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A classic Reductio ad Absurdum fallacy, suggesting that imminent global catasrophe is required for something to be questioned.

Anyway, within the scope of moderation systems, the HN system is in dire need of overhaul - it's terrible, and often leaves people annoyed and puzzled. Within the scope of clothing, people do not often need new clothes every week. A very, very small segment of people might be actually negatively affected by not having new clothing every week.

But honestly, the subtext of my comment is that this product just feeds into the impossible ideals of the fashion world. Fixing the moderation system on HN can be done by one coder in an afternoon. Fixing the multiple complex issues with body images is not so trite, and while not catastrophic in the traditional sense, certainly does have global consequences.
The other side of the coin is that you don't pay shipping as a buyer, and it could also work as an incentive ('I've paid to get rid of my dress, I should now get one to make the most of my money')
I don't believe there's a feature that G+ can add that will overcome the friction of changing social networks from Facebook to G+.

To me I've found that G+ sits in a continuum where LinkedIn is far on one side (the professional world), Facebook on the other, and Google+ sits somewhere in the middle. They can grow from that niche.
My point is that auto-complete makes unwanted and unnecessary associations between terms. I have no problem with "Did you mean ... ?" suggestions appearing after I've searched for something; I simply disagree with Google "talking me into" search terms I didn't explicitly ask for.
This article seems LinkBaity.

The truth is that Facebook have successfully copied the features from Google Plus and put them into Facebook. Much like Microsoft has with the Mac Operating system. Because they have market lock-in it has meant they have been able to stop people moving across.

Google don't need to be number 1 in social to "win". Anyone that has advertised on both platforms can tell you where they put their money.

Also, Google lost a lot of great engineers after IPO and they're probably hedging that the same will happen at Facebook.
I have no idea how I missed that. But it is the most crucial part of the article. The equivalent would be putting a solar panel upright and saying it gets more energ per SM than one laying flat. Seems pretty obvious.
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The religion bit sounds a bit like the Sherlock Holmes rationale that he chose to not remember that the earth rotates around the sun because that knowledge has no practical impact on his life. So basically religion doesn't impact you, and therefore you chose to not think about it at all? But then why call yourself religious?

Maybe that way your beliefs really do no harm, except that you are a role model for others who might take it more seriously.
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For what it's worth, people who drive stick are conditioned not to help other people drive stick, because new stick drivers are murder on clutches, and clutches are notoriously expensive to replace.
One of my favorite game designers is fond of the mantra "Restriction breeds creativity"

There's also the classic "Necessity is the mother of invention".
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If you actually read my comment, you'll find that I'm not.
I only now realized that my comment was a bit unnecessarily patronizing! I meant it as a wish that programming could be as fun as Minecraft, but also remain as efficient as something like Python.

Imagine what that kid could build if a tool existed that was as interesting as Minecraft, but tailored toward making iPhone apps (or another very specific type of application). In the same amount of time, he could've probably made something even more impressive.

I was trying to express a slight disappointment that the tools were a limiting factor to the ability of people (like this kid) to build amazing things.

Instead of building a calculator, would he be able to do more in the same amount of time?

In that case, could he build a game? An app? Really, it doesn't matter what the end product (or the project) is. I was only trying to express a little disappointment that there wasn't a more efficient way to channel his energy into a final product that would allow him to accomplish an even more ambitious goal.
I don't think you're giving the modern population enough credit. I'd argue that most people understand that there are cases where you can take something, and the original owner still has it. What's ingrained, rather, is a respect for the inventors, creators, originators of the world. We look to them with awe and, rightly or not, feel some low-level need to recognize and uphold that they came first with their creation.
Is there any particular reason this is happening first in Germany? Just chance?

Is it because Germany has an electoral system that allows it? [but other nations also allow it]

Or, that Germany is technically advanced, and so one of the first nations to have a sufficiently large constituent of web-centric citizens? (echoes of Martin Luther, opposing the establishment with new communications technology) [but other nations are advanced]
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'"Google was never good at making new things" - uhm, what???'

