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I agree very much with the idea of "improving on something that already exists". I hate it when you tell someone an idea, and they rule it out because "it already exists". There is always a better way to execute on the same idea.

However, I am not a fan of "Has business model other than advertising". Although it is something to have in the back of your mind, it is hard to say what the product/idea will evolve into when it actually becomes something that can be profitable.
All I know is that several networks have promised the same things before, for example LinkedIn and Xing.

I think it doesn't work because people on those networks are not your real friends, and the value of creating an introduction that way is negligible.

What works maybe is just spreading information. For example if I would announce on Twitter that I am looking for a new job, I am pretty sure several of my followers would retweet that, and maybe even some of their followers. But the value of being "friend of a friend" if the friends are not even real friends is next to nil.
Anyone else's imaginations going wild thinking what bizarre combination of circumstances might lead to the lack of a "group by" in an ORM leading to a gradual death, during which one still has sufficient strength to post to HN?
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My problem with those responsive web sites is that they only react to changes of the browser window width, but not the height.

For example, on this page, you can change the width so that we only see 3 short sentences. But if you change your browser height from 800x800 to 800x350, you still get the full, long text, but it's cut off in the middle, and there is a scroll bar. If the author's intent was to try hard to show those 3 short sentences without readers needing to scroll, then it fails here.

Responsive websites should be thinking "ok, I've got this amount of space here, let's fill it in the best way possible", not "ok let's make 3 designs based on browser width".
#1, you're not Facebook, #2, I am quite confident these days Facebook has a quite extensive understanding of their legal position and the policies and procedures they must follow (http://www.facebook.com/legal/copyright.php is only a start), and #3, I am rather sure they have a direct line to whoever is the registrar of record for facebook.com and pay well to be kept up to date on any potential developments.
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I agree to an extent; I try to avoid downloading apps when I'm not on WiFi - mobile internet is slow enough as it is!
Absolutely. Responsive design is simply shifting two-column into one-column and getting away with it. That's not always a preferred way, I'd say.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597932
I wrote libfake437 (http://libfake437.googlecode.com) to create this effect in SDL, but your version is cooler and more general. Does it draw the low characters (smiley faces and stuff) correctly?
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Will this really work though? I've been taught that sleep cycles are very individual and you should measure your own by doing the following.

Next evening, stay up late, when you start to get tired start a timer and force yourself to be up until you're a little less tired (sleep cycle), then use the timer somehow to calculate your sleep cycle. Sorry for trailing off there but I don't really remember the specifics but I remember I calculated my own sleep cycle to be 1.5 hours back then.

So far all I've done with this information is that if my alarm is set to 06:10, and I wake up at 05:45, I get up instead of trying to go back to sleep.

I'd only seriously try to go back to sleep if I woke up at around 04:30-04:45.
It's hard to reinvent something that is so poorly designed, any more poorly.
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You can change it in Safari, but only if you Jailbreak. In fact, it's one of the first apps Cydia recommends to you (I'm using it to identify as desktop Safari, and it's blissful!)
The following comment on page 2, from the CTO of StartCom and StartSSL has me glad that I'm using StartSSL:

"Look, Mozilla has a policy, there is no reason to require something that doesn't comply to the policy anyway," said Eddy Nigg, CTO of StartCom and StartSSL in an email to the mailing list. "The policy hasn't changed and I'd advise Mozilla to apply its own policy, simply as that."
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That's porn for database geeks: 100 million pageviews per day, 300k requests per second against Redis.

The way they use MySQL is also interesting IMHO: they populate a relational database in order to be able to build new indexes in the Redis side, using the relational DB for the stuff it is best at, generating new "views" of the data easily.

(Relational DBs are also good to do a zillion more things of course.)
You know your software is successful when it's used by porn sites :D
Edit: it let me make a form with "Account number" and "Password" complete with emailing me what people put in it which is suggestive of no preventative measures at all.

See this comment by the founder of Jotform: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597821 (Relevant quote: "Our Bayesian phishing filter has suspended 65.000 accounts last year.")
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I would find a follow-up post discussing the numbers re: Amazon Affiliate click-through and purchase rates from a story hitting the front page of HN more interesting than yet another "here is a list of books that you should read" post, or is that a little too meta?
I agree they lack the edge in UX, on the other hand they got the other 2/3 of the puzzle that ender7 talks about in his first comment.
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I remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.
Furthermore, the author was just about to stream a video which would likely be much larger than the app itself.
It does have a tendency to intrude if you don't explicitly configure it not to, or remove it if you're not going to use it. I always forget to tell it not to configure /etc/resolv.conf, and always get confused when DNS lookup breaks.
A simple, standards-based way to implement this would be to use the HTML5 details and summary elements.

http://html5doctor.com/the-details-and-summary-elements/

You could make default the details to be "open" for big screens and closed, showing the summary only, for small ones. Downside is that you only get two levels if you stick to the spirit and letter of the standard.
Your interpretation of my original comment seems extremely hypersensitive to me. Perhaps there is cultural difference at play here.

