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Post is gone. Let's see if it will fit in a HN comment:

"Oh boy. At this point, even the shit-show is becoming a shit-show. According to Dan Primack at Fortune, Mike Arrington has been fired by AOL. My inbox is full of emails from journalists, friends and total strangers — all asking if I can explain what’s going on. The vast majority of those correspondents are clearly hoping for a mass walk-out of writers if Mike is really gone. The Atlantic is already predicting what might happen post-walkout.

Meantime, Mike has gone to ground — presumably somewhere in his fortified Seattle compound — although with apparently as little idea as any of us what the final outcome will be. Primack’s story says it’s a fait accompli, while others say the situation is “still developing”. I spoke to a senior staffer at TCHQ yesterday who told me “No-one knows anything. It’s bizarre. Surreal.”

Rather than replying to a billion emails, or appearing on Bloomberg, or talking to PBS or Tweeting something threatening-but-ambiguous; here’s my position. And it’s basically unchanged from where I was last week.

TechCrunch lives or dies on its editorial independence. Right now, that means TechCrunch — in the person of its founding editor — must be allowed to pick its next Editor In Chief. Arianna Huffington has made clear that she wants Mike gone and TechCrunch to be assimilated into Huffington Post, under her direct control. That means whoever she might pick as “editor” will be little more than an avatar for her; a cardboard cut-out installed to do her bidding. That’s so ridiculously unacceptable a situation that the idea makes me feel physically sick. It will be the death of TechCrunch and everything we’ve all worked for these past years.

Sure, the brand will live on — and as long as we keep writing about cool apps we’ll probably still get amazing traffic. But traffic and a famous domain name is not why I — or most of the TechCrunch staff and editors I’ve spoken to in the past few days — came to work here. As Fred Wilson wrote earlier today: “TechCrunch also has a voice, a swagger, a “fuck you” attitude that comes from Mike… They need to keep the remaining team, the voice, and that attitude if they want to remain at the top of the world of tech media.” Damn fucking right.

Presumably, given how much TechCrunch and AOL both have riding on the success of next week’s Disrupt conference, an announcement as to TechCrunch’s future leadership must be imminent. I’m not going to speak for the other members of the team, but my own position is clear: unless Mike Arrington appoints his own successor, guaranteeing that TechCrunch retains its editorial independence, I’m gone. Done. Out of the door.

Ceding control to the Huffington Post will be the death of everything — the voice, the swagger, the “fuck you” attitude — that makes TechCrunch great; and I’m not going to stay around to watch that happen.

Four days." - Paul Carr
It's also available in Chrome, although when I try to open it on my account, it says crash reporting is disabled.
I have to disagree. Not everything is about technology - Zagat has something that is highly coveted and difficult to replicate: a good reputation and critical mass.

Google (or any of us, for that matter) can spend all day building the greatest, fairest, most accurate restaurant review system known to man - but it will still be of utterly no use unless there is a critical mass of restaurants and customers who are willing to trust it and, more importantly, use it.

Bootstrapping a trusted content source is really hard (hard in the "nobody knows how to do it reliably" way, not just hard in the "it takes a lot of work" way). If you want to break into this market, simply buying said critical mass is much easier (and much less time-consuming). Whatever crazy technology you have can be layered on top.
All I want is a flat table, that's quick to load, and fun to use. This app is a Caltrain schedule, and that's it. I don't want it to be anymore — it'll quickly get bloated and turn into one of those.

I agree that app is much better for certain things, but not for just reading a timetable in a slightly nicer format.
A number of questions quickly come to mind...

1. Is there mobile data service in the Juan Fernandez Islands? And does it work that far out at sea? At the required accuracy?

2. How could Find My iPhone locate the phone if it was (presumably, at this point) underwater?
I remember listening to a documentary which interviewed the second tier of jazz, swing, and big-band musicians from the 1940's and 1950's. Along came the 1960's and rock and pop and they were sore out of luck. The top tier could still scrap a living, but not the rest.

Isn't that narrowing down, to a few super-stars who stand the test of time, quite typical? There must be lots of rock musicians from the 1970's who I cannot now remember and will never bother to listen to.