Yeah, especially since _Apple_ was pointed out as the opposite - you know, that company the invented the smart phone, and the mp3 player, and the gui, and the mouse…

Even as somebody who could quite credibly be accused of "drinking the Steve Jobs Kool Aid", I laughed out loud at that.
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Right. I'm not sure why others are misunderstanding how crowd-sourcing this information helps solves the problem.

People saying that size numbers vary greatly are missing the point. If I say a particular piece fits me well (regardless of its listed size) and then a bunch of other people say it fits them well (regardless of its listed size), the site can then aggregate the other pieces of clothing that those people said fit them well to show me clothes that potentially fit me well (regardless of their listed sizes).
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Trademarks are fairly clear cut. A trademark needs to be registered and it generally takes the form of something that isn't an existing word or phrase. It's easy to find out if someone has registered a particular trademark and not generally a big deal if they have (typically this is just a branding issue).

There is legal recourse if the trademark enters the common lexicon (as happened to aspirin [1]).

Basically I have no problem with trademarks except when people decide to trademark what is the generally accepted phrase, as happened with the ugg boot [2], which has long since been a generic term in Australia.

Copyright is a little greyer but basically OK. It just needs to be protected from copyright trolls like Righthaven [3]. The danger here is that lots of low-quality or automatically generated text will be used as the basis of copyright violation lawsuits. Generally speaking, it's extremely difficult to independently come up with the same exact text as someone else for anything nontrivial in length.

The problem with patents is that two people can (and do) come up with the same idea completely independently and that many of those ideas are completely obvious (eg I remember seeing an early GPU trademark that related to applying 2 or more textures to a pixel in a cycle instead of 1).

I can write a computer program and it will quite possibly violate any number of patents. I can write a book and it almost certainly won't (randonmly) violate anyone else's copyright. If I want to trademark something it's easy enough to find out if it's already been trademarked and to trademark it myself.

Software patents are beyond moronic.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirin#Trademark

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots#Trademark_disputes

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven
Thank you! I'm beginning to think all the Code Complete recommendations are a large scale troll-in-progress on the programming community. I found a copy years ago and opened it up to a random page right around the middle of the book. I was then greeted with a half-page or longer explanation of how the condition of a while loop is only evaluated once per iteration, rather than magically causing the loop to terminate the instant it becomes false. I was just flabbergasted. Again, this wasn't in chapter zero somewhere, but hundreds of pages into the book.
Oops misstype! We still have 5 billion years before we could refer to it as "was a star".....lol
I just type what comes to mind and rarely do editing.....
Is there any server side validation? If not this seams cool but ultimately useless in practice.
You know what's an antipattern? Putting a fixed floating div over the text you're supposed to be reading so that you can't read it. Brilliant.
Not everyone is capable of being self-employed. A lot of people are willing to work hard, but need the structure of being told when and where to show up, and what to do.

The fundamental nature of any transaction is that when one party is in a tough position (the formal term is having a poor "best alternative to a negotiated agreement") that person is going to get screwed over. When your BATNA is to have your kids go hungry, most decent parents will gladly give up their own dinners, let alone their Facebook password.
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First off, yes, it's very much a clone of Newsmap (www.newsmap.jp), but it's written in Javascript rather than Flash, so it works across most (all?) devices.

The tiling algorithm is my own and should work well even on small screens.

The news articles are sourced from the Google News RSS feeds.
First off, yes, it's very much a clone of Newsmap (www.newsmap.jp), but it's written in Javascript rather than Flash, so it works across most (all?) devices.

The tiling algorithm is my own and should work well even on small screens.

The news articles are sourced from the Google News RSS feeds.
It's not that difficult or important. I'm in fashion IT.
Hmm... as a kid, I had an 8086 with DOS, GWBASIC and a white manual for both. Nothing magical came out of it :) , my best creation was a "Copa America" text-based game, full of GOTOs.

I still program in (Visual) Basic (6 and .NET) 20 years later :P though I try not to, and I swore when I finished university that I wouldn't do it again - when my boss told me to, I caved pretty fast :)
I'm astonished that someone would ask the question "marriage or YC". Surely the number of people who have somebody they'd like to marry, who would choose YC over marrying them, is negligible?
I think when done right (a subjective measurement, to be sure) the only URI you care about for a RESTful API is the root, because the API's resources are defined, along with how they can be manipulated, in the root response or can be transitioned to from there in some way that is defined there.
Is it open source? Like creative commons or something? Don't really see any notes about if someone could base their own sites documents on these. Well if you copy and paste any websites terms in to Google, you'll find lots of sites use the same wording anyways. Writing a terms of service and privacy policy seems scary and complicated without hiring a expensive lawyer.
I think the problem here is that "exploitation" is very poorly defined. It's widely used concept, and most people have an intuitive sense of what the word means, but these definitions conflict.

