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> But this sort of news story about something that's happening right now is symptomatic of the useless '24 hour news' cycle of noise.

The single most important part of the internet is the immediate availability of news (to me, anyway). I've never heard anyone complain about that before; why do you think it's not worth knowing and talking about events as they happen? 'Twitter is down' isn't noise. Years and years ago there were stories about fire departments (SF I think?) that started using Twitter to send out fire notices. Here in Montreal, the police tweet very quickly and accurately about our daily student protests.

Twitter is extremely important to a huge number of people, and when it goes down, a site like HN definitely should be talking about it. It's big news and it's almost exclusively relevant while it's happening.

I love the internet.
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And that's the way you have to be! Unfortunately both sides a reinforcing the other side to remain steadfast. But only the companies can make the first move towards what we had before.

I would have no problem staying loyal to a company under a different set of circumstances.
This is why you ship the whole server. No shuffling around data- it's already where you want it, on the server. Just plug it in to the cluster.
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I love that he owns kim.com. Never thought to check.
You have discovered a 404 page. You can read more about them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404
Rob Walling, Jason Cohen, Ruben Gamez all write excellent blogs. Mixergy is a goldmine.

There's always the danger of spending all your time reading and hearing about other people's work. It's better to go looking for info when you need answers to specific questions for your business.
Or at least offer vouchers (with proof, of course --which carrier would have) toward the purchase of a WP8 system so that people don't feel duped.
Free it? It's just 140-character blog platform and an SMS interface right? What's closed about it?
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I am amazed the OP is never asked for their slides, even though they are not useful by themselves. I once gave an hour-long talk using no slides at all (I basically talked over a demo of live screens) and I still got asked for my slides at at the end.
In a corporate case it's hard--both legally and practically--to pinpoint someone of guilty mind performing guilty acts beyond reasonable doubt. That's why the corporation is a "legal person" that can itself be legally responsible for stuff and get sued: corporate personhood arose partially as a solution to this problem. This has borne out in legal practice, where even when there's obvious blood in the water, prosecutors have trouble convicting all but a few top guys.

Anyway, I also find your profanity-laden vitrol unbecoming of discussion on this site.

EDIT: I guess it's now considered a sin to state an easily-verifiable truth and ask for polite discourse.
But it is worth learning about. Also, it shows that it is possible though very unlikely.
The cheese on a fast food hamburger is really more a condiment than an ingredient, serving a purpose somewhere in between "cheese" and "mayonnaise".
Data comes from Metrotransit's API, updated at 30-second intervals.

Presently the maps are static images, as the site is designed first for mobile devices (desktop traffic represents less than 1% of my traffic).

I plan to have interactive maps for desktop users in the future.

You can click on the maps to see your stop in Google Maps, or the Google Maps app on your mobile device.
I did this a few months ago:

imap kj <esc>

I have never had to type a word with the letter combination 'kj' in it. Works great.
It's interesting to consider how different the world might be if Jobs and Woz had been busted for selling blue boxes:
http://paulgraham.com/bluebox.html
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> Well, enough of that. Here's a new theory: There are no bins, there's a continuum of behaviours, and there's no good or bad.

Hey, if you can convince the other 7 billion people who drop people into bins as a matter of biological instinct that you're right, then cool.
I absolutely agree. It all starts with an appreciation of what you do for me; which is you come in to work every day, and work for me. I can count on you, but in return, I have to give you peace of mind, and a competitive salary.

Most companies have altogether made it clear that no job is stable, and competitive salaries continue to shrink...
I agree - risk assessment does not mean mitigate all risks 100%. Risk is a trade between cost and consequences of failure.
Christ, enough with the pedantry. I'm getting sick of all the pedants on HN critiquing idioms and common phrases.

Did you understand what the GP meant? Yes. Did you need to point out to the world your complete mastery of the English language? No.

The GP's point was that Twitter is useful, despite it's relatively low score on "innovative new technology" scale.
Here is how I know this is a vast over exaggeration!

I can’t get less than 20 slaves as an American so far:

Roughly 300,000,000 people in America

20 slaves each

=

6 Billion People.

That means that after accounting for americans, only 700 million people on earth aren’t slaves.
Nice effort.

I use nextbus.com here in Boston and used it back at school at Rutgers. While their mobile website is pretty nifty, the web UI needs quite some work.
True.

In fact, for every field X, most X engineers don't want patents to apply to field X.
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Speaking of emotional-jerks, I cannot help but get extremely upset every time I hear how "innovative" angry birds is compared to crush the castle. Replacing a ball with a bird and shortening the launch mechanics do not to me represent the difference between millions of dollars and thousands of dollars.

