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Yes, I understand people might leave. No, I do not work at facebook. The key is - in fact - people leaving. People who complain are a cost.

Now, if the service is low margin and low volume you can't afford losing customers. But if you have high margins, high volumes or a combination of both then a community that gets to vocal becomes a PR problem.

Think about gaming communities like Eve-Online... would you want your business be dictated by too angry and too vocal customers?

Those are not customer anymore, are a cost and costs must be purged.

Of course being frank about it makes one look like a bad guy, things that is happening here.

Nonetheless you have to break eggs to make an omelette.
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>The MPAA's reign rests on the financial fears of filmmakers, but if big Hollywood producers refuse to play along, it would become bad business for movie theaters to not show unrated films

The MPAA rating system only exists at all because the government threatened to get involved otherwise. Presumably that might still happen.

And anyway there are a whole lot of people out there who wouldn't let their kids see unrated movies. The filmmakers can't just decide to boycott the ratings system if too much of the audience expects films to be rated. Those financial fears are well founded.
I think that "web-appropriate" is actually becoming the "appropriate" way to do things in the publishing realm. The massive shift to web-based content is certain to yield the deprecation of such a term.
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I agree with chuk, of course.

One does the business they way he wants. If customers don't like your way they are free to leave.

If the business survives this kind of bleeding, then the business model was right anyway.
When I was in college I remember seeing a box of snacks sent by some device company (maybe for laser equipment?) in the lab somewhere. Cute (and I bet effective) marketing in a world where decisions for $5000 purchases are made by people who eat ramen and are swayed by a $10 box of granola bars and stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
If I were in Firefox at the time I would have used Firebug (or I guess Firecookie, I don't remember if Firebug allows native editing of cookies), but I just happened to have Chrome running at the time.
In other words, to get to the classroom, an official PG-13 is easier than an official R-rated and quasi-unrated path.

This is not a technology problem. It's cultural. MPAA and consumers included.
> I know that GIT and the like have made it really easy to fork and run, but does this fundamentally help?

Yes, it does. What ends up happening in practice is that forks are almost always short-lived. They either get merged with the mainline, they become the new mainline, or they die out. Occasionally, there are two self-sustaining projects that diverge from the same point of origin, but it's rare.
While that's certainly a conceivable explanation (the "gay uncle" theory, that the gay members of a family help raise their family's offspring), I've always found it really tough to swallow the numbers there. More or less, it would require that each gay uncle increases the fitness of the family [see note 1 below, "family" is very important here, as opposed to "group"!] by enough to make sure that on average, more than 1 additional child is produced per gay uncle. Put another way, with a 10% rate of homosexuality in the population at large, that would mean that at least 10% of our total reproductive success should be due to the helping hand that gays provide for family members' children. That's a lot, probably more than I'd realistically believe.

More likely, the gene that predisposes us to homosexuality (it doesn't cause it, as MZ vs DZ twin studies have shown that homosexuality has well below 50% genetic cause, with a much higher component based on individual environment, both pre and post-natal) is either beneficial in some other way (for instance, a recent study showed that female relatives of homosexuals tend to have more children, which could mean that the heritable bits behind homosexuality actually increase female reproductive rates enough to overwhelm the negatives on the male end), or live close on the chromosome to another gene that's more important, so the gene tends to stick around because of linkage even if it's harmful in some cases.

[1] The "gay uncle" theory relies on the fact that it's family members, i.e. people that are causally likely to share the gene in question, that are helped by the behavior. Google "kin selection" and "group selection" to understand the difference - briefly, kin selection is a totally legitimate effect because a gene helps itself through its prevalence in a family (and specifically, due to the fact that the gene will appear in the offspring that the gene helps make possible, even if it comes from other individuals), but group selection is completely bogus, because Prisoner's Dilemma-style defection is always the right strategy for a gene there.
At some point that was suddenly not possible, deliberately or accidental. After that incident I am always a little wary of setting a future date and not having the ability to change it to launch.
It's a bit more complicated than that for non-residential buildings over a small size.

Any emergency exits and doors for an area where a large group of people might aggregate (i.e. a classroom) almost always have to open outward because mobs are the biggest problem in an emergency. Emergency exits also generally have to be equipped with a crash bar and other hardware (such as auto-closing arms).

Inward opening doors are frequently problems in emergencies. People get smashed up against them by a mob and are unable to open it.

Generally though, bathrooms and other interior doors that do not open to a path of egress can do whatever is most convenient for the location and use.

If you want to minimize the amount of time required for a building to vacate, you want as many doors to open outward toward the path of egress as possible.

