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The original story where these comments appeared on does not look very impartial and appears to have been constructed to generate pageviews from the Apple fanbase, so I am not shocked that the other camp chimed in to "protect theirs". So it was a win-win-win for the author: Pageviews from both camps and a follow-up article.

1) Samsung invested heavily in marketing - this is standard when you want to sell your products. How is this a "dirty trick" as stated in the headline? And attacking the customers of your direct competitor in a funny way is also not dirty.

2) Paying bonuses to salespeople so they sell Samsung over Apple - if you know the whole story you are also aware that the iPhone heavily benefited from carrier subsidies during the years of its great success. iPhones were heavily subsidized to the detriment of Android/Blackberry devices and affected the carrier's profits greatly. See e.g. here:

http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/08/technology/iphone_carrier_su...

3) Short position on Apple - The author even discounts this as likely false, and something like this would have to be disclosed in the books. Samsung is much smaller than Apple, especially when Apple had twice the market cap, so it is beyond me how they could have pulled this off without any proof.

That said, having read some things about Samsung's operations in general they are no saints, and probably employ "more dirty" tactics than Apple. But I do not feel good about Apple either, and the issue described in the original article (paid shills on the Internet touting their company like there is no tomorrow) is one of the major factors why I dislike them.
You must have not been paying attention. A long list of evidence has been posted here on HN on several occassionas, including dropping CalDAV, of Google turning against the open web.

It's nothing new either, it has been going on for years. They've even dropped their support for net neutrality years ago.

In the mean time Google has been heavily pushing the Google+ walled garden, their anti-privacy and anti-anonymity agendas, and has been pro-active in filtering their services on behalf of the copyright-exploitation industry.

This is not a conspiracy theory, it's just a matter of connecting the fairly obvious dots that barely need connecting because there are so many of them by now all that's missing is an official "fuck the open web" press statement.
I've been looking for this for...ages...

Thank you...so much for posting this.
> I think doctors do recognize it

Doctors recognize it so much they're at the forefront of avoiding this kind of behaviors and futile refusal to just die: http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/06/in-the-magazin...
Think I've only ever been in one invite-only channel and that's not a technical one.

So far I've probably had luck with choosing my channels in the last 12 years, nearly all official or semi-official project channels have been inviting and helpful.

Recent examples include #clojure #leiningen and #topaz on Freenode.
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You seem exactly like a shill.
Usually I've seen a paragraph or two of related and often insightful commentary, interspersed with randomly selected biblical verses or Markov chains (the "God says" sections).
That's why I think those are pure evil. I know I'm not alone...
Or even more inviting: VSRW (Very Short Reply Welcome).
I'm a bit speechless with this post.

I have seen overreaction from people when Google shut down Reader.

I told myself that the craziest of those overreactions would be for somebody to quit all of Google's services.

Then I saw this article and I thought he was trolling.

Sadly he is not.
Thing is, we're not in high school anymore. We're all adults here and we should be able to see the difference between being rude and being terse.

"potentially affronted" is not a thing I particularly care about. If I want to affront you, oh you'll know. Believe me.

More interestingly, the only people I've ever seen write email like in that example are people who send/receive less than about 5 emails a day. The more they have to process daily, the shorter their messages become.
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Switching to Firefox will not save you.

I recently found out that Firefox sends a request to safebrowsing.clients.google.com for every page I visit. I found out how to disable it, but it wasn't straightforward and there were still requests sent to Google for other things.

Safe browsing is in Firefox Preferences "Security" tab under "Block reported attack sites" + "Block reported web forgeries".

Search for "goog" in about:config to find more interesting things.

LiveHTTPHeaders extension is also an eye-opener, because Firebug usually doesn't show these requests.
So are you saying that if we don't count the innovation that Google has been doing, Google is not innovative at all.

Btw, here are some Google products that it continues to iterate:

Google Maps
YouTube
Android
Wallet
Google+
Go
AngularJS
Shopping

However, if you don't want to count these ones, I guess you're right that most of Google's services have stagnated.

#sarcasm
Exactly! It's like Intel kept AMD just barely alive the whole time, now that ARM is taken over much of the CPU market it might not be necessary anymore and Intel can just mercilessly end AMD as a CPU company. Not by technology but with capital.
Apparently AMD will have the upper hand in the next gen video game consoles PS4 -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4#Hardware xbox 720 -> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/news/a471564/xbox-720-to-... or at least that's the rumor.
If we're being pedantic, that's inductive reasoning. See the problem of induction [1]; you cannot justify any inference about future experiences of a product based on past experiences of it alone.