It drives me crazy that our society allocates millions of dollars of resources in terms of profits for something like this. This is not genius. This is not innovation. It's polish and refinement on an ultimately inconsequential entertainment product. I understand completely why it makes money. But I still cannot help but be upset that things like this do earn obscene amounts of income.

Unfortunately, the markets reward only what people buy, not innovation, not what might change society permanently, nor good intentions. Sometimes it just rewards replacing art assets with birds and pigs.
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I deliberately avoided suggesting alternatives because I think the best advice for a beginner is to stop with all the pretentious 'arty' photo techniques and take snapshots.

But, if pressed, I would suggest this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Photography-Very-Short-Introduction-In...

Most colleges have continuing education classes in photography. Stanford for example, I know does.
No, because there are hundreds of other places one can register 'amazon' as a second-level domain.
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Post Office hires accountants to review sub-postmasters' computer claims
This is a really good point.

Any assessment of risk entails certain larger assumptions about the world, many of which often turn out to be mere guesses.

Consider all the prices that are set to their current levels b/c nobody expects the collapse of the US political system to occur. Yet there is a nonzero probability that it will occur.

On one hand this seems like an absurd example, yet it exemplifies the kind of blind spot we are prone to when assessing risk. We generally address all the risks we can directly control, then classify the rest as "systemic" which essentially means that we are not able to compute them so we're going to ignore them.

Yet many systems which we assume to be stable or predictable (governments, companies, markets, weather patterns, social trends, etc.) have unexpected aberrations now and then which can have very significant consequences. Since these tend to impact most companies equally, the market will converge on an equilibrium where no firms do anything to hedge against these things.

Do you want to pay extra bank fees so that your bank can hedge against the collapse of the US currency for your checking account? Probably not. Do you want to triple your hosting costs to hedge against a massive US power grid failure? Probably not. The same applies to asteroid risk and sudden ice age risk.

On the other hand, if you have lots of money saved, you may wish to hedge against the collapse of one currency or another, and if your business would end if you suffered a few hours of downtime, you might want to invest in massive amounts of redundancy.

Every morning when we all commute to work we risk death. Some exposure to systemic risk is considered acceptable, and part of the character of any person or business is the kind of risk exposure we tolerate day to day. A doctor working in an AIDS clinic risks needle sticks and HIV, a startup doubling its users each month risks downtime but also risks a cash flow crisis.
I think it's almost a requirement of these large platforms now. If they don't then developers would lose trust in them; I would anyway.
That's a very good point, but recall that the standard is the hypothetical person who is presumed to have known the relevant art at the time of the invention. From KSR, we know that it's this person who's the baseline for determining which, if any, inferences or creative steps are obvious.

If a person NOT falling within this definition were to independently arrive at an invention and could have arrived at the same invention prior to the issuance of that invention's patent, then there's an issue. KSR states: "a person of ordinary skill in the art is also a person of ordinary creativity, not an automaton." It follows that a hyper-creative, one-of-a-kind person who proves that he or she independently arrived at the invention would not be this hypothetical person. Although obvious to a genius in the art, it was non-obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art. That's where I disagree with your reasoning.

EDIT: This is not to say that the genius in the art should be out-of-luck. He or she should be entitled to continue practicing the invention, but the patent itself shouldn't be invalidated. This should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and treated as an exception to the general rule.
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Abstraction - the death of innovative products.
All this makes me think of is "In order to transmit the same amount of information on paper, they would have to arrange for a 747 cargo freighter packed with telephone books and encyclopedias to power-dive into their unit every couple of minutes, forever."
And has a better UI than their normal version (to me, anyway). It's kinda cool that twitter has a fully functional backup site already online.
Until you use kj as a variable for KillJoy
Because y'know, fraud _never_ happens in command economies or totalitarian states.

This is human nature and has to do with the culture of lrage organisations, and has nothing whatever to do with capitalism per se.
Great stuff, I think it's more clear than the previous demos with reader and writer examples.
Is Winter 2.0 coming? Naw, its just a cold.
Kudos for doing this! Raising the visibility of role models for women in tech is noble work.

I hope you find an easy way to make the site grow past Toronto, perhaps with submitted stories from people in other cities that follow your standard style.

Have you thought about sometimes making (edited?) video recordings of the interviews? I can see how this would make many interviewees nervous, but I think it would also increase the effectiveness of the interviews for people who are comfortable with it. It would help make it easier to "put a face" to women in tech.

