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Not long ago, there was an alleged sexual assault at a tech conference. Rather than going to the police, the alleged victim blogged about it, including the alleged perpetrator's name in the post, which hit the top of HN before being removed. The same pattern was visible there -- most of the highest-point comments were along the lines of "this is serious if true, so go to the police, not the internet" and "let's wait for an investigation before destroying the guy's reputation".

On the other hand, when a magazine was shown to have lifted content and then told the original author she should be grateful for the portfolio assist, HN did pile on. In that case, the evidence of wrongdoing was clear and widespread: an admission by the publisher that she'd lifted content, links to the original which was clearly older, and links to content lifted from other publications. This led to the opposite pattern in comments, with evidence being highly upvoted and "let's not jump to conclusions" sitting at only a few points.

I don't think "sympathy for small business" is the driving force. I think it's a focus on evidence rather than narrative (which happens to help us avoid that particular cognitive bias.) We are, after all, Hacker News, and the hacker ethos is one of making stuff that works, A/B testing, and following the evidence.
I'm not advocating the vegan or vegetarian position, I'm simply advocating transparency to the point where people are confronted with reality enough that they are making a fully informed decision.

I am a meat eater.
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IMO this is actually a problem.

We're so used to being treated like crap that we take it for granted and accept it.

If you have six widget, and you sell seven, you have to give the 7th a refund, otherwise it's fraud.

When an airline has six seats and sells 8, the extra two buyers get the shaft, and that's ok?
I don't have an exact formula. I mainly judge if the idea is interesting and if the presentation is compelling.
Unfortunately, not much. The first page of google hits are all pretty good, but short. Also, Mike Acton of Insomniac has ranted about it a couple of times.

http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/04/perform...

http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2009/08/roundup...

There are a lot of component-design links here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1901251/component-based-g...

I don't know if any of them address batch-processing though...
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I fly United a lot, domestic and international. I've screwed up a lot in terms of missing flights.

When I miss a flight I stand in line waiting for someone to help me.

Every single time, I'm shocked at how rude the people ahead of me in line are. They've missed their flights, and they're being rude to the United rep.

I'm really not surprised when I read stories of horrific customer services any more. I know how rude people are, and they often deserve how unaccommodating customer services may be.

Be nice. Or even, just don't be rude, and you'll get good customer service and they'll do all sorts of awesome stuff for you.
Cool game, congrats.

How are you doing it to control the chopper?
Left finger move + Right finger rotate ship?

Looks pretty addictive :)
A bogus host will obviously not respond to the RST but the last router-hop that receives the RST will (per RFC/protocol specs). The response is destination unreachable via ICMP. The ICMP unreachable packet is cheap (non-persistent) and requires no up-keep from the last hop to the bogus host. Most importantly, the ICMP unreachable packet requires no upkeep from the filtering node in EC2.

Regards
Not really. This step basically says either "Look at the data and use that to guide how you write your algorithms" or "manually curate a statistically significant set of training data." You're not having the humans look at the data and include/exclude links or sites, you're having them look at the data to figure out heuristics for applying to the eight hundred billion pages they didn't look at. This step doesn't need to scale, so manual labor is not an incorrect solution. Given the context, and the ever-evolving nature of SEO, having human review is necessary part of the process, and this is the best way to add that human element in a scalable fashion.
While I don't think Groupon is sustainable as the darling of both consumers and the businesses who use it to sell, one aspect of the deal that makes sense to me is that it makes Google a viable first destination when someone is wanting to purchase a product (when they integrate Groupon in searches). When purchasing intent is there, Google makes significant revenue on searches.

As Eric Ries has broken down, as long as the e-commerce world is sufficiently fragmented, users will prefer an intermediary like Google to help them find the right product or merchant. This deal, if it went through, is a step by Google in keeping e-commerce fragmented.
This is brilliant. Get tons of people who current just use GitHub for public repos to put up some private ones, then in a month send them an email saying "start paying, or we'll take away your private repos". People are lazy, so a lot of people once they've already put the repos up won't want to move them.

Inertia was working against them; this gets it working for them.
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If you make the assumption that undecided people are undecided because they prefer more than one item, and hence assume that they will distribute into each mobile set at the same ratio of decided people, once they make up their mind, then we see that less women choose android than men, and more women will choose apple iphone eventually
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They built a solid business on these principles...
Although I submitted this and if it's true it's very interesting, it's also strange it was broken by an Indian newspaper. Caveat emptor.
Is the only way the FTC could possibly enforce this to grab more power? to check up on website administrators?
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It's less about them being right or wrong and more about the way they choose to run their business. It works for them, may not work for everyone.

