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> This is how Free Software projects work

I'd argue that was the opposite how Firefox project worked when Blake Ross was still guiding it. Clear vision and direction, not passive wait for someone to submit something.
Without this any project just becomes a mess of patches.
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I hate to glom onto just this example, but I've ever so gently suggested to a fellow who wishes to advance in his endeavors that maybe he might find it worth his while to pay more than $10 for a haircut. The response was a pretty miffed retelling of a time he paid $30 in San Diego, and it looked "just the same." (I wondered if it were possible he couldn't tell the difference between qualities of haircuts, being that his appearance suggested that.) The lesson I took from this is that people chose the haircut they have and they're likely happy with it - the alternative being that they don't care. Your differing tale intrigues me.
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You could combine priceonomics data + taskrabbit work force to scale the arbitrage business on high value items. ;)
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How does a human-operated ship mitigate anti-missile counter-measures better than an AI operated ship, assuming the same munitions? You have yet to give a single concrete example. If anything, a human-operated vessel would have a worse reaction time than a machine-operated vessel (or AI-operated if you want to be romantic). This is simply due to the physics of operating a biological construct to mechanically manipulate things instead of an electronic construct to manipulate much smaller things on a much smaller level.

And to sum up, you've used these as synonyms in the argument:

strong AI

general-purpose AI

human-like AI

These are completely different things. What, exactly, are you referring to?
the very basis of democratic government ("we", the majority)

Come now—you don't even believe this. The majority used to support legal chattel slavery. Did that make slavery right? Killing Native Americans and taking their land was pretty popular, too. And what about the overwhelming popular support for the Anschluss Österreichs that brought Austria under Nazi rule? Und so weiter.

You can believe in ethical government, or you can believe in the ethical principle of "majority rule", but you can't believe in both. Think about that the next time you slam someone for questioning "democracy".

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Sweet, sweet, sweet. I know I'm not the only one who's "read it", but hasn't actually finished it.
A while back I bought six 1TB Seagate Baracudas.

Every single drive failed within the warranty period; I RMAed them and got replacements. Every single replacement drive failed too. I RMAed a couple of them, and their REPLACEMENTS have now failed. I believe that's a 233% failure rate, and it would probably have been higher if I hadn't given up and just bought new (non-Seagate) drives. And before you ask - all drives were used normally in desktop machines, and they were kept cool[1].

I have no idea how widespread my experience was, but I've heard rumours of very high failure rates in some models of their 1TB drives. If so, I can understand them wanting to protect themselves from a repeat in the future.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/12/hard-drive-temperat...
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Well, sure, I would never argue that you can't differentially price socks in different market segments, using coupons and regions and so forth. You obviously can, and everyone does, to some degree.

But this hardly rises to the level of an incipient retail apocalypse. It isn't even new. This is nineteenth-century stuff.

The question is: Will differential pricing be pushed farther, now that computers are available to dynamically segment the sock market in real time? (Perhaps wool socks will cost more depending on the current local wind chill factor?) Probably. But there's a real cost in trust and goodwill and complexity that must be balanced against the advantages of differential pricing. In general, customers don't love being segmented, particularly in ways that aren't long-standing traditions (as clippable coupons are) or that don't fall along culturally accepted lines (we'll pay more for goods with famous people's names on them, or with made in the USA labels on them - these are just and proper activities in American culture - but we will be less pleased to pay significantly more for goods at 4pm than we do at noon, or to pay more if we're a woman than if we're a man). And so customers will tolerate only so much market segmentation before they start looking for cheaper or more transparent alternatives: Join Costco, shop Priceline, bid for the goods on eBay from a grey-market reseller, use your wife's Amazon account instead of your own, make up some fake demographic information, whatever.

And my hypothesis is that, if you think about pricing from the perspective of the airline industry, you're going to overestimate customer tolerance for fancy pricing games, because the airline-ticket market is constrained in unique ways that don't apply to other industries.
Don't take offense, but if you learned Rails in a weekend then you didn't spend enough time to really learn all of it.

I don't see this type of certification being bad for people trying to break into development. Anyone with real world experience will still be able to use that experience on a resume or whatever. People relying on certifications to get a job after a few years in the industry are doing things wrong in my opinion.
It's not as black and white as you claim.

GoDaddy is the largest and best-known registrar. For people who don't know much about something, picking a large and familiar option is a common heuristic. That feels safe.