Hm, photos could work pretty well for that, too. Have you thought about getting a good photographer to take photos of the women whose stories are being told, perhaps with photos of them both "at work" and at your interview?
This reminds me of my friend's father who decided to learn programming later in his life and signed up for a class. Incredulously, their language of choice of Perl, and so not two weeks later he comes back from a class and shows a handout that says:

slkjs/sdfjks/\1jksok/j23kjdj\skjd

is the same as

lkkd\kk////?!@

except latter is shorter and easier to understand

The note was actually correct and the actual expressions made sense, but to an average person both looked like a line noise. Needless to say it was his last class.
Once you used to it the feet will have Vim muscle memory, I wonder how it would effect one's driving especially with the manual gear shifts cars (pun intended :) )
You make a valid point but I think other factors are at play in my case.

For starters, the comic you've linked to suggests that I don't come up with many new ideas, but a glance at my HN profile might reveal otherwise.

I think it has more to do with how long I spend in open-mode. I suspect longer than others. I like to marinate on my ideas. I try to give myself a lot of time to solve a problem. The result is a certain level of depth that I might feel extra ownership over. This is a side-effect and an unintentional one at that.

I'm now working hard on optimizing my work-flow to counter this issue. Some of it has to do with releasing things sooner than later (thus feeling less invested in them at that point).
Remember when i was 3 and typed commands on a XT to run games (Sokoban, etc)

Learned to use dir and cd by just watching my father doing stuff. Soon i took more fun exploring other files than playing the games
Technically a corporation is a person, is it not? What if we tried to send the corporation to jail instead? =)
It's important IMO to consider how long an iOS device can use the latest firmware. Once you cross the 2-3 year barrier most people are looking to upgrade anyway so they don't consider it a big deal vs. not being able to upgrade a 6 week old phone.

EX: iOS 6 comes out this fall and is backward compatible all the way to 3GS phones which came out June 19, 2009, but not 3G which came out July 11, 2008 which they stopped supporting with iOS 4.2.1 on November 22, 2010.
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How about median valuation?
Yep! I got a TRS-80 as a hand-me-down and spent HOURS typing line-by-line Basic code from a book to replicate their programs (mostly animated faces, simple games, etc).

I had no clue what I was doing but it was a blast. :)
So, here in the UK Twitter is back for me. It looks like I was without it for about 45 minutes. Call it an hour for a nice round figure.

Think about these two scenarios:

1. During that one hour you spend your time focussed on talking about this event as it's happening, speculating, having an emotional response (because you can't access something you want to and find a group of people experiencing the same thing and all get together to experience the frustration).

2. Tomorrow you read a story that says "Twitter was down for one hour yesterday" with some detail about what happened.

I believe that the latter is preferable. It's more efficient, less emotional and more useful. The former is the same as watching some 'Breaking News' event while is happening.

Now imagine that the one hour of downtime happened when you were asleep. You've missed nothing.

There are two scenarios where this news is important: if your business depends on Twitter, and if you are trying to assess the reliability of Twitter. The latter can be achieved by #2 above, only the former needs real-time updates and that doesn't mean general news reporting just your own monitoring.
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If one of the largest services in the valley being down is not tech news, then what exactly do you think would be news?

Think of "twitter being down" as Silicon Valleys equivalent to hollywoods "Lindsey Lohan is drunk in jail again"..

The tech companies, their founders staff and services are our pop-culture to gossip about.
I wonder if this would work better as a temporary mode (like how a real clutch works). For example, you stay in insert mode until you press the pedal, which escapes you to command mode, and then restoring insert mode after you depress the pedal?
Thanks. I'll have to dig up a YouTube video showing around the system, sounds interesting.
People running sub-post offices have been jailed on the basis of information from the computer systems. Many of these people claim to be innocent.

See also this item from over a year ago.

(http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280095088/Post-Office-fa...)

As a cultural note: in the UK delivery of mail is done by Royal Mail, and the post offices are run by Post Office Counters. They used to be unified but were split during denationalisation measures. Post Offices used to handle a lot of different things; they were the place to get a lot of bureaucratic forms (driving licence applications; vehicle tax disc applications; passport applications etc etc) and to get benefit payments, and also simple banking for people excluded form the system. They are reasonably political (any large national organisation like this in the Uk has heavy union presence) and politicians are fierce to preserve local post offices, which are seen as a part of the community.
I added that in because I thought about it and realized it was true, and it kind of surprised me, too. I get asked for the URL at the end sometimes, or to put that back up or email it out, but never the slides.

Which I personally take as evidence that I'm either a) writing slides the way I want to, or b) writing really bad slides.
Also didn't Windows actually start gaining the majority share only after 95 release, I am not sure about it though.
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I love the CLI and spend much more time in it than in every other UI, but I was a Windows user for years, where I barely used it, and I still felt all of that.

