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> reddit specifically said create your own subreddit and post what you want (as long as it is not spam)

I think moderators can approve spam so you can even post spam to your own subreddit if you wish.
/r/atheism I agree -- I have no idea where that came from.

r/trees -- come on. They're currently walking a very thin line but it's just a matter of time until people start crossing it. Case in point: http://www.reddit.com/r/NYCtrees/comments/mw8h0/someet_up/

It was one cautious commenter away from being a thread all about where to meet up to do and buy illegal drugs. You think that just because you say "share" with a wink and a nod everyone's immune from prosecution?
In other words, stop visiting TechCrunch.

I'm way ahead of you.
I'm pretty sure AOL is a major investor in CrunchFund so I don't think it's fair to say they conned AOL.
What are telltale signs that you're working at a "sinking ship" company?
Thinkpads. They might not look as nice, but they are very robust.

I have already dropped mine from the table and flooded the keyboard with an entire glass of diet soda.

If I am out working with other people I always smile when people start putting their macbooks into special protective sleeves and what not. I just take mine and throw it into my bag.
While there may be a fresh-water crisis on a global scale, that doesn't mean there is a shortage everywhere. There are lots of places where there are ample water supplies, and use of the water there doesn't really effect water availability in places where it's in short supply.

Also, you can cool a nuclear reactor with ocean water. Seabrook Station in NH is cooled this way, as are other reactors located on ocean coasts, presumably.
My program, lerner (http://github.com/zhemao/lerner) does something similar on Linux using libnotify.
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So a 2 month old post (that wasn't even in /r/trees) whose TOP comment says specifically "do not talk about actual trading of drugs" is your evidence that /r/trees is illegal? Besides, there's nothing inherently illegal about me claiming "I sell lots of drugs". Yes, it's (not) true, drivebyacct2 sells massive amounts of marijuana. Come persecute me and everyone else in this thread!

Even the second comment is how to be safe and not attract too much attention. The third top comment suggests that it be a "treeless" meetup.

In the interest of fairness, I've never been to /r/nyctrees before and it's certainly a different style than trees. I'm still not sure anything there looks like dealing and again, I don't really see "hey, let's get high and meetup in [some] park" as being that dangerous or scandalous.
/r/jailbait was shut down by the /r/jailbait moderators, not the reddit admins.
You can, it's called a Hackintosh.
Maybe it's time to look past the US.
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This seems like a useless statement. Surely no one is consciously failing people they know fit the team and can perform the job. The whole point of interviews is noisily assessing these things. Point me at a reliable, cost-efficient way of determining that and I'll gladly champion it.
"The point people are making is that once we start making judgement calls like this"

You act like there's a real choice here. The other choice was Reddit goes out of business. Reddit made the obvious choice.

"there will be more and more calls from the community to make more judgement calls to increase the net and shutdown other types of sub-reddits that they disagree with."

Welcome to the real world. Oh you let kids in your site? Kids have parents. Parents demand standards for places their kids go. Want to startup a reddit clone with no standards? Have at it! Let us know how it works out for you.

"Much in the same way that once we give the government a censorship filter on the Internet"

It's also the case that once you set up an infrastructure to prosecute murderers it becomes easier for the government to move from arresting people for murder to hey let's just arrest some people we don't like for reason XYZ.

That's not a legitimate argument for not having an infrastructure to prosecute murderers though.
One the 2nd page near the end they discuss the feasibility of adding network-transparency to Wayland; according to the author Wayland is both hugely asynchronous (so network lag isn't a blocking issue) as well as completely event-driven, so receiving those events from a local process or a remote connection are the same thing to it.

I don't think we'll all have what we want soon, it sounds like mid-2013 or end of 2013 before all the dust is settled and we know what our Wayland-future has in store for us.

Until then, there looks to be just too much low-level work to get done to try and guess where it will all fallout.
How could these "journalists" be impartial when they are financially involved with the companies they report on?
Dan Lyons is afflicted with the combination of being a very talented writer, but a terrible journalist. He's late to a lot of stories--I mean, he's JUST NOW writing about Arrington's conflicts?? And, he's frequently 180 degrees wrong about the stories he does cover--see his coverage of SCO for the most infamous example.

I remember my reaction when it was revealed that Dan was behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog. It was approximately, "Huh? Who's that?" And every time I read a non-Fake-Steve-Jobs piece from Dan I am reminded of why I had that reaction. The guy is just not a good tech journalist.

He's an incredibly entertaining writer though. I wish he would take his talents south and put out a sitcom or movie or something creative.
I'm not sure I'd like to be the last passenger on an unmanned bus at midnight

What about the last passenger on an empty subway car?

