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You could try and trap with a honeypot.

Or you could educate and convert.

It may be that the decrease in comment quality is at least due to an increase in exposure of the wrong sort of entrepreneurial hacker motive "take VC, do whatever it takes, exit, be financially independent" as opposed to the right sort of entrepreneurial hacker motive "serve the community honorably at a profit", in the spirit of Packard, Hewlett, Bezos, Edison, Ford, Watson.

The arc of the startup has become more about 15 minutes of fame, and less about hundreds of years of employing thousands of people. More about not offending and not doing evil, and less about asserting truth and doing good. Culture has become more about free lunches and less about doing hard things and standing in the gap when it hurts. Some have forgotten what humility means, that "we are all grains of sand", that we exist "for others" not "for ourselves", to serve and not to take. And some no longer believe this is even possible.

If HN will begin to reward the others-centered motive, and rebuke the self-centered motive, then the ground will be prepared for the true startup spirit to again take root and flourish. If we can educate the next generation of hackers, and get the motivation right, the methods will follow, and there will be less and less need for honeypots.

To do this, there needs to be a Hacker Credo, and it needs to be at least as radical as the Johnson and Johnson credo, and as definitive and steadfast as Henry Ford's magnum opus "My Life and Work".
Do any American clouds give you 95/5 billing?
I'm a bit loathe to give this response as I come here to get away from politics, but look at how Koch Industries and the like subverted the tea party movement, and the effect that that's had on congress. That's the kind of power money buys: the power to take a small, libertarian grass-roots organization and turn it into a nation-wide astroturfed phenomenon, getting dozens of congressmen elected in the process and having a huge impact on government policy. $60m doesn't buy you that kind of power, but $10b does.

This is what the parent was saying, and what Gates doesn't think about because he clearly never tried to use his money to exert that kind of power (the courts might have been nicer to him if he had). The tech industry in general seems reluctant to use its vast wealth to exert that kind of power. If they had spent half the money they did in the patent wars on lobbyists, we likely wouldn't have the e-parasite act and its similarly harmful brethren. That's just not how we think, however, and so much smaller industries end up exerting a huge amount of power.
Completely agree. One color laser MFC we recently replaced had a scanner that could only be used over the USB port for Macs but over ethernet for Windows. The workaround we found was scan to email which tended to be more reliable for Mac and Windows.

Now we have a new hotrod HP MFC that does everything and supports iOS and Android. It was also 1/3 the price.
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Yeah that's what it says in the book:

He carries him thereafter to a secondary table where, next to a lot of candles, several instruments and eye glasses, microscopic perspective, a cloth and a glass of water must be present. He has to lower himself on to a tabouret and to look upon an unwritten piece of paper for a while. If, after a while, he answers that he cannot see anything written on there, than the master of ceremonies puts him a pair of eye glasses and asks him again if he is not able to read the writing. Answer no. During this time the master of ceremonies comforts him as good as he can, raises his hopes for improvement washes his eyes with a cloth and if nothing helps, he will announce that they have to proceed with the operation

then all those present members reach for the candles place themselves around the candidate and the master of ceremonies [...] plucks a hair from the eyebrow with a pair of small tweezers under constant urging, comfort and encouragement and concludes herewith the operation

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale-translation.tx...
This talk of "punishing" is discouraging.

The chill effect very seriously concerns me. Assumptions of guilt do enormous harm to trust and undermine genuine civility. People need to feel it's reasonably safe to open their mouths and they need to feel they don't have to walk on eggshells or be perfect, that there is some room for being human, making mistakes, and so on. Robust discussion cannot thrive without some tolerance for friction. Finding ways to lubricate the process is good. This proposed approach is not lubrication.
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Brilliant! Nice work .. I like the fact that we've got 'typeins' for this already. Just like the good ol' days of waiting for 'new software' to arrive in the mail, in the form of a ZAP magazine or so ..
That's a bit of a difficult question to answer. Who in 1920 could have predicted General Motors' legacy would include lead poisoning, the impoverishment of Detroit, the rise of suburbia and the exurbs, a large US military presence in the Middle East, etc? And they're not done yet.
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In what way have you 'developed' your ideas?
I'm not sure /classic is a reliable way to check for home page quality: the number of submissions per unit of time is much higher now, and the "raising" news, the ones you see flashing in the home page with the first few votes, are now affected by the new user base component.

