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> Sure we do. Almost every country has a legal definition of sobriety when it comes to alcohol.

No we don't. We don't have a max daily allowance of alcohol, you can drink all you want, you just can't drive. No one will stop you from drinking yourself to death if you so choose. You can walk into any store sober and buy enough alcohol to kill 20 people and no one will stop you.

> It's very hard to determine how stoned a person is and whether or not it's even affecting their motor skills or judgement.

If you can't figure out if someone is stoned and they can pass the field sobriety tests administered by the police, then who care if they're driving.

This idea that you need some quick way to test for a particular drug because someone might drive while on it is just absurd. We take all kinds of drugs, legally, that are much worse than pot and no one screams about driving on it.

Alcohol is particularly problematic because it affects your judgment center and makes you do stupid think like drive when you should otherwise know you can't. Pot doesn't do that.
Is bandwidth a key asset? Do you control your connection once it leaves your building? All the routers and networks between you and your customer? What about DNS? How much control do you believe you exert over the root name servers? What happens when your servers fail? Do you have in house electrical engineers and chip designers so you are in control of your key assets?

You wildly overblow the need for control and wildly undervalue the amount of control you have over a 3rd party vendor.

> How much would loss of that scheduling application for the 1 hour that it is really needed per day (to set up schedules) cost?

Weigh that against the cost of duplicating what amazon has + staffing + recruitment + retention of staff + building for them and their managers to work in + all the other costs. For a huge number of companies the cost/risk of AWS or the like is gonna be better than cost/risk of doing it themselves.
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Some decades ago they also said cigarettes were not dangerous. Purifying radium was not dangerous, either. Then, decades later people started dying of cancer. They say cell phones are not dangerous, though a friend of mine who did a PhD in computational bioelectromagnetics is not so sure.

I am concerned about the ethical aspect of it. If I were a scientist who had spent 30 years researching the effects of marijuana, I would say that: "scientific evidence seems to suggest that marijuana is not dangerous, but people should take into account that future research could lead to different conclusions". People should decide, and have already decided. There's a huge market out there and it's a scandal that marijuana has not been legalized yet.

Unless you are absolutely sure there's no danger whatsoever, you have no right to say that any fear is a joke. Your certainty stems from your ignorance, and this is not supposed to be offending. I think pot should have been legalized decades ago, and we're not moving fast... we're moving slow. Legalize it ASAP. Period. But do not advertise that there are no dangers, because you don't know. Moreover, the way you consume pot might be the danger, not the pot itself. I mean the paper used to roll the joint for instant. The hot air is known to increase the chances of throat cancer. Lip cancer is a problem. Using a water pipe should be safer. I know I know nothing, but for a layman you seem awfully certain.
1/3 your body weight of pure THC, that's 1500 pounds of pot.
It's wrong though.

The better insight is "When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a huge opportunity and you better damn well figure out how you can engage that 14yr old as an ally/partner.
As a tripadvisor/expedia employee, the fact that both companies appear there makes me doubt the rigor of the methodology behind this list. And hotels.com (also wholly owned by EXPE) adds to that doubt. And both eBay and Paypal too.
> Unless you are sure there's no danger whatsoever

That's absurd. Nothing in this life is perfectly safe. Safety has absolutely nothing to do with whether something is legal or not. Sky diving is dangerous but legal. Riding bulls is dangerous but legal. What I'm asserting is that pot is known to be safe enough that it should be my choice whether I do it or not.

We're decades beyond the irrational fears you're peddling. Our president has smoked pot for Christ's sake, you can't get much more mainstream than that.
There's probably 20 years of academic research that says "yes." But money has always trumped that, maybe until now.
maybe someone who works in ane environment with large binary files that need to be tracked should just buckle down and write a tool appropriate for that scenario? (vs try to force fit git - a tool designed for a different set of usecases - )

Sounds like an opportunity for a startup or at least a cool open source project ("make something people want")
Once upon a time, Kevin was not actually an asshole and would give credit to the people who did the work. Perhaps because of me, but more likely because of several years of advice from true assholes, he has risen to the occasion, and now says he "created" this site, when in fact I can 100% guarantee he paid others to do the actual work. Kevin couldn't write a line of code or build an html page to save his life.
It's a list of twitter users sorted by follower count.

Therefore it just reinforces the existing popular users and doesn't expose you to interesting and new people.

Stupid-wank-fest.
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Very cool, basically a visualization of the standard multiplication technique.

For ##x## it really helps for the 2nd step. A number like 18x31 is really quick to do building backwards with this, 8, 25 ,3; so 558. With more rounding, I think my traditional method of rounding and taking into account the difference is better,
99x99 being the worst case example.

