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This doesn't work for me. I've tried several times, but I just can't make it stick.
> a. the response poorly written. the initial message was to the point

In what way(s) was the response poorly written?

> b. no

That's unfortunate.

> c. yes it does

``You cannot reach that conclusion from the evidence given'' --shpoonj
>> To generalize, basically any kind of business could profit from less regulation.

I think the point is made that the health-care business is doing quite well.

Now how about the actual patient? Would you say he would benefit from more or less regulation?

Seems to me that competition on this front would only be between the companies that can manage to better extort patients.

I say more regulation works best in the health-care area. Authority is called for to oversee practices and audit business decisions to make sure that the patient is first priority and profit second.

Taking an example from Brazil. A while ago the private health insurances were regulated into not enforcing grace periods of users who had already gone through them and were migrating from a different plan from the same or another insurer. Isn't that perfectly valid policy that focuses on the patient for what they really need (health-care)? Would unregulated business agree to this on their own?
The irony is that pretty much all the silicon out there has supported IPv6 for the last 10 years, and what's holding it up is the software.

This is because when you design a chip, you have to take into account what your customers will be using it for in a few years time, but for software, it's all about what your customers want yesterday. Since IPV6 has always been 'just around the corner', it gets into the hardware but not all the software.
As much as Ubuntu has matured over the years, I am pretty disappointed how many things are broken out of the box still. Being behind a proxy is a major pain as ever, as well as getting ATI graphics drivers to work properly.
Sorry, but what is the idea?
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I'm sorry to be skeptical, but this seems both redundant and pie-in-the-sky.

In the presentation they say they're looking for "Computer Science Engineers" make me think this is a bunch of aggravated designers. On the other hand, there is code on GitHub. But it's C++, which makes it feel like this is a bunch of aggravated developers who can't stand having to do HTML or CSS and want to do "real engineering" (usually defined as non-webapps). This seems to pop up every other month. All the while people keep making awesome web sites, applications and libraries with the stack we have today.

A small group of people is usually all it takes to change something, on the other hand, I don't think is change people want or need.

That said, I wish them all the best.
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Actually, Formspring with chat :)
Excellent. Thanks, man. :)
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i'm thinking of triple-booting my 2009 MBP with Ubuntu (already Bootcamped with Win7). anyone has experience with Ubuntu on MBPs? any problem with hardware? i need a lightweight-but-nice-looking OS for day-to-day Java development (i use IntelliJ), Lion is taxing too much.
There is at least one obvious kind of existence which isn't physical, which is the sort of existence which the things studied in math have got. That isn't particularly controversial because the 'existence' of even numbers is logically a very different thing from the 'existence' of dodo birds, or 500-foot-tall Schwinn bicycles, or Inspector Gadget.

The question of whether mathematicians are schizophrenic or mathematics represents some massive failing of science just doesn't arise because it is already well understood what is being talked about. Often the problem with theology is that we don't understand and even refuse to get clear on what it is we mean to be talking about; maybe we are just so hot to reach emotional and political conclusions...
How long did it take you to get those 150K members? What is your revenue model?
Here's what I took away from the story: there are incredibly humble people who have overcome incredible hardships and went on to help and heal others.

A lot of the "accomplishments" I read on HN like raising VC money or blogging for a year straight is weaksauce in comparison.
It would be great if you could differentiate users by location.
Windows, especially the NT line, has certainly been inside "the UNIX sphere of influence".
Last week there was the semicolon language (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854130), now parentheses. My guess is next week we'll see the tilde language.
It is in the title :) We have 150K+ users right now.
I'm using it from the beta1, and I must say that it is awesome; apart from those notifications zero-interaction zero-configuration, I hate them!!!
> Without a firewall rule that drops incoming packets, outside can readily reach your internal network with the proper route (your router already knows how to route external/internal, since it's its very role), even with NAT.

That's true if by 'outside' you mean 'directly on the external interface of my home router'. Because if it can indeed route my 10.something/192.168.something internal network, all the routers in between most likely can't. Maybe that's why because think NAT is safer: firewall holes are, in practice, much harder to exploit in IPv4.

