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Copyright issues might be seen as an "edge case" at HN if it were not for the fact that software is so intimately affected by copyright law.

On the "big brother" bit - I think you should understand that HN is not designed specifically to welcome newcomers who are outside the target audience. You are expected to find and read the rules and to work out how everything works - as an instance, there is no "search" facility - you are expected to know how to use Google to search this site.

Anyone who is not comfortable with this is probably not that interested or involved in the subject matter. If you are, then please join in and make a contribution.

[edit] Just noticed the "Search box at the bottom of the comment page - when did that arrive? See - I am just out of date.
On a tangent: FastSpring rocks. I've ditched 2Checkout.com in favour of them. Their email support replies in minutes (it seems including during off-hours). They abstract away subscription calculations (when will that member expire??) that I found a pain with 2Checkout.
Oh true that, I'd forgotten all about how SSH wasn't originally Free.
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On a slightly related note. If anyone is thinking of moving over to Git / Git(hub) backed blogging. Don't count out Github's 'Edit File' ( http://ace.ajax.org/ ) editor online as I constantly find myself amending typo's, etc... Was for sure an added bonus.
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I wonder if this was posted more for the "how I blew away my home directory with git" anecdote than anything else.
Amazon do negotiate individual prices in some circumstances.

I'm not entirely sure what circumstances it takes to make them negotiate, but the discounts I've heard about are significant. It doesn't seem to be based on the size of the deal though.
It's about writing software which is simpler and more flexible.

If you write a traditional shared-nothing web app client with a traditional bag-o-sprocs database server, you'll probably be good as long as your workload doesn't change much. Assuming your write volume never exceeds that of a single (as beefy as necessary) server (which seems to be working out so far for Hacker News!) then you're ok.

However, products/services evolve and requirements change. Let's assume, for example, that you want to do some heavy duty number crunching. This number crunching involves some critical business logic calculations. Some of those calculations are in sprocs, but some of them are in your application code's native language. How do you offload that work to another server? You may have to juggle logic across that sproc/app boundary back and forth. It's pretty rigid; change is hard.

You can think of Datomic as a way of eliminating your sproc language and moving the query engine, indexes, and data itself into your process. Basically, you get everything you need to write your own database server. Furthermore, you can write specialized database servers for specialized needs... as long as you agree to allow a single Transactor service to coordinate your writes.

Back to the big number crunching. You've got the my-awesome-app process chugging along & you don't want to slow it down with your number crunching, so you spin up a my-awesome-cruncher peer & the data gets loaded up over there. Now you have the full power of your database engine in (super fast) memory and you can take your database-client-side business logic with you!

Now let's say you're finding that you're spending a lot of CPU time doing HTML templating and other web-appy like things. Well, you can trivially make additional my-awesome-app peers to share the work load.

You can do all this from a very simple start: One process on one machine. Everything in memory. Plain-old-java-objects treated the same as datums. No data modeling impedance mismatch. No network latency to think about. You can punt on a lot of very hard problems without sacrificing any escape hatches. You get audit trails and recovery mechanisms virtually for free.

Again, all this assumes the write-serialization trade offs are acceptable. Considering the prevalence and success of single-master architectures in the wild, that's not a hugely unacceptable tradeoff. Furthermore, the append-only model may enable even higher write speeds than something like Postgres' more traditional approach.

I hope my rant is helpful :-)
Since you are new here, rather than downvote you I'll point out that single-word or otherwise low-content comments are magnets for down votes. If you agree with another comment and you want to let that commenter know, but don't want to comment in depth, use the upvote arrow. Hope this helps :)
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I remember scripting on a MUD that used a customized version of the standard MPROG[1] patch for ROM-based MUDs. Whoever originally "documented" it just grabbed some docs from some other ROM-based MUD that used their own customized version.

The documentation was a completely wrong for several years before I started programming there. Once I realized that the documentation was lying to me, I started methodically examining how things actually worked by writing lots of very simple test programs and documenting the actual behavior.

The others didn't care why it was broken. Most of them were just trying to build cool areas, they weren't really programmers at all. They would just tweak things until it appeared to work or they were frustrated enough to give up.

