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This article is moronic.

> Cook yesterday unveiled the long rumored iPad mini, a move the purist Jobs condemned just two years ago... Cook reacted, quickly plugging the final hole in Apple’s consumer electronics empire.

Steve Jobs routinely panned the product configurations and strategies of other companies, only to turn around and release something that entirely contradicted his earlier stance. This was a guy who slammed Intel at every single keynote, showing off whatever benchmarks his team could think of to emphasize the PPC's superiority over x86 – until he announced WWDC attendees could order an Intel-based developer box because the times, they were a-changin'.

So while this article would have us believe that Cook initiated a crash program to build a 7 inch iPad immediately upon Jobs' death, what I think is more likely is that the form factor has been in progress since it was understood that the iPad was a hit.
I'm guessing the recent comments widget is just doing an ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 10 or something? With an index on date, I don't see how this could be slow.

How long does the query take?

How many rows do you have?
I'm not convinced a public forum is the best place for customer support ...

I think a great heuristic here is this: your customers can be publicly negative, but you cannot.

If you publicly flame a customer then, no matter how deserving the customer was, some future potential customers will look at that and say "That could be me." Most businesses, I think, can't afford to risk that.

There are some notable counterexamples, in my opinion they are the exceptions which prove the rule, i.e. when the business wants to fire the customer and make an example of him/her for others.

The best example of this is the Drafthouse movie theater in Austin, who created a great PSA wherein they ridicule a customer for insisting she had the right to use her cell phone during a movie: http://adland.tv/content/drafthouse-movie-theatre-makes-keep...
The rule of thumb that I have heard, and seen played out, is that there are basically 3 tiers of who can factor what. governments or government sized companies (upper millions, or billions sized budgets), modestly sized companies / research projects (millions), or hobbyists. Each can handle about 256 bits more than the next, and the time for one to reach the capabilities of the other is somewhere between 5 to 10 years.

Hobbyists have been factoring 512bit keys on a whim for a few years now, so....
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Well we have huge populations with shrinking labor markets, it is starting to make sense to hire people to do things like this.
What seems to be happening here is that you don't like the fact that I criticized the Wired headline, so you're moving the goalposts from "Massive Net Security Issue" to "Thing That Might Make It Harder For Google To Reject Spam". Then, when I point out that you're moving the goalposts, you respond by simply repeating the claim --- and then suggest that pointing out what DKIM actually is amounts to a "quibble".

DKIM is one of many, many anti-spam mechanisms in place at Google (and presumably Yahoo). But of course, far fewer people would read and forward this Wired story if you had simply written "Mathematician Finds Weakness In One Google Anti-Spam Measure During Recruitment Attempt".
It's funny, Jobs had no problem going back on things he said once he changed his mind. But now that someone else is in charge, that same thing ends up being "rebuilding Apple."
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Even worse, "Sains frais" is closer to "Seins Frais" which is "Fresh Tits".
Do you have any large-scale statistical tests backing up your assertion that if you push 10 posts a day to peoples' Facebook feeds, your readership will shrink?

I don't disbelieve your assertion that you personally would find it annoying, but I know a good number of large, successful blogging brands do indeed push to social media multiple times a day, and it seems to work for them. Several of said brands have indeed published articles suggesting that publishing multiple times a day serves to boost, not diminish, your popularity.

In addition, some counter-anecdata: I don't really use Facebook, but I've certainly not found myself put off by those blogs I follow which post that often to Twitter, for example. Indeed, I think I'd find it more annoying if they reduced their posting frequency - I'm not on Twitter 24/7, and if they only linked to their posts in a single digest-style tweet, I'd probably miss it.
You should shoot me an e-mail and we should talk :) My information is in my profile.
I think the problem here is assuming what the purpose of the 'like' button is. It's not a 'follow' or 'sign up for mailing list' or even 'add friend' button. I think the meaning of this button will have to be defined by users, the company and page owners over time, if one stake-holder has too great a voice then the button will fail, for this action to be useful all parties involved will need to gain from it and that means some compromise will be needed as well until the correct balance is reached.
What are the best stories about people randomly meeting Steve Jobs?
"Completely disgusting" is taking it a bit far, but it's certainly puzzling, as is the irrational potshot at HN -- a hub of potential customers! "Disgusting"? No. "Bizarre", especially for the man behind A Smart Bear?? Yes.
Here's a list of the differences: http://blogs.office.com/b/office-next/archive/2012/09/13/bui...

The main thing missing from OneNote is audio/video recording and searching, though you can insert audio/video files from elsewhere.
Hi, looks like an interesting service! I've already sent it to a bunch of my friends who I think can get a lot of value out of it.