In order to be reliable the subset of users at /classic should also see only new submissions by classic users, and should also see the home page itself as composed only of classic news and votes, otherwise they are affected by all the rest.
Same. Anything that isn't actually solely nailed down to your own hard drive is now 'cloud'. I think we need to find terms that marketers don't get excited by, and thus won't 'embrace and extend' to fit their needs.
If you are running on top of your dedicated servers, the providers are now all providing a dedicated VLAN for your servers. This allows you to deploy your own VM management software on top of your dedicated servers.

If you can, I recommend you to use Ganeti with Xen or KVM (I use KVM). Rigorous development, very friendly developers and very well designed tools. No wonder it is used internally at Google.

http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ - Project page.

http://notes.ceondo.com/ganeti/ - Notes on how to use it with Debian (long).
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Notice I said .NET. You can find plenty of presentations / blogs on php performance, ruby / rails performance, python / django performance but not many on .NET - I guess simply because most high-volume sites don't use .NET
I have unfortunately seen all the things you describe, for example see any thread about PHP, or the thread about perl and random syntax, or about using an ORM for SQL.

I've seen it in threads about social issues as well, although none come to mind right now.
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Apple never set out to make the most smartphones, it just kind of happened.

They set out to make the most money. Samsung are a fair distance from achieving that.
I wish I could up-vote you a thousand times.

Stallman is much more respectful and polite to a person who was neither of them to many.

So many see Steve Jobs as just a success story, fitting so well to the "american dream". They miss the fact that his success comes in expense of our freedoms.

To all who rant about Stallman's statements. Is it really so important to be politically correct (act according to taboo's, be pretentious, neutral or even just trendy), instead of being sincere and tell the raw truth as it is?
Huh .. I had an idea like this a few weeks ago when I saw a video about paying with your phone using NFC. However, I usually think my ideas to death, so I ended up dismissing it. Probably why I'm not an entrepreneur. My problem was perhaps that I considered it in the scale of small coffee shops, and found the hassle of them getting the infrastructure and the increased overhead of printing and scanning codes to be too big of a problem for adoption.

However, for larger chains, this seems like an excellent solution. Getting the infrastructure in place won't be such a big problem if you roll this out across, let's say McDonalds. You could have a McDonald's-specific app and tie it in with Facebook and Twitter and Gowalla whatnot. But for smaller shops, there might not be such a big advantage. They might not even need this. But I'll happily be proven wrong.
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this is a bit difficult to answer without a more specific question, but feel free to ping me any time at fabian at eyequant dot com - we can grab coffee and take it from there!
Thank you for making me challenge my assumptions and memory.

I've asked around a bit and am fairly sure of my facts again, and my understanding is:

* kernel mode is cheaper than ever to reach; SYSCALL/SYSENTER etc so its not even an interrupt and there are no hardware threads or anything involved

* in kernel mode, the thread can get straight at the buffer and the locks that protect it; there is nothing that we'd call a 'context switch' in there

* being as this seems to be what is meant by monolithic kernel, surely its the same on freebsd too?
B1/B2 visas will get you in for 3-6 months initially but you can't work for your company under this type of visas. Depending on your situation you might be able to apply to a EB visa (but the requirements are strict).

You don't need any type of visa to start a company (you can even do it online).

The USCIS site is really helpful when you're trying to determine what kind of visa you need: http://www.uscis.gov/
I've seen it too, and while disturbing, I don't think it's representative of the HN population as a whole, and I certainly don't think it's representative of the types of people who would initially be picked. The goal of my proposal is to counteract the people who do engage in those unwanted behaviours by giving proportionally more voting power to those who demonstrate that they don't.
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why do I smell a loser mactard here.
I think u should just appreciate that Samsung has made a difference in the smartphone market and has become the Market leader.
You are the guys who make others feel that its really a big deal.
That's because Samsung has a wider view of "smartphone". They release a LOT of Bada phones which they consider to be "smart", but often only mention their Android partnership when they release their numbers.
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My local coffee shop uses a paper card that is scribbled with signatures. It would probably be easy for me to fake it and get free coffee. The security requirements for this are pretty lenient. Of course, this doesn't mean that a more technical replacement such as Punchd shouldn't be secure, I just think it's interesting that security wasn't such a big deal before, but now it is, since there's a technical solution.
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Sir Winston Churchill.
I have no idea why Apple insist on the default RSS client under Mac OS being Safari. Mail has support built in, and is a far more appropriate place to keep it since people already think of it as the place to go for asynchronous updates.
I can.