As for reinforced concrete and 2x4s, these are already mass manufactured products. There is no reason to 3d print them.

Also, do the 3d printed shoes look worse than these? http://styloot.com/shop/shop/#/category=54cad3dc-1b9c-11e0-8... (disclaimer: link to my startup)
Okay, so some part of our risk estimation ability comes from risk-evaluation-specific heuristics that have developed in ancestral environment. But how much impact does this have on the result of any serious evaluation? How easily do the ancestral parts get overridden by rational correction or outright calculation?
And when legitimate bug reports are filed, they get ignored or worse, mischaracterised as the impure attacking his religion.
It's plausible, but a corporate ecosystem is a lot different than a corporation. For example, the utility functions are different, the role and authority of leadership, the risk involved for each participant. Actually, it's quite a different beast.

Plus, I can think of plenty of ways external influences COULD kill the startup ecosystem. Congress could pass laws that make it much harder to start companies. Developers could figure out that the startup value proposition is not that great if you're not a founder. The market for internet ads could dry up (a significant risk to many startup business models). Big companies could develop techniques to quickly iterate on products rather than ceding ground to more agile startups. Laws could change that make it more expensive to acquire startups. Other industries could be created that make startups less enticing to young people. Taxes and security laws could change in a way that makes it much harder to distribute equity to employees.

Any of these things could kill the startup ecosystem depending on the magnitude of the change, and probably a lot of other stuff I'm not even thinking about. The idea that the ecosystem could kill itself also seems pretty preposterous to me. There are parts of the country where there isn't much of an ecosystem, but startups still exist. Startups aren't created because of an ecosystem, but because it is financially and economically advantageous to do so for some people.

Yeah, overall this view that the ecosystem is invulnerable from outside pressures and highly vulnerable to interior ones strikes me as fairly naive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blank
Also, you probably want to double the salary figure to get an idea of the total compensation cost to the company doing the hiring. A $70k worker can easily have a compensation package that costs $140k to the company doing the hiring, depending on the exact benefits and what sort of discounts the employer can wring from insurance companies, if most employees have families, if there's relocation assistance, etc. Since there aren't a lot of qualified people to work in the nuclear industry I'd expect the packages to be pretty decent.
This is pretty bad. I tried with CSS turned off and it was still unusable. Trying to deal with this makes me want to go to craigslist for some counter style. Balance out the excessives.
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You forgot the abject Google-hate.
You can also use the waste heat from a nuclear generation facility to desalinate water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination

"In a December 26, 2007, opinion column in the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nolan Hertel, a professor of nuclear and radiological engineering at Georgia Tech, wrote, "... nuclear reactors can be used ... to produce large amounts of potable water. The process is already in use in a number of places around the world, from India to Japan and Russia. Eight nuclear reactors coupled to desalination plants are operating in Japan alone ... nuclear desalination plants could be a source of large amounts of potable water transported by pipelines hundreds of miles inland..."[12]

A typical aircraft carrier in the U.S. military uses nuclear power to desalinate 400,000 US gallons (1,500,000 l; 330,000 imp gal) of water per day.[14]
Notifo + GrowlNotifo was a way better way to do this since it was push
> sexual images of children

The real question is how far can you stretch this definition. If you find someone jacking off to a picture of a mother holding her newborn baby, is that image now 'sexual' and fair game for censorship? What about a couch[1]?

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGU7MlDYgXA
Silicon Valley is not the greater public, it is a collection of very talented, motivated, rich people. It could be very influential in Washington, but until recently has chosen to avoid it instead.
Yes, OSX comes with Python and Perl. Both are somewhat limited. There have been issues with 64bit with Snow Leopard's Python and adding Perl modules to the default perl can break things. Dealing with multiple installations of each can have problems. I think modern Linux distributions handle this better.
I'm sure the have copies laying around if it's only a TB. But I'm sure google's goal was to shut down a service to cut costs and complexity.
None of his issues (except the purely cosmetic complaints) apply to Turbo Pascal, which has been the de-facto standard dialect of Pascal for nearly 3 decades.
The "big company edition" is particularly sobering for everyone who's ever worked in one.
No, piracy exists because it's cheaper than buying a product.
Quick, someone pick up gaudyhtml5.com while it's still available.
I second Wordpress. It's also easy to modify if you'd like to make changes that haven't already been made by others through the many plugins and templates available.
Increasing the rates paid for electricity actually helps renewables, by making them more competitive. Just like any increase to the gas tax helps electric vehicles compete, any increase to the average price-per-kWh makes alternative energy sources that much closer to economic viability.
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I switched for a slightly different reason. In my case, some of the bleeding edge branches of projects I cared about weren't even building on OSX. Also, system default versions of software like GDB aren't quite as recent as their Linux counterparts - which forced me to have to deal with MacPorts and the like.
My brother updated his birthday to the 9th of the current month for 8-9 months straight and got birthday wishes every month. He carefully monitored for and deleted people giving it away on his wall, and reading the posts (often the same people for several months) was hilarious. 'hey man, I totally thought your birthday was in May? oh well, happy birthday!'
Yawn. More Valley melodrama. Let's all agree that everybody's a jerk sometimes and move on.
The key question that arises in my mind is simply this: why is perception so important in Silicon Valley? It seems clear that money influences tech reporting to a fairly high degree, but what is the economic incentive? In a universe of makers, shouldn't the things made speak for themselves?
> It's just embracing the ASI.

