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Sure I understood that from your first post.

I am interested in your opinion about the larger issue. Is what is described in the article OK now and not newsworthy, or does the article describe disturbing things about labor practices that are intrinsically newsworthy?
My first guess would be to get on the social media site(Facebook, twitter, etc...) and promote the hell out of your company. Next, I would start up a blog and explain some of the merits and technical innovations of your company. Sites like Reddit and Hacker News can be great for driving traffic plus you may receive useful tips about running a startup.
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Interesting that it looks outsourced by the Y! marketing department to @periscopic. Still it is a fancy html5 page showing what Yahoo does each day for their advertisers.
I suspect most people believe that piracy is bad, and that free speech is good. The pirate party might have a problem in this regard.
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I have to say - living a life that was a constant misrepresentation of itself must have been exhausting.
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Can we at least call them annoying?

I for one find it exasperating how much time DVDs (and CDs) spend spinning up and generally clicking about whilst for some reason simultaneously freezing the rest of the computer. I bet most HN readers know the reason, but, come on, we shouldn't have to be inconvenienced like this :-)

I haven't found an OS yet that reliably writes to DVDs. If I write a bunch of pictures to a DVD, I need to check afterwards that they're all present and correct. This can't just be down to my level of competence. It's a scandal.

Sometimes they spin at high revs so there's a virtual hair dryer in the background while I watch my videos. Or they go slooww and cannot be coaxed to copy my files in less than 103 minutes.

And they scratch quite easily too!

I wish we had something like those elegant crystals that Superman drops into slots to access the Kryptonian archive. Some kind of optical flash linkage ought to do the trick.
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I think there are one too many dimensions to this data. I know they collect statistics on both approval and disapproval, but for the most part approval + disapproval = constant, so I think it would be more informative to simply plot something like (approval - disapproval) on the y-axis and time on the x-axis. Then you could see the trends and compare different presidents without having to watch the animation once for each president and then trying to remember where that president went while you're watching the next one so you can compare them.
No worries, happens to the best of us. ;)
What both parent comments said. Plus terms, etc. I see a lot of acquisitions but they're all SV style so I am curious what it's like.
Works prefectly fine for me on FF 9.0.1 on Ubuntu.
It's a feature announcement on a product blog. It's supposed to feel like an ad.
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I’m not sure what you mean—doesn’t seem like gloating to me. People make mention of their experience in the field all the time in order to give weight to what they say. And the only reason I bothered to mention it was to parallel the article I was responding to. Anyway, I’ve removed it, to avoid the distraction.
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To be fair, "approval" hasn't been measured the same way for all of these presidents.

But to answer your question, I'd imagine that a plot of unemployment rate vs. approval rating would be quite enlightening.
I don't want Google Inc. to know my interests. I wanted a search butler (and that was the original Google), not a e-Mommy (to run on my iDaddy). Yes, Apple is getting out of hand, as well.

That is why I am now a DuckDuckGo user. Of course I can't do anything about Google's prying eyes /everywhere/ on the net, so I guess we need to ask Congress to help out there.
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Although I can't speak from experience, as long as the upfront pay is acceptable enough I would jump on it. But what kls said, makes a good point. FWIW I found the diversity of jobs I have taken have always lead me to a path that I would not have imagined years earlier.

BTW I'm UX designer with similar background and I'm looking for some opinions and guidance on my career. Would you be willing to chat with me?
Your impression is wrong, you can get access to the full Linux shell.
I remember going to his websites back when I was in college. I was amazed at the things that he had in flash. He had the trailing pointer, the 3D vector text rotating for MonkeyBank site and his Kimble.org site was amazing at the time. I wanted to be Kim, but at the time I had no idea what he did. Now I realize that he didn't have any idea what he was doing either :).
Tangentially related: I really wish you could buy a pack of cheap flash drives the way you buy a pack of DVDs. At any given time, all the technology/office stores around carry a range of flash drives from $9.99 to $99.99. The capacity you get for a dollar goes up over time, but they never offer a drive for less than $10 (except the occasional advertised sale) or a package of multiple small drives for less than $10.
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people still listen to/care about Tom Green? Shocking indeed!
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I prefer buying devices that don't come with the proverbial handcuffs.
I don't condone bullying, and to each their own... but why don't you just ask him for a bucket of cash and be done with it?
What's the point of glorifying such people who are no role models for the world?
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> As for programming queries, my email's actually pretty useful. I'm subscribed to a few mailing lists, and it'd be nice to not get Perl or Win32 results when I'm mostly in C and Linux.

