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There's a difference between making an honest mistake and going into something that is obviously a mistake to a lot of the community while possibly lying about it[1]. Sort of like how if I intentionally drove a car off a cliff I wouldn't get any sympathy if I claimed that I didn't understand that cliffs are different from roads.

[1] Look at his comment history, especially his two comments on the original Jonthan's card post. He's admitted that, since the 7th, he's been skimming off the top of the card, yet on the 8th he said "That would imply that the card is currently being used as intended" and explained $25 vanishing from the card as him buying food for two homeless people. Even if he wasn't intentionally misdirecting people or lying, it certainly looks suspicious.
And.....drumroll........ ZeroCater (YC W11) Raises $1.5 Million For No-Hassle Office Lunches

Thanks. My head has not exploded. Here's why:

- Employees love us. Often they go from getting no free lunch, to getting daily hassle-free meals without having to lift a finger, just because we make it so much easier for the companies we serve.

- Companies love us. See above. Often we enable free food as a completely new employee benefit. Other times we free up an hour or so of an admin's time every day.

- Restaurants love us. We give them a large predictable stream of food orders, and work closely with them to improve their service. We pass on the feedback we get from employees (comments and ratings on each meal), so suddenly our vendors are getting a very strong direct signal telling them what people like and dislike.

We're not curing cancer, but I'm happy.
A whole heck of a lot more. Have you ever tried mailing an envelope via UPS? We're talking orders of magnitude difference in price.

USPS could double their first-class rates, and they'd still be undercutting the competition.
If you come to the site through external links, like Facebook or Google News, you'll generally circumvent the paywall. Anything you find by browsing nytimes.com directly counts against the twenty free articles allowed for your account.

People who only read NYT stories when they encounter a third-party link will never see the paywall, while someone who actively uses the NYT as a regular news source eventually will.
Also, licencing costs. Why pay a rival company money when you can create your own engine in-house? Unreal has various licencing agreements, from (probably) 8 figures for an unlimited license down to 99$ + 25% of any revenue above $50k per title (and anywhere in between).

In particular I'm thinking of Criterion's Renderware engine. Originally funded by Canon it was very popular. Then Criterion was sold to EA and everyone dropped it.
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So, is the HIV virus concerned? And can this cure the AIDS?
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> the proposed mechanism doesn't do the government any good unless ISPs have their own reasons for wanting to turn off service.

ISPs have shown in the past that they are all too willing to bow to government pressure even when there is no legal pressure as well.

The wording of the kill switch bill is to allow the government to dissemble whilst attaining the power it desires.
That's ugly. But who cares? A sophisticated user (read, anyone using Pingdom) won't be using the same password for their Pingdom account and their email. Though the consequences if they did would be ugly.
Have you thought about all the people who are unemployed thanks to gridlock on the US highway system? The massive inefficiency of people (in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.) wasting 2-3 hours per day sitting in their car going 5 miles per hour is astounding.

If the highway system were not held back by government planning, much of this inefficiency and waste could be eliminated, and reallocated into productive pursuits. Imagine if 80% of a city's' commuting professionals had two hours more per day to spend money on things (or to work more).

It's easy to assume that highways are one aspect of central planning that works, but in urban, congested areas they are a disaster that hits the poor the hardest.

Also, by making it seem "feasible" to live in suburbia and commute into the city, they led many middle class workers to flee cities, eroding the tax base, and causing the decay of city governments/services, etc.

Everything has tradeoffs. The highway system got us a way to ship military personnel and tanks across the country, and benefitted home builders and strip mall owners, at the expense of the urban poor.
>It's the usual story: capture of the USPS by its unions...

Oh, if only it weren't for all those undeserving, greedy workers! Clearly the problem is that they banded together to protect each others' wages, access to medical care, and dignity in the workplace! Thank goodness we have Businessweek to confirm our reactionary free market biases for us.

You guys must be loving these budget crises — they provide such a convenient pretext for attacking worker's rights and consolidating the power of the owning class while sidestepping the inherent contradictions of the system which caused those crises at the outset.
https://docs.google.com/a/agiliq.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aq...

I few folks have emailed me with some great apps to do these things. I am tracking these here, and will publish these.
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If you're looking for a "clean break", Google's httplib2 [1] might be what you want. It's somewhat lower-level than Requests, but adds a bunch of advanced stuff like caching support and keep-alives. As you might guess from the name, httplib2 is more like httplib, while Requests appears to be more like urllib2.