As opposed to embracing the rationally derived and broadly accepted coding guidelines used by over 99% of open-sourced javascript projects.

I could embrace linguistic documentation and still speak a form of English that would be unnecessarily dense or terse, or just plain incomprehensible to 99% of the English speaking public.
It doesn't look like they used refrigeration units here, or any insulation either. Seems like these would be really cold in the winter?
> not even within a year

It was less than "less than or equal to a year?"
Jajah steels users cash
February 14, 2012

Just thought everyone should be aware that Jajah steels your money.

Under there new policy they now “expire’ funds in your account after 6 months.

I had money left in my account since Jajah first went online and never had any problems until this year when I discovered all my money GONE.

Now we all know that money doesn’t expire, so this is just a way to steel whatever is in your Jajah account.

People should be aware that what was a good value suddenly became the most expensive calls you may ever make.

This is copy from Irene in there billing department-

A credit balance in your JAJAH Account expires 6 months after the last chargeable use of JAJAH Services. Credit balances that are not used within the said 6 months day period will be lost.
If engineers could pursue nuclear power free from influence and interference, then I would have full confidence in their ability to create safe systems. Unfortunately politics and other forces have a way of always intruding.

Feynman's analysis of the Challenger disaster, and of the engineer who stayed up in the middle of the night refusing to sign-off on the launch in the face of commerical and political pressure ought to give anyone pause. In fact he was able to cite the exact reason for failure that occured - gaseous breach of the O-rings, due to operation outside design paramters. The fact his career was also finished, is the icing on the cake.

Chernobyl(cumulative maintenance procedural failures) and Fukushima (concrete walls too low to withstand the Tsunami) also stand as evidence that science and engineering doens't exist in a vaccum and always gets co-opted.
Might this be considered a symptom of an architecture problem? I'm far from an Erlang expert but my understanding is that processes generally should be short lived, except for supervisors, which should only supervise. Instead of having a single long-lived process handling a lot of large binaries would a better design be to have separate processes handling each binary?
Reminds me of the case a few years ago when some locality wanted to copyright a law, because they'd literally purchased the rights to the text from some industry group.

That argument didn't go over well with the courts.
As a counterpoint: Spelunky is great fun, extremely hard, and very addicting. It's levels are randomly generated, and if you die you start over from the very beginning; it's perma-death.
I know that for me, loading of content while scrolling is terrible. On a forum where few images are shown, I find that quickly scrolling to the bottom of a page results in a pretty noticeable pause before rendering content.

It seems to be significantly worse when zoomed in. If it matters, here's a link to a page where I always see this behavior, though I think it's really pretty endemic: http://kolspading.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3

(This is on a Galaxy Nexus.)

-edit-
Oh, just noticed that my other pet peeve bug seems to have been fixed! :) When loading a link while zoomed in, you no longer see a flash of the current page zoomed out.
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I have to disagree. I think making a hard game that is still fun is very challenging. But when you accomplish it, it's an even better platformer than the not-so-hard one. Take Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) and Rayman Origins (Wii/360/PS3). Both are very hard, especially DKCR. But they are very hard in fair, legitimate and satisfying ways. Beating the later levels in DKCR takes a bit of dedication, but is oh so satisfying when you get in the zone and find that beautiful path through the level.

Also see Super Meat Boy. It's basically a hard as nails platformer where you can and will die hundreds if not thousands of times trying to beat it. It's another great example of very hard (it's way harder than both RO and DKCR), but still fair, fluid, and "zen-like".

I don't think any automatically generated levels could ever reach the level of flow that the games I mentioned have, though.
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Free-Land-in-the-USA

Apparently middle-of-nowhere North Dakota, Kansas, and Alaska are the spots to look at.
I realize that traditional consulting companies hitch themselves to particular vendors or sets of vendors. I was surprised that consultants would act as Party Commissars, reporting developers or groups that depart from their preferred vendor(s). I thought reporting people for deviation from a party line went out in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell.
We've been using Parse for about a month in building the backend for an iOS app and we are loving it. It is very simple to use and still pretty powerful. Also, Parse is pretty good at responding to questions quickly.
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A "Canonical" organization, you say?
Well, they could try and intentionally correct their coverage in the opposite direction. I'm reminded of the elementary school teachers in my small town, who had to teach and grade their own children at one point because they were the only teacher of that grade in town. Like those teachers, the journalists won't get it perfect, and some won't even bother trying, but it is possible to try and avoid favoritism.

