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Re: 1, the "plant genetic resources", I believe that's in respect to Monsanto's tendency to patent particular strains of seeds ("Round-up Ready" means that the pesticides won't kill the plants), and then leverage the legal system (or money) to ensure that their seeds become the only seeds used in the area.

Many agrarian cultures have a history of seed sharing and seed saving, which Monsanto seed (and lawyers) prevents. Over time, the poor nation of Elbonia's farmers cannot plant anything _but_ Monsanto seeds (as they have no uncontaminated seed banks, and their Monsanto crops are sterile). At that point, the country is entirely dependent on a multinational corporation in order to grow food. They have no seeds (genetic resources for plants) with which to plant new crops, to breed with other plants to make disease or drought-resistant hybrids, and in general a collection of diverse breeds of that particular plant are in time replaced with a single breed.

Some would argue that this sort of behavior is unethical and abhorrent. There are frequent stories from farmers of being bullied by Monsanto, which makes this an even easier opinion to hold.

Others point out that without GMO seeds, it would be very hard for some of these countries to plant __enough__ crops to feed themselves, regardless of diversity. From a standpoint of feeding a planet, that argument seems to carry some weight as well. It's a complex issue.
If you're still complaining about this, I'm here to tell you to move on.
Just curious but why does singleton classes/singleton methods in Ruby make it "so there's no guarantee that a change made in code and evaluated in the runtime will have the desired effect" ?
On the other hand, when people have nowhere else to go, they are extremely vulnerable to exploitation of those in power.

(Go watch Dogville for an exploration of that idea.)

I think it's a bit naive to suggest that if people lived in smaller communities, nothing nasty would happen to anyone.
This is pretty awesome, but I wish they had called "Skeu You" instead.
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You're right, I don't know (don't care, either). I was trying to make a point that there is probably a story that involved more than 1/2 a sentence.

My mind is not in the least way made up. I'm curious where that came from, honestly. That's a strong assertion that I actually tried to keep out of my post as I hypothesized what I saw as a plausible scenario given only whats been in the media.

I have no clue, and I highly doubt anybody posting here does, either.
That would be interesting, because Verisign has, as these things go, a fairly sophisticated anti-DDOS system; I would, on the other hand, be surprised to hear GoDaddy had much of anything at all.
These kind of ad-hominem comments add nothing to the conversation. Please don't make them on HN.
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When I read the headline the first thing I thought was "uh oh" ... We're building something with filepicker.io at the moment and I thought the service was down.
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Alright, interesting, but I want to counter your points.

1. I've mentioned in another reply, but Gabriella often comes across as if she explains complex technical issues well -- but perhaps this is because her understanding of it is somewhat superficial. So, when the manager listens to her explanation, he understands what she says.

Rodrigo, on the other hand, has a deep understanding of the technical issues. When he tries to explain them, he involves the listener with some details that are necessary to understand before understanding what the issues are. Manager doesn't care about details, so Rodrigo comes across as "unable to explain technical issues to manager".

2. When you work on an open source projects, you can always push the deadline to next week. I don't think the OP implied that Rodrigo can't get stuff done, but rather, because Rodrigo cares about the quality of his work, it comes across as if he's deliberately ignoring the deadlines.

I've seen managers that prefer a Gabriella who hits the deadline even if the thing is full of bugs.
I think we can all agree that Marco overreacted: he says as much in his blog post.

But this doesn't affect my confidence in the Instapaper service. I think it says a lot about Marco that he was willing to admit his fault and reverse his decision—much more than the mistake itself said.
Yes, I did answer.

They. Told. Me. It. Was. Their. Fault.
At what point does someone stop being a paying customer? I bought Instapaper about 2 years ago, and haven't paid Marco a cent since. I don't consider him to owe me anything, if anything, I owe him.
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How I made my living has no relevance to the stupidity of your statement that you are somehow entitled to something you never owned or had any right to.

There are a lot of legitimate arguments but yours isn't one.
Thanks! Yeah there's plenty of stuff to talk about, I should probably spend more time writing. Some quick info in the meantime:

CraftStudio is built in C# with XNA, which is primarly a game framework but worked very well for CraftStudio. I built my own UI library on top of it (open source, http://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/nuclearwinter).

Networking is done through Lidgren.Network which is an amazing UDP-based library (https://code.google.com/p/lidgren-network-gen3/). CraftStudio simply couldn't have happen without it.

