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> As an open source author, I prefer to discuss features with people after they send their first patch.

Sure for the developer that is easy, but I don't feel well when I think at all the wasted work. Imagine running a company this way... Or compare the two models in this very real world scenario: "that's my patch, looks good?", "no sorry it was already a work in progress and is almost finished". With instead "what about adding this feature?", "it's already in the workings, thanks, but we could like to have that if you like to contribute".

But perhaps your open source project has a different nature compared to Redis. Being Redis composed of commands and data types, it is very similar to a programming language. And if you think about evolving a language in this way, via pull requests, it is easy to realize how this can't work. It's a lot more about design.
That is probably true, but also a selfish viewpoint. There's something called "enlightened self-interest" where you do something risky to yourself to help the community.

If vaccination were only about your own health, then your conclusion is valid. But its also about those you will infect should you get the disease.

I understand a parent making selfish decisions about their child - in fact that's a defining characteristic of a parent. Just understand that its not always morally defensible. Or scientifically. Or logically.
Here's a CDC page on it:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046738.htm

As you'll see, it discusses various studies and provides links to papers examining various cases in which people have had an adverse side-effect to a vaccine.

Please, everyone, no comments about how that may be true but what about this and that and the other; the poster asked for a link, here it is.
Some people in the anti-vax crowd believe in doing things like intentionally exposing children to chicken pox. It is much deadlier in adults than in children. (My ex husband had chicken pox in his early thirties. Our kids gave it to him. Good lord, was it much harder on him.)

In my experience, lots of infections are very effectively treated with herbs, dietary changes, and so forth -- more effectively than with anti-biotics and similar.

Prevention through cultural practices. Older societies frequently have practices like taking your shoes off at the front door and bowing instead of shaking hands. These are generally societies that have had to deal with relatively dense city populations for much longer than most cultures where an epidemic was a serious threat.

In my experience, diet and lifestyle go a long way towards providing protection from disease. As I understand it, study after study after study (for heart disease, cancer, etc) agrees with this conclusion.
Yes I did. Thought the sarcasm was obvious. Apparently not.
There is also a european traditional medicine, only that it has been largely forgotten because scientific medicine was so much more effective. In China they never developed any scientific approach to healing, so the traditional stuff was all they had. And no, its not "that" old.
Better coming from someone with an ever-so-slightly more relevant background, such as Ben Goldacre: http://www.badscience.net/2008/08/the-medias-mmr-hoax/

I encourage everyone to read his book - it's fascinating, enlightening, entertaining and rage-inducing all at the same time.

The media-at-large needs more people like him.
Nice resource, I'll update my post with a link to that.
My friend Tom has 11 cell phones. He's a gadget nut. How many of those 44% are going to "switch"? Or just buy another phone.
At first I thought "Oh, that's a pretty cool way to sketch wireframes." Then I thought "Holy crap, if I take this to client meetings I can easily raise my rates by $20/hour."

Kind of like how it was bringing an aluminum Powerbook to a client meeting before Macs got popular again :)
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Believing BillG on it when you could just do your own review of the data is as foolish as believing JennyM. Being successful in one technical field does not make you a medical expert. Look at Howard Hughes, for example.
No, you've been very polite and I am not inclined towards flame wars. It's just obvious you are coming from an assumption that skipping vaccines is a bad idea. I've replied to another poster regarding alternatives. I see no reason to repeat that here. (FWIW: If anyone gets downvoted into hell, it will be me. HN has a long history of being very strongly pro-vaccine. That is unlikely to change any time soon.)
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If it's not real, I'm guessing someone will make it due to all of the buzz going on about it (assuming it's practical to manufacture).
The hose seems to act as a kite's tail, providing stability.

It is cool, but I wonder if the 'tail' reduces the feeling of free flight. It certainly tethers you, restricting your range. Could this be useful for work on oil spills? Marine biology? Coast guard?
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Knowledge is misery, so better leave them alone.

Having knowledge about the world only shows you how much you don't know. And the more you learn, the more you are aware of all the things you have not yet discovered and will never learn in your lifetime.

So, its much nicer to be able to know "the whole world" (i.e. the isolated village you live in). You know everything and everybody in the "world" and for the stuff you can't explain (lightning, death) you just make up a god and blame it on him/her.

What a great life!
There is nothing worse than collaborative design in this world. To extend the article example, this is why architectural masterpieces are more or less never the result of collaborative design. Why designing langauges, databases, user interfaces, and in general programs should be different? It is not.
Well, it is cloying and silly. But it has something many, many games do not: actual feedback. So many have none at all, or unrelated to real positive values.