It depends on how well you know the album, what the music is.

Try Paper Tiger by Beck off of Sea Change... strings and bass at the same time is challenging to lossy compression.

Try Page One by Charlatans off of Between 10th and 11th... same problem.

I don't use an iPod for that reason. I have an external sound card and use Fidelia on my Mac for that reason. I own good headphones for that reason.

When you listen to music you think you know and your heart skips a beat as you hear something new and it moves you... why compromise ever again?

Isn't this the superlative experience that Apple used to deliver? The ability to make you experience something that moves you. Music really can, but when you compress you deaden it, you kill the sound stage, some of the noise is lost.

Listen to a compressed Double Dutch by Malcolm McLaren the skips sound like a synth, listen to the lossless on a capable system and you can hear the distinctiveness of every rotation and hit of the rope on the floor. The latter puts you there, you picture it more.

Sound is even more important than vision. We are all rushing to 1080p and hopefully better, but sound is what fires the imagination more. Film directors have long known this, music producers have long known this... sound is the thing to get right, and when it's right, you fall in love every time you hear the music.

If you're buying any music equipment, find a good retailer and do a blind test of the equipment. I would be very surprised if most consumers would pick compressed audio and poor equipment... more likely they will settle for the point at which they no longer perceive a noticeable difference, but that point is after you've discovered lossless.

The main reason compression is accepted is that on crappy computer speakers, when listening on headphones whilst you have high background noise (commuting)... you could not hear the difference. Everywhere else, the difference is almost black and white, chalk and cheese.
Predicting the future based on current popularity is utterly useless. Just think of the Internet Explorer.
I don't know why Apple has gotten THAT much flak for allegedly being totally closed and locking you down worse than Microsoft did back in the dark ages etc. Yes, they have certain core products which are their own and they don't open them up and the locking down of their iPhones, well, it could be a blessing and a curse. I will only say that from the perspective of a regular customer, the quality control done on apps is probably not such a bad thing but yes, for app developers it probably just sucks. And the music you buy online on iTunes now comes pretty much without any DRM in high quality AAC.

But they are not ONLY "evil" because at the same time, Apple did contribute to open standards and there is a lot of Open Source available. It is, however, still a business so for me, it seems they are playing it smart and do "open" where it also benefits them and their customers and do "closed/locked down" where it is critical for their own success or in accordance with their product philosophy or the reality distortion field.
> it's patently obvious that helping humanity was not a primary concern.

But that's exactly what your parent is criticizing. There are genius people in the startup scene whose talents would be better applied to solve problems that actually matter, and not "optimize coupons".
idealistic? what are you talking about? the man created an operating system from scratch to make his ideals real. How many people today have the chance to learn how to code and contribute their work back thanks to GNU? The status quo is so much better today because someone fought and didn't accept the forming trends of his time.
Well, Apple fans really did set the stage for these sort of comparisons with all the hand waving about how the iPhone would be the only smart phone in the future. And their continuous need to point out market share numbers in their Internet "my favorite company can beat up your favorite company" fights.
Their business model is a different one. Instead of giving it away for free, and going for a million views and thus ad revenue, they're going for a hundred purchases by Fortune 500 companies. It's the reason there are books out there that cost $4000.
Less a stop watch in the brain, more likely a case of simply pressing F12 in the browser. All of the consoles have profilers these days.

I must admit I am a little surprised that tags are stored as a free text field.
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I prefer RSS/Atom as it is a "distributed" way of handling feeds, rather than relying on a single centralised service.

This is why my website will always have an RSS feed. I also have a Twitter feed for people who want it, but I'd prefer people to use RSS.

My tech blog seems to have about an equal number of RSS followers and Twitter followers. I'm not sure how much overlap there is.
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I doubt that this is illegal, but it is the kind of thing that can get lawyers involved.

It's much better, one can say with hindsight, to say something like "Just so you are sure, I'll make sure this point about no tech on the Sabbath doesn't count against a good candidate like yourself, actually I think it's great to be able to regularly get your head out of your job, but this doesn't fit with how we are working here. If you get the job, you'll need to be active in figuring out how to make sure that things that are your responsibility can be dealt with by other team members if something urgent comes up then."
Again... wtf university did you go to? Slackers U?
If you like, if you can't deal with some things that you find weird, that's your problem and you who are unprofessional. People who can't be professional in their work life do not deserve respect.
I don't know why there's so much hostility towards G+. So what if it's not the best product yet or if it doesn't have feature X that you want, they are making improvements every single week. Ripples is just another cool thing, and you can choose to either use or not use it. At least they're improving at an incredible rate and adding features that at least some people (like me) really love.