Musicians need to put some of their current income into a pension plan. They cannot expect to get royalties when they are old, whatever the duration of copyright.
They released the source code only which means no graphics or game data. I tried to download and compile immediately as well.
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I'd love to see what it looks like. Also would love to use it on my Android phone. If this had been built as a webapp, I'd be using it right now. :/
A non-crappy language to build internal systems? There's a strong culture of NIH at Google, so I doubt there is any sneaky hidden strategy in their opening Go: they get widespread peer review and the chance to prime candidates on the language before they ever reach the hiring process. I guess even that is justification enough.
Thanks for posting publicly. It helps third parties to consider attacks to their own software that may not have occurred to them.
Just to clarify, that last sentence of "Four days." was the end of Paul's post and not a truncated sentence.
Yeah, I don't know if I could use OS X without

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning start

and either

defaults write com.apple.dock orientation right

or

defaults write com.apple.dock orientation left
How did I indicate arrogance in the grandparent comment? Do I get the choice or whether or not to use your services as a teacher, or must I be assigned and compelled to use your services? If I have but one choice of a teacher, you can be sure that I will question the teacher early and often about how the teacher is designing the class and evaluating the students. That's the right thing to do to make sure that my children are getting a good education.

One of the neglected benefits of school choice for teachers is that parents who don't see eye-to-eye with a teacher, perhaps because of background the parents have gained in their own educations, can simply take their business elsewhere. Meanwhile, parents who are at liberty to shop for the best match for their children are all the more likely to appreciate the thoughtful work of the teachers who fit their children best.
It's easier to turn on DNT (set a preference) than use Adblock plus (know about it, find it, install it, restart, choose a blocking list).
I suspect this just as much driven by Google building tools it can't be sued for later
You should read more of the links provided before just snarkily assuming that nobody in that set has a math background. To the contrary, it's hard to find people in that list who aren't coming at things from a formal angle.

Also, trying to beat people doing real work about the ears with ancient Dijkstra quotes stopped being helpful about 30 years ago. He's not the ultimate authority on how a programming language should look in 2011. If you're so sure you've got a good bead on the problem, why don't you go solve it for us then?
Not really. Teachers aren't paid well enough compared to other professions, so the opportunity cost is high.

My point about the economy is that you want the market forces to encourage intelligent people to become teachers. Otherwise, you can get into a dangerous positive feedback loop of uneducated people teaching the next generation. If you make teaching a lousy job by underpaying teachers and treating them poorly, then why would intelligent people who have other career opportunities stick around?
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Was this leaked some time ago? see http://markmail.org/message/uro3jtoitlmq6x7t
(although the language is here called "Dash", but they could have changed its name since last November which the mail apparently dates from) From the supposed internal email:

Javascript has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed merely by evolving the
language. We'll adopt a two-pronged strategy for the future of Javascript:

- Harmony (low risk/low reward): continue working in conjunction with
TC39 (the EcmaScript standards body) to evolve Javascript
- Dash (high risk/high reward): Develop a new language (called Dash) that
aims to maintain the dynamic nature of Javascript but have a better
performance profile and be amenable to tooling for large projects. Push for
Dash to become an open standard and be adopted by other browsers. Developers
using Dash tooling will be able to use a cross-compiler to target Javascript
for browsers that do not support Dash natively.

[...]
Javascript has been a part of the web platform since its infancy, but the
web has begun to outgrown it. The web development community has been
backed into using large amounts of JS largely to work around the
deficiencies in the platform. Complex web apps--the kind that Google
specializes in--are struggling against the platform and working with a
language that cannot be tooled and has inherent performance problems.[...]
The emergence of
compelling alternative platforms like iOS has meant that the web platform
must compete on its merits, not just its reach. Javascript as it exists
today will likely not be a viable solution long-term. Something must
change.[...]
The “clean break” option is extremely high risk--it will be a huge challenge
to convince other browser vendors to rally around a new language--but is the
only way to escape the historic problems with Javascript. Thus, its high
risk is matched by the potential for a very high reward--a classic leapfrog
strategy.
[...]
Dash is designed with three perspectives in mind:

- Performance -- Dash is designed with performance characteristics in
mind, so that it is possible to create VMs that do not have the performance
problems that all EcmaScript VMs must have.
- Developer Usability -- Dash is designed to keep the dynamic,
easy-to-get-started, no-compile nature of Javascript that has made the web
platform the clear winner for hobbyist developers.
- Ability to be Tooled -- Dash is designed to be more easily tooled (e.g.
with optional types) for large-scale projects that require
code-comprehension features such as refactoring and finding callsites.
Dash, however, does not require tooling to be effective--small-scale
developers may still be satisfied with a text editor.

Dash is also designed to be securable, where that ability does not seriously
conflict with the three main goals.

Dash will be designed to be consumed in a number of locations:

- Browser VM -- Our aspiration is that Dash will ultimately be a viable
substitute for Javascript as the native client-side language of choice
across all browsers.