My email isn't very useful because I don't subscribe to mailing lists. But somehow I end up being there and I keep trying to get rid of them with the "unsubscribe" and if that doesn't work I start reporting them as spam. But the point is, essentially, no matter if you do a scan of recent emails of emails from a longer period of time there's a lot of stuff that I WAS NEVER INTERESTED IN to begin with.

More frequently I've been deleting these emails and the only emails that stay are photos (when your relatives don't quite use FB you do send photos over using Gmail) and other personal conversations. My friends and family don't program but I do, and enjoy doing so. But that never shows up in Gmail.

Even if I WAS subscribed to mailings lists, when I'm mostly Python and PHP - I would love to hear about Node.js when that suits my situation. I've nothing against learning new things. In fact, that's my second objection to you learning how I behave _now_. I WOULD LIKE TO DISCOVER NEW THINGS - DON'T TRY TO KEEP ME IN MY SHELL. (Sorry, had to use caps. I think there was a TED talk as well on this. Keep the world open - not limited - don't build walls around my current tastes to limit my future tastes.)

> For other interests, my youtube play list indicates a lot of what I mean. I like cats, and I watch them on youtube. When I type in jaguar, I'm actually probably asking about the cat, not the car. Lots of other people are asking about the car. It's particularly obvious if they were watching a review of a car recently, and not watching cat videos.

I like watching videos of lions and whatever little footage of tigers in the wild that's there. I love those kind of cats, yes. But I never really was interested in a jaguar. I like watching Top Gear but that doesn't happen on YouTube. But if I search for Jaguar, then most probably I'm looking for the car - but since you don't know what TV I watch you are going to get it wrong. Again, don't take this as a specific case but what I want to highlight is that you will never have enough information about what I consume because Google isn't the source of even, say, 70% of my consumption. I consume more from HN than from Google-originated sources for example.
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Read-write media will never be as cheap as write-once-read-many media. Perhaps DVD's are on the way out, but their replacement will not come in the form of traditional USB flash drives.

For example, Blu-ray discs are about $0.03 per GB, where a USB flash drive is approximately $1.00 per GB. Using flash memory for WORM style storage (like backups) is just silly.
FWIW at foursquare we use sendgrid for this.
This doesn't justify any sort of mistreatment the employees of Foxconn may be receiving, but why is Apple always made the focus of controversy? Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Amazon products are manufactured there as well.
HN is going to hell because its overrun with
people who practice an ideology of socialism

What the hell does collective ownership of the factors of production have to do with any comment on this story? Yours may very well be the stupidest comment I've read on this site.
Probably because they have $96 billion in cash.
Selling twitter handles is against their tos. Even proposing it would probably cause twitter to confiscate the name.
@tamdenholm - I am creating a company called Apptopia - we will be almost exactly that. A marketplace to broker the sale of mobile app (micro business acquisitions).

Have fantastic traction so far, and I have a handful of apps already for sale if you were interested I am @jonathanckay.
Ok, so we've got a blog (it's at http://blog.infinite.ly) that I'm currently using as a kind of weekly changelog. I've been maintaining that for a couple months now, but I'm not really getting the kind of interest that I was hoping for. I assume this means I'm not doing it properly.
I keep a dvd drive on a shelf for "historical" purposes. Every once in a while I have to read one.

Dvd jumped the shark right about the time I could download 4 gig in about the same time it took to read it off a crummy dvd-r.
I can't stand cyber-bullying because for the most part there's no risk involved and it's so easy to leverage any scenario. It's easy to fight someone anonymously. Anytime I think of cyber bullying the video comes to mind where the scrawny little kid is poking the bigger kid at school and then he proceeds to pick him up and slam him on the ground. I hate to say it, but 4chan may be on this guys side. They usually stick up for the underdog.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't support either BREW or WHEN requests. No coffee for me.

tillberg:~ dan$ curl -i -X BREW http://134.219.188.123/
HTTP/1.0 501 Unsupported method ('BREW')
Server: BaseHTTP/0.3 Python/2.4.4
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:02:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close

<head>
<title>Error response</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Error response</h1>
<p>Error code 501.
<p>Message: Unsupported method ('BREW').
<p>Error code explanation: 501 = Server does not support this operation.
</body>
I'm unfamiliar with hosting costs or really any costs running a site as popular as reddit. Anyone with experience in this area have a ballpark figure for how much it would cost per month to run this sort of setup?
Node supports no language extensions that V8 doesn't. Ryan Dahl says:

"Node does not modify the JavaScript runtime. This is for the ECMA committee and V8 to decide. If they add coroutines (which they won't) then we will include it. If they add generators we will include them."

