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The problem is more about contexts. There are some things which exist on social networks that you may not want to be shared. If you cannot separate the contexts in your life then this may cause serious problems.

Think about your job. Depending on your workplace, it could be a huge disadvantage to get found out as a geek. You could get overlooked for promotion because you "play with toys" or "spend a lot of time playing World of Warcraft". Being a geek probably doesn't affect your performance in the workplace but it could get you shunned by people with prejudices against that sort of thing. That's an innocent example, there are far more complex and difficult examples which you are ignoring. What about if you are gay but you want to keep it secret from your family or you are living in a country where it is dangerous to be openly homosexual. I could go on listing traits, vices and attributes that could cause people problems.

Saying that someone simply "shouldn't do it" dismisses the fact that some things people wish to keep secret are part of their true identity. Someone shouldn't be forced to hide their true identity but it is an unfortunate reality that in many cases you must in order to protect your career, your family and even yourself.
the earth is running out of food, so several hundred thousand people get on a big ark ship to the nearest star.

I cannot think of a story with that plot. But I am not the world's biggest fan: what story is that?

Why couldn't they have done that on earth?

Because 'people stay home and grow food' is not a very exciting story.
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Pure Hate:

1. Division of primitive datatypes and objects is ungodly annoying.

2. System.arraycopy(), where is the camelCase Java standards fascists?

3. .length vs .size() really, why does a primitive have an attribute anyways?

4. Date, Time, Calendar are a colossal cluster-f* unless your favorite word is Deprecated.

5. System.out.println, this is one of the most common output and debugging methods, why is it 18 characters? NO, static imports don't mitigate the idiocy.

6. HashMap<String,String> map = new HashMap<String,String>(), seem repetitive to anyone?

7. No unsigned data types?

8. Everything has to be a class.

9. Anonymous inner classes are no alternative to lambdas.

10. Generics are broken and Type Erasure for backwards compatibility is simply ridiculous.

11. No operator overloading?

Besides all these petty annoyances Java isn't fun to code, period. If you think it is you should have a go with Python or better yet Ruby.

IMHO Java suffers from two fundamental impairments:

1. It is too easy.

2. It is an enterprise programming language.

Because it is so easy the community is inundated with nonsense. Because it is burdened by the expectation of massive enterprises it can never change and therefore it can never improve.
In some cases, the link between politics and sports isn't just metaphorical. The rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spanish soccer, for instance, pits Catalan nationalism, the Republican factions of the Spanish civil war, and anti-Franco sentiment against Spanish nationalism, the monarchist factions of the Spanish civil war, and pro-Franco sentiment. Likewise, in Scotland, the rivalry between Rangers and Celtic maps onto the conflict between Protestant, British unionism and Catholic separatism. This extends as far as Ireland. And, of course, countries that actually are angry at each other for political reasons develop passionate rivalries in the World Cup, like Argentina and England in the 1986 World Cup after the Falklands war.
and that busyness makes it harder to scan.

I couldn't agree more. No idea why you're being downvoted, you make excellent points.
Google has many advantages. Being successful at implementations is not one of them.

They also have many disadvantages such as lack of support. Be true to your customers.
Paul Graham has a saying: 'Startups are never killed by competition. They die of suicide.' If your service is useful, people will continue to use it. (I use it, and was pointed there by Dotcloud).

Google App Engine isn't really your only source of business, is it? Was it ever? Just go after a different community.

Differentiate, ignore Google, and move onward and upward. SSL for the cloud is definitely useful.
Students especially have been known to give things cool names just cuz.
I didn't realize that. Very cool. :)
I do, but there are plenty of people who want a gui but who hate the Calibre gui. And it is an awful awful interface.

Not everyone can write a (trivial) bash script to do a batch conversion.
I'd say the chances that the speed of light is still infinite, 9000 years from now, are rather slim. After all, Newton's system was radically corrected after 320 years, and even Aristotle's only held sway for about 2000. Einstein's has held well for the past 106 years, but an additional 9000 years of observation, experiment and theorizing will probably improve it a bit.
I've heard "like", but rarely if ever "totally".
The author is using Go because they work at Google.
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Nowadays, it's all just blood and gore. I may be in a camp of one, but that makes me sorta sad.