1: http://code.google.com/p/httplib2/
The problem is: in a fast-moving startup we rarely have the time/luxury to spend time on optimizing after the fact. IMO your choice will depend on how isolated the optimization task is and how long it will take.

E.g., we're building a healthcare app with Google Web Toolkit on the front and Google App Engine at the back. On the front, I'm creating single instances of each page (e.g., one patient widget instance per patient) right now because changing that model from regular (new instance every time) to singletons after release is prohibitively expensive and risky.

On the other hand, I've postponed server memcache implementations to cache query results on the app server because the APIs are fluid/changing (so it's wasteful to do now), and I can take up all the memcache setups together comfortably after the release. I.e., that task unlike the widget instances is isolated and relatively safe to do.
I'm not telling about mythics, it's a real life. I don't want to make a system of beliefs here; I responded with an example of experience I lived through.

Of course all depends on the people involved, so carefully choose who you work with, what they respect, how they talk about different things, how they relate to the world, do they love what they do or not. This is important in any activity I guess :)

I was working with German carpenters. They are very disciplined. They were not extremely committed, they just knew what they like to do and they did it in a most sane way. I'm sure you have people like that in the US. It's the kind of mentality which founded US, as far as I can imagine.
I know the text says "... or equivalent software," but is there any great advantage between using Google Analytics or a hosted component on your own server?
I feel it's impolite to subject your users to be tracked by Google and other huge companies just because they visited your website.
Is there at least any tracking service that respects Mozilla's DNT[1]?

[1]: http://dnt.mozilla.org/
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I love my Kindle but not for current titles, just news and classics and some PDFs.
In regards to sharing data, torrents are used, primarily through thepiratebay.org.

Much of the internal communication that has leaked/been given out is IRC. External communication has been Twitter and the hacks themselves.
If you're in the US, take a look at jobs in the DOE National Lab system. There are many of good hackers working on real problems. Bioenergy, materials science, systems biology, cyber security, supercomputing, and computer science are all happening at the Labs. It's a little like academia, but much more applied and practical.
The wierd thing is, you could translate this insight into a ethically questionable business idea:

A website lists the wrong doers to humiliate them. Each crime gets its own list. Pay 5$ for "the jerk who cuts you off in traffic on the crowded freeway" or 1000$ for "the geek who concocts the next fifteen-minutes-of-fame computer virus" or 100,000$ for "the child molestor".

I hope this would not work out, but i fear it would.
Can someone edit the submission to say "steganography"?
Trees aren't selfless, nor do they care about happiness or the future. They are simply machines programmed to work a certain way.

In this case it would be better to see the tree as pulling the nutrients it needs from wherever they happen to be available. The fungus network it's connected to is simply trying to balance nutrient availability across it's subunits, and is also pulling nutrients from wherever they are available, even if that is other trees in the network. Those other trees end up suffering (or at best grow more slowly) but it's not like they can complain. That this adds up to improved odds of survival for the forest as a whole is merely good robust system design. One day we'll take as much care in our own work. The internet is certainly not so robust.
I could probably clarify a few things. I built the paywall used at WSJ. WSJ's paywall is actually "porous" by design. The reasons for this have a lot to do with how news is discovered. Aggregators like Digg.com or Reddit.com can send a lot of traffic to an article but links don't get readily shared if they are locked behind a paywall. Search engines can also send a lot of traffic, but many, including google, won't index you unless there is something of value on the indexed page. This is one reason why you see a lot of sites having first click free, or first click from a search engine free, etc. Things that are considered in bypassing the paywall include request headers like referrer and cookie, query string parameters in the url, as well as ip addresses (what country you are in, etc). At one point if you were making a request from an airplane you would get access.
Opzi uses Node.js to run our real-time endpoint and live notifications system, been working well so far. Running server + client side JS seems to be one of the niftier aspects of working with Node.js.
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Beyond an approach based on steganography and on obfuscating the traffic, re-using and extending the work developed to harden botnet command and control channels would seem a good model for robust communications.

If this re-use has not already been deployed.
If he was lying about it, why would he have written a blog post about it? Doesn't seem to make sense.
I disagree completely with this.

I have been a paid software engineer for 15 years, and have been writing code since I was 8 years old.

