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I disagree about "not good for anybody". Reading opinions of experts even on topics like" PHP or Ruby" could be very educational. It's a way of sharing experience. If you face decisions about which technology to choose you want to soak that. Asking specific questions is not enough - the thing about experience is that people who have it encountered problems you often can't think of at the beginning of the way.
What's the problem with adding "subjective" tag and allow filtering so people who don't want to see opinion based discussion won't ever encounter it while allowing others to enjoy it and learn from it ?

I agree with top comment (as of now) that SO stance on it is arrogant and display lack of respect for great community.
I also don't like that SO staff attribute their success to stance on this issue. Yes SO is very successful and by far the best place to learn/seek help the reasons are plenty: great interface, very fast, great search, great reputation system, a bit of luck as well. It doesn't mean every decision you took contributed to your success.
Do you really think that closing popular/upvoted questions based on some arbitrary policy thus stopping discussion for the sake of stopping it (it's not as it clutters the site or anything) makes anybody more happy about the site ?

I still often search for most popular SO questions in history, many of them closed and containing a lot of great information. It's sad to think that a lot more was lost due to overeager closing. Forunately it was better at the beginning so some of those discussions developed a bit before being shut down.

For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
Is great read for someone starting with VIM,it got people excited, many upvoted and many participated. Do you really think closing it contribute to quality of the site ?
Another example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9033/hidden-features-of-c
So many posts like the most upvoted answer in first and OP in 2nd (after edits) weren't written because of your policy. It's just sad :(
I wonder whether users need to know the difference.

Seriously, the are few situations where someone's actually going to want to post their private key to the internet - at least if they understand what it is - so what are we imaging that they're doing with it that they need to know about it in the first place?

You're probably going to want them to have a backup, but you can have them make a backup without having them understand the difference - you just have your program back up a folder structure that the private key is hidden somewhere in and only make the public one obvious. Make them aware that if they don't backup they won't be able to access their emails - should the worst happen - but don't tell them why. Someone with a push-button understanding of computer... they just don't really need to know why.

... -sigh-

I almost wonder whether it wouldn't be easier to market public-private key crypto as a packaged solution. Buy an encrypted email address kind of thing. Send people a physical token they mentally associate with that email address and tell them not to lose it.
There are things in economics called Veblen goods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good) which become more desirable as they become more expensive. They seem related, but not exactly the same phenomenon you describe.
It looks like there's a lot of interesting stuff I could respond to in this comment, but I'm not going to because instead of just making your argument, you attacked me personally; according to your comment, I'm "dishonest" and engaged in "sophistry". Apparently, I'm a tool of the taxi cab lobby.

You could ratchet some of that language back, and I'd be happy to reply (and delete this comment as well).
+1 for tt-rss. I've been a big GReader user for years and I love that tt-rss is self-hosted. Fuck the cloud. Nobody can take it away from me now. :)

It's been heavily modified since the news of GReader going away was announced and it's easy to write plugins for it. I've got my version of it tweaked to the gills and it's even better than GReader was in my opinion.
I couldn't tell if this was satire or not.
What about the Boston marathon bombers? One of them was on welfare. Strong assumption in the title.
This. I gave up on Rss2Email and rolled my own version using IMAP instead of SMTP. Deliverability from iffy to 100%. Furthermore, you can pre-select the folder (label).
In my personal experience, the foreign subsidiary care about nothing except screwing as much licensing out of people as possible. I've dealt with a local MS that told people it was _illegal_ to use a non-regional copy of Windows inside the country. (So, technically, travelling with a laptop using US Windows wasn't allowed.) This was incorrect, they didn't care. In another country, the regional MS office was flat-out corrupt. I have a feeling the incentive structure for the other offices is very different, and the lack of R&D happening there skews the work environment.

I've met good individuals, just haven't seen good overall management. Then again, I'm not looking at total sales as my evaluation metric.
Is returning to what you were doing in the beginning not an option?
Are you ready for smart ingestible pills that monitor your health?
The possibility of taking an existing bomb and using it to build a new nuclear bomb without being an actual military is absurd. You'll not get an inefficient bomb, you'll get a dud.

Dirty bombs are a different threat altogether. One that's almost entirely psychological. No doubt effective at that, but a completely different scenario than the one being discussed.
The taste is not all in your head.

I mean, it is subjective in the same sense that the sky being blue is a subjective thing. In other words, a philosophical debate over qualia.

But if you ever had a wine-tasting dinner with a large company of people, with a ranked progression of wines, you would not doubt that certain qualities of wine are absolutely shared amongst almost everyone who drinks them.
Nagging at the back of my mind: how can you 'steal' wifi? How can someone support open source yet call a certain set of EM waves 'mine'?
this reminds me of the science book I had as a kid. After reading it, I made blue waffles and my mom said they were the worst ones she ever tried. wasn't like i replaced water with food coloring
The head of household with major medical issues shouldn't be working at a tiny barely-funded startup.
> The problem with never allowing questions with lots of upvotes to be closed is twofold:

You could always make the number of moderators required to close a topic increase as the topic rises in popularity.