The experience I've had in hosting ten-thousand odd zones suggests that these resolvers do not exist. I've seen a great many claims but am yet to actually see a resolver that extends TTLs in the wild and so I consider them all but myth.

In the past there has been issues at the client - predominately with browsers, MTAs and stub-resolvers - so if I were to observe activity that suggested a stale cache I'd be more likely to attribute it to a bug (be it new or old) if no other data were available.
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We do the same thing, where we populate a mysql store as a secondary storage for business intelligence -- our Founder, PM, AdOps, etc know enough SQL to be dangerous if we build out more traditional, relational models.

It amused me that you were testing a porn site -- the homepage / potentially-misused zrange-issue.
Madoff did not operate a payment transaction company. It's not even in the same domain.
I have the same problem with Chrome on Ubuntu from time to time. Reloading the page usually fixes it. It's annoying, though.
It is by no means limited to the US, but various sources (such as wikileaks cables) make it clear that it is mostly the US government pushing for such draconian measures worldwide. So moving your business away from there to make it clear that you don't agree is a good thing.
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> a truth engine

I don't know what that is, but I think if it ever existed it would be in the service of something foul and malign.

Humans have facts. Humans have evidence. Humans even, in mathematics alone, have proofs. Humans do not have truth. Woe betide anyone who thinks we do.
I had to test if it was truly fast...
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Dolphin allows you to choose your user agent on Android. I'm starting to really like Dolphin...
It reads like a rambling. He's pitting Linux advocates against touch technology? I don't even understand why. Android is based on Linux, and Ubuntu has been developing a touch-friendly interface for a long time.

And what does that have to do with makefiles? Is there suddenly some magical "miniority report" touch wand that replaces them? (yes, I know there are alternative systems, but they're generally a new syntax for representing the same thing)

"Absurd" is indeed the appropriate word. Too much of the tech brochure cool-aid...
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I was afraid to see what youporn is (at work now), so i guess it is really a porn site.
I see the difference as something like Django/Sinatra vs Rails. Backbone requires the developer to be more explicit, whereas Ember is more opinionated and performs magic behind the scenes as long as you follow the conventions.

On a practical note, my experience earlier this week suggests Backbone right now is far easier to get your hands dirty with. I was excited to use Ember, but I had a practical time constraint and discovered it's a rough ride right now, so reverted to Backbone for this task. There's really very few examples, unless you want to start diving into older Sproutcore docs and trying to figure out the diffs.

In contrast, Backbone has a wealth of articles and even design patterns and books. Of course, it's an apples-versus-oranges distinction with Ember being so much newer, but an important practical issue for developers to be aware of if they're deciding right now.
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...or on a .com, .net or .org tld, since "having a business connection with Verisign" is enough to put you under US jurisdiction. Apparently.
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Ugh, this strikes me as a terrible idea.

If it's not important enough to show on mobile it can probably be removed on the desktop too.
The fact that the secret service are involved? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3597821
Yes. I was never advocating advanced configuration. Since when did Windows and OS X allow advanced network configuration through the command line? NetworkManager is supposed to be a simple, user-friendly tool. My mother does not know what "static IP addresses" or "DHCP" or "gateway" are, she just wants the damn wifi to work. Can you imagine her typing in iproute2 commands?
This appears to be free for consumers at least. Some businesses may be charged. Amounts are for £1-£300 and there is a maximum of £5000 a day. You do not actually need a uk mobile to receive just a uk bank account, so people abroad could take payments relatively easily.
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For some reason I always imagine porn sites to be run by guys in cheap suits and lots of hair gel. Then I realize that in order to run a site with the kind of traffic that some of them have, you really need to have some decent engineers on staff.
If they did this none of the manufacturers would have taken on the platform though. Why should Google dictate to them what they put in their own products?

If Google wanted to standardise Android they should have never released it as an OS for all and produced the phones themselves.
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I would hate to have to resize my window every time I want to read a more concise version of an article. Still, looks like a fun exercise.
Awesome, I'm not the only one that hates apps that are nothing more than a browser for a single website. What are people thinking, that we like to have a separate app for every website we enjoy visiting? Have they actually ever used a smartphone/tablet?

If your website links to other sites and you load that in Safari again? Guess what, you just lost me. I'm not going to close Safari and load your app again, whereas closing a new tab would have returned me to your site. The same thing happens when your in-app browser just isn't up to scratch: I'll have to copy-paste the address into Safari and I'm annoyed and gone.
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Thanks for posting a follow up to your dilemma and what exactly you did. I often read about interesting situations people here on hacker news are in but often lack the final result/outcome.
Surely this give you the impression about how powerful this team is.
I don't know if this is too much borderline not to cause big consequences.

Also if I don't if this is the best ways to protest, I support the cause.
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But unfortunately for Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus is more important than facts/truth.
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A company like apple optimises for good looks. We all knew that and we have proof since Antennagate; don't try to deny that.

