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I feel like downvote is a censure
First of all sorry, for any potential grammatical error or error, i'm not so good in english.

We all hate being censored right, we fight censure whenever we see it because we think it is not right.

All is in the title, i know that down vote is there to discourage people for posting craps, etc... Down vote is a tool, and a good tool if used wisely.

But how many time have you been down voted because you were THINKING differently from the main stream? often people down vote you just because they don't like your arguments or because they disagree.
When you are down voted because you expressed your thougths, this is censure, because the next time you'll think twice before posting anything, the next time you'll just refrain because you don't want to loose more karma.

I think that down vote should have a cost for the one that down vote.

For example, when you down vote someone you also loose karma somehow. or we could see how many time every one down voted. So we can see the haterz just by reading the thread.

What do you think about Down vote? do you feel the same about it?
A lot of applications used on ARM may still be crippled due to lack of NEON assembly code. Many number-crunching applications, like compression, have lots of MMX/SSE SIMD on x86, but no NEON, and will likely be slow on ARM until they do.
It's ironic on a site called 'hacker news' where everyone knows what the older 'proper' definition of hacker people don't seem to care or even to point out what the older, 'proper' definition of troll is.

Fortunately wikipedia still has in their definition:

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4] The noun troll may refer to the provocative message itself, as in: "That was an excellent troll you posted".

So, a proper troll on HN might pop and point out that functional languages, while pretty and amusing, are largely unused because their performance is insufficient and make a comparison about, say, perl, provoking people to correct them and argue the point.

Look up adequacy.org to learn about proper trolling.

This guy is just a jerk.
What are you going to spend the money on?
That's quite a common time (10-13 minutes) from cruising altitude to landing at most airports in East Asia. America has other issues that interfere with more sensible landing procedures that need to be addressed, but are unlike to be.
I'm sure that's fair use, and not theft, because the Gray Lady doesn't do such things, and you're vile for even suggesting it.

But seriously, yes, sue. And offer to settle if Bill Keller prints a front page apology that makes note of the disconnect between his self-righteousness on the topic of copyright violation and his paper's (apparent) willingness to engage in it when it suits them.
That has two sources - one is the complexity of the python interpreter the other is the complexity of the toolchain itself. Compiling converge takes ~5 minutes, while compiling python interpreter about 30minutes. There is definitely an ongoing effort to make it faster, for example by using the STM to parallelize it to multiple cores.

PS. Type inference errors happen in roughly 1/5th of the compilation time. Not ideal, but better than waiting 30min.
This draft includes previously unpublished versions of Chapter 10, "User microposts", and Chapter 11, "Following users". The original announcement is here:

http://news.railstutorial.org/a-full-draft-of-the-ruby-on-ra...

This is a full draft, but it's not yet complete. In particular, I'm considering replacing Blueprint CSS with Bootstrap for the final version. Please let me know what you think.
Cray is still around and moving to Big Data world
Done!

https://github.com/jverkoey/iOS-Framework#resources
Keep in mind too, that the data involved is all small enough that rainbow tables could easily be used to reverse them. My cell phone number's unsalted MD5 hash is trivially reversable via a google search - and if you salted it, you couldn't then compare it to the hash out of someone else's address book.

I've seen rainbow tables claiming 100% coverage of all <14 lowercase characters. I'd bet reasonable money that there's a rainbow table specifically generated for email-address-like strings and another for name-like-strings. I'm pretty sure both names and email addresses have a lot less entropy than random lowercase letter for the same lengths.

Using hashes to obfuscate while still maintaining comparison ability of low entropy data really doesn't help security much…
What is hard to realize for you ?
Your neighbours to the north also have laws like this that are on par with the DPD. The EU treats PIPEDA as essentially an implementation of the DPD so that DPD compliant orgs can share data with Canadian businesses.
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Gumroad could proxy the download (what else would people be selling?) but I suppose that implies large bandwidth costs.
Sahil is very sharp and a great designer. What's more amazing is how well he understands the underlying gears that drive Silicon Valley. Congrats and expecting big things.
The iphone is an ipod touch on the secondary market. But a used Android phone looks pretty much useless to most people, especially when you can get a new phone for free or cheap. The Google Galaxy Nexus is now $99 on Amazon Wireless -- quite a bit cheaper than any comparable iphone. It's interesting that we used to throw away cell phones but now they have value.
I am assuming all the icons will be unique though, else it may lead to a lot of confusion

I think this might just be a programmer's way of (over)thinking it : "the users are unique, so the avatars must be unique, or chaos ensues". In actuality it will just be mildly confusing at best, but nothing earth shattering. You still have the name next to the avatar for reference, as well as the project, and with several dozens of them, most will be different still.
> I'm actually surprised at how many people assume this was done with malicious intent.