See Tim's thread, My Humble Coroutine Proposal (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/HJOyNMKLgB8). Warning: long.

So, you don't like javascript? Don't use it.

But you won't beat the control over program state offered by javascript -- not until computers understand their programmers well enough to reason about program state. We need better computers, better computer science, and better programmers -- that's all. Then we can replace NodeJS with something better.

Until then, NodeJS is almost certainly the most tasteful solution to the most common problems. I hope its replacement meets so high a standard.
Well, we're providing small business owners with a toolkit for building what we call "universal fan pages" which are one-page, mobile-friendly websites that contain your branding, your media and the social buzz about your company. Like this one: http://almostgourmet.infinite.ly

I'm not entirely sure if a uni kid would appreciate something like that, although I suppose it's possible to use Infinite.ly for their student organizations and such.
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I agree, I prefer those types of results. DuckDuckGo is very good at providing that. A search for "python" returns both a disambiguation section and regular listed results.

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=python
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Fair enough, but I'm sure at some point Twitter facilitates names from squatters, no? Or at least handles a transaction like that? Do they just require no money changes hands?
As a New Zealander, I'm not quite sure what to think. I really don't think he should be extradited to the United States, rather his trial be held here.

(I believe justice will be served more fairly here... no $250,000 per download crap - but that's just my opinion)
Actually, for several of the presidents, approval + disapproval != constant. For example, Obama moves straight right (up on disapproval) for his first 200 days before descending in approval. There seems to be a substantial difference between the effects of actions that anger some (presumably of the opposing party) and those that disappoint all.
The title is completely false.

If you listen to the actual broadcast, Opie and Anthony asked Tom Green why he didn't have @TomGreen, and Tom Green explained that another Tom Green had it. He even said that he didn't want to start anything because the last time he brought it up over a year ago, the other Tom Green turned it into a big stink. He said a couple of times that he didn't want to start anything.

It was Opie and Anthony and their audience that took this as a prank and ran with it. Opie and Anthony were the ones that stoked this, not Tom Green.
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We can blame Hollywood and the media for perverting the word hacker, but jailbreaking and the negative connotations it can provoke is our own fault.
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Having no experience with database/website administration myself, I'm struck by just how little I'm able to translate the works and concepts in this post into actual, manual labor.

For each and every thing that Jason talked about...upgrading Cassandra, moving off EBS, embarking on self-heal and auto-scale projects...what took the reader a few seconds to read and cognise undoubtedly represented hours and hours of work on the part of the Reddit admins.

I guess it's just the nature of the human mind. I don't think I could ever fully appreciate the amount of work that goes into any project unless I've been through it myself (and even then, the brain is awesome at minimizing the memory of pain). So Reddit admins, if you're reading this, while I certainly can't fully appreciate the amount of labor and life-force you've dedicated to the site, I honestly do appreciate it, and I wish you guys nothing but success in the future!
It's interesting to see that they're sticking with Cassandra, and that they're having a much better experience with 0.8. I've been hearing so many fellow coders in SF hate on Cassandra that I had stopped considering it for projects. Has anybody worked with 0.8 or 1.0? Would you recommend Cassandra?

I got to work with Riak a lot while I was at DotCloud, but the speed issue was pretty frustrating (it can be painfully slow).
If you did that, though, you'd have to plot each president as a line. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a different visualization entirely.

This reminds me in many ways of Hans Rosling's TED talk on visualizing global health outcomes and other data:

http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
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Watch how fast people start hitting Comcast's 250GB data cap in 2012 and on... especially after people start trusting online backup providers, Amazon Cloud Drive, etc with their files. That 250GB cap includes download and upload -- two months over the limit and you are terminated for 1 year, even if Comcast is the only ISP servicing your region.