Let's step back a moment: Let's say person A has a widget, which he values at $5. Person has $20, and would like a widget, which he values at $10. In a free market we would expect these people to negotiate and reach an agreement where A swaps the widget with B in exchange for between $5.01 and $9.99 of cash. The aggregate benefit of the transaction is $5 (that is, as a society, we are $5 better off after this transaction is made), and A and B are each somewhere between $0.01 and $4.99 better off.

In this simple model, clearly both sides are benefiting, or if you prefer, are being enriched. Question: Is anyone being exploited? Does it depend on the price? Or do we need to know more details about the transaction, and if so, what?

I think most people intuitively have one of two reactions:

1) "Unless fraud or force is being used, of course nobody is being exploited. Both sides enter into the transaction with open eyes, and both sides benefit. They can negotiate however they want to divy up the $5 in benefit - but as long as fraud or force aren't used, this can't be exploitation."

2) "Well, we need to know more. If one side has a lot more power than the other, they might drive the price unfairly far to one side or the other. If A is a large factory churning out widgets, a price of $5.10 might be a perfectly reasonable wholesale price; if A is peasant hand-crafting widgets and B is a multi-national widget trader, maybe anything less than $6 may represent the unfair exploitation of A. Conversely, a price of $9.90 might be fine if B is a collector of rare widgets, but even $8 might be exploitive if B is desperately trying to find a widget to repair his generator after an earthquake. We just can't know."

I don't think either response is inherently more correct - both definitions are valid. But, obviously, they conflict. :) Also, in my experience people rarely, if ever, will change their initial intuition. Either you think exploitation is only the result of fraud or force (ie, using slave labour to produce widgets), or you think exploitation is involved in any transaction with a price that seems "unfair" (to you, based on fuzzy and usually undefined metrics).

As a result, I'm not sure discussions of exploitation really make a lot of sense. Given the same objective and universally agreed facts about, e.g., Foxconn, a certain chunk of the population will say "that's obviously not exploitation" and a certain chunk will say "that's clearly exploitation", despite there being no real disagreement about what's actually taking place on the ground.
My fault. I should have realised that this is on a VPS where the OS is installed from a pre-configured image. I guess the VPS provider configured it to use bash.
I've had a few drinks, so this may come back to bite me in the ass one day, rather than show my usual constraint, but:

Hell yeah. They have had the right to read the subject lines of emails for decades they have been listening in on conversations since the Patriot Act. It's at the point where I, as a Canadian, have vowed not to take a flight into the states due to privacy (both in terms of fingerprints as well as those stupid scanners) until the law changes.

This is starting to impact peaceful, intelligent people. It isn't showing the economic ramifications yet, but it will 10 to 20 years from now. The smart people from Canada (and, presumably, the rest of the world) don't want to come anymore. The US can suffer this in the short term, but in the long term, especially with long term obligations like SS and Medicare/Medicaid, it cannot.
Sharing this with the girlfriend. Go go brownie points. She loves new clothes and has tonnes. What a fantastic idea!
I like Perl, I like SmallTalk, and given that, I actually do like Ruby the language. My main peeve is the infrastructure. No, not even the community, you'll find nice people and bumwads on both sides. But I just can't stand the penchant for overly cutesy DSLs that seems to pervade the Ruby world. It's basically Lisp macro abuse all over again.
Awesome, that's how a hack-a-thon is done.
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It might be tough to imagine now, but very very few people were online in those days. In the programming forums (Compuserve, Usenet) people generally posted using their real names and job/university affiliation, so the atmosphere was professional at least.

Perhaps some small porn BBSs or IRC channels had a different atmosphere, but the "tits or gtfo" mentality is mostly something which appeared over the last decade or so.
I don't disagree with you that Schneier may not be the most ideal representative of the opposition to the TSA. I'm simply saying that, to a well-informed congress, in an ideal world, Schneier's word should still count for something.

