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/me is still waiting for Die Hard XXIV: Severed Root Servers

I've always thought a drama based upon a rogue group or state taking control of the root servers would make for a good sci-fi flick.
Looks a lot like Mahalo.com.
A few points of interest here which Venture Beat have skipped:

1. Keller's company, PA, was bought by Apple mainly for its engineering talent. Getting Keller was a huge deal for Apple.

2. Keller has been hired away by Mark Papermaster, who was a disaster at Apple (all of Bob Mansfield's reservations about him from the internal email discussed in IBM v. Papermaster came true: cultural, pace of development, etc.).

I would anticipate an outside hire from Apple to fill his shoes in the next 6-9 months.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318725
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In short: The all-caps serve a visual function, not a semantic one. It is akin to using linebreaks ("<br>") to create a visual margin.

If you write: "... arrested by the FBI" as "... ARRESTED BY THE FBI." you lose information (which screen readers could use to better pronunciation). If you style it with CSS, this information (capitalization, acronym, stress-words) is retained.

I didn't know about the issues with some foreign languages.
In the US, you can mail something Thursday and it will be received Friday, at least within a 100 mile radius. It takes 3 days in Canada.
To explain it better, think: Foursquare for dating.
Many would consider switching from Qwerty to Dvorak a bicycle skill. Typing a blog post or email can take much longer when you're learning to type in a new pattern. For some, the enjoyment of learning Dvorak, or the anticipation of being faster in Dvorak than Qwerty offsets the annoyance at the task's increased duration. For others, they have no such enjoyment or anticipation, and so the task is merely annoying.

People will only pick up bicycle skills where their benefit (or perceived benefit) is greater than the annoyance they deal with.
Unprofessional Keith B Alexander goes out of uniform to preach government spy jobs to innovators. Makes me doubt if the DSMs and DSSM on his class A's are fake too. Why not wear the MOH on your class A's Keith? You do not have to worry about being out of uniform.
True. However, at the end of the day, both of these sites revolve around the content "submitted" by users (either directly on the site or across social networks), and they need this content to thrive/survive. So while their purpose/methods may be very different, both sites co-exist in the same ecosystem?
While the RFC mandates the ability to send and receive email from user+detail@example.org it doesn't require that it go to user@example.org. It's an extension to the email standard, and you could have labels in another form if you wanted to, e.g. inbox0-user@example.org (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233)
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> So much of any work, even work you love, is boring, menial stuff you'd like someone else to do.

The boring, menials parts of work are chores. If you are finding side projects and hobbies to be boring and menial, then said hobby is a chore for you and you should probably reevaluate whey you are doing it in the first place.
Unfortunately, for me, this article itself falls in the so called 'Productivity Porn'(PP) category, although I am not sure if I agree with the PP term as described here in the first place.
The best way to play a game of chicken is to publicly tear the steering wheel out of the car. Craig is acting similarly, pretending there is nothing he can do, so you won't complain to him.
The command line is a bicycle skills. Any programmer should learn it.
It says on the site FB login is a temporary spam prevention measure while they work on a good account system of their own.
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> I wonder if so many programmers need Productivity Hacks because they don't really love programming
I doubt that is the real issue.

Programming != programming. Those same programmers will happily hack and code a whole night on their pet projects. However, in their day jobs they have to implement some enterprisey enterprise solution which they don't care about in the least.
Two things: trivially, you can change the subreddits you are subscribed to and remove the "fictitous FB pic" etc. posts.

Second, and more interestingly: people have different facets that they show in different subreddits. As an example here on HN people prefer tech-oriented stuff. But not everyone here is that into tech. They just sort or organize the content, so they come to HN for in-depth stuff, and (say) Engadget for rumors, and sbnation for sports etc. So someone who upvotes a stupid FB pic in /r/funny might vote the same photo down in /r/politics. If the person is "sorting" content that's appropriate in different situations, it's not useful to discount their opinion entirely.
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False dichotomy. You're only comparing it to the worst examples. Let's assume that the NSA doesn't spy on Americans, and what they say about only collecting data on foreigners is accurate (haha).

Why do the Swiss have no privacy rights? Australians? Canadians? What makes any of their average citizens not worthy of respecting? They don't "export terror" or have large scale state-sponsored abuses.
If you think that subreddits don't matter

Categorization does still matter (in the Netflix example they can competently recommend and rank for me, but they still allow me to filter into specific categories). Subreddits are useful.

However subreddits are a very coarse, manual solution to what I described.

