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As the lead developer on a global site, I can explain very succinctly: i18n adds complexity a lot of complexity to your code, and complexity in your code slows you down.

If you are an early stage startup with a shaky business model and are still pivoting rapidly you just shot yourself in the foot by internationalizing. You know that quick feature you just hacked together in an afternoon? Now you need to design it first with localized text in mind, then have it translated, then run it through QA because you don't speak the language, finally deploy it where you have new caching and scalability aspects to consider. It's not far off to consider an order of magnitude slower, especially if your translators are across the pond and turnaround is now a 12-hour minimum.

Consider the startup that has users and is starting to gain some traction. Suppose your team is <10 and revenue is covering 50% of your costs, you feel like you are about to break out. If you decide to i18n to 7 European languages at that point what can you expect? Well, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect double your revenue, but you should also expect your costs to double as well, between all the translating work, multilingual support costs, increased code complexity, legal costs, and all the nitty gritty details that are going to bite you. Plus now you are slower, so you've just pushed yourself further from profitability.

If you are small, it's much cheaper to double your revenue in your local market rather than expanding. Once you get big and your code fits the business model, then suddenly i18n becomes much more of a fixed cost, and a smaller percentage of your overall cost as well.
This doesn't change my point. The things you list, if indeed they haven't been cracked, have a smaller amount of effected people than "all US encrypted traffic" and there is a lot more money at stack (e.g. all online banking). If there is a back door it will absolutely be cracked.
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With regards to the legal stuff, I simply don't know. One of the things that bugged me about debian-legal were all the people convinced that they did know it all. I'm not a lawyer and neither are most people there. Neither are you or the OpenSSL guys either, though, as far as I know. My firm conviction is that most "open source legal debates" are essentially the blind arguing with the blind about various painters. Although, of course, many real lawyers are also so vague and non-commital in what they say that they're not much use either, so I tend to just want to stay as far away as possible from that kind of discussion.

That said, one thing I don't agree with you on is that "well, they probably won't notice / bother us, so it's ok to skirt the letter of the law". I think that's not really the right attitude either. Debian makes some strong commitments to shipping free software that people can use and redistribute as they see fit, so I think they have to be cautious at times.

I am not a part of Debian any more. I moved on to being simply a user (and bug reporter) of Ubuntu, which I think gets some things right that Debian didn't. I just don't like the "you fucking idiots" style of debate.
Ouch...points with no value already entice people to attempt to hoard and game the system to gain more. I don't want to think of what would happen if these points were suddenly given a tangible value.
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Give people limited tools capable of building a turing-complete computer and eventually someone will... but it's always impressive to see it done.

Personally I have a railway to my underground tree farm and lava storage facility, but that's not exactly newsworthy :-)
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Ok, so browser phishing protection should prevent a hostile site from being able to fake this work flow then, right?

In that case I guess I can live with it. I'll just have to go to the effort of setting up my own openID provider since I still don't want different sites tying my ID together so I'll have to set something up on my side.

This is all a lot more effort than it was before and I don't see any benefit at all to how I use the internet. But thanks for giving a detailed explanation of how it works. At least my security concerns are lessened (still, compromising one site and logging passwords will compromise every site you use this service with).
How do either of those statistics indicate the existence of discrimination?
Peter J. Weinberger (W in AWK) worked at RenTec before moving to Google.

I would not invest in anything from them however. Medallion has been closed for new money for many years now and all other offerings performed poorly to say it politely.
it's not only purely automatic

The Medallion Fund has its own internal trading desk, staffed by approximately 20 traders, and trades from Monday opening bell in Australia through Friday closing bell in the US.

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As it get it, it already exists - since the machine is a standard, it should be able to use already existing compilers.
The creator talked about it on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/dk1au/hey_rgaming_i_...
I think he meant he can use the compiler on his regular computer to cross compile things for the minecraft computer.
Ask HN: Why won't HN accounts merge with OpenID?
HN supports login via OpenID, I like that. Unfortunately I created a dedicated HN account years ago. Now, when signing in with OpenID I get asked if I want to merge my existing HN account as described in the clickpass docs[1]. Unfortunately HN seems to not have implemented this feature - it will leave you stranded on the message "Unknown."[2]

I know it's not nice to ask features on a free service, but if you implement an open protocoll, please make sure to fully implement it.