I imagine if you practiced even a little you could do 2x2 and 3x3 numbers in a snap.
To me, the author is like someone who will never really learn to swim well because he can't let go of swimming aids. Dependence on crutches like compile time checking and programming assertions might let you fake it, but there are more productive ways (and languages) to write working code.

1. Compile time checking can't catch most non-trivial bugs. Even if you swear by it, given the advances in Java IDEs, I would have to be quite lazy (or careless) to write Java code that doesn't compile.

2. Programming assertions - really? That's what unit testing is for. I like his point about being a testing masochist, but it doesn't sound like he's going about it the right way.

3. Having other programmers inspect your code can be helpful, but to me it's a luxury that you often can't afford.

"If I could bring this kind of a system to fruition, meeting all its requirements and budget and schedule constraints, just by conscientiously applying a slew of techniques for uncovering my programming failings before they got into the final product, then I knew that I would be able to fake it for the rest of my career."

The author claims his techniques have allowed him to create a good end-product, but at what cost? I could 'fake it' for the rest of my career, or I could invest more effort in learning how to write better code faster in the first place.
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Agreed. And there is serious apples to oranges comparison here. For example, why is iTunes on the list? If one is including any business that transacts on the web, then Geico (over $1 billion last year) and many more should also be on the list.
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He's a PR person, basically. There's a glut of them in Silicon Valley.
I should probably be somewhat careful what I say here, but I work for a commercial software company with one of the largest perforce databases (according to perforce) in existence. 3000 developers working on several million lines of code; I don't know how many MB offhand, but I'd guess O(1GB). Our central perforce server is a monster that we literally cannot keep fed with enough RAM, yet we frequently wait for a minute or two for a simple p4 submit, or p4 sync, to complete.

git on my local machine eats this tree for breakfast. I seceded from p4 a few months ago, and my workflow has never been smoother; I only ever interact with perforce for actual checkins, and to pull in other developers changes.

I guess the moral here is that to talk about whether something "scales", we need to be clear about what dimension we're trying to scale. In our experience, trying to get perforce to scale to huge numbers of developers has taken a lot of effort. Since git is numb to the number of developers, it has the potential to work better in our environment. YMMV.
I know this might seem paranoid, but my main concern is the lack of ethics in advertising something as "perfectly safe", when it might not be... well... "perfectly safe". On the other hand, one could argue that nothing is indeed perfectly safe.

If I were a medical doctor in the 1940s and advertised that research suggested that cigarettes were safe... as soon as evidence started proving otherwise decades later, I would have felt horribly guilty and ashamed.

Medicine is not yet an entirely exact science. There are many things we don't know. I say: inform people of the risks, and let them decide freely. But just don't advertise something as "perfectly safe" when it's just "safe enough" because it sounds slightly dishonest.
I needed to find a shared Linux web hosting plan. I couldn't find a good web site to compare them, only a lot of (fake) top-10 lists.

So I decided to create my own website. The HN crowd might be more interested on dedicated servers, or VPS, but I think you can give me good feedback on the website: does it add any value? Is the information presented well enough? What is missing? What is superfluous? etc.

I'm going to keep adding new plans, and give more information about companies. Right now I am focusing more on hard facts.
That is overkill. Three things suck in water in a saltwater tank: filtration pumps, circulation pumps, and protein skimmers. A strong current would just be mean in a jellyfish tank, so the circulation pumps are out. The remaining two are needed to remove waste and add oxygen. The best solution for this would be a sump. Basically the tank is a allowed to overflow into another tank hidden below. This 2nd tank holds filtration media, the skimmer, and a pump to run the water backup. See the link below for a diagram. If you make the overflow lip long and screened, and you don't refill the tank too quickly, the suction would be minimal and any jellyfish would be safe. In other words, this article is a giant load of Bull Shit.
For someone new to this business, it's impressive how you independently reinvented the googlespammer trick of using a domain name made of keywords in random order.
Kohana's a CI fork that's optimized for faster. Think Merb as a Rails fork - lots of love, but a need for something along a slightly different path.
the number one thing i want to know when looking for hosting is exactly what os/software versions does the system run. extra credit for procmail hooks and email aliases. on some hosters that info is pretty up front, on others i can't find it anywhere!

i haven't found a shared hosting solution that provides python2.5 and django, let alone fastcgi, so i've always setup my own virtual server.
Not everyone here is a fame worshiping whore, me for instance. I give a rats ass who's been blessed as a "known people" by the inbred circle jerk of techies esp startup techies. In fact if you are "famous" you have to work esp hard to impress me otherwise I assume your just riding the fanboi wave.