I wonder if it will be 'gameable' - elementary school kids giving one another stars to pump their stats.
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On the other hand, the government agencies have had a tendency in some areas to ignore science when it conflicts with industry interests. For instance, food regulation often puts industry profits ahead of sound nutritional and health concerns, and government climate scientists have had a hard time publishing research that confirms global warming.

Given that, I don't think it is that bizarre that people might have developed a general mistrust of these agencies.
Wow! I left Facebook a year back for the very same reasons. But my thoughts weren't so well organized. Thank you very much for the nice write-up.
Or, if you don't bring money to the table, but you plan to raise money after an MVP or something, expect less than 50% equity. Showing humility and an understanding of fairness goes a long way towards building trust.
This person should work for GE. Most of their senior and lead Software engineers can't code either.
Remember, people - just because it doesn't appeal to the typical reader of Hacker News, it's not doomed to failure.

There are many, many people out there with preferences different from your own. I suspect several of my family members would love this.
I'm more or less happy on a Mac when I use one, but the thinkpad keyboard is actually one of the biggest reasons I use linux. I can't give up the trackpoint.
Right, but to be pedantic it isn't martyrdom. Any more than being killed in an accident is bravery. Media dilutes these words.

Still, they are amazing souls and I pray for success in Egypt.
What would be really interesting in light of what you say is repeat performance

Well, then you get fooled by randomness in a completely different way: You begin to believe that the ability to succeed from scratch is a much rarer skill than it actually is, because (a) only a subset of the potentially-successful people ever succeed, by whatever measure, and (b) only a smaller subset of those ever bother to try to succeed again; and (c) only an even smaller subset of subset (b) ever succeed a second time.

But you don't really need to find a serial performer. You only need to find someone who can succeed once, and there are more of the latter than there are of the former, by definition. It's no knock on Bill Gates that, having founded one incredibly successful company, he didn't quit and try to start a different one just to "prove" that he had the knack. Zuckerberg should not be ashamed that, having found himself holding one tiger by the tail, he doesn't feel inclined to shop around for a different tiger.
You remind me of the incident where President Reagan asked some statistician to work up numbers on how much money could be saved (or some such) if more lead were put into gasoline. He did as he was told but then also looked at the converse: How much it would cost in terms of increased healthcare. Contrary to what Reagan wanted, lead was taken out of gasoline. The statistician basically had to leave the government job he had. I believe he got some kind of award (can't recall if it was a Nobel Prize) that helped him buy a house so he could work as a professor and continue doing research too controversial for government bureaucrats.
I'm not assuming anything, I'm making an assertion--an assertion that could be right or wrong. In particular I am not assuming/asserting that India or S.A. would not have made progress.

I am saying that the effects of colonial rule are so unstable and so varied that it can be difficult to the point of meaninglessness to say a country would be "better" or "worse" without it.

The Bengal Renaissance is a documented movement, founded and driven by people exposed to Western thought. That doesn't mean the movement wasn't theirs, that they weren't the ones producing "intellectual" information. But they were in a different place because of colonialism than they would have been without, one where Indians went to school in Britain and where people were writing letters to each other across the ocean.
VoltDB looks pretty awesome, but I'm pretty concerned by its lack of ability to join a table to itself, to have over six tables in a join, to aggregate or select distinct arbitrary values. http://community.voltdb.com/docs/ReleaseNotes/index
Don’t you think you are kinda sorta defensive there?
> We're not familiar with the work of uSamp, a high-tech online research firm based in Los Angeles, but if the results of the survey they released last week are accurate...

Good to see Fortune doing their journalistic duty and checking the integrity of their sources.
I'm on the jQuery team and a pull request should definitely not be the first step for us, especially for a first-time contributor. An over-the-transom solution could use an inappropriate approach, may be too much code to justify adding the feature to the project, may not meet project coding standards, or could be a duplicate because there is already a different patch landed by someone else in a branch somewhere.

Pull requests are also not bug tickets. We'd prefer that you ask on the forum if you'd like to discuss feature changes, or file a ticket (http://docs.jquery.com/How_to_Report_Bugs) in the bug tracker.