1. http://www.clickpass.com/docs/reference-merging-accounts

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/openid_merge
I'd be really excited to see Notch implement some sort of API or bridge to RL within the environment.

Then it's only a matter of time before people could offer Heroku-style SaaS deployments on MineCraft clusters for our future generations to enjoy.
He may have actually been going faster. He was reported to be going 117mph. The LAPD's policy is to cut off chases at 120mph, as pursuit at that speed is considered more dangerous. I would not put it past the pursuing officers to fudge the numbers a bit here in order to continue the pursuit.

Incidentally, that's a large part of the reason I don't sympathize. It was unquestionably an abuse by the police to beat him, and I'm glad they caught hell, but I'm not going to shed a tear for the man. It's a travesty the way their trial went.
Publishing other people's mail addresses over the Internet for spambots to collect is rude.
If that is so big an issue, just keep it in english - you won't get as many users, but you would get more than you would if your service was only for Americans.

And hey, England, Wales, Scotland and both Irelands do speak English natively.
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> I program in C++ for a living. I loved doing it in my late 20′s and early 30′s, but over the past few years I’ve gotten fed up with this language and its cryptic aggravating bullshit.

I feel your pain, my friend.
Sweet, time to trash my custom libs!
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What I like most about DDG (switched to it about 2 months ago) is zero-click info.

While google does provide more relevant search results fairly often, DDG's zero-click info easily makes up for that as far as I'm concerned.

The various bang stuff also came very handy a good few times.
Fine painters will almost never use black. The pigment in black paint is very deadening and harsh, it's difficult to work with. It's much better to take the time and create dark hues from the rest of the color wheel. A standard exercise in color theory classes is to create black from the primary colors. Most people end up with brown, but a beautiful, rich black and nearby shades can be accomplished, and it's worth the effort.

Really? I have to admit that this surprises me. Black and white aren't on the same dimension as the hue. Playing with just the primary colours doesn't allow you to change the lightness of the mix. Depending on the lightness of your primary palette, you're going to produce some shade of grey, not black...

That said, I'm not actually trying to contradict you, I'm just stating my understanding of the theory - I'd love it if you can explain to me where I've gone wrong! :)
Does it support all of the perl6 spec?
Curious. I wonder if that is a problem in funding rounds, since the person has no financial incentive not to quit like there is with vesting, and yet has stakes in funding events. I expect investors would be scared off by this just due to the pure unfamiliarity of it. Can anyone more intimate with the legal side comment? grellas?
Yup - I am sure a business could be started around this for providing summaries of videos etc for businesses and people too busy to watch a video but will read some text
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I wish there was an option to auto-block all applications...
Good point about incentive not to quit. I think this can be somehow managed in convertible note term sheet. For example, convertibility kicks in after a certain threshold.
replace $SOME_IP with a Chinese IP if you are outside G.F.W.

here is a screenshot of what's like

http://i.imgur.com/KBCrx.png
Good point about unfamiliarity, too. Have no workaround for that so far.
It's, to me, a matter of justice versus the right to administer it. King certainly wasn't innocent and certainly deserved punishment, but democracy breaks down if punishment is ad-hoc. The LAPD has no right to beat down anyone who is submitting to arrest, or administer any sort of punishment to anyone except incarceration pending arraignment. "Rodney King was not innocent" is very different from "A jury has found Rodney King guilty by the same laws that apply to the rest of us, and may now be legally punished by the CDCR, in a manner proscribed by a judge."

That I don't sympathize is subjective on my part, in other words.
That was odd. I must have submitted at the same time that the edit window ended, and it took me to a broken page. Anyway, the proper link is:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/pmig...
I'm guessing that most people probably do that
It's also worth noting that he basically got a job offer right there on Reddit.
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The downvote seems to indicate a citation is necessary:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch#Tenure_as_CEO_of_GE

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/updated-rumors-intel-layo...

(The Intel practice was also confirmed in Andy Grove's book "Only the paranoid survive".)
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> What's wrong with social Darwinism?