The reason I "behave" here (not this post obviously, cause your smug elitist attitude pissed me the fuck off) unlike on say reddit.com is because that is what the community here wants and expects. If I'm not civil, on-topic, serious, unfunny, have proper grammar/spelling, don't know the logical fallacies or false arguments, I'll be voted down to oblivion. I would be unappreciated, unwanted, and unwelcomed. Moreover people here are smart/mature enough not to fall for trolls and griefers so there's no fun to be had there. Eventually, I'd get bored and wonder off.

p.s. pg gives me money, I got a website with unpronounceable domain, gradients, ajaxy lightboxes, everything!
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That was the point--your arguments are unsourced. :)
Yeah, I agree with that. I had a well known entrepreneur respond to one of my posts, and I was slightly shocked. While I don't think my original post was rude or unreasonable, I really wasn't expecting it to be read by the person it was talking about.

After that I was more impressed with HN. It seems like a very unusual social news site, because the news is actually discussed with the people involved. For example, recently there was an article on nytimes.com about somebody who makes jellyfish tanks. Well, I find out in the comments that the person actually is an user here.

That does help me think about what I say. I might be interested in working at some startup or tech company after I graduate. And there's a good chance that not only will my future employer find this account, but that I have actually already said something about that company. I really don't want to write a thoughtless comment and then find out that it was about some company I'm interested in.
Anything that could be sweetened. It's just a replacement for sugar that used in the US because it's cheaper.
Possible someone just hit the wrong arrow. Happens from time to time :\
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I recall we have started this discussion with a question of whether git scales or not. You position is essentially that git doesn't scale but you don't care.

In other words it seems to me that everyone here agrees about the facts - git does not scale. And then some people seem to care about it and some don't. Are we on the same page now?
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I smile when I think of Ruby's throw/catch (not to be confused with raise/rescue) as labeled GOTO.
I don't think the problem is the HFCS itself. If you used sugar in place of HFCS in all of those products, it wouldn't be any better for you. Simply, too much sugar of any kind isn't good for you.
where does the location information come from? do phone tweets carry these extra bits? or are they extracted for the tweeter's twitter profile location? altitude!?
Not sure if it is negative or positive :-) I wanted a meaningful domain name, so I tried hard to find one available!
here is something that I always wondered about, did he ever offer you some equity in digg for all the work you did?
answered here:
http://twittervision.com/api.html

(latter)
Of course. My bitching and moaning is entirely due to the fact that others at the company have been able to sell their equity at attractive prices, while simultaneously flushing the company down the toilet.

Would you like to buy some shares?
I thought your comment was good up until the last sentence. Just because there's (arguably) a better way to do it doesn't mean the article is bullshit.
See this short series of posts from a week ago about whether or not vitamins actually help: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=507501

Short version: I post a link to a NYT piece on the lack of medical evidence, someone eventually posts a link to a study which might show benefit. In the meantime, I think we don't know either way yet.
Thanks. I'm trying right now to get the phpinfo for most hosts. It is easy for the big players (Godaddy, 1&1, etc.), but much harder for the small ones. At least I should add the Apache version (it looks like a lot of hosts still use Apache 1.3.x).

I'm not sure if it is a good idea to ask directly each company about such details, it will be hard to keep the information up to date (and to ensure they don't lie/don't make errors).
He fits into a similar niche of inane punditry as Winer, except s/software/marketing/g and s/entrepreneur/leech/g.

People seem to find his enthusiasm endearing, unlike Winer (who has profound mental health problems).
When you hear people talk about food being bad for you, they aren't talking about vitamin deficiencies, they're talking about moral deficiencies. The difference is that moral deficiencies happen whether there is any externally visible impact at all.

Boo boo on Big Ag, rah rah organic. But put a crate full of cheap Big Ag tomatoes in a room with a handful of people suffering from scurvy and, bam, no more scurvy.

Scurvy. You know, that vitamin C deficiency that you've only heard of in pirate movies. Americans routinely suffered from it as recently as the 1950s -- infants, especially, since all-natural healthy mother's milk from a mother with insufficient vitamin C in her diet means you're on a one-way ticket to scurvyville. That bad, unnatural, killing-you-softy bottled formula has vitamin C added to it. The green revolution, improved transportation/refrigeration/processing of tomatoes in cheap pasta sauces and ketchup, and whatnot largely eliminated borderline vitamin C deficiency in mothers. Wham, infantile scurvy essentially vanishes from the US.

Scurvy is still quite common in the Third World and epidemic in refugee populations but, hey, at least they're not being given Evil Unnatural Frankenfood tomatoes which were probably poisoned by Monsanto.
But he's #1 in "tech", Owen!!!!11
All it does is extract money from people who aren’t smart enough to find the right parrot book through Amazon or their local pet store.

All your grocery store ever does is extract money from people who aren't smart enough to find the right produce through their local farmer.

