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I agree but... Yes, the article does illustrate this point but it's a pretty thin example. There must be better examples of hypocrisy out there. This seems more like manufactured outrage (which is so common it's sickening nowadays). I think the circumstances are relevant here. I mean, look at that site. Does it look like any thought was put into it at all? Had this been a site that looked anything like it was touched by a professional (and by that I mean something that reflects the kind of professional they can hire based on their resources) I could get on board with the criticism. At this point, however, I see this and just kind of shrug and think "damn, that sucks".

But then I always tend to look at these issues from a human perspective. I can't help but take all the extenuating circumstances into account. If you look at this from a strictly legal or ethical perspective then its much easier to support the logic behind the criticisms.

So I understand the outrage but I just can't bring myself to see it in such black and white terms. Now I have to make the standard disclaimer: I don't and never have supported SOPA. (It's pretty awful we have to make those disclaimers to be taken seriously around here).
I suspect Chicago is Wisconsin's #1 export market for brats and cheese. I love Chicago, but I also love my neighbors to the north. Keep 'em coming. I'll eat more. :-)
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While I agree with your suggestion for dealing with Customer Service, I don't agree with Mr. Wallace's proposed remedy. Why should I have to imagine someone in a piteous position in order to be able to empathize with them? Can't we just accept people for who they are and empathize because they are just like us?
The idea that anyone at NBC would just do a google image search and throw up the result on a high-profile page as if they're updating their myspace profile is pretty mind-boggling to me. I've never worked anywhere like NBC, but I would have assumed they'd use stock image databases for most things and that they'd have strict policies for getting other images approved for use.

Not to mention that the paintbrush "A" in the background is the app store logo! Did not a single person with an iphone or mac look at this before it went out? I'm almost inclined to think that they did license the image from apple, even though that really doesn't sound like apple.

Either way, this sounds like a joke from 30 Rock :)
Your site always makes my day. Keep the good work!
Netflix buys dvd.com domain name
The best lesson I have learned after dealing with lots of frustrated users is that their initial contact is more like how you'd interact with an inanimate object than a human. If someone yells at me personally, it seems a bit unreasonable... but if someone gets frustrated using my product and "virtually" throws it on the ground and stomps on it, that is a feeling I can understand. Once they have that off their chest, and I respond in a reasonable way, the follow-up conversation is always more respectful and humane. Just need to figure out how to read that initial communication and understand that they aren't mad at you, they are just frustrated with your product. Also, don't take it so personally that you miss out on the valuable bug report (or ux critique) that is so often embedded in these messages.
I was thinking more about 20-somethings than high schoolers. I'm far too removed from high school to know what they do, but I'd guess it's not as easy for them to get birth control due to their parents. But if you pick up a 25 year old girl from a bar and bring her home, she's probably on the pill and she won't want to use a condom.
I'm sorry, I just had to share this: http://xkcd.com/750/
" And… no news over there after so much time."

No news over where? About what?
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A fun weekend project for creating flashcards. Let us know what you think!
Elaborate on this; write a blog post. I'll gladly give you another up vote.

> But there's something about the negativity and criticism here that grates on me more than on other sites.

Honestly, I have had the opposite experience. Everyone here seems focused on getting work done and making great things, yes, but the little criticism that I do see is always well thought-out and explained. Instead of it 'grating' on me, I value it highly, because it's almost all of excellent quality.

> I think people here tend to assume that [...] to be an empathetic and emotional person puts them at some sort of optimizational and productive disadvantage.

Who? That's a foolish viewpoint that I cannot believe anyone here would hold. I haven't run across anyone who seems like they subscribe to this belief — have you?
Varnish caches the actual HTTP requests, and speeds up static content substantially by removing the necessity to load up PHP.

WP caching speeds up requests that spin up PHP by preventing them from making a connection to the MySQL Database. This is useful for requests that may peruse multiple blog posts, but load the exact same sidebar content by caching things like post counts, categories, tag clouds, etc.
Can I get infected with this bacteria? If I get it in my lungs will it poison me with biofuel?
Isn't hhgregg the old Circuit City come back? These retail stores don't really go anywhere.
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I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames
Never started a company either, but I think the key issue is barrier to entry. Facebook and Twitter have networks which are impossible to duplicate, and Google got a lot of money up front and used it to move really fast. In contrast, the great product they describe in the article is a standalone piece of software by a small group, easily duplicated if it takes off.
Facebook’s Timeline is coming for your Pages today, whether you like it or not
This approach to tamper with recently viewed items on Amazon embeds the articles as hidden images:

Of course, this only works if your browser accepts third-party cookies and is inspired by this original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766544 .

