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Since the site is currently down, I had to view the cached Google copy... Chrome recommended it...

4 times here - completely different each time... Only thing consistent was it said that I went to the University of Tennessee, which I did not...

AOL load this page slowly for anyone else?

Direct: http://www.livescience.com/health/090722-body-glow.html

Agreed.

For me, it was the 'magic'. Ruby seemed to have a lot of 'magic' working behind the scenes - which confused the hell out of me when I tried to figure out how something worked a particular way. Python on the other hand has far less magic and more transparency - magic replaced with a transparent box showcasing the logic... Just made it easier for me to wrap my mind around...

This is a pretty broad guideline - One that, if applied at face value, would dramatically decrease the quality of this board. Although I see a fair share of Reddit bashing from time to time on HN when discussing this degrade of quality in discussion, I have to admit that I like Reddit. This said, there is already a Reddit and I think most of the HN community would agree that HN is not supposed to be 'that type of board'. I feel pretty safe in saying that one's intellectual curiosity can often times serve to be another person's bird cage lining. Further, is there anyone here claiming that posts pertaining to MJ's death are actually intellectually stimulating? Sure, the posts of the Internet slowing MAY be relevant - but only because of their relation to networking and Internet trends and traffic patterns... not because a pop singer died...

No relevance whatsoever - I am confused at how the #1 and #2 front page stories (of HN) are about MJ.

I understand exceptions, but aside from relevant science posts, I can't think of too many that would be merited.

Although I could not agree more, one caveat here - hosting a "server" of nearly any flavor is a violation of most current ISP's TOS. I know we do it and get away with it (and its one of the dumbest rules ever), but they will terminate your service from time to time until you agree to obey - it has happened to me twice over a simple HTML/Javascript web server.

...And it is making the "true Windows replacement" approach - again (so many)... Gimp=Photoshop, OpenOffice=MSOffice, yadda-yadda-yadda... Need a great Linux desktop setup? Find distro with the best package manager and packages for your needs and install the software to suit what you are trying to get done... Need to edit a Word doc? Install Abiword or OpenOffice... Need to edit a JPG? Gimp. Related note: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22perfect+linux+desktop%22

I have had a handful of domains through 1and1 - so far, so good. No problems. Admin interface is friendly. Notices via email for all renewals. Don't know how that compares, but I have been happy. Heck, I tossed their referral link on my VERY low traffic sites and each domain has consistently paid for it's self.

For some unknown reason, our company Websense (crap) filter blocks the site as "Questionable or Illegal"...

Agreed - I use it nearly daily. I can honestly say it is one of the few apps that has proven so invaluable to me that I have been inspired to tell countless friends, associates and customers about it...

Very good argument - unfortunately, it likely is non-applicable in many (if not most) of the universities in the U.S. From my personal experience, I found mediocre teachers who primarily seemed to be present for class for attendance - like many of their students. I had hoped that this appearance was superficial, and that in reality they wanted a student to inquire and ask for assistance beyond the covered material, but alas, this was not the case. In reality, my questions were usually greeted with being "irrelevant to the course material and not related to what we were covering" - even when the material was clearly an extension of the course material and was presented by me as a means to engage the teacher and hopefully learn more than how to write a C++ application to parse a txt file... This said, my Java and ASM teachers were great and did welcome this interaction - but the majority of my professors seemed disinterested (at best) in talking about anything other than the verbatim script out of the book. But that was just my school - mileage varies.

Being one of the college students who deceived themselves, I have to admit that I could not have put it better myself. Is it my own dumb fault? Yes, it is. I was an adult and like to think that I was smart enough to have made the decision under my own merit. Should I have researched the reality of post-graduation life more? Yes, again. It is very true that they sale you the dream of 80k - had I only known then that college wasn't a requirement for realising the dream, I could have saved 40k...

Thanks for that - I just got a room full of odd looks for my audible outburst when I read that line!

Ladies and gentlemen, even though the penis was fake, I kept expecting a second plot twist where we found out that Hillary Swank actually was a boy...

I am confused - how do robotic prosthetic limbs relate to faith or any deity? Furthermore, in the possibility that there is a god, what does furthering human knowledge and easing human suffering have to do with knowing or becoming god? Just kinda confused on this sentiment.

All in all, I think that the limb appears to be promising - their website (http://www.touchbionics.com/index.php) has some interesting literature and examples of the product. What will be interesting is when the feedback from these devices more accurately mimics "real feeling".

