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In my experience TPB and pirated content is as good quality as DVDs. They are mostly better since there are no FBI warnings that I can't skip over, crappy trailers, and hard to navigate menu systems, as well as stupid region encoding. If you pirate it, you get a better quality product.
FWIW this is why the rest of us chuckle at MySQL.
Accepting credit cards is done almost everywhere, but I wouldn't say that it's so assumed that not advertising that you don't take them is "tricking" customers. He offers a 100% interest free no collateral loan as an alternative.
1. He only loses to other shops in the case where customers dan't or won't pay with cash (this is a subset, and probably a minority, of customers). In return he saves money on a computer kiosk and the merchant fees on his transactions.

2. If he does not take plastic, then people who only pay with plastic are not his customers. Their needs are consequently irrelevant.

3. the $.25 donut is a loss-leader to sell the $4 cup of coffee. Or you could look at it as a bonus of sorts. Compare: "Buy a $4.25 cup of coffee" with "Buy a $4.25 cup of coffee, get a free donut."
I can't stop reading it as "Magneto".
Storage quota management is coming out in Chrome 13. You'll like it.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-html...
It's incredibly over-engineered. Just look at the templating system and see how far down you have to go in a directory tree just to make a simple edit on the page. The code itself is too fragmented to follow. A lot of the mental overhead from working on it comes from just having to remember where functions are in the code base.
That defeats the purpose. The whole point is to have a unique salt per user to force the cracker to spend time on every password.
Not sure how big, but I would actually say it hasn't been fast. Magento has been in existence in some form for almost 10 years, starting as a product they used with consulting clients. This has been a loooong road for the Varien team.
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There are no general spellcheck bots (I would say there are none, but it's possible there are some that spellcheck within a very clearly defined area, under very specific circumstances). Spellcheck bots are actually a fairly frequent request, and are always refused.
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The stat I found interesting is this one [citation needed]: while a majority of edits are done by few editors, most of the content is generated by either a) anonymous accounts or b) people who have contributed 2-3 times and haven't returned since. The editors, like the bots, represent maintenance edits.

Keep that in mind the next time Jimmy Wales gives beaucoup credit to editors, or some super-user gets power-happy.
>Microsoft is intentionally holding back the web? I think that's attributing a lot of malice to their actions

Unfortunately, it's pretty well documented.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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So many successful startups began as two or three good friends kicking around some ideas at dinner or drinks, or relaying some spike of insight they had during a seemingly insignificant conversation. Whenever I think I have The Next Great Idea, I know my first thought is, "man, I could be on to something here, let me talk to Joe about this, I bet he'd love to work together with me to see if this would work!"

It is is definitely NOT, "oh well I'd better just go ahead and execute and get a product out and get customers all by myself, and then talk to Joe and cut him in for less equity, because I want to set myself up for needing only a $17MM acquisition to make $5MM."

Now none of me or Joe's Next Great Ideas have ever panned out, so maybe we're doing it wrong. But I still don't think trying to optimize for a payout when considering co-founders is doing it right, either.
A guy I knew at the Media Lab said that Marvin Minsky tried to correct his Wikipedia article, but someone reverted it. The IP address came from inside the Media Lab, so it might have very well been him.

The small-community-far-from-everything is quite similar to Wikipedia in its early years. Look at 2002-2005 and you'll see lots of anonymous Good Samaritans contributing helpful content. (Look for R6 and R7 on http://slightlynew.blogspot.com/2011/05/who-writes-wikipedia... to see a time series of anonymous contributions from 2003 to 2010.)
It seems too complicated. But for any experienced PHP coders, it's only based on Zend Framework.
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This is pretty typical when you are highly desired. I once got such an offer a joke :(
Honestly I am surprised it is only "three quarters"; I'd be unsurprised if it were close to 100%
German liveticker:
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What a satisfying language to read. I hooe it gains more traction.
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I am an indian passport holder. I have a spain national visa (issued for students)valid for 5 months and I am going back home to india but my flight is through london heathrow so do I need the airport transit visa too? I have read that I dont require it (http://www.immihelp.com/visas/nonustransit.html) but your case is exactly mine so can you please help me out here
>and not suck memory like a vacuum cleaner.

Not this again. It isn't 2003. If you want speed, then you want your browser to take up as much RAM as possible. What else is it there for? Storing recipes?

