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I guess the sarcasm didn't come through - forgot my smiley face. Too many talk radio commercials telling me to buy gold were behind that knee-jerk observation.

I think the higher price is partially because MS may have a strong monetization plan in place and they don't want anyone else to get it.
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I'm sure integrating a truckload of companies all with wildly incompatible systems and personnel would work out more horribly then we could possibly imagine.
Ask HN: Facebook email coming out soon?
I saw a 'claim your fb email now' header today when I logged into facebook. What do you know about this? Is Facebook about to become to the center of the Web for a few hundred million people?
Clarification: The Pirate Bay is not totally blocked in Ireland. The largest broadband supplier (Eircom with about 80% residential market) block it. No other ISP in Ireland block it. Several others (eg UPC) are actively opposed to blocking it.
Ask HN: Should I move to San Francisco if I'm working on a Travel Startup?
Hey guys,

I am working on a travel startup and I was wondering if San Francisco would be a better place to start such a thing and maybe find a co-founder.

What do you think?
Goodbye "Skype®", hello "Microsoft Windows Live Connect for Windows Live®"
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Microsoft owns the desktop - that's their cash cow. For large businesses they (basically) have to buy outlook / exchange. They throw powerpoint, visio, word, excel on top of that, plus the operating system, and they own it. From an operating system standpoint, there's not any real threat. From a productivity suites perspective, there's a bit more threat from cloud, but it's still comparatively small. Same can be said for email - gmail is a much larger threat but for corporate security, calendaring, integration, it's still not really there. This will probably be different in 5 years as the proprietary protocols and integrations move towards open standards. I find it ridiculous that I can't find another desktop email client that will natively work with exchange/MAPI, and Microsoft knows it. Skype is just extending it to the desktop, and it's a strong part of the desktop suite. I think they want to play in the enterprise space, because nobody wants to use Lync for anything other than IM (aforementioned turd comment here).
Who are the members of the group? Ex-politicians? People from MAFIAA? A mix of both? If they aren't elected they still might have the instincts of a politician.
It wasn't buried. It only got 1 upvote. 2 points is not enough to get onto the frontpage.
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IRC operators and Channel operators are very different.

IRC servers have IRC operators. They are volunteers who make sure that the server remains connected to the network (They can split/reconnect leaf nodes and hubs to/from other servers based on pre-defined rules in the IRC daemon's configuration. This allows you to rebalance the network, and reconnect servers if a central hub goes down/becomes unresponsive). They are also in charge of "policing" the network, they have the ability to kill (ban) users who misbehave, re-assign control in channels which are "taken over", and so on.

I've never been on Anon's IRC network, but most IRC networks these days use a "network services" scheme to automate the policing of channels (e.g. ChanServ/NickServ on DALnet/Freenode/Other networks, X/W on Undernet. They are essentially sophisticated robots that have IRC-operator priviliges. They can make someone a channel moderator, automatically ban users by ip/hostname/etc, as well as numerous other functions... I believe EFnet is one of the few "major" networks that doesn't have a services scheme). In any case, a channel takeover, or what this wiki entry referrs to as internet relay chat takeover, can only happen temporarily. Most servers will reset the channel to pre-split conditions upon reconnection. Moreover, any IRCop can reset the channel's operators/moderators/numerous other settings.

The problem in this case was that an IRCop misbehaved, not a channel operator :)

(I grew up on IRC...can you tell? ;)

edit: I'm aware I'm not using proper terminology for most of these things; this is on purpose.
Mockflow for the win.
Off-topic, but when mainstream American press uses the word "Asian", why does it typically mean the yellow half of Asia?
I haven't noticed any change. It's easier to flag stuff, in the sense that flag links appear in more places. On the other hand, flags now have less weight than they used to. Can you tell me which specific stories you're talking about?
You can bet Skype will relaunch in 2012 as Windows SomethingLame (with Skype) and finally just Windows SomethingLame.
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If you're going to take the time to dig through twitter for that you should at least post my responses:

https://twitter.com/#!/bcardarella/status/55023955676905472
https://twitter.com/#!/bcardarella/status/55024200456474626

The point of HTML5 is semantically better elements. div#header is not the preferable HTML5 element. Neither is div#footer.

html5boilerplate.com should be dog fooding. It's not.
It's part of their new messaging system. They started rolling it out to developer accounts a few month ago and for a while you could invite other people to the new system. It look like they may be rolling it out more widespread now. You can send and receive messages from your facebook email address but it's really not a highlighted feature (at least how it's currently rolled out). However, unless you are friends with the person sending you emails they currently seem to end up in your "other" folder rather than your inbox which IMO makes it to easy to miss important messages.
You can only hear that from someone that still mix up anarchy with chaos.

