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Groupon isn't a stupid company, it's a great idea actually. They turned down a lofty Google offer and decided to go the IPO route. Only time will tell if their business can last, and not get eaten alive by competitors.

I think it's a good thing their share price isn't just going to the moon and then crashing and wiping out an entire industry like what happened in the Dom-Com crash. Maybe a subdued IPO market will mean this time it'll be more like a boom period, and not another bubble getting ready to burst.
>Your argument invokes a logical fallacy //

Which of course doesn't mean that he's wrong.
There are also meme bubbles which come up around contentious but easy to argue topics. Then a bunch of people try to get in on the action to increase their reputation stock but have to be careful with timing so as not to be posting a tired Yet Another. Everyone knows when they are in a meme bubble but I don't know if this weariness will end them, the topics are after all, contentious and easy to argue about.
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http://www.fastdirectorysubmitter.com/ - wrote the app and a PHP backend.

http://glockanalytics.com - wrote and designed from scratch. Running on node + mongodb.

I did two more node.js freelance projects. One is a video processing service and the other is a realtime web application part of a financial trading platform. Sadly I can't disclose more info due to NDA.

Github profile: http://github.com/neocoder

Before web development was doing programming for windows with Delphi and C.

My email: neocoder@gmail.com
Update on that. I downloaded it and gave it a try and sure enough, the sound doesn't work. Looks like they didn't perform the due diligence of testing. I'm currently downloading the windows executable to try with my system install of Wine.

My rule is, if it is proprietary software, I don't fiddle with it. I dislike Playdead for making me break my rule.
There is a stackoverflow post about blind programmers. I never thought it was possible but apparently it is. I found the post to be super inspiring.
Stop Thinking, Start Doing
YouTube Scores A Solid Return On Its Video Development Fund
If you like that, have a look at http://mapstraction.com/
So, in a nutshell, if I intend to keep it private, I can keep it private forever, and anybody who treads on that is "wrong" to do so. But if I release something to the public, or some secret is bared to the public against my wishes, it is gone forever, and now belongs to the world at large.

And there's really no middle ground? There's no "I want to share this to you, but you can't have it," ???

If we can protect trade secrets though, then I should be able to come up with a song, and play it for a friend, but tell them to keep it secret. Make them sign an NDA even (that's how trade secrets are enforced after all). And THEN I can keep it, right?

So what's the difference between that and releasing a record, on the condition that you keep it secret? Why can't I do that?

Like I said, for me, the anti-copyright notion is too far a stretch. I get that copyright is perhaps broken, and it's certainly been skewed from its original intent, but I don't believe that getting rid of it altogether is the fix for that. I wouldn't support banning all airplane travel because a few have crashed, and I think that's what the anti-copyright extreme would basically have us do.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...
Even with Valgrind, I can't believe our industry has ever produced a single great C program. Certainly not Linux or TeX or GCC, all of which I've seen crash yet still had to use because everything else is even worse. Software engineering is still at the leeches-and-evil-spirits stage of maturity, and the continued use of platforms like C (where very common constructs can cause undefined behavior) is a symptom.
I mean, the body of the blog post you're responding to is claiming a) that it is, and b) that even when it isn't, you can just leave a poorly modded community. In the face of that, I don't find "replace-the-word" rhetoric very compelling.
They aren't directly forcing the hand of cable tv companies, which is quite clever, imho.

We, the Developers will be tasked to do that with our content and that starts whenever they introduce APIs, likely to be this year's WWDC. Once we've built out Apps in the AppleTV app ecosystem, the consumer demand will follow.

The TV Channel/Show/Content is now an on-demand App. This will all coalesce slowly as people continue to unplug and switch over via internet as content is made available. I don't want to make any predictions about the AppleTV box vs iPanel but my guess is that both will coexist - with AppleTV box offering the best UX within its bubble while the iPanel will offer a more integrated comprehensive experience. Both utilize the same App ecosystem.

Apple has been laying the foundation for a while. Download the iOS remote control, play with any of the AirPlay functions, the regular tweaks to AppleTV's OS, etc... It's all right under our noses.
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Fake boyfriend shows (again) why we’re stuck with online cruelty
Jobs’ vow to destroy Android fair game at Motorola trial
Clears the mystery :)
Obama_s_Secret_Service_visits_Rudy_at_6_00_to_06_25_pm_Thurs.flv
(4) Johan Santana says shoulder 'fine' after no-hitter - Digg
Bit late but ...

