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I've never understood the pitch for Xobni (or Rapportive for that matter), but maybe that means I'm not the target audience. All of the people I e-mail with are either people that I know in person (so I know what they look like), or it's a one time thing likely never to be repeated again.

Is there something I'm missing? I could see the value if I were in sales or some other position where I was contacting way too many people to keep them all straight in my head, but that feels like a fairly small minority of people.
There was a post somewhere - I can't find it now - which stated that the Soviets were to send a cosmonaut to Mars, knowing full well he'd just wander around and die with no way to come back. They had volunteers.

Then the Berlin wall fell and it ceased to be an important pursuit to conquer the stars.
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He had some amazing achievements, but got too greedy and didn't sell on the way up. Problem is, on the way down you don't get a premium price...
Be sure to click through to the Amazon page for this recording... for the cover art and "album title".

http://www.amazon.com/Sojuz-Death-Komarov-During-Re-Entry/dp...
"I could see the value if I were in sales or some other position where I was contacting way too many people to keep them all straight in my head"

I think you answered your own question?

"but that feels like a fairly small minority of people.

Any fraction, no matter how small (1%, 0.1%, 0.01%), of 6-7 billion planetary inhabitants "feels" small but is actually still a vast number.
My family and I have made contributions to Second Harvest Japan. http://www.2hj.org/

Second Harvest is widely regarded as a top-notch organization and I have contributed to them locally in the past.
Don't get me wrong, lambdas are really useful and elegant, I just think they should be used when there is a purpose other than simply making the code succinct - such as limiting scope. I've seen people use them instead purely to reduce the number of lines of code, which I think in the end makes it less readable and harder to debug.
Your analogy lost me ;) but I too didn't understand the twitter comparison.

I sometimes feel like the TC folks live, eat, sleep, breathe, and shit twitter all day long, and their perspective is much different. Maybe for them it is the source of all that matters? I don't know.

I go to twitter when I wonder, what are others saying about X?
Was this a technically difficult operation to undertake? How long did it take to plan and execute? i'm assuming that it's not that tedious of a task to scale and automate.

In going through this exercise were you able to come up with ideas to combat spam more effectively?
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I think we all see where you are REALLY going with this..... The screensavers reborn.
HN caliber I'm sorry but there are lots of non-programmers here (even in the top 10 users). You might consider them not HN caliber.
I think I'm just confused partially because I see a lot of buzz on tech sites like HN for Xobni/Rapportive for a product that doesn't appear to be targeted towards most techies.

I'm now thinking that they're targeted towards highly/over-connected people (who have trouble remembering who all their contacts are). Those people (like Michael Arrington) have greater than average influence over all sites, including tech sites, so it gets discussed.

i.e. I'm not missing anything :).
I think it would be safe to say that there are more amateur and intermediate programmers on HN than there are consummate professionals...
That is one of their challenges, adding $10M to the bottom line gets you no respect, creating a new cool toy, huge respect. So consequently the best and the brightest don't waste their time trying to do that.

I asked once why this was from an 'old timer' (aka someone who had been there prior to the IPO, was on various promotion committees) and their answer was honest and direct, "We have plenty of money, so adding more is irrelevant, what we need are good ideas so we reward that which we need most." (may not be an exact quote, it was a couple of years ago but its close)

Sadly I could see his point. With nearly $8B of free cash flow (after all the perks/salaries/taxes/gear etc) that's $400,000 for each and every employee (back when they had 20K employees) which they could 'pay out' on a whim to individuals (if they chose to). How do you make that feel more "startup like"? I think the challenge would be akin to Prince William trying to make the living experience in Buckingham Palace more like what homeless people feel. Not impossible but very very difficult I suspect.
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Jonathan, thanks for the great post. I agree with you (unlike a handful of HN commenters) on feeling uneasy about the materialism, doing a startup for the money, etc. I saw (and experienced) a lot of that first hand and never really understood it. Doing a startup to get rich off a startup in my opinion is like playing in a rock band for the fame and money, not for the music.
rtm and pg, plus a few mods as far as I can tell.
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Digg is on an up? Are you sure? I just went to the front page, and the stories there had a total of 126 comments.