This is insultingly untrue.

http://www.minecraft.net/ - http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ - http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/ - http://www.rodvik.com/rodgames/ - http://www.braid-game.com/ - http://www.thinkwithportals.com/ - http://www.audio-surf.com/ - http://www.telltalegames.com/samandmax - http://www.popcap.com/games/pvz - http://machinarium.net/

This was just off the top of my head, too.
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I was wondering why there was secret service at Stanford on Sunday
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/17/steve-jobs’s-family-gave-moving-words-at-sunday-memorial/

May be the link that was submitted before or: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204479504576635921007047738.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_RightMostPopular
Gibson just tweeted a perfect postscript to this interview:

Gizmos bore me. People doing the weird unexpected things they do with gizmos fascinates me.

https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/greatdismal/status/12615524172...
You misinterpreted my comment. I wasn't looking to comment scores as a measure of "correctness". Hell, I can find out correctness on my own by actually researching the topic. I used comment-scores as a measure of consensus. That is, after all, exactly what it is.

Simple example:

> Ask HN: What's the best way to perf-test my server?

> comment X: I use httperf, it has great features and is very robust.

> comment Y: Check out Apache Benchmark (ab).

There is a huge difference between whether comment X is marginally higher than comment Y (i.e. it has slightly more upvotes), compared to if it's a factor of 2-5 or more. In the former scenario, I know to spend an equal amount of time evaluating both, while for the latter scenario, I know one project has much greater user-adoption among the HN community than the other (or at least more passionate adoption).

Likewise, if a comment thread has a question that has 50 upvotes, then many more people seem to be interested in that particular facet than another question with 3 upvotes.

My point is that comment points provide an additional form of context. I actually want to know "what the cool kids think", because that in itself is useful info. In most cases, I take it with a grain of salt, but that's really up to me. If other people misinterpreting comment points, or abusing them, means I can't have them... well, that's a shame. HN will continue to be the fraction of its former self for me.
I think Groupon's model preys on small businesses unskilled in accrual accounting and pricing strategy. Also, both my readings and personal interactions have given me the impression that in their hyper-growth they have become a deeply dishonest organization.

All that said, however, there are still some interesting non-predatory wrinkles in their model.

The single deal at a time served to create consumer focus. The trigger threshold gave merchants confidence a deal would have a certain minimum impact. The time limit and trigger threshold served as an especially powerful call-to-action: now or never.

Though Groupon quickly tuned things (and grew) such that every deal was essentially guaranteed to 'tip', the group-threshold-mechanics were important for accelerating early adoption, overcoming vendor- and consumer- resistance to coordinated action. This mechanism, rooted in economics and game theory and related to the 'assurance contact' concept, still has utility for other endeavors, among them Kickstarter, even if that mechanic standing alone does not provide any sort of defensible advantage.

By all means, throw out the baby. But don't forget there's still something interesting in that bathwater.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/10/17/steve-jobs’s-family-g...

May be the link that was submitted:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020447950457663...
I think that's a good post. I don't know Patrick so I can't comment on the specifics about him, but it makes a good general point in a powerful way.
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I used to like Java until i took a data structures and Algorithms class in that language.The syntax was terribly verbose and totally clouded my understanding of the course.After end of semester exams,i switched to python,C and C++.I have no plans of going back such an ugly language.
I think you are painting with strokes that are too broad.

First, and most seriously, I think your assessments of dividends is pretty horrible. Dividends aren't only a good way for a company to return value to investors (which a public company is legally obligated to do), it's frequently one of the most tax-friendly ways.

Secondly, you need to consider that Apple's two biggest competitors, Microsoft and Google hold large cash reserves also. It would potentially be catastrophic to has significantly less cash on hand than either. Essentially, all three companies are forcing each other to hold cash on hand.

Finally, there's a limit to how fast a company can grow, and there's a limit to what cash on hand says about a company when that company is doing quite well. Looking at a number on a balance sheet and saying "that's not going to work", when the company is turning over profits, inventing new markets, and has comparatively killer margins is wrong.
Much as I sympathize, flagged as politics, not for HN.
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The flip side of this is that Microsoft's claims must be so compelling that no one wants to even test them in court.
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> direction the near future will take.

It is hard to tell. I am not convinced that the near future is in natural language and voice control. I stated why here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3119528.

And the more I think of it, the less I am convinced. For instance, the hole Chinese-speaking world cannot conveniently use speech to communicate with a machine, because of Chinese language structure. If Siri do not understand an English name I am telling it, I can always "spell" it. Not in Chinese. You can't conveniently "spell" a Chinese character, and even if you could (using wubi method), you would still need a visual feedback to confirm the correct character has been chosen.

