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> At least Brutsch had no illusion about the value and ethics of what he was doing, wasn't purposefully ruining someone's life, and wasn't making money out of it.

What do you mean by "purposefully"? Do you believe that all (or most) of the harm in this world is caused intentionally, by people who deep down in their hearts, think they are doing the wrong, evil thing?

I agree with you that Mr. Brutsch seems like a decent guy overall with just a very eccentric sense of dark humor. But I think you're being naive to think that him just wanting to have old-fashioned trolling fun precludes the possibility that people that he could be hurting people unwittingly. And no matter his intent, he and his activities are fair game for a journalist to expose.

Brutsch claims that to his knowledge, no one has been hurt by his trolling or administering of the content in question. And so we just believe him? This is the same person who, until five days ago, thought he could do this undetected even though he attends real-life Reddit meetups and posted his phone number and complete work history on the Internet, so pardon me if I worry that he may have several blind spots.
[Unity] has received a number of additions, all built around the idea of demolishing the walls between local applications and web applications

Here's the thing why Ubuntu is on shaky ground these days.

The above idea is grand but like everything that tries to be the future of something—in this case computing—it leaks. And leaky things will never take off for real much like leaky abstractions will not hold because the truth will leak out sooner or later, and then the abstraction isn't worth much since you can only trust it superficially.

The early Ubuntu and Windows 95 and XP had something in common: they all were built mostly on how the computer worked. These operating systems tried to make the underlying computer available to the user, give or take a few sugar-coatings. And they all pretty much succeeded.

Conversely, I think most systems that try to pretend to be something that they aren't will not succeed. Web applications won't become local applications just like that: the user will just see some visible glue that holds some parts together. You've seen it so many times: something comes with great features that only work till you really want some things done, and then it turns out the system doesn't do its magic all the way through. You just see the one kind of magic that has been preprogrammed into it and you've already observed that besides an initial impression, that one kind of magic can't deal with everything you need from the system. Then you can't trust the system anymore since you know there's more available than the system can agree to offer you.

Ubuntu is still basically a local installation: some stuff can originate from the cloud but it can not be a grand computing environment that unifies web and local services because it matters that the user has his own local installation. You can't boot Ubuntu from a USB stick and have your environment seamlessly load from the cloud.

Something like Android or iOS are much better positioned for seamlessly integrating local and web applications and local and cloud services. Using a tablet interface you don't really have the sense of local vs. web at all: you just have apps and once you sign up another device your apps will be available automatically. This is maybe what Shuttleworth is envisioning with the Unity and his current plans for Ubuntu, but the downside is that the regular Ubuntu desktop will suffer.

Ubuntu suffers because it doesn't pay respect to its natural, physical environment that is a local computer. It can be a highly tuned system that takes the most out of your hardware or it can be an ethereal, ubiquitous cloud service that's available regardless of hardware. But not both.
Great post Onur, I didnt know Amazon had a free tier! One of my other preferred tools is Trello.com for visual project management.

Great job with Countly! Would have been great to see the workflow you guys employ between the tools + any specific modifications you might have made for an open source tool/community. Maybe next time?
Because it trivializes the current problem. Some everyday things are as important as getting your rocket built correctly. Like driving.

Baking isn't rocket science, but knowing about food allergies and proper preparation and substitutes can save someone's life.

Also: "It's not rocket science. You just have to... Actually, I guess it is rocket science. No fuel rods, Sheen."
I'm a moderator of a couple subreddits, and I don't see a problem with how Reddit administrators reacted to the situation. Perhaps I am the minority but I believe that Reddit's hands-off approach is the only reason the community thrives.
Nokia Posts Loss as Smartphone Sales Lag
Really cool article - always loved that show "How It's Made" but I don't think they covered this....
Should megaupload delete all the illegal content on their site? If one of the uploaders gets outed as someone from RIAA and looses their job, should they give them jobs too?
You don't think VA's work on reddit attracted viewers, built his credibility or brought him recognition amongst his audience?
>Chinese people are now so addicted to sugar

This is supposed to be a list of "facts" but in reality, the "sugar is addictive" hypothesis is still, well, a hypothesis.

>that the government is scared that there will be political unrest if the price of sugar goes up

It's the Chinese government. "Scared that there will be political unrest if X" is their default state for any untested X.
CSS sucks for layout
+100 on this comment
It would be great if everyone just put their phone number as the SSID.

Phone numbers are unique and let others contact you if they want to use your wifi for some reason. Would probably help neighbors get hold of each other in emergencies as well.
I have seen a lot of these before except "Put a wooden spoon across a boiling pot of water to keep it from boiling over." That is a new one to me. What's the science of that? How/why does that work?