How is that an 'up'?
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I learned this tidbit from an essay called In Oldenberg's Long Shadow. It has disappeared from its original location, but http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20040204224231/http://www.a... still has it.
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AT&T is actually segmenting both, though.

Non-smartphone $15
Smartphone $25
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On the other hand, it might be a good time to launch/fund a product that competes. Without its developer ecosystem, Twitter is practically an unusable product. Sure, they have their network, but so did Myspace, Digg.

Twitter can't reasonably act like Apple and get away with it. It's a very low cost-to-switch environment. If this trend continues, if they make things too hard for devs, the devs will leave, and won't be in a hurry to come back. Might be a perfect time for a lean, developer friendly startup with the right innovation to come in and claim a piece of that market.
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In my experience, spamd (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd) is remarkably effective, and its greylisting works by requiring a request/response before the first valid transmission.
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Do you honestly believe market share is the only reason we don't see malware for other platforms?

I can assure you the zillions of Linux servers you see sitting unattended for years on very fat pipes are really attractive targets. Yet, you don't hear about server botnets... There must be a reason for that.
No, that list has to be constantly updated, as things come and go. xxx would be a whole namespace that could be blocked and you'd never have to worry about maintaining that portion of the filter. Assuming decent uptake of xxx, it'd relieve some things. Right now, everything is in .com, and new domains have to constantly be added to blacklists. If more new things start going into xxx than com, we'd have half as much work, since xxx is blocked right away.

This is all dependent on good adoption of xxx of course, but if the TLD doesn't exist it's not even possible. So we're happy the opportunity is presented, and I think that mainstream pornographers that want social tolerance will prefer the xxx TLD as a means to illustrate their good intentions.
The average Windows user is, therefore, the weakest link in computer security today.

I still believe Windows comes next.
The "@" command is pretty useful too, for doing arithmetic on shell variables.

% set i = 1
% echo $i
1
% @ i++
% echo $i
2
% @ i *= 2
% echo $i
4
I really like Rapportive for following public mailing lists. It gives me more context for each post and allows me to identify repeat posters more easily.
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As uxp describes below, this may be the mechanism Wal-Mart uses to get a price advantage, but it's not why people shop there. People shop at Wal-Mart because it's cheap. I've never known a town to have only a Wal-Mart, there are always some regional or local grocers in the game too, but Wal-Mart wins because Wal-Mart has better prices. It's nice that they use technology to gain the price advantage, but ultimately consumers don't care or know that Wal-Mart uses satellites or RFID extensively; Wal-Mart markets price, not fancy back-end warehousing.
This analysis [1] pours cold water on the CIA's interpretation of Komarov's transmissions. It's an interesting read, regardless.

[1] http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/Soyanaly.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/ua_bankruptcy_farce/
Suggests that this sort of automated text mining happens. Of course, it is from The Register...
HN is a much, much simpler program, both in terms of features and internals. Internally, Reddit is a gigantic mess.
Except, he's not any more. He's no longer CEO; he's now chairman of the board, but that's not a day-to-day direct executive positon.
FWIW there is also a popular conspiracy theory that Korolev - the man behind Soviet space program - lost his son that way. His whole life was and partially still is classified so there is no way to tell even if he had a son to begin with.
I agree. There is a lot of screen estate these days, even on laptops, so why not save the shell window for stuff that is actually useful in the shell window and that can only be displayed in that window?

The current git branch makes sense, as does the current directory, but I'm having a hard time finding the point in anything else cluttering my shell window.
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Conde really doesn't know what to do with reddit. They probably acquired it "knowing" they had to have something in "the social media space" (the acquisition predates the salesman's current buzzword of the hour, "the cloud") so they could compete in the "digital age" and all of that, but since they've acquired it my understanding is they've basically starved it and reddit has been running on fumes until they implemented Reddit Gold last summer. They're keeping it because they think they need something on this new-fangled internet stuff, but they don't what to do with it, and it's not generating much revenue, so they're just trying to leave things alone until they figure out something.

