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Just want to say that I deleted that "oh well" about 2 minutes after I posted it. Long before you wrote this comment. Stuff like this probably hits an RSS feed somewhere.

I'm not interested in this conversation at all. I'm not interested in debating moral relativism in the context of child pornography.

I have a sore spot regarding NTTP/Usenet, because the abuse inflicted on it to make it "anonymously" "publish" "binaries" killed Usenet, and Usenet was a far more valuable resource than Reddit is today. As a card carrying nerd (and former Usenet admin), I have trouble walking away from comments about Usenet.

But like I said, I'm not interested in the rest of this "debate". I opt out. I told you what I think, and, in the interest of clarity, I repeat: arguments in favor of retaining forums constituted for the purpose of sexualizing children are repellent.
What exactly did they gave up when Cooper talked about r/jailbait?
This looks like it could be quite useful. I do think the site would benefit from the addition of case studies. If you don't want to publicly share any on a blog, you could set up an email opt-in to receive them.
> I highly recommend a Strata from ZaReason (zareason.com). Unless you're going to be doing a lot of graphics-intensive stuff, definitely go for one with an Intel graphics card, b/c nvidia is a pain on Linux.

I'm assuming you meant to qualify that as NVIDIA's mobile chipsets. Though, I can't say I've had much trouble with them. I've certainly never had much trouble with their desktop products under Linux--I currently dual boot my home desktop between Linux and Windows with an NVIDIA card, and it runs just as well under either (ironically, Minecraft plays more smoothly under Linux...).

Certainly there are some general complaints related to NVIDIA's Linux drivers, but to be completely honest, I've run many NVIDIA cards--including mobile--under a variety of Linux flavors over the years and had few troubles. I even tried installing Arch on an ancient Dell laptop of mine for fun which is equipped with one of the early GeForce Go chipsets, and it still works quite well (KDE4 not so much, but LXDE is perfect); however, it requires installing an older driver.

I'd like to know where you got your information from, because I've run Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Arch all on top of fairly recent NVIDIA hardware. The only relatively minor difficulties I've had have all involved minor tweaks to xorg.conf but even those have greatly diminished in necessity.
With regard to memory usage in OS X I have never had any issues with my current iMac. I have 8 GB of memory, and despite very heavy usage (Safari/Chrome/Firefox for browser testing, Coda as IDE, Tower for Git management, Skype, Terminal, iTunes, MySQL Workbench, occasionally MAMP) I rarely see any swap usage. Currently my swap used is 2 MB.

(I must say that I am still using Snow Leopard. I refuse to install Lion because it is pathetic compared to the much more efficient Snow Leopard. I have installed it on my other Mac machine and am not impressed.)

Interestingly the most memory hungry program on my computer is Chrome. It seems to spawn a ridiculously huge number of processes:

Google Chrome 137.9 MB
Google Chrome Helper 29.5 MB
Google Chrome Helper 7.7 MB
Google Chrome Renderer 123.5 MB
Google Chrome Renderer 36.7 MB
Google Chrome Renderer 46.8 MB
Google Chrome Worker 26.6 MB
Google Chrome Worker 26.2 MB

That's a grand total of 7 processes and over 400 MB of memory for just three tabs. As much as I love Google Chrome its a little ridiculous.

iTunes is the second worst offender: 300 MB. I have a pretty large library, but its not that large. Perhaps it does some very rigorous caching.
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In my opinion, that's typically called a shill.
Alex, I enjoyed reading this tremendously. As a young guy, somewhat skeptical of anyone who claims authority on these matters, I grok you here:

I am not a business person. I don’t know what makes a good business. It seems like it helps to have a good idea, great people, the willingness to work hard, and an absolute shit-ton of luck. Being certain about much beyond that seems, well, a bit crazy to me.
"Internally they had a lot of people with Ruby and PHP experience, so Scala was appealing. "

Anyone notice this ??? logical?
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I don't really know of any. Nobody writes these sort of distributed applications from scratch. They're almost always evolved from monolithic database-backed applications. And the process of evolution is half development half ops. I doubt that tumblr as it exists today could be deployed from scratch, even if you had all of the source code of all of the systems.
Doubly ironic since I love to have reference books with me in Kindle format on my iPad - searchable, scannable (highlighted sections can be compressed together, and always with me). My paper books languish at home. With multiple offices and an apartment I don't, and I suspect this is relatively common, have "a" bookshelf.
+1 for Tuffmail. Also a long time customer. My favorite feature is the admin interface that lets you manage an unlimited number of aliases and route them to specific folders, e.g., foo@domain1.com => INBOX/foo/, bar@domain2.com => INBOX/bar/. Compare this to Google Apps and Fastmail, which both seem to limit the number of aliases you can create.
The issue is not performance. The issue is backward compatibility.

