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The lack of any negative response on this thread is a testament both to the thoroughness of the post-mortem, and the outstanding quality of GitHub in general.

In GitHub we trust. I can't imagine putting my code anywhere else right now.
"Nobody said they weren't "free" to do it."

You and a host of other people have brought up the Constitution as if it had any relevance here.

"The point is that the message it sends is that they are anxious about the availability of the video"

We can argue messages all day. One message it might send is a signal to muslim audiences of disapproval for the video. If that makes local governments do more to contain potentially explosive riots maybe a tiny request like that is worth it even if YT keeps the video up.

"the implication is that they would prefer that it be removed."

I'm sure they would tell you straight up that they'd prefer YT to remove it. The implication you're making is that there's something improper in their wanting YT to remove it.
FastCGI gives you this feature in any compatible language.
First amendment law is pretty clear that there is no "heckler's veto" - the angry reaction of others does not make speech unprotected (except in the case of "fighting words" that are intended to and likely to cause imminent violence).
"Heavy load"?

30 kRPM is 500 hits/sec. Nginx will serve >2000/sec from a m1.small. For S3 that is about the equivalent of a mosquito fart.
I don't know if it's feasible, but I would say that they should be much more selective in what kind of patents are granted, both ruling out the more frivolous patents, and also trying harder to confirm that there's no prior art (perhaps through peer review as in science). The costs for this should be for the applicant of the patent.
> OSes should move to the opposite strategy, enumerating exactly what is allowed

SELinux tries to do that, on a coarse level (but can't prevent user-inflicted problems).
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There is a mailing list thread somewhere that explains that the Go designers did not understand the difference between sum types and untagged unions, and hence inappropriately rejected sum types.
Really? Why would you say that?
That's about the only reason I can think of for why they handle such a striking amount of patent lawsuits.
Sounds like rather remarkable story, and might have read it all, had the annoyingly small font size, not been forced on Chrome and Safari users.

Grandpa's eyes at age 33, can't read your blog comfortably, as a result. :p

-webkit-text-size-adjust [1][2], is just NOT cool

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1831922/how-to-prevent-us...

[2] http://theindustry.cc/css/style.css
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> When I go to buy a car, I haggle with salesmen and test drive cars, all for free, before I choose one. When I am condo shopping, I go see many buildings, and many different agents give me the sales spiel, free, before I choose which condo I want and provide the commission to that realtor.

Yeah, but you're viewing pre-built cars and condos, rather than asking for a completely original work to be created from scratch before you buy.
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Maybe not, because they cannot seem to get Xcode working right all the time.
Taking Uniloc down would be useless. There are umpteen number of patent trolls. What's needed is systemic change, i.e., overhauling the patent system. But since there's a lot of vested interests and esp. money in the current system, this is not going to happen anytime soon.
Just a heads up on your link:

The guy wasn't charged for pointing out "this isn't a miracle". He was charged for following it up with a series of accusations -- claiming that it was a scam set up by local priests (defamation), and making comments about how religious people are "gullible", "regressive", "irrational", etc. (provocation). He went well beyond debunking and into the realm of conjecture/speculation, and ended up violating a number of local laws by doing so.
I don't agree with the request, but I can understand where he's coming from. Obama is personally responsible for the lives of every government employee working overseas. Directly or indirectly, it is his orders that put them there. When the protests started, I'm sure it crossed his mind that somewhere, some of his people were going to die in retaliation for the movie. If I was in his shoes, and I thought that the voluntary removal of the video might save some American lives, I would have asked too. I mean seriously, a phone call or an email to save a person's life.

Unfortunately, there is a fundamental flaw with his reasoning. The extremists who actually conduct such attacks have no intention of backing down if their demands are met, so once the video was out, someone was going to die anyways.
People in Arab countries aren't generally angry at western freedom of speech, they are angry at being denigrated and being denied the opportunities for self advancement that we safely take for granted.

I wish that the media focus was truly on the broader issues behind this anger than placing so much focus on one ridiculous video.
What AMD and intel don't seem to realize is that people like me have no qualms moving to platforms that do support linux (Even if we end up using a raspberry pi to do our main computing).

The result is that amd will just alienate some of it's customers and end up with a smaller audience. Well done, AMD.
For the record, I despise almost everything about Xcode, but it is still usable and I think the llvm debugger and Instruments work fine enough.
How do apps like WhatsApp get popular? They offer inferior service in every way to builtins, and require that both parties have installed something. SMS is in every way better unless you don't have a texting plan, in that case, GTalk and iMessage are in every way better (And GTalk is even cross platform with several fairly simple XMPP clients on IOS). Who uses this shit?