Watch one HD Netflix movie a night and you've used 105GB. Make a daily backup of a 5GB folder to a cloud service and you've now gone over your monthly cap. Goodbye internet. That's what keeps me from using online backup services. If everyone is going to start downloading 4GB DVDs instead of buying software in stores, too, something's gonna have to give.
Old battlenet (before SC2) could disable CD keys in multiplayer, and was a level of DRM I'm ok with. People hack, and having a mechanism to ban them made sense. It doesn't have to come with all of the "single account tied to your purchase" or "3 hardware changes" that we're starting to see.

I'm pretty much OK with CD-keys, and I tolerate Steam because it hasn't had serious problems yet, but anything else I tend to distrust.
Interesting. I would post the domain price on the initial screen. Also, how are you generating the names?

I would also put "Would you pay $x for this domain?" Then when
the person clicks say "guess what, it's only $12.99"
I'm a Hacker Dojo member, and I can relate. I check into the Dojo on Facebook and I always have a few people who think I'm doing nefarious things like "hacking" people's Facebook account. I've been pretty good about educating people about what hacker's actually do, or at least this hacker so the questions have gone down to a minimum as it seems they're bored with the reality.
Kinda reminds me of http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/about/articles/2011/guo-camou....
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But the theft was obscure, so our jobs were secure.
The company I believe will do individual statues as cheap as $200 these days. The price keeps dropping. World of Wacraft characters can be printed by FigurePrints for $130 full body or $70 bust. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw82KSzvkAs&feature=playe... Quality is much lower, but it's still cool as hell.
Where do you get this estimate from? (Not disbelieving you, just curious)
It all feels like we’ve been here before, with only the names having changed

They have, while there is no denying that there where significant improvements with the last total technology shift, we do have to accept that we throw everything out and start over again. I sometime wonder where we would be if a language like LISP had come to the forefront and inertia stayed behind it. When we start over on new stacks there is a great deal of reinventing the wheel. Not that that has not contributed to forward progress, but I cant help but imagine what if something like the JDK had been around for lisp back in the 70-80's and we kept on running with it, what if everyone standardized on it. All of the recycling would have been avoided and we would certainly be in a different place. Whether it would be ahead of what we have now is impossible to know, but what can be stated is that the move from the web to mobile was the same as from the PC to the web, which was the same as from the mainframe from to the PC. WE seem to keep reimplementing a lot of the same systems on the next platform. How many accounting systems have been implemented for the Mainframe -> PC -> web and now mobile. But yes it does seem that every generation and every new platform changes out the underlining tools and we set of to re-implement systems in those tools. Along the way we get novel things like Google and Facebook, but for a good deal of the industry it is just implementing the same systems on the next platform.
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Like Android devices? I'm not trying to be sarcastic or snide either. I just get a little tired of these arguments when it comes to smartphones and tablets. Every modern smartphone and tablet that I know of comes with some form of "proverbial handcuffs" to varying degrees. Whether it's jailbreaking or rooting, there's no difference.
The cost differential only really makes a difference if you are backing up a lot of data - and if that's the case, you are likely backing up to a Drobo or something like that, and mirroring to BackBlaze for your offsite.

Not saying _nobody_ backs up to Blu-Ray, but I'm guessing they are in the 1% of the population these days.

What I'd really like, is for someone to come up with a practical form of Archival Media. Something that you could put on your shelf, and _know_ it would still be readable, 10,20,30,40 years from now.

I often wonder whether these guys are for real: http://millenniata.com/
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There's a difference between "done before" and "done well."

Also, the increase in network and computation speeds and the reduction in size of components means that things that were merely doable in the past are now doable in more interesting and practical ways.
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It reminds me of Slashdot circa 1998/99, back when we watched those guys grow their then-new-found popularity out of a dorm-room Linux box; at a time when the web was a mere fraction of the size it is today.

Godspeed, reddit. You're on the right track.
I think it's interesting that at the beginning of the Obama time series, his approval rating remains constant while his disapproval rating steadily increases. Assuming that "Approval + Disapproval = 1%" would lose that information.

Maybe it would make more sense to show approval (or disapproval) and undecided?
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A tagline to draw interest is a good suggestion! Will consider adding one.

The domain names are retrieved from expired domain lists published daily (various sources). I wrote a backend script to check domain name availability with a Whois lookup (runs every 2 hours for updates). At any given time, a random sampling of a larger domain set is available on the site for quick shuffling.
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