A +4 question might need 2 moderators to close but a +2000 question might need 12 moderators to close.
I object to the word "good". If you want to say that something is well regarded, expertly crafted, or even critically acclaimed, then say that.

Would you object to somebody saying "The Godfather Part II was not that good" on the grounds that it was critically acclaimed? I think surely not.
Everything you say is valid. And I'm glad that you specify "top of the chain" as it is less likely than some mope at the bottom.

But that's my point. it is these lower level people, maybe even up to mid level which are the weak links. Analysis and targeting, it's what led folks to UBL in the end.

There is nothing more damaging, in my opinion, than confirming your abilities, or lack thereof, to an adversary. That's why things are classified, there is strength in secrecy.
Some people are just convinced they can see/hear/taste the difference between expensive things and their cheap counterparts, and there is no research that can sway their minds. I guess it makes them happy to think that so I let them, it doesn't seem to hurt anybody.
I am(maybe was Haven't worked on it in a bit) working a wine-tasting app, because paper and pencil can get a bit tedious to look up previous tastes. I use a 3 star method, 1 star= Don't like, 2 star = Will drink/buy if nothing else available, 3 = Will buy given the opportunity.

Generally all the 'dark cherry'/'tobacco'/'plum' etc. flavors are kind of meaningless to me. I rarely detect anything I think I can pick out, I just tend to decide if I like the taste or not. Usually the nicer the wine smells, the better it tastes, sometimes its 'fruit forward' (sweet), sometimes it's 'tannic' (bitter acid) and sometimes it just burns (alcohol content).

What I believe is bullshit is the people trying to describe flavors in a wine and extrapolate quality from that. If you like a wine, buy it, if you don't, don't. I enjoy some cheaper wines (Chariot Red at Trader Joe's is a fine value for about $5 imho), but my own tasting notes do indicate some $60 bottles of Pinot Noir taste way better to me than average. However, there are also some $60 and $150 bottles I don't think are very good.

As for wines tasting alike, if you can't taste a difference between grape varieties, I guess stick to Charles Shaw and enjoy. I wouldn't be surprised that the experts have a hard time with multiple tastings, as the wine taste changes with exposure to oxygen, on top of the tiring palate.
Linux has had containers for ages. Docker has simply made them easier to use as a service.

You should be asking why Solaris/BSD never had something as useful as docker despite having zones/jails. And linux supports overlay filesystems (to clone containers cheaply) without the need for ZFS.
I think we could really get automated road systems working if the auto makers were interested. But why would they invest in technology and work with the government on it when it would demolish their profits?

Fewer people will need cars: one of the most annoying things about car-sharing services right now is that you can't go from A > B, you have to go back to A or continue to rack up charges. If cars drive themselves, services will spring up to leverage self-driven cars. Suddenly it will be just as convenient as driving, if not more convenient. Fewer cars will be made, sold, and used. Fewer accidents with totaled cars will also mean fewer new cars sold.
These are good changes, but if they insist on closing perfectly valid opinion-based questions, then the text should emphasize that that's their problem, not mine. I didn't do anything wrong. They're the ones making a mistake.
Alright everyone, angersock has spoken. All hail angersock!
Exactly! Some of the research is very new though, and still needs more work. The timing is just about right to get some new languages/ideas flowing (given there being lots of talk about Java taking the back seat, and no other language really taking up the lead).
No. The question might be a good text, but a poor question, and a bad flamebait. SO is not a general discussion site.

Closed questions are not deleted, still appear in search results, and sometimes are helpful at that role.
A Redis only system is very interesting but are you doing any kind of replication or clustering and would you recommend it as a main datastore for mission critical user data (accounts, profile, purchased...) ?
Very similar to https://qualaroo.com/ formerly Kissinsights.
"You're gonna want this" said the spider to the fly.
Tried to find more tech info on one of the engineering forums but no luck. This is the best I could find-

http://www.draysonracingtechnologies.com/projects/B12/projec...
Thanks for the info. I searched earlier before post, but I can not find it. Not sure how HN search engine actually works... :(
It is fairly trivial to do with uranium, but with plutonium you are correct; you would never get anything beyond a fizzle (if you were lucky).

If the discussion is "what if terrorists steal a bomb", then the discussion is implicitly about dirty bombs. No other discussion really makes sense.
Apologies, I misread your comment. I've seen a lot of people trot out "well the smart terrorists already knew this" line in defense of these leaks purportedly having harmed national security, that it's proof that these leaks could not have harmed national security.