That said, 'journalists' in the tech space have never been particularly impartial - many establish meaningful relationships with entrepreneurs in the tech industry, and those people tend quite naturally to get more and more favorable coverage.

This is one of the points Mike is making - Dave is being treated more harshly than a generic CEO in the same situation because he's disliked personally by certain journalists. I don't know if it's true in this case, but it's certainly plausible.

Honestly, it's almost preferable to have a financially-entangled tech press, because at least then the conflicts are (usually) publicly disclosed. It's far easier than figuring out who goes drinking with whom in their spare time.
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I wonder how much of that is due to the economy.
It's as if people think that any journalist is unbiased. At least MG, MA, and SL all share their bias so openly. You don't think Dan is biased in his reporting? Please.
What's wrong with having the title link to:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)%2Bsqr...
> IP rights to the same work in different countries are sold separately, and can end up being owned by different companies

My understanding is that most licences grant permission to consume the content (listen to music, watch the film ...) irrespective of the country of your physical location (as long as its not public broadcast or rented out). Otherwise I would need to repurchase all my ipod songs and reading books when I go on holiday.

> Also, different countries have different economies, which means it makes sense to manage distribution in separate countries separately.

In physical distribution this makes sense. Each country has a different import/customs bureaucracy which must be followed which takes time and money. Then you need agreements with shipping, wholesalers, etc. But over the web, serving separate countries is trivial. In fact, the web server doesn't know where your customer is until you geolocate their IP address.

Besides, I'm sure there were reasonable business reasons to exclude blacks from certain businesses too. Perhaps allowing blacks into a pub would irrevocably damage its brand with its standard clientele; perhaps allowing blacks to sit on a bus would mean the business would need more buses to ensure that all whites could have a seat; perhaps allowing blacks to rent a room in a hotel would mean it would be more expensive to keep track of whether the bed sheets have been used by a black couple or not.

Legitimate business concerns may explain discrimination but not justify it.
Read about SuperMemo for another take on computers programming people.
That whole introduction needs to be scrapped and rewritten for NPOV (also for shitty writing). And I'm not sure the guy is notable enough for his own page.

That being said, his 'about' page is more useful than wikipedia in this case:

http://steveblank.com/about/
I will check it, thank you. However what I was talking is a little more customization then that. If it is dev build, it should link to github, start with zsh etc.
For the curious, here are arguments on both sides of this:

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/05/why-you-should...

http://www.hadess.net/2010/05/client-side-windows-and-miscon...
I think this article is remiss in not mentioning the dozen or so P2P live streaming systems that have been in production for years. Without any details (really, any at all), it's hard to connect this live BitTorrent with the idea of killing TV.
This is why I love HN. A purely rational discussion with citations. Not even Reddit achieves this level of discourse.

I live in New Zealand where many are extremely anti-nuclear, almost to the point of ridiculousness. This causes massive problems: soured relations with United States (and other nuclear capable countries), high prices for electricity, and an arrogant perception on our environment.

The last point is very important: dairy farms and coal mining are destroying the environment but kiwis still perceive themselves as 'clean and green'. 50% of our waterways are toxic. 28 Miners lost their lives digging for coal in one accident, yet there was no massive backlash against coal in New Zealand. If one person died in a nuclear power plant, there would be questions over the entire feasibility of nuclear power in multiple countries, which is ridiculous.
http://matternet.net/ Point to point delivery may not be such a far fetched idea technologically. Quadcopters are becoming more and more common. But legal and security hurdles may slow down the adoption of such services.
I see what you did there.
As soon as Ubuntu disallows non Ubuntu designed software from running, you might see some consistency. But what would the reaction in the linux community be to such a move?
Chasing (mostly) attempts at comedy that disagree with your sensibilities may be a fun pastime (seriously) but it has absolutely no part in any sort of struggle for moral improvement if such process is even taking place.
Michael Arrington's response:
http://uncrunched.com/2012/02/13/we-are-better-than-this/
Project Euler is fun and all that. But no real way to learn about all those techniques you need in the first place. A particularly hard problem might set you off learning about stuff in that direction. I'm still working on a way to generalize my dynamic programming knowledge enough to solve problem 256 at the moment. Problem 202 was fun, when you realized what the problem was really about.