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I think you are right that community is the core issue. I don't think reddit is really a community though, there are certainly some communities that communicate using reddit, and the site does engage in 'participation' activities, but I would guess that the majority of the interaction they create ends up being shallow (on the other hand, I'm sure at least some people have made new friends and such...).

I don't really see how any reasonably open group of several thousand people can ever interact as a community (and I wouldn't be surprised if the limit is in the hundreds, e.g. Dunbar's number).
The way to stop it is to create and fund long term organizations devoted to stopping it. We have Greenpeace and PITA we need Net Freedom.
He addressed that. Some "things" listed are a collection of parts which are pretty useless if incomplete.

Are we going to enumerate the mechanical components of the computer down to screws, connectors, etc - some of which he could arguably live without? no. At some point we consider a collection of things a single whole thing. A puzzle is moot without all the pieces. Within reason, he's expanding that to include separable components which are functionally useless without other items; a laptop and a charger are pretty useless without each other, to the point that we may as well consider them part of the same thing ... ditto the "toiletry kit", a small bag (well, mine is) containing consumables all of which I need to become presentable each morning, the unified totality of parts becoming apparent if I miss just one of those things for a couple days.

The other interesting & valid selection - or in this case rejection - of "things" are those which he does have but could do without (if inconveniently, like socks) which have zero, even negative, resale value.

It's not a cheat. It's coping with a practical analysis of the problem, defining usable viable limits where others may flippantly disagree.
I think it's maybe just a bit early? You need at least a beta chrome build for it to work nicely - so stable should be nice in a few weeks... You're right though it's a little extreme, but imagine the type of data visualizations we have in store in the next few years on the web. This is really cool IMO...
Red flag: you avoided answering the question.
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If you use a system integration framework like chef or puppet there are some really neat ways of configuring your known-hosts files during convergence. For example, the ssh_known_hosts cookbook from opscode will automatically populate the ssh_known_hosts file with the information for all nodes in a particular environment (https://github.com/cookbooks/ssh_known_hosts). Of course this is only relevant if you are using one of those tools ...
The kick the tires problem is a big one for me. I've downloaded enough free apps that are junk. Downloading a paid app that has all sorts of problems is very annoying, so I usually wait quite a while before buying something for review to come in.

This makes me a little hesitant to try $ and $2 apps, even though realistically that's a trivial amount of money. But if an app is $5 or $10, then I really want a chance to try it first. Many apps don't have 'lite' versions (since, IIRC, demos are forbidden).

Just having some kind of 2 hour return/refund policy would really help.
No, I really took it slowly. The injury also showed up only after a few months...
Haha. Yeah I noticed it right after I posted. I did read the entire blog post though before commenting. I didn't realize they did online advertising until after I went to the main website.

I guess I was misled by the coffee cup with what looks like an advertisement on the sleeve.
Just in case anyone wants to know and it is not immediately obvious, the URL for PennApps is http://PennApps.com
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Sorry, I still don't get it. I mean if I want people to see it (advertising), but then write I already have exposure then I'd feel really weird.

Showing (be it advertisement or whatever), but not allowing it to be seen by others is (for the lack of another word) strange. At least it sounds pretty weird to me. I don't get what's wrong by getting this version he published and for example put it on a blog saying. Hey look, what I found on the bog/website of this guy. Isn't it awesome?

I mean in a way it is like taking a photo of his work and show it to others. It's not like I'd be taking it away from him.

I'd respect it, if the author doesn't want more exposure. It's his choice, but then I'd even feel bad to link his blog posts, website or even mention his name.

Maybe I miss something, but I don't understand why a photo of nature, published freely on the internet has to be kept like a secret.

I mean what if we put this to other stuff, like when I make my money selling text, knowledge or thoughts in general. Does this mean everyone is supposed to not share the thought, quote or recite it. It also costs me time and sometimes money (education).

Again, I am not taking anything away. After all it's just data. Should I ever draw a painting or describe a scene in a book. I may even base my work on his, without noticing. Still some people don't want anything based on their work.

If I'd have to ask about everything I copy and share with others I wouldn't dare to do anything.

What I also don't get is the asking thing. What's so bad about people asking whether they are allowed to use the photo?

The argument about the dinner is also flawed. In fact there are lots of businesses giving stuff away for free, to get more exposure. Also the dinner means that the restaurant will actually loose something.

And then there are these companies that even give you a free dinner in order to show you something/get exposure. Advertising also isn't free.
Thanks for your interest!

-While we will gladly accept traffic from almost anywhere at the moment, we are restricted to English-speaking audiences.