My blank slate was an empty text file in Notepad and a browser (this was on a public computer, I couldn't install stuff).

On the iPad, I'd say the blank slate is Codea: http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/
I had an episode of a TV show on videotape that literally crashed my TV. I'm not kidding. Whenever the show got to a certain point the TV would turn off.

I'm 99% sure that it was something invalid in the closed captioning.
Very different. The cost of coming up with chemical compounds is often quite large. With software most new work is done by very few people.
Why is this on the HN front page? This is an entirely worthless post. It adds no value. Nobody is going to reread this at any point in the future. Utterly worthless.
"Disaster recovery" is a term. I'm not saying it's a disaster in the sense that some horrible thing has happened. Like most people said, it's maybe annoying to some of Twitter's most avid users but fairly innocuous.

The point is that at least in the case of Heroku and EC2 (I'm not sure what caused Twitter's outage yet), the causes of failures weren't something like a "16-sigma" event like a plane hitting an electrical tower (a tragic event that happened in Palo Alto a couple of years ago). They were things like insufficiently tested software and processes, and misconfigured devices. These things do not add cost, except maybe incrementally more man-hours in terms of testing and auditing of configurations. They are not million-dollar diesel units that require permits, etc.

My point is that if a device misconfiguration can take down EC2, or a single bad data in their data stream can cause massive failure, it means that the entire system is much more fragile than its been sold to everyone. If they didn't realize this was the case, it means that the risk of failure was a lot higher than they had assessed.
I haven't seen anyone talk about it, but there is another important implication of all these new TLD's: security.

This will give malware purveyors a whole new plethora of vectors to exploit insofar as social engineering goes.

Imagine regular user 'A' is surfing, looking for a cool new pair of shoes. They know that kewlShoes is their fav shoe company evar. Some entity has paid the huge fee to acquire the .shoes TLD in order to sub-let domains at whatever nominal fee they decide.

User 'A' browses to kewl.shoes instead of kewlshoes.kshoes and unwittingly becomes the latest drive-by-download victim happily handing over their credentials to who-knows-who.

I know this is broad and speculative, but think it is worth consideration.

Has there been other discussion about this out there that I haven't seen?
Zero Tweets.
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Maybe it's time to rename the project once again with so much changes ....
Hasn't Twitter demonstrated a general disinterest in their developers of late?
Even more simply (in the US), it is like your dad teaching you how to drive stick even though most "non-power users" of cars drive automatics.
"I think this is another good example of how we as an industry are still unable to adequately assess risk properly."

It is likely that what you mean by "properly" is impossible. At large enough scales, what you end up with is a Gaussian distribution of errors in accordance with the Central Limit Theorem... except that there's a Black Swan spike in the low-probability, high-consequence events, and you basically can't spend enough money to ever get rid of them. Ever. Even if you try, you just end up piling equipment and people and procedures which will, themselves, create the black swan when they fail.

I think you're trying to imply that if only they'd understood better, this could absolutely have been prevented. No. Some specific action would probably have been able to avert this but you simply don't have a 100% chance of calling those actions in advance, no matter how good you are.

The state space of these systems is incomprehensibly enormous and there is no feasible way in which you can get all the failures out of it, neither in theory nor in practice.

Living in terror of the absolute certainty of eventual failure is left as an exercise for the reader.
The trouble with median valuation is that even for the most successful incubators it will approach zero, because I doubt any of us are going to have a success rate over 50%.
Interesting.

Treble is favored in a few specific contexts (in the game of darts, for instance), but triple is generally favored everywhere else. Even in British English, where treble is most common, triple appears approximately three times for every instance of treble. In American English, treble is almost unheard of except in relation to sound and music.

From here - http://grammarist.com/usage/triple-treble
I'd like a combination of 3 (mission statement) and 5 (TeamGantt) -- each time you are creating a concrete goal for your todo list, think about how exactly it will align with your mission statement and advance the company.
AFAIK it's a different codebase altogether. One's based on WinCE and the other on Windows8, so it would be misleading to imply that upgrade to 7.5 was based on Win8.
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Interesting idea - thanks.
"Reverse sexism"? Check your privilege.
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Eh.. I know 2-year-olds who know how to do things on the iPad that the adults around them don't! It's ridiculous to think kids aren't learning at these early ages - it's when the brain is most plastic after all.

The fundamentals of language are getting pinned down at the same time in their little heads, and children who start training any skill at such an age tend to become proficient at it. I don't see why this can't be the case with computing as well.
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