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> anecdote showing x in a negative light

> therefore x is fraudulent

I love your logic!
A system like the one that GP proposes, while it could be pretty awesome, would be limited to a very small, extremely homogenous population

How so?

What makes "people who don't want to set up their own domain" homogenous compared to people who want to be first-class citizens of the internet?

Especially once the desire for that is there, it won't be hard to throw money together and run small nodes. Perfect strangers share apartments with each other, we figured that out, so once we realized we really do need webspace, and that it costs money and is complicated, respective services and culture will be established within months. Actually these services already exist for the most part, they just need to get with the OStatus program, and need to be used. Then you order your webspace, 1-click-install your "web presence", done.

And why "extremely small"? We don't even KNOW how many people are running diaspora/ostatus/etc. servers, and how many in total are signed up to them. There is no way, and no need, to count it. You just do what you always do, hold on to interesting people and projects as you run into them.

I don't know about you, but the internet was pretty cool even 10 years ago. I wouldn't mind a little small brother of the "renters social net", with the DIY peeps. Those are not homogenous by any means. They already outnumber Google+ users, I'm sure :P Also, you say "whatever" users - I take it "whatever" means "anything that isn't interoperable via open standards"?

You see, those people can do whatever they want, as far as I'm concerned. Do I listen to Gangsta Rap because X people do? NO.

Same goes for facebook etc. You want to be my cyberfriend, get your sh*t together. You want to read my stuff, or want me to read yours - don't be lazy, or it probably never really mattered in the first place. I don't mind staying in touch with RL friends who are lame when it comes to computers via facebook -- but that's not at all where my attention is, when it comes to the web. I have links on my profile, Every few months I get bored and respond or comment on random things; that's it.
Actually, you say "tehmuhtew", mich lek the kewees.
No.

Basically the issue has to do with how MySQL folks and PostgreSQL folks see the RDBMS.

MySQL users see the RDBMS as the bottom tier for the applications they are developing. Consequently the system's design is aimed at letting the application steer the interaction. If the application wants to treat 30 February as a valid date, that's the application's call and the app can set sql_mode appropriately and allow such values to be stored or not.

In other words, with MySQL, the db is there primarily to serve the application.

With PostgreSQL, it's very different. The database is there not to serve the application but to manage data. The applications are just users of that managed data. In this model the database has a very different responsibility. You might therefore call PostgreSQL data-centric. Applications cannot decide how strict data handling should be because that would defeat the whole purpose of the RDBMS in the PostgreSQL worldview, which is the system which manages and ensures meaningfulness of data.

So MySQL sees the RDBMS as ultimately serving (and being accountable to) the applications and app developers. PostgreSQL sees it as ultimately being accountable to the data and DBA's. The problem is that this makes MySQL have trouble when multiple codebases are used to access the same data since each application could conceivably be operating on different sql_mode settings. Each application can therefore be seen to be interfering with the other apps' state rather than all consuming shared managed data.

Hope this helps clarify things.
Now might be the best time to build something on Twitters platform
MySQL has a postgres sql_mode. Of course it would be nicer if apps couldn't mess with sql_mode....

No there shouldn't be a mode in PostgreSQL for this. The problem is that this means abandoning the idea of hard data constraints.
Really awesome to see such an awesome use of OpenTok (http://www.tokbox.com/)
I hate that hacks have become "ninja" or "clever". You should always strive to write simple and readable code.
I know "me too" is bad form but since upvotes to pestaa's reply can't be seen this is the only way I can show encoderer that more people would be interested in more examples. (Blog it up if it would be too big for a reply.)
The article neglected to say about Auckland that it's a huge overpriced real estate market. And the bubble doesn't look like popping because it's propped up by massive immigration from Asia, previously Korea and Taiwan, but now especially mainland China. There's always more international students who'll rent the apartments and immigrants who'll buy the houses.

The last 5-yearly census held in 2006 showed (http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/abtcit/ps/pdf/2006AucklandCensu...) the percentage Asians in Auckland is 19%. It was maybe 1 or 2% only 25 yrs ago. The next census is due in Feb 2013 (delayed by 2 yrs because of the Jan 2011 earthquake in Christchurch), but based on impressions during my last trip back earlier this year, I'm guessing it could be up to 25%. That's quite a quick change in the ethnic makeup of a city.

When the NZ government ran out of money in 1991, they cancelled welfare benefits for anyone aged under 25. Suddenly, all these unemployed "kids" shifted back to their parents houses, and landlords had to half their rents to get tenants. To appease landowners and force those rents and house prices back up, the government opened the gates to Asian immigration bigtime.