What will make it feel unsafe is frequently hearing bad things about them. Novice domain purchasers won't often read Hacker News or know who Dave Winer is, but they could well have a friend who does. Articles like this (and repeated Hacker News discussions about GoDaddy sucking) make it more likely that average consumers will hear enough negative buzz that they'll pick somebody else. I'm all for it.
Great listen, puts it all into perspective. Still don't understand the cat thing!
That's not arbitrage, neither is buying goods in one location and selling them in a far away location. Arbitrage is a simultaneous purchase/sale in different markets with a trivial amount of work and no risk. If there is risk, it's not arbitrage; if there is work, it's not arbitrage; if there is a lot of time involved (and thus, of course, risk), it's not arbitrage. Antique dealers buy from people who want to get rid of things and sell to people who want to buy things. They make a profit because historically it is difficult to find antiques when one wants to buy them. Even if you managed to be connected to every antique seller imaginable you'd have to be lucky enough to have an item go on sale within the time you want to buy it. Antique dealers serve as a buffer, offering quick cash to sellers and selection to buyers.
233% failure rate isn't really a meaningful term. Did some of the individual disks fail more than once? I doubt it.

One industry-standard term you might consider is "mean time between failures" or "mean time to failure".
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What happens when your error correcting circuit gets hit with such a particle?

Or worse - the CRC generating circuit does, generating a value which causes you to "correct" things to an incorrect value.
Nothing unpredictable here. There are less than three HDD manufacturers left (do you still count Toshiba as HDD vendor?), so what do you expect? No real competition == (no customer care && no discounts && poor quality of goods)
Well, but what about this part:

"When the data from the first two ADIRUs is inconsistent then the flight computer uses the data it received 1.2 seconds previously. However, the software couldn’t handle the two ADIRUs putting out data spikes that were more than 1.2 seconds apart and this caused the plane to behave erratically."

I assume _this_ is the error referenced in the title. Whatever caused the black box to fail, the result was that the code afterwards failed in software, as far as I read the text.
That's technically illegal in the EU, where two-year warranties on electronics are compulsory. This means EU resellers and OEMs will have to be responsible for that second year, or drop Seagate.
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So the flight control systems acted on bad data from ONE of 3 ADIRUs? So what's the point of having the other 2 then?
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Won't that just decrease the possibility orders and orders of magnitude, but it will still exist?
Most sites out there must leave a sour taste in your mouth then, including Amazon, Netflix, and Newegg.
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There's bad data, and then there's entire outage. I can't speak to the reasoning behind the processing of the data.
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The officially published ones. It remains an open question what the NSA knows.

I was going to back up the idea that the NSA might potentially be ahead of the public community of number theorists and cryptographers by citing the relative sizes of the two groups. Unfortunately, those numbers are classified. :(
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To be fair, the comparison might not be entirely accurate since it is possible to 'plus one' something while just being a gmail/youtube user -- without necessarily being an active google+ user.
If anything, that's generous.

People have already talked about the confusion the generate with pricing, upselling, and renewing. But the other day I got an email that said:

"You are the administrator on record for the following domains listed for sale at Go Daddy Auctions:"

And it listed a domain I've had for 15 years, one that isn't even listed with GoDaddy. I thought somebody had hijacked my domain.

Turns out it was all a scam. They were just trying to get me to use their assorted services. They said that "someone" had listed my domain there, but couldn't say who or when. When I asked to be taken off their mailing lists, they told me there was no list to be taken off of, but that yes, they might send me more bogus notices at any time. When I asked to speak to a supervisor, the guy flat-out refused. Eventually he called me names and hung up on me.

As far as I'm concerned, they're assholes and scammers. They compete on marketing and the ability to confuse the rubes. I can only hope that Jon Postel's vengeful spirit haunts them unto suicide.
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Neat! Minor suggestion - link to an example playlist. There's also a minor grammar error in the text ("gives us").
It's such a shame there isn't a Kindle/ePub/PDF version. I guess I'm off to kill another tree.
I think JavaScript/Browser may eventually fill this void. Maybe.
The MTBF and MTTF has been so perverted by the drive vendors as to be useless. The 233% makes sense as "failures per purchased drive over 3 years". (or whatever period that is)

Seagate is now using "Annualized Failure Rate" on their drives which is MTBF evaluated for the expected number of power on hours in a year (the first year).

The Barracuda Green series gets the new one year warrantee, but boasts a 0.34% AFR in Seagate's specifications. That is on the order of only 1 drive in 100 failing over a 2 year period. Who in their right mind would cut their warrantee to one year if this was really the case?
this reminds me of the great movie invention of lying. Imagine a world where there is no lying, even in the smallest sense as possible. Brutal honesty, that is. There aren't even cinemas in that world, you can imagine ; )
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http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-searc...