Residential buildings have entirely different constraints (and the code for hallway width / obstructions is vastly different).
The 373 class is very good. They change things up enough to make sure you understand the concepts. I think I might be picking up some sensors and motors from sparkfun pretty soon.
Thick javascript clients should probably live in a different project anyway. Create a rails project with the serverside stuff, a rest service layer. And another project containing just the clientside code, no ruby at all.
"alternation"
A free Android development book
Why are Harvard graduates in the mail room?
if ubuntu had this, game over MS/Apple!
Why I started using the minimalistic writing app, Byword.
The posting guidelines are here:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation."

"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

Also, your post uses a lot of symbols as well as some poor punctuation, capitalization, sentence fragments, and abbreviations, which makes the general quality aside from the contents poor overall. Comments on HN tend to be well written. Think snail mail and not text message for style.
Agreed. The author's argument is nullified by this statement: "I still won't pay $50 for a nice-to-have utility"
No, "I'm not happy and it's your job to fix it" is exactly the arrogant and absurd attitude that kills open source projects.
When you guys say "NL" you mean "beginning of line", right?
I use jersey (provided by glassfish).
But wheels is not invoking kin selection, but group selection - when we're talking about worker bees helping out the rest of the hive, that's kin selection, because they share a genetic line, and the presence of a gene is directly correlated with the presence a generation or two down the line.

When we talk about a long-living Nobel Prize winner that doesn't have children, the things that such a person does "for the world" are irrelevant to the propagation of his/her specific genes, except as they directly affect the people in the population that actually have those genes. If their contributions help everyone equally, their genes will not rise in frequency within the overall population, and hence, the mutations are failures, genetically speaking.
How much can you trust each bit of information you gained though? For example, it might be very possible that Light could be intentionally waking up at the middle of the night to do his killings. In which case you would've ruled out japan, which then ruins your subsequent analysis which is all somewhat based on him being in japan. Verifying every bit of information gained or even assigning a probability to how much you can trust it seems to be a hard problem.
I use IntelliJ's Ruby editor every day, and I think you're being too harsh. It definitely is much weaker than it is in Java, but it does a good job with simpler refactorings local renames, variable extraction and inlining, and method extraction and inlining.
In the goods economy, you weren't competing with perfect duplicates of your product that are priced at $0.00.

In the pirate economy, companies are forced to compete with their exact product, their exact work at $0.00. Take away the alternative at $0.00, and their prices might well have very nice intersections of supply and demand, but with Kim Dotcom offering it at $0 or $5/mo for millions of products, the market is completely distorted.

I know that a lot of intellectually dishonest fellows such as yourself like to pretend that there are no lost sales, but no thinking person believes that trope. It's obvious that if the same product is available for $20 and $0, that many of the people who understand how to get it for $0 will do so, even if they otherwise would've paid $20.
GeoDNA - Interesting latitude/longitude encoding useful for text-based searching
My 50th Birthday Presents from My Family
My daughter thought it would be a great idea to give me an ove glove for my birthday. I had never heard of or seen one before, so when I opened my gift I had to ask what it was
Hell, we might as well call our mitochondria "parasites", if we're going all the way - those things have their own DNA, which evolves in tandem but separately from our own, in a rather different way from "normal" DNA.
There's two sides of this. There's the side where the seller's price is above the demand curve, so the buyer pirates the movie. But there's also the side where the seller's price is below the demand curve, but the buyer pirates it anyway to capture more consumer surplus.

What's really happening is that, the easier piracy becomes, the closer the supply curve comes to turning into a very flat line at price 0. Now, the actual cost to the consumer in time, energy, bandwidth, and guilt is higher than 0, and it's possible to reduce those costs by trading off some actual money cost to get the permission of copyright holders the way Apple or Rdio are doing, but it's not clear that this will last forever.
Should you learn to code?
Honestly, I don't mind the tangent that much. I just thought it was worth a gentle ribbing.
I once had to use LabVIEW. In general, I agree with you, but I got the feeling that G (the language implemented in LabVIEW) might almost be a decent language if the only IDE for it (and the file format) didn't suck so badly.
Maybe he was one of the two? lol Cool story. Always heard parts of it growing up never actually saw it recorded.
How to be a Hacker?
I would like to understand how Hackers actually operate when they are breaking through boundaries.
What is the actual process that makes them see beyond and how do they proceed to bring forward something new?
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We're actually pretty intelligent, though, and we don't need to know how everything works together in order to be able to tinker with natural processes just enough to keep from dying, in a lot of cases.