I don't care whether or not it was done with malicious intent. What bothers me is that copies of my address book are floating around out there without my permission.
In Canada, that's pretty normal. They lock you in tight. We're disadvantaged in almost every way when it comes to mobile carriers. Horrible.
"But there's certainly great value in the book"--I don't think there is. Here's why I don't think Kiyosaki offers anything useful in the categories of knowledge you've identified:

- "business vs 'rat race'": As others have pointed out, business is certainly not better than the rat race for everyone, or even most people. Based on every study I've ever seen, the reality seems to be that starting a business is only appropriate or beneficial for a small subset of the population. I.e. people with certain unique skillsets, a high tolerance for risk, and boatloads of time to invest.

- "building assets vs liabilities": In other words "make lots of money, and try not to borrow too much." Well, duh. Anyone who would even think to buy a personal finance book can probably appreciate that income is desirable and debt undesirable. They don't need Kiyosaki's help with that.

- "learning to sell": I don't think Kiyosaki offers anything close to a practical guide on improving your sales skills.

- "active vs passive income": Passive income is not a realistic goal for the vast majority of people. Even if you found a successful business, chances are, you will continue to invest large amounts of effort to keep it running profitably. You pretty much have to win the startup lottery if you want passive income. As the term "startup lottery" implies, it's a pretty rare occurrence in the real world.

- "value of financial literacy": This is just the same as saying "it's a good idea to know how to make money." Telling people to have financial literacy is worthless if you don't offer any useful education on finance. It's even worse if you instead offer patently wrong advice, such as ignoring your taxes in order to "pay yourself."
They already offer that option (to upload directly to them) it's an option alongside using a link. Even if someone uses the upload link the problem of buying -> downloading -> uploading elsewhere exists, just like it exists on itunes and any other service, so really it's a none issue...
Makes an interesting comparison to the page where they "sell" cohort analysis:
https://www.custora.com/home/feature_cohort_analysis
I also think pay for performance is overrated. It won't help if you have the wrong guy in the first place.

True, but with pay-for-performance hiring the wrong guy means you paid less (since he didn't perform).

Further, I don't know of a viable alternative. Don't pay for performance? Now you're dealing with a problem of adverse selection - you're more likely to land with a lemon.

The chief problem with CEO pay is that it exhibits much optionality without compensation to the shareholders for that - if the CEO does well he experiences a gain, if he doesn't, he just gets fired (unless the failure is fraudulent or very public).
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This is exactly the data Google and MSFT and others get from toolbars. Google and MSFT use this kind of data to improve search results (noting how long users stay on a site, etc.). It's key to the Panda update. So it's no wonder Google pays people to install this.
Fantastic - thank you for sharing this!
If the set of data did contain 3e519 entries then yes it certainly would generate collisions, however it you look at a more restrictive set of data, lets say 5 emails per person alive then you're looking at about 2^35 email addresses which could easily be hashed by MD5 with out a significant chance of collision.

Instead of an MD5 they could just as easily upload a bloomfilter which would expose even less data and would compress it significantly, however it would be more computationally expensive to generate matches that way vs. hashing.
Here are a list of things that iOS apps can't access by default:

- location (only accessible via permissions dialog)
- existing photos and videos (only accessible via apple-provided picker dialog)
- reading email or SMS (never accessible)
- sending email or SMS (only accessible via apple-provided compose dialog)
- any data or settings for other apps (never accessible)
- push notifications (only allowed after permissions dialog)
- Safari history, cache, cookies, etc (never accessible)

In fact, the only thing apps can access without permission that's really problematic are the contacts. And yes, I expect Apple will be closing this very soon.

You could maybe argue that accessing the live camera and microphone feed are an issue?
Congratulations! I remember it very well when I saw your post on HN. At that time I thought this is such a simple problem and simple solution that is ... hmm... bound to be successful! Just like pen.io which was just as simple, but if you think about it, why does it have to be difficult? I'll sure look forward to using your service.
Well, this is not a place for "hackers" with the hardcore definition of the term. The linux development mailing list or Lambda the Ultimate might be better candidates. There are people of all skills on HN, from hardcore C programmers, to front-end developers, to front end guys, to entrepreneur guys, to programming enthusiasts, to designers, to system administrators and operations guys.