Trust your kernel to manage your memory, it's cleverer and better qualified than you.
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So you are saying that if you want to shoot a film about the army killing and raping people the Pentagon won't help you out by letting you borrow some tanks for some of the scenes? You could still use replicas, CGI, or even borrow a privately owned tank so I don't see this issue.

The reason you see a positive portrayal of the US soldier in movies is because a large percentage of the audience either is or if friends with someone who is a soldier. So unless you movie is explicitly about evil US soldiers there is no profit to be had in portraying the US army in a negative light.
I think a good elaboration would be that for a project to build an Address Book is still a project to deliver an Address Book regardless of Agile or Waterfall or Scrumfall. You still have the same exact steps to execute, Agile just organizes the work differently than a Waterfall project, biting off a small piece of requirements, building the "vertical" of say what a contact form looks like. Waterfall would define the entire app first, hand off to development, etc. Both can fail for the same reasons though, poorly defined requirements, lack of funding, personnel issues, etc.
"The only people who can make that claim are those who don't really know what .NET is."

Since this is about .NET developers supposedly being enraged, I'd guess it's more likely they don't know what HTML5 or JavaScript is -- and perhaps this leads them to assume it's somehow possible to use them as a "complete" application development platform. I don't know, either way I can't believe people are so lacking of reasoning to actually be concerned about this.

I mean even if their worst nightmares came true and this was a sign that .NET is going to get phased out, Jesus Christ, just learn another platform. Carry the .NET experience over to something else, stop cornering your career into a single technology with some delusional idea that it will never become obsolete, and for god's sake stop crying like babies.
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To download it, you (basically) are also sharing the file.

It's as illegal as mirroring wikileaks.
IE9 does this as well.
Agreed. If you visit Seattle on a sunny day this is where you need to set up work for the day. I think I'll head over right now, actually.
Perhaps there will be a Geneva Convention for cyberwarfare in the future. Though perhaps a different city for the international protocols to be signed in is in order.
Your app should already have fallbacks for 'certain unavailable resources'.

I don't think this does clutter the HTTP, in fact the proposal even provides an alternative to the one single addition it does make to HTTP.

I'm not clear on the other points you've made, sorry
Believe it or not, the donuts were sold out. In fact, locals started to come in just to get these donuts, while of course also buying coffee, beer, and whatever else was available. Nobody could turn down 25-cent pastry!

Article says it all really. Don't assume.
Thanks for pointing out, I cannot make the title any longer, though.
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http://pastebin.com/yut4P6qN

Guess this was a joke/defamation attempt after all.
He doesn't actually mention any .NET developers getting upset in the article itself.
You missed one:

4. It's generally an (illegal, yet surprisingly common) way to avoid taxes.
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Exactly, I am almost certain this was floating on carders' forums weeks if not months before.
That was exactly what Gruber's point was.
1 I typically hear about things here, reddit, wherever I currently look for news. Then get curious about the topic and go exploring.

2. Go where good .net devs hang out and recruit them. Stack overflow seems like a good .net hangout.
"I'm not sure about your interpretation of what does and doesn't constitute appropriate use of a web cache,"

Not web cache, just plain cache cache. Any kind of cache. Trying to abstract cached content and permanent content with one abstraction is a recipe for disaster, a disaster that leaves you without the proper tools to solve it. It's the sort of disaster that comes up a lot in software engineering where I can not provide a single pithy code example in 20 lines, because they you can always reply with "Well, I'd just write these 25 other lines". The problem is deeper; you've written a semantic confusion into the base primitives of your system and you will pay for it.

It's similar to the problem with RPC; you should not and can not simply sweep the difference between local and network communication under the rug. It works small and is incredibly painful in the large. Unfortunately, I can not seem to find a pithy explanation of why this is true. (Perhaps I should write one.)

An installed application is not simply a cached version of the website. Even the W3C proposal has gone too far down that road, but the solution is not to keep going even farther.
It's the best free eCommerce solution. Not that that is saying a lot.
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How many revolutions does it take for Governments to realize that shutting down the Internet will backfire badly?
FF consumes more memory than IE9 on my machine and is much slower.

Consuming too much memory can slow down your program, especially if your memory gets fragmented.