After breaking my second laptop with fluids (first was ruined with coffee; second with it standing in water, which was rain accumulated in my not properly closed "watertight" bag) I started buying Thinkpads. They have specially designed "Fluid drains". Because all laptop manufacturors know that spills are one of the highest death-causes for laptops. http://youtu.be/d7cvi00OZDM
Oh yes. We should also mention the horrible broken piece of crap called "Onswipe", that produces a slow, broken, confusing interface that also happens to limit screen space dedicated to reading and breaks built-in Safari zooming.

For some reason people think that they need to have a "Special Tablet Version". You don't! Just have a normal web site, we'll be fine!

The onswipe situation got so bad that whenever I encounter a site using it I immediately click "back" and never come back again.

UPDATE: Oh, I should also mention that half the time when trying to click "back" I actually click the silly Onswipe button in the upper left corner of the screen that pretends to be the back button but actually does something else (takes you to the main blog page I think). Cursing ensues.
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Makess sense when you see how much mobile data costs.
Sure, not only there is huge traffic, they also generate tons of money, so porn sites are definitely not second citizens in the web from a technical point of view.
You'd be surprised if you went to meetings with porn business companies in Japan. Stylish offices, elegant suits, great manners, no hint of actual porn anywhere. In fact, you could easily confuse the office with an investment bank.
I agree with you to some point that Apple's focus on quality has played a large part in their success. However, an equally large amount has been due to heavy branding/advertising of Apple as the superior, luxury brand. This influences people's feeling of the device more than the difference between constantly running at 60fps or sometimes dropping to 50fps.

Apple users are willing to pay for this. It is comparable to paying €1000 for a handbag. People often justify that it is worth it by pointing out the superior quality of an LV bag, which is true, but it wouldn't matter much to them if the brand wasn't known at all.
IMO this is part Safari's fault for not giving you the option of acting like a desktop browser and not being able to run Flash. The former can be solved by downloading a different ipad browser.
This is one of the biggest myths of Android. Apple doesn't have manufacturer skins, therefore they must be utterly and irredeemably evil.

On the other hand, if you actually look at it objectively, manufacturers filled in many genuine gaps and made the early Android OS look much better than the default. Various innovations they introduced have been brought back into core Android and/or stolen by CyanogenMod etc. From a business perspective, a lot of Android's permissiveness towards their hardware and network partners has obviously succeeded beyond most people's expectations.

So the skins have both good points and bad and there are shades of gray but mostly you get the loud opinion of Android geeks (who want the very latest stock as a point of principle) and Apple geeks (who will tear down anything that Apple doesn't have e.g. big screens) usually with the assumption that what they think is important is the only reality.

It's also worth noting that Android is clearly aiming to be more than just a phone or tablet OS, so customisation is probably required to support e.g. car computers.
Can you quote some examples of this? Like in any community there is a lot of conservatism, but how is it influential?

I hear quite some complaints that Ubuntu/Debian/kernel changes are going too fast, more than that it is going too slow. Seems the conservatists complain a lot (about the new UIs, about new logging systems, about new init daemons, about new process IPC systems, etc) but are not really that influential on the actual projects.

What am I missing?
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The original vision is a good one and it works.

You need to consider the cost of preventing bad devices and bad UI extensions. The cost is just what you see in iOS: Limited choice of devices. Restrictive censorship rules for users and developers. No checks and balances.

Scolling works well on my Nexus S by the way.
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How are you getting the actual content?
I'm surprised Google couldn't tell him what it was. Exactly what are they protecting by not telling people what rules they've broken?

Surely, all the breakable rules are in the T's & C's anyway?
Don't know why you got downvoted. Bootstrap definitely isn't near jQuery UI's code quality/documentation.
No! That version of the library analogy makes the ratios much too small.

CPU to main RAM: actually about 150:1; more like 30:1 in your analogy.

Main RAM to HD: actually about 200,000:1; more like 120:1 in your analogy.

The reason why "the discussion of second/nanosecond" is worth having is precisely that if you just say "very slow" and "a lot of time" then you're likely to think about ratios of the sort in your analogy, when the reality is much much much worse. (Extreme case: HD to CPU registers. Actual ratio: about 30 million to 1. Ratio in your analogy: about 4000 to 1.)
I'm at 1.1.12 that came with Ubuntu. These problems have been around for years: I'm glad they're fixed now (obviously in 1.1.13?) but I must say they apparently weren't a priority for the VLC developers.

I'm glad to hear that the keyboard shortcuts have been fixed, too. The super/Windows key problem was particularly nasty: you couldn't leave VLC running on the background if you wanted to use other programs.

This apparently means that as of 1.1.13, I can configure away the braindead movement keybindings. By default, I have to keep shift and/or ctrl pressed to jump around the movie. Plain left/right do what? Go to a mysterious Next/Prev or something? What's that and who uses that? Totem got the keyboard controls right here, unfortunately. Totem doesn't even need the modifier keys because right is a bigger jump forward than left is backward, so you can just use two keys to jiggle yourself to the right position.

The flickering popup menus can be reproed like this: play a movie (a dvd preferably), go fullscreen, right-click on the screen and try to navigate to some other DVD title or chapter. This involves a lot deep submenus and they flicker frantically while the movie is playing. Not a biggie but this has been there forever, too, and gives a shoddy impression of the user interface that adds up.
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