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So he's right? Every response on this thread seems to be ad hominem. No one seems to be defending AirBNB guys.

It is relevant because any online business necessarily has a lot of information about its customers. Spamming is both illegal and immoral (free riding on the commons), so I would choose not to give my business/info to people with a known history of such activity.
Entitlement that the rules put in place don't apply to you, because you are some sort of prima-donna superstar. I find that worrisome. It can bloom into pretty ugly (and moderately damaging) behavior.

I've worked for clients who have certain divisions which are the super-stars. I think the better approach is to evaluate why you have all these policies, and if they are actually doing what you think they're doing.

edit: Rereading this makes it sound like I'm calling the parent a prima-donna, which isn't what I mean (I'm referring to the people within an enterprise who decide that because they feel more productive on a Mac, they can just bring one in from home to do their work and circumvent all of the policies of IT.)

At the risk of forcing a square metaphor into a round analogy, it's really important in the Army that people follow orders. Even if a small group of them think they can be totally more productive by doing things their own way.

Enterprises aren't really set up to optimize for increased employee productivity, they're more likely to be set up to limit decreased productivity. I think this is one reason that people seem to like working at a startup, because you get to not have all that dogmatic bureaucracy.

If these HEROES in four or five years now suddenly decide that they'd be even more productive if they lugged in SGI O2 workstations from home to do their work, an enterprise has to be able to say "yeah, sorry, you can't do that."

But as to more Macs being deployed in enterprises, I'm all for it. It'd give me new things to break into.
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I don't know why this has had so little HN love. It's a pretty serious issue on three levels:

1. Founders who broke the law when setting up their sites.

2. Over-reaching legislation that is hindering innovation in a number of important ways.

3. People who are effectively protected from the consequences of their actions by their status in society.
Here's a Tweet from the Google Maps team:

Google Maps API is still free! Just has a limit of 25k maps/day. That means pricing only affects the top 0.35% sites!

https://twitter.com/#!/GoogleMapsAPI/status/1296873737002762...
I'm not sure what this will do for the AirBnB founder's reputation, but the pattern of incessant whining from Greenspan certainly has lowered my opinion of him.
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The Oak Trail platform fixes this by using a different chipset that is PC compatible and thus can run Windows.
Yeah, you may be right. I might try this. Does anyone have any opinions about whether this is a good idea, and if so how best to do it?
There have been a few sites I have found interesting and wanted to follow, but ultimately don't because they don't have an RSS feed. I don't have the time, energy, or organization to go to the site every few days and check for updates. There are plenty of other things that I can read in my RSS aggregator.
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Apple opens up lossless audio codec
Dedicated playback hardware on iOS devices.
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"When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical."

Judge the product. Not the individual behind it.
> I'm surprised Apple doesn't use this angle in some way.

There would probably be privacy implications.
Did anyone notice this little Apple logo yelling at the Android logo at the bottom of the page?

http://getpunchd.com/img/june/idiots.png (http://i.imgur.com/sy7QX.png)

It's called idiots.png. Is this illustrating that it's stupid to bicker about your mobile platform? Or is it calling Apple users idiots (it does look like the Apple character is yelling about something and Android guy just looks like he's thinking "wtf?").

Oh the possible Internet drama.
As you try and push a system towards 100% reliability, you need to understand your risk model better and better. When you get to levels around 5 nines, very unlikely events which could cause an hour's outage every 20 years start to dominate. In a system as complex as a large datacenter, it is always going to be difficult and expensive to understand all of these risks, and even more difficult and expensive to design around them.

That is why redundancy is so important. Instead of fighting an a battle which is exponentially increasing in difficulty, you chose to optimize the reliability of a single component. You give up optimizing each of the really complex subsystems (datacenters) at a certain level (3 or 4 nines) and focus on optimizing the reliability of a really simple component for detecting failures and directing traffic to the online datacenter.

Reliability engineers have known this for a really long time. If you can fit redundancy into your design, it is almost always a cheaper way to approach high reliability than optimizing the reliability of each subsystem.
does it have "dead(arrested) man switch" mode? ie. the message is sent if user didn't checked in into the app for longer than, say, an hour or two (the app may buzz-remind something like 15/5 min before the time is up and also to start preserving (and/or posting it to some website) the retro-recording of the last hour as the others suggested). Otherwise, one may just not have the chance to tap the app if things get rough and fast.
When a site is growing, there is no way to handle the constant influx of new users.