(Well, that, plus the firewall rules are much simpler. A few fixed ranges to drop, and be done with it. In IPv6, all has to be dynamic, and potentially configurable)
Isn't this handled automatically? I remember the upgrade disabling things like Google and Virtualbox repos.
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This is completely superfluous. This is NOT the path the web needs to take.
I miss the times when "innovation" meant "killing more people at once" :)

(Disclosure: I'm in the business of social-online-stuff as well. Also, I collect knives.)
Fortunately, our team is made up of both designers and programmers. In fact, our lead programmer is also our lead designer (small team).

It is true, you can make really awesome apps with HTML5/CSS. We, ourselves, are doing the same thing.

We are bringing to attention some new concepts that we think have not been taken into acount into HTML simply because HTML features have just been stacked together and it HTML simply evolved into something it was not intended to.

On the other hand, the HTML5 completion date has been announced as 2020. Do you really think HTML5 will still suit the needs of the web then? It should probably be HTML7.
I use Unity with 2 monitors and it is pretty good; but I didn't try Gnome
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> ATI graphics drivers to work properly.

You can't exactly say you haven't been warned.
It already exists, it's called toon shading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-shaded_animation and it was used also in a commercial game called XIII http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIII_(video_game)
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We got those users in 8 month. We don't advertise, we acquire users virally.

We are sending text advertisements to users as chat messages. An automatic chat bot makes the advertisement. This also allows us to track which users are interested in which kind of advertisements.
I have never had serious breakage after a distribution upgrade due to PPA repositories. Au contraire, the upgrade manager takes care to disable third party repositories automatically.

Now, that doesn't mean that things are always flawless. My main complaint is with a) bugs in the release itself, and b) the many reckless changes in paradigm, sometimes flawed by design, and implemented with half-finished software (upstart and Unity come to mind). Because of a), I usually wait a month to upgrade.

b) is more serious, and though it sometimes isn't Canonical' s fault (I'm looking at you, Gnome!), it is why I dread dist-upgrades. Finding reasonably functional and bug-free alternatives to the junk they want to shove down my throat sometimes takes months. For instance, I have only just yesterday found a decent desktop to replace Gnome2 (Mint's Cinnamon), after being homeless since the release of 11.04.

Still, I wouldn't swap Ubuntu for any other distro (not even Mint, which is just another _buntu, so why bother)! The PPA system is brilliant. The community is huge, so even if bugs aren't fixed, workarounds and patches abound.

And last but not least, it's the only distro I can even consider doing a dist-upgrade with the hopes of having a working system after it's done.
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I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 for the past month and must say it is pretty stable for a beta version and I'm so glad that final version is out. Hoping to stick with it until Ubuntu 14.04
Instant feedback ...

I can't really tell quickly what it does, why I want it, how it works, or what benefit I'll gain. Here's a screenshot:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/Squardius.png (that will most likely be taken down in about 24 hours)

I'm not into photo sharing anyway, and I can't see why I'd bother to look up anyone else's photos of where I already am. It doesn't solve a problem I have, and doesn't convince me I have a problem.

It's likely that doesn't help much since I'm almost certainly not your intended audience anyway, but I thought I'd take the two minutes to give some feedback.
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Quick feedback: you should let people filter by language or something. The first three I tried (after that I didn't try anymore) all had statuses in some Eastern European language which I don't speak, so I assumed they wouldn't speak English. I have to say this is also a problem with Facebook's News Feed when you have friended people from all over the world, and it's annoying.
It will, as soon as the release data percolate through the mirror network and reaches the mirror you are using.
They've update it. Check it now.
As some one else had already said, Dropbox is non-intrusive. It's a stand-alone product that, by doing so, offers incredible flexibility. The differentiating factor is that, unlike other Cloud Services, it doesn't want to get in your way. It doesn't want to force anything on you. It just wants to make you do what you already want to do, better (sharing files).

Google Drive and other cloud solutions have big, overarching ideas. That's one of the reasons why it took Google Drive so long to get out to the public. From what I've read, there was a whole internal political controversy about how it should be implemented with respect to the entire Google bouquet (or current lack thereof).