I'll repeat that you can also choose not to use it and post irrelevant negative comments on whatever favorite social network you have.
Conversely, I see no reason for any device to support ALAC and not FLAC.

Isnt this implemented in silicon (or atleast implemented as some DSP-specific library) ? AFAIK that costs money.

Today, if you wanted a lossless player, that player had to have FLAC - which was taken from a commercial vendor like Tensilica [1]. But now that ALAC is an alternative, why would I even try to spend more money and also add FLAC ?

Plus, it is reasonably trivial to convert all FLAC to ALAC [2]

[1] http://www.tensilica.com/products/audio/audio-codecs/flac.ht... or http://www.tensilica.com/products/audio/audio-codecs.htm (no ALAC)

[2] http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
Their responsibility is towards shareholders with voting rights. As far as I know, the voting rights are skewed in favour of Brin and Page. If you don't have a significant voting right, you are a mute spectator at best and if you don't like what they're doing, all you can do is GTFO.
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I guess I haven't looked into Objective-C that much, basically just stopped after seeing all the NS* addons, I'll definitely take a longer look, thanks.
Looks like a fun product! Anyone know of any UK based businesses using it?
That very much depends if we've worked out how to read the calculations without collapse yet...
Well, I kind of agree with this in part, but it is often trotted out as a reason why it's the victim's fault. Let's see what's badly wrong with it by looking at things another way.

Standing up for what is right is not something that we weaker mortals should leave to the heroes. We have a breaking point, a point above which we can't take it. That does not mean we should not take risks to do what we find right. You should not be "disappointed" with the victim, but supportive, and we should be encouraging others to take these risks to do what is right as well. The more of us there are, the more we achieve.
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These two phrases, early in the article, could give someone an interesting problem to solve:

Our initial tag engine design was a GC nightmare. The worst possible type memory allocation. Lots of objects with lots of references that lived just enough time to get into generation 2 (which was collected every couple of minutes on our web servers).

Interestingly, the worst possible scenario for the GC is quite common in our environment. We quite often cache information for 1 to 5 minutes.

(Curiously, this is under a header mentioning "abuse of the garbage collector". I'd put it the other way around ...)
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You're missing that $240/year isn't your only option. Let's say I'm writing a cross platform library/server/non-gui app. I'm developing it in Linux, and regularly testing it on FreeBSD and Windows, all of which I can boot into from my main computer. Being a able to pay a few bucks every release to make sure it compiles and runs on OS X as well would be well worth it, and depending on your release schedule would probably end up costing less $50/year.
You can't find millions of post that teach you the basics of math, physics, etc.

But you can find millions of posts that teach you programming, from way down to the high mountains of programming.
Interesting.

Also interesting what is simply an artifact from the fact that none of the current "clouds" out there were built to deal with, well, actual loads.

Some things are small, but seem rather strange. Why does no cloud give out 95/5 billing? Why isn't there more resource limiting/etc?

I see a bunch of things leaking out of EC2. People forget that EC2 was designed to deal with large numbers of stateless servers and it's not good for much else. They take the limitations of that and the rest of the AWS platform and apply it to the 'cloud' overall.

Two examples would be from the 'variability' section. CPU limiting under XEN (the hypervisor used by both Amazon and Rackspace) is trivial. The fact that CPU is so variable, especially for smaller tiers, is thus rather interesting.

Similarly with IO. With Rackspace, you are on local disks. As such, unlike Amazon, Rackspace has no defendable reason for being able to starve other users of disk IO.

Also, just as a general data point. There is no real reason why a cloud should be in the same order of magnitude of cost as anything you could touch. Fairly simple reasoning, everything they buy is at massive scale, and there is a very minimal fixedish management cost to deal with all the hardware. What you can work out is that even given almost list prices you are still looking at thousands of percent ROI on cloud servers. What that then says about the market is that there is a current monopoly due to a lack of cloudsmithing knowhow which is the cause of the current situation. Over time, I would expect cloud products to simply dominate standard dedicated servers/colocated servers for most applications.
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