To the comment about what reddit is designed for, it started sans subreddits. Indeed, an original focus was recommendations, but either the algorithms or the hardware wasn't there to support it, the result being a bit of a disaster. So they went down the manual binning approach.
"monopoly"? What monopoly? There are already private companies that have taken the cream of the delivery trade.
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Investing in infrastructure during a recession is what you're supposed to do. It creates jobs temporarily which increase consumer demand which drives the economy and increases revenue which reduces government debt AND you get the infrastructure you built. It's a clear win-win-win.
That's the thing though, remember that old adage "The customer is always right" it means that at the end of the day, right or wrong, good or bad, allowed or not-allowed, caring or cold, sue-happy or not if the people that use the website are complaining (and so far it seems they are) than cragislist is broken, because it's leadership lost the respect of it's market. There is absolutely nothing stopping someone from making a new place-to-list-stuff-for-sale, that's easier to use, safer, and open source for that matter.

People, why aren't we just getting together to do just this, we've got UX people, web people, team management types and coders out the wazoo here. Let's just make a new craiglist already.

PS: I forgot, we've got marketing genius's here to, that can make miracles happen with just about zero dollars.

PPS: It doesn't matter how much that saying irritates you, as a business owner, try being successful without customers. If anything the saying is truest only when a majority of the customers believe the same thing, but there is still truth in it. (Obviously a jerk customer that other customers would shun will have no impact on you if you say I won't serve you.) "The customers are always right" :)
I'm on 2 Mbps, work at home, and spend a sizable part of each day waiting for git repos, yum, apt etc downloads. In fact, I'm typing this comment while waiting for linux.git to update.
Digg is down. At least that means traffic is coming back
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He also has a pretty good blog - http://www.ttgnet.com/journal/
I recently was looking at computer events from 1983, at that time Apple sold it's 1 millionth apple ][ (released in 1977) and Commodore sold it's 1 millionth VIC-20 (this was a year after the c64 so it hadn't overtook the market just yet). So it took apple five years to sell a million of various apple ][s and ][pluses, and only two for Commodore to sell a million VIC-20s.

Later Commodore got the Guiness honor of producing the most of a single model computer with the Commodore 64, no solid number but its above 12 million up to 17 million.

An interesting read is Brian Bagnall's book Commodore: A Company on the Edge, which has many accounts from Commodore's staff. One interesting tidbit, is Apples marketing at the time though they were third in sales (behind Radio Shack and Commodore) their ads touted "We are Number One!" of course there probably wasn't a mention of what they were number one of...

What Apple got for a time was a foothold on the Business market with VisiCalc, and also Apple Works (this is not the Mac GUI program Appleworks). They also got a solid foothold in the education market. Educational software was a very lucrative market for many companies during the 80s and early 90s.
I'm not sure machine learning algorithms are the right approach. Crowd curation mechanisms (i.e. the upvote/downvote systems but one could imagine other systems) have the advantage of quickly adapting to the ever changing tastes of a community. I don't think machine learning approaches can be simultaneously good and flexible in such a diverse environment. The Netflix analogy isn't the best because Netflix deals with a pretty structured problem in comparison to the "recommend me things on the internet that I will like" problem.

I will also claim that subreddits are by no means a hack. They are THE key feature of Reddit that allows users to join together on the basis of common interests. There's no replacing subreddits because they are a killer feature in their own right.
On the other hand, I find any of those interesting and news-worthy.

And regardless, I would be interested in seeing the performance of a fund based on % women on the board versus the general stock market.
It'd be more interesting to see it broken down by model, particularly for the android side. I get the impression there are a bunch of other people with the ASUS Transformer, but I guess as an owner I'm primed to notice it more than the alternatives.
I completely agree with you and got downvoted ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4322859

People seems to think that PM is the good guy and CL the bad guy I just see it a buiness trying to profit over one that's already existing and has a strong user base
I agree. Subreddits are nice but I want to see the equivalent of Netflix "other movies you may enjoy" on a social network.

I want to be encouraged to upvote/downvote things because I know it will impact my experience, not because it will modify some arbitrary score to an unknown individual.
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I would like to see some more research done with this study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1943412 basically a writing exercise that seems to remove most of the effects of stereotype threat.
With the anticipated "the downfall of Apple begins!" comments that will accompany this story, I'm trying to fathom what the comments will be when Jony Ive eventually leaves...
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I guess it doesn't count as "funny stuff", but all advertising expenses are tax deductible.

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch11.html
[ctrl-F "advertising expenses"]
After the catchy headline, the article (unsurprisingly) babbles on obvious platitudes, is inaccurate and skips the interesting bits entirely, focusing on the osx-has-dangerous-malware wow factor. I wish we could get over the OS wars and assess the threats and possible security flaws objectively.