Because of the automatic right of Australians and New Zealanders to live and work in each others country, many Asian immigrants move/d to Australia's big cities of Sydney and Melbourne after becoming a NZ citizen after 3 to 5 years of residence. That 19% Asian population of Auckland is only the tip of the iceberg of the immigrants who came.
Well, I certainly can't say that as a fact since only the Android team would know the truth. However, from the video in question it's pretty obvious that if a touch-screen version of Android was in development at the same time in 2005, the UI was not anything like the touch UI we have on Android or iPhone today. It was the same unintuitive, clunky and slow trash we had on resistive screens for ages.

That is where the "iPhone ripoff" claim comes in. Ripoff is too strong of a word, but it certainly had a huge influence on the direction of Android.
When a custom ROM breaks your 911 it is very possible. It has been broken in the past with some Samsung devices.
Fwiw, the test for gifts under the tax code is payments motivated by "detached and disinterested generosity". So if you get something in return, it's hard for it to count as a gift. It doesn't have to even be a sale per se; for example, tipping at a restaurant is technically a voluntary payment for which you receive nothing in return, but it's not considered sufficiently detached/disinterested to count as a gift.
I haven't looked at any data on following, but at least I follow most new people based on Twitter's recommendations, or by directly looking at who my friends follow. But anyway, I don't see what that has to do with my point.

Following people is just the first step. After you've followed them, you read and interact with them. An aggregator provides a place for doing that. In fact, you don't even need to follow anyone to interact with them.

I don't see how you can compare it to email either. Email is completely private. Twitter is completely public by default, unless you explicitly use a private message (DM).

It's like saying what's the point of Hacker News, when we can email each others links to our blog posts. The public forum is the point.
Interesting. While I really enjoyed the post, something that stuck out for me was: what if they don't apply your philosophy as you expect? Isn't this how great companies fall down, when the founder's philosophy is lost and replaced by internal politics? Some how you should be able to review the decisions being made without having to waste even more time doing the review.
The one in Big Bang Theory is Texai from Willow Garage I think, http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/texai/overview and has been around from quite some time.
On Android, whenever you have access to the bootloader, you could install whatever Android version (official or unofficial) you want - So yes.
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sure, in the us(a) it may be an intrinsic (historical) link, but where nuclear power is expanding, I see weapons as a driver.
But who is talking about "you shouldn't use [whatever]"? The crucial bit is owning and controlling your content - some people aren't thinking much about that. As you said, "The blog gets my best content.", so you're obviously aware of the pitfalls already.
I think both of those objections only partially convey their real meaning.

"I don't have time to blog" = "The time it would take me to blog is worth more to me than the ROI I'd get from writing a blog."

and "I don't know what I'd write about" = "I don't know who'd be reading my blog so as to make it easy to know what to write about."

Facebook and Twitter address both objections by giving users a well-defined, sometimes really big audience.

The idea of writing stuff they think no one's going to read isn't very appetizing to most people.
Oh also one point on the absurdity of how sexual harassment laws are interpreted (in part because of vague standards like "severe" and "pervasive").

In the Jacksonville Shipyards case, there was a real sexual harassment problem. This included some pretty vile behavior including male workers opening up a female co-workers tookbox and placing pornographic images there. The behavior was vile, included real trespasses of personal space (the toolbox) and was pervasive. She rightfully won her case.

However because the judgement ordered Jacksonville Shipyards to have a policy banning pornographic images in the workplace (reasonable even given 1st Amendment issues in the context of the specific behavior at issue), everyone has cited this case as an authority that presence of pornographic images in the workplace equals sexual harassment, in part because the standards are so vague that lawyers can't give any bright lines aside from "ban all behavior that anyone might find offensive." But this flies in the face of logic. In a nation where porn consumption is rapidly approaching gender parity no such rule makes objective sense. This gets even worse when looking at hostile public accommodation harassment because there have been cases where businesses have been held accountable for customer actions. Perhaps someone should sue reddit over the fact that they have subreddits that are for porn? After all, reddit is a public accommodation, right? But that would be silly and it would not be ok first-amendment-wise, would it?

Also I think your post fails to realize that semantic systems really do require negotiating possibilities. If "no" may or may not mean "never" I think you have to give people any benefit of the doubt, and require that the person wishing to establish any no-further-contact rule be absolutely clear. Otherwise rules no longer rule, and whoever takes the greatest offense gets the most power. Such a subjective approach is wholely unacceptable any view that people should have reasonable opportunity to stay within rules defined ahead of time. Otherwise where do you stop?
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My father always says life is like a roll of toilet paper. The further you get on the roll the faster it spins and the less of it you have left the more you cherish it.