I built my own Operational Transform library (for collaborative text editing à la Google Docs). It's pretty barebone but works well enough for my purpose. I open sourced it: https://bitbucket.org/sparklinlabs/nuclearot

I've been working on the Mac and Linux port with MonoGame's develop3d branch (http://monogame.codeplex.com/ - it's a reimplementation of XNA for Mono, using OpenTK). There's still a bunch of bad bugs to fix before release but it runs. What the MonoGame guys accomplished is really impressive.
Ten years in government (does 10 years of state senate + 3 years of senate add up to one governor term? who cares?) and president of the harvard law review is plenty, and there's no evidence that his performance is hindered by a lack of qualification. Whether or not one agrees with his policies, his performance on the domestic and international stages has been extremely productive (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama#Majo...), even in the face of a congress that admitted their only goal being to block him at all costs (http://www.examiner.com/article/mitch-mcconnell-r-ky-maintai...). It's plainly obvious that he is extremely adept at executing his role, and is not suffering for any supposed "lack of qualification".
I only really downvote people who set out to be dicks. And no that doesn't mean I downvote people who give constructive criticism or a differing opinion.
We plan to be around. There are investors and customers who would hate to see us end up with the outcomes you listed. So we plan on pushing forward hard on product and market. As regards your comment on pricing...would love to learn about the elements of the pricing structure that was unfavorable to your context. This is valuable feedback. I am adass[at]filepicker.io
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Do you have more data on this? I just did some quick searching, but couldn't find any firm numbers for what the 99th percentile return for individual public companies actually is. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it was 1000% per year at some point in the tail, if not at 1% then for the top .01 percent of companies. I'd love if you could point to a graph of the tail so I can recalibrate.
You don't argue it, you do surveys and see if it confuses people. Remember, trade dress doesn't just protect the dress as seen in store. It protects, e.g., someone noticing their neighbor's new computer that she says she is very happy with. I can totally see an unsophisticated consumer confusing the two.
Although tempting, debating the meaning of empathy is probably not a beneficial contribution to this HN thread.

Surely, given the subject, it is extremely relevant.
Story submitted (and tweeted) by a 42Floors co-founder? The plot thickens...
In defense of your parent I think you misunderstood what he's saying is boring. What I took it to mean was that if you write off everything remotely skeuomorphic, textured, etc. and only leave 2D Windows Phone style pure digital design then that becomes boring. It's not boring because it's WP-digital style but because after a while that style of design will become as boring and played out as skeuomorphic design. Windows Phone and Windows 8 are actually really nice looking and that's coming from a guy who loves Apple's design sensibilities and have hated Windows' design up until Windows Phone and Win8 (with 7 having some redeeming qualities to it).

I actually think Aero Glass is quite skeuomorphic. It's literally a window. And for me it definitely does get in the way. The way the shadows and colors change behind the glass is distracting, it's often hard to tell what window is active, and I always get distracted by the taskbar because suddenly one of the icons will flash except the flash isn't a real instance of an app trying to alert me but a false alarm caused by my mouse getting too near it or, again, another window moving just the wrong way as to make the taskbar glass react even though nothing relevant is going on there for me to look at.

I don't want to start a flame war over Apple UI v. Windows at all. What I'm saying is that the parent has a point. I'm also saying Aero Glass isn't for everyone. There are lots of people like me who have the same problems with it and we're not imagining it and no, we're not using it wrong. It's just now we are and it doesn't mean you're wrong for liking it just as much as it doesn't mean we're wrong for disliking it.

The larger point I want to make beyond all that is that design flair matters. It's not superfluous at all. A lot of people like to talk about design flair like its a gimmick and take a purist view of design where it's only about usability. Usability is most important but design flair can take an interface with perfect usability to the next level. It's what gives apps credibility. It makes the experience enjoyable and it's what makes people love their apps. Any trend taken too far can become exhausting and awful to look at though and I think we're starting to see this with skeuomorphic design. It's sad because I loved it until some people butchered it. It's Web 2.0 all over again and the "pure digital" style will eventually fall victim to overuse too eventually.

I think this site is funny but it's meant to be taken with a grain of salt. Some of those designs really are nice but it's still fun to poke some fun at them nonetheless.
Also, as a citizen of the UK, I really like any move away from the whole "great" in Great Britain. It makes us sound like we’re run by Hafez Aladeen from The Dictator or something.
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Guess what? Humans aren't perfect.

We're not kids, and we know we're not living in an ideal world. We all make mistakes, we say and do stupid things. Should we be punished for the first lie/mistake we make, or only when we lie/make mistakes most of the time?