-That isn't an issue at all: we don't require a continuos 'spot' per se, a segment of your monthly traffic would be perfect.

-While the size itself is flexible to an extent, we do try to ensure our ads are subtle and non-intrusive, and the 250x100 rectangle is a perfect medium for that. Furthermore, the Leaderboard and Tower formats really aren't suited to the static (no distracting animations) design we utilize.
Thanks for the fishes.

Here's my new venture: http://critiquebitches.tumblr.com/
Well that's because I have nothing to do with this charity and I work at a completely unrelated for-profit company...
No, I overpronate. I already landed on my forefoot. My technique shouldn't be the problem.
The concept is cool. However, I find the 'klavika-web' font quite hard to read.
So, perhaps you are against self-regarding people and braggarts and not necessarily minimalism?

There's no such thing as being self-sufficient. But, having ditched 90% of my possessions over the years, I have to say that removing all that material burden has felt damn great. One of the best things I've ever done.
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I just can't believe I survived too long without this tool. I suggest anyone who uses large screens to test it.
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Did you read the article?

The author claims it has to be this way in Obj-C. Not that's it's a nice thing. It doesn't at all.

The Objective-C function’s name is designed to include the parameters’ names. This is not the case with most web programming languages.

Why does it have to be this way? The obvious reason is Objective-C is a compiled language, once you get it wrong, it cannot even be compiled.

The whole premise of the article is fundamentally flawed. I was just trying to tell him in a nice way.

All his 'reasons' are bunk when you look at what a static language provides you in terms of explicitness.

I'll leave with this:

When I was still coding in PHP, I found myself constantly having another file open just see the declaration of a function I wrote before that

That never happens in a static language. It does in dynamic.

Or perhaps he just doesn't use IDEs and that's the actual revelation?
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Yeah, it's great. It is already being done, but that doesn't mean there's not room for more competition. You could probably outsource the printing and I still think the coffee house crowd is the right demographic for charitable advertisements.
Democracy is exactly that. Which is why our Founders gave us a democratic republic instead.
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>Sadly, iCloud only supports Apple devices (which is understandable) but that means that it will never be what it aspires to be. iCloud is unpractical and reserved for the Mac addict that never touches any other computer.

Don't know if I'm missing some subtlety here, but I've got iCloud running happily on my Windows PC. Details on how to do are on the Apple website - http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html
I don't know what traffic, if any, I'd be able to donate, but if it was more than 0 then most likely leaderboard and tower impressions are where it would be - MPUs are usually completely sold out.

As to non-intrusive, as a general policy it's something I agree on, and we look for in our paid clients (possibly not to the same extent as you, I don't know), but ultimately our sites still fit traditional banner advert sizes.

Do the charities not mind about nationality of their audiences? Even if they don't, it often makes a big difference to publishers. For example in my case, US impressions are very different to UK impressions, which are very different to Swedish impressions... etc.

edit: I also completely second TylerE's comment, he's absolutely right.
I just ran through the same process, including putting in a credit card number and all kinds of personal information. At the end, all I was told was

"We're Closed
We’re currently closed for business. Our normal hours of operation are from 9:00am to 5:00pm, 7 days a week. See our how it works section to learn more about Cherry."

Presumably, this is because they're not in my time zone, but it's within operating hours here. I hope these guys are successful and wind up with a nationwide business someday, but if you run a local service and don't disclose that before taking on reams of personal data (including payment info), that's not "customer validation", it's a breach of trust.
I think just printing a receipt for each cup makes the whole process less efficient for society. Let alone disposable cups etc.
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but those two are different things. They are not complimentry (from what i understand)
For sure, I hope you dont object I've just registered adsbycappuccino, my idea is to make it a non-profit ad agency that does work for benefit of charities, in my business plan Ive decided to pay myself $120k pa (is yours the same? we can share a coffee and talk) presuming we get that via donations and running some commercial ads in the roration. It should take off as those stupid HN readers will see non-profit and put some rockets behind my startup. Sweet.. :D
I'd go so far as to argue that I have trouble trusting non-profits that do not pay their staff. If a not for profit wants to compete for good people, they need to pay them a living wage.
Maybe more retail value, but as for number of items? I believe a typical middle class Indian has a lot more.
This was Hacker School ten years before Hacker School. Sure, the methods of instruction were a bit different, but the overall purpose was similar.
I believe just an exception for plus.google.com needs to be added, as subdomains are shown for some URLs (for example, I see that the subdomains on tumblr are shown).
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From the post:

>Because of this, most developers I spoke with at WWDC (even the VERY successful ones) were looking to spread risk among several small apps rather than creating one amazing app.