[1] I'm sure a lot of HN knows this, but to save the non-gamers the hassle of looking it up, a MUD is a type of text-based online game and an MPROG is a script used to control the actions of the characters in the game.
> Is it not possible that among them, you might have missed other candidates whose broader set of experiences would have taught you something that you didn't know, something more important than the fact they failed FizzBuzz, for whatever inconsequential reasons?

Sure, it's possible, but that's the best case scenario. What makes you think it's more probable than the alternative? Hiring someone who cannot program for a programmer role seems to have many potential drawbacks, have you considered them? When your money is on the line, you either learn to make decisions based on probabilities and expected values rather than mere possibilities, or you lose your money with high probability.
How much traffic?

You could try selling it on flippa.com
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Sometimes less is more. The debate goes on. Why not just let the music play? And by that I mean high resolution music. All you need is one person who can hear high frequencies, and all the technical mumble-jumble becomes hogwash.

People actually _believe_ the 20KHz argument that anything above is inaudible. That's hogwash. I know because I can hear (or sense) higher frequencies, and I do not have the absolute best ears I've ever "met."

For example, last week I attended a A/V equipment event with very high-end equipment. It was packed --- over 600 people for one evening. 6 rooms of equipment. I'm sure all six served the same fare according to the 20-20KHz argument of this piece, yet they all sounded quite (or even extremely) different.

The 20 KHz argument is a myth. For people who can't hear the difference, no problem. But please do refrain from ruining or hobbling music for the rest of us... who can hear a wider frequency range.

Yes, some people are color blind. Does that mean the rest of us shouldn't use color? I hope not.

Music is an important wholesome and potentially emotional part of human life. Please do not cap it with "false optimizations".

24-bit/192 KHz is not inferior to CD quality sound. If you don't believe me, try a Linn system sourced on a Klimax DS with some high bitrate Linn classical music (or the Beatles Masters USB release!). If you can't hear the difference compared to low bit-rate (including CD quality) material, I assure you someone can. The low bit-rate will sound flat, hollow, less lively, or/and more coarse. Any number of problems exhibit at inadequate bit levels.

Vinyl is analogue quality (no discrete digital distortion). CD quality is a large step down from vinyl. A/V is just trying to get vinyl like quality from digital. We don't need nay-sayers impeding progress. If you can't hear the difference, please let someone who can hear make the informed decisions.

Thanks.
#2 in addition to seeing their portfolio they should also give you a code review and explain what the code does.This avoids code plagiarism.
Might come down to how good the team is? We've heard of some substantial pivots in the past.
It could be gotten rid of, but remember that 99% of the population will probably open, what, 5 bank accounts in their life? Whereas 90% of the population probably us their ATM card 5+ times per month.
This was also how the Romans did it, and a thousand years later, everyone agrees that the Roman legacy was a net good. Same is true, and will be said, of the British empire.
It's not a myth, but a fact established in laboratory studies. Your anecdotal claims to hear frequencies that scientific evidence suggests you cannot hear doesn't overturn science. I'd be convinced if you correctly identified which speakers were reproducing 21 kHz frequencies in a double-blind test, though.
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There needs to be a cold sink since heat is just a variation on kinetic energy (small vibrations), and momentum needs to be conserved. The released photons have momentum too, and it looks like they get that from the heat (=vibrations) in the LED.
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Like a couple of things that smart people have said - our rate of innovation has dropped off, and, all the smartest workers are trying to maximize advertising effectiveness (well that and finance). Computers - a blessing and a curse.
Sorry, but Zed hasn't done 1% of what the others you name have. Not even 0.1%.
Something that saddened me a lot was on an old account. When I first created it I made a jokey comment which - in hindsight - I shouldn't have said (it dissed Apple a bit). As a result it was downvoted. Fair enough I guess.

Since then however I'd commented pretty well, IMO. In fact in 3 specific cases I'd posted helpful comments. One was to a young person asking for beta testers for his startup (I recommended BetaBait). Two others were bug reports, complete with OS information and browser information. Genuinely useful, I thought.

