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What did your original comment contribute, other than expressing your displeasure that people pay attention to Patrick?

You've managed, in the most irritating possible way, to tell us that you find Patrick's blog template bland. Does anyone find this helpful?

I can say with almost total certainty, just based on the few words in your comments on these threads, that you care a thousand times more about Patrick's "HN karma" than he does.
Humans do get nearly all of their mineral requirements from food.

But if you sweat a lot and are drinking a lot of water, and don't take in enough electrolytes, you can quickly get into serious trouble.

This is why factories in the south used to give their workers salt tablets. It is allegedly also why certain soft drinks were invented.

The OP's question about distilled water is valid. But since it seems this is primarily targeted at irrigation, it shouldn't be a problem.

Presumably this will be a slow drip type of irrigation and no minerals will be washed away, so when the water evaporates again everything that wasn't taken away with the plants is still there.

Nutrient loss from crop harvesting can be countermanded with fertilizers. Perhaps organic fertilizers made from the very crops consumed...
Expletives are an expression of strong emotion. What other tools do you use, to replace swearing without sacrificing expressiveness?
Even if it never heads off to Mars, if they can just get it into a stable orbit, having all of that fuel up there could come in handy later.
Is this a tax on Christianity ... or attacks on Christianity? Obama can do better than tax Christmas trees.
Zach: You get lots of people reacting to your talks because you're inflammatory. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck get lots of reaction because they're inflammatory too. I'm not offended in any way by profanity in a presentation. But I know for a fact that your essay "Don't give you users shit work" did not benefit a single bit from the expletive in the title. In fact, my immediate reaction was "what 19 year old wrote this?"

You may cultivate an "edgy" persona, but it's not endearing. It may be a wise idea to take Scott Hanselman's criticism and learn from it. He's one of the best tech presenters in the world.
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"Together, it’s a crafted persona. That persona includes edge, informality, and passion for what I do. Sometimes I’ll swear to invoke that persona."

I understand there's a certain showmanship that goes with technical presentations, but this quote kinda sounds like something a reality show star would say.
Cloudkick, New Relic, Nagios, Nimsoft

Pingdom is pretty fail and unrealiable tbh. Hopefully this helps a bit.
A conference I can't hear dick jokes at is a conference I don't want to attend.

I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
Adobe’s Rehabilitation
> Did Adobe ever put a serious effort into mobile Flash development?

Yes. The Adobe Flash Player team, believe it or not, is easily over 100 engineers working on a variety of core and related projects (but not including the Flash Authoring, Flex Builder, and Adobe AIR teams). Of those, about 10-30 engineers are dedicated to Android depending on management edict of the week.

The entire Flash Runtime org (including QA, managers, and the AIR team) is over 400 people.
I don't think very many plants can pull water from the air.

And in areas where there aren't any plants that should be even less of a problem.

And I think that much like wind turbines, you'd need a serious lot of these to make a noticeable dent in the atmosphere.
Hi Scott. Just to clarify, the client API does not use the app's global credentials, but the client credentials which have their access limited in several ways. One is the per-column access configuration, which lets you set up objects where access is restricted to users with the relevant token. The other main security restriction is user-based authentication, which ensures user data can only be updated by a client authenticated as that user. The combination of these security methods handle a lot of use cases, and we're always looking to add more security functionality to make more use cases work securely.

If you have a specific application in mind, I'd love to chat with you about how it maps onto our security model. Feel free to drop me a line at kevin@parse.com.
Swearing is used for cheap pops. And it seems like many times swearing is used in place of quality content. A real shame. How come this author didn't throw up a potty mouth in his post?
I don't really care about profanity in speeches; I think the stronger argument was made by Rob Conery:

I'm not opposed to swearing in presentations, or anywhere for that matter. I don't cringe when I read F-bombs nor do I care if you have the word "Fuck" embroidered on your Calvins. Swearing says more about your abilities as a speaker then it does your content... that's the problem.

http://wekeroad.com/2011/11/08/some-people-not-have-way

Profanity can be a great way to drive your point home. It can also be a crutch, one that lets you avoid having to actually come up with something interesting to say.
Yeah, that wasn't even the only confusion they added. Thanks.
I think he meant it more in a non-spiritual way, implying its importance as a standard water source.
Email the presentation to everyone in attendance beforehand, well enough in advance for people to pour over, spend some time on and approach you BEFORE you go to the conference room. Then, as you're giving your presentation you've got target points to reiterate on instead of burning cycles in a shotgun Q&A session. The added benefit is that increases information bandwidth, the presentation is constantly with the members for later review.
Better than Jabber or IRC?
>since these SoCs are only barely more powerful than the 360/PS3

The benchmark from NVidia suggested that current gen Tegra can compete with Core2 Intel and XBox360 is slower AFAIK. Tegra.next (next gen ARM, ~2GHz) alike could just be the thing, because a) better hardware architecture allows more efficient algorithms (SM5/OpenCL) b) it would probably allow them to profit on the console instead of making a loss.