[...]

I actually ran into this a long time ago but couldn't find any comments on it anywhere (either backing it up, or debunking it as a hoax).
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Kids don't have PCs to learn, but their parents have HD TV? Is USA really like this?
Is this what Steve Yegge recently alluded to? (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st...)
Yes, the story has a bit of an urban legend smell about it. Doesn't it?
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I've read your blog post with great interest before clicking through to your website. Let me tell you, after reading what you wrote, I expected pricing ranges starting from at least $200 (ok, that could be just me, but still - $50 is waaay to cheap). Your customers are people who spent weeks and probably months writing their Thing, and Kindle is probably the hottest publishing platform at the moment - and they are the people with serious problem of converting Word to Kindle. Us geeks, we often forget how it feels not to know what we know, how it feels not to be a geek. In my line of business, I deal with many non-technical people, and they are scared and intimidated by all this technology and software.

What I'm trying to say: What's a $100, $200 one time fee compared to the possibility of making a writer's dream true? It's possible you're leaving serious money on the table and methinks you can get very, very - rich in the Kindle business (I surely hope you do, because I think you provide a very valuable service).

What if you tried experimenting with pricing?
It created a new world to work with in JS... by copying the async frameworks that already existed in numerous other languages. Innovative within Javascript, sure. Innovative, without further qualifications? Decades too late for that.
That's impressive. I've made a general habit of rejecting 'nonfat' foods without even looking at the label because I've never seen a case where the nonfat version had more than 2/3rds of the protein the fatty version has. A nonfat alternative that has more protein is a nice achievement.
> You should never ever admit that you didn't think of security when writing code

For a joke weekend project that you never intended anyone to see / use seriously? Sorry, no. I would never waste time making something secure that I did for funzies that I'll likely never touch again. If I happen to come across or realize a security issue as I'm writing it I might make a comment there in the source or in the README. Otherwise, that's time spent I could have been making my real projects better and more secure.
Really surprised they deleted the article. So much for editorial independence.
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Completely disagree with edw519.

My real problems are:

1. Finding stuff in a store. I hate walking 10 aisles for 20 minutes to find that $2 bowl of noodles.

2. Asking store workers for product locations. Takes time & hassle.

3. Buying unnecessary stuff i.e. falling victim to marketing and product placement.

I do not mind driving to the store AT ALL, as it is usually one stop out of many. Often it is on my way back from work or school.

If you ever come to the Bay Area, I guarantee I will use your service if your prices are within 10% of Safeway or Lucky's.

Good Luck!
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Ah! That explains it; thanks!
Why not then tell people where it is then! :)

After I googled for it as well, I can tell you it is in General (top left icon), near the bottom.
Definitely agree. Mainstream language design seems to be stuck on endless variations of Ruby, JavaScript, and Java. I would love to see as many new languages as we have now, but focused on more significant changes than "Lisp without macros and a slightly tweaked generics system."
Seems like the post is back. Might have been a mistake.
Hear, hear!

Part of the copyright deal is that we, the people, provide a framework of legal protections on the understanding that works are released in to the public domain. As with patents, copyright from the public perspective is about encouraging innovation and creation but also about ultimately freeing ideas and creations for the public use.

It is a vast shame that US corporate profit is now apparently dictating statute in Europe to the detriment of the ordinary people of Europe.
A US government subsidized US producer of solar panels supposedly loses price war to Chinese subsidized solar panels producers. One thing that comes to mind is that China has much harsher, up to capital, punishment for squandering of government money and corruption (of course it doesn't stop squandering or corruption, yet it still forces perpetrators to produce the actual results for the money to avoid the prosecution coming upon them)
The economic value we place on teaching as a profession is too low to attract and retain (in the face of job stress) the kind of talent we might want. As a result schools, as institutions, suffer from a variety of the dead sea effect (http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...). The most qualified teachers can get other jobs that pay better. If their lives are made miserable by dealing with irate parents, school bureaucracy and lawsuits, why would they stay?
defaults write .GlobalPreferences NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool NO
Or journalistic laziness.

I wish it was true... (even though you'd then have to deal with the lot saying that the iPhone being on caused the crash).

But it just doesn't add up... it's not like Find my iPhone is magic.
Instead of saying that so many times, why not just toggle the system-wide preference and look at the file that was changed? And then toggle it again and diff the two.
Kind of not the point. I think we all know that Accra isn't competitive with SV. More importantly, seeing technical innovation in this part of the world is very important to their long-term economic health. Very cool to see what's going on here, even if it's only a start.
Am I wrong in thinking that just because you're employee #1 (after the founder) that that doesn't make you a co-founder. I don't think it matters if the company had been legally formed yet or not.

