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Thanks for the link.

Do users who abuse the flagging feature get penalized?

I'd like it better if this kind of moderation would be more transparent.

Can somebody explain why HN's ranking algorithm has already pushed this submission to the second page? This seems inconsistent with its points, age and level of discussion relative to the articles ranked above. (I'm just asking out of curiosity and have no personal interest in having this post ranked higher or lower.)

Does anyone know whether one can host open source crypto code on GitHub without risking violations of the US Export Administration Regulations? One issue could for example be that GitHub doesn't block access from countries under US embargo, AFAIK.

At some point city planners should ask themselves how many billions of dollars of higher rents per year the benefits of a flat city skyline are worth to its residents (and how to fairly balance the interests of property owners and renters).

> his psuedo-socialist, big government, leftist ideology

What are you talking about? What part of the article made that impression on you and why?

Please read up on public goods, natural monopolies and externalities before you claim that the capitalistic market outcome always reflects what a good is worth to society.

Where does Krugman state that Big corp is evil? Are you talking about banks?

Krugman doesn't state that Google is a monopoly and he certainly isn't disingenuous here. He's just using the Google Reader situation and an article by Ryan Avent as a hook to make an interesting economic argument about monopoly markets with a certain cost and consumer demand structure.

BTW, building a competitive search engine is arguably associated with relatively high fixed costs, and any social site is hugely affected by network effects. These are both traits that can lead to natural monopolies.

How could anyone introduce such a rating/firing system? Is that the way you would want to be treated as an employee or contractor?

If there's no other way to reduce your workload, get a certificate of illness from a doctor and delay some of the work or examinations or whatever is stressing you out. Don't ruin your health. If exam preparation causes you so much stress that you can't sleep or focus anymore, please see a doctor, there's a good chance the doctor can help you with coping with the stress.

Close is annotated as a blocking syscall in http://golang.org/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_linux.go#L810

Is there a guarantee on Linux that close can't block? (I suppose it depends on the file type and the definition of blocking.)

From http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/getting_started/installat...

"No iOS simulator on Windows. The iOS Simulator runs on Mac OS X, so it’s necessary to switch to the Mac’s screen when testing on the simulator."

Though I sometimes suspect that radio stations wouldn't play certain songs during the day if the average listener actually understood the English lyrics. (I'm from Germany.)

I'm curious, what Java IDE is 10K miles ahead of Visual Studio 2012/C# in your experience? Have you recently used VS with C#?

Thanks!

Some commenters here seem to suggest that the advice on that blog post is somewhat outdated or suboptimal. I'm curious, is there something like a commonly agreed on best practice for securing/hardening a modern Ubuntu production web server? Would maybe anyone care to provide a bullet point list of the most important steps?

AFAIK, the VMs for testing IE are published by Microsoft.

In general I don't think you're allowed to publicly redistribute Windows VM images. Publishing a customized VM image in the AWS or Azure image depots may be allowed though.

Is it legal to publish Windows VM images?

Without extensive documentation I'm not sure it's easier to carefully review these preconfigured images than it is to setup one yourself from scratch.

Instead of VM images I wish there was a modular, heavily documented and peer-reviewed script-based solution for turning e.g. an Ubuntu default install into a hardened LAMP server configured according to best-practices.

Using code for layout has several advantages:

- easier version control and code merging

- you don't need Interface Builder to review the layout code

- code is easier to search, e.g. for the use of certain controls (Xcode doesn't support searching XIB files)

- code can be parameterized (you can e.g. use global constants for font sizes, colors and margins)

- layouts that follows certain rules (fixed heights and margins etc) are sometimes easier to build with code, especially when the number of visible controls is variable or some controls are only optionally displayed

- you can easily refactor aspects of the layout into reusable components (i.e. functions or classes)

This an interesting article by the Economist about the human microbiome ("Looking at human beings as ecosystems"):

Link: http://www.economist.com/node/21560523

Or better: retroactively declare the old law null and void and pay compensation to all victims that were prosecuted under it.

This all sounds great! I hope you'll be able to offer fine-grained sizes (e.g. something in between S and M) and fits (e.g. something in between normal and slim-fit) and maybe even different colar widths and neckline sizes.

See http://isocpp.org/std/the-standard

Interesting. What are you replacing Recurly with?

FParsec's OperatorPrecedenceParser component[1] does support adding (and removing) operators to the expression grammar at runtime.

[1] http://www.quanttec.com/fparsec/reference/operatorprecedence...

You can change the DPI in Windows. Not all apps properly support high DPI settings, but that probably won't be different on OSX, at least in the beginning. What you can't do in Windows is have different DPI settings for different displays, and I wonder how a retina MacBook will work with a non-retina external display.

Will you be able to configure different DPI settings per monitor on OSX, or will there be some iOS-like implicit 2x scale on retina displays? Otherwise this MacBook might be somewhat awkward to use with a non-"retina" external monitor...

Yes, it can be trusted: http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2012-02/acta-deutschland...