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I never got this approach for three reasons. The first one is sure, you could say that some "cruft accumulates". But by rebooting you're guaranteeing that if something goes only slightly wrong you may not notice it and every month you'll start with a clean system that does not show the issue anymore. So you're choosing potentially ignoring tiny issues instead of letting them crash the system in a visible way and fixing them properly forever.

The second is that there shouldn't be any "cruft". Servers are not running win95 which reliably crashed given enough time to run. "Cruft" should be fixable - if it isn't then you're running a system which cannot really be supported.

The third one is that if you cannot say anything more specific than "cruft", then your system is badly managed. Are you restarting because your app leaks memory? Is it leaving zombie processes? Is it leaving dead connections to the database? Or maybe something else entirely? Restarting can be a short-term solution for some specific issue, but if it's there to remove "cruft" and "you never know" what it is, then you might as well try arranging your server room according to feng-shui or using voodoo healing to make your app run better. Either you control your system, or you don't.
I think it is wrong for you to call for the bad of a person for doing nothing other that having a view you oppose. If he breaks the law, yes.

As a black man studying in the UK, my friends were surprised I thought it was wrong to silence Nick Griffin of the British National Party. I obviously did not support his views because that meant my ass would be on a ship back to 'Africa'.
I took my position because it meant his views could be publicly counterd and ridiculed on merit. Chasing a person you dont agree with might give the views more value than it has.

Asides that that, there is a chance of you changing his or the mind of his followers. I rather have that than the person propergating a gospel I disagree with underground.
If you seriously think that the passion of running a taco stand is more substantial and more liberating than the narrative which led to the events of Paris in May 1968, then I'm sorry for you.
I'm pretty sure that if I were to start contributing to that codebase I'd be really happy that those comments where there. However I'm also pretty sure that as I learned the code I'd be less happy about them and prefer to be able to see more of a function on a single screen. So maybe n00b-hood applies to code bases too.

I also think that some of those functions are too large even without their comments, exec_simple_query is gigantic.
charge more for the zen version, add extra features for the cheaper version.
I hide and never use my dock. I don't miss it at all. It is one of the most disappointing UI features Apple has ever done. It's much more about sizzle than being useful. I feel even the Windows task bar (both before and after Win7) is better than the dock.
Take the Jenkins survey so we can make it even better.
There's currently a survey going to get a clearer picture of who the Jenkins users are. It'll help the project, so if you use Jenkins, please take it! As an added incentive, CloudBees is throwing in AppleTV.
They also tend to be VERY demanding in terms of support, and what they expect you to do for them. (In many cases, it's pretty much been expected that we do all the work for them, and they get paid)
I've had a somewhat similar experience: I've been using Adwords for about 4 years and seen its cost skyrocket over the period from about 16 months ago to about 11 months ago.

I was running ads of about Eur 130 per month, and let my costs increase to over Eur 200 per month, to dramatically declining response quality. I reworked my whole advertising strategy, and have cut my spend on Adwords to about Eur 40 per month, on just the most proven keywords for top positions.
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Fuck everything about this piece of news. I knew him. I can't believe I'm finding this out by logging into HN. Fuck.
Did anyone manage to match the 12th shred next to 6th ? (zero index). That white and black building is really messing it up.
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> Google is getting better and better at extracting every last penny of value from me.

That's what monopolies are good at.
> I'll place the first brick here and proudly declare that I hate organic food and the whole "bio" movement, since it is not scalable and mostly used for class signaling (ala overcomingbias)

And "hating" organic food (really?) is not signalling? There are plenty of things wrong with the world, things that are worth hating, but organic food does not really strike me as one of them.
I remember an example similar to this from high school algebra-- when we had started learning about conic sections and polynomials. A barber's profit was modeled as a function of the price he charged per haircut. It turned out that the graph was an upside-down parabola. If he charged too much, no one would come and he wouldn't make any profit. If he charged too little, he wouldn't be able to cover his expenses, and he wouldn't make any profit. Our job was to find the function maximum in order to find what he should charge in order to make the most money. This article surprised me be cause it suggests the price-profit function is not only linear but horizontal over an interval. One possible explanation is that we don't have continuous data, and the actual function is some kind of complicated polynomial that has a lot of waves, which would allow a horizontal line to intersect the function at several points.
Actually I don't believe that Diaspora failed. The fact that I'm using it on a daily basis, and not using Facebook, is pretty much a win as far as I'm concerned. Diaspora still has some way to go, but it's usable.
Hello rolling resistance? Goodbye traction?
A question that's important to consider is support costs: Does the amount of support a customer requests scale twice as they pay twice the amount for a certain app, or no? My guess is "no".
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Isn't price discrimination what this developer should want though (assuming he's interested in maximizing revenue)? I.e., getting people who are willing to pay more to do so, while still getting revenue from people who aren't willing to pay as much?