Just because we don't yet have an established means to effectively do so does not mean it cannot be done. I would rather work on solving this question and other important questions concerning managing culture. Manipulative tactics like this have very serious limits and substantial downsides. I used to give a lot of parenting advice and I can't tell you how many parents have essentially asked me "How do I manipulate my child into being less manipulative?" And the answer is you can't. They learned that crap from you. Don't like it? Then stop doing it.

The same applies to online forums. "Do as I say, not as I do" fails as a moderating tactic just as badly as it does as a parenting tactic, only worse in some ways because it's magnified thousands of times (ie by the number of members emulating what the leadership does) rather than a handful of times (ie however many children you have at home doing the same stupid stuff the parents are doing).
As someone currently doing a "pilot" of a Mac in a highly corporate environment, I can say it's not exactly just IT. There's realms and realms of support groups that get to sign off on "authorized" network equipment, and when you bypass them it's the equivalent to a histamine reaction. I never met anyone in IT who disliked Macs completely and totally, just management.

We had one specific storage group that "only supported Windows," despite the storage pool being a Samba process on Linux and all of the core devs using Macs (they had shell account access, so never encountered this). The dev who supported the share outright refused to add the "unix extensions = no" to the smb.conf file (that fun bug). Right now I actually run a little CentOS VM to mount the share with the "nounix" option, then SCP in.

So, even once you get the platform, it can be a major struggle to have other groups support it.
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You seem to not know anything about this, so I'll cut you some slack even though your wording is slightly offensive.

Worker owned cooperatives aren't some kind of pie-in-the sky idea tat has never been tried. they make up a large portion of the employment base in Emiglia-Romagna, the Basque territory, Switzerland, and Wisconsin, along with lots of other places. Cooperatives employ 100 million people around the world according to the ILO, so it's not some kind of pipe dream that you would like to make it out to be.

I never said that I wanted to make corporations illegal, just stop using tax dollars to subsidize them, while taxing them in order to balance out the extreme wealth redistribution that they engage in. It seems eminently sensible for a country that likes to call itself a democracy to promote (or at least set up a favorable regulatory scheme for) economic democracy rather than the techno-feudalism that corporate capitalism resembles when capital becomes too concentrated.

re:bitcoin: what?

>Why should someone that takes absolutely no risk get anything close to the owners of a company?

Good question. Why should a rich investor that spends a tiny fraction of his money own the product of the founders and workers who actually create the value? Why should capital own labor, rather than the other way around?
So the problem is, near as I can tell, that some people don't accept personal experiences and want harder evidence. Is that right?

Incidentally, your comment exhibits some bias of it's own: People with no personal experience in the matter saying it's not a problem and ignoring the fact that those who do have personal experience are saying that it is.

Wait a second - women have no personal experience being a male public figure. So how can women know what level of harassment a male public figure would receive? Do women really believe that "I know better than you do, and I say that you aren't being harassed as much as women are"?

Is this attitude among women also a problem?
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Rackspace is very expensive... almost 2x their competitors. At work we left rackspace recently, because we needed to upgrade our server and it was going to jump up to $1200! a month. Plus we found out that we were running on two year old discontinued hardware. Although we still had a SLA that didn't apply to hardware failures, which would be fixed on a 'best effort' basis and could mean a days-long outage. We moved (to the cloud ironically) and got a huge performance increase, for half the price (and that includes paying a company to monitor/manage it for us).
Could go fully complicated path;

1) Public voting: revealing who votes for who on articles. If people want their votes public, they can mark themselves so (Hopefully opt-in to public votes).

2) Blacklisting voters; let people mark public voters as bad as a form of a blacklist. May lead to haunters who post but no one can see.

3) Whitelisting voters; only those who vote for articles are valued more or absolute. May lead to 'power voters' seeking votes but that happens already "Vote and add to the HN discussion here".

People seem to crave certain votes over others. I have no idea regarding comments. It's a mixed bag.
Developers = You can root
Others = It doesnt matter

That pretty much sums it up.
Lossless music - there is an audience for it, and it creates the ability to stratify prices, which the labels/rights-holders/distributors like. See the vinyl boom, hdtracks.com, http://www.becausesoundmatters.com/, etc.