a good example to end this discussion quickly is to point that international law is anarchy, and is pointing to a pretty stable direction. And I do not see anyone claiming for a global earth goverment. just see how little UN has to say in anything.
Did Google overpay for YouTube? Won't it really come down to how the leverage the product and its hundreds of million users? These types are articles aren't really worth reading.
Indeed, It's not as if the anon community will be more fragmented after this, someone else is just gonna step up and be the next loudmouth.
I wasn't intending front page - thought it would be on the 'ask' threads, those don't fall down the page nearly as fast.
Definitely. Good ol EFnet has always been great about having lax rules.
Most important part of this announcement? The unannounced part: http://www.youtube.com/movie/zalman-kings-red-shoe-diaries-3
> It makes my life worse every day as I have to filter through "good self-promoters" to find people who are actually doing interesting things.

Or maybe you are setting up a straw man there as the people you find interesting are simply bad at self-promotion?

At a party once, I met a graduate student in physics and a guy who worked for an advertising firm. The physicist made a self-deprecating joke about how he sees his occupation as not terribly productive (I guess he saw his own potential for making a big discovery as pretty slim), but then remarked with some relief that at least the fact that he can dedicate his life to research is "a sign of a wealthy society." Immediately after that, he went up in arms against the guy in advertising, confronting him with, "but what do you do that's useful?" I had to interject, telling the physicist, that without people willing to buy stuff including all the plastic toys (chemical engineering) and fancy gadgets (electrical and computer engineering), there would be much less currency floating around in the economy and we wouldn't have the wealthy society he spoke of just a minute ago, in which case the big physics projects like the LHC would not get funded (i.e. we would be back to the 18th century or earlier).
What makes you think it doesn't work? Specifically, what do you mean by "work"?
How is self-promotion enriching yourself at the expense of others?

"Hey everyone, I'm really good at iOS development." <-- How is this at all harmful to anyone, and how is it bullshit, or making the world worse?

This illustrates an incredibly entitled view held by some geeks - that it is the responsibility of everyone else to come and discover how awesome you are. That is, to be blunt, a load of bullshit worse than any bullshit crockery the worst MBA could come up with.

If you are good at something, how is anyone supposed to know about it unless you make it a point to tell them? How is it someone's fault that they bothered to let their abilities be known to the community at large, and that they got chosen over you?

Quite the opposite in fact - self-promotion can (and does) do more good for the world than quietly assuming that people will realize your brilliance in your silence. Look at all of the code blogs out there offering insight and advice on our industry and our craft - each one authored by someone who is no doubt using it as a tool for self-promotion. Demonstrating their abilities and knowledge by giving it away for free, how is that taking away from others?
Faced with 3 awful choices they chose the one with most money.
Skype very nearly doesn't have Linux software either. The mac software is similarly less than focused on as well.
I wonder what kind of gmail ads watching that would lead to...
Do you see anything else on the first ask page with 2 points?
Not so fast. Have you seen the Bing and Microsoft research apps? Bing also is being used on Chinese versions of the Dell Android phones instead of Google.
I believe this is one of the articles OP mentioned: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2528360

According to one of the comments, it was killed several times.
I don't disagree with you as to what happened, but I'm genuinely curious as to why you think that Microsoft, Google and Facebook are all awful choices.
Well little is a relative term. UNs had a big impact on politics in my country. I also found the quote a pretty amusing and quite valid tidbit, given that Anarchy simply means a gov. without ruler.
The people I find interesting are all over the board at self-promotion! It's barely correlated. That's the point. The self-promotion is completely unhelpful in directing my attention to anything useful, but it is designed specifically to try to fool me.

Nobody needs advertising to be "willing to buy stuff." Advertising shifts demand around from companies that are worse at advertising to companies that are better at it. What do you suppose people would do with their portion of the GDP if there were less advertising? Sit on their hands, because they don't aspire to anything? Would men, their savings accounts bulging with useless money, moan, "I only wish I wanted an iPad more?" Although I admit that it is unavoidable, I find it non-obvious that commercial advertising contributes anything at all to the economy, and supposing it does, I find it completely unbelievable that it is worth the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of labor spent on it.
I am waiting for the Google Search API... (not the deprecated ones)

Also waiting for the Google Reader API... and many other Google NoAPIs.
What does "pair with remaining candidates" mean?
> a group of technology investors including Silver Lake Partners, venture capital firms Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
E.T. Jaynes' work on induction entails a subtle fallacy: logic is subordinated to math, effacing logical units and qualitative concepts as a category.