Apparently there's nothing wrong with it. It's alive and well as your upvotes prove.
Just to clarify: I do think videos have a place, its just that place is further down the line (e.g. I want to know more) rather than the 'initial introduction'.
It's the other way round: Perl 5 evolution was slow until maybe three years ago, since then it has picked up speed rapidly. 5.12.0 came out five months after 5.10.1. Since then, there are monthly development releases, and 5.13 is already shaping up nicely.
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Regular expressions are my favourite secret weapon; So many problems are made simple by regular expressions and so few people (outside of IT) know of them.
I know what it's like bud, I spent most of last month averaging about 18 hours a day on my new startup. I started to burn out within 3.5 weeks as the initial adrenaline wore out. Doing more regular hours now. Take care of yourself, and keep in good health :) Best wishes.
That link didn't work for me - locale problems - but this one does:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%25C5%2591s_number

I have an Erdos number of 2, and remember being unreasonably delighted to discover I have an Edros number of the second type of only 3. I thought it would be much bigger.

Not that it really means anything, but it would now be cool to appear as an extra in a Kevin Bacon movie ...
Sure there's a difference. If you create a bunch of your own accounts to upvote a story, then all those upvotes collectively convey the following information: "One person liked this". (Worse still, that one person is the person who wrote it; so, near enough zero information.)

If you instead write something that lots of people upvote, then all those upvotes convey the following information: "Lots of people liked this."

Now, it's still bad that they "liked" it only because they know who wrote it and think he's generally interesting. The outcome for HN is probably still that what's on the front page doesn't match what's most interesting as well as everyone would like. But the problem is low-quality real information, not fake information. It's not bad in the same way at all.
Dude totally exists, he sent me a free Xbox.

(shocking news alert -- rms is an alias I use on the internet sometimes. Nevertheless, I also exist.)
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Forgive me but doesnt white labeling implies some sort of written agreement preventing white labellee (?) from stealing those codes? from my limited understanding white labeling is just licensing the product sans branding?
>> They just pump out what people will buy

> the definition of a successful business is rather less subjective. Pumping out what people will buy is pretty much what makes a business successful. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about the success of a product? Isn't a successful product the one with the most users?

We are talking about better products, not successful businesses. For example, Britney Spears outsells Tchaikovsky, but no one would argue that she makes better music.
This is one of the more thought provoking comments I've read on here recently. It never even occurred to me to license something like a webapp for localization.

Why has this never occurred to me before? How come I've never read about this? Are we missing something obvious? On a quick look, this seems like an idea with a lot of potential. I wonder if there's some big detail/downside/hangup we're missing.
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I think the problems you are talking about are configuration related.

If you find your workflow requires you to assign an issue for a question to be answered before assigning it back it sounds like a workflow issue, not a problem with the tool.

We use Greenhopper primarily due to having teams located in different states, working on the same project. Having two physical story walls is too hard in this situation and Greenhopper is a nice collaboration tool that solves this problem.
A thousand times no!

That's the only way any non-groupthink content gets to the front page, and most of the time it fails anyway because a dozen submission-upvotes were spread out over a day or two. If anything more weight should be applied to it to counteract aging.
What's the benefit for the prospective employee? If the company does well, they would be much better off with equity. If the company does poorly, they aren't going to get paid anyway.
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The point is that if the company will do well, he'll get the equity (convert).

I can see a situation when a company gets profitable without funding and I guess this can be covered in the term sheet as well.
Even if it was just 3 or 4 queries, I think it would still have value over what we've seen so far, and some people might have an idea on how to evaluate a few more paired comparisons: http://blog.crowdflower.com/2009/06/bing-an-improvement-over... . It would also be interesting to see an estimate of how much the ordering for his results differs from Bing's on the query stream hitting his site. (I wonder if Microsoft does this in order to look for places where they might improve.)
I read the original thread on reddit and this pretty much sums up what I silently thought to myself.

It was a nice touch to get in front of the reddit crowd, but they completely sidestepped hard questions. It's a bit like a Catholic doing an AMA and then not answering the questions about child abuse, homosexuality and bloodshed and ridiculous things in the bible.
Only some countries in Europe. It is interesting you refuse to generalize over the US but are happy to do that for Europe. For some pretty good numbers see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave
You are still subjective. For many people, iPhone/Mac/BMW, Audi are not a top product.

I'm one of many who like Windows 7 and Ubuntu better than OSX (I've spend more than decade as a Mac user); I like Android better than iPhone; also, while BMW is a fun to drive, S-Class Mercedes is also great experience, heck, I quite like VW Passat too and Audi is in "nothing special" category for me.