So will Apple cater to audiophiles? No. Will they cater to margins? For damned sure they will if it serves them and those they entice to sign over content. Why would they switch to 1080P otherwise?

Also: given device sizes it would be nice to have raw uncompressed/lossless and I could downsample at will to suit specific devices/systems.
Presumably he'll be publishing The Protocols of the Elders of YC any day now.
I know of at least one: he sent Bruce Perens a threatening email, enough that Bruce contacted the police. Here's a link:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/04/msg00201.html

Edit: his response to receiving one threatening email is pretty revealing, too:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=290
I believe Livestream, Ustream and Qik also do this.
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The vim docs are surprisingly great. With many ancient open-source tools I usually find better explanatory docs elsewhere on the web, so I used to spend time reading tips and things online for vim. Once you know the basics though, the vim docs are way better than anything else I've seen written about the editor.
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FWIW I trust Google's "don't be evil" policy over the US government.
Sure it might happen, but it would also confuse consumers. That’s a huge negative point to me. I also don’t see the connection to this.
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I hope Google adds (hardware) support for this to Android - it would add another option for patent un-encumbered audio formats, outside of Vorbis.
Disclaimer - I'm a relatively new user.

Disclaimer aside, I think it'd be interesting to try - perhaps as an experiment, similar to the /classic you posted.

As for how to implement? Well, I'd imagine that the actual programming is relatively easy (disclaimer #2 - I'm no expert on Arc, so I could well be wrong), so I'm assuming you mean how to handle it. As I see it, you have two options. Firstly, submit link-bait and other detrimental submissions yourself, with a dummy account. Secondly would be to allow the admins/mods to actually mark something as detrimental, and retroactively modify each user that upvoted it.
Would be great if android implemented encoding to that format now. Its a pain to try to get the same audio formats from both Android and iOS devices because both platforms encode to completely different formats.
Direct link to project page: http://alac.macosforge.org/
I'm not familiar with the current state of FLAC but as of a few years ago ALAC offered better meta-data in the MP4 container. Part of the reason I abandoned FLAC years ago was constant problems with meta-data. I would often end up corrupt files post-tagging or the player would simply not show meta-data I had meticulously added to my bootleg collection. I got the sense at the time that there was a lack of agreement on how meta-data was supposed to work in FLAC files.
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51% allow access to web-based email?
37% allow internet access?
19% native email?

I've been in IT for 12 years, I've never seen anyone endorse blocking Macs from any of these. 49% block Macs from webmail? Difficult to imagine a situation where these would be a problem. Maybe super paranoid eavesdropping management?
Since the decreased quality can only be perceived by a few (if everyone noticed it, there would be no problem, right?) perhaps those could be selected by the benevolent dictator to get 50-point votes or something? IOW, moderation.
The similarity is quite interesting - some articles don't even move position. Do you have one that shows only green users?
I've got all my CDs ripped in ALAC so that I can use the iTunes option to have the tracks automatically transcoded to smaller, lossy AAC when putting them on iDevices.

I welcome this open sourcing because it makes my 'archival' format slightly less oddball.
I worked on this with craz, taking directly "decompiled" code into a useful form. This was by far one of the most interesting things I've ever done -- if you want to get into reversing or increase your skills, do a codec! I built a stupid simple reference encoder in Python right after, but never managed to really get it right; wonder if I still have all the old code around.
FYI, you might want to check out this:

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I've just now been using it, and it's pretty interesting...
Let's compare Google's stats with the rest of the industry .. Oh, wait! we can't! because no one else publishes a transparency report.

You can't knock Google for complying with the law and not devoting resources to fruitlessly fight every court order and removal request when the goal of their transparency effort is to highlight the problems with that law and try and change it. They're doing something unique and are trying to fix the larger problem yet some people still give them shit for it.
So, uh, your backup strategy is "buy two computers for every employee?" INteresting, but hardly cost-effective.
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Spamming is not illegal. That is the biggest lie out there, actually. You just have to adhere to some specific requirements when sending unsolicited email.

Also, spamming may be against many company's TOS but that does not make it illegal.