ALTER TABLE performance will eventually improve. PostgreSQL 9.1 lifts-off the lock-up limitation.

But what a performant ALTER TABLE will not improve is its intrusiveness to applications. When you change the schema you break the app.

That's the problem.

http://chronicdb.com/blogs/change_is_not_the_enemy
Yikes - I would like to read this but I can't even save it to Instapaper for my reading time on my mobile device. Irony...
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Brilliant piece.
The point I had was things can be bought for their inherent aesthetic value, independent of status signalling. Status signalling, while a deeply rooted biological behaviour, is a primitive imitation of the former.

Also, there is a correlation between pay and performance. You can't just strike out the empirical record for rhetorical convenience. It's closer tied to portion of pay in low-struck options, etc. versus cash pay but statistically significant nonetheless.
No doesnt mean No to those selling personal info
I'm the one who started working on client-side decorations for gtk+ originally, just as an experiment (but with encouragement from Kristian Høgsberg). After I quit Canonical I never heard that anyone else had picked up the branch, but every once in awhile I hear something about it when people start talking about Wayland.

Anyway, I was never really worried about the things that you're worried about. xmms proves that anyone who wants to write a shitty, completely custom UI with shitty window decorations is perfectly capable of doing it already. In fact, the gtk+ client-side decorations branch didn't make it easier for someone to do that the way everyone seemed to think it did.
To my knowledge it's not possible to initiate replies after a comment has been deleted and the comment was very visible when I pressed "Reply". (That, and how would I have known what it said, but whatever).

> I'm not interested in debating moral relativism in the context of child pornography.

Fine. But kindly take the rest of your judgmental, condescending insults to those of us who are having a more mature conversation elsewhere. If all you want to say is "CP BAD", fine, you shouldn't have bothered in the first place; as I've said repeatedly, we all agree with that sentiment. If you don't want to have the rest of the conversation, then your opinion is irrelevant.

>I repeat: arguments in favor of retaining forums constituted for the purpose of sexualizing children are repellent.

Jesus. Do you not get the point, do you not care, or are you incapable of defending your point so this is all you can resort to? Not a single person here is arguing that, in anything even close to that form. You are being entirely disingenuous, you know that and I don't think you care.
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Thanks Brandon:

1) Agreed

2) I've had a review that said something similar. I'm reluctant to show too much, because I'm trying to keep the overall use of the app to a very simple experience, and leave the "buying decision" as it were to the App Store. The piece of data I've come closest to including is a star rating... I'll revisit this with some more thought.

3) Agreed, right now it is choosing randomly from a database of all apps fitting criteria (price, device, country, category). Ideally, I would want to have a click through ratio on an app to determine the "most interesting" screenshots, but I haven't implemented all the data tracking to make this happen yet.
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I can't believe you're being downvoted, this is exactly why progressive enhancement can't be abandoned. As someone with poor vision, I've found most of the crap HN thinks is 'cute' to be completely unusable. The modern web is a huge pain to use, it was actually /better/ in 2005 than it is now, from a usability perspective. This is very scary, considering the renewed emphasis on good UI/UX.

The saving grace is that the 2012 internet has excellent mobile sites (they suck on mobile with user-scalable=0 or maximum-scale=1, but on a desktop browser things flow excellently).

Sadly you're sane understanding doesn't jive with the HN echo chamber, but you're spot-on. The web is more than just tech demos.
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What's your application?
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Centralia isn't even a town any more. Its buildings have all been reclaimed and condemned and the zip code has been revoked. The government is likely concerned that the fire is going to cause the entire area to subsist through loss of mass underground.
I agree with the overall argument and sentiment of Dan's article.

My ideal blog about technology startups would be about Silicon Valley as it is. It would be hard to run this blog. I'm not even sure it could be profitable, because most interesting information about what's happening in Silicon Valley is not written about. It's shared directly between people working here, and there's very little reason for those conversations to go public.

You see the same problems with journalists covering Washington and national politics. The journalists are willing to be used by politicians because it furthers their careers. It's so tempting to just give in. It's certainly more profitable.

On the other hand, if you take TechCrunch for what it is, I don't think it's unethical per se. You just have to know how to read between the lines.

Dan's article would be better if he didn't confuse angel and VC investment, though. Michael Arrington is certainly an angel investor, and he was one long before he started CrunchFund. He's probably an investor in CrunchFund's first fund, but as a General Partner he's acting as a VC, not an angel investor.