I think a co-founder is about what you do, not when you join. If Mr. Kaplan was key in strategy and envisioning the business, that would go a long way, but if he was responsible for implementing Bezos plan, I don't think he should be considered a co-founder.
Tarsnap doesn't do sync. Doing sync while maintaining security is a much harder problem: Tarsnap's design requires each system to know what's on the server before uploading or deleting blocks, and that breaks if you have multiple systems accessing the same storage space.
No need for a short url; we're not limited to 140 characters here.

https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream#readme

It's nice to see where a link goes before you click on it.
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I was wondering the same thing and noticed that the vowels almost always feature in the top 10 and DVORAK has them all in one hand. yay..Infact, in a very casual observation, i think only 'r' seems to be the letter out of DVORAK layout.. I looked across languages though. Guess this makes me a DVORAK evangelist.:-) And to complete that image i will add this DVzine link.http://www.dvzine.org/
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Arrogance was indicated by the tone implying that you knew best... Of course taking an interest in your child's education is good, noone would argue otherwise. But second-guessing the teacher is another matter.

Of course there are bad teachers, just like in any other profession. But I'd like to think that I'm not one, and on the off-chance that you'd have a kid on those rare occasions when I teach something, I'd hope that your presumption is that I'm a competent individual, unless confronted with evidence to the contrary. (And your child scoring low on a test is not.)
Obvioulsy not, there are a few good good solutions to that, like running on the JVM or some other similar platform. It is not all about performance, languages can introduce new abstractions that can make a lot of difference.
What if one doesn't have a facebook account? It's only a public beta insofar as one does? Boo.
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Show HN: My first web app. Shiftfrog.com
I've spent the last couple weeks working on getting this up and running. It's my first web app.

The use case it is designed for is for shift workers who work x days on, y days off. So if you ask them "Are you going to be able to go to my wedding on July 15, 2012" they have no idea. This helps solve that problem.

Feed back as always is appreciated.
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Googling for Larry Ellison and various swear words seem to doesn't turn up any articles where he swears at an interviewer. Can you provide an example of one?
The R is for Referee part is spot on. Have refereed basketball up to and including Men's NCAA Division I. We don't care who wins - simple as that.
It would be interesting to know whether the 655,000 people now dead as a result of the invasion (widely acknowledged to have been predicated on false justification) would agree with your own slanted rhetoric.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casu...

We'll never know, will we? It certainly is a shame.
Can anonymous sources be trusted on Facebook's revenues?
The man in the center of that photo: is that Gary Busey?
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Even assuming "everyone" has a Facebook account, why do they force me to "like" their site and add clutter to my Facebook profile just to log in and try their service? More to the point, why would I ever "like" something that I haven't even gotten the chance to try yet?
Seriously, it isn't an oxymoron. To claim certainty in a given context of knowledge is foundational for both philosophy and the special sciences (such as physics, chemistry, etc.) Contextual absolutism amounts to saying, "Given all the things I know (this is part of the context), I am absolutely certain of this conclusion. I am aware that it is possible that I might come across yet more facts that might cause me to revise or even abandon my conclusion, but right now, I know this much."

(To conclude that something is possible, or probable, and not yet certain is itself an example of this process.)

To use your example, people often claim that Newton was proven wrong by Einstein. But I disagree. Newton's context included observations of the local solar system, and depended on the instruments of his time. His system still works in the majority of situations encountered today. Because the context hasn't changed appreciably in those situations, we can apply his mechanics and claim that they are correct. Conversely, GPS and particle physics and the like are out of bounds, contextually. For that, you must understand relativity, which is another truth that is absolutely true in a still wider context.

Of course, there is a price to pay for relativity, which is extra computational and pedagogical complexity. Indeed, this alone is enough to keep Newton around for millennia to come. Remember that knowledge is not an end in itself, despite what some may say. All knowledge is a means to some end. We don't all know the same things, and we can't anyway.

Finally, how could we ever get to the point where we can appreciate relativity, or engineer systems where it is necessary to know about that if we were to simply discard Newton's theory as "false"? Science (and indeed all knowledge) is all about what some deride as mere "scaffolding." But I don't deride it - and that's why I'm a contextual absolutist.
I'm hoping so. Well, here's how I interpret it: A structural (non-textual) environment that hosts code in a distributed graph. Less string schlepping and more semantic manipulation of data.
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