The kernel only manages the virtual memory, processes manage the heap themselves through an userland library (provided by the OS or a third party).
The biggest editing bots tend to do template maintenance (so correcting formatting issues and adding dates to templates). Bots simply do tedious work (that would have to be done anyway) faster - so hence a big edit count.

My bot (which notifies English Wikipedia of image deletions on Wikimedia Commons) edits about three times more than I do each month (and I am somewhere around #500 activity wise).

The very top bot ClueBot NG does more than double the edits of anyone else per month; that is an anti-vandalism bot, it catches about 50% of vandalism on Wikipedia each month. So pretty crucial :) Cydebot (#2) does some sort of category maintenance (not sure what, never seen it before). SineBot (#5) goes around and signs peoples comments when they forget (handy beast).

Basically it is just infrastructure; but because of the nature of the Wiki it is more visible than other forms of infrastructure :)
I'm really curious to hear PG's answer, but also love input from others as well.

Thanks for emboldening my reply. I am not at all in pg's league as an influencer of online communities, but I've had a personal website with information and a point of view since 1995, and have been very active in online communities since before most members of the general public had ever heard of the Internet. (I started out on commercial online services.) Any online community allows an opportunity for a member to become conspicuous by contributing good content. Quite a few online communities are organized around an initial common interest everyone has (e.g., homeschooling or education reform or gifted education in the communities I'm most active in) and every community broadens its topic scope over time as people form friendships and share other interests.

Were I to set up a social news forum (presumably as a subpart of my personal website, to which I have devoted very little maintenance attention for years), I would announce that first to my 566 Facebook friends, most of whom I have met in online communities. (Many of them I have since "face met" at conferences around the country about the issues we all care about.) Many of them would be good moderators of a forum, and would be happy to help in return for finding new, good content and sharing that with a broader community of readers. I'll have to try the experiment, as soon as my busy technical adviser (my oldest son) squeezes some time together to upgrade my website.

P.S. Is there already a good site of this nature for news and discussion about education policy, or will I have to build my own? There is no sense in reinventing that wheel if a good wheel is already available.
I get "Yes, looks like you’re using IPv6 already.
Welcome to the future of the Internet!"

I think they are detecting via Ajax to an ipv6 only domain so the test page does not need ipv6.

So it must be misdetecting you. It was being intermittent for me earlier...
>he decided on taking the easy, low-quality route with his baked goods.

They were homemade for Stallman's sake!
Yep, the dox linked here are pretty old. Topiary, Kayla and a bunch of others listed are members of Anon as well, giving the theory of Lulzsec and Anon being related more credibility.
I did it for years. It's like any other drive you do on a routine basis - you eventually just tune out, and then it seems to go by quickly. Get satellite radio and a Valentine One.
How is this enforceable at all? I'm amused.
That's good news.
Why your age doesn't mater
In my blog post, I share my thoughts, and my feelings on how society neglects teenagers from the core world of business.

This is a re-post of the original post on HN, I would like to share the comments and attention my blog post has brought.
"Employers seek to hire new recruits who fit the existing mold."

I don't think this is true. Where I work we pounce on people that aren't anti-social. I think that implying that any significant amount of the problem is with current hiring practices is not correct. I buy into the fact that the stereotypical computer geek turns women off from choosing the field, and even that the culture is hostile to women in general, but I've never worked at a place that was hiring based off of the anti-social nerd template. Of course I wouldn't want to work at such a place, so perhaps there's some selection bias there.
How much did it slow you down working a job and working full time?

How difficult was it to transition to working your idea full time? Letting go of the income supporting you?

Thanks for the reply!
Well, this part:
"If you are a Windows developer, I'll bet you did: there was little to no mention of .NET technology in the Windows 8 hoopla, and quite a few Windows developers are more than a little angry about the whole thing."