Nowadays, any technology that can't scale well to other languages than English has a profound problem, I suppose.
I'd like to proof-read things more than a line at a time, though.
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Let's just say that my analysis is not uninformed. There are countless examples of how Microsoft puts IT managers' needs first -- if this were not the case, IE6 would have been stricken from the face of the earth five years ago.

You're also quite mistaken to think that Microsoft (who, you'll recall, is still run by Steve "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS" Ballmer), doesn't care about what nerds think. It's no accident that they have a whole division to sell tools and technologies to developers that's separate from their cash cow operating system and productivity divisions.
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This study just completely contradicts what I have observed. The younger people I know look at FaceBook as something close to a force of nature. If you listen closely you can even hear it in how they talk. They don't 'post it to Facebook' they 'post it', they don't 'look at your photos on Facebook' they 'look at your photos' Maybe I'm reading too much into that but it's hard for me to understand who these people are seeking an alternative to something that is such a fixture in their lives that they don't even have to refer to it by name anymore.
>What will not be sustainable anymore is a career in education where one gives essentially the same lecture for 30 years but gets paid as if he has created an entirely new lecture every year.

If a musician gets a royalty every time his song is played on the radio, why can't a professor get a royalty every time his video is watched?
Speed of light as a limit on speed of information or matter is a universal constant. There is a reason why it is called a universal constant, no amount of observation or experimentation would change this universal fact. Of course, the science and technology would change, we would have better understanding of the universe but I doubt we would find anything that would defy the speed of light.
Me too, sans the over use of "dude" - had not read it previously, so thanks. To me, it is actually a compliment of the highest degree.
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The "one of those uglies" quote is from the CEO, Andrew Mason.

The guy who took $319 million was Eric Lefkofsky (Groupon chairman). Nice pay day.
People don't write hundred million dollar checks for a single obvious invalid patent. There's like 20 companies signed up. There's a reason they all sign up and it's probably pretty compelling evidence that MS has multiple unlikely to be overturned or easily worked around patents being infringed.
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No argument on the price; it amounts to assault. But the reviews on Amazon are interesting. Most love it, some hate it. The first thing I noticed is that the reviewers who love the book are the ones who take pleasure in the material. There are two kinds of negative reviewer: students who found it confusing (I suspect because it didn't hold their hand in the usual way - its focus is on developing intuition, something no one who just-wants-to-get-this-over-with could care less about) and mathematically more sophisticated readers who don't like its informality and gushiness. In other words, the negative reviews pretty much sum up what's good about the book. Of course, we're barely into it. I'm assuming the rest is like the first.

Here's a litmus test for whether you would like it. This is how Strang introduces Gaussian elimination:

The problem is to find the unknown values of u, v, and w, and we shall apply Gaussian elimination. (Gauss is recognized as the greatest of all mathematicians, but certainly not because of this invention, which probably took him ten minutes. Ironically, it is the most frequently used of all the ideas that bear his name.) The method starts by subtracting multiples of the first equation from the other equations. The goal is to eliminate u from the last two equations.

That colloquial aside is irrelevant and would drive readers who are gritting their teeth to begin with crazy. I love it. It reminds me of my favorite old math prof to whom Euler was a close personal friend. If you find such a style delightful, this is the book for you.

Strang's goal in this book seems to be to get you as excited about the subject as he is, and share how he really thinks about it, convention be damned. That's why it's Hippie Strang!
I made college pretty easy for myself by not going there. :)
Wow three straw men in one sentence. Well played I guess.
It's baffling that I'm being downvoted so much. Apparently most hackernews users are devoted fans of 4chan who use that site to get their child pornography fix.
That's like saying Comcast is the largest child pornography delivery service in the US.
If you take the title of this article at face value, why are we limiting ourselves to Earth? Seems like the limit of human population growth is likely at least a quadrillion based on current sky surveys and likely transportation mechanisms.
Have you thought about adding support for boolean operators in the rule declarations? For example, "empty||valid_email" => "empty or a valid email", or "valid_email&&matches[email]" => "valid email and matches the 'email' field"? Basically, support for !, && (easy since this is the default behavior), and ||. To be honest, the use cases for this functionality is pretty limited but I think it'd be a nice feature to add just for the sake of practice. It would make handling error messages a little more complex though.