Unfortunately, I don't think I could extract $25/mo out of the service myself. Do you have any plans for alternative pricing structures? I would definitely pay $100 for a block of 20 requests that I could use over the course of a year, say.
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That's your choice if you don't want to read information if it contains certain sentences. No need to tell the rest of the world about it.
I think it takes a little while for new additions to get indexed into the search. Links will take you there though...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterpress-word-game/id5266...
This might be a controversial thing to say here, but I think that clandestine marijuana farmers are really heavily pushing the limits of urban agriculture.

The things you're working for when growing pot:

1) A minimal energy footprint. A giant power bill is a dead giveaway that you're running grow lamps

2) Maximum plant density -- lots of plants close together is good for both absorbing light and using space. More plants = more money.

Obviously that isn't what this person is growing, but I find pot growers to be an interesting bunch. They're ag-hackers, and they seem to be really good at it, and really good at trading information about it.
It might be easier to investigate submissions first and filter at this level if a trend is discovered. That is, a certain type of submission might attract a certain attitude of comment.
Which is nuts. If they don't want to see it, don't show it to them regardless of if there was money involved. With their new system they have perverse incentives to not show your friends your content.
I'm curious if anyone else is curious about the distinction between automation and delegation. It seems like a better description of OPs life hack is the latter. I'm not sure if this is relevant, but if you take the universe or the world or a society and the amount of work being done as a zero sum equation, handing off buying plane tickets isn't really automation because you're not reducing the total work in the system; you're just changing where the resources come from.

You could say that delegating work to "experts" means the work is done more efficiently so you save resources, and that's a step in the right direction towards automation, but not automation.

Note: I'm very interested in words and the contrast between what they mean and how people use them.
That does seem high, but if you factor in the (non-trivial) installation process, and the fact that you won't be voiding your warranty with a DIY installation, it may be an acceptable tradeoff. Apple is probably counting on your reaching this conclusion as well.
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One example of legacy baggage is the fact that x86 doesn't reorder loads and stores as freely as ARM. It would be better for optimization, but it would break the creaky old software that is the lifeblood of the platform.

Another example of "evoluationary heritage" is the fact that x86 chips require a northbridge and/or southbridge, whereas with ARM chips, everything is integrated on the chip. This was one reason why Atom-based designs often weren't that low power-- the CPU itself might be low-power, but the glue logic was thirsty. There is evidence that Intel is trying to change this, and put everything on one chip.

I'm not trying to say that x86 will never succeed in mobile. I don't have a crystal ball. I'm just saying that the burden of proof is on Intel to prove that it can be cost and performance-competitive in that space. And I am not the only skeptic-- Apple and Microsoft use ARM for most of their mobile offerings.
Also there is no option to see "Photos" anymore like it used to be, I'm almost at the verge of abandoning Facebook!
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Absolutely. Was trying (but failing) to make a joke.
A couple years ago, I listened to an interesting interview with Ted Rosen on the Founders Talk podcast:

http://5by5.tv/founderstalk/2

I still haven't become a Fancy Hands user, but I do remember him saying lots of new parents turn to them for help when a baby arrives, so perhaps that'll be me someday.
20W, 200W, what's the difference? Either way, you can't get that out of the battery on a mobile device. And consumers don't generally buy PCs based on power dissipation. Sad, but true.

And if you think your typical beige-box PC can handle a power supply that is specc'ed for 150W-- go ahead and put one of those in there. I DARE you.
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A digital electric pressure cooker is a better option than a slow cooker in my experience. I use one. Pretty much everything cooks inside 20 minutes, even a whole frozen chicken. I cook tons of stuff straight from frozen.

But still, preparing the food once or twice a day is a distracting pain. It would be great if I could just stop off at street vendors or fast food stores and eat well, but as it is that stuff will kill you.
I'm still a little lost on exactly what this is. The only two things I found under the technology link were node.js and SmartOS. Do you spin up SmartOS/node instances and somehow hook SIP to them? Can you give us a technical explanation?
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"And, still, every couple of days Facebook forgets that I've set my sort to "Most Recent" and goes back to "Top Stories""

This is by far the most annoying thing for me. That and the likelihood that most people don't realize that setting is there, and assume they're getting posts in chronological order.

EDIT: my solution, btw, is to make a bunch of my friends "close friends" and set Facebook to send me email notifications for updates from them. Bypasses the newsfeed, brings it back to email, where I like it.
AFAIK on the latest Apple models with SSDs, the SSDs are a proprietary form factor but not soldered on.
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If I'm reading this correctly, the problem is that something that the author thinks should be free costs money, so Facebook is now "demanding that a $365 million dollar ransom gets collected from all the Mom & Pop businesses who use Facebook."