Also, on the Exit on left or exit on right (http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbyisdluoz1qhkzpz.jpg) - I don't think that applies to all cities. I know for a fact there is some signs in my city that do not do this, especially older signs.
Reddit is a bastion of some fairly horrible groups. Blatant racism on auto joined communities, sexism as the default, exploitation of women as often as possible. /r/Jailbait was over the line of sexualising children. But /r/creepshots not being immediately banned by the admins frankly scared me. Reddit will host a community that encourages people to stalk women and photograph them for personal gratification.
Hey Reg.

There are other options available to them. The major problem that I have with Reddit at the moment is the idea that somehow Adrien Chen's behavior was more egregious than Michael Brutsch.

Brutsch is living by the sword and dying by the sword. Reddit has to at some point contend with the fact that being internet famous means that you are actually famous (or infamous as the case may be).

There are consequences to fame and infamy, and Reddit can't claim that it does awesome things lifting people up, and collecting for charities, without acknowledging that anti-social behaviors will also have consequences.

There is a place for anonymous free speech. And the more notoriety one gains, the harder it is to protect anonymity, and, justly i think, the harder it should be to make the case that one should remain anonymous.

With great power comes great responsibility. (this comment may sound like a platitude coming at the end of what i've written. It's not, and if anyone wants to discuss it i'd be happy to furnish examples.)
To clarify to both this and the other comment, Apple has won certain suits in both Germany and Japan and lost others, just as it has lost certain motions in the US. I did not mean to imply that Apple had never lost any legal motion in both those countries, just that courts had found in their favour in those countries in some cases. I think that's what the OP was asking.
I said "a bit."
>Changing (permanently) eating habits should be the first step and the final goal.

That word "permanently" is really key. It's sad to watch people say "Oh, I can't eat that now because I'm on a diet. But in two more weeks..."
You don't have to give up cross DC replication if you do it asynchronously, but you lose cross shard consistency when there is a dirty fail over. This effects distributed transactions and series of single part transactions that depend on each other across different shards.

What Volt supports right now is actually asynchronous replication that does preserve cross shard consistency, but that is not going to last.

You can do synchronous multi-DC replication, but then you have Spanner and the associated latency of multiple data-center quorums.

There is also Calvin http://bit.ly/RGW9RY
Sorry if this is a newbie question, but can someone explain to me what being hellbanned is?
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"Meaning" is purely subjective idea. Meaning is an intellectual concept that has no physical analog. Things in the physical world don't have meaning. They just are. We, as in our minds, assign meaning to them. The electric current that makes up the Internet is a physical thing. Again, we give it meaning. Arguing about meaning is like arguing about art.
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In the US I always felt part of the problem was the fear fat campaign we've had for so long that has convinced people to have diets that are low in fat and high in carbs as opposed to a more balanced approach.

Plus so many of our foods here are processed, including almost everything having cheap sugars in them, that it cannot be healthy.

I have no evidence to back it up but I would think the spread of obesity can possibly be tied to the spread of industrialized processed foods, just as you say.
Good. I hate it when some 3rd party extension or toolbar sneaks through the installation process of a program. I try to pay close attention to this usually, but sometimes I fail to notice some, too.
Does it make me a bad person if I find some of these really funny and creative?
Yeah I'd also love to see some research about this from KISSMetrics or Mixpanel about this subject.
The author is taking as a given that VA was already discussing a job with reddit before the controversy. I don't know the scoop on that, but it's a key difference from your example.
I tried to be explicit in saying that I am not speaking to moderators about this. But Reddit has closed some of the subreddits, such as those that allegedly (I have never seen them) exploited underage persons. How about a cheque to charity for the approximate revenue they generated? It's a simple gesture.
The State of Mobile HTML5 Game Development
Anecdotally, I've been using Mountain Lion for just over a month now and while I initially thought the OS level integration with Twitter and Facebook would be really useful to me, I've hardly needed to touch it wheras on mobile (Android) I usually go with the browser's built in sharing function. I'm still not sure if we're seeing a shift towards mobile rather than people just consuming content in multiple ways, but if that were the case I think OS level sharing is going to gradually become more important maybe even overtaking social sharing buttons. Also, as an aside, saw Kera a few days ago, looks really awesome.
That person is a genius imo
That link explains a mode by which Spotify's cloud based music can be available offline. iTunes Match gives access to YOUR OWN music via the cloud. Do you not see the difference?

I have 15,000 songs in my iTunes library, the vast majority of which are not on Spotify. My 16GB iPhone would normally only hold a fraction of my music but with an iTunes Match subscription I have access to it all.