Games parallelize better than other software.
To paraphrase XKCD: When did we forget our dreams that we would rather worry about fitting into some hypothetical mold somewhere than do whatever feels right? Fuck. That. Shit.

http://xkcd.com/137/

To be honest, I don't understand the whole debate that's been raging for the past week. So Zach used a naughty word. So fucking what? Are we as a community really that petty?
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Also swearing is often a sign that you care, and people (at least smart people) like talking to people who care.
I'm white and male and live somewhere I can't speak the native language very well. I'm singled out all the time.

I agree with the parent post - people should stop trying so hard to be offended about stuff. Being singled out or second-guessed doesn't harm one.
It's Comcast, how do you think it's going to work?
Sure ... but it is a simple stop for testing purposes. I already run a test network on IPv6 (only, no IPv4) that is using internal only IP addresses much like 10/8.
We are using Twitter's Streaming API and go through tweets as they come in. Then we figure out the song/artist information and then aggregate that at the end of each day.
The English language is full of a lot of words (over a quarter million, in fact). When somebody says "this is f-ing useless" in a presentation, I think it is lazy. Somewhere in those hundreds of thousands of words are words that express the what and why of the afore mentioned frustration; and that person had the time to look them up before the presentation.
This has been known a while. The earliest paper that I can find describing this phenomenon is from 2009 [1] but I distinctly recall seeing some slides describing R&D results corroborating this at least as far back as 2007.

This is neat stuff in general but sometimes I think people oversell the utility of structured forests of nanomaterials. There are even startups promising the sky based on nanostructured silicon. [2]

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/106/15/6044.full

[2] http://www.bandgap.com/contactus.html
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Words to combat frustration with.
I can't believe no one else has hit on this yet... They're limiting the number of IPV6 ip's per home to 1. They want to be able to offer a UNIQUE IP to EVERY DEVICE in your home. How long until there's a CHARGE PER DEVICE?
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If you love Cucumber, you definitely should take a look at Spinach: http://codegram.github.com/spinach/
Swearing is a last resort. It can be very powerful, but it can also signify loss of emotional control or lack of imagination. Hearing swears from a person who never does (e.g. my mother) would be shocking and cutting. Hearing swears from a sailor falls into the former category.
The features of this material are way to small to have any direct effect on radar.

It might be used to make a stealthy surface even stealthier though.
We are having our first child in December. This past weekend, my wife asked, "Are you going to send here eMails like this?" Looks like I'll be signing up for another gMail account in the near future.
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> How much does apple make if the app is free?

$99/year from iOS Developer Program. Even free native apps reinforce Apple's platform lock-in. Cross-platform web apps lessen users' dependence on iOS.
I am using OpenBSD's pf firewall and you can specify IPv6 addresses the same way you would IPv4 addresses for NAT, so I could translate many internal IPv6 addresses to a single outside IPv6 address without issues.
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Which is why Google Takeout exists. What other company is posturing this way and also lets you backup (soon to be?) all of your data?

Account lockouts due to TOS violations are often cases in which Google's hands are tied legally.

Very few things are life-long, so backup early and backup often. Google is the only cloud hosted service provider I feel comfortable using because I can easily sync my data with my backup server.
I agree that swearing is an incredibly strong tool in human communication. However, I do not agree that it belongs anywhere near technical discussions in the field of software engineering.

The best technical content is dispassionate. Appeals to emotion obscure the underlying rational argument (assuming there is one).

That doesn't mean that talks shouldn't be exciting or interesting -- but those emotions shouldn't serve as the primary argument for whatever position is being presented. Yet, this is exactly what happens when you leverage a huge emotional trigger like swearing.
>Based on this more specific info, I don't actually think this is offensive at all, and it's actually rather funny.

Really? It's just a collection of crude jokes. I can't imagine how you could present those slides in anything other than a perverted manner.
"Users involuntarily routed to Internet ads may well have harbored discontent with those businesses, even though the businesses were blameless."