I thought that was Zash's point anyway.
Looking for Australian startups to feature on my new blog
Hi HN,

I'm starting a blog dedicated to Australian startups, I'm going to concentrate on interviewing startup founders, getting insights into starting Australian companies and as well as the business aspect question them on how they were able to tackle the technical side.

Just looking for Australian startup founders/companies to be featured in the opening weeks, so please if your based in Australia I would love to hear from you.

website: http://aussiestartups.com (Currently in Prelaunch)

You can contact me directly at william@aussiestartups.com or you can use the contact form at www.aussiestartups.com/contact

Thanks a lot
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Is it possible that human beings in "developed nations" are too comfortable to seriously want innovation as a whole? If your basic physical needs as a society are already met, what motivation do you have to develop better technology?

Perhaps a small group of people/organizations are open to the change inherent with technology development/deployment, but a large group likes the status quo because they are uncomfortable with the uncertainty that comes with change that may affect them adversely for the short term. The net result would be that the society as a whole is more sluggish to change in a directed manner. Without an explicit high-level mandate like "Every year, we will spend at least 10% of revenue on R&D in such and such an area.", it's harder for things to change.

I might even venture that a society without strong top-level mandates/directives like that is like a a human being who has sensations, and reflexes, but no conscious control over his body, or even self-awareness. This may be an exaggeration but that's an idea.
Ilya was an incredible person. His heart was truly driven by bringing about positive change in this world. Diaspora was only the beginning.

He was genuinely one of the kindest people I've ever met. Along with that, one of the most driven and intelligent peers I've ever encountered. Any time I ever had a chance to converse with him, it was always a very pleasant experience. He was someone I felt I had truly connected with. I only wish I could tell him that now.

Take care buddy. Thank you for enlightening me.
But if you didn't know any better, you'd think him to be a sort of adult-Pollyanna, someone of innocent optimism and immense curiosity.

And you're saying he wasn't? Based on what information?
The article has more explanations about the tech than Microsoft's site has.
I was in the middle of one of his talks and heard this exactly. I agree...but allow me to just correct one thing.

The "prophet" was a sheikh/imam in Iraq (?) that said math and Satan were connected. Islam had - up until that time - managed to have some pretty amazing feats.

That said, it's interesting how we blindly take advice from men with authority. Whether that's religious figures, famous people, or politicians.
Do you have any evidence for that? Later, the Occam's Razor talk mentions that Popper applied again in 1945, with the same result. I assume the allied public changed its mind very rapidly when the war ended, and it learnt about the extermination camps.
In a lot of spaces, especially those where offline players are just starting to put a lot of weight into online marketing, those near the top clearly don't have positive ROI - at least not on the specific campaign. The mixture of big companies outsourcing to agencies and mom-and-pops being led by google to give this online advertising thing a shot has definitely led to bids being out of hand in many areas.

Broad match is simply a genius play by google, although there's certainly a bit of disingenuousness behind a lot of the messaging around the adwords product.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the new "dynamic ads" product, as it's clearly designed to provide less sophisticated advertisers with a simple way to give google their money. They'll build the ads for you! Automatically! How kind of google to provide such a service...
Serious question, is "self-inflicted" a euphemism for "suicide"?
It might look interesting for when you're riding at <10 mph to your local coffee shop, but I would not want to make a tight turn at 20 mph or rely on the lower coefficient of friction when making an emergency stop.
There's an audio recording of him telling some of his tales, as well as him playing bongo drums.

Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling

http://www.amazon.com/Safecracker-Suite-Storytelling-Richard...
This article is a bit unquestioningly gushing - although I love the creativity and concept. For starters, I can't see how it has any lateral grip. Nor is it explained how it negates the need for a hub or bearings. I assume disk brakes are used, but that's left to the imagination.

How I wish there was a news source which got down with the technicals. Thinking about it, that's the space that HN comments fill.
Is it louder? Is it heavier? Is it less able to stop and turn at a moments notice?

Certainly innovative, but does this make things better?
When I think about branding a generation, which is always done by a member of a previous generation and with not a little whiff of "kids these days' syndrome, it occurs to me that there might be a feedback loop involved.