Also, it gives an off-site back up of every matched song. So tell me, how is iTunes Match similar to Spotify?
The grid adds a base layout which you would then customize by adding classes and ids on top of the default grid classes. You can definitely adjust positions with pixel accuracy. The grid is useful because it helps with responsive web design: everything resizes and repositions when you change your browser size or use a mobile device to view the webpage.
This is exactly right and I'm glad to see the topic covered by someone who's held in high esteem at HN, as it seems all the other discussions on this topic have been downmodded. Many online startups today are basing part of their growth on user-submitted work/content. Reddit is one of the few that have reached a critical mass such that the system is worth gaming, and now Reddit has to reconsider its strategy. This has happened to, oh, only about every other online community/startup that has reached a commercially-valuable mass of users, including Digg, Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr, Myspace, etc. etc.
Just out of curiosity, what was his karma count?
That is very unfortunate, but sometimes performance goes over portability. I think it was a major omission to leave out async I/O abstractions from C11 and C++11 standard libraries.

But you can't do much with only the standard library anyway. In addition to async filesystem i/o, it's completely lacking network sockets (async or otherwise) and other important, almost standard functionality. And besides, aio is a POSIX standard, so it should be fairly widely supported. With POSIX aio + Win32 async i/o you should get quite good portability.

And in any case, it's just a bad idea to have a ton of threads waiting for synchronous I/O completion. If using async i/o is out of the question, use a thread pool to keep your resource consumption sane.
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> Protein is not turned in to glucose.

Actually, it can be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis

I've experienced gluconeogensis myself. How do I know? The byproduct is ammonia, which is excreted in sweat. It's hilarious and also really unpleasant to be coughing because you are giving off chemical fumes.
Hola Sergio.

Just out of curiosity. Could you comment on what are those perks? Thanks
Show HN: Why you should redesign your app icon? And, how we did it
I think you're conflating Reddit users/mods with Reddit staff. Raganwald's rant was clearly about Reddit staff, so talking about Reddit's users' behaviors distracts a bit.
I totally agree, everyone believe that Samsung replicated much of the iPad.

I don't think this is just replication. There's only a handful of ways you can craft the simplest design[1] of a tablet computer, and the possibilities don't differ much. Apple happened to enter the market first but the tablets wouldn't eventually be much different if someone else had. The collective design would've converged to something like iPAD in a few years.

[1] You can certainly generate thousands of different tablet designs if you don't care about creating the simplest one. But once you do, it pretty quickly boils down to the fundamentals of designing roughly an A5-size device with a dominating touchscreen. It goes pretty much as "The touchscreen takes 95% of the front face. If you want button(s) on any side, you put them below the screen because people hold their tablets from underneath, instead of grabbing them from the top. You put any USB/headphone sockets on the side so that the user can put it on a table while charging/heaphones connected." Given those limits, you maybe get to decide if you want square or round edges or something in between. But that's just cosmetic and certainly doesn't warrant being "a design".
I do not like all of Gawker and I similarly don't like all of Reddit (/r/jailbait and hundreds more). The article about Violentacrez was a legitimate and well written piece of investigative journalism. I know this because I actually read the whole thing and there have been hundreds of real news agencies and reporters using it.

As to whether this Adrian Chen guy is a hypocrite or not, I don't care. Gawker is a horribly trollish site, with occasionally good content. We know this. All I'm saying is that Reddit has not always been this way. Reddit has _always_ been against censorship (remember the Sony PS3 root key fiasco?).

Btw, I went to the Gawker link and it's full of Lindsay Lohan pics and news stories about people similar to Violentacrez (without pics).
Yes, agreed. Very interesting and thanks for sharing. Will be reminded of this the next time I open a bottle of wine and carelessly toss the cork aside.
A lot of people can't even afford a mcdonald's meal + a bag of chips.

Everywhere I look, fat is cheaper than protein, white bread is cheaper than whole-grain multigrain bread, white rice is cheaper than brown rice, a pack of sugar is cheaper than the same weight in fresh fruits and veggies, and a bottle of sauce made with nothing but salt and MSG is cheaper than a bottle of sauce made with natural ingredients. When you need to feed 2 teenagers with a budget of single-digit dollars per day, every penny counts.
Unfortunately, that is just the way it is. As companies get larger they tend to favor mediocrity over greatness. It is very difficult for them to place an individual value on a developer and thus it's difficult for the developer to "capture" that value.

Also, social dynamics favor not pissing people off over rewarding high performance. For example, they would rather lose a developer X than pay him/her what they're worth because it would be "unfair" to all the other developers that they are currently paying below market.

Of course, raising everyone's salary to reflect market rates "doesn't make sense" in the short term and the short term is what concerns most individuals in the company. If manager Bob gets "good numbers" this quarter, maybe he gets a raise. If manager Bob, keeps down technical debt, attracts good devs and does stuff that in general aligns with the company's long term goals it may not look as good on this quarters numbers.

Your best bet is to go to another company. If you're very lucky, another developer will leave for a lot more money and management will wake up and give you raise. A company I left once gave the remaining developer something like a 50% raise.
How much money did Reddit make off of VA's subreddits?
Worse yet, it appears that the best way to avoid this is to flat out ignore the law, rather than go along with it.