Edit: I'll also add that detailed knowledge of airport security systems isn't strictly necessary to argue against the TSA if general knowledge of common security principles is enough to prove the inadequacies of their methods.
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This site in particular has been around for a couple of years now, mind.
I wonder if we might have crushed them?
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Facebook is dying on several fronts. Most notably it's made a deal with the devil by allowing it's profitability to become closely tied to Zenga style 'social' games which drive people away. That's not to say it's going to die quickly, but neither did Yahoo.

I don't know if G+ is going to win or if something else is going to show up. But Facebook as a public company is going to be squesed to extract ever more revenue from it's users and that's exactly the behavior that drives people away from 'free' sites.
Metered internet would be devastating to the current primary publishing monetization platform. I.e. people will be far more likely to block ads if they're paying for them by the KB. We'd have to come up with a way to have publisher paid bandwidth for selective content.
This is just like the original idea for Github, which was actually a social network for families called FamSpam.
I would argue that a top-tier computer security expert would be better qualified to comment on physical security issues than a top-tier physical security expert would be on computer security issues. This is because computer experts are required to think in terms of abstractions and similarities, thus a computer security expert would be better equipped to apply abstract lessons learned while defending a computer system to physical security.

Schneier in particular, however, seems to have studied physical security well enough to comment on it without having to use an abstract map from computer knowledge to the real world.
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While I like the simplicity that Parse promises, I do worry a little about having my users' data being potentially held hostage by a 3rd party..
what if I publish a wildly successful app and store all my users's data using Parse, and then one day they decide to triple their prices? Or maybe sell their business to Google who decides to shut down the service?
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I can't believe I'm asking this in 2012: How is everyone managing their bookmarks (sync'ing, tagging, searching)?

I spent the last hour searching for a bearable Chrome bookmarks extension and... found nothing. My requirements aren't exactly exotic: I want a native tree-menu with the tags, a search-bar, I want to right-click to edit my bookmarks, I want a nice popup when I create a new bookmark (with tag-completion), and my bookmarks should sync to all browsers that have the extension installed.

I found a bunch of delicious and Google Bookmarks based extensions but one was worse than the next. Can someone please point me to the chrome extension that everyone is using, I'm starting to feel dumb here...
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Thanks!! I will do that. I already finished most of the codecademy.com tutorials and my uncle's company will be using C++ and Java the most although they also might use a couple other languages. Thanks for your help!!!!
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Superficially, HTML Canvas drawing is very similar. (Also, many people taught themselves programming because they wanted to make Flash animations. )

Back in the 8-bit micro days, the commercial games and other software were largely single person efforts. The beauty was that you could teach yourself some BASIC and very easily create something which was at least sorta close to the state-of-the-art.

I think to really hook kids on the idea, you need to have some platform which seems current (e.g. web or mobile) versus an 1980s-style box.
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I am afraid of how this will actually turn out. I think the biggest problem is going to be sorting the signal to noise ratio: women's fashion is ephemeral as well as seasonal. Items people want will be in perennially short supply, and items that fall "out" are going to jam up search results. How do they plan on keeping the most relevant content in stock? If they know, tell them how to get F21/Zara/H&M to do it as well, because they sell out of a lot of things quickly.

The user experience for this could get bad fast when a new user signs on to trade their month-old H&M+<insert expensive designer> collaboration and finds nothing but a bunch last summer's Forever 21 shirts with cheeky slogans. That doesn't look so good. It's like going to the video rental store ten years ago and having them say "Whoops, we're all out of that new release, but we've got a few copies of Groundhog Day!"
Very true. However, once there is some data generated about how well the item fit the user, you can probably make some correlations and determine just what will fit who.

I would just call it data analysis, not crowd-sourcing
I have a similar setup (external monitor with the Macbook lid closed) But in my case (and possibly for other Macbook users with the same setup), closing the lid makes the webcam inaccessible as well.
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Shame that the "big new office" is "open concept". What a waste.
I was not implying that we'd be better off with a monarchy.

Only that the rascals in charge _want_ to be a monarchy, and they're not very good at it.