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The Principles of Good Programming
Does location really matter for your startup?
Apple and power users: A lopsided love affair
The first link is really a great retrospective (thank god for PBS) and it gives a much more nuanced look at the situation than the overly simple statement you made. The final outcome showed, at least for me, that Google is willing to learn and grow from it's experiences[1]. Thank you for sharing it.

All-in-all, your essay reads like a conspiracy theory that takes leaps of reason and logic so large that it would probably be better received and more relevant for some other parts of the internet. Anyone on HN understands Google's business model and the trade-offs involved.

On the other hand, there is nothing wrong with trying to drum up support for better policies from the services you use. However, this over-the-top rhetoric does not help your cause, and may even hurt it. Google certainly has room to improve (I might even be with you on some substantive points that were not mentioned), but IMHO, they have done a much better job than many of their competitors at freeing up users data[2] and being transparent[3].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8456950.stm

[2] http://www.dataliberation.org/

[3] http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/
Hi,

I wasn't trying to be condescending. I don't know your name because you haven't posted it, and I don't know your background, whereas you know (or can easily find) everything relevant about me. I also have no idea who you know that knows Mark, or exactly what that person said. So you've put me in a position where I have to defend myself against all kinds of unknown variables, and it's not a very generous thing to do to someone. By saying "I'm sure you're really smart," I'm just trying to give you the benefit of the doubt.

You're wrong about it being my words against others' and your comments above make you sound uninformed. I have hundreds of pages of evidence that I have made public, and Mark has admitted in The New York Times that he does not contest my version of events. If I repeat the fact that I was actually there, it's because a lot of people think that having seen a movie, or knowing someone who knows someone, makes them an expert, and that's not always the case.

Aaron
The New Diary by Christine Rainer is another good book on exploring through writing. It has many of the same techniques. The freewriting technique not only gives you ideas, but sometimes a sense of peace about what worries you.
Boy, I really don't know.

I've actually enjoyed using Objective-C and Cocoa when used for Mac OS/iOS development (the dynamicity of Smalltalk data structures with the control flow of C), but I don't think I'd ever voluntarily choose it outside that context. Too verbose, too fragile.
> simply don't tag that person.

This seems like an arbitrary restriction. What if I want to tag lots of people but only share my tags or tagged photos with select circles?
Zynga Stole Everything It's Suing Us For
I'd love to see a good implementation of the opposite -- creating Cocoa apps using web technologies.
I fail to understand this way to reason about the issue.

G+ is young. It has yet to prove its worth. Do I like it? Maybe. Little chaotic, far too much crap content so far (my G+ is worse than my FB stream and I tried to 'follow' only tech guys that I admire otherwise or find interesting to read about). I don't care about these 'see this graph about the explosive growth of G+' graphics: It's completely useless in my world so far. The UI doesn't scale. The content is miserable. 'Social' features are missing (tell me about events, birthdays).

Using it as a _blogging_ software is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read/seen.

Now your argument comes along and says 'You know what? This thing you all dislike about this new product here? The product it tries hard to compete with, one way or another, has the very same issue'.

Uhm. What? Right.. So - it's the same crap regarding 'real names'. Missed chance. Leads (with other things) to (and it hurts me to write that..) lower scores than FB in my world..
I'm really not sure why the author is expending so much energy on the "@". It was the clearly obvious symbol for so-and-so at a given machine. What else could Tomlinson have used from the basic teletype character set?

And, as I commented to the author on Twitter, his story of how email came to be glosses over the low-level technical details that would interest at least the HN crowd. (I realize that's not the point of his story. But he touched on it, anyway.)

For example, in the pre-TCP era (NCP was the host-to-host protocol), email was delivered by FTP'ing to the given site and appending your message (saved as a file) to the user's publicly-accessible mail box file (which was usually append-only, so you couldn't read it).

We were pretty trusting in those days.

That meant your email name was your username on the site; for us TOPS-10 users, that means our email address was the usual 18+18 octal project/programmer number. I think mine was 377,6001@harv-10 (no domains in those days). The lucky guys on Tenex systems (the precursor to TOPS-20) and Multics, etc., had real names.

I also remember being on the first ARPAnet mailing list (1972?), which was, of course, a discussion group on mail clients' UX and mailing lists, combined. Talk about bike-shedding and flame wars! But of course, none of us had ever experienced anything like a mailing list before, so we had to discover all those issues ab initio.
How to Research Local Citations After Google Removed them from Places
May I ask where this was? Crazy to me that there would be a place with UPS service but not E911 service.
Do you also think it would be reasonable if Google copied me on your Gmail conversations everytime you mentioned my first name or anything I've created? I don't see how they owe you anything for privately linking to your profile.
Alcohol is legal and pot is not destructive.