If you're firmly part of Generation G (for Generic, a theoretical generation) which has qualities X, Y, and Z but born in the mid-to-late period of said generation, you're told from the moment you're born that you're part of a group that is X, Y, and Z.

I don't have an answer, but I suspect that the problem with 20-30 year-spanning "generations" which are defined and classified by older folks is that, over time, they take on the qualities imbued by an outside observer.
Nothing to do with prayers. RIP Ilya.
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It has to be - if there's billions being spent on adwords, even a million businesses spending free vouchers would be only slightly inflationary. Although perhaps this has more of an effect on smaller sectors which were more brick-and-mortar based.
It's also a lot easier to learn about programming these days.

When I was in elementary school, I really wanted to write adventure games in Logo and Basic... learning resources were limited to books and magazines, and the naescent online world (PeopleLink? BBSs?) was out of reach. I tried to get my mother to sign us uip for Q-Link, but being ahead of her time she said I'd get molested or something.

Later, as a teen I learned all I could about ARexx and AmigaShell, but never came up with the $350 it cost for a good C compiler.

These days, C compilers and IDEs can be had for free... XCode is $5 and the iPhone dev. program, $100 a year. There's an endless supply of help, reference and tutorials available online, for free to anyone with an internet connection and a computer.
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The only rule I have for code style is to write it like a English paper, i.e. to make it easier to read and understand. Yes, I do put blank lines here to there, just to group things together.
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- Our generation is not all about hipsters. It happens to be much more fragmented than previous generations, u hear about hipsters because it's the most pervasive (and loud) pattern. I meant that as a generation we haven't created a fake utopia just for ourselves, we yearn for what is possible not just what is ideal (or i believe so, i dont know my generation that good)

- I think it will be, it is possible now to overthrow corporatism for a more ethical model where corporations will be socially responsible. Things like "PR" are slowly fading.

- Compared to May '68, or the Red Army Faction, it is.
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Can't access this using my iPad. Microsoft's site claims that mobile Safari does not play well with HTML5 and offers to let me download IE9. If I continue anyway, I get a broken site. Saddening.
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Thanks. Interestingly enough in iTerm2 this option is worded as "Left/Right option key acts as +Esc" rather than "Meta"
I'm skeptical about this too. Especially since your parent poster seems to imply he got Google on the phone with a $100 free adwords card, which everyone and their mother has gotten at one point or another. I just got one from my freaking domain provider for "loyalty" (2 years? Loyal? meh)
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I like the jsonview firefox plugin :)
Anyone interested in NdGT, check out the show he hosts: Nova Science Now

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/

You can watch full episodes online, no commercial interruptions after they start. It does a good job at filling the popular science video niche, in addition to Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
Really awesome guy, and there were so many other projects on the horizon. Truly sorry he won't be there to be a part of them.
You must be a gas at parties.
While I disagree with your views, I find them kind of interesting, in that the fact that I don't see too many holes in your thinking leads me to believe that I must disagree with you on a more fundamental level (in hindsight that sounds like a bunch of gibberish and doesn't really say much of anything, but explaining more would require a more elaborate explanation of my views on life, which are only partially formed and have too high of a chance of being young and naive to go into detail here). tl;dr: your views make me think

anyway, I have two questions for you:

1. Do you accept that your choice of valuing the advancement of the human race is arbitrary, and if not, how would you defend it as somehow objectively important?

2. In 2a you talk about how it might be possible to have many "you"s all doing different things you wouldn't have time to do as a normal human being. Philosophically speaking, I have some kind of an understanding of what "you" (er, "me") is, though it is not particularly rigorous, and completely falls apart if we can have multiple copies of people and call them all "you". So, what does "you" mean to you, and how does your notion of "you" prevail when you can have many different people that are all "you"? How are they different from things that are not "you"?

edit: Is the "Quay" in your name a pronunciation of "que" in Latin? Like is your name "Thaddeusque", as in "Thaddeus, also"?
Actually I will take that further, as a small business owner.

EVERY business fails. Every single one. Some businesses somehow manage to stay in business when they run out of money and keep going on until they succeed. However, that's what businesses are up against. I think going into that armed and aware is one thing that makes success more likely.
Whether organic food is scalable or not depends entirely on what kind of food is being grown and what sort of land it is being grown on. If you read Seeing Like a State, you'll note that "modern" Western farming techniques actually produce worse yields than traditional "organic" farming techniques. Lots of soils simply can't sustain the extremely intensive monocropping that the western farming tradition requires.