For me the most valuable thing was really writing out the story of the site & simple mocks before you start building.

Trying to do more of that now.
Please oh please tell us which is which!! (And be sure that your answer is just as obtuse as your reply above! THX!)
It's weird that their pictures on Yelp are just HD parts.
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They're now sitting on bahnhof.net in Stockholm. If they were really getting 10Gb/s inboud DOS on AWS perhaps they just grew tired of paying the AWS fees - 0.10/GB - so $450/hr just in inbound traffic. Maybe now that the biggest media exposure is over they figure they can live with a little worse performance.
As one example, if you read The Snowball (the biography about Warren Buffett), it's a really interesting look at the individual, specific decisions he made throughout his life. It's narrated as a timeline, so you can see how each decision he made impacted him 10 or 20 years down the road.
Nobody likes to be told, let alone admit, their government/banks/military is corrupt. No good will come from any of this because the average person really doesn't give a damn.

Then....why is this wikileaks business a front-page headlining story pretty much everywhere? Doesn't that completely counter your claim?

Further, the only reason people might not want to be told is that they already long knew it. Wikileaks hopefully has something pretty salacious to keep the interest, because thus far the response has been "Wow....is that it? I suspected much worse."
Features, pros, cons, etc will all vary with these, but here are a few you can consider:

* RabbitMQ -- built with Erlang

* ZeroMQ -- built with C++

* OpenAMQ -- built with C++
How about being both right and wrong and having other options in the middle too? (like most things in life)
For example:

"Never go with your first instincts."

Google "Always go with your first instincts" = About 50,800 results.
Google "Never go with your first instincts" = About 7 results.

Both of those are clearly stupid advice to give. But if I had to choose one, I'd go with "Always go with your first instincts" based on my own anecdotal evidence.

It's just 37signals being contrarian, pretty much their MO.
I'm an in-house PR specialist (i.e. not a contractor/PR agency employee).

Half the fight of getting your story in the press is finding the outlet and reporter whose beat/publication matches up with the story.

Just because a concept comes from PR doesn't make it a lie, or untrue. Where I work, there are regularly compelling stories that make excellent human interest features. I make sure those stories get attention. What is the harm?

Packaging a company's story into a journalist-friendly format doesn't strip the story of all merit automatically.
For an in depth look at famous business billionaires lives, how the made their decisions, and really just the details of their rise, I cannot recommend enough H.W. Brand's Masters of Enterprise: http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Enterprise-American-Business-W...

He is a great historian as well, but this is one of my favorite books.
Well in this case, it is in his contract in black and white and there are no shortage of people reporting the same issue. Quoted low price that gets reprojected to nearly triple the price, personal property held for ransom, Threats of lawsuits and actual lawsuits being files against customers that post reviews. I think this is a bad case to highlight mob mentality as this is beyond an owner being rude because his dog died that day. This guy is engaging in serial fraud against consumers and trying to legally bind them from discovering the serial nature of his actions. I don't see what the big deal is, if you are reputable it comes out, others will post that it was not there experience if you get a bad review. The only way that I see it potentially being damaging is if you are new and get a series of bad reviews right of the bat. That being said, I thing entities like yelp need to provide a mechanism to owners to air there side of the story. Sure there are bad consumers looking to get something for free. But there is a critical threshold where it is not just bad consumers, it's a pattern of behavior by business owners. The balance of power has shifted and in certain ways that is a good thing.
It's a frontpage story because they did what most journalists would never dare doing.
I see almost no correlation between bio and psych. In fact, I only see 2 articles that link those 2 topics at all.
...and yet Ryanair is(/was?) the most profitable airline in Europe. They made a profit €452M in the last 6 months, apparently:

http://www.ryanair.com/en/news/ryanair-half-year-profits-ris...

Looks like they've found a formula that works for them.
A mix of humor and thoughts on the site layout:

I harbored a tiny hope that this website would give me a progress bar for reading through it and that I could earn achievements for becoming knowledgeable in different areas of gamification. In addition, when I read about the collaboration, I thought it would be neat to earn collaboration points as an encouragement to share ideas and maybe get some badges that represent my gamification expertise.