Go read the CAN-SPAM Act.
Sort of reminiscent of Ashton Kutcher's Blah Girls .. Ie a teen heart throb with a lot of money investing in companies that don't solve problems.
You know will go "missing" once you have put it back together and seen the document.
>DiCaprio joins an increasingly long line of young celebrities investing in start-ups, including Ashton Kutcher, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and even Justin Bieber.

Who would have thought?
What do you mean "cornering the market"? You can always use Mapquest/Yahoo Maps/Bing Maps on your site.
To be fair, this is only true if the storage back end is appropriately configured.

You will take an I/O hit when instead of a single physical machine asking for a set of sequential blocks off the disks, you have 20 virtual machines asking for seemingly random blocks off the disks.

Replace disks with storage array if you'd like.. but the fact remains: more VM's will mean more storage contention. If you have the funds to have dedicated arrays per VM, hats off to you. Most people never do this, and I/O suffers a penalty. Virtualization has is price, and even that being said, I think it's worth it for most people.
I'm probably in the upper range in terms of regular-folk-paranoia, but even after shredding my documents, I usually mix it in with food and regular garbage so that the information is destroyed. I also don't just shred important documents, I shred everything so that it's even harder to discern what is important and what isn't.

The irony, of course, is that despite my paranoia, my identity has been stolen because of a screw up with the credit agencies and I've been dealing with all 3 credit agencies for months trying to resolve this.
I am not sure if we disagree or if you are fundamentally misunderstanding the proposed solution.

There is nothing preventing using both methods simultaneously. Your approach is to teach people how to act. My approach is to punish people who break the rules. They are not mutually exclusive techniques.
You're kidding right? Windows file sharing is trivial to set up.
Just as effective as leasing $600 machines for $150/mo
Spending your time trying to derogate someone's reputation...classy. David is one of those people that you only have to meet once in order to see that they are going to do something extraordinary, something most people would never dare to try. He has impacted the penn state community and I look forward to seeing how he can impact other colleges.
> D. And other potential 100GB customers will look at this and say "hey, bulk discount!". And they'll figure out how to band together with four trusted friends, and pull together a year's worth of cash at once, and buy a Teams account instead, and whoops now Dropbox is making less money on one Teams account than five 100GB accounts.

Wow, this is actually a great idea. I should do this with my friends.
FINALLY!!! But what does this mean for the future of FLAC?
Also, you can directly bill this as a cost to a project/client. It is (for some people) harder to justify charging a client for use of hardware you have on hand than for an external service you're using specifically for their job...

I suspect it might be a sneaky way to work around corporate IT department policies too "I'm not buying unsupported or non-preferred-vendor Apple hardware, I'm just using an external service, just like AWS or Akamai".
With many (if not most) reputable dedicated server providers nowadays Inbound traffic is not calculated towards your overall traffic. In other words, it's free and generally unlimited.
Don't underestimate how huge this is.

It is directly competing with where daily deal sites are trying to evolve to, like Groupon's Rewards.

http://www.groupon.com/merchants/rewards

Most Groupon clones are trying to quickly roll out reward systems through credit card processing.

Google's solution seems more eloquent, with more opportunities for social and advertising directly to a user with location services, mobile alerts, etc.

Basically you could fill a 2011 trendy startup bingo card with this product.
> Who knows what guy is like now

When a spammer gets caught attacking the commons yet again via a new company's "contractors" who just happen not to have been prosecuted or sued or even identified, it's pretty obvious he is the creature he always was.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2603844

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610145
As someone who joined a while back at a friend's suggestion, and only recently started getting involved (the past year?) I feel compelled to say "My bad," to everyone.

I'm finding my footing I feel, but yeah, I've put up some stinkers, but it was mostly in exuberance to see what I feel is a high class community thinks about what I have to say. I don't think I had a good understanding of the place when I first started frequenting. That comes with time.

So, I'm not excusing shenanigans, just saying it's often with the best of intent. Compound that by increased readership...
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Whatever, that's splitting hairs and not relevant to the main point.

If someone is writing a program to send out unsolicited e-mails on behalf of other parties, it's pretty unlikely that they're doing the due diligence. I don't know what happened but I think it's funny that all the responses are "Aaron Greenspan is a whiny loser".

Also, I don't read any company's TOS when deciding whether to do business with them. Do you? I go by their reputation. If a company has a bad reputation then it makes me less likely to do business with them.