I encountered the same thing recently with Raidcall. It's a shitty voice service that's in every way inferior to Skype, but trying to position itself as a competitor to Teamspeak (Which itself has been eclipsed on features and price by Mumble). Yet, somehow people will argue with you about it and evangelize it, without any sort of benefit comparison.
After some thought, what's interesting about this story isn't that some people are making some hardware that will work only in Windows. That happens all the time. What's interesting is that this fact is attracting any sort of attention at all.
Could they use the entire back panel as an antenna?

Or etch an apple logo shaped hole out of the back, and fill it with an transmissive material or an embedded antenna?
Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro (80 ohms). They are rugged as heck and have insane bass if you like that sort of thing.
I'd say that if anything could be formalized as a set of skills or as a process that could be applied to multiple projects, it would be extreme discipline around what gets built. For example, we were fairly militant about cutting features and keeping things as simple as possible, which is always easier said than done.

Also, this rewrite wouldn't be possible without each team member's personal productivity which was also aided by pairing. Curiously, we worked fairly regular days (although some nights and weekends, but those were by personal choice).
Freedom of speech =/= freedom from consequences.

You can go all Fred Phelps and tell some marine's family he's in hell now at his funeral and that they are inbred hillbillies that could never have invented the internet but don't expect shock on my part if his dad and brothers decide that would be a good time to beat the shit out of you.
OK, so if we had been able to just blast DC down the lines at 100kV or whatever, that would have been better?
There are actually quite a few. The reason they don't attract the younger out of college startup crowd is that the unique problems the enterprise organizations face are not well known unless you work at a few of them. That's the big secret. Once you start working, it is harder to transition and leave. Sometimes you see lower level executive departures to commercialize a technology that a bigger corp will buy.
And unlike Jobs, Elon is behind much of the engineering and research his companies work on.

And also unlike Jobs, you can sense a certain humility in how Elon talks both about himself and about others.

When Neil Armstrong spoke against private space companies, Elon didn't come out and demonize him, I remember watching him cry on camera when asked about it, and said he wished he'd come to Space X to see the work they were doing.

You don't see Elon going "thermonuclear" on his competition and trying to bury them, even when they are huge mega-corporations like Boeing that used all their government connections and lobbying to try to bury him.
Co-founder of Prettify here. Thanks for the feedback. We started working on this last thursday and this is our low fidelity MVP. We are totally embarrassed by the quality of our website right now, but they say if the MVP is not embarrassing, then it's launched too late so we forced ourself to "launch" early to get feedbacks. Sorry about the grammar mistakes, we drafted the copy in like 10 minutes and we were suppose to proof read it before we "launch", but it was forgotten.

Two things we will definitely work on from looking at all the feedbacks.
1. Add some sample work
2. Change the pricing model

We are thinking of add a pricing model of flat setup fee + lower per slide fee for those customer with bigger pitch deck. Another idea is "name your own price" model. What do you guys think?
since Python is a thoroughly mediocre language.

Care to elaborate?
He's talking about a web application doing a task asynchronously. There is no reason why it would be hard to scale Go web servers across multiple machines. Yes you could use a distributed broker system to do asynchronous tasks, and some languages platforms leave you no other choice, but there is no reason to think his use case actually requires anything more than running an asynchronous task.
> There are plenty of people with wisdom well beyond their years.

I still haven't met any. I've met plenty of smart kids, and I'm pretty sure I was one, 15 years ago. However, I had no idea what I was doing, and worse yet, had the hubris to think I did.

I was insufferable, and I'd never hire 15-years-ago me. I also won't hire any other young engineers -- I'll let them find out how little they actually know on someone else's dime.

On the other hand, if I was in the VC game, I'd absolutely leverage young engineers as grist for my mill. They're the most amenable to the risk, and it doesn't really matter if the vast majority of small investments fail (and they will, especially given the inexperienced teams), if you hit just a few home run exits.

> Bad news! It gets worse. At some point, just when you start to feel like you know what you don't know, you realize that they are making new things up faster than you can keep track. Talking to people a generation younger than me can be a humbling experience. I have to tread carefully, as you do when you're talking with a person from another country.