See David Harriman's book "The Logical Leap: Induction in Physics" for the latest on Objectivist induction theory. He explains how it is possible to form a valid generalization from a single instance under certain circumstances, something the frequentist Bayesian approach can't do.
Interestingly, if Microsoft does buy Skype and make it Windows only, they would be opening a huge door for GChat as [EDIT: the obvious] cross-platform client. FaceTime too, I guess, if Apple decides to move in that direction.

If Skype isn't the default, verbed, system, doesn't it lose some value?
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Well yeah most of the time I am in Logic or ProTools. Clearly it's less efficient to work in Reason. But it's way more fun :)
I hope not. The Skype client on iOS is really handy.
On an optimistic note, Zynga's resources could help fund the Android port (which is currently partly done). Congrats to Riq and Rolando!
That goes through: bye-bye Skype. It was ~okay to know you.
I hope Microsoft Skype does not require a hotmail account. This is good opportunity for Skype's competitors such as FaceTime to grow.
I think the more appropriate Scott Aaaronson link would be the older, more general version: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304
ASEAN includes such well-known liberal democracies as Burma, Vietnam, Laos and Brunei.
I've used the Linux version of Skype. It's rather bare-bones.
But what is doing better?

As an Asian immigrant myself I have no shortage of people in my circles who are absolutely miserable being upper-middle class white collar workers.

Asian upbringings do not optimize for happiness, nor even physical well-being. It seeks to maximize income - and it does quite well at that.

We're taught from a young age that we must work hard in school. Why? So we can test well and make it into a good high school (it works that way in much of Asia). Then we must study hard - to make it into a good college. Then we must study ever harder - to excel and be considered for a well-paying job.

Then the progression stops, and the advice runs out. All your life the entire raison d'etre for you has been The Next Step, but now there is none. You've done it, you've hit the end, trumpets are supposed to blare, and... and...

And then what?

You have an entire generation of people who pushed, prodded, and hauled their entire existence to work hard so they may have a good life - but in that process they were never taught what a good life was.

I found myself in that position going through college. I sacrificed socialization in exchange for raw academic performance, and found myself unable to connect with the people around me. I was making six figures out of college, but had nothing to spend it on, save gadgetry and fast machines - tools that allowed to bury myself in a world where I wasn't a mostly socially-retarded 20-something that had stunted social skills, no artistic or creative inclinations, no hobbies, and a circle consisting mostly of equally lost young professionals like myself. It's taken every ounce of effort and time (and a not insignificant sum of money) to start digging myself out of this hole - and I suppose my warning to people is to never dig that hole in the first place.

If you're going to waste away your teens just so you can waste away your twenties catching up to the rest of the world, don't.
Thanks for bringing up the web-app vs chat bot straight away. I did get some questions on these lines during the conference itself.
1) I do not agree that maintaining bots and web apps are the same effort-wise. An IRC can very easily be served of a framework that is event driven in nature -- on the lines of a node.js or eventmachine with barely any additional effort. On the other hand, doing this for a web application would require extensive effort for writing your code the right way and bringing in the right tools like a templating engine. You will build your own framework almost.

2) Since the application is process heavy and take over 45 seconds to serve a request, this would involve extensive tweaking of your forward proxy which in the case of most data centres and clouds will simply respond with a "Service Unavailable" after 30 seconds. Off course you can defer this to a background job and provide the results elsewhere on your application. But like I said, you would be doing things that the user actually does not need.

3) How would you scale up such an operation heavy application if it were a web app. Have 1000 background jobs running for a 1000 users? An event driven approach will pay off for sure. And 1) illustrates why its easier to do this with a bot.

The real disadvantage I came across was to be able to get it to work with a load balancer. I can write about this if there is more interest.
Why should they? It's my music that I'm simply storing in another location. Do the music execs actually think that they have a right to be upset about this? (I ask this seemingly rhetoric question because after Amazon launched their service apparently there were threats and rumblings from some of them)

Sure, they have a right to not license their music for sale on the service, and that's their own ignorance. Someone needs to slap them across the face with Steam. I've spent hundreds of times more dollars on games than I have music, and I exclusively buy games on Steam because of the convenience and because of the "cloud" aspect. My games themselves, saves, etc, synced and available anywhere?

My usic synced and available everywhere? And free storage if I buy it? I can click a button and have the latest Lupe Fiasco album on ALL of my devices instantly? I would happily, HAPPILY hand over $10/album for that convenience.