GitHub's pull queue doesn't provide a lot of control, which makes it less than ideal as a first-contact mechanism for a busy project. Requests can only be opened, closed, and sorted by three relatively weak criteria. That's one reason why we prefer to use the bug tracker for managing things, we have a lot more options for reporting and prioritizing there.
“What we’re doing in a king of reputation management,”

How do these sorts of typos occur in a newspaper? What input device are they using? OCR?
They can trigger remote uninstallations as well. I can't find a link, but when the apps which were sending private data to some server in China were discovered about 6 months back, Google remotely uninstalled the app from users' phones. It's my least favourite feature of Android.
Would anybody mind to actually read the table and numbers? At the very bottom of the tiny table, in the second-last row: After all considerations, people that would still switch ("No, I still plan to switch") is 21% (Ad) and 28% (BB) - that is one quarter in total, at best, and definitely not 44%... And even then, the sample size of those people in total are 87 users; Just how representative is that? What a joke...
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It may seem that the intelligentsia are a 'side' because they tend to have similar values. Consider their values are often the result of critical analysis, instead of an accident of upbringing. That can narrow the distribution among them. So no, they are not a side, they are a group characterized by logic and clear thinking who arrive at similar conclusions about the world and their place in it.
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I actually think it's just that difficult a problem. Whether we decide to contact them or not, in a sense we're still deciding _for_ them whether or not they will have access to technology that will fundamentally reshape their culture.

In a sense it also isn't our place to _care_ if _they_ decide to fundamentally reshape their culture based on what we "give" them.

Both of these viewpoints have been important in world history. Would Africa be so violent if there were less people selling them guns? Is it our right to _not_ sell guns to people if we know they're going to be used for violence that is, in our eyes, senseless?

Mostly I see polite disagreement in this topic. If we're putting words in mouths, it's because those words are the natural conclusion proceeded to upon viewing the actually mouthed words from the opposite perspective.
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Wow. Isn't that risky? Or does it only apply to oral sex? (still risky, but less than condom-free intercourse, I guess...)
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As a programmer who has way more things to do than I have time for, no way am I just going to go off and code a patch for your project without first finding out if you'd be receptive to it.

I'd feel like I wasted my time if I sent you a patch that was clean, had tests, and otherwise met all your requirements, but you rejected it because my proposed feature doesn't fit in with your philosophy of how the program should work, or if it turned out you were already coding that feature and your code was far enough along that you preferred to stick with it than switch to mine.
HN has a long history of being very strongly pro-vaccine.

No. HN has a long history of being pro-evidence. (As opposed to being pro-vaccine). If you give us strong, irrefutable evidence that vaccines cause harm, and you give us an alternative that is - again - proven to be comparable, there is a high probability that we would all turn on a dime.
Throwing my 2 cents in here but I just wonder whether by giving them right to choose culture we would inadvertently have already made that decision for them.
“What the actual number you have to care about is new subscribers.”

Is that from the carriers perspective or is that also the number Apple and Google care about? Doesn’t seem like it, does it?

Also, 10 percent more compared to what?
GDP is one measure of a country's power. I should point out that measuring the GDP of India prior to British imposition is a little bit hairy since India was not really a singular political entity.

Besides, my point was never that India didn't suffer; my point was to illustrate some of the advantages of colonial rule and demonstrate _just how muddy_ the interference of a technologically superior culture can become.
There's something appalling about this, as if remote tribal people are to be watched like animals on the Discovery channel. It's creepy. They're not there for your viewing entertainment.
Do you think I am?

I find these surveys in all their forms to be garbage, whatever the purported outcome is. They're almost always online (because it's no-name, no-budget survey companies), self-selecting surveys, and they seldom have any relationship to reality. Lazy bloggers use it to fluff up coverage.

Funny that the Fortune guy posted it given that I called him out for a prior one - http://blog.yafla.com/Lazy_Surveys_Enable_A_Lazy_Press/

I have demolished more surveys than I care to explain. I just have lost the desire to point out how naive people are for falling for this nonsense again, and again, and again.

But again -- let's revisit it in a couple of months, after those millions of Android users have switched.
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There was also an older project known as Spec# at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/specsharp/
Really interesting idea.

One issue I was conscious of while reading the description: I'm not sure the intersection between the early adopter cohorts for different markets would be very large. There is a certain mindset involved, sure, but people need to also be passionate enough about the subject or pain point to bother with bleeding edge products.

If you try to just sign up as many people as possible who self-identify with the early adopter mindset, it may take a while before you have broad enough coverage of interests in that audience for it to be useful to startups outside the core "tech for techies" market.
I wonder how much noise it makes.
You know, sometimes I wish I could find a good non-technical cofounder. That is probably heresy on HN, but I don't want to do marketing, sales, or write lots of blog posts. I want to do development, design, and product. I haven't even gotten to the point of finding out if the biz guy is any good as I'm still looking for someone I can mesh with personally.
His complaint about Apple in this instance wasn't about the app itself. It was with their APIs which limit background loading that he took issue with. Perhaps this post was in some way a reaction to people who share my opinion about his recent writings, but I suspect he doesn't really care.