That being said, Dropbox will need to work hard to push the industry of cloud servicing into a new direction to compete with Google, which will be quickly adapting to eventually outpace the startup.
Product differentiation is in every first year university marketing textbook. As much as those textbooks try to use as many words as possible to describe a simple concept, their description of product differentiation is likely to be much shorter than the one in this article.

MBA's might not be good hires in a $100,000 startup, but they know more than we think.
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I don't think anyone is saying that we should go back to Burroughs mainframes, or anything else from the past for that matter. But we should definitely draw more inspiration from them.
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The problem is that firewalling is difficult for the same reason that NAT is difficult.

For example: my SIP hardware phone has a publicly addressable IP address. I'd like to firewall it such that it can only talk to my ISP's SIP server and other parties authorised by it. How do I do this? The firewall must deep-packet inspect SIP packets to work out what point-to-point RTP traffic should be allowed, and only allow this. This difficulty does not change even in an IPv6 world.

I wrote about this problem last year: http://www.synctus.com/blog/2011/04/why-ipv6-will-not-solve-...
Nor does failing "to be really nice" equal "jerk move".

Offering the refund was really nice. Asking to pay for the services would not have been a jerk move, because Amazon wasn't responsible for the extra costs either. I usually root for the little guy, but in this case, if anyone else might be expected to foot the bill, it should be Google for building a system that needlessly slurps 250GB/h without any apparent capping or rate-limiting, caused by a single spreadsheet. Just because Amazon S3 is huge and probably doesn't feel a thing doesn't mean it's a good idea, what if it were 500 spreadsheets doing this?

What if that FeederBot were to gorge itself onto one Google's own CDNs? Sure it's probably just a drop in the ocean for Google as well, but I bet they'd rather not experience this "minor inefficiency".
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I've been hoping that they would add some more graphs. Looking at either how much impact (or lack of) I made in the last week is one of the tools that I use to keep to myself motivated
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I really can't stand Unity. Does this work OK with Cinnamon, for example?
Why do we need two different syntaxes for representing trees? Both XML and their so-called "HSS" are redundant. S-expressions are a much cleaner syntax, and can be used to represent both the "markup" and the "styling" in this case.

For crying out loud, let's finally unify the syntaxes, rather than creating yet another way to represent tree structures.
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Yes, we need to differentiate users at least based on their language.

I am not sure which method to use in order to differentiate users. We can use geo-ip databases but I want to be sure that they are reliable. Maybe we can just let users select a location.

Any ideas?
I think the difference is that some of us need a little more structure. By providing a method and a repetitive activity, by the 21st day or so (3 weeks they say), it will become habit. After that point, making a point of solving problems for a particular purpose everyday will be much easier, and you'll be making more progress.

A few stories to illustrate:

1. I had a few friends that made it a point to learn a new technology every day of the month and blog about it. In the end, the friends had learned quite a bit, and even though they only had cursory knowledge of the subject, the structure allowed them to succeed at their goal to have a more general knowledge in their discipline.

2. I have another friend that started writing an application with the point for it to be the central product of a great new startup. This friend is not only intelligent, but very capable in the whole stack, self-organized, and I would have expected him to succeed. However, he lost interest in the end before go-live. there were competitors, and I think he lost the vision that he had in the beginning. He could still finish the product, but now he has another job. I credit this to lack of structure, which is not his fault; I've gotten no where near as far as he did on a myriad of ideas for products.
It's a bit like a realtime version of Honesty Box. For those that don't know, Honesty Box is a Facebook application that allows your friends to give you anonymous feedback.

Overall, the site design is simple and to the point. I like it.

But, if you wanted to make a really interesting contribution to HN, I'd like to see a follow-up blog post going into minute detail on how your application spread.