Are the results any different from the original? Does using an image instead of an iframe have any effects on the results? What are your thoughts on this?
How Hollywood uses Megaupload
Actually, that's not true at all. I personally am a non-programmer, who've hired people to write my code for me, and built a successful company that now employs many people. I wish I had a technical co-founder, for all the reasons mentioned in this article, but most importantly, that technical solutions would be solved by someone invested in the company and from their domain of knowledge. As it is, I have to come up with solutions and ask my for-hire freelance developer to code it for me. It's been successful, but it could be so much more.

But, this in no way means that a non-programmer can't go it alone. I have, and am now doing it. And in the case of the lone programmer building something entirely alone and making a million dollars, what's to say he wouldn't have made $4 million dollars had he a non-technical co-founder?

I think your line of reasoning is equally as incorrect as you're implying the OP's was.
Hmm, I always imagined I'd get a car I really liked and drive down 280 south (against traffic). But those condos in SoMa sure are nice.
Thanks, will take a look at your post later :-)
I seriously doubt Ash would have ever written "Running Lean" if it weren't for Steve. The whole notion of the "lean startup" emerged partly as a result of the influence of Steve Blank's work, on Eric Ries and others. Of course it would make sense that there would be overlap between the work of Ash and Steve (and Eric and others as far as that goes) but I very much doubt that Steve's book is in any way a "ripoff" of the book Ash wrote.
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User uploads to YouTube hit one hour per second
Lots more discussions and explanations over at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/rkudd/mastercard_vis...
I have always wondered why they did not open up bbm and allow users to use bbm without the phone, eg Jabber client...
If the million books are out of print, Amazon certainly can't sell them as physical copies. (OK, there's PoD but I can't see that skewing these numbers in a big way.) And even Gutenberg has "only" 36,000 e-books, which I assume corresponds pretty closely to all the available public domain works that have been converted to text. That's a big number but it's still a fairly small slice of all published books even allowing for the fact that the number of published books has gone up over time.

> As for the e-book explanation, even if that turns out to be the case, isn't that an even stronger argument for shorter copyright terms?

Sure, at least in principle. Insofar as copyright law is supposedly about balancing the public good with encouraging the creation of new works, making the good relatively more valuable (through wider distribution) once out of copyright would presumably change the balance point. As I said, I'm certainly not going argue for the current copyright regime.
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I'm very well funded and backed by a A-round of freelance. Seeking a iOS dev.
Are your engineers going to be writing the content? We run a WordPress instance just as a CMS that then gets pulled into memcache to be served up within our site. It's clunky, but there's no reason to reinvent an editing interface.
Turing-completeness is difficult to avoid, and has little to do with security. For every addition to the language—browser extensions in particular—we will have to very carefully prove that it cannot introduce any way to create a non-terminating function.

But in any non-trivial interactive application, termination can’t be a guarantee. The user may not ever cause the program to halt, and indeed, you want a game to run without end. Perhaps you could use a form of FRP: only the reactive part of a program would run continuously. But what would you gain?

We don’t need to make a language where programs are provably innocent. We need to make a language where assumed-guilty programs are provably imprisonable! An ordinary statically typed functional language would do just fine.
The point of that blog post is that sites should track the client-side errors that occur. It's hardly a new idea, but is worth repeating since so few people still seem to do it.

Remember folks, for apps that use the back-end as a JSON service, nearly all the code is running on the client. If you have no feedback about errors, you are assuming your 15 minutes of testing with Safari on a Macbook is representative of the entire Internet including that guy with IE7 on XP with the Bing Toolbar. It's not a good bet.

They mention tinyfeedback but there is also DamnIT and the YC-funded proxino.
Ok, blog is back. Sorry about that guys. I guess we need to add the blog to the, we need two of those list.
Has he ever seen anyone make a movie, or a program? Some people really are bad at looking at abstract layers.
A lot of (very serious) people, I've found.
That's what caching does, but it's not exactly the same use case. Jekyll just generates a folder full of static HTML files that I shoot out to a dumb server that doesn't run Ruby. I'd like continue to do this, and just run a shiny interface locally.