The topic of the post is highly relevant to a lot of stuff, from thinking about UI problems, to iterating on a problem, to business decisions, to the avatar issue in specific, etc.

Much much better than the not so unusual fare of "Show HN: I made a clone of reddit in Visual Basic, come see" or "How we got burned storing customer credit card info in plain text on a in memory database on an old overclocked Pentium-III under a cupboard in our kitchen".
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Too bad they don't list what GPS receiver they used. Most GPS receivers, to satisfy export restrictions, do not function above 60k ft or 1000 knots speed.

There is some ambiguity there, so some receivers only disable themselves if you are above 60k AND above 1000 knots, so people doing high altitude balloon work look for those, or they look for imported receivers.
No particular reason other than that we're fans. The Angry Birds avatars are just temporary while we're in beta.
Heh, that's a good point. Though most restaurant sites are so useless even on a computer that I don't bother visiting them -- I just check the hours/# on one of the review sites like Yelp.

In recent times most local places I care about have put up Facebook pages with easy to find info.
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Looking at that particular quote is a bit weird for me. I bought a second-hand Honda from a Mercedes dealership (obviously a trade-in), and the one thing the merc salesdude kept rabbiting on about was how reliable and mechanically sound Hondas are. I guess it depends on where you focus your 'attention to detail' :)

(The car has been pretty robust, and yes, the passenger capsule wouldn't be as nice as in a merc... but then again, when new these things go for half the price of a merc)
Thanks! I'd love to hear what you like/dislike about Basecamp.
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Since that blog is up and down here's a summary/replay http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/12/02/08/artists.paid.each.ti...
The two space indentation is probably to fit more code on the page without softwraps.
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> It has always amazed me that so many people treat their static content as something that needs to involve a database.

It's not static. Maybe the text is, but the entire HTML document is plenty dynamic. You always have your list of recent blog posts, often some dynamically calculated dates ("posted yesterday 25 hours ago"), some quote-of-the-day or other banner, and maybe advertisements. Personal blogs might be able to get away with HTML, but at a corporate level (even company-blogs like MSDN's) that doesn't fly, where tons of hands are in the pot all with their own widgets and contributions that must automatically go on every page of a site.

What you really want is a CMS with a compilation step that outputs static HTML each time something changes. That gives you the flexibility of database-driven CMS with the runtime performance of static HTML.
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Ferris borders on the extravagant when talking about his personal experimentation. He portrays the image of a guy who has tried a million different things to keep the reader from having to. It's extreme, but the actual "advice" is all fairly common sense.

He advocates a slow-carb diet, which has been shown to effectively help people reach a healthy and sustainable weight. He also advocates that people do complex exercises rather than over-focusing on specific muscle groups. That makes up the majority of his health advice, and is not especially controversial and is all fairly common sense. He's basically saying to eat healthy food and to workout regularly if you want to be healthy.

He does throw some stuff in the "love" section that's just meant to sell books, and it's pretty much filler material, but I still wouldn't consider it scammy or bad advice. He's not advocating that people go to extremes like he did.
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There's definitely the undecidable concept of intention, but there's also an undecidable concept of identity: for example, when is an MP3 file "the same" as a copyrighted song? You can encode a copyrighted song into different bitrates, swap left/right channels, slightly pitch shift, apply equalization, etc. Most likely, given some algorithm that tests audio identity, you could always come up with a way to create a copy that sounds the same to a human but is missed by the computer.

Granted, the fingerprinting algorithm used by YouTube is pretty good: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/
Which browser are you using? I am not seeing this no matter how much I resize the window. (I use Nightly, Firefox alpha)

Edit: To clarify, the line/link he posted splits across three rows automatically.
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Hmm, I read it more as "We actually have no idea what we're doing with any of this stuff and we're not giving you any more reasons to trust us with ANY data".

Written by their CEO => icing on the cake.
Inevitably, it ends up being the speaker's dislike of said brand.

Ah, Internet.
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great work Mr.Hartl. Best RoR tutorial for Rails newbie. Any plan on tutorial of RoR in depth?
What was the previous record? Diaspora?
It's astonishing to me how little understanding people have of Unicode.
While it's true that I have been down voted by people who disagree with my point of view, I think it would be very difficult to govern correctly.

The "make them lose a point" idea might work.
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This place is a privacy disaster waiting to happen. I smell an "ideas guy".
On linux there's screenkey :

http://pabloseminario.com/projects/screenkey/
> Only problem is: It was not a mistake.