Numerous projects (I would say even the majority) had spots that could be optimized. Don't believe me? Ok, on the video pipeline I have been working on the last few years: When we finally got around to profiling we found that a large chunk of time was spent scanning for H264 start codes... And we immediately saw that if we simply scanned through the buffer the other way, we cut down it's run time dramatically. Or how about the time that the profiling revealed a "hash table" that was, due to a bug, actually a linked list!

Finally, I am tired of working on projects that "optimize" the whole time. The code bases are CRAP. Full of "optimizations" that usually are actually slower, and a nightmare to maintain. Do you know what works better: Concentrate on solving the problem at hand and writing high quality simple code, and don't do anything else.
Node.js is great, but Node.coffeescript is better ;)
This isn't a high school history text book, this is a conversation some hackers are having early on a sunday morning.
If you aren't able to control user spam effectively, Google will think you are the spammer. (maybe another item should be: use nofollow on user links)
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In fact, Sam Odio is a very community-minded person. He started the original Hacker House in Palo Alto (http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/). He was an early enthusiast for the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View (http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25442/Incubees). More significantly, when other people were offering advice to an unemployed hacker, it was Sam who offered his couch for a few weeks (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2827635). I'll add a personal data point: he once insisted on giving my co-founder and me a ride to the train station even though it was completely out of his way and we had only met a few minutes earlier. Trivial, yes, but trivial indicators of decency are often the most reliable, especially when no one is watching.

My 2¢ is that Sam seems to process social norms in an unconventional way and it occasionally gets him into a pickle. It also leads to good things. More good than bad, I'd bet.
I don't even know why I'm replying to this, but this sort of reasoning makes my blood boil.

A lot of clueless people throw in the "p" word (privatization, or private competition) without really thinking things through.

The USPS is based on the idea of cross-subsidies. The fact that it's easy to deliver mail to, say, 100 addresses in San Francisco (a carrier can just walk a block and do it), subsidies the fact that in, say, Nebraska they would have to drive 100 miles to deliver to the same number of addresses. No private company would do this; they would just deliver in the cities, and tell the rural folks to fuck off. The private operators would just cherry-pick the profitable routers, and dump the rest. Is that what you want to see happen?
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Thanks for the correction. The $500 card is going for $510 now. I've donated to Save the Children before and no doubt it's a good cause. Can't argue that I find this mildly offensive. I guess it's the violation of implicit rules of an experiment that gives false hope on anonymously reciprocated altruism.
to get past the paywall do this:

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He is very inconsistent. In his original post he states that "yuppies buying yuppies coffee is uninteresting" and he goes on to say that he will instead take all the money to his own card and donate it to charity.

Now he is saying that it was all just an experiment and he didn't understand the outcome of his actions.

Which one is it gonna be Sam?
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I'm willing to bet that if there a private company had to operate under the same stifling rules as the USPS, they would have quit a long time ago.

The USPS could raise the price of delivering mail to match the costs. BUT THEY CAN'T! Even though the Government does NOT provide any funding to the USPS, the Government (specifically, the Congress) keeps thwarting the USPS' efforts to operate like a business.

You want to fix the USPS? Take away the Congress's ability to interfere with it. The USPS' only mandate should be to deliver mail to every physical address. That's it. Just let them fix their rates, their benefits, etc. and I'm willing to bet they'd be just fine.
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Of course, there is always a bully that will ruin the fun for everyone. The experiment showed that the bully was Sam Odio.
I see there is another Kunstler fan on HN! An upvote for you, sir.

For anyone else interested in this line of argument, there is a great introduction that Kunstler did for his TED Talk.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZeXnmDZMQ
It's pretty obvious why apple didn't go this route. This design takes the macbook pro away from the realm of Ive's relentless minimalism and instead conjures up images of early 90's blocky cell phones.
If the images are relevant then you're tossing earned SE traffic and extra value in the other ranking signals Google uses. If you have 1000 posts on gardening and an image for each with gardening in the filename, you're going to have an easier time ranking for gardening.
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Research website: https://telex.cc/

Paper: https://telex.cc/paper.html

Previous discussions:

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2775988

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790146

All in all, the community consensus is unclear about how useful Telex will be. It is definitely a novel idea though.
As I've said before, with all that money being made on the internet, do you think for a second they will allow it to remain free?
News is a commodity. The newspapers, tv stations, and radio stations are all in the advertising business. Coincidentally, so is google, facebook, and twitter. Get the captive audience into their seats, and tell them what to buy. You want to change the world? Make advertising illegal. It's all coercion anyway. Don't we have a right to life without coercion? Think about it.
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Thanks for the info. Did credit cards not provide any such protection before this was made law, then?
The original article is so naive, it's no wonder he got a lot of negative feedback.