The reason Apple did the subscription stuff was because only they could. They simply do not allow anything on the app store to have in-app payments unless they pass through the app store itself and they get their tasty 30% cut.

As an aside: I dislike the word fanboy too. I do however like extremist, zealot, fanatic and dogmatist. They just roll off the tongue - fanboy is just too modern in comparison.
It is possible to link all of these happenings by the single term "slavery" but that does not make it prudent for the course of communication. In your original post you elucidated images of chattel slavery, the actual written right to own another person within the law, which does not exist in the United States. In practice there are other forms of slavery, of course, as you demonstrate, some more subtle and some less.

But don't fall into the trap of over-applying the label, particularly one as loaded (in the US) as slavery.

Also, your smugness is... well, smug. Yes. Yes I did know about that. Stick to the information and cut out the assumption that you're delivering a revelation, because you're not.

However, I appreciate your bitterness and rage towards the unfairness of the world.
I guess it wouldn't harm to state the patching policy inside the README file.
Yes, I know it's not really a "startup". It's a fun nickname for a little project that took off and became profitable relatively quickly.

Anyway, this is a followup to my previous posts, from which I received many requests for details of how I built, designed, and marketed the project. In this post, I went into details explaining exactly what tools I used to design and build the site, and shared plenty of valuable resources. I hope this is helpful, and I'd be glad to answer any more questions about the process.
You sure are.

The survey is in all likelihood garbage (i.e. doesn’t tell us anything about how successful or unsuccessful the iPhone will be on Verizon), we don’t even have to talk about that. I’m talking about you saying “ […] defensive Apple fans. Sad how well the tactic works.”

Why do you need to write crap like that?
I also suspect that there will be a noticeable impact on Q1 iPhone sales but, if this data is in fact credible at all, I would estimate the level of interest in quickly switching to the iPhone is much closer to the 19% "very likely" than the 44% "somewhat or very likely." Speculating about (and unfairly generalizing) these respondents' previous decisions regarding phone purchases makes me think they are relatively "sticky" in their purchase decisions and will be unlikely to drop everything and get an iPhone on day 1.

Consider that when these current Verizon subscribers/Android users/iPhone aspirers made their most recent smartphone purchase, the iPhone was already a mature product and they likely considered two options:

1. Stay with Verizon and get an Android phone.
2. Switch to AT&T and get an iPhone.

Those who are now Verizon/Android consumers all demonstrated a preference for staying with their preferred network over adopting the iPhone, indicating a (relatively) weaker preference for the iPhone compared to similar customers who switched at that point to AT&T. Those who switched were more likely to have made a disruptive decision to terminate an existing contract early, whereas those staying with Verizon likely made a status quo choice to stay with their current provider. Opting to stay with Verizon and play the "wait-and-see" game on the iPhone, those claiming to be "somewhat likely" to switch to the iPhone have already considered making the switch once and chose not to. I find it unlikely that these consumers will be turning out in massive numbers on day 1 to get an iPhone.

All of this is not intended to question that releasing the iPhone on Verizon does pose a challenge to Android. I simply believe that the massive flight to iPhones is not a fait accompli and will play out over the course of several months or a year, rather than on February 10. This suggests that the makers of Android devices have a short window in which to improve their competitive posture, in the form of more aggressive pricing or new products with better features, in the few months after the Verizon rollout.
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Diet and lifestyle are not going to protect you from measles, whooping cough, chickenpox or polio.

And why deliberately make your kids sick, when you could just get them vaccinated, with far lower risk of death and injury? http://www.immunizationinfo.org/science/decline-chickenpox-d...
I agree with his general sentiment, I'd only phrase it differently.

The point is not that they've been "through some rough patches". The point is that they failed for years to come up with a reliable implementation of a solved problem; pub/sub messaging.

Twitter is not "large" by any means. Your telco, stock exchange and many other companies have dealt with the the same problem-space for decades. Those reliably dispatch orders of magnitude higher throughput under much more complex routing conditions. Many of them operate under SLAs that mandate five or even six nines of availability.

Sure, twitter is (gladly) not dispatching emergency-calls, as such their requirements are lower. However, given their track-record they're in no position to give technology advice either.

50 million tweets/day[1] is not a serious workload for a messaging system.

http://mashable.com/2010/02/22/twitter-50-million-tweets/