given I know nothing about your product, or how good it is, why on earth would I want to shout about it from the rooftops before I've even used it for any length of time? You're effectively asking me to lend my trust network to you to promote your product, without letting me use it first.

It seems to me you're more likely to get the techcrunch-refreshing, ohh-shiny, sign-up-to-anything crowd than the kind of people that might be really interested in your product.
Yes, there's one character missing after M-z. I used M-z > to zap to the first > (and not to " like you did). I was not trying to do the same thing vim was doing; I was aiming to get the same result.
I didn't save the macro because I never save a macro if I'm only going to use it once, and it can be saved long after you finished it, provided you don't define another macro.
Also, the number of keys in not the only factor but the distance as well. For instance, Home and Down are located very far from the home row in my keyboard, so I always use C-a and C-e (and C-n and C-p). And they are surprisingly comfortable with the Dvorak layout I use ;-)
Baader-Meinhof alert: just yesterday I was googling around about fair use with regard to logos and insignias when I came upon this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos

Considering how impressively thorough their policies and guidelines are the FBI's action comes as something of a surprise.
Previous Poll:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309
Even attributed it's still basically random people. The underperformance of mutual and hedge funds pretty much shows that the professionals are no better at predicting the future of the market than a monkey with a dart board.
thats because they are oblivious.
When Crowds Panic
"Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful" Warren Buffett. The second half indicates he thinks so.

I won't lie, I've been funding my IRA early lately.
I usually search before submitting:
http://searchyc.com

Most people don't bother, most people don't care. I put the cross-references because I don't like to see the discussion split between sites/submissions/pages. I prefer to see a coherent discussion in one place.

There's no problem with submitting different articles about the same thing, sometimes the better article is only found later.
kqueue is on OpenBSD and FreeBSD, while epoll is from Linux. (poll and select are on both)
"Angels and YC encourage building dipshit companies that sell for $25 million"
Design your own JavaScript with weepy's kaffeine
But, a server can have multiple IPS, so a server should be able to handle more than 64K connections from multiple clients without a problem. In practice there appears to be some kind of limit.
On Moral Superiority
Elo system is really cool, when I was a kid, I thought the name Élő (the inventor's name) is meant literally, as it means "live" in Hungarian, so I thought it is just something that is being constantly updated, which it is in fact.
It looks to me like the author was building a point about evolutionary bootstrapping of brain growth by eating meat ("but eating meat apparently made our ancestors smarter - smart enough to make better tools, which in turn led to other changes, says Aiello"). Brain growth was later accelerated when early humans gained the intelligence to cook.

From what I understand about brain development from my child's pediatrician, dietary fat is important. I don't think the calorie argument is airtight. There's more to the story than is presented here.

Anyway, the author opens with information from one source who seemed to focus on meat and later includes information from another source focusing on cooking. An editor probably read two paragraphs and wrote the headline. Nothing to get bent about.
Too bad.. :/ I had a decent idea. Where I live (Quebec) this happens constantly - contests are often open to everyone except Quebec.
Settings -> About phone -> Battery use

This gives you an excellent display of what hardware and software components have used the most of your battery power. Take a look at the applications using the most battery, and you can either find apps that have inefficient background processes, or apps that are set to update their data too frequently.

Edit: My current list: Display 41%, Cell Standby 28%, Phone idle 25%, Wi-Fi 8%; Everything else: peanuts.
Thanks for your comment. Insightful commentary like this is why I read HackerNews.
The argument that art will disappear without copyright has been comprehensively disproven. People have been infringing copyright on musical recordings with increasing efficiency for decades. If this argument were correct, the Top 40 would be the Top 5 by now, but it turns out there are currently more people creating more music than any time in history. Equally, by that argument, music would have been a rare oddity prior to copyright (it wasn't). Copyright, it seems, is useful to encourage the development of publishing businesses, but has a negative impact on the creation of art, primarly by muting the influnce of previous artists. The lower cost of distribution, brought on by technological change, is clearly a benefit to both artists and art lovers, but copyright in its current form is a net negative for society.

On the other hand, who cares if the middlemen get paid to distribute frozen copies of art, even if such distribution is to cheap to measure?
Yup it is automatically generated
Here is the image 300px wide
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/US-...

and 500px
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/US-...
Stop them doing it again next time after they get fined.
Appreciate the inputs (this thread isn't closed; please feel free to add your comments).

Here's what we're now leaning towards. Any thoughts?

get Customers. from Social Media. for your Local Business.

Understand & leverage the power of Facebook, Twitter, and more
In their defense, you could write that code much better with a slightly more nuanced understanding of the language. The platform as a whole is pretty good, and the 'dynamic' feature does help this simplify this case. But I don't know why they insist on making their example code so consistently crappy.
I bet a modification of PageRank would be a fun place to start.

I've been participating in a website that uses directed acyclic graphs to rank NFL teams (http://beatpaths.com), but lately I've been thinking about PageRank after reading a paper on it: http://www.ncsu.edu/crsc/reports/ftp/pdf/crsc-tr06-19.pdf

You could probably make similar adjustments to PageRank to make it suitable for chess.
Because trust is associated with people and not with nicknames copied from others?
The Broken Window Fallacy (wish silliness in first 30 seconds wasn't there)
OK. I (and it seems the other poster) knows from our own experience that Red Hat's stuck closely to the FHS for years. There's only one folder - /etc/rc.d/init.d - consistent in Red Hat but symlinked to the correct /etc/init.d location used by other distros - that's been a significant difference in the last decade.
I’m working on building a better Business search service with a strong emphasis on mailing list.