Time is clearly a solid and measurable component of our physical world but our perception of it is warped by our own personal experience.

My wife can sit next to me for 8 hours and futz around the house etc while I sit with my headphones on and code 'in the zone'. I come out of the zone feeling as if I had just experienced only maybe an hour of zone time and she will laugh and point out the window at the dark night. :-)

I have six children, a daughter-in-law, a grandson and two cats. My life is clearly not moving any faster then my children but I do keep reminding them that as they get older they keep making me older!

I would argue that actually life goes slower the older you get. You have more context against the rest of your life and the OP might be using that as the reason we perceive life going quicker. But to me it's more like the "weight" of my life to date allows me a lot more perspective, I often measure an event against the birth of a child, a marriage, a house I used to live in etc. Less about the MM/DD/YYYY and more about the "Around this event this happened".

When time seems to have moved quickly is when you're talking to your mom and dad about your grandson and the day your baby girl was born and how they're going through all the same things you did when you were having children. It's the reference points that stun you. That somehow 25 years just vanished in a flash of light. But the reality is this is the same as this group talking about TRS-80 Model I's with 4k of memory. A lot has happened since then even though it was sort of like yesterday for those of us who lived through 300 baud modems and 16k memory upgrades.
This whole article reads kind of bullshit from US GAAP perspective.

In case people who pledge will receive tangible goods in exchange, of course it is a sale. But these pledges will be accounted for as as prepayments in the start-up's books.

The sale most probably will be recognized when the goods will be shipped|delivered and will be offset with cost of goods sold.

R&D expenses are completely different matter, and will be expenses or expensed/capitalized based on applicable accounting/tax policies.
erm, is this a joke? If its not I am a kiwi living abroad who is in the country right now (briefly). If you want to catch up I will be coming through Auckland in the next few weeks.

NZ is an extraordinarily picturesque country filled with sweet but naive people. As a small-town kiwi boy I have had my mind blown in the last few years traveling and working in some of the poorest parts of the world. The really difficult thing is coming back and trying to tell people there is more to life than the frequently changing weather conditions or the latest All Blacks result
Definitely agree here. There's a violent undercurrent in New Zealand that you'd never see in 10 days. Gangs & drugs are also a big problem.
That would also be illegal in the European Union. The Data Protection Directive requires all uses of personal data be opt in (ie you cannot use someone's personal data for a purpose they didn't opt in to), that personal data be kept accurately (you cannot say that someone is looking for a job if they are not) and it also limits how companies can contact you (so the recruiter would not be legally able to contact you nd they found a job)
wow why hasn't anyone tried this business model yet!11
Hello pikhq I am the author of the library and you are absolutely right about that. That bubblesort should not even have made it into the code of the library and that will be taken care of immediately. I was testing something in the past and it made it into the repository.

Thanks for the other comments. I will try to improve on it as much as is possible and would like to make it useful for other people other than myself. I am used to coding like this and this is the reason why I posted it in the net so that I can get feedback and start coding in a better way.

Please keep in mind that this is just in its starting point and is still in Beta. I will use your comments well and would welcome more, in order to know what direction all changes should take
Yeah. I don't want begginers to be caught out.
Weebly has actually done this already, but their main selling point is a website. The blog is just one of the components.
I wonder if you could 'hack' this by working on a project that won, and to use and depend on GPL (or even AGPL) software. If they use it, you've made them open source their code.
http://iwantmyname.com/ lets you do it in ~2minutes.
In case of Pussy Riot there are no human rights violations, actually. They are jailed not for singing an anti-Pitin song, but for a 'hate speech' crime. They were screaming profanities in a church which scared, offended and upset some believers.

Would you believe that Pussy Riot would be allowed to sing an anti-Putin song in the Red Square and get away with it?

In fact, that's what they did on 20th January 2012. On the Red Square in broad daylight they played a nicely rousing song about 'KGB bitches' and 'Putin who is pissing his pants', and they have a very nice photos and videos to show: http://pussy-riot.livejournal.com.nyud.net/8459.html and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqcmldeC7Ec

After that Red Square performance they were briefly detained by the police and then released. No trial, no conviction, no world outrage... nothing.

