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While that may be a good idea in theory it would also send all legitement visitors to those links cause a couple of things to happen:

1. I cant go to wikileaks and leak a document because my ip address will be recorded on a governement website (weird questions ensue)

2. The sites that are currently mirroring wikileaks wont have a source. So they will become out of date pretty soon.

3. People will think that wikileaks has been taken down and will forget about it.
First of all: This comment has nothing to do with the content of the article, just the timing.

You seriously couldn't wait 5 days to publish this? What's the point, do you want to be a hipster pessimist or do you just want to screw with the effort these people are putting into it?

Even if you are right on every point, why the hell would you publish it now? Do you want it to fail? Do you want to actively have a part?

What the hell is wrong with you dude.
Cost of living is extremely high(some of the highest in Canada), while salaries are unreasonably depressed.

If you're a skilled developer/bizdev/etc you'll be offered between 1/3rd and 1/2 of what you could earn in Vancouver. Victoria is a very conservative culture - people are viewed as labour (In the economic sense, a cost to be minimized). This isn't helped by the fact that the average age is 45.

I know of half a dozen developers who moved away and doubled or more their salary.
I've known Quinn Norton well enough to know she is intelligent and hard working. My view of the article was that it was more about the TSA security response to an author of a cryptochat software than a specific endorsement of the software itself. Soghoian's blog post was inflammatory and in my opinion, wrong.
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All the people I want to interact with regularly use Twitter/Facebook. There have been a few more attractive options that I would like them to move to (G+, Path, etc.), but they haven't budged. Now here's a new alternative that thinks they should pay to use a service they're already getting for free. Good luck trying to convince them, because I'm not going to bother this time.
Arch has a very good user community. It's worth search the Arch forums even if you're not using Arch. They should be commended for their approach to clear documentation.

Some other minimal distributions include:

Linux From Scratch:

TinyCore: Took over where DSL left off, with better philosophy.

Slitaz: good internationalisation, runs entirely from ram.

TomsRtBt: the most Linux on a single floppy

Puppy: Weird and non standard but oddly popular

DSL: Also very popular among a certain group, was dead for years but is just recently getting a new release

Obviously some of these are scarily odd: single user, everyone has root, etc etc.
It wasn't a test so much as that I tend to write comments that I regret minutes later.
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> Some on alpha.app.net are arguing that app.net is "an infrastructure play for a million new networks to bloom. It's AWS not Twitter."

That's actually the vibe I got, since he's targeting developers. I'm thinking Ordinary People will never pay that much for it, so it'll probably end up as a backend for applications.

> He could simply have a marketing problem at this point

As far as I'm concerned, he does. I haven't checked it out since the alpha launched, but from the pre-alpha video and stuff, I wasn't able to figure out what the practical uses of his product will be. Effectively communicating the practical benefits of your product is an especially important part of marketing if you're targeting people like HN readers, and Dalton really dropped the ball there.

> he's done pretty well thus far if that's the case

Surprisingly well. I really don't understand why this project has been this successful.
I love the idea of Facebook being "just an XMPP server". Even though I knew they use XMPP for Facebook chat, I never thought about it that way.
No, I mean if humans were to colonize Mars -- would gravity make that process difficult?
People (taken as a whole) thinking our natural smell is "bad" is the direct result of advertising (well originally, the advertisers have so dominated society's collective mind we now aide them through peer pressure, etc).

This "problem" is constructed and would not exist without a profit motive.
You shine line at it; no light comes back. That is known as "black".
1.) This post may be meant to motivate people to prove him wrong and donate more money. For app.net, any press is good press as the deadline nears.

2.) I don't like the tone of your comment - take a look at this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354635
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They're already used for spam. For a while there I was getting two spam calls a day inviting me to lower my credit card bill or something.
#1: Where is one post highlighted? The article (lazily) acknowledges other competition, and you even quoted said acknowledgement.

#2: Yes, this point is ignored because it was not really the focus. The benefit you speak of can be realized without statements like "W3SCHOOLS IS TROUBLE" in big scary letters on W3Fool's homepage. The attitudes of the people involved and the clarity of their content are the focus of the article.
> It's also pretty cool that you can add in significant life events that occurred well before FB (or even the web) existed.