The key distinction being whether he's investing his own money (an angel investor) or LPs' money (a VC).
I'm really not sure what you mean; I tried to articulate my argument as best I could without being offensive (which is hard; the topics here are understandably emotional to a lot of people.) But I seem to have have only received superficial comments from you and my original post seems to be downvoted.

At the very least can I be told what my post did wrong and/or what norms I have broken to get this reception?
The commonsense definition of data should prevail here. Since taxpayers originally paid to compile the data, the county should put all of their GIS data on the web, free to all. If hosting costs are a concern, they should look into creating a torrent.
There are good reasons to start a company in a particular place, or to move your company from one place to another. “Because everyone else has” is not one of them.

Some of the good reasons which depend on "everyone else has":

* Your business model depends on providing physical services to those other businesses. (Gold rush, Levi's jeans.)

* You are planning on acquiring employees from the people who are already in the area. (Most startups in SV/SF.)

* You already live there because you went to where the jobs were.
There's a strange pattern of posts where commenters suggest an affiliate would be negatively impacted by a sudden uptick in referred customers successfully completing a sale.

In what bizarro world is this a problem?

If the customer acquisition cost (%) becomes higher than the vendor would like to continue paying, they will lower the commission they offer.

Vendors that pay affiliate fees do so willingly. They do this because all traffic comes from somewhere, and it is seldom free. If Amazon only has to pay one-referral for a completed sale vs. 100 click throughs required to complete the same sale, they're happy. If not, they'll down-correct their referral amount offered.
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Ubuntu has already been flamed to a crisp over Unity, so they might as well go all the way and remove all non-Unity apps. Fedora aka GNOME OS may beat them to it, though.
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Ask HN: Any good graphic/web design courses online?
I'm a backend developer who's seen a lot of quality stuff for teaching programming, for example:
* CodeSchool
* Udacity
* TeamTreeHouse
* OpenCourseWare (MIT, Stanford)

My Googlefu is letting me down so I was just wondering if the community knows of any similar resources for designers to hone their craft since I'm not really versed in that community?
Good points but I don't think witholding progress to support these services is a good idea.

The solution is to come up with best-practices and tools that allow both interactive and static versions to exist in tandem, with minimal overhead.

Catering to lowest common denominator means technology, for all humans, lags behind. This is a massive issue. Either the tools for consuming static content (e.g. google bot) need to evolve to embrace the modern internet, OR we need to produce simple tools for dynamic sites that transparently serve the static content for services that require it.

That said, there's a lot of simple elegance in a straight html page.
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Who knew that PayPal subscription change/upgrade amount can only be increased by 20%? So a merchant cannot have a $10 plan and a $30 plan. What a joke.
"He held his breath for a long time, but within a year he was forced to start again." "I believe it was actually about 5 minutes." "Is that not within a year?"

There's a huge difference between people remaining in a city through a nuclear bomb blast and people coming back to that city less than a year later. That's what the parent was trying to get across.
Big fan of ExpressionEngine. Was on the fence, but used it for a critical project where simplicity was the critical point, and it was a dream to work with. No issues, and nothing that limited our extensive development ideas from coming to life.
Engineers want to do "the best thing for the product". The trick is giving them enough information to equate "what is best for the product" with "what is best for the customer". That is when a good CEO/Product Manager earns his/her money.
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I'm trying to understand your last few sentences. Microsoft has open sourced huge amounts of code in the last four years or so. The entire MVC framework is open source, for example. Nuget (another open source project, but built with the community) is really driving the adoption of many open source projects in the larger .net world. You have companies like telerik (huge .net shop) releasing some of their own software open source now.

Microsoft even redistributes jquery. The culture (at least in the web side of .net) has really changed in the last few years.

Which brings me to your last sentence. Any software built with .NET will not run over the web? Where are you getting that from? I've been programming .NET for 8 years now, and I've only programmed stuff that runs over the web.
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Oh, then I misunderstood the purpose. Thanks.
Siegler falls into the category of "irritainment", entertainment via irritation. He's the type of guy you love to hate and I believe a lot of his popularity stems from that. I can't stand the guy and I think he's completely full of shit. And yet I read almost all of his blog posts.

The only other TechCrunch writer that I regularly read is Devin Coldewey and that's because he has interesting articles and actually seems knowledgeable about technology. In other words I have learned things from his blog posts.
In KDE at least, KParts Firefox plugin does a very good job for PDF viewing, using Okular.
There are compensating factors that make up for the relative sparsity of talent outside SFBA. SFBA talent is unusually expensive and talent acquisition in SFBA is more uncertain than in other areas. (We have an office there; we are hiring constantly in all three locations).

