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My opinion: not exactly. It's obvious that 9/11 had a huge emotional impact on a lot of people, and while I don't want to do a disservice to those affected, I don't think that's the sort of thing that belongs on HN when it comes to articles or comments.

What I do believe are very appropriate posts are technology related ones that we would normally be interested in on a day to day basis, but with the afterthought of knowing that 9/11 served as an extreme case. Things that come to mind are airline security, building construction, communications during / after disasters, and our political rights with respect to technology.
Supposedly they get $5 a handset out of HTC and between $10 and $15 a handset out of Samsung for Android. From what I have read MS gives WP7 to handset makers for free then makes money off the carriers for services provided like Live access. Technically they charge handset makers something but they give it back in advertising dollars, partnerships(i.e. Nokia) etc. Where as the Android money is pure profit.
I'm in the UK and would love click and collect groceries. Shopping online is the easy bit. Waiting around for a two hour delivery window is the problem especially when I drive past the store on the way home.

Something like Ernie's would be ideal. It'd even be worthwhile for collecting a few day to day items. I'm surprised Tesco hasn't done this already.
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I have thought about switching to Dvorak, it's hard to find from where I live. I'd love to know what model or brand you settled for.
Agreed, the very concept seems reprehensible amongst this group. Unless John Graham-Cunning is suddenly losing faith in HN community for being able to self-police itself on this kind of drudgery, then I say we let it be.
Except for Lisp, of course, where ( and ) are more common than e.
There's several different communication methods between services, including REST, SOAP, message queues, and an internal service framework. Its a perfect example of bonafidehan's post.

As for the second question, a page generally doesn't have to make hundreds of requests. You're thinking of a flat architecture. Think of it more like a pipeline: data goes in at A, flows from A->B->C->D, page reads D. So you end up having to call a handful of services. That can be scaled by 1) caching, 2) careful selection of service calls (don't call ordering service unless you're placing an order), 3) asynchronous requests (you're typically going to be IO bound on the latency, so just spin up X service requests and then wait on them all). There are also other tricks that are fairly well known for reducing latency, such as displaying a limited set of information and loading the rest via AJAX.

As a disclaimer for the above, my work doesn't involve working with the Amazon.com website directly, so its based on my limited view in my domain space.

If you own a page or service that calls a bunch of other service, you typically collect metrics on latency of your downstream services. Amazon has libraries to facilitate this, and a good internal system for collecting and presenting this data. If one service is particularly troublesome, then you can reach out to that other team and get them to lower their latency. The other option is to pull in their data closer to you, in a format that you can consume quickly.
Liquidity for creators, without which some wouldn't have the time and money needed to create and publicise their creation. Its analogous to being allowed to sell [in part or whole] the ownership of your startup before accruing any profit.
Nice site. Some thoughts:
- The fonts are way too big. On my 13 inch screen it feels as if the site is constantly screaming at me.
- How does the phone trigger work? I suppose it gets triggered when a call comes in. Do you port the number or how else would you know that a phone call comes in?
His point is the majority can just not vote things up where as a ban would be have to be implemented by pg based on the opinion of a subset of the majority. So since voting provides the majority with a means to eliminate the 9/11 posts why would a ban be necessary.
Posts like this make me want to jump out of a window, no pun intended. It doesn't meet my requirement for basic human decency and compassion. We should "set the bar higher".
Seems to me that an undergraduate Econ education (or equivilant) would go a long way in seeing through some of these. These look like questions I've seen on exams.
I don't necessarily think there should be an outright ban, but I do think we should try to maintain a good standard for what we submit. Here's my personal stab at it.

DON'T SUBMIT:
1) If it adds nothing new to the discussion. Just a regurgitation of things already said.
2) If it's something that can be obtained very easily elsewhere. Already on NY Times, CNN, etc.
3) If it amounts to nothing more than a tribute. (Nothing wrong with these intrinsically, but this isn't really the forum for them.)
4) If it is overtly politically charged.

DO SUBMIT:
1) If it provides a genuinely new or original analysis of the event itself, what lessons can be learned, what lessons should have been learned, etc.
2) If it is thought provoking and has the potential to spark meaningful discussion.

I think if we followed these (or similar) guidelines then that would cut out the majority of the fluff pieces, so that anything 9/11-related that does make it through the filter will be better received.

tl;dr - Think before you post.
(disclaimer: I work for Google)

I really don't understand this post. The author's argument seems to be:

1. Google won't share its trade secrets with me

2. ???