(which then is a bit ironic to claim that these leaks are not dangerous because terrorists already knew this, but that these leaks are important for civil liberties because apparently Americans did not know this)
The facilities in the kernel for doing this have gotten better progressively over the years. Support for separate namespaces, and adding more and more of those types of namespaces have only been added in the last few years.
"Fruits rouges" in French (the test was done in France, so most probably in French) has a rather specific meaning, it refers to a mix of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrant and redcurrant, basically.

It's often used to describe this particular flavour in yogourts or other things like that, in France. I can imagine the exact taste just fine.
Most startups and founders are like that, either because they want to get the product out yesterday, they are broke as hell or both. So MSFT is not targeting the desperate, but real start-ups.
If you took this seriously you are probably wearing a tinfoil hat and you also believe that it works.
so I'm curious, getting contact info for every contractor via the various state agencies is clever, but how do they go about getting the individual contractors to sign up? Due to CAN-SPAM, I don't think they can email them out of the blue. Direct Mail, phone calls and sponsoring builders associations would all be expensive. What is the most optimal way?
SSL Labs Tests For Forward Secrecy Now
My apologies for taking words out of context (I swear you must have edited) but this imagined attempt of mine to allegedly "wrack up points" is actually an attempt on my part to not let this issue die while the heart of the matter remains.

There is no question that the wholesale eavesdropping by the government and its agents upon innocent Americans is an "egregious" violation of the 4th Amendment.

Spying on Americans was no good when Hoover did it, it was no good when Nixon did it, and it is still no good today.

To add insult to injury our non-elected bureaucrats have repeatedly lied to us regarding the spying because they know that what they are doing is wrong.

I cannot sit idly by when my nation has delved into being a police state worthy of the term "Orwellian."

There is nothing "hasty and hyperbolic" about calling a spade a spade.
But you are not a startup.

... in the opinion of greghinch.

Sorry, but I'm of the opinion that your opinion, or at least your use of terminology, is a bit dodgy. I agree that taking VC money implies certain expectations that may not be what you - as a founder - want or are comfortable with, yes. That's just a warning against taking VC money, unless you know for sure what you're getting into. But to suggest that you aren't a "startup" unless you take VC money and do the "get big fast" thing is, IMO, totally unsupported.

Just because a company is bootstrapping does not mean they are "building a small business" or that you are meant to be companions with the "local plumbers, restaurants and barbers". Big companies can be built slowly. Did Wal-mart start off as a huge mega-corp? McDonals? IBM? A million other examples? No.

Organic growth, re-investing in the company and growing slowly but steadily can be a path to being huge just as well as grabbing a pile of VC money and trying to compress it all into a couple of years. It's all about the decisions you make and how you execute and what your vision is.

Also note that it's really not a fixed decision anyway... you could bootstrap for 6 years, then - one day - decide to take VC or private equity money to expand. So were you, or were you not a startup? Or would that be a "Schrödinger startup"?
It's a childish view being literally unable to look beyond "I like it", and it's anti-intellectual bullshit, a total rejection of the value of expertise and experience.

This. Well said. Worth repeating.

What I've struggled with in this thread is how to explain such value to those holding the view. "I can't" just doesn't cut it for me; I deeply want to share the pleasures of fine wines, coffee, sushi, steak, etc. ... but it's strange to face a perspective that denies something, and does so in a way which seems to beg me to beat it into them.
Smart and innovative people live outside of us too. As for the theft, it could be as simple as stealing a patent idea and patenting it in us so no matter what the original inventor does some of his money wil go to us government.
Ask HN: Does any one have a project they need built?
Hey HNers,

I'm wondering if any of you has a product idea that you'd like to have built. I've finally finished school and I have some time on my hands.

I'm also in a bind for cash (rent's due on Monday), so I'd just ask for a deposit for any work I do. I'm most comfortable with web and mobile including Android and a variety of web frameworks/languages including PHP and Ruby on Rails.

There is a link to my git-hub in my profile. I have a few leads for various projects, but they are taking some time to finalize. So if any one needs an MVP or something over the next few weeks, I'm your man. I'm available by Skype, e-mail and Google voice.

I'm not opposed to sitting down and working in any language or platform (except iOS) to get your project done. This would really help me, and in the process help someone who needs something done.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: contact information, github etc. are in my profile.
Yep, love Costco. Also love twist-off wine bottle tops, so much better than the cork.
I found Charles Shaw unpalatable, but I did find some enjoyable $4, $6, $8 Italian wines. Up to a point though, you are buying something with price: reliability. I got a lousy run of our favorite $4 nero d'avola. Never bothering to buy that one again.