They just don't get it, and pirating and free/cheap private storage will benefit from their loss.
What do you consider to be the non-yellow half?
I must disagree. I've loathed Live Meeting for years, but Lync is stellar. I vastly prefer a Lync call/meeting to dealing with Skype.
"The people who put hundreds and thousands of hours into making content aren't the ones who benefit from IP laws. It's the big cartel-ish companies with a zillion lawyers and friends in government who own rights to the IP and pay artists small royalties that rake in all the cash."

hmm..so who gives the big cartels the rights to their music? that's right...the artists. If the artists are getting scraps and you are illegally copying their stuff and as a result, they lose contracts, it's hurting them in the process.

Copyright infringement is not theft, it's closer to counterfeiting. If it's not stopped, the value will eventually be $0 because people will not be willing to pay for it. see: music, newspapers, books, and eventually movies. Its happening to anything that can be digitized.

"IP is not necessary for artists and content-producers to make money. This should be fairly obvious by now after the success of the Grateful Dead, the rise of the indie recording industry, free and open source software, etc."

Free and open source software is a bad example. OSS uses copyright law to protect it from being used in proprietary software. With no IP laws, most big companies would either create very expensive software (so anyone that buys it would not be willing to share it) or they would all go to service based apps (this is already starting to happen).

The grateful dead has had a following for many decades. What about new artists that want to make a living? Bar gigs don't pay anything, so the only real way to make a living is to sign with a recording company. In some ways, sharing music forces artists to go with a recording company, because they don't have a chance at making a living any other way.

After 10 years of popularized piracy (I know it's been available for much longer than this, but Napster mainstreamed it), the youth of today feels entitled to free things on the Internet and are becoming less and less likely to pay for digital media.

This is the danger of piracy and why all of those industries wanted to stop it.

"It doesn't even have to be a problem at all--a smart producer can use copying as an advantage."

I no longer make applications, only services. So the direct result of piracy is that people that normally would have to pay a one-time fee for my software now have to pay me every month.
Consider the following three approaches of communicating that you are good at iOS development:

1) You write interesting blog posts about iOS development and discuss it with other people working on related projects.

2) You write apps and open-source them or publish them and their utility yields lots of great reviews.

3) You write some mediocre apps, but you make sure to tell people stories about how good you are at iOS development, and you network your way to a piece in every tech blog to advertise your apps.

The difference between 1, 2, and 3 is that your actions in #1 and #2 are actually evidence that you really are good at iOS development, whereas your actions in #3 are not evidence of anything! Nobody with a healthy sense of skepticism "knows" that you are good at something because you make a point to tell them about it, because it doesn't take any skill (in that thing) to do the telling. Someone is supposed to know because you do it and you did a good job and your work helps other people. This apparently sensible approach would work even better if everyone else in the world were not screaming from the rooftops how good they were.

The code blog author writing useful advice is great. That same blog author submitting all his posts to Hacker News contributes nothing more to his greatness.
Yea, if you measure success in terms of going to Ivy League schools. Hate to break it to you though, attending an Ivy League does not equate to success in life, nor does it always result in success. The whole point of the article is, what happens AFTER they get that degree?
Here is the ruby library that I used https://github.com/ashwinraghav/marvin. It can help you write a pure ruby application that you can later convert to an event-driven app(If you wish)
I haven't tried Lync since it was re-branded from communicator. Communicator is very special in that it is one of the few teams that the 'Live' team could look down on.
Wow, powerful assumptions. Of course I wouldn't use it in a server environment. I just prefer ports. Been using them on bsd for years, just what I like.
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Wikipedia lists the total number of people to ever live at about 115 billion, which means 6% of all people are still alive today. 12% is too much.
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To be fair, though, there appears to be a group of people who are very enthusiastic about Bitcoin. It may not be part of a general trend of articles being flagged down unfairly.
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I presume pair programming, putting the candidate at a desk with a shared keyboard and monitor and rely heavily on feedback from the evaluating partner.
Valuable lessons learned, I will make the call tomorrow.
Then, for you, it would probably be easier to torrent the few movies you do watch. YouTube is going to have a decent collection (and it will grow), but the best selection is on bittorent sites.
The 2nd tweet you reference is incorrect, view the source of h5bp.com and you'll clearly see that it's using HTML5 Boilerplate

Also, if you take a look at h5bp you'll notice <header> and <footer> elements in index.html

https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/i...
maybe brown skinned 1.15 billion people? Or the blue eyed, blond haired northern Asians who live in northern China (who are ethnically Chinese) or in Russia? Those are asians too.
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Thank you, I feel a lot better!
That's already happened. When Apple introduced Lion, one of the things they mentioned was they'd ported FaceTime to the Mac. You get it preloaded with a new Mac, or it's $0.99 in the Mac app store.