The "more than a little angry" part links to: http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/230502/562113.aspx where you actually do see some .NET people raving like lunatics. So I guess I was kind of writing about that in my post.
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For 1, I guess we need to know what % of consumers use credit cards/would prefer to use credit cards vs. cash only. With 600m CCs in circulation in the US, I do not think it's fair to say that customers who pay with credit/debit cards is a minority. For 2, like I said, by moving the sign inside, he may get a customer once who pays with cash, but who knows if they will return to pay with cash a second time knowing that they don't accept a CC? 3rd, the donut being a loss leader is a well taken point - depends what his target market is though. My point in raising these concerns is just that we shouldn't look at these lessons blindly, they need real economic analysis and probably some financial data to understand how well they are working vs. other options the owner could have taken.
Drugs are a great market for bitcoin. If you're speculating against fiat currencies, you'll want to use a combination of gold, mining stocks, and bitcoins, but if you're just buying drugs on the Internet, and bitcoins are an option, I don't know why you'd use anything else.
These guys are like the kids who paint your cat with spray paint. It seems with most groups, and computer criminals doesn't seem to have escaped, they have people who span the range from 'harmless' to 'lethal'. This prank (and it was a prank) was more in the 'harmless' side, Stuxnet was more on the 'lethal' side.

Some people see the end of the internet as we know it in these stories, I see new opportunities to sell locks :-)
It was not clear from the article whether the homemade baked goods were being "eaten up" by his customers, or just the donuts.
That's why i suppose best businesses aren't the ones that were built to sell (like about.me), but rather the ones built to solve a problem and become a really good product (heroku).
Debian testing would make a much better choice on the desktop for anyone not actively trying to help Debian development by trying bleeding-edge packages and filing bugs. Run Debian sid if you don't mind encountering breakage and filing bugs, for the benefit of the users of testing who then won't have to deal with the buggy packages you did. :)

These bugs range in severity from "inkscape becoming the default PDF viewer" to "file conflict prevents installing a package" to "libc6 lacks the /lib64 symlink and now no dynamically linked programs on the system can run", and everything in between. Fortunately, the "break the whole system" bugs don't happen often, but still: don't run sid unless you want to help filter out breakage for others by hitting it yourself.
Your best bet would be to go to the nearest airport and talk at the ticketing counter. They have a chart on who is allowed to board and who is not. In my case, my spain visa was category C which apparently requires transit visa. HTH.
think we need a prediction market to take pre-emptive action against federal intervention
Despite the snark in the thread title, Sen. Chuck Schumer draws a reasonable conclusion. Bitcoin, despite its various other uses, theoretically can be used for money laundering.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750830

I don't get the "link to some long-existing home page with no comment" thing, but that's what voting/flagging is for.
The rest of his site is interesting.
Thanks, I added it as well.
Oh, you mean like these?

http://boingboing.net/2010/12/03/wikileaks-blocked-bu.html
Using pie charts with any color combination is unreadable. See Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information for a detailed explanation.
Not everyone cares about having the latest bits. Sometimes, you want a system which you don't have to upgrade or fiddle with frequently. And yes, that can include desktop systems, particularly desktop systems other than your own. :)
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It absolutely is being used for money laundering right now.
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This part of the reason why I suggested a way to quickly and easily upload dox from intrusions like this to be searchable and viewable online here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2615226
Ugh gross, As I understand it they grant you a patent exception in a very specific case (Displaying exact schema.org valid tags on a website), but remove any incentive to make tools that consume those schemas, or to extend/enhance the schemas at all.
pg's take: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

1. Single Founder

Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence.

What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones who know him best.

But even if the founder's friends were all wrong and the company is a good bet, he's still at a disadvantage. Starting a startup is too hard for one person. Even if you could do all the work yourself, you need colleagues to brainstorm with, to talk you out of stupid decisions, and to cheer you up when things go wrong.

The last one might be the most important. The low points in a startup are so low that few could bear them alone. When you have multiple founders, esprit de corps binds them together in a way that seems to violate conservation laws. Each thinks "I can't let my friends down." This is one of the most powerful forces in human nature, and it's missing when there's just one founder.
I think the odds are if Sen. Chuck Schumer can conceive that Bitcoins can be used for money laundering, other folks have thought of the exact same thing.

I.E. it is already being actively used to launder money.
Ah, what irony! but I am more comfortable with Visual Studio than to Eclipse.
This is just a weekend project that I built. I work at Twilio, and this comes in handy for little SMS apps I need to build for work all the time. I have a lot of ideas of where I want to take this, and a bunch of layout/copywriting changes I want to make. With that said, I'm pleased with it for as first iteration.
Ugh, please no. I don't think HN really needs drama like this spewed at us.
As an ASP.Net/C# developer, I saw these new HTML5/JS tiles as an opportunity for my skills to be applied in a new context. I'm actually pretty excited about that.
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Seems obvious in hindsight. Like lots of good innovations.