That's unnecessarily defeatist. There are steady advances, but there's very little that's genuinely new under the sun, and quite a bit of what the youngsters get excited about is just the cyclic rediscovery of what we already knew.
> OSes should move to the opposite strategy, enumerating exactly what is allowed, and dropping anything else by default.

when they do, it results in hackers being emo about Gatekeeper or the app store or whatever.
Praytell, how does a video operate a firearm? Should we now blame rape victims for inciting their rapists?
The paper's position is that you can't implement threads, safely, as a library because the compiler is not aware of the concurrency. My point was that this reasoning may not hold if your language has full macros. Your suggestions will work great, but those are in the compiler, not as a library.
StraightTalk doesn't have LTE. I'm not sure if an iPhone 4S claims it is using 4G as it does on AT&T.
I'll be 22 in a couple weeks, and I already see the progression from when I was 12, 15, 17, 20... However, it's not a strictly monotonic function of progress. Me_{2008} had a better life philosophy than Me_{2009}, though I think Me_{2012} has surpassed both plus I know a lot more. I've learned things when I was younger that later I either forgot or learned something opposing the initial belief, and then later either relearned or realized the original belief was the correct one. I'm certain there are things I have yet to (or may never) learn/relearn and thus correct whatever is incorrect with my present self... Was there something I understood at age 16 that I don't anymore, and such a thing would make me (even just marginally) better? Probably.

Do you find your self progressing after each year, or every few years, and never taking a wrong turn? As an extreme example I can imagine someone having a bad drug problem in their 30s during which they're worse off in every way than in their 20s, and only come out of it in their 40s. I think for most people improvement and regression are more subtle and happen in many dimensions. Strict progress is illusory. I think it's too easy to get caught up in your present values and discount the wisdom of your younger self just because you care about your present self more than your past self.

It's also fairly obvious with older people that their minds just don't work like they did when they were in their 30s. Are they really wiser, do they really have more total knowledge than at their prime? What's the ratio of those who are and those who aren't? I also like to point out that a lot of important knowledge and wisdom can be found in books alone without experience. It's easy to forget this fact among all humans regardless of age: other people (including your past selves) may be privy to information you are not privy to.
BTW, address trading does exist.
This may sound all bitter and such from some 'old guy', but... I wonder how Jared will view things at 50. Will he be saying "age is just a number", or might he find that people start to pass him over for younger blood? I do realize that much of his story hinged on getting connected to people without them knowing his age up front, but at some point, people will know your age (range, or at least guess somewhat accurately).

I'm not saying he's right or wrong, or I'm right or wrong - I'm not sure there is a 'right' or 'wrong' to be found, but I'm very curious about what his perspective will be 30 years from now.
One of those repos was mine. :( Fortunately it was a fresh Rails app without anything important. However, it does make me rethink the security of storing my code on github.
Wait a second. How can you be "pretty familiar" with Columbine and also assert that "The Columbine shooting didn't involve a planted bomb" and "The boys just showed up to school shooting", neither of which assertions actually turns out to be true?

I get that you don't want to consider this as the counter-example that you're looking for. That's fine. And I grant you that there was no phone call in advance; I never said there was. I thought this was a good example in the spirit of the question, as your implication seems to be "and therefore there never will be".

Your third assertion is just as meaningless as your first two. It doesn't matter whether or not there ever has been. What matters is this: there very easily could be.
How does Dropbox sync photos in background?
I'll have a pizza, please. Yes... marinara sauce, cheese and all the anchovies and sardines that you can fit on it.
So your argument is basically, it's a dog-eat-dog world, so it's OK to cheat to get ahead? I see. I don't agree, but I see.

(Also, it's laughable to suggest that Harvard students are stuck with minimum wage if they don't cheat on exams. We're talking about Harvard; most employers won't even care what the applicant's GPA was.)
I think people tend to overestimate the value of nines to the user. It's chiefly a management/VC/busybody metric that has gained importance mainly due to it being a high level and easy to understand abstraction. "Well how much was it down?" Then they spend zillions on failover software, hardware and talent that could be supplanted by one fewer nine and a simpler architecture.

And really, just to get a dig in here, I believe Arrington shares a big part of the blame for this state of affairs with all of his Dvorak-caliber ignorant harping about Twitter back in the day.
Ok, that page has now changed. But it did have Matt's name on it under "Team".
I would clarify that age is a proxy for wisdom only if you've meaningfully made use of the given time. A lot of people simply sleep through life, their "xp counter" goes up very slowly.

This is very much in line with the whole "there's no speed limit to learning" and the commonly accepted fact that working in a startup will make you mature much faster than most other positions you might hold.
Wait a few weeks, for his followup article entitled "Why I came back to Python....two words...mature libraries"
This is what HackerNews should be like. I'm sick and tired of the "unknown or expired link".

Excellent work. (Although you might have copyright issues...)
I think they believe that such an audience is rather small. However, I do think it's a stupid move. If they continue supporting Windows exclusively, they might run into problems with the server crowd. Which is a pretty important group.
St. Regis and Luxury Collection (some of which are branded as Sheratons, strangely...) are the highest, but there isn't a strict ordering of W, Westin, Le Meridien. I'd probably say it goes W, Le Meridien, Westin, but individual properties have a lot of variation. then Sheraton, then Element and Aloft, then Four Points. There are individual Sheratons which are worse than Four Points though.