Your video gets taken down? Just put it back up again and hope it wont get found a second time.
The porn industry is very well aware of the age of its performers. Pretty much any porn company will point you to its 18 USC Section 2257 record keeping (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257). As a random example, on the front page of the site www.bangbus.com there's the following text:

"All girls appearing on this website are 18 years or older. Click here for records required pursuant to 18 U.S.C 22557 Statement."

And that click here leads to http://help.bangbrosonline.com/2257.php
Also most of the names are pretty direct, no passive aggressiveness there
Pretty neat. I ended up grabbing a domain, now I need to figure out a project for it.
I am not an expert on morality and ethics, unless by virtue of experience gained from living through the consequences and self-guilt from the immoral an unethical choices I've made myself in the past half-century.

...which is a way of saying, I'm sure you're right that there are several other choices Reddit can make, some of which it may be making behind closed doors...
Do you cringe and blame your ISP every time you receive an email spam?
Nope. Reddit staff has been decrying Gawker's doxxing just as much as the mods have.

Reddit staff have also been intentionally hands off of controversial subreddits. Those are choices they have made, and they have defended their mods and the culture that they're fostering. I agree with Reg that Reddit is currently behaving inconsistently, but I don't entirely agree with Reg's two prescriptions to address the inconsistency.
So I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and Linux Mint Debian Edition on the desktop. LMDE is OK, but I'm not sure Mate is a long-term solution. On the one hand it is great that they have maintained the old look and feel of Gnome 2, but forking so much "crap" seems like a huge wasted effort.

For example the configuration changes - instead of gconf, you now have mateconf, which uses a whole other set of files that are not compatible with gnome. So switching from an old Gnome desktop (say) to Mint+Mate means your settings are all lost, even though the forked code between gnome2 and mate is really close.

On a default LMDE install it adds gnome-terminal and mate-terminal, so on the menus you have 2 "Terminal" entries. Ditto for a load of other core applications that are in Gnome and Mate - stuff like Archive Manager, screenshot, and document viewer. Was there really a need to fork file-roller?

Debian have already pretty much said "no" to including Mate - the reason being that the duplication and resuscitation of crufty old code is not a good idea. It would be better, the say, to work with Gnome upstream to get a more Gnome2-ish feel in Gnome3. I think Cinnamon is in Debian or will be shortly, which probably has a brighter future.

Anyway, for now I'm happy with Mate - it works fine and didn't need any tweaking to get to a usable state, compare that to Gnome3 classic-session on Ubuntu 12.04 which I spent weeks tweaking and patching (!) to get back to a state that worked like 10.04 - but I think its days are numbered. The Mint devs alone can't keep a full-on Gnome2-fork alive forever, it has too many duplicated applications that are already fine in base Gnome, and eventually I think Cinnamon will be the only viable option for Mint.
"this kid?" Michael Brutsch, AKA violentacrez, is 49 years old.
"Hands-off" approach is not censoring every bad article on Violentacrez. Hands off is letting users determine what goes to the front page.
I did a bit of work in porn for a while back (when I was young and needed the money).

In one of the description of a video the editor wrote "was 17 just a day ago" to "barely 17" making the mistake to not change the number as he changed it. The forums blew up, complaints started pouring in and it was one heck of a day. The description was online for 20 minutes at most and complaints continued to trickle in for a few days after.

That being said some porn distributors wouldn't mind hiring the guy since his name would most likely not appear anywhere. It really depends on how good he is... and if he's on reddit all day long that's probably not a good thing either.
I stick to "Honeypot".
I think you're referring to postgres's inability to use more than one core per query, which is true (or mostly true... there are quite a few helper processes that take on some of the work).

For many smaller queries, postgres does great on multi-core, and pgbouncer is a good connection pooler.
We were a lot thinner back when we ate primarily carbs, most of which were processed (historically the American diet was primarily white flour and potatos).

https://docs.google.com/a/patch.com/viewer?url=http://www.cn...
Add to this the fact that those who champion certain social science theories at the expense of other theories can never _really_ be proven wrong. Physics, math, and engineering on the other hand can be proven -- at least insofar as the airplane flies, the bridge doesn't collapse, etc.

In the most recent American political debate, we had two candidates describing different political philosophies for the role of government and the future of this country. Notice that instead of attempting to judge those positions, the media commentary simply "scored" the candidates on debate points and "gotcha" moments, assigning a "winner" based upon polls and these imaginary points.
hey adrianmn, have you thought about doing some front end stuff (since you want to learn web dev)?

In any case, here are couple resources I'd recommend:

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs262/

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Javascript-Fundamentals-Deve...

http://learn.appendto.com/lessons

You can find out more at http://www.coursebacon.com/ (disclaimer: this is a side project of mine)

Good luck!