But then, after the last bug report I posted received no response however someone who put a lot less effort into their response (i.e. "It's not working for me" rather than "It's broken with this error in this browser on this OS with these addons installed") - got a response from the submitter.

That's when I realised my posts were hidden. I wouldn't have been bothered by a ban or a suspension or - hell - being told that my posts were being hidden. However having been tricked into wasting my time was quite upsetting.

Still, I'm back on a new account. Hopefully I won't get downvoted again but we'll see. The quality of news and discussion here is very high so even though I agree with joccam's points about the broken comments system, I will most likely keep coming back.
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I'm not aware of any (blind) listening tests actually showing that a modern, high-quality DAC for 44 kHz audio introduces audible distortion compared to a similarly high-quality DAC for, say, 96 kHz audio, though. It's not theoretically impossible that the lowpass would introduce some sort of noticeable distortion, but I haven't run into substantiated evidence that it actually does.
Interesting idea, however how will this differ from creating a facebook like page which hides the content like people do already?!

I think there is also user experience to factor in here. When I visit a bands page, take blur for a hypothetical example, I've already decided I like the band. When offered something for free to like them I've already make a concious decision to support them.

For your idea to be successful it will need to be embedded into sites where people already have engagement.

As a stand alone page it just won't work, unless you want to allow it to be branded per page, but that carries too much overhead.

Go for contracts with EMI or Time Warner and get your 'like > reward' product on hundreds of sites
Isn't science verified through (wait for it...) experimentation? So how does my hearing not invalidate your science?

That's the problem with the theoretical science. When it's false, it's false. Come up with a new hypothesis; this one's false as it pertains to human hearing. There's information theory, and then there's auditory reality. Reality confounds the theory as applied to hearing. I don't know where the fault lies, and I don't really care.

But it's really annoying and frustrating having people nix progress out of idealistic theory, "laboratory" studies, and ignorance. The experiments (my experiences and numerous others) don't lie.

Double-blind is great, but I can already tell the differences between all six rooms of equipment from last week. One of the rooms was so extreme, I wanted to run out of the room due to discomfort (but I was polite and stayed all 30 minutes). In other words, double-blind was unnecessary. Someone whose ears I respect a great deal, loved that room. Even golden ears don't all hear the same. But I don't need double-blind to confirm trivial experience. The proof is already in the listening.
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Makes me go back to when I was playing around with Macromedia Flash Onion skin for the first time.

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> So how does my hearing not invalidate your science?

Because it's not a blind study. In audio, claiming something sounds better than something else is low-strength evidence, because it doesn't: 1) distinguish psychological bias (which is very strong in this area) from actual audible results; or 2) distinguish which characteristics of speakers, if any, you may be hearing.

If you can consistently ABX two speakers that have similar characteristics except that one reproduces frequencies over 20 kHz while the other doesn't (with identical performance below 20 kHz), I'd be convinced. One possibility is to use the same speaker but insert a high-quality 20 kHz lowpass in the chain during part of the test; or use the same speaker but with 44 kHz versus 96 kHz source material. I've never seen a controlled, blind case where a human can tell the difference there.
If that were true then there would be no need to ever release new versions of these things!

I have personally found bugs in Linux (kernel, libc), Oracle, various JVMs, etc, usually cases in which algorithms optimized for "normal" loads became pathological under extreme load. It's much more common than perhaps you'd think.
Inline Assembly, eh? Hmm.. not sure I can get behind that one, given that I've mostly been running codakido on my ARM machines .. but I can certainly understand the desire.

For my purposes, Lua has been quite performant enough!

Well, anyway maybe its time I added some of these features (can't stop thinking about the synth feature!) and do a pull request ..

;)
> The per-page time is actually quite high; often over 5 minutes on average for a lot of my stories even when its a big crowd. I suspect some subtle misreading of Google Analytics on my part, or else people might actually be reading the whole thing carefully!?

That might be because a lot of people do what I do: keep the article open while browsing comments on HN or Reddit, and switch back and forth between the two tabs while writing my own comment. In fact, I'm doing it right now. I don't know how Google Analytics would measure time spent on a page when the page sits idle in a background tab for the most part but brought to the foreground from time to time.

