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I got the same treatment he did -- and have on accounts I have made since -- and we exchanged emails during development. We both went through each others' posts and couldn't find any rational reason for the treatment (slow banning and hell banning, in both of our cases).

Lack of transparency is a pretty big deal on this forum, and once you've crossed Paul -- without knowing how -- it's scorched earth on any account you make. That's why Josh developed Lobsters, and why I'm user #2, and why I'm glad to see it's gaining traction as a community.

This site is more threatening to opinion and discourse than any on the public Internet, and that isn't hyperbole. The irony is that this is a hacker community, and most hackers would be appalled at slamming the door and creating a curated garden of ideas. I've posted as jsprink_banned and jsprinkles on the topic, if you're interested; won't spam this thread with it.
When it comes to learning, sharing, and growing together, online or otherwise, there are no competitors, winners, or losers. Just a bigger pie.

(Good luck to lobste.rs, but I'll probably be staying right here on hn.)
This is almost as relevant to HN as it is to The Verge, a tech news rag that will rewrite anything on its quest to hijack someone else's work.
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Great, another a site with ruby on rail kids discussing shiny web design.
I'm not sure if I am more impressed the President did that, or how people seem to be on their best behavior in there.

Either that or every moderator on all of Reddit was called to the thread.

Is it true the load took down Reddit for a little while?
In fact, calorie restriction doesn't even work well in rodents. One of the articles points out that whether calorie restriction "works" in mice depends on the lineage, some breeds it works and some it doesn't.
My most contoversial programming opinion ... there are too fucking many programming languages already. Proposing a new one should be grounds for immediate dismissal.
Ask HN: Legal Side of Starting a Business
My wife and I want to start an online hobbyist business, wherein we will contribute to a small international gaming community through information, direct services, and advertising assistance. As this is our first endeavor at starting a business, our biggest roadblock is figuring out what we need to do on the legal side of things before we can begin to accept money. We have no idea what type of business to register as, so we have been sitting on the first step at legalzoom. We poked around at findlaw to see if we could find a good local firm that covers our interests and have yet to actually meet with someone in person and establish a relationship.

I noticed a lot of people talk about startups on this site, but they focus on the technical aspects. What are the recommendations on the business law side? Is there a minimum amount of revenue we need before we should consider it?

Thank you for your advice!
Yes, this is for sellers at platforms and marketplaces to interact directly with their prospective buyers.
> You can't accuse Apple of doing anything that abusive. Apple has been defending patents for inventions copied by people without a license and which are not standard essential.

Sure I can. Apple has been getting patents on obvious ideas that, often, they didn't event invent like:

- "data tapping" anticipated by both Netscape Navigator 2.0b1 (Live URLs in mail and newsgroup messages) and the Sidekick TSR from the 80s ( http://www.articleonepartners.com/patent-research-community/... )

- slide-to-unlock (anticipated by the Neonode N1m)

- universal search

And then Apple takes advantage of the weaknesses of the US patent system and uses these bogus "patents" as legal weapons against their competition. This is the same sort of chaos we would see if someone with a big checkbook decided to start trolling some of the many linked-list patents. What Apple is doing is just as bad (or maybe worse since Apple is more interested in market control than money).

> Basically it seems that to a lot of people since Google needed to rip off the iPhone for android, in order to compete, therefore patents are suddenly bad.

Just because you weren't aware of the history of software patent opposition doesn't mean it sprang up out of nowhere post-Android. Lots of people have been against software patents for a long, long time. Take a look at the history of the League for Programming Freedom, "Burn all GIFs", the Eolas web patent case, BTs hyperlink patents and on and on and on. Many have seen this nonsense and concluded that patents in software just don't work long before Android was a gleam in Andy Rubin's eye.
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One Word About the attacks on Shirley Hornstein...

Schadenfreude

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

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From Fortune 500 CEO to College Football Coach
whats wrong with that?
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Now if he can implement the multi-root voting system that would be way cool.
that's not entirely true, the amount of time any of us spends online looking at tech news is finite, therefore as the pie gets bigger some of the online communities shrink their viewership, have less participation and less engagement. So the idea of competition is actually quite valid. It's like saying there's room for Facebook and Google+, while that's true there definitely are winners and losers because user engagement in a community is a function of its health and status.
It isn't yet, but for the basics it may well be usable.
GIMP Crashes on launching 32bit CPU

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682913

$ file GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP-bin
GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP-bin: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
My favorite forum feature is 'the blender'. I first saw it on nuclearphynance.com(and not since). Once a critical number of people blend a thread it gets deleted so as not to pollute the list of threads.