In the last two years, I've paid less than 20 or 30 dollars for Instapaper, and every single penny was worth it (I can't emphasize enough). It was the first "mistake" I remember that Marco's made running Instapaper (which was for the longest time, a one-man business). If he makes 5 or 10 more mistakes, I'll move to a competitor. But punishing him for just one tiny overreaction? That's not reasonable IMO (considering that I don't expect to use products made by übermen (super-humans), and would be quite thankful if others didn't expect the same thing from me). I'll accept his apology (and understand his line of reasoning) and move on. He has 50 +'s and on -, that's still 49 +'s!
How was Instapaper "in jeopardy"?
In most copyright infringements, the infringers are either sharing what they legally bought and own or accepting something that was shared with them and sharing it themselves. There is never any "taking" involved, for any definition of the word.
Instapaper also offers a subscription service

http://www.instapaper.com/subscription
Wow, I hadn't heard about that Apache situation. That's not ok....
I've read over the study, and they've identified a trend, which you and I both accept as accurate. They don't, however, rule out the connection between urban environments and animal rights. As you are well aware, correlation does not equal causation.

As a member of a rural community your very livelihood is dependent on the relationship of people with animals. The doctor, the car dealer, etc all are connected to this. Doesn't it make more sense that this would have a bigger impact on how you view animal rights than what religion you are? It just so happens that rural people are overwhelmingly more religious, all I'm saying is they failed to account for a very important variable.

Rural people tend to view all animals as a resource, this includes cats as they are a very effective "mouser" or animal that kills mice. The same with dogs, as protectors of self and property. I'm willing to bet that Lolcats are overwhelmingly produced by urban folk, because they have lost this relationship with animals. My anecdotal evidence is that rural folks, and men in particular, don't find anything about lolcats funny at all. This is explained by their connection to cats as tools for removing rodents, not their religious views.
Yes. In the real world finding the right question is much harder than finding the right answer.
My sense is that companies choosing to use Postgres are more likely to have dedicated DBA's before Postgres is deployed. In these companies the move to Postgres is often DBA-initiated.

In general, though, DBA can mean a bunch of things. It can range from a dev-ops kind of role to something like a sysadmin kind of role and a bunch of things in between. One thing I think we see industry-wide is that strict specialization in DBA tasks seems to be on the decline and for good reasons. It is a move I think from a strictly parts-oriented, details-centric operations approach to a big-picture, approach where the ability to communicate across teams is helpful.

Also regarding the BIG users of Postgres, the DBA-like people I have known who have worked there have been part-time DBA's and part-time C programmers doing things like porting Postgres to new platforms or building new replication systems. As far as I can tell, the dedicated "nothing-but-a-dba" is something that exists mostly waning.
Thanks Phillip--appreciate the nice words. I wish it was more calculated than it was. We've been mum about our financing because, well, it's just not necessary to talk about it yet. We like to talk about financing only in conjunction with product launches. That's why we're here anyways--to make something people want--the funding is just one part of that goal.

However, a big part of recruiting is showing some likelihood of having a big impact on the world and cash in the bank can often play a large role in a prospective employee's mind. So, we released our amount but not the investors (I had promised TechCrunch that I would call them first with investor names). A similar comment had been on our jobs page for months already with no one writing about it.

I was hoping that the lack of investor names would hold off a story for now.

PandoDaily contacted me almost instantly. I told them I'd prefer to wait on a story, but I fully understood their right and obligation to publish. The guys at PandoDaily are first class. I'll continue to work with them on future stories because they're good journalists that still took the time to talk through the situation with me.

Either way, it's out. Back to work...
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Simon Sharwood provided a quite deep and comprehensive review of my post:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/11/kindleberry_pi/

The part I prefer the most is when he uses 'long suit' instead of 'strong suit'.
As somebody that's pretty good friends with somebody that's been a long-time writer/editor at a couple of well-known tech sites, the simple answer is they just plain get tired of it.

These guys look at gadgets all day long. What it comes down to is they get tired of ripping on every new gadget that comes out with "lol, they ripped off Apple" and instead focus on other things because there's absolutely nothing interesting about writing the same thing over and over and over again. After a while, it does get to the point that it's so obvious that pointing it out becomes superfluous.

And I mean, in the case of the Spectre One, it's not even as direct a knock-off as the Envy line. The stand design is bulky and inelegant compared to the iMac. When viewed from the side or rear, it's fairly clear there are far worse offenders in the "steals from Apple" category.

Which isn't to say it isn't there and it isn't a shameless aping, just that if you look at gadgets for a living, it doesn't really stand out enough in that regard for it to feel worth the energy to point it out.

>How do you defend writing a long article about it

This may be a bit of a nitpick, but both the posts Marco accused of shilling for HP are under 500 words; that's not really a long piece at all.
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Yeah, because lord knows that a tiny minuscule slice of the world known as Instapaper users couldn't view a 3rd tier Apple rumors site for a few hours is maybe the worst thing to ever happen to the Internet ever.
Because few people bother to read rebuttals. The initial explosive accusation always gets the most eyeballs and then takes forever to go away. This is why slander and libel are such big deals in corporate and political worlds.