Keep in mind that a healthy percentage of the people reading this discussion would be dead right now if it weren't for modern medicine. I've personally had several bacterial infections as a child that would have stood a reasonable chance of killing me if it wasn't for antibiotics, and one nasty infected wound as an adult that I was told would have had me at 50/50 if it wasn't for the meddling that doctors were able to do to clean it up.
Article is political not factual. Contains numerous errors designed for political propaganda purposes, shouldn't be on a technical website.
maybe her computer is just on and the say wifi connection is just wavering the connection on and off
What it's actually doing is un-breaking HTTP caching and proxying semantics, so that we can meaningfully deploy those caches and proxies in a few years. That should help with scalability, and performance at scale. For example, if PUT is actually implemented properly, then you can implement write-back caching semantics with a general-purpose HTTP proxy. The way that Rails currently abuses PUT, a general-purpose proxy can only implement write-through caching (at best), or it needs to be customized for the specific application in use.

Also, it's standardizing the language that developers are using to interact with each other, and reducing the amount of work needed to build interoperable software. As more and more websites turn into web services (even if those services are only consumed by e.g. client-side Javascript), this should result in cost savings and faster time-to-market as more businesses move in that direction.

Finally, a lot of web apps are basically just CRUD (create/read/update/delete) apps. The more we standardize the on-the-wire protocols for these routine operations, the more we can push those protocols into application frameworks. This means that, as developers, we can work on things that are actually valuable, rather than coming up with new, site-specific ways of shuffling this data around the network.
Should Corporations Have More Leeway to Kill Than People Do?
Issues with other countries in the middle east have been discussed. Some examples:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3599396

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2157796

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575029

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=452153

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616318

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565419
In Jerusalem it is possible to get Coca-Cola from two different plants. One is the Israeli plant near Tel Aviv. The other is a Palestinian plant near Ramallah. I can tell the difference in between the two.

The Israeli plant adds aromas to their Coca-Cola as it is common for Israeli drinks to add them. The also use very high concentration of carbon. So much that the lid can shoots off like champagne.

The Palestinian one is a lot cheaper and far better than American one IMO. So what I use to do was buy the Palestinian glass bottles and the Israeli large bottles. heh.
The author has what looks like two mac laptops plus an external monitor. At least one of the macbooks is a macbook pro from the image in the article, so conservatively $3.5K in hardware? And $50 -- less than 1.5% of hardware price -- is too much money! I understand people have been conditioned to think software should be free, but getting hung up over $50 to fix what sounds like a significant hassle seems dumb. The alternative is what -- getting a hardware kvm or physically switching keyboard + monitor connections?

Also fta:

Since arguing with Bartels, I have discovered Teleport, a newer, free,
Mac-only keyboard-and-mouse sharing app. Its existence made me think,
briefly, that I had won the argument. But Teleport has issues (the mouse
gets stuck on target machines) and I've found it, for me, unworkable.

The mind boggles -- does this man not value his free time at all? He continued searching for software to avoid paying the $50. I'm curious how much time this guy would spend to avoid paying $50 and moving on with his life. There's obviously a limit, or he'd be enrolling in a CS undergrad to write his own to avoid spending that precious precious fifty bucks.

That said, I kind of agree with underwater the vendor misprices the app: $24.90 per computer, when the software is literally useless without two computers, should be $50 per pair + $24.90 for 3rd, 4th, etc.
http://www.ideaoverload.com/ - Everything About Ideas In One Place To Make It Easier For Everyone To Find New Ideas (including finished business ideas)
I hate to say it, but if you think that the typical 13-year old is not familar with the f-word, then you are out of touch.
The evolution of female body shape
Absolutely agree, it is a perfect example of how an online class should be executed. The amazing Dr. Widom had shown how it needs to be done.
I'm surprised synergy+ wont work in a pure mac environment. I use it every day but my setup is 2 linux machines and a windows machine. If I couldn't use it - I would buy something like what he describes. I would quickly look at any and all options - though $75 for the option described would give me pause. The ability to drag files from machine to machine sounds cool - though right now I get close to the same thing with ssh.
The bombing killed many more civilians than they did British: "41 Palestinian Arabs, 15-28 British citizens, 17 Palestinian Jews, 2 Armenians, 1 Russian, 1 Greek and 1 Egyptian" according to WikiPedia. Not a surprising result when setting off a huge bomb in a hotel, even if in a specific area of a hotel. The list of the organization's previous attacks includes many directed against civilians (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks). If the killing of civilians was indeed not part of their aim, you would think the organization would treat the operation as a tragic mistake and distance themselves from it rather than coming together to commemorate it in 2006.
There are a lot of photo manipulation tools out there that cost a great deal less than Photoshop goes for. Much of their market consists of people who find Photoshop too expensive. Alternatively, one can purchase a new version every three-four years - bringing the cost down to something like $10-$15/month. I've got a several-years old version of CS3 running on my MacBook Air. Works just as well as it did when it was considered the latest-and-greatest. I suspect, as a non-professional graphics designer, I'll do fine purchasing a new copy every 8-10 years or so.