I don't think the developers behind the product were thinking about it in a bad way when they did it that way. It was probably more practical to do it that way at that moment and they didn't give it more thoughts, like they would never have considered selling those informations.

I get that now it's a big deal since it became a huge product. I wouldn't call that a mistake though, the problem with personal information on internet is pretty recent (facebook, google+...) and developers don't really know how to deal with it yet.

I guess the more we see problems like that, the more developers will educate themselves on the matter.
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I fail to see the relevance of this.

In addition it somewhat upsets me that someone could get jail time for making an offensive comment. Depending on the jurisdiction or culture, I know I have said things that would be offensive to someone (specifically regarding religion.) To be faced with jail time over something like that does not sound like something I would expect from a western country.
They are following the same style as Stanford; they release a video each week. It personally helps me because I can set up time for it.
Um. Slight over-reaction. They might be right, I'm not sure. They're certainly enjoying their moment in the sun to bring out this huge major offense against the Times. Its Jason Balir all over again isn't it!? OMG!

From what I can tell:

1. The NYT didn't run the story "Death and Football" on their site

2. They provided a link to a bad scan of the PDF of "Death and Football"

3. The story, "Death and Football", is not easily accessible anywhere else (if at all?)

4. The point of the main Times story by Nocera directly related to the article

5. The only offense so far is: the PDF was hosted on Times servers

The only thing you can argue against is #5 and I think you could make a valid "fair use" argument based on the some of the other points. The PDF provided context.

And again, if the "fair use" argument doesn't hold up I think any story about this "theft: would take 3 paragraphs and not 30 or so...

Disclaimer: I'm a former Times employee (developer)
The effect is neat, but one minor technical issue: the page tries to ask for a monospaced font by using the CSS:

font-family: "Courier New";

Not everybody has Courier New installed, and some people who have it installed have disabled it. If the browser can't find a named font, it falls back on the default, which is usually proportional Instead, if you say:

font-family: monospace;

...that's less characters to type, and it guarantees you'll get some kind of monospaced font, no matter what the user has available.
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Hey, Corey from Custora here. We're huge fans of cohort analysis in general - it provides all kinds of insights into how customer behavior is changing. It's a powerful way of viewing historical data.

However, we need to be careful when using cohort analysis as a technique to predict lifetime value. There are many situations where cohort-based CLV predictions miss the mark by quite a bit.
Considering only 1% of android phones are capable of running ICS, I gotta blame it on the OS designer, not a reference hardware manufacturer.
Cheat sheets. There are some free cheat sheet makers on the web.
Great save for a bad mistake.

Still leaves me with a shitty feeling. Basically this boils down to "sorry we got caught", they knew what they were doing.

Not to single out Path, a massive number of apps are guilty of this behavior.
The biggest problem with all of this, and which I'm surprised no one else has mentioned, is that my Address Book isn't principally "personal data about me, which I wish to keep safe." It is "personal data about other, often more important people, who have entrusted me with the security of that data"!

If you pull my CEO's private contact info off my phone, or pull a high-level contact from some company we've been privately looking to acquire, you best pray that theft doesn't result in a leak of privileged business information.
I get the distinct impression you don't want a cofounder. You seem keen on having engineers, not this guy. You imagine this guy as a conduit to engineers. You don't think he's going to add value anytime soon. I don't think you're going to be able to work around these issues personally. You won't be happy with what he's bringing to the table and I suspect he will be unhappy given your perception of him.

I don't think there is a right or wrong here, it's going to be about what you're comfortable with and what he is comfortable with and finding a balance if he's going to cofound with you. To me it sounds more like you want another engineer or two, why not just skip business person and get them as cofounders. I know you mentioned difficulty finding them, but partnering with someone who doesn't help you (in reality or in your head) isn't a step forward.
That was my best guess too, and Skype is also ubiquitous and would be extremely difficult (popularity wise) to censor. But I doubt video data is truly random -- it probably has some structure to it.
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This is very interesting, if you have a few minutes, can you please explain briefly why this is the case to someone who doesn't know much about aviation?
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Congratulation Sahil, best of luck.
What is interesting to watch is that there are many market opportunities for these types of businesses where the costs to obtain customer and hand hold in the beginning is very high..

My personal example is a private business/equity exchange platform is just one example(I worked on one in Chicago).

So how does technology empower a start-up to change the costs of customer acquisition and change that customer cost of acquisition equation.

I do not think they solved the customer cost of acquisition yet..