Brand loyalty is broader and can potentially be justified.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
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That's not similar in spirit to "embrace, extend, and extinguish", and not even a good description of what they've done. There's no migration path from Reader to G+ (presuming that's what you mean by "the closed system"). There's not even a clear correspondence between the content in each, and meanwhile Google does provide a migration path to other RSS readers.

I think there is a clear argument for Google consolidating around APIs and their social network instead of federated protocols in the future. However, the whole "strategy to kill off RSS" thing is silly and undermines the other arguments you're making.

The bittorrent and gopher comments were facetious. It's not at all clear that all browsers should have a button that appears when a page has an RSS feed and, when pressed, opens a different web page to then enter the address of that RSS feed into your reader. Zawinski's Law was not meant as praise.

The lack of that RSS button is no more evidence of trying to kill RSS than the lack of gopher support is evidence of Google's plot to make sure that Gopher will never rise again like a phoenix and supplant the World Wide Web once and for all. Instead, you make sure extensions are able to build that button for those that want it (or put an option to enable it in about:config) and you call it a day.
You certainly can do this - I would have liked the 7200rpm or even a SSD drive to be included on the base models though.
When I registered on Quora by using my GoogleId, I was very surprised to see Quora asking me to send an email invite to all my Android phone contacts. Google handed over all the emails of my Android phone contacts to Quora ! Is this what I get from using Android and synchronization ? I didn't see an opt out of that.

I'm now waiting for Ubuntu phone, while hoping that they don't try to monetize it using similar abuse of monopole. The Ubuntu desktop spam still hurts.

Also, when connecting to my Youtube account, google ask me regularly to use my real name and there is no button to reply just no and don't ever ask me anymore!

Google is lowering the barrier for competitors ! Same thing for Twitter and Facebook.
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Your reply is way to short to not be awkward. It should be expanded to at least two paragraphs.
Amazon.com website actually runs on AWS for last 2-3 years.
I'm not suggesting they should have broken up all the teams and made new ones. There are much smarter ways to merge teams that involve gradually easing them together. However, having five teams in the company doing nearly identical things is not "gradually achieving" anything.

If (big if) teams had development plans they had to follow, then those plans should have been adjusted so that eventually all these teams were working towards a common purpose. If you just leave those teams alone and hope for the best not only are they going to avoid any chances to work together, but they will often go out of their way to ensure they don't happen.
In the US gun suicides outnumber gun homocides, so the gun control advocates add them together and call it gun violence to inflate the numbers for political reasons.
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Thank you for contributing so much to the discussion with your very enlightening points.

How about you provide some actual arguments if you think there's anything incorrect about my stance?
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Indeed - definitely agree on this!
I didn't find it hard at all, nor a pain in the ass. I wrote my code. Profiled it. Found the few, small bits that needed to be fast and treated the Ruby code as an executable spec for the C, and rewrote it very quickly.

There is SWIG support for Ruby, as well as the Ruby FFI implementation and RubyInline, offering various degrees of simplicity, but none of them are hard. The Ruby extension interface is more work, but even that is fairly simple to work with. I've taken C libraries and wrapped them in Ruby in minutes using SWIG for example.

Overall I often these days choose to write in Ruby first and replace even for applications that I intend to write the finished version of entirely in C. Prototyping in Ruby and rewriting in C once I have a working version is faster to me than iterating over a C version.
I suspect javascript based lazy image loading is superior?
I imagine the difference between latency and downtime is that latency tends to occur every time you visit, while by definition, downtime is more rare. In other words, latency provides a bad experience, while downtime provides no experience.
This is the person who did refer.ly right? IIRC she's said here on HN that she'll be pivoting refer.ly to a high quality content/blog site like medium.
I'd rather not engage in political arguments especially on this site.
I'd not be surprised if it coincided with his wife's eventual death or decline from cancer.
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People killing themselved don't count?

Are you even listening to yourself?
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Re-Ask HN: Selling apps on Appstore and Google Play from unsupported countries?
As you know, these stores have a list of supported countries from where you can sell the apps.

So what about "lucky" developers from other countries (Yes, there are quite many, even in Europe), do you know about any other channels for selling the paid apps?
> That Apple is using every chance it has to close and lock down what was once an open architecture.