Uh huh. "Mom & Pop business" seems to be the new "won't somebody please think of the children" line designed to extinguish all rational thought. I'm getting a little tired of it.

(I'll save my rant on why I think most Mom & Pop businesses should be out of business for another day. I have to say I'm amused when I see a restaurant in my neighborhood apply a bunch of signs that say "absolutely no laptop use" and then go out of business a month later. Idealism is a bitch.)
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What I read in the comments about Cancer...

Just...

Wow.
> If you don't like it, you can always deactivate
> your account like I did.

...and he can also gripe about it in a public forum in the hopes that if enough people do so, Facebook will change it's behavior. It wouldn't be the first time FB changed their policies due to grumbling users.
I've attended a class with Eric Mandu as part of Workshop Weekend a year ago. He's awesome.

For the semi-amateur, aquaponics is actually pretty tough to start up. Of course you need your initial equipment investment, but mostly getting a stable system is finicky and takes time. The longest part is getting your "live rock" fully active, i.e. nitriting and nitrating bacteria in the stones that convert the fish waste into stuff the plants can use. You essentially have a metastable system that takes a lot of supervision and some chemicals to setup, kinda like keeping a swimming pool clean, except you want just the right ratio of bacteria.

Furthermore, at his scales you can't monetize the fish. A possible choice of fish would be Tilapia, but at those scales it isn't worth it, but more importantly you can't cultivate those without a special license: IIRC they're considered invasive species in California. Maintaining such a license requires way more investment than what's possible at his level.

Anyhow, aquaponics are pretty awesome, but aren't yet economically viable compared to standard agriculture in most places* and there are legislative and economic issues that make it tough to kickstart. I hope Eric's work increases awareness and carves a path.

*I wonder about McMurdo and the ISS... :)
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or does Google just copy iOS6 Maps? :P
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This is exactly why I think Apple will move to ARM for Macs soon, even though most Apple users find that hard to believe.
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One of my previous employer's clients was a company that did exactly this. I don't remember their name, or how well they were doing, but I thought that the idea was a pretty good one.

The only problem I saw was that their meals were typically fairly expensive, to the point where you could probably eat out every day for less money.
It it really an ordinary multisite install though? Do you have 188590 comments? Wouldn't you have trouble with any hosted providers if you are doing operations on that many records in memory (whether that is the fault of WP, or custom plugin code, it doesn't really matter)? If that's the case, it looks like your site just isn't a good fit for this type of service, but millions of others (including multi-sites) with say a few hundred posts and a few hundred or perhaps thousand comments are.

It's a shame that you had to go through all of this trauma to discover this, and there are obvious support failings here, but it does seem that your site is out of the ordinary in some respects, just because of the number of comments on one WP instance.
+1 on the parent-child thing.
Sounds like a brilliant product plan to me...

"See what we can do for you? See the traffic we can drive and link to you? Want more? Choose your level of traffic, choose your price."

The article makes the assumption that 3rd-party businesses that have been suckling at the teat of the social graph are the value to the facebook users. They're not. The users, the actual people are - businesses are just there to help pay for the whole thing, and follow the personal users. I say this as a business owner who uses facebook heavily, and occasionally pays them for the right to get a little bit back out of them.

I've yet to see a single person in my timeline say "I'd stop coming to facebook if all of these businesses didn't have pages here."
When cooking for one, a slowcooker will usually get me several meals. Still, healthy street food would be nice.
OK we cant stop reposting this now.
that's what i was implying (with my typo). but gstreamer might use something else as well.
I'm interested in hydroponics in aquaponics. All the shops selling hydropics equipment, like grow lamps, have a rasta-hippie vibe to them. I wonder why...
Hi Sam - I sense you have a lot of anger here, and most of it is probably pretty valid. Money is a funny thing - when you've got a $600K mortgage, and a couple kids heading off to college with $45K/year tuition, and your company gets acquired by Zynga, and you discover you have $500K worth of options that will mature if you stick around for a couple years, or you can walk away from all that, and go get a job as a $120K developer somewhere - well, let's just say it's very tempting to justify selling virtual cows for a couple years.

Understand there is a difference between working for a lame company, and a morally objectionable company.

I could make an argument that what Zynga did with Tiny Towers/Dream Heights wasn't that much different than what Samsung did with it's Galaxy Tab/iPad. In both cases, these companies took another product as an example, and put their own spin on it.

Neither of them is really "morally reprehensible" - but, if you want to do original work, or make the world a better place, there are probably other places you can work - and taking money out of the equations makes it that much easier.
"Yeah, my dentist is a guy in a van."