I have a hard time believing the businesses were completely blameless, if they made little to no effort to vet the services they purchase. Chances are the prices were low enough for them not to ask many questions.
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Function objects are not 'functor's. Please do not call them that. Functor is a word that has a specific meaning in category theory that winds up being relevant in some other programming languages (Haskell, ML and friends) and we don't need to shoot ourselves in the foot by overloading it with another meaning.
How do you get the water up from "deep enough to find cooler temperatures" to where the plant roots are? It will not fill the air pipes, so is there some secondary piping system? Or will the plants be able to get the water from there?

Also, I wouldn't call it self-powered if it required wind or solar and those were separate parts of the system. A sailing ship is self-powered, but IMO, an electric car that uses electricity extracted from wind is not.
Silverlight is just C# (or theoretically any CLR language) with XAML layouts and a specialized set of libraries.
You can run NAT using IPv6 without issues using OpenBSD's pf firewall for example, so yes, you can "hide" multiple hosts behind a single IPv6 address.
As the number of developer conferences increases for a given technology, the probability of a sexually inappropriate talk approaches 1.
Pretty funny pictures. Cool pictures for extra fun
Do you like the animals? I would like to show you some great funny pictures. I am sure you will like them, because they will make you smile and even laugh.
"There is a long tradition of this on BBC radio going back to the 60s, where unbelievably, unutterably filthy things have been talked about at 6:30pm, when children are having their dinner, via the potent medium of deadpan innuendo."

Precisely. The humor involved sounds like the kind of thing you hear on Radio 4's News Quiz. Some of which is simply a BBC newsreader reading clippings from the media that have double meanings. (a non-sexual example: "The Bristol RSPCA is giving discounts on pet chipping. 15 pounds for cats and dogs, 10 pounds for old-age pensioners")

Needless to say, the News Quiz loves to talk about UK shadow chancellor Ed Balls.

It's possible, of course, that the speaker's presentation was rather less deadpan. But still, the woman who posted the complaint did have some warning of the content and tone.
Programming for the future of mobile
> Upsell a product that cost 60% less

> The time-tested 60×60 rule says that your customers will buy an upsell 60 percent of the time for up to 60% of the original purchase price.

These two statements are not the same... Or was this to be an example of #17? ("87% of people believe everything if there’s a percentage in it")
Why would it be an insult to your audience?

Edit: To respond to both of you and not be repetitive, I would like to refer both of you to the comment that I have made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3217649
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I was thinking of Google Apps.
I never meant to imply that you did have the burden. As engineers its easy to see something broken and think that it is our duty to fix it. But honestly, we can't fix everything (and fixing it doesn't always make it better haha).

The other assumption is that the only way to change this is to stop buying a product. The truth is robots are probably better than slaves. That day is coming hopefully!
A lot of those potential applications will hinge pretty heavily on what kind of durability this coating demonstrates. What works great on metal may never give rise to a product suitable for fibers. And what works in space may wear away surprisingly quickly under the constant assault of airborne particulates.

All that said, it does provide a convenient justification for "slightly darker black" turtleneck jokes.
Thanks for sharing that. I hadn't seen that one before and it strikes me as very appropriate for the way I see things.

Thanks again. Seriously.
From the article:
"When we begin our support for home gateway devices late this year, we initially plan to use a default IPv6 prefix allocation that is a /64 in length, providing over 18 quintillion IPv6 addresses."
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Well, the session was titled "The Ten Dirty Words And How To Use Them".

If you sign up for a class about human sexual behavior, you shouldn't be offended when they talk about anal sex.
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I was thinking the same thing: that Zach missed Rob's point a bit (but not entirely). Then again, I was assuming his response was written for Rob. I didn't read Hanselman's post. Their point is, apparently, that using swear words in your presentation is trite and pedestrian.

All I can do is shrug my shoulders. I really enjoy Zach's presentations, and I hope he keeps doing what he's doing.
I don't understand what any of this has to do with DNSSEC. DNSSEC is a dubious idea; its core value proposition is to turn DNS registrars into CAs. If we had DNSSEC 5 years ago, Ghadafi's Libya could have controlled Bitly's TLS key.

I also don't see what an FBI malware bust has to do with E-PARASITE, but I don't care at all about E-PARASITE in any direction, whereas I do care about DNSSEC, which I think could actually fuck up the Internet.
Eww. Pop psychology.

Persuading people is a lot easier if you look at it as mutually trying to make the best decision--to be persuaded as much as to persuade--instead of some stupid gimmicky power grab. "I felt so powerful because I got someone to agree with me!" Feel powerful when you're right, feel powerful when you're wrong and can admit it, but feeling powerful because someone else thinks you're right is folly.
Swearing, as shown by many presenters, can also have a positive effect on your talks. Zach mentions most of the reasons why in his article. Attacking a person instead of the content of his talk for using a word is ridiculous. Would someone say that Zach's talk was bad and that was using the word "fuck" to help himself?