Good parents should also teach their children the difference between legality and morality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlbergs_stages_of_mo...
Ask HN: Anyone want to meetup at San Mateo/CA.
Want to kick around some ideas. Visualization, and usability.
I was in exactly that situation myself recently. However I was hungry and the auditor was cute and I told her I would give her the root password in exchange for a donut. Which she dutifully wrote down on her clipboard. Now the whole company has to go on training. I don't even know the root password!
Like Appcelerator's Titanium? [1]
Doesn't exactly create very "classic" Cocoa apps, but considering the App Store, Lion etc, that seems to be the way that Mac Apps are going anyway, i.e. looking like you were born on the web or on an ipad won't hurt your sales that much, if at all. (Not too fond of that myself, but well…)

Look at Wunderlist as one example[2].

[1]: http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-desktop-applic...

[2]: http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/
Which is why you restrict it by A) the list of known keys (the values are already in an array in the same file), and if you're feeling nice B) after clicking inside the container the game lives in.

All of which is mind-numbingly easy, but far below 50% of "HTML5" games I've played have done so.
What's even worse that it automatically connected to Picasso which I must have used 5 or more years ago for some very private photos. When I signed up to google plus I was shocked to see these photos my ex gave me. There were under albums. I was horrified. I think connecting ur Picassa account to google plus was a bad decision. I never used it minus that one time years ago.

Fortunately I deleted them upon finding them a day later. Luckily I only had a few friends in my circle at the time.

Overall I'm not using it. I still use Facebook until everyone moves onto g plus.
I think I would only care if they tag me AND share the photos with others. If they intended not to share it with anybody, then I don't care whether they think I'm in the photo or not. A more reasonable approach would be something like "if a photo is shared, it must be shared with the people tagged in the photo".

As far as getting access to the entire album, not everyone uses albums for the same reason. I can't, offhand, think of a situation where the rest of the album would make a difference, but it's not unreasonable to expect that one might want to share only parts of an album with some people.
I find it hard to believe companies pay Google $55 per click and that is in any way profitable for them. There must be more +EV opportunities out there for advertising. But I'm probably mistaken as usual.
Ask HN: Is it ok to find Developers on HN for Jobs?
If yes: I am currently starting a start up for start ups and I am looking for developers to add to a list for potential customers that are in need for good developers programming prototypes of their idea. Please check my profile and send me your quotes and ideally your reference projects. I will get back to you asap. Thx!
Maybe I'm missing something but the title seems to imply that Google makes most of it's cash from the very top keywords, but I don't see any evidence of that.

Anyway, very interesting what the top keywords are. Does anyone know why "cord blood" is so expensive? A close friend is involved with a cord blood bank and I know there's great potential in cord blood, but I'm not sure why it's such an expensive keyword.
Higgs boson 'hints' also seen by US lab
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 screenshot tour
great vids. the often overlooked flip-side is that cops Don't Like uncooperative people, so you could save yourself a pricey court appearance by cooperating when innocent.
I'm fairly certain that this isn't related to WebKit at all... just similar names.
I would suggest using watchr to automate jekyll. Should be pretty trivial to get what you want. It's not compiled, but I don't see why that is a requirement.

https://github.com/mynyml/watchr
What does this have to do with "web scale"? I don't see this phrase in either the article or the reference in the article.
I guess that's an argument, but I really cannot figure out a good reason for it. If I write on the back of a photo that I took the people on the photo, I have no obligation to send them a copy of the photo. It also creates some serious distraction for anyone with a public career. Does a singer need to be notified about every fan who takes her picture?

Let's go a bit further down this hyper-connected, automatic world. Let's say Google Plus implements facial recognition. Seems like a good idea, saves you some time. So, I upload a ton of photos and they get automatically tagged. It would be very hard to consider anything private under those circumstances. Worse, I am truly using "the cloud". Maybe some of those photos need to be deleted or edited.

At the end of it all, I wrote a note on a picture. Having additional things happen without permission is just a bad UI choice and leads to problems and apologies. And since someone decided the whole album is now shared, it could lead to some physical danger.
What Business Must Learn. Putting the economic downtown and recent events
This kind of stuff is really important. I've done this for about a year now, read about it somewhere, called them Morning Pages, or something like that. It's really a daily brain dump, and I use Evernote to have the entries easily searchable and taggable. I also write right before I go to sleep and for lack of a better name, called them Evening Pages.

Once I got into the habit of doing them, I saw three other benefits: 1) I no longer needed stupid to-do lists, 2) Because I did them right when I woke up, before I was conscious enough to be self-conscious, I was brutally honest with myself, and got rid of my obnoxious depression, and 3) The daily practice really improved my writing.