If we want to really have a second green revolution, we're going to have to start looking at organic farming techniques to make marginal lands agriculturally viable.
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Jobs did fail, at Next, and that's STEVE FUCKING JOBS.
> For starters, I can't see how it has any lateral grip.

I thought that too. He rides the bike in the video but notice that he only goes straight and makes no turns, doesn't accelerate or decelerate very fast. There's no way there's any traction there. Now if it were covered with rubber it might work nicely.
Keep their number in your phone. Hopefully you'll never need it, but IMO it's the second most important number after 911. Even if you have had a little bit of training, helping a suicidal person can be very bewildering and difficult, so if you find yourself unable to act effectively, you can pull out your phone, dial this number, and get help from an expert. I know people who are alive because somebody else (in one case a complete stranger) had this number in their phone:

1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)

If you find yourself dealing with a suicidal person and you don't have this number handy, dial 911.
I have a hard time seeing Diaspora overtaking Facebook or G+ for that matter, especially with the former becoming more entrenched with site authentication.

Certainly, success is subjective but I think the expectations for Diaspora was to be a legit alternative to Facebook and now G+. And while it is an alternative, it's not popular enough for most people to switch over. Furthermore, Diaspora got widely criticized with regards to their funding and subsequent releases... specifically people expecting much more for the amount of investment.
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I'm not making a comment about YC.
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Great! Looking forward to reading this.
When people say weekend project, do they typically mean this took 20 hours or so? About how long did this take you, mping? (Just wondering, because I feel I'm very slow with personal projects - mostly because I usually work in 2 hour blocks or so)
Failure is a stage on the path to success.
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Yes "self-inflicted" is a medical/legal term which includes suicide.

In some jurisdiction there is a difference if "the balance of mind was disturbed" or if the coroner believed it was an attempted suicide (cry for help) that 'went wrong'
> Really? I count OWS, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, etc. among the biggest contributions of our generation. Certainly these are confrontational?

I think he covers this point here:
"Yes, we’re vicious, anonymously, on the comment threads of public Web sites, but when we speak in our own names, on Facebook and so forth, we’re strenuously cheerful, conciliatory, well-groomed. (In fact, one of the reasons we’re so vicious, I’m convinced, is to relieve the psychic pressure of all that affability.) "
Well, if the price goes up, the other bidders should reconsider if it's worthwhile for them. But I have to say that Google's business model is brilliant:

- advertisers bid against each other for top placement. It is absolutely fair for the advertisers to compete with each other, and google cannot be accused of squeezing them with higher prices - yet as a natural by-product, google gets the highest possible price...

- google provides a wonderful service to people searching the web, for free - how could you possibly complain about that? Yet, it has these enormous revenues from advertisers. So, this is the old TV formula; but improved with the auction above.

It's fair, it's helpful, it's enormously profitable.
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Actually, I found it surprising because almost all theoretical economic models seem so divorced from reality that nothing ever works as you expect.
Sorry, but the author just has not understood how git works. It is explained in the Stackoverflow answers linked to.
Can he call this "Growl" without written permission? A fork of Growl, even if it's almost bit-for-bit identical to the original, is a derived work.
On a flight from San Francisco to New York I had the good fortune to run into this gentleman. He was kind, thoughtful, and had a very deep sense of commitment to those who had donated funds and had put their hopes into Diaspora. His picture is one I expected to see again, just not like this.
Good point, as soon as they know "a message could be there", they got motivation to hit extra hard with that rubber-hose until something comes out.

Slightly less awful than torture, you also lose plausible deniability in a legal setting, or even other situations.

I agree the most important thing about stego is that the existence of the message is not discovered at all.

Sounds like that means encryption before stego is pretty much useless, then? Still something in my head says "better safe than sorry", even though you're not mitigating all that much risk.

A better idea might be to compress the message before stego. That way you need to hide less bits, even though the bits will be distributed like white noise, which can be harder to hide, but could perhaps also be something that can be relied on in some sense.
This looks like a variation of the Tweel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweel It's drawbacks are noise and heat, this one looks like it at least has the noise problem. At high speeds it probably has the heat problem as well.
I am surprised this design works: I would have thought that all those pieces of metal deforming would absorb a lot of energy and slow you down.

If it were an ideal spring, E would be conserved, but I am not sure for this structure. It is reminiscent of the old style automobile suspensions.
A mesmerizing design, but yea, doesn't seem practical when you think about traction. Still with some modifications, it's nice to know that we could still have bikes if rubber suddenly disappears!