3. Hey guys, I hear Amazon has some great cloud services you can pay for!

Amazon provides cloud services. Google doesn't (except for the GAE). I fail to see how this fact becomes personally insulting to this guy.
> The original article complains that Android is not open enough. So apparently if you go closed source, nobody cares, but if you give away your stuff, people feel entitled to more.

The thing is, most companies (Apple, MS, Oracle) advertise their software as closed source but still give away portions of their code (Apple with BSD/WebKit, Oracle with Java, MS gives away smaller stuff) while Google advertises their code as open source and gives away portions of their code.

That's why people are complaining. It's not a war on semantics ("oh but it is still Open Source"), it's not a political war.

It's basically people complaining about how Open Source has been reduced to a buzzword because of Google.
Mashable, for example, writes about similar topics and has more traffic–but a Mashable hit isn’t as coveted as a TechCrunch hit.

In either case, the kind of "hit" you get from either site is of questionable value when you're trying to build momentum as a company. It's like Reddit or Slashdot traffic. Huge spike, crickets afterward. Drive by readings. You don't build companies with links from TechCrunch.
I knew I had read it before!!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1166638

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1535215
> Is a lawyer even the right person to look for?

It's very tricky.

If you find a lawyer that sees many deals, then he/she likely knows many VCs and knows who butters his bread.

If you find a lawyer that doesn't know many VCs, then they likely don't know as well the in's and out's of term sheet tricks.

More fundamentally, the problem is that founders are technical (by and large), and they are up against people who do term sheets for a living. It is a very asymmetrical-knowledge situation.
If this is your concern you should encourage people to pay special attention to the "New" section on that day. A handful of people can make sure anything that would be overlooked gets to the front page.

You can count me in.
Seriously? There have been four articles about Arrington on the front page at a time all week and we're terrified that the ten year anniversary of maybe the most significant moment in American history that's happened in most of our lifetimes will distract us from entreporn about who just got funded to help people take pictures of food?

Second thought. Great idea, but let's pivot. I'm just gonna walk away from HN for the coming days instead.
924, and continuing. That'll make a nice karma average. We see clearly the revenge of the PHP dumpshit.
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If you mean buying a hardware keyboard with dvorak letters, then don't. If you learn to touch type (and there's no point switching to Dvorak if you don't intend to) then you don't need to look at your keyboard, indeed being able to will only teach you bad habits.

Print a paper copy of the key layout to pin next to your monitor when starting out and use a typing tutor like gtypist to train yourself instead.
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Hmmm, Carousel was the pre-release name for Acrobat many years ago.
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I hope you're not thinking of charging for privacy policies though. I have an deep aversion to paying for something I can write in twenty minutes.
Your app is so depressing.
When I first decided to disclose my age, I have considered this problem. Actually this is a psychological paradox: proving myself honest doesn't always make me more trustworthy.

It's just like the warranty of your gadgets. Getting a wonderful repair service may make you feel better than having no problem at all.

I have no problems with this kind of thinking. It really doesn't matter to me. I'll prove my competency with time.

Your judgement is actually fair. Thanks for that!
There's probably still need of a legalese document behind, but we are working on cutting that part too :P
Even with the need of having a strictly law-compliant page, having a first page which is simple and readable at a glance is always a good idea.
Consider that we are seriously working on bringing that model to the mass (read end of the article :) )
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I wouldn't say it was stupid actually. Stupid is something that you do that most people don't do. Many of the godaddy services seem legit on first glance. That's why they sell so well. The marketing language they use is good. There are cases where someone might actually stand a chance of back ordering a domain. But when godaddy collects $15 for a domain that there is no way they are going to get for someone (like a 3 letter name as only one example) that's taking advantage of what someone doesn't know.

If you want to backorder a domain use pool.com. Last I checked they don't charge anything for a backorder.
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Thank you for a lesson in an obvious topic, and incidentally thats why I wrote "For me", and not "For everyone".

But lets put it in another way: its hard to argue that all aspects of Android are 'open' while its easy to argue that some of them are definitely 'closed'. Whether that sums up to a "open" or "closed" verdict is not up to me. For me it sums up as being somewhere in the grey area, more to the "closed" side after the Honeycomb incident.
You're discussing a problem with the licencing price for a copyrighted work and suggesting that it being out of copyright is best for all parties. It would be more prudent to resolve the licencing issue so that artists can build upon others work and net the original artist more money.

The problem is that the music industry is too engrossed with its 'potential profits' that it can't find any 'actual profits'. They'll sell the licence to a 10 second segment of a song for a million dollars, which no one will buy and the record will get more obscure and less in demand just because the licencee could make huge money and their work is integral on that licence.