Journaling really is a better form of meditation. I wish I'd gotten into the habit sooner.
Isn't this what Cappuccino[1] already does with Objective-J?

1. http://cappuccino.org
I caught the program by accident today and really enjoyed it. The MP3 should be up on their site at 7pm (not sure which timezone). http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/w...
When I signed up I remember they asked if I wanted to link to picassa, and all my photos where private until I actually shared them with a circle.
So, are you okay with the idea of the entire world seeing all your emails, or don't you use email?
That problem is inherent with posting something online. The best any service can do is make it difficult for someone to accidentally violate their friends' privacy.

This, in my opinion, is where Google+ is failing: sharing makes it very easy to make private posts visible to an audience larger than the author intended.
If you want to stay with Nethack, but want those flaws addressed: Try Sporkhack, a fork of Nethack. The author tries to make the game harder in the endgame, but not harder and possibly easier for beginners.
I make mobile websites and this is the best emulator I know of to test them for an iPhone or iPad. It runs on the desktop and is pretty slick. http://www.puresimstudios.com/ibbdemo/
I went to see a live act on the night of my drunken party. I liked the singer's music and want to remember who they are later. I really don't think the singer needs to have access to my photo album from that night.
Anyone who's watched someone go through addiction and recovery knows that it's not that simple.
Nothing's for everyone. No technique, workflow, programming language, business methodology, or idea applies to everybody.

No post on HN will ever resonate with everyone. Take that as a given, because every post could just as well have a disclaimer like this.
I actually prefer getting the amulet of reflection from Sokoban, and bags of holding get randomly generated relatively often. But start scumming is damnable anyway.
Machine reverts plastic to oil
Interesting that intelligent students choose philosophy. Is that choice justified, though, or just a relic of the old glory of philosophy?
I'd argue it's flagrant abuse of the death penalty, to the extent that several states (Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York) have banned it since 2000 on constitutional / equitable use grounds. The politicization of prosecution makes certain punishments untenable.

Not that there isn't a certain amount of abuse of "anti-hacking" and similar rules.

In both cases (capital crimes, small-scale / activist hacking), defendants are often have limited means (and these are often further restricted through prosecutor maneuvers), and a plausible case can be made before a lay jury.

For more, see the Innocence Project: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/The_Death_Penalty.ph...

Not that I disagree with your basic premise of prosecutorial misconduct.
Your development team is slow.. What can I do?
It's a cool site, but it doesn't seem to be supporting canvas yet. And yes, my browser(Chrome 12) does support it.
I'd go for ROR, or maybe Sinatra + your favorite ORM.

If you don't want to host your own servers, you can grab an ec2 free micro instance, or just go with heroku or cloudfoundry.
You can assert your rights simply and clearly.

It takes a certain amount of cahones, but you'll generally find that the cops will respect it.

A pricey court appearance beats a conviction in my book.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/430/v...
There's an existing framework along the same lines called FrothKit: http://www.frothkit.org/

The difference seems to be that WebAppKit is new while FrothKit is more mature but not actively developed anymore.
The screenshot comparisons are quite damning.

Also, previously on Hacker News:

Zynga CEO: "Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1675483
The Google+ Real Name Policy Is Wrong
Is that me or the author is not implying that good leaders ARE addicts (to drugs) but that they seek success, progress, disruption, quality as an addict would seek pleisure "artificially"?
My weekend project: What can you really do in a weekend?
I was wondering how long it would take for Apple to integrate their Siri acquisition into their products.

Has anybody used the Siri Assistant (I don't have an iOS device) who can give a review of how well it works? The reviews on the app store page don't really give an idea of what it's like.

With built in voice search in WP7 Bing (and I assume Android), is this really something of a differentiator?
I've been tracking this company for a while. I wonder when they will acquire some Paul Ekman products.
I don't find that to be the most plausible mechanism for the proliferation of laws at all. More likely, it's an emergent property of the legal system in a democratic context that can probably be explained in terms of game theory. At any legislative junction, there's a cost or benefit associated with enacting or not enacting a law. Take the arrowhead removal example from the article. You're a lawmaker and you're faced with the problem of people pilfering Native American artifacts, and this law is presented to you. Which side are you going to be on? The side of desecration? Or the side of preservation? Boom. Another law. At each juncture, there's a good reason to pass another law.

What emerges from this is a jumble of laws. Each local decision is made in response to an immediate concern, and cannot take the jumble-of-laws problem into account. You're only adding one law, after all, and it's benefit is clear.