> While not widespread, the malware's ability to intercept email and IM, among other features, demonstrates that malicious applications written to target Macs can be just as powerful as malware that comes gunning for PCs.

Surprise surprise. A non-sandboxed process can access user files in ~/Library/Application Support/Mail. Shocker.

> The rootkit also ensures that the malware can run automatically, without requiring administrator-level authentication

A non-sandboxed process can survive a reboot by writing a plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. Wowz. Calling it a rootkit when it does not seem to gain privileges is a bit of a stretch.

> took the unusual step of altering OS X

Updating an OS is now 'altering', providing a security update is now 'unusual'.

> to disable outdated versions

It does not disable outdated versions, it disables all versions and forces the user to manually opt-in to run applets.

> of Java

Of the Java browser plugin.

Now here are the interesting bits that I wish were elaborated on:

> hides its malicious files and processes in the OS X system library

/System/Library is writable by root only. Does it gain privileges or not? I suppose the trojan installer asks for permissions.

> allegedly been signed by VeriSign

What hides behind this? a forged certificate? or simply the app being signed by a legitimate certificate issued by VeriSign? Does it pass Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper?

> Notably, the code contains hooks into the Apple OS X operating system that allow it to...

All of this is obvious. Non-sandboxed processes can do whatever they want in the user's playground. What's interesting is indeed that this forms some framework to leverage upon.

More importantly, the article completely sidesteps the core part: how is the payload delivered? Being "disguised as an Adobe Flash Player installer" is a bit lacking in explanation.
I don't work for Apple nor do I have any stake in them, but it can be really frustrating when people make assumptions and conclusions about the company you work for based on the limited information available to them as outsiders.

Do you really think that some silly advert made by the marketing department at Apple has any relevance to whatever the reasons were for the head of CPU design for iOS devices had for leaving?

Things might be changing for the worse inside Apple, but taking these two datapoints and assuming that something big is going wrong in the company seems to be a conclusion that isn't supported by the facts.
> but your socialism has resulted in the slaughter of 200 million people

What?
This is a silly argument. You could just as easily put a typo in your apache/nginx config and nuke your site. It has nothing to do with gracefully degrading with respect to javascript
How could Craigslist possibly enforce this? Are they going to look for every single ad on every single classifieds website to ensure that it's not exactly the same?

Unless someone like PadMapper is scraping data, it seems impossible to enforce.
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It would be nice if Reddit could filter out content based on previous voting patterns. I know people suggest unsubscribing from the bigger subreddits, which helps a little, but rage comics/memes have a habit to leak across over time. The same goes for pun threads and other worthless (albeit amusing) comments.

The experience would be more pleasant (for me at least) if it could cut out comments & stories I'm uninterested in, possibly with a summary of the article / conversation.
I just finished Thinking, Fast And Slow a couple of days ago, and it's the most thought-provoking, moving work of non-fiction I've read in years.
Polygraphs are passable by non-psychopaths. Its a broken test that is useless and not scientifically verified.
Digg is down
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Ask HN: Why is "Who is Hiring" not running at the specified time?
"This account automatically submits a 'Who is Hiring? (Month YYYY Edition)' p'ost at 9 AM Eastern time on the 1st of every month.
Imagine if the military had to run a direct profit in the same vein. "Sorry guys, but you need to be a profit centre". In the old days, the US got all kinds of land and resources - the military was a direct profit centre. Nowadays it's a 'welfare kid', despite the fact that it provides considerable indirect profit... just like the USPS.
Do some people really find the command line so difficult to use? I'm quite the opposite so I have trouble believing it.

Maybe it's because the default black background makes it feel like we're throwing our commands into a "magical pit inside the computer", and waiting for the output, which will be an error unless the commands were perfect. That perspective is unpleasant.

Maybe it would be helpful to visualize a GUI while using the command line, where instead of clicking on a menu or button, you have to type its name.
>> I am an atheist, but I'm writing a religion.

Sorry to go off topic like this, but I saw this on your profile and it's interesting to me. You're writing a religion for atheists? Why?
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I see this argument a lot, and I have two counterpoints:

1. I don't want to have to spend time researching subreddits just to figure out what I'd like. Content aggregators are meant to remove steps from the process, not add them.
2. While the content of smaller subreddits are usually improved, the level of discourse in comments are not. Even if you say 'okay, no meme posts, no meme comments', the fact is that you're going to have a glut of commentors whose first impulse are to crack a joke or make a surface-level comment. The difference in comments between a post on here and a post on /TrueReddit/ are astounding.