This is their loss. This garbage of having 15 different apps to accomplish a job that can be done with one will eventually be finished whether it is on the iPhone or iPad.

Much of the App Store is about word of mouth and less about price. If you give a comprehensive app that is worth the price and has proper dev support, the payers will be there.

Today, I need an incredible amount of apps just to do what would take 5 minutes on Photoshop. An opening is left on iOS by Adobe to fill the solution. Virtually no one is doing this.

Jobs' intention was not to hurt devs, but to kill piracy, reduce software pricing and make it safe for people to get apps without worrying about malware. Some devs may no longer exist because they can't adapt but that is not his fault.

The main mistake Apple has made so far is not allowing a trial period for apps or offering refunds within a certain window.
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U.S. Nonprofit != charity
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Looks like CNN did a piece on him back in September 2010: http://articles.cnn.com/2010-09-17/tech/gahran.blogging.ipad...

Interesting that he left his laptop behind and used only an iPad then, but is back to a MacBook Air now.
Whenever preparing to travel, I always try to allay my wife's "maybe I forgot something!" fears by asking "got passport? credit card? yes? then we're ready to go."

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I think you're reading this as "I am trying to do away with material things and spend less money." But, really, I think this example is "I live out of my backpack because I have money in the bank and it affords me great flexibility in my lifestyle."
Yeah, that's an example of it being bad, what I'm saying is that a charitee with paid staff isn't automatically evil, it's not so black and white.

For example, let's say this charity has a range of options for getting free advert spots on sites for charities. Option A is to have people who care but don't have the experience, and they get X monthly impressions. Option B is to pay someone a low full-time wage, say $30k, and they get Y monthly impressions. Option C is to pay a fantastic salesman $120k/year and he can pull in Z monthly impressions. Until you know the numbers, is option C guaranteed to be bad for the charity?

And of course that's just an example of a high salary - my first comment, that you replied to, was talking more about charities like Oxfam, where without any paid staff they just couldn't operate, they're far too big to be run on a 100% volunteer basis. But people they do employ are paid lower-than-typical salaries for their positions, and a large number of their work force are indeed volunteers.
Since you just want it for a day or two, why dont you go for something like google app engine or AWS (they have a free AMI)?
> It's not possible to mandate the usage of keyword attributes in Python 2

That's not completely true, but it's inconvenient. If you're prepared to go the kwargs route, calling with positional arguments raises a TypeError:

>>> def foo(**kwargs):
... print(kwargs['a'], kwargs['b'])
...
>>> foo(1, 2)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: foo() takes exactly 0 arguments (2 given)
>>> foo(a=1, b=2)
(1, 2)

You have to manually check for required parameters, though, and assign any necessary defaults.
We already have the EFF[1].
Maybe we should consider donating to it.

[1]: https://www.eff.org/helpout
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I think I prefer an open market with prices that have naturally fallen to this point than something with artificially inflated prices. There are two things at play here.

One, the competition in the app store right now is so voluminous and so fierce that it's driving prices down. It's a natural phenomenon that will happen in nearly any "free" market. To complain about it is to complain about the essence of free market pricing.

Second, these lower prices allow for higher volume of sales. The prices have settled here because this is what users see as the value of these apps. No offense to these guys/gals, but I wouldn't pay $10 for something to track my gas mileage. I'd find a free web app (if they exist) or just keep it in a note. I get the value-add of IRS compliant reporting and such, but that's a niche problem to solve. Charging $10 for that is fine, but don't expect mass market appeal or uptake.

I think the biggest problem is that people who write niche apps like these apps expect to see numbers like "Fart-O-Matic 9000" or "Angry Birds." You won't. Accept that and then figure out what's going to make you the most money. The trick is figuring out if pricing at $10 and making (x) sales is more profitable than pricing at $1 and making (y) sales. For some developers, pricing higher with lower volume is much, much better, and these developers are typically niche applications (take a look at some of the "pro" audio apps on iPad especially) that can handle the price difference because the people seeking them REALLY need the value that they're offering.

An MPG tracking app that gives me nice Excel sheets might not be enough to warrant $10 in the eyes of users, and I don't think that's necessarily Apple's fault or the market's fault. Maybe it's just that the niche you're targeting won't sustain the price you want, and unfortunately, that's the way the cookie crumbles when selling software like this.
HN is a group of people (before anything else). If you underestimate yourself or your people, then you are doing a favor to the establishment that wants you and your people to stay invisible.