There is a meme that great scientists, all great achievers, are somewhat other, not normal, aloof unfeeling cold calculating machines. That's how they do it. The story of the stopped clock could be used to bolster that fallacy

The letter clearly, lucidly, funnily, and touchingly blows apart any concept that Feynmann was cold unfeeling or somehow other.

Just seemed important to note that great achievement is not incompatible with great passion and humanity. C.f. The president of Syria for how MIT to do it.
Is it broken right now? It just says "API call failed: Internal Server Error" when I hit Test API.

There's also a good API which powers my favorite Android HN app over here: http://hndroidapi.appspot.com/
I actually really like the new redesign, it looks like they've decided to occupy the niche that used to be del.icio.us before Yahoo! digested it and shat out delicious.com

It does seem like they could have paid more attention to transitioning existing users. But AFAICT they aren't selling products to regular users, they're aiming more at volume buyers and analytics to pay the bills.
Yep, it's always hard to find the place where the builders converge as opposed to those who have opinions. That's what HN used to be, once.
No one is suggesting a false dichotomy like you mention. It's not TSA vs no TSA. People just want a TSA that relies on reasonable measures instead of an overreaching branch of government.

Edit: Or, maybe they're pissed enough that they want to do away with it altogether, but that doesn't mean there'd be no one else doing airport security.
Yeah, took around 5 seconds here to wake up when I right-clicked in VS because of that. My swapfile is on a second HD which is not running much otherwise, and this also caused me regular freezes. My workaround was increasing the time to 60 minutes, which probably uses up some more power, but seems to be enough to avoid running into this problem in my usual workflow.
The question is, do people think that this is the nature of community? There is a possible universe (possible with respect to my current logical uncertainty) in which communities are necessarily reliant on vigilance to survive. There is also a possible universe where there are fundamentally stable solutions to this problem. In such a universe, a community can survive the introduction of many malicious or misguided users because its dynamics are good rather than because its moderator is vigilant. I strongly, strongly suspect that we live in the second universe. If we do, I think trying to solve this problem is important (fostering intelligent discourse is more important than the sum of all existing online communities). I don't mean saying "lets try and change karma in this way and see what happens;" I mean saying, "lets try and describe some properties that would be desirable for the dynamics of the community to satisfy and then try and implement a system which provably satisfies them."
Yeah, I dug this up when wondering why it mattered that the sensor for the wireless power usage meter I have could be clamped to either live or neutral but was told by the building manager that it had to go to live; yet I wasn't convinced.

Anyway, as you say .. mystery now clear.
Actually it does because it is upon that logical fallacy that the counter argument is entirely built upon. In a general way, a logical fallacy would not imply that he was wrong if it was simply acessory or lateral to the issue. Correct me if I am wrong, please.
Been waiting 40 years for this explanation. Electricians have tried to explain it but their answers always ended up sounding circular and ill-founded.
I'd like to see a chart of how IPOs perform in their first year compared to the rest of the market. No luck with Google.
Yeah, because you can't "obsolete" something.

You also can't replete something. Or discrete something. Interestingly, you can complete something.

Knowing your language FTW.
Abolishing the TSA would not mean that there would be no security at airports. There was security at airports before the TSA, as there will be when the TSA ultimately disappears.
It's nothing to do with rich or poor, educated or not. It's all about the quality of the contributions. Some people produce consistently high quality contributions, and some people produce consistently low quality contributions. That's what's meant by high quality and low quality people.
Thanks! That StackOverflow thread has some great discussions!
Some thoughts on when to raise money and the current financing environment
It perhaps also fulfills that story-role, yes. Nonetheless, it shouldn't be contrary to your expectations, if you apply a little wisdom.

I find in my own case that the things which bug me about others are things which deeply bug me about myself. Whenever I find my heart beating a little harder and my brow a little furrowed, I try to relax, and take a deep breath, and see what it is within me which resonates so strongly against the error that I have seen. I am normally quite patient with error, and this usually causes my impatience.

Personally, I feel this "what is wrong with me" redirection is a much deeper lesson than the fact that harsh moderation can help keep a community together. First off, it is a discipline which can help keep us together, as opposed to the communities we moderate. And second, because the original lesson comes embedded in a much deeper truth, which Eliezer doesn't seem to acknowledge. I would like to spend a moment on this:

The deeper truth is that love is transformative, that to love is to change both yourself and your beloved. The original post just notes that if a moderator isn't moderating, they aren't loving their community. True enough. It is important, however, to understand that transformation is not sufficient for love: that we all know people who do use their authority too far.