There would definitely have to be some great marketing for this to not seem shady.
Exactly. And any update feature, which is typically built into most networking products, could enable a backdoor to be installed at a later date. Could be clean now, but doesn't mean always!
Why should you have to do that? Why can't google maintain proper backups? They could charge for it.

Of course, that means they would need to guarantee they will never, ever, cut you off from your data, not even if you defraud them. Under EU law they basically have a legal obligation to do that, but sadly they don't feel compelled to comply with their legal obligations without a court ordering them to.

By the way, if you've never had microsoft lose your data for you, you haven't been using their software for very long or been very very lucky. Admittedly, when microsoft did it they didn't mean to. Google and amazon mean to.
> Don't think for a second that certain government agencies can't brute force a BCrypt-based password hash, especially given they will know the cost factor and salt.

I have no doubt that government agencies have much more powerful intelligence than people realize. But knowing the salt has no connection to their ability to brute-force; it only affects their ability to use rainbow tables.

(All it does is prevent them from matching up passwords by their hashed values, so for example, if one password is cracked, it protects everyone else who is using the same password.)

But it doesn't provide any protection against brute forcing. Nothing can, short of making the hash function slower (or the password domain larger).
Can republic wireless execute on their plan for a $20 a month unlimited plan augmented by wifi? Or am I stuck with $75 a month for 2 feature phones. (I will not pay the exorbitant costs of a smart phone)
I didnt sign up for it...it looks like something from the 90s and that automatically makes a user think scam.

If you arent a designer(which it doesnt look like you are) then check out some of the many great resources available like the wonderful http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ Although you should try to make a site look unique this can help you get something nice up and running very quickly.

The other thing I would recommend is watching this keynote http://www.infoq.com/presentations/From-Crap-to-App

Also the name is a bit confusing. Its short and simply which is good but is it a word? Is it made up of things that would make sense for the site? ez (easy) a (lak) lack? Thats how I read it and that doesnt make any sense for collages.
I am new to programming and chose Ruby. I have found Rubular to be a fantastic way to learn about regular expressions through trial and error. This site has really helped me understand regex's. I was having a little trouble fully grasping the concept from simply reading books.
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Does that Padlock really have anything to do with DKIM or SPF? I thought it was just some magically hard coded thing for eBay and PayPal messages. My own DKIM signed messages certainly don't get it.
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This "product" meme is inaccurate and misleading. You are the product in the same way that Lebron James is the NBA's product, the same way that a top partner at Goldman Sacs is the product, the same way that Justin Bieber is the product, and the same way that you yourself is the product every time you apply for a job interview or raise funds.

Being the "product" gives you a great position in your relationship with the company and incentivizes them to treat you very well.

Fact of the matter is, and is as demonstrably evident, FB can cares much less about keeping this advertiser happy than about keeping its users happy.
As reddit beats jokes to death, HN beats XKCD programming exercises to death.

Cool refinement of the existing XKCD work though!
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I think a great heuristic here is this: your customers can be publicly negative, but you cannot.

I agree 100%, the tweets are not helpful, but I disagree with the "disgusting" description and felt it was a little over the top.
hey jeff, Im die hard fan of you,I wanna get in! is there any payment arrangement so i can payback the tuition monthly? and what would be different compare to HungryAcademy ? any advantage or disadvantage ?
> Do you spin up SmartOS/node instances and somehow hook SIP to them?

That's the impression I got too. The code sample suggests almost a middle layer? Regular users place phone calls as normal using regular phones, while this middle layer is triggered based on conditions and performs actions.

Very cool, if that's the case.
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Starbucks still uses the strip. Although or all new cards use chip and pin now and most retailers can still use the mag strip.
I was about to say: "another one?" but this is actually pretty cool, kind of sums up all other posts on this topic in the past few weeks. Open source evolution at it's best. Each new post is something that adds a little more on the previous, gives proper credit, and the end result is something useful, that will make any boring graph a little less boring, this is why HN is so great.

From a question on stackexchange on Mathematica (I think) to basic implementation in HTML5/JavaScript, to a fully functional graph generator that needs no code.

The next evolution I assume can have a jsfiddle like short URLs, share buttons, and a voting mechanism for best graphs.
Hadn't heard of it; thanks for the link.
He just said on Twitter that he was "not optimizing for profit [but] curious to see how it does".
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Just commenting to say thanks for working on this. A barebones open source firmware would be very cool to see.
Here's +1 to that statistic. If I see more then a few things a day I would definitly hide it. I already do. I love seeing interesting post pop up, but when your posts are takin over my feed you're gone :)
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If they charge double they'll have no problem selling it.