"The code that makes up node.js is carried out by the V8 javascript engine. This engine (read: the component that processes javascript so that it can be understood by your operating system) [...]"

No need for insults, but should one take advice on programming languages and frameworks from someone explaining them in such terms? He assumes you don't know what a virtual machine is or how programs get executed (or how they interact with the OS), yet he tries to convince people with the benefits of decoupling threads from connections.

I wonder who's the audience for this. And I fear it's people who read articles at such a level and then think they are capable of making technical decisions. Kind of like Gartner, I guess.
I'm sure he's a great person. I'm not speaking against his character, just explaining why hackers would be upset about this.
I remember Cadbury (the chocolate company) tried to trademark the color purple. I think they failed at it because “purple” apparently wasn't a clear and concise description of the trademark.
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The author jumps to unwarranted far-reaching conclusions based on one very minimalistic and artificial game. It would be easy to construct another game where people are spontaneously altruistic. Perhaps also yet another game where they adopt both altruistic and punishing strategies but the altruistic one wins. In other words, it all depends on the rules of the game and the author has carefully chosen the rules needed to demonstrate what he wanted to demonstrate in the first place.

There are plenty of real situations where real people are altruistic, as well as situations where they are punishing.
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The stifling rules go both ways--USPS has a government granted and enforced monopoly on mail. It may be a shitty business, but at least you can't have competition.
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It is, of course, important to distinguish yuppie boutiques from many web startups.
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How about catching corrupt officials in the act for 500 dollars?

Though I am sure that there is an unintended consequence somewhere in the idea. Sometime all we can do is watch the system in action, and try to fix it...if it let us.

For example, the US government is in a slow motion train accident that's taking a long time to happen. It's very hard to stop the train in time and fix the stuff that's broken.
node is evented and non-blocking it is very good at handling concurrent requests, so a proxy built on Node will perform much better than one built on say Ruby.
-Jim Patterson, director of platform at Yammer

It is unfortunate that the "director of platform at Yammer" does not understand what Ruby is. Ruby is a programming language and Node.js is a system written in Javascript. It is useless to compare Node.js to Ruby. There is a similar system to Node.js in Ruby, it's called Event Machine. The official Node.js about page states "Node is similar in design to and influenced by systems like Ruby's Event Machine or Python's Twisted."
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Well it looks like the previous renderings of the future Apple HQ-“Apple Campus 2” were no where near the final one.
It's a prototype. I don't think a final production model would have to have a gigantic antenna stuck to the outside.
Generally, I use a different password for every site (using 1passwords generate feature). That helps guard against any site storing in plaintext
I don't understand your argument. I don't know how gridlock on the highway system causes employment. I was born, raised, and currently reside pretty deep in the city of Chicago, so I'm familiar with commutes, though usually on public transportation, because the interstates are largely for long distance travel. They remain 2-3 hours a day (sometimes) without touching a highway, as they were before cars were even owned by average working class people. I have never owned a car in my life, and have no interest in or ability to drive.

The highway system is a result of government planning. If it hadn't been "held back" by government planning, it would lack existence. This would be a tax on every good imported into the city (which is virtually every good.)

I don't assume that highways are one aspect of central planning that works, I think that highways are one of a multitude of aspects of government (which I suppose you mean by "central planning") that are justified because, while not being profitable in themselves, they reduce friction for the entire system. The government is the only actor who can levy fees for that from the entire system, therefore the only one who can execute it.

If the tax base is eroded in a city, this is a failure of paperwork, not a physical event. If black people and the white people who ran from them were in slightly closer physical proximity, but still entirely homogenously clumped together (assuming a huge decline in public transportation not caused by the highways) you're saying that there would be some benefit to the urban poor?
Why was this down voted? HIV was my first thought after reading the article.

On another note, does anyone have info on the rate of death by virus world-wide? I'm only curious so we I compare to other major killers (cancer, heart disease, etc).