[Edit] Things get even more complicated if you open 5 articles and 5 comment pages at the same time, and take 30+ minutes to go through all of them.
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My mother knows who Linus, Bill Gates, and Woz are. These are people who have MSM (Main Stream Media) recognition.

Within the Hacker community, anybody who's been "in the industry from the late 80s" should have awareness of around a couple hundred or so major figures, most of whom my mother would not know. Pundits like John Gruber (MG Siegler, Sarah Lacy, Michael Arrington) are perhaps better known in the HN community than those outside of it - but I would expect everyone who has been around any hacker community for a couple decades would recognize Names like Dennis Ritchie, Guido Van Rossum, Richard Stevens, Larry Wall, Tannenbaum, Bill Joy, etc...

In addition to this group of people, People like Matt Dillon should be on your peripheral Radar, even if you don't follow BSD that closely. I've never run FreeBSD/DragonFly BSD, and even I recognized his name.

I'm not suggesting you memorize every last hacker/pundit of any note, but there is just a core _canon_ of people that we reasonably should be expected to know - it's knowledge like this that ties the broader hacker communities together.
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Or you can sell 1 for $1 profit, and lose $4 dollars over one sell at $5.

Lower prices != more volume guaranteed, you have to find an equilibrium.
A lot of downvotes on reddit are actually inserted by the system, accompanied by the same number of upvotes to balance them out. This is supposed to be some sort of anti-spam anti-troll measure, though I'm not sure how that even works.

Anyway, the upshot is that you never know the true number of downvotes you got. This can be discouraging for people who don't know about computer-generated phantom votes.
The only times I've heard of this were GovCloud (which costs more, but includes a lot of extra service) and the recent announcement of volume based pricing (which is sort of individual in a way).

Dropbox, Heroku, and Netflix would be the authoritative data points, I think. I've heard "won't do anything custom", but I never really pushed to find out about discounts. Even if they do exist, they're nowhere near as common as with every other provider (where either you get a marketing deal discount, or can just get a discount for the asking, especially early on, or as you grow).
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Isn't this the same compromise we would already have had to make if we just used postgres?
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I tend to have one window for recreation browsing and at the start of the day I will open HN and run down the front page middle clicking the link and the comments pages for anything that looks interesting or highly up-voted.

This gives me a queue of stuff I can read in free time throughout the day but I imagine it really does skew the analytics.
Zed Shaw gets props from me for being a great teacher. Lamson/Mongrel2 alone are huge contributions to the community. And regardless - I wasn't suggesting that he's on par with Linus or Theo, I'm just suggesting that in our community, he's a well known name. Definitely someone my mother would not know, but I'd expect anyone who's been on HN for a couple years to recognize.
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The embedable widget/button for publishers goes in this direction, but I think the full download page is important. I want everyone to recognize that Likes and Tweets are really valuable, so valuable that publishers would give out free art and content to receive that social buzz.

In comparison to Facebook pages, Color links are more portable. You can easily include it in a status update also, rather than landing pages (which necessarily include the logic to check for Likes). This is especially relevant if publishers switch to the Timeline, which makes it much harder to do "Like gating". See http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/death-of-the-facebook-defau...
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Modern x86 CPUs can trap arbitrary instructions to microcode. This means that most hardware bugs can be fixed with a firmware update that just slows down the cpu somewhat when it encounters the offending instruction.

There certainly are a lot of hardware bugs in cpus -- it's just that most of them get fixed before anyone outside the cpu company ever sees them.
Only in cases where you can't have it both ways.

If the majority wants to build a bridge, and a minority doesn't, well, the majority gets their say.

For one, this makes the most people (the "majority", nudge nudge) get what they want.

For another, if it all comes down to raw power struggle, i.e hitting each other, the majority will win anyway. Voting is a way to ensure you get the above effect without the blood.

Consider also that for different courses of action, what is a majority and what is a minority changes. You can be pro "more taxes" and a majority, and also pro "legalize marijuana" (and a minority at that --just an example, doesn't mean the maj/min it talks about is accurate).