It's amazing we're so willingly giving the details of our 'significant life events' to an advertising company, without any thought to what it means in the long run.
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Except w3schools isn't approachable and it isn't for beginners. It's jargon loaded and filled with a bunch of information that means nothing to beginners.

Let's look the page for explaining 'div': http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp

"The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document.

The <div> tag is used to group block-elements to format them with styles."

Oh, I get it. Its for grouping block-elements(??) to format them with styles(??).

The above is followed by this fantastic tip:
"Tip: The <div> element is very often used together with CSS, to layout a web page."

Looking at their "examples" its an in-browser html editor with un-annotated code that makes a table suitable for the web circa 1995.

Then it trails off in to sparse definitions of the attributes for the div tag with an excessive amount of discussion about web standards compatibility.

Normally I wouldn't gripe about an awful tutorial site but w3schools consistently ranks high in google queries for questions about html tags. Personally I've never left w3schools with an answer to the question that led me there. That signals to me that it is indeed a failure.
This article hits the nail on the head.

The system of one person or company doing something wrong and another making a promise to do things right is exactly why politics never improves. What is to stop the next person from turning evil too? A promise made by a person? Seriously?

If the new company were to come up with some decentralized architecture that would systemically prevent them from doing ads and would just establish an open protocol that anyone can use for a small licensing fee etc or some new way of making money, that would at least be something worth trying.

If the only difference is a promise that they won't do ads, hah. I don't know.
Since we have that sorted out, can we then come to the core point of your argument here? Namely, what does this have to do with bad or good crypto?

Cryptography is math. Its no soft science where someone can push his agenda through careful interpretation of statistics. The background of the people researching it is irrelevant.

But none of that is important. Important is what happens when you use terrible crypto in a terrible country: your data will be siphoned off at the backend and western IT people with the same high level education will trivially decipher it.

And that is why its necessary to criticize people pushing magic crypto systems. It literally kills!
In my home country, you can buy prepaid SIM cards in supermarkets just like everything else, you just pick up them from shelves and pay at check out. Everything is completely anonymous, nothing is registered all. I never heard anyone express concerns about it. It seems so obvious, that when I came to the US, I couldn't understand amazement in eyes of a clerk at a gas station, when I asked if they had any SIM cards I could buy.

The phone service in the US is also ridiculous expensive but it's a different matter.
Every new device launched with an obsolete version of Android is part of the price that Google pays for making Android as free as it is. And frankly, I don't see the market for a slow, buggy Android experience tied to a Nikon camera.
> "Except w3schools isn't approachable and it isn't for beginners."

My experience says the opposite. Sorry.
How about sites like Wikipedia or Wordpress? Aren't they non-profit (Not entirely sure about Wordpress), community-driven sites that have succeeded despite their altruistic intentions?

I don't agree with the notion that companies or non-profits have to eventually become sinister and closed-off to maintain market-share. I think Twitter and Facebook just happened to be sites that did take this path-likely because they involved individuals who wanted large profits.
Agreed. As someone who just began coding less than a year ago, I can honestly say that it has rarely if ever helped me. I've found other free sites like Chris Coyer's "css-tricks" to be far more beneficial. That said, it is a free service and I can appreciate that, but it's time for some improvements.
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> W3Schools has already announced that it's content should be used at the user's risk, which means they waive all responsibility for inexperienced users. It is not their job to babysit developers, since it is the developer's job to research other sources and improve his understanding through rigorous practice and peer feedback.

That's awful advice for beginners, who have no idea why some things are good and others are dumb.

Some people will validate their pages. Some of those people will know what the errors mean, but decide that it's okay to have those errors. Other people will get a bunch of errors, and not really understand what's going on, and will just publish anyway because "it works in the browsers I tested on".
Some ISPs/hosts have DDoS protection, where they drop the traffic on their end (where the bandwidth is high) versus trying to drop it on your end (where the bandwidth is relatively low). Trying to break a DDoS on your end almost always results in your network dying when you're dealing with a dedicated, high bandwidth DoS.
I think 5 days from now would have been too late. At that point it would have seemed like they typical "hindsight is 20/20" Monday morning quarterbacking. At least by making a statement now, as forgone a conclusion as it may be, he can at least pretend that he isn't the 30th person on a bandwagon that seats 60.