I'd rather Adobe make a decent profit on their tools from their high-end commercial clients so they can continue to invest, do research, and improve the product. The rest of us can get by with an "Academic Version", slightly outdated version, or cage a heavily discounted copy off of a friend-of-friend who works for Adobe. If you are working in the graphic design industry, Linkedin probably has you two or three hops away from an Adobe employee, and I guarantee that if you are "in the biz" and impoverished to the point of having a tough time paying for a new retail copy of CS5, someone will have a employee credit that they can give you. Heck, there's a good chance that if you write (and design) an impassioned plea to Adobe Marketing, Adobe will comp you a discounted copy.
>I love visual design exercises like this, but it's one thing to throw it out there and a completely separate (10000x harder) feat to actually have this implemented. If you usability test this interface, it's going to fail all over the place. Remember, Windows is probably the only piece of software with EVERY SINGLE segment of users.

100% agree. I love looking at these visual designs, but most of the time they weren't done with real usability concerns in mind.

When it comes to commenters saying the author should be hired by Microsoft, something like that would definitely almost never happen in this industry but it seems like some shops really embrace the handing off the design reigns to graphic designers. Google and RIM have both shifted the direction of their UI approach to departments with visual design backgrounds and less usability, human factors or research driven design backgrounds. There's been a lot of attention directed at Google and I'm curious of RIM's choices pan out, as The Astonishing Tribe appears to have full reigns of RIM's BB UI.
Shipping product-grade code is never easy.
You can spend minutes to make something work on your machine, hours making sure it should work in situations you may never have opportunity to test on, and days, sometimes, to figure out why it doesn't work in a situation you did test. But every time you do it, you beat a path behind you. It's a lot easier to build, analyze or debug something the second time.
I am not saying user feedback is not valuable. I am not sure where the line is between feedback and just being a brat is though.

MW has obviously been successful at a blogging platform and service (maybe other stuff, don't know his full history). My point about the Ford quote is that maybe he has a good vision for how his service should be run.

There is always going to be tension between the producers of a service and the consumers of that service. Neither could exist without the other, but I tend to feel that the exceptional people who have succeeded where others have failed should be given more credit.
Daytona 500: Ford Mustang Ad to Debut During Race (Video)
Japanese construction firm aims at space elevator in 2050
Avast Free Antivirus 7 Released
This concept points to one of Robert Cialdini's laws of influence: One is far more likely to drive all over around town to save 50 cents in the cost of a $2 pen than spend a few seconds to negotiate 50 cents from a $400 suit, even though the savings are exactly the same. You nickel and dime far less when you perceive the price to be 'not cheap'.
Fully right, turns out to be the case. Thx , I have however enabled the 2 step-authentication, just in case.
Colon bacteria are all mixed together, so selectively rewarding symbiotes is hard.

And anyway vitamin C is sufficiently energy-rich that if a bacterial species started making it in quantity, other species would rapidly evolve to eat vitamin C for energy.
Reanalyzing the Notepad++ project
Photoshop tutorial: Create A Gore Zombie Effect.
Hello friends, today in this photo manipulation tutorial we will see how to create a infected zombie effect, with the use of some beautiful filter and a texture, to make it look as real as possible. Ok let’s move on to the tutorial.
"Many graphic designers have been replaced by Photoshop"

The writer lost all of his credibility once he dropped that line.
All films can make a profit. A doc like this has deals with foreign public television distributors and other entities where if it's box office reaches some minimal american threshold they automatically will buy the film regardless of their take on it. Production costs are low enough that in fact they can have a really good ROI, even if it doesn't contribute huge amounts to the overall company bottom line.
I've tried that. Unfortunately it burned through the battery of my Android phone so quickly that it's unusable unless the phone is plugged in.
This is really not true. Watching my niece grow up from birth has proven to me that some people are simply outgoing. She didn't learn it, she just was it from the get go. maybe others learn to be shy and then have to spend a lot of effort unlearning it. and of course there are many people are are naturally shy. But not by any means all of us.
How the US Could Pressure N. Korea Tomorrow: Quit the $100 Bill
In the beginning they both owned a lot. And if it wouldn't be the luck of Sean Parker giving Zuckerberg his board seat and sided with him then Zuckerberg might have not been in charge at FB now (he would still own shares).
In a statically-typed language, I couldn't have used a Boolean as the condition of an if-statement.
hehe, yeah, oops. thx.
look at spring roo, its a more modern approach and uses active record rather than the service layers / repositories, it makes generating json api's really simple