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Agreed - I would like to suggest that 100% of the 8-10 iPhones, iPod Touches, iMacs, iPads, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs that were purchased by friends, and family (that weren't already using Macs) - were sold by _me_ in conjunction with Apple's great Marketing and track record of supporting their product. Particularly the one Android User and one Blackberry user.

The employee in the Apple store (and I take nothing away from them) - were responsible for taking a credit card number, email address, getting the box from the store room, and putting it in a bag. I even pre-sold applecare for them.
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If they charged to view the listings for example

Just by putting un-offsensive elements such as a single Adsense box on each site they should be able to generate serious additional revenue without experiencing that much of critique. With that kind of traffic and legitimate profile, the un-intrusive revenue options are endless. Just additional fees for highlighted listings, dynamic pricing for a slower decay of a posting, etc. But the beauty of Craigslist is its absolute no-frills approach and consistency over years and years. Reminds me a bit on the success of Drudge. Similarly weathering all storms by concentrating on content and simplicity to the extreme.
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it's also on KhanAcademy: http://www.khanacademy.org/science/brit-cruise/cryptography/...
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PROgrammers.

I'll just leave now.
That's in theory.

In reality, private companies are personality driven.
>Name the last big "Windows App" that made you buy a copy of Windows?

Visible Analyst 2008

Net Weaver

SAP client

CoD Black Ops

CoD MW3

Insert tons of other video games

Internet Explorer

And that is just what I personally need a copy of Windows to run.
Y'know what? I think you're absolutely right.

I was naively thinking of charging users more money to increase revenue, and while you've pointed out a few very viable ways that they could easily get more wallets open, the real gold mine is likely ad revenue that nobody would bat an eye at.

The targeting/CPM would likely be fairly low, but by sheer volume alone, they'd rake it in I suspect.

Thanks for the insight.
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Not sure what you are trying to say here. Are you suggesting that if the members want their data free, they can "negotiate" for allowing 3rd parties to access it? That goes without saying.

So, either you are saying something else, or just stating the status quo.
These aren't embryonic stem cells. No one has a problem with adult stem cells (well, I suppose the folks who refuse all forms of medical treatment might).
I don't really understand why you think GCs are so limited, when you are comparing them not to the runtime heap provided by a C or C++ vendor, but instead some custom scheme. To level the playing field, you should be considering a GC specialized to the purpose. There's no reason why a GC can't allocate certain things specially, or have a specified initial heap size. And GC actually makes it easier to make better use of L1/L2 cache without needing specific optimization, because caches are nice sizes to use for generations in generational GC - they're extremely quick to collect.

Saying that games and embedded systems "allocate a fixed size of memory up front and NEVER free it, re-using it instead" is almost meaningless. They are necessarily implementing their own GC or memory allocator; pretty much the definition of an allocator is something which controls how memory is reused. The only thing they've insulated themselves from is the vendor or OS's memory allocator, by writing their own allocator. This can make lots of sense when your application is all written by a single relatively small team, and has nicely understandable lifetimes for various bits of memory - games are a good example, because memory can typically be classed as existing for the entire game, a level, a frame, or a call stack. When you have such a specialized use case, it makes sense to take advantage of it. But not all, or even most, applications are like that.
I never had a virus on my bbc micro, but I wouldn't use that as evidence of BASIC's security.

And nothing is ever perfectly secure. If you actually think that then you should take your t-shirt under advisement. Always assume that a system is compromised unless you have very good evidence to the contrary.
The picture in the article is cropped. In the original iFixit teardown you see that the pattern is right next to a laser-engraved data matrix code [1].

The indentations probably encode some quality-control type metadata from the CNC milling machine (like the version of the plan used to mill the part). iFixit just happend to get a glider in theirs.

[1] http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/GGjmUQwXwlrFJAUy.huge
> Lots of people have created objectively better sites than Craigslist, but they fail because of network lock-in.

There is no lock in. A buyer or seller is free to move place their listing or make their purchase from any number of alternatives regardless and Craigslist can't stop them.

> Sites like Craigslist and LinkedIn have become the new natural monopolies.

Mark Zuckerburg would probably disagree with that statement. In 2005 MySpace would have been the equivalent of Craigslist, massive network, shitty design and no data portability. If the value provided by alternatives to CL were as superior as most HN readers believe them to be then END USERS would see that as well and migrate just like MySpace users migrated to FB. But they don't so CL retains its dominance, the failure of alternatives is not indication that CL is cheating or doing anything even remotely monopolistic.