Open (although it's debatable if that is entirely accurate. As you very well know we've been living in a Microsoft world for the past 20 years), but accessible only to a few of us computer nerds. They're locking it down, but making it accessible to more people. People who previously despised computers and hated working with them and often couldn't use them very effectively. Now, they still despise them, but at least are less frustrated when using computers, and are able to do more with their devices.

I find your line of thinking a bit selfish. It's like arguing why car engines are nowadays sealed - we can't even tweak our own cars easily - cars that we have PAID MONEY! How will the next generation learn about car engines and be able to tweak stuff if he wants to? They have to bring the car in to an authorized repair shop that's been approved by GM and pay them lots of money while previously we used to do it ourselves at no cost.

Not everyone has to know how to repair a car engine, or a refrigerator, or how to compile a program from the source. What's wrong with that?

In other words, I don't give a fuck about my profession. My profession is to serve the humanity. If Apple is making the lives of millions of people easier by making my profession harder or obsolete, so be it. Now, if you are arguing that what Apple is doing is harmful to humanity in the long run, that could be a valid argument that's worth having. But arguing that Apple is an unethical company just because it makes our profession harder (regardless of whether it's good for the rest of the world), I think that's not a valid argument. I think it's selfish and disagree with it.
I know this seems odd, but are we not, all as a society, doing the same thing with vehicle related deaths? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

So the UK 'allows' 2222 deaths to occur (USA - 33808) as they perceive the benefit of vehicles to be worth that cost.

The USA does the same with guns.
Wish I had thought of chaos monkey, much cooler than whatever I called my version of it.

A few years ago I built an automated test system in perl, complete with message bus and message listener container for running tasks on various servers. One of the automated tests I wrote had a component that would periodically (at random intervals) kill processes, unmount shared filesystems, offline interfaces, etc. to cause failovers, to verify that all processes and resources were failed over, and all tasks were reassigned to other nodes and no jobs were dropped or stalled.

It is really the only way to ensure you've covered your bases - beating the shit out of your system repetitively. It uncovered a bunch of big holes and some very obscure ones too, and once we got those fixed it ran pretty much flawlessly.
Modifying your Go code to use int64's the program (compiled with Go v.1.0.3) takes about 20 minutes for the L1 problem on my Thinkpad x200 (core duo 2.4GHz).

More importantly, the argument that Ruby is "too slow" seems to hedge on the L1 input for Fair and Square problem being solvable with "fast" languages using same unoptimized algorithm as can be used with the S small input. If you'll look at the Codejam results this is simply false. In fact, a large percentage of Ruby users passed Fair and Square L1 problem, higher than many "fast" languages:

Language % of S input solvers successful on F&S L1 input

Ruby ---------- 29.6 (112 L1, 378 S)

C ------------- 20.4 (199 L1, 973 S)

Java ---------- 27.6 (1183 L1, 4285 S)

Go ------------ 25.4 (15 L1, 59 S)

(from http://www.go-hero.net/jam/13/languages/0 )

I think this means you need to rethink your conclusions.

In fact algorithm contests are usually designed so that the small inputs are solvable by brute force algorithms, but you need to optimize them to solve larger inputs, harder problems. It's not just people using Ruby and other "slow" languages who have to rethink their approach.
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India is hugely bureaucratic and inefficient..
I never claimed suicides don't count, so I have no idea what you are referring to.
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You probably should try and fix the link to the kickstarter page on the "try it now" popup.
AWS uses high end, expensive enterprise grade parts (I believe), meanwhile uptano is likely using standard off the shelf parts, likely with bulk account discounts. Each of those servers could likely be put together for $500 - at $100/month, he should be making very good margins after a year or so. I have no idea on rent/electricity/etc, but with enough 1U servers the total cost per server may be only $10/month or so.

The big costs you pay for on AWS are the engineering, networking and UI development. Dedicated servers should be easier to provision and manage and he probably has a much smaller team.

So theoretically, it is possible that his prices are half as much as Amazon and he still makes a decent profit.
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What I found astonishing with the Light of Other Days is that with the massive sharing of pictures and videos on social network and the advent of Google Glass, it seems that at a point in the near future will be able to "browse" what's currently happening in the world from multi view point in real time. At the time it was released it was clearly science fiction, now not so much, it seems.
This is just a small complaint coming many hours after this link was posted. You linked to perhaps the most top-level URL amazon has available for a temporary outage. This means a couple things. 1) Hours later, the outage is over and I'm just hitting the home page. No specific information about what you were reporting. 2) This specific link is, as far as I know, now no linger available for other stories. That may not matter I the long run but it bares mentioning.
I'm British, and I always thing of groups of people as groups of people.