Well-kept gardens don't die due to pacifism. That's stupid -- if they did, then they weren't "well-kept". But they die because they don't get the love that they need. It doesn't matter how much you pull the weeds if you forget to water the roots and fertilise the soil.

To any of you who wish to know whether they love their job, I will simply add the poignant questions: when did you last transform it? And when did it last transform you?
How do you know? As a counter-point, there have been several groups of people trying to blow up aeroplanes since the TSA was created. Many were stopped using good-old-fashioned detective work. None were caught by the TSA.
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Why don't Schuko plugs have this orientational bias ?
As an aside, one of the things that's sorely missing from the day-to-day integration of the European Union is a standard for electrical plugs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets

Here in Italy there are at least three kinds that are fairly common. Go north to Austria, and things change and you have to buy more adapters.
That sort of usage of "brave" (to compliment while sending mild sarcasm/bemusement/disapproval) sounds distinctly British to me. :)
squandered opportunity sucks.

it's sickening.

God says...

116:1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my
supplications.

116:2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call
upon him as long as I live.

116:3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat
hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

116:4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee,
deliver my soul.

116:5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped
me.

----

Karate kid loses and goes home happy. Winner marries beautiful wicked witch. Actually, all women are wicked, ugly or beautiful.

In the words of Jesus, "Only God is good."

God says... stipend denotes retard nilled members drewest

Wouldn't happen without stipend. Got sterilized and impotent, too.

Women really are wicked, though.

God says...
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operations Zzzzzzzz comprehended contemplation unskilfulness
like treble access shine

How about a vulgar display of power, God? Bust-out some time travel, fer giggles!!

God says...

5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years and begat Mahalaleel: 5:13 And
Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years,
and begat sons and daughters: 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were
nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared: 5:16
And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty
years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:17 And all the days of
Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

5:18 And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat
Enoch: 5:19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters: 5:20 And all the days of Jared were nine
hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

5:21 And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred
years, and begat sons and daughters: 5:23 And all the days of Enoch
were three hundred sixty and five years: 5:24 And Enoch walked with
God: and he was not; for God took him.

----

ROFLMAO Enoch was raptured.
I don't think this can be said enough and judging from this story people don't seem to get it yet but let's give it another whirl: National rights and customs do not transfer with an individual.
Will this finally mean linux becomes more and more mainstream for commercial games and applications? I actually hope so!

Thank you Gabe and Valve, for bringing things a step ever closer.
I have yet to find a similar service which would let me do the same but save my data on my own computer instead of their servers.....and at the same time, the data is compatible with multiple browsers.

The standard bookmark managers of both Firefox and Chrome are so outdated and they don't play nicely together.
I don't think you're talking about the same things: a claim of logical fallacy implies that the argument is wrong, but doesn't make any direct claims against the truth of the conclusion. For example, my saying "you should be scared of the TSA, therefore 2+2=4" is fallacious, even though the conclusion is true.

That's not to say that making a claim of fallacy isn't an indirect attack on the conclusion, especially when the only arguments supporting that conclusion are fallacious...
The truth is, if you love the Internet you had better start fighting to stop these escalations. Otherwise, it will cease to exist. The first time a massive attack causes real fear in western civilization, people will start questioning how much they really need it in their lives.

The lack of plausible deniability will lead to escalation. Once it does, national security (from the perspective of each country) will govern it's growth, not freedom.
You don't lose your copyright if you don't take legal action to protect it.
Should I develop Windows metro style apps?
Hi all,

I'd like to have your opinion on this one:

Since, in my opinion, the mac app store is growing rather saturated and I don't have cocoa knowledge, would I be better off developing Windows metro apps? What is your opinion about windows 8? Will it be worth investing time and energy in developing metro style apps or will it rather flop? I know you can't really foresee what's going to happen, all I ask is your personal opinion/view on the future of Windows.

Greetings Daan
Looks pretty cool. If nothing else, I'm sure I can learn from it.
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actually I'm not sure what's considered the direct commercial competitor here for post-processing audio.

Audio is an interesting market. Sound Forge comes to mind, but based on the time I've spent in studios, I'm going to speculate that professional audio is either done with hardware, or really old software.