I came away slightly disappointed and not surprised; gamification requires a bit of thinking about what behaviors you want to encourage from your audience. Because I do not see how this site can benefit me, I do not feel encouraged to play, er, contribute.

It would be great if the site about gamification used gamification, stood forth as an alluring example. Nice start, though. Humor aside, I genuinely am interested in looking through some of the material and seeing what I can learn.
The leaks have been on the home page of the NY Times for days.
Ask HN: How many pages do you read on a typical HN browsing session?
Sometimes I get all the way to 300 links (ten pages), but not usually past that
and the article also called it "Mona Lake." Their facts aren't straight.
I don't think it's really about convincing people of anything, RE Assange himself: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1955559

It's about creating an atmosphere which makes the secrecy needed for conspiracy and in turn corruption, difficult or impossible to attain effectively and without doubt. This will cause the systems of government that rely on this to change themselves or become too susceptible to attack from other more transparent governments. I see no reason this won't happen, too: the doors have been opened to this kind of activity and it will only get worse for them. They can either become more authoritative and risk unrest, even more secretive (at a detriment to their ability to operate efficiently) or they will be forced to become more open.
Title is misleading. They haven't bought it yet. They've made an offer.
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Setting up gitweb on Nginx
Browsing git repositories using gitweb and nginx instead of apache.
Don't worry; some people don't understand threaded conversation, and think that every reply to something has to "continue the conversation" of it.

EDIT: Okay, I'll just repost a comment from about a month ago here, that was upvoted instead of downvoted and yet made exactly the same point:

This is a threaded comment system. We can have as many discussions about something (post or other comment) as we want: go off on wild tangents, point out the spelling, have a pun thread, mention patterns of blogging/commenting the parent fits into, reply to the author on a separate subject, share anecdotes related to the subject of the post, and actually talk about the content of a post or comment, all at the same time, without breaking anything. That's what's so neat about threaded discussion: it doesn't require the "comparative notability" that a linear conversation needs in order to function.

In this case, we can have a discussion about combining hacking skills with a completely separate career, and then have a tangential discussion about using DSLs to generate text, with neither conversation interfering with the other. No one has to be "missing the point," and in fact jerf could be contributing elsewhere in the discussion alongside his creation of this tangent.
Will someone please make a start-up where a non-technical person can plug in information and do something like this? It would be great!
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> You can't patent a game or game materials

All the web material and notes I looked for said otherwise. The actual patent website is abysmally unhelpful. I'll have to take your word for it.
Lucky for me is I hate travelling with anything but hand luggage. So, unless I'm going to be away for a long period of time or theres some other reason why I may need more luggage than I can carry ont he plane with me, this isn't a problem for me.
People can start by disabling 3rd party cookies in their browsers.
why would they tell him he could check in on the return flight if this is such a common thing? why not a notification saying "you missed your first flight so we canceled everything. warning: don't come to the airport and try to check in, buy some new tickets instead because that's what people have been doing for 30 years now." the airline screwed up here too, especially if he's someone (like myself) who didn't know about this.

this blog is completely justified, and it shows that wepay stands behind its commitment of customer service. you know they won't screw up customer service because 1) they blogged expressing dissatisfaction against bad customer service, 2) people will start calling them "UnitedPay.com" as soon as their customer service slips.
intj, actually.

Wikileaks has now left amazon[1], after amazon was extremely unreliable. So, it was on amazon for a few days, and then went back to Sweden - according to your theory, pressured to be removed by the US government, which I'm not going to dispute, as that part makes sense. If it were a part of a conspiracy by the US government, it likely would have stayed there (seriously, changing providers a lot only makes people more suspicious and makes it seem less reliable). More evidence against your theory.

Furthermore, wikipedia describes conspiracy theories as "used almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning." Your conspiracy theory is a fringe theory, requires the US government to be extremely competent and cunning (releasing documents which damage the people releasing them to build credibility before releasing documents to give an excuse for an attack on another group is rather convoluted), and involves a secret plot. Note the complete lack of any requirement for evidence. A conspiracy theory can be correct or incorrect and still be a conspiracy theory, as long as it is not widely accepted.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1958939
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Wow, this is powerful stuff. The radio bravado is high, and the situation is dictated in heavy engineer-speak, but you can read between the lines and sense the empathy and frustration from Houston.

I would love to get an in-depth technical explanation of the requests and procedures -- how all this stuff works and insights into the troubleshooting process.
How so?

For example, how are these wrong or irritating?