> And demanding that they open up their data is the natural, and right, action to bring back natural market competition that benefits consumers and the world at large.

The data is open, just not in a format you think you are entitled to it in. It's open in that the same poster that put their listing on CL can post the same listing on alternatives, they just choose not to. Convince the seller or buyer of the value you bring to the table and they will open their data to you as well.

Many HN readers have reached the conclusion that convenience and competition are the same thing. They aren't.
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Weird stuff in here...

Makes it sounds like Redis is "closer to the metal" with a lower-level API than Memcached. Also how can you be "more persistent"...you're either persisten or not, unless you are being cynical and saying Redis' persistence is hit or mess?

The idea that caching results from SQL queries to disk won't, in general, provide gains is silly. Aggregates, complex joins, high offsets, queries that don't hit indexes and so on can all benefit _greatly_ from having the final results cached. It isn't the network overhead that you are trying to avoid, it's the data transformation.

There are other oddities in there.

Out of curiosity, does PHP code really still use interpolation rather than parameters for queries?

[select...where] company_id = " . $this->db->escape($company_id) . "";
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Sorry, but I respectfully disagree. Craigslist doesn't owe "us" a thing. They offer a service, and for those who pay for it, the exchange is made.

Whether or not we think PodMapper is a better service for "us", it's not our choice to make on behalf of Craigslist.
Saying that a company has every right to execute whatever policy they deem necessary to defend their bottom-line interests is not the same as saying that the community they do business in cannot call them out when those same policies are executed in an underhanded or deceptive way.

Sure, they don't owe third-parties anything, and personally I think it's folly to base all or even a significant portion of your business on data or functionality that you don't control.

But that doesn't mean that the community corporations do business in must always just shut up about it when, for instance, one company pretends to support a third-party's efforts for two months, just long enough to get a good hard look at their user experience, financial standing and business model, and then summarily shut them down without recourse.

"It's just business" is fine, but it's not a get-out-of-shame-free card. Just as third-parties can't complain when an API is yanked out from under them like Lucy with a football, so corporations shouldn't get butt-hurt when the community they work with looks at them and says, "the way you did that really stinks."
I didn't do a qualified research (I would have told that otherwise) so I can tell for myself. I personally don't use CL exactly because of that - I look at the website and understand that nobody gives a fuck about me here. Not because it doesn't use CSS3, but because it's barely usable. I seriously used CL twice - once I've rented a condo through it (using early PadMapper) and bought a pair of speakers from some local fella. I tried to sell some home furniture and run away in awe. The amount of scam was unsurmountable.

So for me personally PadMapper provided 50% of the total CL positive experience.

I've used ebay over 100 times. Ebay is ripe for disruption, imho, but it's still okay.

You sound very nervous.
> I go to the Apple Store when I'm willing to trade sanity for immediacy; otherwise I far prefer ordering online.

I've learned that the Apple Store is not where I want to go for immediacy, either. Unless you are going when it's not filled with people, buying something is a pain. I cannot fathom the need to wait for a "sales" person to buy something specific.

If I want to buy an Apple product, I go someplace else. Apple stores have never been a prompt or efficient shopping experience for me.
As in all things free-market driven, value is a function of supply and demand. The reality is the supply of people capable working in a retail, direct sales, or service position is sufficiently large in comparison to the companies requiring such employees, that the negotiating position is in the hands of the companies.

There is never any absolute value to any position, nor any value judgements about the people in those positions - there is simply a (dynamic) supply curve, a demand curve, and the intersection thereof.

Tragically - skills play less a role than what one might think. I am constantly embarrassed to discover the salary differential between what I make as a Network Engineer/Technical account manager and what my friends who are particle physics PHD graduates at SLAC make. (If it's not clear, the skill/education required to be a particle physicist exceed that of a network engineering manager. But the network engineering manager makes somewhat more money in the valley.)

Edit: Also - it's important to differentiate skills that are acquired/developed, (I.E. such as understanding the behavior of Muons, or quickly grokking an OSPF schematic) versus those that are simply attributes of being a nice person. I'd suggest that a lot of retail positions can be taught in less than a couple weeks (indeed, the Apple training takes place over two weeks) - whereas other skills take many years to learn.
"No one has a problem with adult stem cells."

