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Seriously? Just gonna throw 'em under the bus like that? Friends like these..

Its time to stop trotting out this meme that the alternative to an "aquihire" was a sustainable business. Sometimes you've got to fish or cut bait.

Ad hominem aside, trust should never be required for a good agreement. PostHaven has made a great start by killing any acquisition value from Day 1 by making their defining feature a promise never to sell. If they follow that up with e.g., transferring control of posthaven.com to a well-regarded foundation like Wikimedia, the EFF, or archive.org they could further remove the trust requirement from the contract they are forming with their users. That'd be great.

The OP mentions this, for example there are stern rules in the NFL against grabbing a player's facemask and cross blocks, but they still happen frequently. Furthermore, the games rules reward pushing the envelope (15 yards vs chance of serious injury to e.g., the quarterback is unequal).

You can make an effective argument that if you play football in the NFL you will sustain many serious injuries to your brain and body (as the OP does). I'd expand that to include college and high school football as well.

That said - those hard plastic helmets are weapons. They can hurt a player a lot more than a skull. Not sure what to do with that conclusion.

I love watching NFL football but its obviously a form of killing people slowly for our entertainment. I don't see how it can sustain unless we all look the other way on the brain injuries.

But ultimately, the conditions necessary for this type attack are not generally realistic, and I don't believe it should be characterized as a real risk.

Shouldn't it be possible to factor out the network jitters? I'm reminded of this post by Nate Lawson about Keyczar.

http://rdist.root.org/2009/05/28/timing-attack-in-google-key...

Is this attack unrealistic because taking enough samples to factor out the jitters would be very obvious to an administrator? Or is it exceedingly unlikely that a public network will ever have low enough latency to perform this sort of timing attack on this particular vector? Or am I misunderstanding your point entirely?

I really appreciate your taking the time to explain this stuff to people like me! Its fascinating.

You see this with Amazon and eBay too - if you search Google for something weird which no one has bid on, you'll often see "Find [bananaphone] on eBay/Amazon". These "people search" results are similar: extremely long-tail, very generic ad.

So, I think its probably algorithmic vs intentional. Could be ML that's learned racism from the internet itself.

Who knows though! Your explanation would certainly make sense. Its a fascinating problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulja_Boy

Drake comes to mind as well.

Man, do I ever sympathize. I was finding myself standing in groups of friends, outside on beautiful sunny days, and we'd all have our phones out looking at Facebook and commenting (out loud) on people's statuses (and the comment is always the same - "yeah, I saw that"). Its so lame!

For me the answer was really easy - just uninstall the app from your phone. You don't have to do anything drastic like quit FB, just uninstall the app from your phone and stop letting it fill up every free moment you have.

Do it now, before you do anything else. It will take 30 seconds and could change your life. Uninstall the FB app.

He just hit the top of Hacker News by posting data he had lying around. This is an obvious win, especially because he's found a way to monetize his notoriety via consulting.

Follow your mundane questions with a form of "do you like it?". It will usually break the conversation right out of 20-questions mode.

Example:

    A: What is your major?
    B: English
    A: Do you like it?
    B: Well, yes, but what most people don't understand about English majors is...

You're not "the only person who understands code", you're the person who refuses to write good documentation based on a misplaced sense of superiority.

Get over yourself.

(I have T-Mobile, Nexus S, $70/mo for voice/sms/5GB data)

Then edit your giant pile of words into something better, instead of starting from a blank page.

The more you "write" the better you'll get. This is a hack for writing faster so you can speed up your progress.

With social the ads are always a distraction. At best its serendipitous.

Its the difference between selling vegetables at a farmers market vs a roadside stand. No matter how pretty the stand it will never beat the market full of customers who came there to buy.

Obviously the content producers have considered doing away with release windows, and for now have chosen not to. Its safe to assume they've decided they'll make the most money this way. So why? That is a much more interesting question.

Some things to think about:

1) iTunes/Amazon/Google pay the content producer each time they sell something (basically consignment), instead of making a big purchase upfront and then reselling the product (like DVDs, or even Netflix). The DVD model seems much better for the content producer, as the DVD saler is taking some of the risk whereas iTunes/Amazon/etc assume none of the risk.