In practice it worked very well. The overwhelming majority of blended threads were from new users who were still getting a hang of the quality standards for posting in the forum.
Ask HN: Anyone wiling to help a fellow dev?
The gist:

1. I'm a seasoned dev by trade supporting my family by coding all the time.

2. I work for others but finally now want to make something that is my own and may help give me some more freedom.

3. I've been approached by others to fix a certain problem, so I built a simple rails app to solve this problem.

4. The app is 95% done - I just have a couple features left before launching.

5. I could really use some help teaming up with someone on one of my last features.

Looking for kindness and someone I can trust to access my source code. I've spent a considerable amount of time on this and don't want to screw it up as free time for me is hard to come by.

Lastly, I can't pay yet, looking for some pro bono help. Good news is I don't expect to take up a lot of your time - maybe just some peer review and help figuring out my last feature.

The app is in Rails 3 - but this feature involves file uploading maybe it can be in a different language.

If interested contact me via northband_at_gmail_dot_com
Some thoughts from user #2:

- Joshua Stein developed Lobsters by himself. Yahuda Katz was, to my knowledge, uninvolved.

- The site is invite only because, and I'm speaking for Josh here and mostly guessing (he'd be a better person to ask), it's still trying to identify itself. Communities are grown organically and I gather Josh is letting Lobsters grow slowly, intentionally. I don't think he has "launched" it, per se.

- I emailed Josh to support him when he was hellbanned (as my HN story parallels his), and a couple months after that exchange he invited me to the site. I don't participate much at all -- heads down on a product -- but I think it has potential.

- I have 5:1 odds the headline will not be fixed, even though there are three factual errors in that tiny bit of text (Katz, HN Competitor, Launched).
Only 1 out of the hundreds of TeX users I know use TeX specifically for math typesetting. I'm unfortunately not able to contribute at this time in that community, but I'd be the second if I had the available time.
How would a union negotiate API usage limits that Twitter places on 3rd party developers? Unions as a whole have become pretty detrimental to society, no matter how much they originally helped.

More importantly, think of something to build besides another damn Twitter client. If you can't, get a job like everyone else until you have a better idea you can execute.
So uh yeah, Google doesn't do this at all. And they have open-sourced many of their authentication tools. What's your bias?
Yea, it's unbelievable how underrated it is.

I searched Reddit for "couchdb", and there's pretty much no new entry since 2 years ago. I almost thought couch was dead.
Good artists copy, great artists steal, bad artists sue you and release half assed version of your idea.
Seems to solve my biggest HN complaint, downvotes without reasons. I'd love to give it a spin and see how that works in practice.
Oh no! Apple didn't got paid in full you mean? :D
It hasn't slowed us down at Netflix. :) In fact what it has done is caused us to be really good about separating what needs auditing from what doesn't, so that only a very minimal set of services has to have separations and release processes that are in line with SOX controls.
The behavior in question is actually very new, as it became part of the guidelines only starting with 10.7 Lion. As Lion brought forth a whole lot of similar behavioral changes (which often conflict with those of either Windows/Linux or older versions of OS X), very few apps have adapted to the new rules so far.
So is Gimp, with the release of 2.8 (well, the option's there anyway).
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> Every engineer thinks they are better off without a union because they are above average and would be pulled down by joining a group of average workers.

Or by being told what they can do and how much they can make based on seniority, not skillset and talent.
Quite good, e.g. enforced SSL, responsive layout, tag, built in search, feed ordered by time ...
I really don't want to have to think about the kernel when I'm plugging in a new monitor.
Actually, having worked at Google and used Goobuntu (which was great) and then tried to use Ubuntu LTS outside the constant vigilance of a large support team, it isn't a threat to Windows (or OSX).

The challenge in an Enterprise that doesn't have a stock to penguinistas to keep it on the straight and true, it goes pear shaped at odd times for unpredictable amounts of time. That and the fact that there is no "real" third party software for it makes a lot of folks sad. (see the other conversation on HN on why that is)
So it's not actually launched, but more of a ShowHN.
Did you try getting in touch?
Wouldn't it have been easier to just register a new account on hn, or just treat it r/o and don't bother registering?
Unless, of course, PG has written some software that identifies your browser across accounts (which isn't terribly hard,) but as you say there's no transparency here, but then it is his forum so I don't expect any kind of transparency. He can do what he likes and ban whomever he feels like.

I commend the effort, so far the content looks like it is a clone of hn pretty much, I recognized many of the titles, but I think it's great you've created your own version.
Definitely a cautionary tale.

I'm a very experienced developer, and I think their steps to build are ridiculous. They chose Ruby for it's coolness, and great, you can write a blog in 20 lines of code, but Ruby requires a build process and to build Diaspora takes the equivalent of 5000 lines of code, and ultimately it still doesn't run properly.