I tried to add something like this to a small validation library I wrote about a year ago. I think that part worked pretty well but otherwise it wasn't very well designed. Another problem I ran into was the lack of support for rules that depended on asynchronous operations.
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On a side note, Popcap is ex-Sierra guys AFAIK.
Plus, regularly-efficient farming can be greatly expanded.

For example, a lot of former cropland in the United States' southern region (think former Confederate states) was purposefully reforested after WWII because agricultural overproduction was one of the causes of the Great Depression. Basically, the United States produced more food than it could sell domestically, sell internationally, and give away.

As another example, the organized high-latitude herding of reindeer is practically non-existent in North America, and I suspect in a similar position in Eurasia. Reindeer literally thrive on moss, breed like bunnies, and taste like filet mignon.

Reversing just these two examples with today's normal farming know-how will produce substantially more food.
The problem with your logic is the sample population. What is the "HN Community", if we define it as "the set of people who click a vote button within a given topic"? It's a nonuniform cross-section of God Knows Who Is Using HN At This Hour.

It isn't even a representative sample of "what the cool kids think". Even cool kids get bored with repetition. For example, once upon a time almost every XKCD got linked on the HN home page, but due to tacit agreement (and, perhaps, intervention by Our Invisible Friends The Moderators) this almost never happens anymore. And yet everyone I know continues to routinely read XKCD. It's not uncool or anything. It's just no longer new.

Similarly, Lisp and Erlang make far fewer guest appearances on the HN homepage. Should I conclude that these things are now uncool? No, just that time has marched on, and HN has grown and changed, and the makeup of its increasingly gigantic audience has shifted.

If you want to take a poll you should try to find someone who takes polling seriously. Otherwise you're better off with un-numerated anecdotes. At least an anecdote doesn't masquerade as data.
Groupon is a huge, fun target but there are compelling fundamentals under all the noise and pre-IPO PR blunders:

1) "66% of Groupon deals are profitable for the seller, and 40% of businesses would not use Groupon again, according to a Rice University study."

http://www.quora.com/Groupon-IPO-S-1-Filing-June-2011/What-i...

2) Groupon has a hidden vat of PURE margin - breakage / un-redeemed deals that could be a shocking amount of money once financials are disclosed.

3) They have enormous growth potential in key markets which is why they are spending money like drunken sailors on customer acquisition. They can grow by 10x in the restaurant space alone.

http://answers.ask.com/Food_and_Drinks/Restaurants/how_many_...

4) Restaurants, spas, and other retail vendors have fixed (and perishable costs). This means that at particular times they can offer incredible deals as the alternative is burned or thrown out resources.

Groupon's team has indicated their #1 mission moving forward is to figure out this perishability equation.

Their VP says “If we can eliminate 10 percent of perishability, we can change the dynamics for small business owners,” he says. Small businesses would become more like airlines, matching supply against demand to maximize revenues."

http://moneyland.time.com/2011/03/18/impulse-shopping-2-0-gr...
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> then the folks from Battery, Accel, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, NEA, TCV, Silver Lake

1. These reputable VC firms have invested in stupid ideas before.

2. Ever heard of the "Greater Fool Theory"?
Sorry, let me clarify: everything even remotely mainstream is blood and gore. Or, if it's not totally blood and gore, it's been dumbed down significantly to appeal to the masses.

Good list of games, but...

- Sam and Max is cheating because it was conceived during the Golden Age. (One of my all-time favorites).

- Plants vs. Zombies is great game, but doesn't do much to broaden my horizons. And it definitely has a focus on fighting. That said, one of my all-time favorite games is the original XCOM. You really had to think hard to play that game. Had great atmosphere as well.

- Machinarium...okay, it's a great game and currently installed on my machine.

- Minecraft: also a good game that's doing something innovative.

However! None of these games (as far as I know) appeal to a big mainstream audience. I really doubt we'll see Zynga, Blizzard or EA doing anything like these games in the near future. Maybe EA would.

But I'm glad to know that I'm not in a camp of one. :)
"All of this raises an obvious question: How did so many Wall Street firms desperate to underwrite the Groupon I.P.O. miss these warning signs when pitching such a sky-high valuation?"

Come. On. Is it really necessary to ask questions like these about the motivation of Wall Street firms? They didn't miss it. They saw a trend that they thought they could exploit, namely, the growing tech bubble and its darling that they could flip (along with an eight figure underwriting fee). Although, I am surprised they didn't manage the process (and Mr. Mason) better. They let it get away from them, which is not like Goldman Sachs.
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