The particular example I'm thinking of was a MacOS9 computer (in 2009 or so). The tech told me two things kept him back; he had all the plugins he needed for the software he used (and that many were not available in newer suites), and something about realtime recording.
How could you know? At some point the bad guys choose how to move from a to b, using whatever the 'best' method of the time is.
My problem with HackerNews API (having done something like this -- the Hacker News Filter on Github) is that you get throttled after you hit a certain number of HTTP requests and your IP gets banned for a certain amount of time.

So as nice as this is, it simply won't work here for the many people who would like to use near live data on HN.
Schuko plugs expose some material on the sides to ground to their chassis. I personally think they're the better design, but if you look at this picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Schuko_pl...

Number '2' is grooved out, and there is a receiving prong that sticks out to make contact to the groove-exposed metal, similar to how the contact chargers you're probably used to seeing on handheld phones (not cellular, but cell batteries are often similar) -- The important thing to note is that length-wise, 2 comes in contact to ground before either hot or neutral wires do (length-wise), so it's safer on paper than the traditional design.
Rocket.js
Yep, but remember that both of these tools are wonderful if you don't abuse them.
Even already knowing the gist of things, I enjoyed the description of the path-dependent incremental evolution here.

But, this sentence makes me wonder about something: "Also, the clear-weather sky current can no longer build up a high voltage, if any excess charge immediately leaks into the earth."

Have our region- and even continent-wide grounded electrical networks changed the expression of lightning storms, such that non-electrified areas are noticeably different?
if an object has not been excessively tampered with, the objects's __module__ attribute will give you where it was created.

The inspect module doc page is of great help: http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html
Never mind that yes, A/C can count on polarity and that you are isolated from the grid by one or more transformers.

The third prong is the "safety" ground, in case neutral fails. Go back to old guitar amps with "the cap of death" or a "ground" switch for one market in which this evolved. It's a fairly simple mod to make an old amp fully safe. Yes, they cover that in the "bad outlet" story, but it's easy to fix if you know how to run a meter and can find a ground.

The lead guitarist from Badfinger died from this.

I'd never heard about DC buildup on the grid - free power, maybe? :)
http://muxamp.com Muxamp is a YouTube and Soundcloud unified playlist I'm wrote to learn JavaScript, jQuery, and Node.JS. It interfaces with the YT and SC APIs to deliver a responsive, interactive playlist.
Some aren't interested, I'm sure. But I think this is one area were better tools could help a lot.

Getting good usage data is hard. Running a good user test is harder. It's my experience that if you connect developers up with good data, both qualitative and quantitative, many of them will start hacking the user experience with the same sort of relentless optimization that they bring to code quality and system performance.

I think there has to be a good solution in there somewhere. Maybe several.
Palm CEO Ed Colligan discussing Apple’s imminent release of the iPhone in 2006:

Responding to questions from New York
Times correspondent John Markoff at a
Churchill Club breakfast gathering
Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off
the idea that any company — including
the wildly popular Apple Computer —
could easily win customers in the
finicky smart-phone sector.

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few
years here figuring out how to make a
decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not
going to just figure this out. They’re
not going to just walk in.”

http://daringfireball.net/2006/11/colligan_head_stuck
Prior to the Ground Fault Interruptor sockets found in modern bathrooms, an isolating transformer was often used to protect bathroom outlets in the 60s and 70s. These are two-pin unpolarized sockets, usually with "Razors Only" stamped on the front (because if you plug in a 1000 W hair dryer you blow out the transformer).
This is a two-edged sword. Also keep in mind, "Who watches the Watchmen?" The power to ban can also be used to turn a group into a personal fief. As in many things, the optimum path is a middle one. Checks and balances are needed.

Sometimes the ban hammer is wielded by those with troll ethics.
If it's on Facebook they will definitely shut it down if there's a valid complaint.

Here's the information you need:

https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=157024904418383
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It renders fine on the iOS iPad simulator MobileSafari, at least.
I think day to day integration of voltages is worse. Not so much for gadgets since we have transformers for everything down to 5 volts, but anything else is a nightmare.
Ever wonder why, in some buildings (mainly commercial properties), the plugs are installed so that the ground is at the top of the outlet?

I asked an older electrician/installer about this once, and the reason he gave was that if a wire fell in between the gap between the plug and outlet it could short easily.

Having the ground on the top makes it so that if something does land in this way, it will be at an angle and more likely to fall off the shorting outlet.

Plugs in other countries, specifically european or british plugs aren't susceptible to this because they're designed not to expose hot wires during insertion.
But as an American I am practically funding this. They can keep their holyland for as long as they can hold it, I don't want my money funding their hate culture.
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