Lots of people write about how their app has 'gone viral', but very few actually talk about their initial user pool, how they tweaked their application for broader appeal or faster spread, etc. You'll sometimes see that for bigger apps, but having a ground-floor view would be something else.
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So do you normally go back to 1 monitor or Windows?
It's a very bold concept, but without buy-in from at least one major browser (i.e. not Opera) it has no chance to ever become mainstream. Browser plugins are where interesting technologies go to die.
Do I absolutely have to install updates of 11.10 before I can upgrade to 12.04? The steps on the ubuntu sites says so.
Some screenshots and videos here: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/04/ubuntu-1204-lts-released-see-...
I've recently ordered 3x 21.5" monitors for developing with. It'll be interesting to see how Precise / Unity handles that setup. I have either Nvidia Optimus on my T420s Thinkpad or ATI 5970s to test with.
Just to make it clear, HSS is directly replacing CSS. No markup there.

You are missing the point, unfortuantely, the whole idea of the project is to sepparate the data from the presentation. Mixing them together would be pretty similar to what HTML was in 2005. Not desirable.
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It was easier to fly to Eastern Europe and use them legally there. Medical tourism is fairly big business.
For the guys who are complaining about Unity, you can give a try to gnome-panel

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Sometimes governments resort to measures like legal monopolies to ensure infrastructure gets built.

Imagine a cash-strapped government 50 years ago in an undeveloped country wanting to build electricity infrastructure. The country's economic growth is stagnating because of a lack of infrastructure and there are few foreign investments because the country's economic growth is stagnating. If a foreign company DID choose to invest in electricity, and the investment was profitable, other foreign companies will jump in to compete; but if the investment was unprofitable, the company would just have lost a large chunk of cash. Therefore it was always more profitable to simply wait for another company to make the investment, and then see if electricity will be a profitable business in the country before making investment itself.

These catch-22's mean the government has little choice but to allow the first foreign company a local monopoly, at least for a limited time.

I'm just theorising all this out of thin air, though.
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the ATI card wasn't up to me and it is really the proxy support that is the most disappointing. There are bug reports dating several years back that still haven't been addressed
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Beyond a lack of public IP's, it's the obstructive nature of it that makes it (sort of) useful.

It's not really any safer than starting with a firewall where everything is denied by default and opening port by port of inbound traffic.

But NAT'ing every internal address forces you into a pattern where the external IP is not tied to where the service is hosted at all - you need to explicitly map that in your firewall -, and where if you were to, say, accidentally turn off all your filtering, you leave yourself isolated instead of exposed.

I don't think these are important enough to care about NAT once we switch to IPv6 - you can certainly be just as defensive through other means.
Though I respect the process and the efforts behind this, "How to write books with a superficial understanding of what you're talking about" would be more appropriate.
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I also think it looks awesome. It even has a soothing effect on me.

(I would also like to play old adventure games like Full Throttle & Grim Fandango on the browser.)
It has really come a long way, you may try it now. I was also in the league of people couldn't stand for Unity when it launched, but now I'm using it for couple of weeks now, its been very pleasant.
I installed beta 2 and run into issues with disk power management. By default it had a very small timeout to spin down. Fixed manually with hdparm -S, but I didn't see any updates that correct it. If you notice your drive clicking all the time, there's your fix...
Chris - congrats man. I've been silently stalking your "chain", and also came across your posts frequently when I was writing Planscope and was frantically Googling for Backbone help.

The thing I like best is that you now have a time capsule for your professional life. You can look back and see exactly where you came from and where you went, which is more than most of us can say. I have a hard time remembering what I was doing a month ago!

Keep it up, and I look forward to seeing what technology or library you tackle next!
The followup is in this post - Basically they migrated a portion of their data to Postgresql and Riak.

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Was that sarcastic? S-expressions aren't readable.

Furthermore, we used to have a mess of a language that combined style and markup. We moved onto separating the 2, so we could develop more flexible websites.
I believe you're missing his point: he said unify the syntax, not mix the data with the presentation.
> If google were storing/caching these links, there would have been an outcry from those worried about user privacy and stuff.

Where would we be without Google taking such a noble and strongly principled stance on user privacy, applied equally and consistently, striving to avoid legal responsibility, even when it costs unrelated parties thousands of dollars.
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Okay, I don't get it: why does everyone assume that having the same syntax for trees automatically means you have to put everything in the same tree?