(The one pretty ready example to the above are < 100 member subreddits, but those usually have the issue of insufficient content.)
I didn't care for the phrasing at all. By using 4/5, that implies lower, and stands out far more than the word double. The conclusion drawn by most would be "less than", which is quite misleading from the actual data of "almost double".

Edit: There is also an edit button if you wanted to fix your wording.
This is an excellent question
Cofounder of SpiderOak here. We started in 2007, have always supported all platforms, and have a zero knowledge privacy policy about encryption of customer data. Looking at stored customer data is very boring for our sysadmins because they can't see anything on the server except sequentially numbered encrypted data blocks.

Also, you can backup/sync/share arbitrary folders.
Would love to read this, but:

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The plain text on the site looks blurry on a retina MacBook.

I'm not sure how they even managed to make that happen.

It's throwing nginx 504 timeouts now too...
I've already mentioned it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4300688
Before this news, I was playing with the idea of a crowd-sourced scraper which would avoid Craigslist being able to ban particular IP addresses: for example a javascript scraper that the end-user runs for the few moments they are on a particular viewing site. Now that this has been passed even this idea would seem to fail.

I believe that Craigslist is an immense, rich resource where the inertia of it's community to move en-masse to another service means it highly unlikely that another site will take over in the near or near-far future. I am saddened that Craigslist can't simply provide (paid or whatever) API access to their data and encourage a healthy sub-ecosystem.
Nobody has mentioned RightSignature yet. They've been around for a while, and I've used their services for a long time as well (...and, helped bootstrap the codebase).

That said, I like the simple UI of Hello Sign thus far... but, I got a never-ending spinner when I tried to draw and submit a signature... and, when I tried to upload a document (it hung at "Converting...").

The price is definitely right, that's for sure. I'm very curious to see what the paid features are going to be... and how long things are going to be free. Running clusters of high powered document converting machines is not cheap!
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Manual binning is more than the "hack", it's the reason Reddit is successful and the reason why Digg will not be (unless they emulate).

Manual binning does something magical: each bin is a separate community run by moderators. Each one has different rules, different posters, different content and different discussion.

If you automatically sort into bins, then you will automatically lose the distinction between bins.

You cannot get your users to respect the difference between communities if you are unwilling to show them that each community is different, and deserves individual attention.

Sure, find a better algorithm for the front page and logged out users.

But to destroy the autonomy of the subreddit would be to destroy the very thing that makes reddit successful.
Right, but GMail not only allows +, it treats it special. That's not in the RFC, as far as I can tell.
Personally, I wouldn't recommend learning Dvorak to anyone employed as a programmer. I would highly recommend it to high school/college students with some free time on their hands. Going from 100WPM qwerty to 30WPM Dvorak while learning was extremely frustrating for just non-critical tasks, such as chatting with friends. I wouldn't be able to handle going so slow when I needed to actually get stuff done.
When I was in middle school I took a class at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) called "explosive chemistry". We made black powder, sparklers, bombs, blew up water-filled pop cans with sodium, and all sorts of other things that would never be allowed today.

It was great fun.
Here's a pretty good presentation on the design constraints of Curiosity. He answers the 6 vs 7 question about 27 minutes in: it's the guided-descent phase that gives the extra minute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q38AncYm2U
Maybe the downtime borked the clock?
Oops - I meant LinkedIn! I have no clue how that slipped into Twitter.

Unfortunately I can no longer edit, hopefully the link itself is self explanatory.
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I don't think switching to Dvorak is worthwhile. Most people don't have the capacity to actually squeeze out the few extra wpm that Dvorak gives you, and if you do, the benefits aren't extraordinary. Plus if you use Vim, either you'll have to remember where the original keys were on the keyboard and use it solely through muscle memory, or relearn.
Collective leadership is not something that I initially think of when I think of the armed forces, but I was happy to read this.
You speak as though CL is broken, and it clearly isn't, as a marketplace it functions well.

A marketplace can be popular and still broken. I think Craigslist's extreme insistence on not developing their product may have been a great move once upon a time but is catching up with them. PadMapper and apartment rentals is just one example.
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I'm looking for histories and case-studies on successful startups. Specifically, how Facebook beat Myspace, how Craigslist succeeded, etc. Just general strategies these companies have used.

The Facebook Effect was a decent history of Facebook. Any other suggestions?
Craigslist offered a useless mobile-only license that wouldn't have permitted padmapper to remain on the web. And forbidding landlords from pasting their own ad into any other site is shockingly anticompetitive.
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