I agree with you in the statement: Profanity can be a great way to drive your point home. If that is true then Conery's argument, in the derogatory form he uses, makes no sense.

PS: Referring to "fuck/fucking" by using "the F-bomb" makes the person look just... bad.
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Take this with a grain of salt, since I'm talking about, as discussed, his public persona, but I watched his video the other day and the first phrase that came to mind to describe him was, "smug little prick". Now, that's not the sort of language I would normally use around here, but we were already on the subject of presentation, expressiveness versus politeness, etc.
I actually don't think they're funny. That's not code for "I think they are inappropriate" (which at a developer's conference, I think they are inappropriate), but rather I don't find them humorous. It's the kind of easy humor people try for when they're not actually funny. I find listening to this sort of thing painful because I feel sorry for the speaker - trying to be funny, failing, and having to deal with it.

With that said, even if the speaker did as you said and was completely deadpan, I would still think it's inappropriate. It's just not the appropriate place to even attempt to make those references, no matter how you do it. Among friends, I make and laugh at raunchy jokes. But professional environments should be more inclusive than that.

This is what topical, appropriate and actually funny humor in a professional setting looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVp8UGjECt4
Zack's talk at Ruby Midwest last weekend was, in my opinion, one of the best talks of the whole conference. Saying "meetings suck" just doesn't cut it, because usually "meetings fucking suck...hard" Maybe I'm a simpleton, but Zack's talk hit home for me, and I really appreciated the effort and passion he put into it.
"it's better to make a few people really happy than make a lot of people kind of happy"

that's a gem.
A couple notes. Analytics and content moderation are possible right now through the REST API - we have developers using the API for both of those in fact.

https://www.parse.com/docs/rest

You can also moderate content manually through the data browser.

As far as scalability goes, our team has a lot of experience designing web-scale products. We're designing Parse from the ground up to scale. If anyone has an application that they're concerned how Parse can handle the load, we're glad to chat about it - just drop us a line at feedback@parse.com.
Ask HN: Can I please show you what I'm building for Michaels for Cyber Monday...
I always struggle with user experience and I have never really have a good experience with paying anyone to tell me what they think.

I am a part of a startup that is building a huge rollout of the first ever way for you to push yourself coupons directly to your phone and redeem them on your phone without having to scan something or have an app installed. It works perfectly on every major smartphone. It's almost too easy...at least in our minds...We just want to see what it looks like in your hands.

I absolutely love other startups so not only will we send you a huge discount that can be redeemed at any nationwide Michaels store, but I will review any product/feature that you will ever put forth.

Please give me a shout at bwalker@kou.pn or just drop me a text at 469-644-2566!

And if you have read this far and don't feel like helping out then I really appreciate you for listening to me ramble and hopefully the voice that you're reading this in sounds like a class Sean Connery!
> Very few things are life-long, so backup early and backup often.

I can't imagine why that wasn't included as part of the ad. ;)
> What if one of your parents passed away while you were young?

Actually one of my parents did pass away while I was relatively young, but my family history is 'unconventional' to say the least, that might be why I'm weird and seem to have a different reaction from other people, or it might be something else completely, I don't know, was just expressing my feeling about it.

> Wouldn't it be nice to have some concept of interacting with them as an adult?

Maybe, but it is much more complicated than that.

> What if a house fire or flood destroyed the home videos and photo albums of your youth?

I do not keep any such things, again I guess I'm weird, but I'm at least somewhat happy about thins being this way.

And yes, I do realize that keeping such thing just gives me the option to look at it or not, still it feels creepy to me.
When AOL was Q-Link, we did something similar; all of our newsletters were written by "Jenny Crocker" (Betty's daughter, we decided). It was convenient to have a representative character that always spoke in a consistent voice, yet could be staffed by multiple people. At first we were coy about whether she was real, but it eventually became an in-joke among the entire user base.

Ronald McDonald isn't just one clown, either.
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Holman is making a mistake by conflating use of profanity and strength of emotional connection.

He is implying that given his stated goal of a passionate reader base, profanity is a necessary evil. I dispute the necessary part.
But why specifically should swearing be taboo? I don’t understand the reasoning behind that.
Is anyone making a list of these?

http://www.quora.com/What-other-easter-eggs-does-Google-sear...
The only time I got this when I had my gmail account forward to my google apps account, when they started unifying the whole account stuff it was no longer a valid backup email account and had to be removed.