Note that this is just speculation based on what I've read, I don't have any inside knowledge.
Not sure how effective the Google algorithm change was...
Try asking this question on Quora - if you haven't already. You might get more replies.
HN has been struggling to keep up with load recently. Remember the pagination of comments a few weeks back needed to keep the server from falling over? Yeah. I think news.arc/HN could really do with some extra scalability work; it still slows down significantly at peak times.
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If they're not programmers then I'm not talking about an HN caliber programmer am I?

Programming is like sex. Once you've found somebody enthusiastic about it, true excellence will come naturally with time and practice.
It seems the one example where it's OK to say you're the X of Y.

In any case, sounds yummy.
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is at the bottom of the bank's barrel, nobody at the bank would want their job.
It also doesn't have a gazillion pageviews a month and daily downtime.
Reddit is definitely not a fun code base to go mucking around in. I wrote about this here: http://www.deserettechnology.com/journal/reddit-the-open-sou... . I think the amount of effort necessary to grok reddit's codebase would be pretty large, and I can't imagine many people doing that without getting paid or having a ton of extra time and a lot of love for reddit. The code needs a lot of work before it's ready for anything besides reddit.com.

My experience is that most people that try to get reddit running in the first place give up because it's such a gargantuan monstrosity. reddit will take any reasonably-sized personal VPS entirely over -- I was running on a 1GB slice and had to login every few days to restart Cassandra and paster (after the Oct. push). Reddit is just not well-suited for anything except reddit.com, and I think new developers would have some difficult maintaining that, and that most people aren't going to do it without getting paid. It's a big, ornery project, certainly not easy to jump into.
This is the second TC article today I see where they claim news site like digg or reddit are in competition with twitter. I don't think they understand that it's two very different type of stuff that is complementary. Or they are paid to say twitter in every article.
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These "unattended" servers have far, far fewer security mechanisms in place than even XP SP2. If someone wanted to target them, they would. However, it's insanely easy to find Windows machines, which is all that's important for botnets. It's not hard at all to take over either an unpatched Linux machine or an unpatched Windows machine, but volume is all that counts here. You want hundreds of thousands (sometimes millions) of machines to send spam from.

Market share is all that matters here, not technology at all.
This is quite disturbing to read about the place that tons of companies rely on to host their apps. As EC2 (and friends) grows, it's growing undoubtedly more complex. Combine that with many of the original/senior devs leaving to greener pastures and seems like as more time passes it becomes more risky to host with Amazon. Doesn't really inspire confidence ...
If someone has a TLDR version of this article, sharing that is much appreciated. I tried reading this twice, but I am failing to understand the author's point(s) ... What exactly are the problems with IE9?
Yeah, I call BS on this one. Amazon AWS is for certain use cases. It has never been a platform for all solutions. In fact, it has mostly been a platform for people to craft their own solutions. AWS is not a web hosting platform. If you want a web hosting platform, you create one the best you can from the tools available. This is the sort of response I would expect from an employee of AWS, not the one I saw in those comments. That or maybe the comment was from a customer service guy who isn't a developer.

I'm surprised Reddit ever though AWS would be a good platform to host on. You don't bitch about it, you create the best system you can and if something doesn't work, then you need to do more work. If you don't want to put in the work, then AWS is wrong for you. You don't see Heroku bitching about AWS, rather they made the thing work for them with great engineers.
Isn't HN basically news.arc[1] plus some custom mods and caching with content/stories saved as flatfiles?

Reedit has many more sophisticated load issues to about. The two aren't really comparable it seems.

[1]: https://github.com/nex3/arc/raw/042990a55d8c880a0a88476eb52b...
Seriously firefox should use multi threading per tab!

I mean common most if not all the browsers are already doing it arent they?.
Yeah, that was my point. Reddit is much more complex and much messier.
Refactoring is still change
Hindsight is 20/20. Entrepreneurs should understand that if you swing for the fences that failure is likely. It's about the risk/reward tradeoff. These risks should be understood, mitigated as much as possible, and accepted before undertaking any venture. The bullet points you mentioned are a part of that risk. There should be no regrets if one has thought through them.

Yes, there are arrogant people swinging for the fences. But there are others who have thought through it. My 2 cents.
Bad example:

$ ls -l 500.*
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Fewer keystrokes (using bash):

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The Registry - and by extension, installers in most cases - are over-engineered solution to the program config problem.