The idea is to give small to mid size businesses a tool to generate geographically and/or category based well targeted mailing list for their marketing campaign.

Mailing list are generally huge files pretty much unusable by a small business owner with a constant contact account, we are looking to change that.
Their Wiki says it's Highwinds: http://www.vps.net/wiki/cdn-more-info
Without intending to make any comparisons with other events and locations, nor to imply any "coolness" might be involved with the death and destruction, some of the US events that could serve as fodder for photographic and historical retrospectives from the US and territories from the 20th century onward include:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_bombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Police_Strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_North_America_during...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Guam_(1944)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pastorius (unsuccessful)
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/exhibits/ww2/threat/bombs.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time
http://lebanon.usembassy.gov/

There are other examples.
20-1 ratio over a year ago, currently at 27-1 on this poll
Live coverage of RIM's BlackBerry launch in NYC.
The title is a paraphrase of sentiments expressed in the linked article and attributed to some unnamed venture capitalists.

Not sure I agree with the assessment, but I do see that, as Michael Arrington said, it holds a "kernel of truth".

What do some of the more experienced HN'ers think of the assessment?

[Personally, I wouldn't mind creating a "dipshit company" that sells for $25 million]
Zinn is an ideologue who picks his facts based on the social goal he is trying to achieve (imposition of a Marxist system in the US):

http://hnn.us/articles/1493.html:

“Objectivity is impossible,” Zinn once remarked, “and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have any kind of a social aim, if you think history should serve society in some way; should serve the progress of the human race; should serve justice in some way, then it requires that you make your selection on the basis of what you think will advance causes of humanity.”
Doesn't this mean every war the US was involved in since WWII was illegal?
At time of writing:

Twitter followers: 77
Facebook followers: 75

Their tactic of making it really difficult to join the beta doesn't seem to be working so far, but he didn't say how long they've been doing this.

Be interesting to see if they get to a good number in beta. This feels a little like meaningless link bait till then.

Please post again in a few months time with how this worked out!
> I expect the readers of HN are capable of doing Google searches or browsing through http://www.opensecrets.org/.

I've done the searches - they don't show what you claimed. I asked because I could have missed something. So let's use your link and see what we find.

http://www.opensecrets.org/usearch/index.php?q=tea+party

shows three organizations, all local, which have raised $150k, $13k, and less than $1k.

That pretty much disproves your claim.
I'm not in the military, personally, but most of my family has served/is serving and what you say is so patently wrong that I can't believe you put that military family disclaimer in the beginning since you obviously don't have a clue how it works.

The military is no harsher than a civilian justice system. There are things you can't do in the military that would only get you a warning anywhere else. Things like being late, sleeping on the job, not respecting the chain of command. And there are things that would get you an article 15 and mandatory jail time, like drug possession, assault, or drunk driving. This is offset by the fact that you get the best lawyers the military has to offer. JAGs work your case, your defense counsel could be the prosecuting counsel on another case, unlike the real world you get the full resources and full effort of the military and not an overworked public defender. The civilian criminal courts? who knows you could go from probation to life over a simple possession charge.

Soldiers take an oath to defend the constitution first and foremost. If the commander-in-chief is at odds with that then they default to the later. They'll take orders from the president as long as the end game is the preservation of the union. There are treaties and conventions in place that dictate how a soldier is supposed to behave ask one of your family members if they memorized the geneva conventions, I can guarantee all of mine have. Killing on orders hasn't been a valid defense since the Nazis lost.

Uniform in Uniform Code of Military Justice is just that. It applies equally to everyone in the military. This senator can scream death penalty until he's blue in the face but he's not military so his opinion is only that. Spc. Manning is not a prosecutors special case, he is not to be made an example of, he he will be tried under the terms of the UCMJ by his peers (ie. not a senator, not the public, but other guys in uniform) and if found guilty will be given a punishment commensurate to the charges. Nothing greater and nothing less than that.
SMS gateway running on an Android device. Lets you setup an SMS service without messing with hardware/software installations.

Particularly useful in developing regions with no Twilio/Textmarks/etc and strong need for SMS apps.

* Looking for beta testers * (anywhere in the world...)

http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/
For a company that tests the crap out of everything, finding obvious rendering issues makes me wince.

http://skitch.com/coderpath/dxkmu/investment-planning-perfor...
True; however, the "reporting" size is 1:~14.1.
The Shake Down
Static type gives compiler plenty of information for analysis and can generate very optimized code.
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The title suggests that all colleges are effected, but the facts in the article primarily criticize the major "elitist" colleges. I go to a local community college, and do not see this problem personally.
Obviously not, but the argument was made that because advertising is tax deductible that it was essentially free. Nobody talked about the effective result of the advertising on the bottom line because of the extra revenue that it might bring, or how bad it would be to advertise ineffectively.
fortunately for everyone else, we just added another 50 beta accounts. thanks!

:)
We saw the exact same thing when Vista came out and people failed to understand Superfetch. All the moaning and groaning that went on about Vista being a memory hog when most of the usage was Superfetch preallocating memory to improve system performance.
Flowtown is the easiest way I've found to see quickly who on our list has followed @blueleafcom so I can do my invite prioritization. If there's a better way, let me know!
Tupper's Self-Referential Formula, implemented in JavaScript
For more on the impact of agriculture, check out "Sex at Dawn." Fascinating stuff.