I prefer the Westin bed to the W bed; I've probably spent >100 nights in each.
Survive to build new things?

You might as well just link to their homepage:

Uniloc’s story mirrors an American theme seen over and
over during the last few decades: a company that is
discovering, growing and innovating technology that is
changing the way people live.
You're talking about 1 small part, of a much larger picture. The protests are still going on strong and spreading, and while they might have been started by 1 specific covert agenda, they are now being driven by anti-American and anti-Western sentiment, which appears to be deep seated.
Do you read carefully? When I asked if I missed anything I was referring to anything besides the arguable "value add". My apologies if that was not clear. But the value add is precisely what you focused on, and argued (predictably): the python, rsync and the icon. I'm asking about the S3 component.
PE is huge into firearms right now (Cerberus set up Freedom Group which owns Remington, Bushmaster, etc.) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/business/how-freedom-group...

If I were not in tech, the firearms industry would be really attractive.
I used to think the same as Jared. I was 14 and writing DirectX 8 mini games for fun in VB6. Thought I could get a job soon, and I'd set myself up nice and early in life.

In high school I had a few "clients" for websites and such as well, as I'd learn PHP by that stage, along with the usual XHTML and CSS - almost just like Jared. It's not the same though.

In the professional space, there is SO many more factors that you're just not ready for until you've worked for a company or two.

That being said, there are exceptional people out there, and they shouldn't be judged by their age. Soon I think there will be more of them. We really just have to remember that no matter how old or "wise" we supposedly get, we're no better than anyone else. We all deserve a chance sometimes.

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Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. We are all part of the same compost heap.
The “hamster wheel” fallacy: Why paywalls don’t mean better journalism
You certainly seem to have good insights, but your tone is a bit caustic, and I think many of us would appreciate it if you toned it down a bit.

NB: I'm just an enthusiast/ hobbyist, so perhaps you don't care about my opinion.
Wow Youtube comments really bring humanity down a notch. I wish Google would just end the comment system for a while and see what happens. Between Youtube comments and Android market app reviews, Google could own the two biggest pools of idiocy on the internet.

Its good they left the video on line but the lunacy in the comments makes me wish they would just pull it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099574
Google explains why it stopped Acer's smartphone launch with Android variant
The 1st amendment starts: "Congress shall pass no law..."

How did the White House try to interfere with anyone's 1st amendment rights? Did the White House encourage Congress to pass a law banning the movie? No? In that case they didn't do anything against their oath.

"1st amendment rights" do not mean what you think they mean.
"You can share your opinion of the merits of this case c/o Uniloc's corporate office or through the attorney in this case."

You and I both know that this is a worthless avenue to take. Any organization of sufficient size generating externalities and ill will certainly has a "catchall" mechanism for making sure that such opinions regarding merit will probably never be read and considered.

Publicly publishing their contact info ensures that they receive all feedback unfiltered (assuming they would have received such feedback at all). Yes, it is likely that these people will be exposed to distributed harassment by some members of the public that are unhappy with what they are doing, but it will also give other members of the public the opportunity to write something thoughtful that gets to the intended recipient.

It's an unfortunate dichotomy, but between approach A that will more than likely filter out all dissenting opinion before arriving at the desk of the recipients and approach B that will result in the delivery of thoughtful comments and harassment, the latter is far more desirable because at least it has the opportunity to have an impact.
By almost every other, I think he means all the commercial distributions of UNIX, which really are not very interesting to most hackers. I don't think he meant the BSDs.
Instead, go work for him. Go help make it all come true.
Yeah, I don't think Americans look stupid. I was just explaining the cultural difference.
> Like it or not, it is a reality that the Mail & Calendar are broken ...

They work just fine for me, when using servers that conform to standardized protocols.

> And again, Exchange is one of the most used corporate infrastructure, that's the state of the market, and Apple should support it the best they can.

You say this as if Exchange was some sort of common standard, instead of a proprietary walled garden that has been nearly impossible for 3rd-party clients to support completely and reliably for nearly a decade and a half.

Do you also expect 3rd-party office suites to interoperate perfectly with MS Office?
Pandering is the usual "Israel is one of our greatest allies" lip service. Changing the DNC platform is something, impliedly promising to use the power of the US to protect Israel's interests goes beyond that.
The sever crowd that uses crappy tablet chips? To be clear, Opteron still fully supports Linux.
What do you think about sandboxing,is it possible to think of each process as a separate virtual machine in order for them to be "rootkitproof"?
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on repricing our service and we will add the rush service option.