Untrue. There are/were plenty of groups who object to all stem cell research. Embryonic cells are just the most controversial segment. (Consider this thought experiment: take a fully differentiated human cell, and transform it such that it is capable of generating a embryo. Do you think this won't generate objections on religious grounds?)

The heart of the debate is that our knowledge is pushing relentlessly against the darkness of superstition, and that makes some people uncomfortable -- just as every scientific advancement has made people uncomfortable. We're just in a sad period where these people have greater influence over our society's decisions.
As far as I know jQuery is written with "native API", so there is obviously a way to do this in JavaScript.

document.body.addEventListener("click", function(e) {
if (e.target.className == "clicky") {
doSomething();
}
}, false);
Why is IE on that list? Is it substantially better than Chrome or Firefox as to be considered a must have app?

You are correct about enterprise apps and (many) games. If you are a big gamer, there is not much point to get a mac.
> When you buy a product, you are, in a way, locking yourself in.

Yes, but more or less.
The problem isn't in hardware or drivers. It's in Windows and the application ecosystem. Even though Windows WM_MOUSEWHEEL allegedly supports fine-grained control, in practice it isn't implemented anywhere, not by vendors, not by applications.

(That is, I think you missed my point. The reason Apple's support is good is not because it's multi-touch; it's because it's continuous. It's also multi-touch in Windows using the Bootcamp driver - my MacBook Air spends most of its time running Windows - but it is still discrete.)
What about making PadMapper client-side, including the Craigslist scraping? It'd have to be done on each request, which would hurt performance, but it may be a way of staying within their TOS (not sure if they have a provision against that; I don't use craigslist so haven't read their TOS).
That might be also one of the basis for the long time success of Craigslist. Absolute simplicity combined with a rigorous un-intrusive experience for the regular user - no ads, no sign up, no follow us on Twitter.
As far as I know, XNA is not moving to Metro Win8. But there are some alternatives (SharpDX, SlimDX).

Most serious games are C++/DirectX anyways, so they should port over to Metro Win8 very easily (they won't have to use much WinRT).
I recently started a new network admin job at a school. I knew I had the skills to do the job but I knew I would be asking lots of stupid questions.
I learnt the environment fast and only sounded like an idiot a few times.
Why would you think you should know how a business works because you have the skills for the job? That's weird.
And you can read a fairly technical description (written in 1999) of the current situation here:

Thinking about the liquidity trap: http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/trioshrt.html
This attitude is extremely anticompetitive. Big guys like Craigslist need to give away their customer base just because they're big? That doesn't make sense to me.
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And if they're not a constructive part of the community, the community has every right (I think it's practically an obligation) to berate them for it.

Just having a business plan and making money should not protect you from criticism or absolve behavior detrimental to the general community! Yes, legally Craigslist has no obligations; that's why nobody's litigating. I argue that morally (at least from a utilitarian standpoint), Craigslist does have an obligation to play nice. And so I welcome critical blog posts and bad publicity.
I don't buy this in the slightest. Given that Thompson and Ritchie had the itch, and made Unix into whatever scratched the itch, then what about all the transmutations since then? The BSD group, Unix System Labs, every company that every made a commercial version, the GNU people, the Single Unix Specification folks, etc etc, they've all modified everything: kernel, utilities, compiler, etc.

Each group along the line got to experience the impact you mention, and do things to either lessen or eliminate whatever impact the grown thing might have on someone who didn't grow up with it.

And you can't give the "well, they just standardized what was in place already" argument. Nobody was afraid to tinker. BSD group added sockets, VM, a new filesystem. Unix Systems Lab added a new shell, Ksh. Every commercial Unix vendor, from HP to IBM to SGI to Convex to Pyramid to SOlbourne to Sun, added utilities, threading models, administration tools, windowing systems, blah blah blah. Even the POSIX specification didn't quite match what was in place, and the ANSI C 89 spec didn't match the ancient "K&R" C.

Enough people have had a hand in Unix (not to mention Linux and the various FOSS BSDs) to sand off any rough edges.

Some things are just difficult. Operating systems are one of them.
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The story is just as sad on the other side of the desk. Funding has been cut so far the hospitals have a few percent of the beds they need, and not enough staff to treat even those. Non-emergency outpatient services are even worse. Most of these people are being kicked out on the street, where their illness and substance abuse will eventually leave them incarcerated, at best, at the hands of police who are radically untrained to deal with sick people.