So, next time their organisers have chosen another venue to make sure they would get arrested and there would be headlines "Jailed for singing an anti-Putin song"...
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He claims so, but he is not removing any parameter... And why such a (rather trivial) linear model is considered as a proved theory?
This is why I love HN. The comments are better than the article.
I did exactly this last winter, spent 6 months living and working in Queenstown for clients back home in Melbourne. It was some of the best time I've spent traveling.
Simple: It's like NFL, without the masses of padding.
Again with this. There's no reason everyone has to compete with Facebook. Should pg even keep running hacker news? I mean, it's great for nerds but the vast majority of people won't ever use it.

I hate this attitude. "If my grandma isn't on the service, it can't possibly be a good idea." Suddenly everything has to be everyone-scale from day one, never mind how long it took Facebook to reach beyond college students.
> offline access is a really important part of the mobile user experience

Yes, it is. That's why HTML5 has the cache manifest [1]. With that, you don't need a connection on an HTML5 web app if you wouldn't need one on an installed native app.

> access to device specific APIs like camera, accelerometer, notifications etc

There are already plans, drafted specifications [3], and working implementations [4] for device APIs.

> performance and responsiveness will be worse.

Performance is getting better with time, as mobile JavaScript implentations get better (Nitro on iOS, Chrome Mobile on Android). Responsiveness can be improved by using hardware-accelerated CSS transitions instead of JavaScript animation, by disabling built-in wait times on the touch of an HTML element [5], and more.

[1]: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL
[3]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/
[4]: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/geolocation/trip_mete...
[5]: https://developers.google.com/mobile/articles/fast_buttons
Hello TodPunk. Your statement unfortunately currently stands true. I am going for a monolithic collection of low level to high level C libraries that can be modulary used for different purposes. I hope to achieve it sometime in the future.

It is in its very first stage and I just put it up in the net to get some feedback slowly. I certainly did not want it posted in HN yet but someone caught up with it and did it for me.

As I said to the other commenter any feedback with contstructive criticism is greatly appreciated. It is the first time I show my code to other people.
Has anyone here managed to defeat this effect somehow? How did you do it? Meditation?
Why host and write a blog?
But would that mean allowing an app to set strict mode off and ask what the day after 2009-02-30 is?
I don't think the other members would agree with most acquisition offers ;)
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N.B.: I looked into Wordpress et al., but I always avoid using software written in PHP if I can, and theming in Wordpress involves more time than I have to spare.

Well, you're not exactly making it easy on your self, if you pile arbitrary constraints on like that.
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I'm a smoker. I only complain about waiting if I've waited in the place where smoking is not allowed.
BTC crashed 50% since friday. It's now single digits and still going down.
There are an estimated 460 000 New Zealanders living overseas or 14% of the population.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealanders

By comparison, there are 6 million Americans, or ~2% of Americans living overseas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emigration_from_the_United_Stat...

If NZ is as great as the author thinks it is he might want to ponder why so many people have left.
Not necessarily.

It really depends on specifics. Are you selling goods as in via kickstarter? I suppose there may be cases where someone abuses the service in ways that don't increase tax liability. Are you crowdfunding by selling equity in your business (as allowed by the JOBS act)? That's not taxable income any more than it is income when you capitalize your own business. No income is accrued.

Really, every startup founder should be familiar with the basics of double entry accounting. Then it is easy to figure out questions like this.
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The point has to do with what you are exchanging. In general you are going to only gain money in these cases in one of three ways:

1) Sale of a good or service (direct or indirect). This is income and if income exceeds expense, will increase taxable income. If income does not exceed expense then as a fundraising effort it is a failure.

2) Sale of equity. This is not income. It's a straight asset/equity swap. This can be done crowdsourcing too due to recent regulatory changes.

3) Sale of promissory notes. This is not income. It's a straight asset/liability swap. I would be surprised if you could go out and sell bonds on street corners but if you could it too would not be income unless you were paying back less than what you sold it as which isn't usually the way these things world.
GitHub is great and all, but shouldn't the thanks be directed at the third party library authors?
It's interesting that you feel safer in California.

As a New Zealander visiting America I felt quite unsafe just seeing police offers with guns holstered. Just the idea that someone standing nearby could decide to outright kill me if they decided to dislike me made me very uneasy.

In New Zealand, I could (though I obviously would not) walk up and punch a police officer in the face, and while I could reasonably expect to have the police officer respond in kind, there is no chance that I would fail to live through the experience.

I didn't feel confident that this was the case in the US.
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Stanislav Datskovskiy (http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8) is a particular favourite writer of mine, on this kind of topic.

Also, would you like any help?