"Ask a person to draw the screen from memory and only the most important things will be remembered"

"Users always come with feedback in the form of solutions, not problems. Try to understand root issues."

"Try it and look at the data for decisions. Don't be attached to your decision"

Is it irritating because you find these obvious? I could see that. But the same way I know I should exercise more, eat better and sleep more, while still not doing it, it's always good to hear/read good advice again and again.
Irrespective of whether it is true or not, why should it be strange that an Indian newspaper broke it?
Is this just something you'd like to do for fun, or are you going to try and make money from it? If so, will there be problems with the content creators not being happy about their content ending up on your site?
> It's standard knowledge that your second leg will be canceled if you miss your first leg. It's been that way for 30 years.

Really? This is the first time I've ever heard this.

> But your mistake was using your company blog, unintentionally transferring your ineptness to your company

I think it makes WePay seem human. Furthermore, whether or not it's true, this blog post makes me feel like WePay is saying 'we value our customers; we will never treat you like UAL does, and we will try to act as much like Zappos or Virgin as possible.'
TV series have a lot of trouble with consistency unless they have a tight team of in-house writers who are all on the same page. Freelancers with incomplete background information or people who disagree on various points cause inconsistencies. And sometimes they just happen under the best of circumstances.

In non-geek genres, most people don't much notice inconsistencies, whether they're pedantic things like "someone goes the wrong way to get to his bedroom" or bigger things like, "When did this character become afraid of dogs? He had a Great Dane back in first season!"

ETA: Try trawling the TV Tropes wiki for eight zillion examples of how TV writers of contemporary sitcoms and dramas can't even be consistent with the real world the stories are set in. :)
I speak my mind shrug. I think it's better to say what you think than say nothing at all.

Either you love 'nuggets' of "wisdom" like this, or you hate them.

It might have also been the [tweet] spam buttons that got on my nerves (Makes you tweet out the 'nugget' with a bitly link back to the page).
Some of the posted the story as a proxy the the customer because the customer signed a document saying that they could be sued for a bad review. The fact that that is in a contract is a huge red flag. It would be interesting to see if that is remotely enforceable in court.
Seems like hosting with a US company was a bad idea to begin with as any informant on the US would worry about Amazon being subpoenaed.
> Yes, their online systems should be better at explaining what happens

I think the system specifically told him that his flight was okay; he got the advance check in. To me, that's more of a flat out lie than a bad job of explaining the situation. I guess what I'm trying to say is, the sentence I quoted should say "do a job at explaining", not a "better" job.
Take a month or two and do nothing.
This is just re-reporting all the news from yesterday with a misleading headline. There is nothing new about it and it doesn't merit further attention.
Then....why is this wikileaks business a front-page headlining story pretty much everywhere? Doesn't that completely counter your claim?

Just because "its on the news" doesn't prove that anybody gives damn. I don't see citizens rallying in favor of Wikileaks and calling for the overthrow of the US government.
Viruses don't "find their way" into cells, though. Cells stumble upon them, take them in, and are then infected. In this way, it's like you plugging a USB thumbdrive into your computer, and becoming infected.
I had the same experience with teachers, and there's definitely two sides to the failure to communicate, and there's a cultural aspect as well as a "skills" aspect. I was taught that every reasonable person is open to correction and should strive to appreciate it. I got on fine with teachers who felt the same way. Teachers who had weird ideas about authority and tried to pretend omniscience, I didn't get along with, but I didn't really care. At least not until I started worrying about my GPA, and then I just kept my mouth shut and let them make fools of themselves and mark the occasional right answer wrong. As I saw it and had been taught, if a person didn't respond well to disagreement, then I didn't owe them the favor. From a purely practical perspective, I would have been better off using them as an opportunity to practice tact, but sometimes practicality conflicts with self-respect.
Check out the anti-DDoS article we wrote up a few months ago. It uses a constellation of Nginx nodes to absorb the DDoS. The constellation acts the same way as a CDN without the geoIP awareness.

The advantage of this approach is that instead of relying on one ISV's backbone, you can build the constellation across several ISVs to aggregate the bandwidth and packet processing power.

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It would be a Californian Company acquiring a Chicago company so strange that it wouldn't be covered by any of the press on their home continent first.
I'd guess that most people who want this app have been waiting for it for a while, and will have known exactly what it was – this isn't the finished build, it's just a draft for us to get excited about!
looks like HackFwd encourages companies to make posts here
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