Like MG or the other marketers of the silicon valley dream there is the perception that it's a meritocracy, and we all want app.net to succeed on merit. But if were really merit as opposed to execution + opportunism we wouldn't have companies like Zynga (current share price be damned, Pincus got his). MG is just perpetuating the trend: execution (leveraging svbtle/TC cred) + opportunism (pretending he isn't telling the audience what they already know).
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Usability and filesize aren't correlated. Perhaps with some attention from Debian Xfce can fix some of it's usability issues.
http://www.sagegerard.com/blog/lay-off-w3schools/ works. Edit mode in Concrete5 does not use pretty links.
IMO, it's because optimizing for the 300 MHz Celeron is a concrete technical objective. Optimizing for usability and design takes you right back into the subjective territory most of us are uncomfortable with. You've seen the fighting over Ubuntu's Unity. "Will this fit on a CD?" is a question that can be answered with facts.
From my personal experience when I was new to html and css, I was constantly referencing w3schools to look up things. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I was happy using it.
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I think a different monetization systems is necessary here. One that can allow for the Youtube-like company to tell the media moguls to go fuck off.
> "That's awful advice for beginners"

It's not bad advice to suggest that developers be stupid if they are the type to learn from their mistakes. If they are not the type to learn from their mistakes, why are we worried about them?
OK I'll bite. What's your number?
As far as I can tell, Instacart works on phones only, not the web. Will there be a web UI?
And it's iPhone only. Q: Where does Apple get its 30%? All in-app sales? Just the delivery charge?
Will there be an Android version? If not, why not?
Oh I agree, my point was more "the system is faulty".

I just don't think any sort of band-aid (like a fine for example) is the real solution. I think the solution is to redo the law.
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Actually that is the reason these devices can launch at all. Nothing was stopping Nikon from using Ice Cream Sandwich. Apparently, they just don't care that much about the user experience. Those who do are free to use the latest version of Android.
we must exercise consumer power while we still have it!
true... but once data is stored in databases and combined with other data... privacy nightmare!
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There's actually a difference there, though: books aren't a light source. When you're reading a book, you're reading it with indirect/reflected lighting. This really does make a difference with respect to eye fatigue. And, for that matter, think about the difference between reading in your living room with nice ambient lighting and trying to read the same book in bright sunshine in midday. The "white level" is much higher in sunshine but the black level remains about the same -- in other words, there's much higher contrast -- and it's harder to read.

It's certainly possible to go overboard with low contrast on web pages, but most of the research I've read suggests that there's a happy medium. What you want to aim for, IIRC, is around a 50-70 point difference in lightness on the LAB color scale between the main background and main body text, at least if you expect to be throwing article-length text at people rather than Twitter-length text.
Yes. I'm running xfce right now, but I really don't see much of a difference apart from the lack of glitz. Memory seems to be a little bit lower, but not that much.

Another option for the memory constrained is Unity2D (and hiding the launcher for the pixel-constrained). It uses screen real estate a little bit more efficiently than xfce and looks nicer.
"He was the designer of Microsoft’s upcoming Excel 2013, after all"

The concepts look great, but the pitch that he was "the designer of Excel 2013" rubbed me the wrong way. The Office UX design team is not a one man show. I thought maybe the reporter was puffing things up a little, but even on Josh's personal website[1] he's claiming he was the designer.

"I worked as the Excel 2013 designer which I transitioned into from a software engineering role"

[1] http://joshleong.com/
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It seems like when you submit material to the content ID system, the first thing it should do is check it against material that's already been registered. Conflicts found there need to be resolved before that material is used to automatically send out ownership claims.

This change would surely weed out a big chunk of these false claims, and would put a lot of the effort for doing so squarely on the shoulders of the claimants.
They probably wouldn't have launched at all if Android wasn't as free as it is. It'll be interesting to if this will work.
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These are all the same things that people wrote back when Myspace was the 800 pound gorilla of social networking. Having expressed that, I think app.net's funding methodology sucks for a direct delivery to customer project.
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This is the exact discovery/scenario process drilled into the planning phase of hikes over long distances and/or difficult terrain.
To be fair, W3Schools is simpler, cleaner and more organized than the alternatives suggested by W3Fool. It is still the fastest way to start learning about a web technology. But perhaps it would be best if they wikify it.
IIRC, Wordpress makes money selling ads on Wordpress.com hosting.
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I'm not an app.net fanboi, nor am I particularly hopeful about its chances of success. I have not backed it (though I'm considering it.)

This article is full of bullshit.