2) Cannibalization is a bigger issue than we might think. Streaming with no release delays is basically an a la carte model. Its likely this would reduce the content producer's total take.

Chris Dixon has a great article on why bundling can be a win for both sellers and buyers here: http://cdixon.org/2012/07/08/how-bundling-benefits-sellers-a...

3) The author is probably overestimating the increased sales generated by an earlier DVD/streaming release.

4) Not everyone is willing to pirate content, simply because it is illegal to do so. For some people, not being a thief is more important than seeing Homeland Season 2 right now. Thus the growth of piracy may be limited in a way the OP does not understand (not by viruses or technological hurdles, but just because some people don't want to be pirates).

Perhaps there's a model where simultaneous releases do make more sense for the sellers. I'd certainly welcome it. But its not obviously better for the sellers, and protecting your revenue stream is not equivalent to being stuck in a "wasteful rear-guard fight for the preservation of an analog era relic", as the OP claims.

Its common for thousands of applicants to respond to a posting, many of whom are not vaguely qualified. So when a position is filled, its not uncommon to be turning down several thousand people.

Honestly, do you want to send a disappointing email to 3000 people and then deal with the responses? More importantly, do you have time? Remember, wasting time on the wrong problems is a sure-fire way to kill your business.

That said, if you've responded to a candidate at all, much less had an interview of any kind - then absolutely, you must follow-up. Those people have good reason to believe you might be an opportunity for them, and you owe it to them to respond one way or the other ASAP.

Sidebar: the current situation is awful for employers. Some start-up, PLEASE fix this. A job board where candidates can only submit 1 application per day would be a tremendous step in the right direction.

WP is free as in beer (you don't pay for it) but not as in speech (you can't do whatever you want with it because of the GPL).

- The number of total votes by email may not be greater than the margin anyway

- In-person voting also has basically no authentication, and there's been little to no voter fraud incidents

- To commit large scale fraud you'd need to identify a large list of people who definitely are registered and didn't vote in person. You'd then need to request ballots and respond for each person individually. Shouldn't it be very easy to spot a pattern, were someone to attempt this?

My biggest concern would be that it unfairly favors some demographic more than another (which the OP brings up). But that's still better than disenfranchising everyone.

To be honest, I'm fairly impressed with the reaction time and the lack of technophobia on the part of the NJ govt. Its a simple solution that does a lot of good.

This appeals to me, because I find its much easier to express myself in code. Zapier is awesome because it makes it so non-programmers can link apps up, but as a programmer I'd rather work in pseudocode* like this instead, and this still keeps me from having to run cron jobs or respond to API changes.

Very cool!

*I realize its Lua, but I mean pseudocode to where I can just say twilio.sms and that magically happens.

Go with Rackspace. They're expensive compared to budget hosts, but they seem to have an army of sysadmins available 24/7/365 that never say "that's your problem" / "not in scope".

PS: that redirect bug is probably a mismatch of your site_url setting in either wp_blogs, the wp_options table of your primary blog, or the wp-config.php. If the domain set in any of those 3 places doesn't match you get that endless redirect loop. Could also be htaccess sending you to www or no-www, and your config is set the other way. Its an annoyingly common issue when moving MU sites, and they should have been able to fix it.

Most recently, I filed a support ticket online and my phone rang a few minutes later. On the other end was an MS support rep who stayed on the phone with me for 40 minutes, including a screen share, until my issue was resolved. At the end of the call he left me with his direct # and email, and said that I could contact him directly with any future inquiries.

Really can't ask for much more than that.

http://news.ycombinator.com/ask

That said, its unbelievably frustrating if you are trying to run Facebook ads. Nothing against foreigners, but I have to pay for every Like/click, and I'm sure they don't want to buy the local service I'm selling (and are clearly not reading the ad).

Its the ad exchange's job to curtail this sort of thing, and Facebook does a very poor job of it compared to e.g., Google. I hope they get it under control.

Every time I run Facebook ads I target them to Raleigh, NC, USA only. Almost all the resulting clicks are foreign (according to the IPs I see in my analytics).

YMMV

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-grow...

It tries to load a text file over HTTP (http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt) and fetch the DNS record of dns.msftncsi.com. If the return of either is not as expected, Windows indicates 'No Internet Access' (although you are connected to a network).

Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.