You expect a schizophrenic man to argue to the judge that he shouldn't be committed because when he said he was going to shoot his kids with a shotgun, he didn't really mean it; you might not expect his perfectly sane court-appointed lawyer to pick through every detail of your records looking for a reason to let him out.

My mother called me last week upset nearly to tears by a phone call she'd had from a "doctor" employed by an insurance company, who was trying to argue that her patient's mania (which he knew nothing about) wasn't a serious enough medical problem for them to pay for treatment.

At this point she's planning to get out of clinical work; she wants to help people, but she feels like the system just isn't set up to let her make a difference.

We need to fix this a decade ago.
Why on earth would another newspaper print an ad or a classified that they're not being paid for?

Also, do you have any examples of this hypothetical happening and newspaper A not having a problem with it? Outside of tabloid culture, ye olde newspapers had much more in the way of principles, and using another's content without permission was reprehensible.
Not exactly news, but it's a good piece of software that has followed my MacBook Pro 2008 for a couple of years.

Without this application, you have to log out and in again in order to switch graphics cards on the 2008 models. No longer.
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You talk as if there is perfect market choice - that if a majority of customers want something, it will happen. In the real world, there is not perfect market choice. There are many factors which make it impossible to have perfect market choice. We are probably stuck with Craigslist and LinkedIn for a while, and for the most part, we are stuck with the decisions that their executives make.

It's true that if they do something highly awful, then that might create enough demand for a competitor to take over. But it would have to be a high degree of awfulness to overcome their existing momentum. There are many shades of not-quite-awful, where those companies can make decisions with market impunity.

So considering that we're kinda stuck with those guys, I think the question becomes, why shouldn't we complain if they are doing something that we don't like? Doesn't matter who owes who what. It's our world, we should try to improve it.
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I'm not super familiar with the current literature on autophagy. I'm a bioinformatician, and I collaborated on an autophagy-related project a few years ago, so I had to read up on it then. I only really recall the overarching themes at this point. But I do remember that since autophagy is used for so many disparate purposes, and because it could easily kill the cell if it got out of control, the regulatory machinery controlling it is almost certainly quite complex.

Here's a recent (published Jan 2012) paper claiming to show that exercise triggers autophagy in muscles, and that this autophagy is an important part of how excercise makes you healthier. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...

However, that paper says nothing about neurons, yet it seems to the basis of most of the "Could excercise stimulate neuroprotective autophagy?" speculation that I can find via Google. So I don't know that there's any published link between excercise and neuronal autophagy. I suspect that it's just the paper above showing a link between excercise and muscular autophagy, combined with the untested hypothesis of "Maybe excercise stimulates autophagy in other tisues too."
There's a good discussion on this over at the Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/vhj7g/google_sl...

I found this comment very interesting:

"I'm a developer for a major online brand and finding our locations is an utterly crucial part of our business. When Google started charging us for mapping they played hard when coming to a deal to pay for their services. They spelled out a price and there was no negotiating. The arrogance from anyone we had contact with at Google was mind-blowing.
We quietly re-developed our location search to use to Bing and pulled the trigger one day. Needless to say Microsoft was more than happy to have our business and was very helpful. As far as mapping, Bing is surprisingly accurate and competitive. We've never looked back.
Google wanted over 2 million per year just to show our locations."
Of course less socialism also leads to perverse incentives at times, like avoiding starting a company because of fear of not being able to get health insurance.
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The problem is it's dickery, pure and simple. There is no technical reason those add ons can't run on the 4-non-S. I'm running a freaking Siri app from Cydia and it works just as well as the real thing. The battery life isn't reduced any appreciable amount, the phone isn't slower or more prone to running out of memory.

Yes yes I know Apple doesn't owe people free upgrades. It still bugs me.
Don't tar UNIX with such a broad brush. One of its important innovations was allowing someone besides the system programmers to make commands that could be used in exactly the same way system-provided commands could. A consequence is that sometimes commands were created with less care than the whole system was, or were inconsistent because there were made by so many different people. Don't confuse a strength with weakness.

(It used to be, of course, that people knew the difference between the operating system and programs that ran on it, but Microsoft confused that forever.)
> Start-ups should stop feeling entitled to other’s companies data

Other companies' data, or other companies' users' data?
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You've perhaps heard the term "quantitative easing" thrown around in the news media lately?

QE is the Fed printing money; lots and lots of money. Around 2 trillion so far. And very little has changed.