Kudos to the team for what they've done. I'm one of the first users, so I'd have preferred it worked, but it's dead.

Make it easy, not cool and complex. Make it easy to adopt and people will adopt it.

Tent.io is definitely the right way to go.
Explanation for the site being invite only:

"Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems temporarily prevent new accounts). If spammers are invited to the site and banned, the user that invited them may also be banned, going up the chain of invitations as needed."

Seems basically sane, though I imagine the site would be pretty cliquish at first. You do have a pretty strong disincentive for inviting people you don't know.

Any member want to break up the cliquishness by inviting me? If you trust metrics, my high average karma means I'm probably less of a risk. Probably.
I Like it. Needs some modern design, minimalist and clean.

It would be sad to see HN die, but if you don't water your plants...
Then you haven't heard of Xubuntu? It's an alternate flavor of Ubuntu that has Xfce as the default install. Here's an iso that will get you basically the exact setup I have, no futzing required: http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/

Already installed stock Ubuntu? Install the xubuntu-desktop metapackage (in Synaptic or 'sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop'), log out and select "Xubuntu Session" from the login screen. That's it. I did this on my laptop after realizing I didn't want to switch to Unity. (For bonus points you can remove the Unity desktop apps, but that's hardly necessary unless space is at a premium.)

I don't think I'd put up with Linux myself if it was as much of a pain as you seem to think. For me, Xubuntu has been no trouble at all.
If you think the gun debate in the United States is heated now...

It's not, really. The pro gun-control side has pretty much been routed, both in the courts and in the polls.
Me too. I'm not a member of a startup community (outside of this forum), so unless they are given out/open up soon, i guess i will be excluded.
Why are they including two different versions of jQuery (v 1.4.1 & 1.7)?
I'd be interested in trying this out. Can anyone offer an invite? My email is available via my profile.
Unfortunately this is true. I'm not sure all that many people know where the founder came from, i.e., the type of stuff he was doing before TechCrunch, and the company he worked for - a company responsible for a very large portion of some of the purest douchbaggery to be found anywhere on the web. The lowest of the low. They do some very dirty work. I'd even guess there are "innocent" people working at TC who do not know the history.

I wanted to see TC as some sort of redemption for this guy, a stepping away from the sort of douchebaggery he was doing previously. But, after watching TC for a number of years, it clearly was a progression to an even more potent form of sleaze. If people are using underhanded tactics with TC, then I can only conclude that they've succeeded in attracting the very same type of people which they are themselves (excluding anyone working there who is naive and unaware).
Oh come on. I was hoping it was clear that I was using the word "evil" as generic label for the negative side of any dichotomy. I don't personally believe in actual evil anyways (does anyone?).
Seems like catching up to the rest of the western world on universal healthcare would go a long way for you guys.
It's interesting how you always seem to chime in at all the appropriate times. Get some work done, you!
Is it "Reddit got Obama" or is it "Obama got Reddit"?

I think the best answer is, "Yes," since it seems to be mutually
beneficial exploitation of Reddit USERS for the sake of press
coverage (both Obama getting press and Reddit getting press).
Well, GDM tends to handle a lot of initialization that it shouldn't be the one doing, using a distribution that doesn't assume you're using GNOME may help with this.

About the transitions supposedly adding complexity; I don't know about you, but systemd, for example, has greatly simplified configuration and management of services, mountpoints, timers, and all sorts of things.

I use awesome in Fedora 17 on some early-2010 entry-level consumer intel hardware, everything is zippy, easy to configure, and doesn't break on me all the time; I feel bad for you man.
I'm downvoted here, maybe because I'm wrong and misunderstood the last sentence of Yegges post (1):

(Special Note to my fellow Googlers:
Yes, I meant to post this externally.
BOTH times. No, I am not the Mouth of
Sauron.)

What can "BOTH times" mean, but that the first time, the "platform" rant, is included?

(1) https://plus.google.com/u/0/110981030061712822816/posts/KaSK...
Same here. See you on the other side.
To what end? Paul doesn't want me around and has made that passive aggressively clear, so I'm not sure what good contacting him would do. I discussed on jsprink_banned how not spending immeasurable amounts of time in HN threads has had a positive impact on my life anyway.
An invite would be nice.
There is also the open sourced clone Lamer News (http://lamernews.com/) by antirez.
This headline does seem unusually misleading. I already came across this site 10 days ago, it doesn't seems like it was "launched" in any fashion? And it's not by Yehuda Katz, and also doesn't seem like a HN "competitor" since it probably doesn't want to attract as big an audience.

So basically there are three things that are flat-out wrong with this headline.
Steelworkers and teachers unions negotiated agreements that based pay on seniority - I can't imagine developers would do anything like that.