There are kernel hackers, Javascript engine developers, 2D graphics virtuosos, database engine designers and software security freaks in Cleveland and Dallas, and AmaGooBookSoft isn't competing with you for them.

There are good reasons to base out of SFBA (selling to tech companies is one of them). I'm not sure recruitment is a clear cut win, though; at least, not for indies.
I too have second thoughts about .NET. I absolutely love C#. I've worked in just about any language & dev stack out there and, to me, nothing comes close to the immense power of C#.
My biggest gripes with .NET is tooling and deployments. I do agree that sometimes you wait for ages for tools that are already available in other development stacks (think EF or Team Foundation). Deploying on .NET is an absolutely atrocious experience. Dealing with MSBuild, XAML workflows and WebDeploy is just a royal pain in the butt. On the other hand, I do have to say that when you have a rock-solid group of engineers working on a complex .NET solution, the architectural patterns are much easier to implement and bring new people into than other stacks I'd worked on. Everything just looks cleaner, plus you have some pretty solid frameworks you can tap into such as MVC for web, LINQ for powerful querying, WCF for service-oriented needs, WPF for beautiful desktop apps. Moving from all of this is certainly pretty tough. But I sometimes feel the need to embrace the cool stuff that's happening with the speed of light in other stacks. It's just too big to disregard.
Goes to show that the product description could use some work. :)
Why Big Data? Why now?
I can't stand MG lately, I'm not sure why I even submitted this.
Exactly. My iPhone can process 800 million requests per second. It's just that those requests are to add two integers.

A request for static content != a request for dynamic content != a request for inter-user messaging != a request for a recommendation engine.
I stopped reading about 3 "fucks" into it. Certainly not the writing style I would consider reading. Good luck with the project. Looks interesting.
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How do you know it is false?

(Hint: don't argue with me at this point, it's just random geeks meaningless debate. Really. I mean it. Y'all don't have a good proof that dynamic typing implies better developers or static typing implies bad developers and I'm a bit tired to hear "Good developers, not tools" that kind of crap when most Python/Ruby developers are just as average as Java developers).
Thanks, that's very helpful feedback. Indeed the slow rendering/blank content problem is our top priority right now. We're working around the clock to improve its performance, switching from the Java stuff that's on Nightly right now to the same backend used to render OpenGL-accelerated content on desktop.
This comment has now been both down-voted and up-voted multiple times. Would one of you down-voters care to explain why you feel this point is unworthy of discussion?

A blog post [0] that was up-voted near the top of Hacker News last week made the same point in terms that apparently are more palatable to some readers. If you haven't read it, I encourage you to do so. Two of the academic papers/book chapters [1, 2] that the blogger cites specifically discuss risk assessment of nuclear power stations in the context I described.

All of this stuff is well known. It's why web-sites' uptimes are never anywhere near the five nines advertised and why we have "flash crashes" in our financial markets.

The focus of my original comment is not only on identifying and assigning probabilities to causes of failures that are inherently difficult to discern, but also on the inadequacy of metrics like expected value in quantifying the effect of rare but spectacular outcomes. Is it really not even worth discussing these problems with our risk-assessment methodologies when the price of failure is as high as it is in case of an uncontrolled meltdown of a nuclear reactor?

0. http://www.kitchensoap.com/2012/02/10/each-necessary-but-onl...

1. http://csel.eng.ohio-state.edu/woods/error/fund_surp.pdf

2. http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV86Qureshi.pdf
"No hyperbole, the design is simply dangerous."
"If the base gets even slightly wet, boom."

Right. No hyperbole.

But what you said before is that the notebook in your story was sitting in a puddle of water, 10ml seeped in, and then when you turned it over, you heard "crackling, smoke, etc."

An electrical short, yes. But not an explosion.

Sure, if the cathode comes into contact with water, that's a big problem. But the battery itself is well sealed. Your criticism seems to be half baked here:

When you say their design is "dangerous" that sounds like you're saying its dangerous to the user. That it will cause injury.

But your real criticism is that you can't "isolate the power." That is, the sealed case makes the battery dangerous to the machine: You turned the machine over, and logic boards, still hot with power, shorted when the water hit them.

But the implication that it's dangerous to consumers just doesn't make sense: Removable or not, if the lithium comes into contact with water, you've got a problem.

Moreover, I think it's disingenuous when you pull the "I'm an expert" card and then provide editorial analysis: Of course if you google you'll see the bad "unlucky" macbooks that got wet. The people who are "lucky" do not post pictures of a pristine, dried-out computer. There's a selection bias there.
or be bother with blogs that write about it... yeah, i want to turn a blind eye... yep - i'll do that until we hit 100K in revenue.