To do the same thing with the cache in a Rails app, I'd probably have to make a script to visit every page to get it to render to the cache, then copy the cache out. At that point, it'd probably be easier to ignore Rails' built-in caching and just to make a rake task that renders everything.
Well it better have a Linux client, and not require a web browser to be logged into Google+ all the time. Otherwise it'll be another G-fail.
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Good point, but it does end up depending on the vehicle. A 6 m^2 15% efficient array parked outside in a desert climate could generate 5.4kWh a day and over 37kWh a week. GM's EV-1 had efficiencies of over 6mi/kWh. As such, a vehicle could be built that could go 32 miles a day off sunlight alone, using ho-hum $1/W solar cells and without any tracking.

Of course, at that point, you don't need to futz with bacteria and internal combustion, when batteries store and release that energy much more efficiently.
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That is of course an assumption I'm making, but one that's come from years of using HN. More recently there was the article about the girl from Pakistan who received technical certification and sadly passed away. There was a good amount of comments that took a fully rational approach to assessing her credentials concluding that what she'd done was not worthy of praise. That seemed terribly inhuman, and I feel people of this community are more prone to act that way.
I've never even heard of hhgregg. Checking their store locator, I see why: they don't appear to have any stores west of the Mississippi.

They have been taking over some old Circuit City stores, but only in their regions where hhgregg already was.

Circuit City was nationwide (and so presumably many of the redundant Best Buy stores are nowhere near an hhgregg).
DVD.com redirects to Netflix’s DVD home page, hinting at a domain purchase
"Q. As a hobbyist, what benefits do I continue enjoy on Foundry27?

You can download proprietary QNX open source from projects such as BSPs and Drivers,"

What is proprietary open source?
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RIM announced a significant loss of $125M last quarter, along with a 29% drop in smartphone revenue and 26% drop in units shipped from the same quarter last year. They've got $2B in cash, and their phone business, while still profitable, is only making about a 5% margin (profits which were wiped out by the losses in tablets). With what could be considered a substantial technical deficit relative to their competitors, with their touch-screen interface products failing to gain traction, it's difficult to imagine RIM being able to make the investments needed to compete effectively as their current crop of phones continue to lose favor.

12 months might be a bit short, but if their revenue continues in this free-fall, it's not out of the question that their stock will be below the value of their assets by that point, simply out of expectation of future collapse.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/03/30/rim-to-give-up/
If you have an "idea" person, you're screwed. You need a product person. I don't know how to code, but I can help with wireframes, customer interviews, feedback, marketing plans, pricing strategies, partnership opportunities, etc. The very idea of an "Idea Person" needs to go away and people need to be accountable to providing value. And you don't need an MVP for the Product Person to start working. And I use that term very loosely. Because if they aren't building the product, they should be supporting/defining/selling it.
Thanks. I missed the link.
https://github.com/bbangert/velruse/tree/feature.api-revamp

How about this instead ? I've used it in production (api-revamp branch) and its a breeze.

"Velruse is a set of authentication routines that provide a unified way
to have a website user authenticate to a variety of different identity
providers and/or a variety of different authentication schemes."
I love OSX, but objectively speaking, "The lag of a Mac OS X cursor is at least twice bigger than Windows’ cursor and yes, a human eye can surely notice that." http://d43.me/blog/1205/the-cause-for-all-your-mac-os-x-mous...
Some discussion, yes. I'm still curious how the author ties this to "Dominican street gangs" - that seemed a rather surprising finishing note.
What I want to know is how long MS will keep using drive letters with Windows. Drive letters and backslashes for path separators are relics of a bygone age.
Really? BBM's locked-in environment sells phones. It's a pretty obvious strategy.
You have to understand that the IP industry sees public domain content as competition, they want to restrict the amount of stuff in the public domain as much as possible.

Also, if people get used to things being in the public domain, they might start to question how much sense it makes to have the government go around granting monopolies (copyright and patents).
IBM also recovered.
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HTC One X vs One S vs One V Comparison Table
My startup works on fraud detection, and it's amazing to see how sophisticated criminals get when there are such large sums of money involved. The black market for stolen credit card numbers is a real market with division of labor: some people hack in to processors to steal the numbers, others resell those credit card numbers, others write scripts to create fake accounts for a particular site, others integrate all of those tools to actually execute the fraud, etc.