Wouldn't you like to have some kind of transparent review process for iPhone apps? Or an agreement that the Twitter API will be available for 5 years? Good luck negotiating that on your own.
Laissez-nous faire -- Le Gendre.

That said, I can't help but wonder if public healthcare would unshackle a lot of employees from their employers.

Not that public healthcare is kittens and icecream. Here in Australia we spend a lot of time fretting about waiting lists.
"my high average karma means I'm probably less of a risk. Probably."

If anything all this means is that you conform to the culture of HN, precisely what (it would seem) Lobsters is trying to break from.
I think you either missed or ignored his point.
Google to sell Motorola's Home Business unit for about $2 billion
How quick exactly?

I've been testing ElasticSearch's geo location search and most queries take 50-150ms.

Standard term searches and filters will take like 5ms, with id GETs taking mere fractions of that still.
It's much faster than HN. No long pauses when loading pages.
Slashdot also had upvotes with reasons, and I personally think that is just as important if you agree with downvotes with reasons: it lets you differentiate between things that added new information, made good arguments, or was simply funny.

That said, the problem with downvotes with reasons is that it now feels much more harsh. I'm downvoting something that is clearly an insulting comment that should not have been made on the site, and yet I'm wondering "do I really want to use the term 'troll'? that seems harsh".
I don't personally believe that overreaching management is necessarily bad for consumers. I was just trying to preempt what seemed to be a logical reply given philwelch's previous comments.

As to why the market won't necessarily correct for it, is because many times overreaching management is effective (at least in the short term). Degrade working conditions to cut costs and the consumer benefits. The information about how these lower prices were brought to the consumer is usually lost in the process. That signal simply doesn't reach all interested parties, and thus they aren't able to adjust their behavior in response. Some situations it can work, for example a business where customer service is a large part of the experience. The signal of overreaching management does eventually filter down to the consumer.
How would corporate tax amnesty benefit entrepreneurs?
Off-topic rant: "Someone with spare time on their hands feel like adding a 'Disable splash screen' checkbox to the preferences panel?" That suggestion illustrates a common anti-pattern in open source software. Broken behavior should simply be fixed, not receive an extra option to turn it off. No one wants to have to check an "unbreak my software" checkbox.
2 things: first of all, the "you need to use IE, to use this website, your browser is unsupported" message, is in fact much clearer on the bank site than the subtle difference in name for "mobile", and ambiguous term at best. I don't understand why one case of user string subversion is different than another, even if the clearness of terms is equal.

Second, what is the real line between say a macbook air or other keyboarded computer and an ipad or galaxy table or kindle fire or... they all run operating systems that let me use more or less the same software and access the same network resources.

The combination is really the difficult part for me, given I can do the same things - look at the same sites, get the same utility, and otherwise use the same bandwidth in both cases, particularly when usb tethering is a real option giving me the same deal but now without the act you are calling fraud, how is it even reasonable to think that the "mobile" case is other than a discount for some magic words?
Why the dichotomy? You'd want your fingers in more pies (to use your analogy) and more viewpoints, no?
It definitely needs some background, cue from /r/apple might be a good idea.

Also a distinctive header in a different color.

A footer.

Remove bold from links in front page and

Font-size 1.2em
Line-height 1.2

Hmm, I'll work on something tomorrow. You guys should open a contest just to let the good vibe flow.
Hey there. gorp author here. Happy to answer any questions about the package. MySQL support is the most well tested -- I added Postgresql and SQLite recently. Cheers.
Joshua is user 'there.
But there are so many things that are propagated that aren't important. Consistently negative world news, for starters.
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My first account was hellbanned for no obvious reason. I had a bunch of karma, hadn't been downvoted, hadn't trolled. I asked pg for an explanation/reconsideration...nope!

One of the dirty secrets of hackernews is that you can be hellbanned at any moment without rhyme or reason, and you'll likely never know why. I assume it serves some purpose OTHER than driving away helpful contributors, but I'm not sure what that might be.
How many other constants have you memorized? e? phi? sqrt(2)? and you know all those to 5 decimals? When I conduct interviews I try really really hard to set aside the things that I know and give candidates an opportunity to tell (or show) me what they know. Someone not having a constant memorized is not a show stopper, as I am after the logical thought processs.
As always, another link bait zdnet article with a flashy title and zero content. Normally I don't bite but I guess I have been taken in and got exactly what I expected. How come zdnet articles still get posted? I have yet to see one that actually brings content to the table that is new or informative.
I do think there is a risk of 'intellectual ghettoization'. The quantity in a community might not be that important after a while. But the quality, in terms of diversity of ideas, is very important.
I always feel bad when I hit the down vote button by accident on my mobile devices. I wish there was a way to undo those fat finger goofs.