So the current behaviour is to turn "?&foo=bar&&foo=bar" into "?foo=bar". I've coded a few client-side scripts where removal of unneeded ampersands was useful, but at the same time I needed to keep both repeated name-value pairs (for more advanced form submissions).

I would suggest making normalizeSearch less destructive - i.e. only targeting the unused question mark and ampersands - and splitting the name-value pair deduplication into a separate method.

Liking the jQuery-style method chaining.
I'm too aggressive with you? You are the one that says I advocate positions that are obviously wrong and hurt children. I suspect you aren't accustomed to having someone competently push back when you go on one of your rants? Either you think I advocate hurting children, or you think I just post bullshit to HN without thinking it through. Either way, you are far more insulting than I have been. I have the distinction of being direct, both with my arguments and with my insults.

Again, you give a dozen assertions, and again it's without any context, argument or evidence.

I would love it if you would give one of these near-universally accepted truths that economists all agree on. I also look forward to your rationalizations when you have to restrict who is a 'real' economist (I really doubt you will find 90% agreement among economists that are Chinese Socialists, members of the Austrian school, distributionists, working economists at major brokerage houses, etc). I suppose you want to limit it to 'mainstream' western economists at big name universities?

Try to keep it concise this time, and see if you can give me an example without bringing in another dozen unrelated 'facts'.
This is NOT "jQuery style". This is an actual decent use of OOP and Method Chaining.

jQuery does use Method Chaining but it actually discourages the use of good JS OOP.
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Let's be honest, encouraging users to add capital letters, numbers, and symbols does not make their passwords more secure. When you force people to add uncommon characters to passwords they stick to the simplest cognitive model:

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I live in South Africa and I haven't found a place (yet) that isn't perfectly mapped. I checked various far-flung African countries for a customer who was looking to move from Google Maps and they all seemed fine. So, the map does 'work' for me, just not in the U.S. This chicken and egg isn't going to spring out fully formed, so either U.S. mappers get out there, or this situation will continue.

Obviously developers won't start driving around in cars to map things out, but I wonder why the map-oriented communities haven't supported OSM? And surely map-oriented developers could start an initiative to highlight less-well mapped areas?

Now if only I could use Twilio and Google Payments here. We can't even buy music from iTunes, despite everyone having iPods and iPhones for almost as long as they've been around, and Apple stores in most major malls.
Is employing one talented full-time iOS developer really too much to ask from a company as big as Facebook?

You might as well add the Python SDK to that. The "we don't have the resources" claim rings a little hollow, in that the company probably very likely has the resources, but thinks such things are strategically unimportant.
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I don't use (and never have, but I suspect it's like Grooveshark) Spotify so this question might be stupid. What advantage does this have over just sending an email with a URL to a Spotify playlist?
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You may not have the experience of supporting a large web service, but I do. Believe me, supporting native apps for multiple platforms is not only a multimillion dollar money pit, but an integration nightmare. You end up building a web interface anyways then hacking together a ui in native code for every platform. The long term support structure can very quickly (exponentially) get out of hand.
You will have to forgive my cynicism on this one, but industry lobby groups usually take on a life of their own much like a Union. The problem being that the money virtually insures that once formed, the lobby will live past it's useful lifetime.

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I agree that the way programming is taught needs an overhaul. But I don't think programming should be taught at all.

Students should know programming before they get to college. Do music students who go to music school all spend the first year learning guitar together? That thinking is from the olden days when programming was a job. Today it is an art. The cold war refrigerators and punch cards are gone. Here is how it should be done:
Students enter the school and are given a variety of starter options: game programming with python, web programming with rails, numerical computing with c, classical data structures, etc. Then, students audition in order to take advanced courses. The audition is two parts: technique and style. Technique is judged on traditional things. Did they display good class design? Did they define a good data model? Did they use show a high level of knowledge of whatever language they used? Next is the style component. Is the project "good". Does it follow modern tastes in software engineering? Does it follow modern tastes in UI design? Is it meaningful and relevant to the world?

The key part is that applicants are put on notice that their entry into the real program depends on their demonstrated prior progress as programmers and CS students. If only 10 kids show up, so be it. That is all the students that formal education will be useful for. Teaching programming to CS students is like teaching the greek alphabet to history students or welding to mechanical engineering students. It's something they should already be way into, otherwise it's not really productive for anyone. I for one am tired of seeing programmers who can't think for themselves, who can't do anything without being told the answer like a robot. They second guess everything that isn't written down and schedule endless meetings thinking someone will be show up with the answer for them.
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Good question :) you could certainly do that - this is more just a cooler, more visually appealing way of sharing a playlist with a friend that's made specifically for that purpose.
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