This could be resolved simply by saying the licence fee is $1 per unit sold per year. A song that sells a million copies in its first year maybe should have a licence fee of a million dollars for valid reasons. A 40 year old recording that shipped 10 units last month, definitely isn't worth a million, and $120 in a licence fee is probably the most money the artist or studio has seen from it in a long time.

I'm sorry, but the abolition of slavery took a civil war to resolve and it didn't have nearly as much money entangled in it as the copyright industry does. So unless The Pirate Bay launches an army, I don't think copyright is going anywhere. It would be more commendable to actually get the clauses exploited by corporations for (and sometimes against) their own gain fixed.
Good idea Tom.
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I don't know about "easily". If you take a higher level view, like the entire internet, then you will see that most sites have a similar usage pattern. How many have the opposite problem?

I guess as we move towards a more global economy it will level out somewhat on a day to day basis, but I don't know if that is a realistic expectation. The season spikes probably won't change.
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My take on this: Microsoft is using a free market approach to Google's dumping of Android at a loss in exchange for manufacturer adoption.

Yes, they could try to litigate and pursue trade sanctions - but Viewsonic and the other companies are also Microsoft customers and B2B relationships aren't built that way. Microsoft's strategy is successful because licensing is clearly more certain than litigation and probably cheaper as well. Given that Microsoft leadership has a fiduciary responsibility to protect the companies IP vigorously, their licensing program is as much of win-win solution as is possible under the circumstances.

Determining whether or not reaffirming the cusomer-vendor relationship between Microsoft and the major device manufacturer's is a brilliant move in the long run, is left as an exercise for the reader.
I didn't by a physical keyboard as such, any operating system allows you to change the layout and I just did that.

You can print the layout out on a piece of paper until you have learned them but if you plan on looking at the keyboard when you type you are not going to benefit from a dvorak keyboard.

If you do deciede to learn it, just know that it is totally worth it - your hands will thank you.
Well, there was a related inconsistency which was certainly a bug. And it's now fixed: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1669
Also wanted to add, any company that asks the same questions to all the people being interviewed has bigger problems than just the people it's hiring. I don't think such companies have a right to complain. If they hired her, I hold them responsible. She is just gaming the system, good for her. In short, she has learnt the skill of extracting value for herself from an inefficiency in the interview process. Plug those gaps ASAP.

Of course, the other extreme are interviews where they feel it's okay to ask you questions that make it look like they only hire "geniuses" who can tell you why the mirror reflects left to right etc ...
I think the point was that while it's understandable TechCrunch might do that, it's disappointing (and sometimes a bit frustrating) that those articles are submitted and upvoted on Hacker News anyway.
I'm honestly shocked so many of you would love a ban on "this" topic over another. Remind yourself when Comcast throttles your internet.
The problem with this is that you can't tell the difference between numerals and symbols or even worse between two symbols in the same key (such as '_' and '-').
The original threads can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_des...
Sorry for the confusion. I realized that I gave the wrong example.

I should use

["created_at <= ?", @time]

rather than

"created_at <= #{@time}"

This is what I meant actually...
Building new browsers and OSes give developers more choice, it doesn't change the game. AWS has completely changed the game. The only thing I could think of Google doing to be on the same level, is opening up a search api (even at a cost).

Heroku does not offer you even close to the same flexibility as AWS does, but it's still a pretty sweet product in the same way that app engine is.
Doesn't PHP use a colon at the end of every line? WTF?
hit me! :)

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UPDATE: Thanks everyone, We've definitely got plenty to work with. Wasn't expecting such a strong response. I wish we could get to everyone, but it's taking quite a bit of time to complete each report because we're being so thorough. As soon as we have things set up, I'll make sure to follow up with a link to the service.
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Most people don't know what to put on a privacy policy, and we built a service with lawyers behind, assuring compliance and top quality service.
Since yours is of course a good point, consider that our product will be very cheap, and I'd seriously pay a cheap price instad of spending those 20 minutes.
Also consider that your privacy policy currently lacks the parties involved, and it's not "completely compliant". Our goal is to save your time on this side, for a reasonable price and giving something very polished in change :)

What do you think?
I'm very interested to see what you have to say about NoBadgift.com. You can reach me at m.e.conwell@nobadgift.com
On a more personal note, however, I wouldn't mind it if the mods were a little extra strict with regards to relevance.