So, for my taste, you generalize too much, picking your favourite brands as a superior product.
What next? Scientists explain how Thor made thunder - no wait that one is easy.
Mark my words, the decision of not to making IE9 compatible with XP will lead to thousands of hours of developer time and millions of dollars wasted in fixing browser compatibility issues. This will just be another reincarnation of the IE6 effect.

BTW the tl;dr version is an excellent summary. It is a warning to all the marketing people out there that the internet will make a bare truth tl;dr version of any sugarcoated market-speak you publish.
"To be honest, both the TC blog and Crunchbase aren't that complicated to do. Arrington could theoretically hire contract programmers to do upgrades to the software if and when they need them."

No offense but his sounds so incredibly naive it's not even funny.
I had a 1540 and they didn't interview me.
What is the ticket tape symbol for that Finnish newspaper company?

They might have other sources of income/stability than just the papers. Maybe they are highly integrated(vertically and/or horizontally).

As others have noted, your first premise that the valuation is absurd sounds more likely without knowing more facts about that Finnish company.
That last sentence does not belong here.

EDIT: "...completely sidestepped hard questions" is a perfectly understandable sentence that does not require an analogy to explain its meaning. The last sentence does not add any value. Taking it out will only increase the quality of the comment.
Number of repositories and disk space is not the reason I use GitHub.
I know you exist, I've met you :)

He exists too, but his name isn't Max Klein, and 'parable' is the most charitable reading of most of what he posts under that persona.
You wrote "with the cash value equal to the what that person would have been paid if there was cash in the company". There's no upside there. Why wouldn't he/she just get a job at a normal company and actually get paid over maybe getting paid the same amount in the future?
Hi,

In this case, the traffic level is somewhat irrelevant. However, swapping can be demonstrated at levels of a few thousand queries per second. Read the article: this has nothing to do with swapping due to non-use (which would logically be OK).

Regards,

Jeremy
So you're not prepared to change anything? Even if distros make changes as well? Why are these two groups not working together to enable magic for their users?

Why would it be so bad, for example, to have something like this in a python script:

import awesomelib >= 2.10
import specialsauce == 1.58

Of course this immediately opens up a veritable hydra of questions and corner cases and other considerations that need to be made in designing such a facility, but that's why there are smart programmers and smart distro makers out there :)

I think it's fairly clear that there are grumpy, recalcitrant, belligerent people on all sides of this argument, and the people who lose most are the users that everyone claims to care about. As a user I feel that is deeply tragic and I feel like we have all failed.
Hi,

I didn't feel that benchmarks were necessary in this case, since the result is clearly visible: either it does or does not swap under a given workload. We did run benchmarks, but only to prove that the performance was nominal with and without the setting in place, swap behavior aside, to ensure that this doesn't introduce some regression.

Regards,

Jeremy
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in response to a question about websockets and friends:

Our approach when deciding what technologies to support starts with data. There are three things we consider: What are developers actually doing on the web today? What do developers want to do in the future? <snip>
We started by building a tool to look at the top 7000 sites and what web APIs they used.

Isn't this arse about? Isn't it kind of hard to use new tech if it isn't supported. I'd love to be able to use some of the new HTML5 things, but IE is holding us back

XP is a platform that doesn't allow for the performance characteristics of a modern web experience.

WTF sort of a response is that? There's some good answers in there, but this sort of spin-driven markety rhubarb works so hard to hide it. Why not just say that IE9 makes use of features available in Vista and 7, but not in XP.
God I hate video presentations for something like this. Give me an article with sections that I can quickly skim. Give me bullet points. When I want more detail I'll read it.

what's worse is that the narration is incredibly tedious. He goes on for 2 minutes about the problem jQuery Mobile is attempting to solve. We're developers. We get it. Keep it moving.

Just now I have the section on jQuery 1.4.3. He goes on for a minute with what could just as easily have been said with "It will fix several bugs. Those bugs are..." but yet he goes on about how important these bug fixes are.

Basically, just like there is an art to being concise in writing, if anything that's even more important in video because it's much harder to "skim".

Basically this is a 28 minute video that could've covered its material in 5 minutes tops.