A friend of mine makes wine, here in SF bay. My wife and I splurge the $30 on his blended white, because we so rarely find white wines that excite us like his does. Are we overpaying? As an occasional treat, it is nice to know you will get something we will really like, rather than being so "clever" as to save money and not get a truly enjoyable glass with our meal.
Another widget that gives all your user visit data to Google.
UML is a little different, using a Linux kernel which relies on the system calls of a parent kernel. The other technologies you mentioned, and LXC which docker is built on, have a single unified kernel which interprets paths and other namespaces in system calls from different process trees differently.
This argument assumes two things:

* Uber will wipe-out taxi business while being more expensive
* Uber will always be more expensive than taxis

Neither is true so conclusion cannot be true either.

If Uber is more expensive than taxis and there's demand for a cheaper alternative, there will still be demand for taxis. Maybe less than today, but as long as demand is there, the taxis will be there.

But this point is moot, because Uber (or someone else) has a chance to be cheaper. UberX is already cheaper than Uber and they just announced up to 25% fare reductions on UberX in SF, to compete with Lyft and SideCar, which, I believe, are already cheaper than taxis.

What is in the interest of everybody (rich, poor, young, elderly) is more competition. Uber is competing with taxis, hopefully forcing them to improve their service. Lyft and SideCar are competing mostly on price.

The only losers from this competition are existing taxi companies, and that's exactly how it's supposed to work: people benefit when new entrants provide better service or the same service at a cheaper price.
Persona incentives for adoption
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Google used to link to the actual benchmark test page, as I used to always find the actual benchmark URL through searching Google for "sunspider". While they link to other sites that then link to the actual test page, by removing the actual benchmark link (that used to be the first result for years) they make it far harder to get the actual page. It's indirect, and something fishy is going on.
There is a difference between talk of objective qualities of an object, and talk of if it is "good".

"Good" is the language of opinion, and is inherently a subjective matter. If you want to speak about qualities like "it is exactly as its maker intended it to be" or critical acclaim, then there is less presuming language that you can use to do that.

I think that the failure to realize this accounts for a large part of why people talk of 'wine "snobs"' or 'movie "snobs"'.
I have gotten the same responses from the FBI many times for a FOIA request, though I have many associates questioned by the FBI, and I was detained in Ireland for possible hacking in the United States, so I assume I have a file. But anyway, same response of neither confirm nor deny from FBI about 4-5 times in last 10 years.
This comes up now and again on HN. Essentially, StackOverflow is a great site. It's premise was a free, frictionless, focused Q&A site and it was made possible by the wide audiences of Atwood and Spolsky. Atwood focused more on something that went between obscene OCD and just dogma. I think what wasn't realized after the beginning of SO was that SO became a success despite Atwood's ideology, not because of it. I think Joel realized it, just based on the podcasts, but since Atwood was doing most of the work, "whatever." The big problem came in with the ideology becoming enmeshed with the culture and the high council of Meta being sort of a sycophantic keeper of the faith. Basically, any question or answer or anything that might, some day, remotely look like a "discussion" (gasp) on SO is rigidly stamped out by the religious police. You could say this is hyperbole, but just use it for awhile. Heck, google any technical question and probably SO will be the first hit but that question will be marked "Closed, not conforming to the ideology of Atwood" or something like that to the point of being comical.

It's even more farcical when you consider the abject snobbery SO has toward the "other Q&A sites." That has been there from the beginning, and to be sure many of the criticism of those sites are well deserved. But, SO has deeper problems, in some ways, particularly with the zealotry, but it is masked by the fact that there are so many technical people still on SO or, even if many have left, they have gathered such a large corpus that they will remain the big kid on the block.

But at least they are trying to address it, if only at a surface level.
Fashion products are very overpriced compared to their quality, but in fashion you're intentionally overpaying for the bragging right of having too much disposable income.

What's remarkable about wine is you're paying extra not for vanity or features (unless it's for a date or a gift) but for some added taste quality that is probably skewed by knowing the price of the bottle: your brain has the expectation that more expensive wine actually tastes better, so your paying for something that may not even be there, and yet wine drinkers seldom feel enough buyers remorse to stop buying expensive wines.
Way off topic and I know I'll get down votes but I have to say it: If you eat McDonald's, you will die an early painful death.
please don't post this garbage on hacker news
I've often considered the ways I could pack up Tarsnap for Windows users, and/or make a pretty GUI for Linux/OS X. It's encouraging to hear that you'd be supportive of that!
Looks like our virtual reality haz virtual constant news update
Some people are just convinced nobody else can see/hear/taste the difference between expensive things and their cheap counterparts, and there is no research that can sway their minds. I guess it makes them happy to think that so I let them, and continue to enjoy the finer things which they don't.
People yowled at Google App Engine increasing its prices.
Eh, I think you're dead wrong in every way, but I upvoted you nonetheless, since your post is a legitimate part of the discussion. I just don't agree with any of it.
I talked with BrainTree's customer support yesterday. They currently have a "payouts"/"marketplace" in beta. He should they should officially release it in the next few months.