This is a new model of retail. Instead of creating a central box into which a hundred different products can be dumped, for a thousand different people, this site creates a single location for a single product, which a huge number of searchers will find. The fact that there is a Parrot Book, and that it's easy to find, is good for humanity. Not sure if the rewards are commensurate to the goodness, but if you average this in with a few hundred other sites using the same scheme with less success, you get a saner picture.
I'm not sure if mdemare's post was a troll, or just poorly worded. Clojure has a friendly community and very good support for parallelism. Haskell does also.
They are expensive though... 5 grand for the nice one.
what about Monster, doing 1.3 bn in sales a year?
Benjamin Zander's talk:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_...

(Although as you probably know it's not exacly _about_ the prelude; Zander illustrates his point by playing the prelude.)
That was, without a doubt, the most inefficient, obtrusive, annoying way to display a simple table/spreadsheet I have ever experienced. I was so annoyed by all the crap on the screen that I couldn't bring myself to read the list itself.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Those are not good visualizations. The first one gave no indication of whether or not it could be used or clicked. What do the colors mean, does size matter? Something just scrolled off the screen, what does that mean? The one with bars is even more overwhelming and confusing to a user. Too many colors, no clue about interaction.
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1) Good idea for linkbait -- intrinsically interesting, well-targeted to interests in a link-rich community, high shareability factor.

2) Mediocre execution in terms of content. No sources or methodology cited, numbers not credible. This works against my propensity to pass it on to other people.

3) This demo should probably cause one to wonder "Why are our customers waiting 10+ seconds to consume textual content which weighs less than a kilobyte and what can we do to fix this?" Remember: on the Internet, if it's not instant, it's slow.
Bah, you know what he meant.
You have to be a bit of a font nerd (or at the very least, spend a lot of time looking at fonts) to realize how its laid out. Same way you have to know/remember a decent bit of chemistry to know the groups the table is arranged in. Only, design is a bit subjective, so its not perfectly aligned like periods are in chemistry.

So while a chemist can look at the table and realize that potassium might be substituted for sodium, a designer can look at this table and see that Avenir might be a good substitution for Din if needed.

Some things that jumped out at me about its organization:
Take a look at the serifs on the fonts. The further up/to the left, the lack of or smaller the serifs are. The further down and to the right, the greater the serifs are. The bottom row is script-esque/handwriting fonts.

Also, they're roughly grouped by group classification; Sans serif Grotestque (Helvetica, Univers, etc), Neo-grotesque (Highway Gothic), Humanist (Gill Sans) and Geometric (Futura or Century Gothic) or Serif Old Style (Garamond, Palatino), Transitional (Times New Roman, Baskerville) or Modern (Didot, Century Schoolbook)
I expect that this article is one of the few on which a 'Yo Dawg' meme would be socially permissible on HN.
One of them is Clarium Capital's Crude Approximations, which used to be on their site, but is no longer accessible. Email me for a copy.

The other is www.venerosoassociates.com/Part%20I%20II%20Worldbank%20Presentation%205607.pdf
You can't source an absence of evidence.
Why are you so bitter Owen? Has that been discussed in another topic or post here?
I agree that the market/individuals should decide whether a parrot ebook is worth $80. If he sold it for $1 or $1000 it wouldn't make any difference to me. However, I strongly agree with Mike's comments; setting up fake identities and passing them off as the real owners/buyers/etc is simply fraud. Cringley likens these fake identities to Betty Crocker - what a crock. No one believes there is a Betty Crocker any more than they believe there is a "Mister Doughnut" http://www.mister-donut.com/ or a "Wendy" http://www.wendys.com/ , nor do these companies lie to convince us of their reality ("Wendy came over with three of her friends yesterday to make a fresh batch of burgers - you just missed her!"). In short, sell the parrot book on its merits, not on outright lies.
Cool, but the effort is pretty capitalist, make the rich richer :), I rather read a blog that suggest a twitter user every week that doesn't have 2000+ followers :), or maybe list the users that are more suggested in #followfriday

btw, follow me at: http://twitter.com/i_tweet_only_with_my_friends
> 3) Be a testing masochist, i.e., I ruthlessly try to break my own code.

'Hap' means luck. Therefore, the happy path is the lucky path. Being a natural pessimist, I can't help picturing unlucky paths and believing they will be followed. So I enjoy trying to break my code. Not trying to sound arrogant here, I also think of end users and client coders as "idiots." I find joy in trying to make stuff "idiot-proof." A humbler term would be "bullet-proof," but I picked up "idiot-proof" almost thirty years ago, and I'm stuck with it.
It's mostly captured in the above comment. I'm not really all that bitter.
The Internet used to be a nice place for nerds to hide. Every day, we're losing turf to this . . . this narcissists' playground; wefollow.com is further evidence of the decay. Even the once-hallowed niche of geekdom is being overrun by zero-sum games of self-perpetuating egomaniacs who are entirely too obsessed with this concept of having "followers".