> Because the reality of the situation is that if App.net
> ever was successful, it would face many of the same hard
> choices that Twitter now does. Or it would fade away.

Most of the challenges Twitter has come from its inability to monetize, and much of the criticism coming from app.net and supporters is that Twitter is sacrificing its openness in its quest to squeeze money out of the service. App.net aims to avoid these challenges by being a paid service. Further, since App.net has a built-in business model, it doesn't need huge traffic to turn into advertising dollars.

> The truth is that these things rarely work because it’s simply not how
> the world works. People tend to flock to the best services. And the best
> services tend to sprout from the best entrepreneurs. And the best
> entrepreneurs eventually realize they need to build the best businesses,
> lest their services die or worse — linger in mediocrity.

There are a whole bunch wholly unqualified, unsupported opinions and logical leaps here. For one, I don't think people actually flock to the best services (maybe most popular, most exclusive, best marketed, best timed, pick any number of things.) But two, only MG Siegler is defining "best" to be biggest. Dalton Caldwell quite clearly thinks that "best" would account for some things like openness and a straightforward business model. I'm sure he'd love for app.net to be a billion dollar company. I'm not sure that's his definition of success.

> Even if App.net hits its money goal and gets fully built (an early alpha is
> here), it won’t ever grow big enough to truly challenge Twitter. Maybe you
> think that’s fine. Maybe it could exist as a self-sustaining smaller network.
> That’s nice — but that’s not what drives anyone. No one sets out to be
> second-rate. And the best people don’t flock to those services. That’s why
> these things tend to not work.

Same thing here. MG Siegler has decided on a goal for Dalton Caldwell that Dalton doesn't necessarily share.

> App.net looks like the hero right now only because it
> hasn’t had the opportunity to become the
> villain. And it probably never will.

Finally, the world is not a fucking comic book or TV show. There are nuances of decision and balances to be struck that don't translate into comically reductionist ideas of good versus evil.
I really really want someone to build an open source decentralised peer to peer piece of software that does this. Something similar to bitcoin in that it's not controlled by any one person or system and anyone can join in. There are a lot of hurdles but I think it could be done and that's something I'd definitely put money towards.
Jokes on me. I was actually listening to the Kinda Critical (i think) podcast last night when they commented on how some people refer to Marco's last name as "Armenti" - one guess as to what impact this (subliminally) had on me.
Maybe you're reading way too much into their comment, and unfairly jumping into a judgement? I didn't sense the same feeling of ridicule. If the founders are on here, how did you take it?

I interpreted it his question as genuinely wondering if "the ability to calculate formulas is a defining characteristic of a spreadsheet." Perhaps it's not, but it's not something to bite his head off for!

Jumping to conclusions and failing to give the benefit of the doubt is another drag on intelligent discourse and innovation!
I understand why they do this to regular people, but I don't understand why they don't whitelist accounts like NASA's so that they don't run into these problems.
Wasn't that the whole thing with diaspora?

Funny I haven't seen anyone even mention diaspora in these threads.
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Oddly, the clone is modeled after a COO from another company.
> FreeBSD can use GPL code, legally. They just can't release the combined work under anything but the GPL, so they choose not to.

Linux can do the same as easily, they "just" have to relicense the kernel in BSD.

Please stop trolling.
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You really don't think pg's comment was meant to hurt feelings?

This is pretty freaking harsh, and I imagine would trigger a feeling of defensiveness in almost anyone: "Maybe you think you're making some sort of important point here. Or maybe you realize your comment is inane and you think it's witty. But (perhaps without realizing it) you and the people upvoting you represent one of the worst forces at work in the world."

It's incongruous with the site guidelines, in fact: "... Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names ..."
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Saw one of these outside Y Combinator the other week - seriously cool idea. Best of luck with it, hope you expand to the UK soon enough.
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I suspect alot of people who nickpick ZFS do not have much practical experience using ZFS. My home entertainment center has been running ZFS since the OpenSolaris era, then switched to FreeBSD and so far, no _single_ loss of data. Btrfs maybe a fine fs, but I don't see any pressing need at my end to switch even if Btrfs is ready. Linux is absolutely a wonderful OS, but FreeBSD meets my requirements. Frankly, my server runs a minimal set of services and I don't run applications from there. Even though Linux has much more packages than FreeBSD, I don't need those. Thank you very much.
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