"Well, what about repealing some?," you may ask. Well, what's the "game" when it comes to repealing them? Even if each law got on the books for--heh--objectively bad reasons, those reasons were still "good" in that they contained a political benefit. Often, repealing them would have the unacceptable adverse consequence of giving up that benifit. You wanna be the guy to repeal the broken sex offender registry laws and be perceived as on the side of rapists and pedophiles? How bout the U.S.A P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and be perceived as being "on the side of the terrorists"? What now, hotshot?!

None of the above requires a conspiracy, as your post intimates. Those effects emerge as unintended consequences from the dynamics of a system. The even more infuriating thing about that quote in this context is that it ignores the corrective power of a democracy in crisis. There eventually does come a point where people wise up and rise up on specific issues. Prohibition, slavery, and civil rights come to mind. Revolutions, as they say, are impossible until they happen, and then they were inevitable.

Finally, the mechanism of control in your Rand quote is just ludicrous. How would one "cash in on guilt" in a system that is as patently absurd as the one you cite? Nobody would feel guilt about breaking those laws. The arrowhead collectors didn't "feel guilt." Quite the opposite, it seems. They paid the bill and openly talk about how absurd it is. The only way one could use a system like the one you outline would be to actually lock everyone up. It's just not practical, and it's not even the kind of control your example seems to advocate. Ostensibly, the controllers in your fictional example want people to behave a certain way out of fear of being locked up, not to actually have to lock them up for misbehaving.

Try to critically scratch the surface of word-butchered fanboy fictional allegories that comprise Ayn Rand's work before posting them here verbatim as if they actually have any bearing on the real world. The real issue here, and one from which your post serves as a distraction, is the evisceration of the mens rea requirement for a finding of guilt.
Ira Glass on Storytelling (applicable to anyone who "makes stuff")
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You're quibbling. I mean, I understand that legally, one has to obtain a conviction to refer to someone as a felon, but practically, that's not the case, not with activist DAs floating around, trying to make a name for themselves as "tough on crime".
If you’re on Windows, I would recommend installing Cygwin to bring the power of a real shell to your OS.

_yawns_

Can we please get past statements like these? They are _so 90's.

See Powershell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
Requiring real names. Acquiring a facial recognition company. Profits entirely driven by advertising.

Well, hello Minority Report ads!
You get big props from me for

- replying with further details

and

- responding in a very friendly way although my tone was neither constructive nor friendly.

Thank you for that great response.
Back in the day, I learned a lot about basic electronics and computer design from their old "Engineer's Notebooks" (e.g. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=108524...) and some books they sold about TI's line of microprocessors. If they wrote new books for Arduino, that would be a great start. I might even play around with hardware again (haven't touched it since I got my EE degree).
Nicely written essay. I would say future is hard to predict. People in 1960s predicted about space travel but did not predict mobile devices like iphones that have so much compute power with so many apps with location, touch, social, communication features.

140 characters may not have great technology but can be attributed to bring social revolution in so many places.

Ultimately, need is mother of most of innovations. Need leads to demand, which leads to building new solutions.
> What about all the big companies run by non-addicts (the majority)

Sure, but the real question is whether "addicts" are over-represented amongst successful CEOs more than the general population.
If the whole idea is for zynga to win this and claim that their ripoff games are "original", this will set a terrible precedent for all indie developers
I agree @ difference between legality and morality, but would disagree about pot. It's an antisocial disgusting habit.

Smoking tobacco is legal (for now), but is increasingly being made illegal (public places, restaurants, etc). Which is a good trend IMHO.
Interesting... would love to use it, but I'm using haml and sass files, and I can't seem to --type-add anything. I get this:

> ack --type-add haml=.haml
ack: --type-add: Type "haml" does not exist, creating with ".haml" ...
ack: No regular expression found.

followed by being unable to use the type, and not showing it in --help types. Am I using it incorrectly? I got it via `brew install ack`, so that could be the problem as well.

edit: --type-set=haml=.haml in a .ackrc file works. Though I may have to tweak it to look in the current directory as well - not all projects need the same settings, and in `~` it's not git-able.
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Hideouts or Sacred Spaces? Experts Baffled by Mysterious Underground Chambers
Before people start forgetting real-world context here:

In the physical world, people can and do take photos with you in it. They then get these developed, and may put them in an album with the people identified.

You would have absolutely no access to this photo unless they choose to share this with you, however that may be. They can also choose to share it with their friends, possibly even form a presentation with it to a certain slice of the public, and you still have no control over this, or even access to it.

This automatic re-sharing is quite the opposite, and I suspect Google did not fully follow the logical consequences through, or purposely chose to subvert the current physical-world situation. I don't like it, I'd rather have new-to-digital features following known physical traditions until there is ample evidence that it may be a good thing to change it.