I personally think Marco could have chosen a better response, however the talk about censorship are absolutely laughable. If his customers disliked the move they could jump on one of many other alternatives (it's not like Marco has a monopoly on "read it later" software).
Author here, I can promise that genders weren't chosen on purpose. I was thinking of names and the guitarist duo Rodrigo y Gabriella came to mind so I went with it.

I probably should have swapped the order or gone with two males or something, sorry!
No real plot. Once the story has been written and published, we certainly want it read by the largest possible audience.

As an aside, I also sent a copy to my mom. I had to explain very clearly that this doesn't mean I get $5M. Oh Mom...
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Given a pointer to an object, remove from an intrusive list is three memory accesses: only tiny vectors will give faster operations than that.

Insertion favors intrusive lists even more: allocation and copy free!
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You don't have to have a monopoly to engage in censorship.

Marco decided that the right solution to a shouting match was to take hostages. If you think that's okay, I don't know what to tell you.

If Marco had actually been libeled, then the proper recourse is to bring it before a court of law. If he just had his feelings hurt, then the proper recourse is to take a stand in the court of public opinion. In neither case is the appropriate response to throw a temper tantrum.
Sorry Udo.

I wish you the best in building your technology. I will say you've done some pretty cool stuff in the area of UX with the ability to change the fonts and appearance on the fly. I meant no offense.

Again, sorry.
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Ain't gonna happen.

Besides, it wouldn't really matter. The data is mirrored everywhere. And anyone can keep a copy on hand for such emergencies.

A very large portion of GoDaddy's data is pure garbage anyway: it points to a single IP for a GoDaddy servers that serves PPC landing pages with no content. It's not a major loss to anyone but GoDaddy if this goes offline. Over 50,000 "websites" that are nothing more than parked pages with PPC ads and no content. We can see that a domain name does not necessarily equate to a website with content. And when GoDaddy quotes the "number of websites" they are responsible for, or the media reports on GoDaddy, they will quote the number of domain names registered with GoDaddy[1], not the number of websites with content.

1. Many of these are domain names for which GoDaddy themselves are the registrants, placing GoDaddy in direct competition with their registrar service customers. Who is responsible for the (lack of) rules that allow GoDaddy to compete with its customers? Your friends at ICANN.

The web can survive without GoDaddy but not without Verisign, and for all intents and purposes the .com servers will never "be down" because the data is mirrored in too many places.
:)

This unique angle may give the story legs. Congrats in any case.
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Are there particular performance issues you are running into? I've been using Heroku for quite some time and never had any complaints about performance.

You should know that Heroku also automatically shuts down applications running one dyno after a period of inactivity.
Somewhat agree. Dropbox didn't sell because it had shiny icons for folders or sexy web interface. It sold because it provided immense value and it just worked. Same can be said about Google, YouTube, Microsoft Word etc. None of them had sexy design to start with but they simply worked and provided great value to end-users.
Absolutely. Unless the title really grabs me, I will gauge the quality of the article by a quick look through the comments.
That infants have no such ability was the whole point of the example. Children do have such responsibilities when they have the ability.

have is actually a transitive word, not ditransitive. An example of the latter is give: A gives B to C. I disagree that there's metaphor here, commutativity is a very technical term and it relates to operations such as addition. So in fact I do think it's relevant that have is stative, because this implies it's not an operation. When speaking of ethical matters it is simply more common to use words like symmetry and reciprocity.
"Marco should definitely have known better"

-> Isn't that the whole point of his blog post, admitting that point?

"Regardless of 9to5Mac's actions here, Marco went overboard in censoring their content."

-> And he agrees with you! Which is the point of the article... is there anything he could have written that would not have elicited a negative response from you?
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Absolutely. If anything I'm more confident that he wouldn't make the same mistake twice. He recognized that he made a mistake and he's tried to rectified it -- he'll only need to cross this bridge once.
I'm curious...My entire extended family is "traditional Democrat" yet they live conservatively with the values of conservatives not liberals. Yet they insist on voting straight Democrat, as if Jfk were in office. What is it about the Democratic party that you're attracted to? You've mentioned education and health care before...is that all?
That's a reflex, which is different from an instinct. In any case, I think the rather creative behaviors of hurting people in this case are obviously learned.
As a songwriter I do this instinctively as part of writing songs. I'll often jot down ideas on a note book or into evernote then revisit everything later. It's a great habit to be in, the revision can be enlightening - as the author says - and can lead to much better insight.