Think it from different points of view.

For example: if HN goes down, it could be a fact noticeable for a journalist's investigation. With luck, it could become a paragraph in a New York Times article about this subject.

You can more influential than you are thinking.
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I use this Greasemonkey script to show the whole URL, except the www.: https://github.com/jcs/better_hn_domains

(Note: I am not jcs)
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Indeed, but perception is a powerful thing, a non-profit for charities especially. Microsoft and [insert-evil-company-of-choice] could be non-profit if you soak up any remaining revenue by salary/bonuses. I mean ICANN is non-profit and the CEO already has put a down payment on a learjet from his new $185,000 tld registrar. My point is that they are soliciting free work from HN readers on some illusion of acting like a charity (it might turn out legit and verifiable, who knows) whilst being as transparent as a SOPA.
I'm really very sorry to hear this.

When I joined HN I decided to do an experiment. On reddit and slashdot, I go under a pseudonym except when I need to make an announcement. But on HN I always go by my own name. The result is dramatic: I'm much more careful and considerate on HN. It's a clear verification of Penny Arcade's famous theory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/).

I think that the elimination of anonymity is ultimately the only thing which can keep HN from the inevitable slide toward 4chan that all comment sites are on.
Hmm...seems like it might be possible to use vim-arpeggio to implement steno on vim. Then whenever you're writing prose, turn steno on and type 200wpm in insert mode, while still having all the vim editing features available.

Edit: "Part of the frustration was that, try as I might, I was never able to make my steno software work effectively with Vim, my favorite text editor."
http://plover.stenoknight.com/2010/04/writing-and-coding-wit...

I wonder why.
The private domain registration is not a good sign for a not for profit.

It makes it hard for someone to look up your 990. How about posting a link?
I honestly believe that when the iMac has a Retina display it will be the end of the Mac Pro. By that time there will be enough time for Thunderbolt devices to be successful and not be as expensive as they are today.

There is no doubt it will piss off many, such as Marco, but this has been what Apple is all about for a long time. The Mac Pro seems to go against the ideals of Apple.
Not really a patent troll. From The Register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/nokia_patents/

"Sisvel is actually concerned with the creation of patent pools, dealing with fields where the myriad of patent-holders makes getting individual licences next to impossible. In such fields some sort of aggregator is not only necessary, but desirable."
It's difficult to know if your software works if you don't test it.
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The reason for the exemplary unit testing in Ruby (it's not just Ruby... Python and other dynamic languages too) is that these languages do not have a compiler.

They have to unit test everything in order to catch bugs and not all bugs are caught by unit testing hence programs such as pylint try to do things that C++ compilers do every time the code is compiled. You can and should still unit test C++ code to make sure that data are as you expect, etc. A good compiler with all warnings turned on is very helpful.
Gmail supports 2-factor authentication as well: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/static.py?hl=en&t...

It works by requiring your normal password, plus a one time password that can either be SMS'd to your phone, generated by an Android app, or one on a list that you've pre-printed and keep in your wallet.
Who is this guy now? I keep seeing announcement posted on Google Plus by people speaking for Google, but they never bother to mention as much as their function or position within Google.

They ought to start of with "Hi I'm XYZ, lead PQR coordinator of Google ABC." or something.

At least this time it says "google" if you mouseover his photo, the last one didn't even that.
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This is fantastic. I'm glad that there are such detailed resources available for guys like me who want to get a thorough understanding of topics like these, but didn't go to MIT or comparable schools. Thanks for the link.
Agreed. But with no transparency it pays to be cynical. In addition, bootstrapping it by asking HN to commit their time and web space whilst drawing a salary is a bit of a slap in the face from day 1. Im sure a consortium of true HN readers could get this off the ground without salary employees, maybe in six months then it would make sense to appoint salary positions such as a treasurer and top-notch biz dev person.
You should really re-think your stance on the size. As a website publisher, anyone wanting to run a non-standard size is going to have to A: pay me for an exclusive spot, because I can't run any other ads in that slot and B: pay for my time to write custom code for your ad. Doesn't happen often.

That's all assuming that's a size I can even fit into my design without making the site look bad. The 250px width is awkward. For us, our right rail is sized around a 300px wide big box ad, 250 is enough off of that that it's going to ruin the solid right-side margin we've designed.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/employment-status/index.htm#1 would seem to indicate that it's similar to Canada & USA -- if the employer has control over the hours and way the work is performed, you don't get a choice over the employment status. The location really doesn't matter.