OSX has been successfully using XML config files for 10+ years, and Unix in general with /etc/ and user's home dot-files for much longer.
What tax breaks do we get in BC? I didn't know of any except for things like biotech, greentech, etc.
Scrap it. Rewrite. It can't be that complicated and if it is, it needs to go.
Reddit down to one developer and Kevin Rose resigns from Digg. This sounds like a recipe.
Agreed :) Except that I _thought_ I would have no regrets... until I failed 5 times!

After the 5th failure I was like. Hmm. There must be another way...

(Just to clarify I consider the Music career as the 1st of the 5 failures)
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All assertions are valid. Totally agree
I will wait for one more day and then share some stats if people are interested in knowing about this.
I don't even know if this can be considered the "closure" pattern anymore, but I wanted to try to get method sharing among the objects by doing something like this: https://gist.github.com/877259

The hope was that since the functions were created and bound within the function literal, the "create" method could simply assign references to the existing functions instead of creating a new function each time (ie, avoid what munificent mentioned).

Funny thing is, even though the last line indicates that the first and last objects' "ten" method is actually shared between them, I'm still getting about 370 MB of memory usage after creating 1 million objects. I am under assumption that the cause of this memory increase is the fact that each one of the million objects has its own local references to each of the 10 functions. When I put the 10 functions inside of the "create" method, memory usage goes up again to roughly 750 MB.
Although not directly related, here's some interesting reading from 1999:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/int-j12.shtml

http://www.economist.com/node/183857
I think this is close to the truth. Even from the outside Reddit seems a tangle of functionality.

My guess is that there are leaks that have lingered for quite some time.

It is a fantastic site, but I have the feeling that leaving it has been a relief for those that have. I might be wrong. A bit drunk.
I don't see what the big controversy is. Investments in your career can be high risk or low risk. Society needs some amount of both to progress. Though it is sometimes abused, I'm glad we have a system that lets you buy off the risk.
It appears that Reddit's days are numbered. Sure they may be able to get by with one developer for a while, the product is fairly mature and content is driven by the user base. But how long can a website remain stagnant, with no innovation until the user base starts to migrate to the next best thing? Also, being owned by a large, old media company doesn't necessarily give one much confidence that Reddit is backed by visionaries who are willing to push the envelope and take risks.
Which shell? (@ is not in my bash version, nor spaces around the = sign.)
This is a chilling story. But such is the plight of man setting out on new frontiers of exploration: from Francisco and Columbus setting out across the seas, to Earhart's one way flight, so too will man flounder in his trek through the stars.

Look: explorers of all elements -- land, air, sea -- undertake their endeavors to accomplish a singular goal: the discovery of the unknown. An uncertainty of one's destination brings with it, therefore, an uncertainty of one's success and therefore of one's survival. And this is a risk that all explorers knowingly and willingly undertake -- it is a condition precedent to being such a brave traveller.

Accordingly, I think to shed so dark and negative a light on the several tragedies during mankind's nascent years of exploration is to miss the point and indeed forsake the very thing for which those pioneers lived: the furthering of our race, the advancement of our species.

Rather than mourn the loss of our fellow adventurers in their quest into the unknown, we should instead celebrate them, not only for their accomplishments in life, but additionally and especially in death.

After all, but for their risks, but for their selfless ability to consciously put their lives on the line both for their countries -- and indeed for our species as a whole -- and, certainly, to satisfy their thirst for knowledge and discovery, we would still be travelling the European continent on horseback.

As indecent as it may sound, I am certain our great explorers would be disappointed to see us saddened by their loss, and that they would far rather their memories be praised with all the pomp and circumstance worthy of their triumphant accomplishments, failures and successes alike.
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Hmm, this sparks the idea to make products for writers of big blogs...
I bring all my apple products to the apple store for this very reason. Spilt water on my iPod, they handed me a brand new one.
I depends the size of your company to and whether you have been able to take any money off the table. If I'm sitting here earning under minimum wage from my startup and someone comes along and offers $20 million, sure I'm going to take it. If you have already been able to take a few million off the table to cover the material side of life then it's a very different proposition.