Just in the past couple of months, we've seen online criminals try to:

* Run money laundering schemes by posting fake items for sale on a marketplace, and "purchasing" their own item using a stolen credit card.

* Create fake accounts from different browsers to get tons of free machine resources, which they then use for more nefarious purposes.

* Rent a bot net to run a distributed fraud ring from many different machines, in a way that's almost undetectable.

* fool SMS verification by setting up a Twilio server to make it look like they have a U.S. phone number.

You can imagine how fun it must be to outsmart them. :-)

By the way, if any of you are running online stores or marketplaces, and seeing a sudden spike of fraud or chargebacks from this breach, feel free to ping me (brandon@siftscience.com). We may be able to help.
Why "Hits" is a misleading website performance indicator
I continually see posts about how many hits a website gets. This is not a good performance indicator. This is why.
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I said cheap! Sigh, I suppose $7 is cheap for New Yorkers. :)
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"And no copies of this letter have been sent to anybody else. You now hold the only copy in your hands. It is a strictly private letter from me to the people of Drake..."

What happened?
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If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

If Kurt is an American, Kurt must allow book burning.

If you are an American, you must not down vote.
Thanks for posting this, Rick.

Chris's advice is predicated on having a good relationship with your investors. That's not always the case. If a CEO is hesitant to invest in transparent communication with investors/advisors/board, it might be worthwhile to ask him or her why not. If it's solely a case of lost opportunity cost, there are plenty of tips here on how to minimize that. But if it's a deeper issue, that deserves to be explored, too.
Are you on chrome? I just opened in firefox and it is easier to read. There may be multiple factors here but I have issues with some fonts in chrome being nearly unreadable without increasing font in browser until they essentially present as bolded.
There's also this project which aims to make a HTTP request library agnostic OAuth implementation: https://github.com/idangazit/oauthlib
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I would argue that the latter 2 things are not truly needed, and can be iterated on over time. You don't need a CMS, you already have one built into your server: the file system. You don't need a browser-based UX, it's a nice to have. If surviving Reddit's front page is your goal, it's pretty easily doable.
If the OP is at all interested in the industries he says he is, then NYC all the way. It is a better city than SF on virtually every metric except burritos and nightlife.

The reason I left NYC was that it didn't have a vibe for "technology for technology's sake." If you're a more low-level engineer (knee-deep in circuits and C) then NYC is really going to push against you; the opportunities are fewer and the culture surrounding you values that less than financial sales or 'hustling' (Adafruit being a counterexample). You'd have to specifically hang out around Columbia, drive upstate, or grab the Fung Wah to Boston to get that kind of vibe. In the Bay you're immersed in it.
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Had the logo or placement of the logo been a result of JS, that would have been ironic. Your experience was unfortunate, but not ironic.
Every time I read a story like this, I'm reminded of Dunbar's number and David Wong's excellent (and very funny) summary: http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

The "Monkeysphere" explains a huge amount of silly human behavior.
It seems there's some doubt in the comments that Turing completeness is relevant to security. Here's a simple proof it is. Assume you have an arbitrary function to execute and a set of no-nos (forbidden operations, machine states etc.). If you know for sure the function does nothing forbidden before its executions ends, you also know for sure that its execution ends. So you've solved the halting problem - which means your original function couldn't have been written in a Turing complete language, for which the halting problem is unsolvable.
Snap a screenshot; let us see what you see
HTC One X, One S and One V start arriving in Europe
Spriter - very cool looking game animation tool on Kickstarter
Alas, he is all too right. Attempts to rationalize racism, whether or not with the rather silly faux erudition we see here, may be soon classified as a mental illness:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4345/is_9_32/ai_n291...

No word on treatment options.
Y Combinator: Disneyland for Investors?
oh, I just found out that another user tried the same thing and wrote about it before me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3768030
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I never thought I would say this: but I miss the OS X spinning-wheel-o-death … on my non-current generation iOS device. Sometimes the software just does nothing for a noticeable amount of time and you don't know if it didn't got the input or just hangs.
"all sales are final"

You can ask apple for a refund. Not sure if they make the developer eat the whole price or just the 70% cut
And why not in Portugal :)...