Yup. Short of an official supported API, we are pretty much tied on utilizing CL's data. While screen scraping CL is easy and can yield fully utilizable data for an outside application, the application will be doomed to failure (financially, at least) because it will always be arguable in court that your application is worthless and that it is their proprietary data that ultimately holds the value of your application.

"If CraigsList had an API, it would be a game-changer."

Agreed. As a long time CL user, I have thought the exact same thing. Short of API functionality and extensibility, I know of numerous scraper/mashup applications that utilize CL data. Unfortunately, this does fall far short of API extensibility and likely leads to liability in concerns to "stealing" CL's data - I would be apprehensive about investing 'too much' on any project that relies on scraping as chances are that the project will be killed by CL before reaching the critical user mass of "success".

I can hardly wait!

Well put. Although I must admit I worry about what this means for projects such as Firefox, I do think that it will ultimately be good for the web.

Hopefully some equilibrium can be established between the Google and Mozilla camps, but only time will tell if the market can actually support multiple FOSS browsers.

In any case, I am optimistic about what a giant such as Google can bring to the table as competition to the likes of AIR and Silverlight.

As much as I hate to agree with such a malicious statement, I do have to agree that Adobe has not helped their case for community support in their lack-luster support for the Linux and open source communities.

I have used Adobe products for many, many years and have used Flash since it was a Macromedia product and can say that some of the interesting things done with the internet in its earlier days would have likely not been possible without Flash. On the other hand, as a developer and a FOSS user, I am ready for another tool to accomplish what Flash does without all the headaches that we have been forced to endure over the years with flash and proprietary plug-ins in general...

I agree.. Really, what is the harm with a little light hearted marketing and branding?

I guess to appease the technical crowd, they should have the technical specs and full API docs on the front page...

I can always count on HN to reassure me that I am not alone in my zealous excitement for new tech innovations...

As soon as I read this article, I clicked through the install and tutorial and then bounced around the cubicles singing Ubiquity's praises.

This is a huge improvement on how I interact with the Internet and I am extremely excited about the future developments brought on by Ubiquity.

I see. There definitely seems to be a connection between coming to Ruby and coming to Python, so this is a fair argument for their association.

I think that them being listed together does however muddle the value of the poll because you cannot tell how many Python and how many Ruby votes there are.

But again, I understand the logic behind their their association as I was someone who was first drawn to Ruby and then later to Python because of its proximity - I have since stuck with Python...

I thought the same thing here - unique languages with distinctive paradigms, deserving of separate choices.

I think that a lot of the popularity of Ruby came not so much from Ruby itself, but Rails. I think that with the emerging popularity of Django, you are likely to begin noticing a similar influx of Python enthusiasm...

Ha! I wondered the same thing - because the link takes me to a 404...

Exactly.

I guess it can be argued that you cannot partially support freedom, as it is only sold as the whole, but I also feel that there are laws that can mediate this middle ground.

Although I am not always the biggest fan of 'Johny Law', I do feel that at least the law can step in when harassment or threatening behavior is occurring to reduce its presence. Most of these participating in trolling behaviors would not continue their actions after a couple of rounds in the courts and after paying the associated fines...

While I do feel that the anonymity provided on the internet has great value, I also feel that positive things can be exploited in a negative and counter productive manner.

Just as trolls exploit this aspect of privacy to attack people that they likely would not have the courage to in the real world, so too do pedophiles exploit children that they otherwise would not in the real world. Using this same anonymity, con artists, thieves and all varieties of low lives are able to orchestrate their attacks and subvert the societal protections that would obstruct or prevent their attacks in the real world.

I guess it is all about the person and their moral compass, or in some case, the lack there of. I certainly do not believe that this privacy should be removed from the net - actually I strongly support its preservation. This said, I make a habit of only doing or saying things online that I would also do or say in the real world.

I do however feel that when these facets of anonymity are exploited to the degree that a criminal offense is occurring, the douche bags who are crossing the line should be tracked down and handled - i.e. the story in this article of the parents receiving multiple calls from little pricks after their son's suicide - I am pretty sure that can at the least be construed as harassment and should be criminally perused as such.

In this example, you have misguided youths tormenting individuals who are already suffering greatly - these same youths a) would not like this being done to them had their parents or siblings also died (golden rule) and b) likely would not do this without the separation of the web or the phone system our of fear of having their asses kicked, which is sad in itself...