Sure, but that has nothing to do with any particular event.
This is a bit off topic, but the FAQs on your website recommend that people insure shipments of cash. As I understand it, UPS/USPS/Fedex will not insure cash or cash-like items. You should look into this so that you don't misguide your customers.
I've been reading your comments for some time and you seem to have serious anger problems when the subject is Apple. Also, you're very disrespectful to Apple users, bringing the topic even when it has nothing to do with the company. I seriously recommend a psychiatrist or counselour. Apple/Google are not religions, my friend!!!
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> CoffeeScript can work alongside Node.js but can't access the filesystem.

Um. Node.js gives you access to the filesystem... http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/fs.html

And anything you can do in Node, you can do from CoffeeScript code running under Node.
> Plus is found on every Google search result page and in every Gmail inbox.

Every single one, except mine.

> Google Chrome sports Plus sharing buttons, available as an extension to the 160M users of the browser.

So, Plus buttons aren't actually included in all 160M+ installs of Google Chrome. Only the 45,559 of them that have the extension installed.

> You can’t avoid the little red number tugging at users’ curiosity. Google Plus is everywhere.

And yet I don't recall seeing that little red number anywhere. It's not on my Google Search results, not in my GMail, not being presented to me in Google Reader, not being scheduled for me in Google Calendar.

Maybe it's because I don't have an Android phone.

Or maybe it's because I've not signed up for Google Plus. In which case his entire superior distribution argument is based on a misconception.
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I'm sorry, but this just doesn't make any sense. What about people who are paid to blog? What are they?

The fact is, if one has a financial interest in the topics one is writing about in a journalistic context--whether on one's own unpaid blog or as a paid employee of a newspaper--it is considered a strong ethical practice to disclose such conflicts upfront. In some cases, they may be required by the FTC (ask the weight loss splog industry).

Also, the point about reporters and bloggers having opposing interests is silly. Reporters add value by thoroughly researching a story, not just quoting people who blog. They do not merely facilitate the public quotation of as-yet-unblogged thoughts (nor is everyone who is news- or quote-worthy a blogger). If anything, blogs help reporters discover potential sources with interesting ideas and specialized knowledge.

So the idea that journalistic ethics only apply to paid reporters is an after-the-fact justification to facilitate the outcome Winer wants to see for his friend.

Arrington can't hide from the conflict. If he writes extensively about his investments, it's an unfair advantage to those companies. If he avoids writing about his investments to avoid a conflict, it's an unfair disadvantage to those companies.

There's nothing wrong with self-interested blogging--some of the best investment analysis on Chinese reverse mergers comes from Muddy Waters, where the principals typically have short positions in the stocks they cover, which are disclosed up-front.

The idea that Arrington--or Silicon Valley generally--is somehow exempt from these ethical guidelines is nonsensical.
During the interview process, it is not clear which bucket you're being dropped in. Or indeed even that there are two buckets. This may have an impact on whether someone would accept an offer or not.
Definitely worth looking at their events recordings: http://masschallenge.tv/portfolio/events/
I am an employee in a non-technical position working in a locked-down environment with (appropriately) paranoid IT staff. The only applications on my work computer that can talk to the Internet are a mail client and a web browser. There are millions of me.
I don't think HN has ever claimed to operate by "democratic rule". Community input is leveraged – via both the voting/flagging mechanisms, and discussions and solicitations of ideas. But rule is by YC/PG.
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Yes, "people will still play my present music in 60 years" is not something I would recommend as your pension plan.
You need good advisors who are experienced entrepreneurs.

I had an experienced and well-recommended startup lawyer completely overlook a bullshit clause in a term sheet which he said was 'complete standard'.

it was a friend of mine who had experience with similar who pointed out everything the lawyer missed
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I have no problem typing without looking. Problem as I mentioned above, it is difficult to type with my pinky. It is kind of short (Not oddly short, just that I have shorter fingers than average) and it's awkward. That's what slows me down.

So I'm looking for a layout which makes my other fingers work more.
These are things that have worked for me on a tiny budget / evenings+weekend projects.

1. Depending on resources you have, target a niche where those resources will have an impact (focus in on blocks of 5% to 10% of your demographic) - facebook is ideal for this sort of targeting.

2. If you have a holding page, make joining your Facebook page / twitter acct the next step after submitting email. e.g. "Follow our Facebook page for early access beta codes"

3. Get chatting in forums that are related to your business.

4. Compile lists of resources for your target market. Like a list of useful blogs (e.g http://soopsee.com.tadalist.com/lists/1830681/public) and attach your business to it in some way
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