But then I never won any awards for grammar.
That doesn't look right. The font-weight of the heading is supposed to be 300 and is at least 400 in your screenshot.

Chromium on out-of-the-box ubuntu seems better:
http://i.imgur.com/0WIO2t6.png
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If you're not exaggerating very much, then your employers are fools. Clicking a mouse could be done by a teenager on minimum wage instead of paying to hire a professional. Start quietly looking around for more clueful employers.

But what do you mean you can't leave? Indentured servitude isn't supposed to be legal nowadays. What happens if you leave anyway?
San Francisco's high rents are more due to the fact that the city has refused to build more housing stock (particularly, high density housing).

When the supply (almost) stays the same and the demand increases, the equilibrium point for rents is bound to increase as well.
most Internet users do not need a first-class address

They would if they could use them, that is, if developers didn't "have to assume large portions of their users don't have direct Internet connectivity". What about we solve that instead?

We have only the most basic level of experience with overlays --- BitTorrent, Skype --- but the experience we've had seems to indicate that if you have a problem users care about, overlays tend to solve them nicely.

How well that BitTorrent and Skype work if everyone's behind carrier-grade NAT? How can Supernodes function?

I don't think I see the reason why IP can't just be to 2020 what Ethernet was to 1990: a common connectivity layer we use to build better, more interesting network layers on top of.

Because it imposes stupid restrictions on those connections that it's supposed to be serving. Like not being able to connect any two arbitrary endpoints.
You state it like it's an empirical fact that Apple products are user-friendly, I personally find their UX to be confusing and even power user hostile. Multi tasking in iOS for example or the horrible notification system or even trying to find the options to change certain settings being in the hardest to find places.
If you want people to address you by a shorter name why not put that in the from?
sniff the connection rather than jumping to conclusions (and especially before telling people to disable a safety feature of their browser).

Safe browsing does not send the addresses you visit over the wire. The protocol was very carefully designed to be both fast updating and not expose any information about the sites you visit.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/

https://code.google.com/p/google-safe-browsing/wiki/Protocol...

edit: just to save time for others parsing the protocol page, and it's been a while since I've read it, so someone please correct me if I have this wrong, but Firefox (and Chrome, and maybe others, not sure) stores a local set of the first 32 bits of the 256-bit hashes of all the sites currently marked as hosting malware or whatever. Your browser pings fairly often to get an updated version of this set of sites.

When you visit a page, the canonicalized name of the page you're on is hashed and the first 32 bits are compared against the database of prefixes. If there is a collision (I believe there are usually a few hundred thousand entries of the 2^32 available hash prefixes), only the first 32 bits of the hash of the page you're on is sent to google, as a request for the set of full hashes of malicious pages that begin with that prefix, which allows for the final, very much local, check.

This saves a bunch of time and bandwidth, and lets you get a last minute double check that the page is still bad with no one able to work out what page you're actually on.
That is so fancy... I'm impressed. Didn't even realise firefox supported webcams yet.
Zimbra was a good alternative, but yahoo bought it and crapped it out
I'm not a software engineer and I do not know how to code but I do know Apple's business practices and I agree with you, they're not great (but I also think it makes sense for them). But where did you come up with stuff like "In a future controlled by Apple, no kids will ever learn to code in an open and free environment". What? I really feel like I misread your comment, because that's such a stupid thing to say.

Just because Apple is immensely successful, why does the open and free software has to die? If Apple is as evil as you claim them to be, wouldn't you say that it's actually better in the end because people would finally understand the importance of open and free software? Because right now, the average consumer don't give a shit about whether the software they use is open or free.
Who uses ruby in a real production environment.
Ruby on rails has gained so much popularity, I finally installed on my dev box and started playing with it. I am usually the last person to adopt a technology; I let smart people figure out mist of the bugs and workaround first then I jump in.

The tone on the internet is ruby is "beautiful" . I get it the language is very similar to English and some people find it very easy to use.

Being a newbie, I almost cracked my head trying to install the correct version to follow a simple tutorial. I am not sure if everyone experienced the same but that was the case with me. I anyone can same for installing php the first time.

However I don't see many projects using ruby on rails. I know Jeff Atwood discourse runs on ruby but it is the first large scale production site running that I saw. I would imagine there would be much much more, with all the talk I see on the web.

Anyone has cool projects they would like to share ? And if you don't mind would you talk a little about how easy or hard it was to set up your server to run on it ?
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