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Yeah, I found "crust" to be rather counter-intuitive. I think one of the reasons that bugs me is that "ret" and "mut" don't have any intrinsic meaning in English, but my brain insists on reading "crust" as if it were a word.

I'd personally have gone with "rustc".

Try this in Python?

    import codecs
    
    fin = codecs.open('input.txt', 'rb', 'shift-jis')
    fout = codecs.open('output.txt', 'wb', 'utf-8')
    
    try:
        fout.write(fin.read())
    except ValueError:
        print "Not encoded using Shift-JIS!"

Not sure if that's what you mean - feel free to clarify, if not.

Here's a plain-text mirror of the article, since I'm not a huge fan of the whole "scumbag whatever" meme: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XVdWpv53

And heck, there's even a Node.js-ish library for Lua:

https://github.com/luvit/luvit

Another, similar project is the Minipwner (http://www.minipwner.com/). It's effectively a TLINK router, flashed with OpenWRT and connected to a cellphone batttery pack, with a very small USB drive for storage and swap. It's also much cheaper - it cost me about $50, including shipping. Highly recommended if you want to play with this sort of thing.

You need a certain amount of karma to make polls. Not sure how much - but it's more than 465, which is what I have.

It's kinda hard to see, but there's a link at the bottom of the article:

https://github.com/joelgrus/hackernews

For what it's worth, I don't have showdead turned on, but I can see your comment.

Wow. Btjunkie was in the Alexa top 500 too (#390) - it wasn't exactly a small site.

Here's a screenshot of the Alexa ranking, for posterity:

http://imgur.com/U7dex

Pretty cool! Does anyone here have any "real-world" experience with this?

Hah! I've been on a conference call while in a building under an airport's departure corridor. If you're trying to talk, it sounds kinda like this:

"So, about that system rrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH and you think so?" (excuse the bad jet noises)

That was a fun hour or so - especially since, even muting the mic when you're not talking, when planes are taking off every 60 seconds, you're bound to get some background noise...

Does anyone have any experience with FanaticalVPS? I've heard good things - apparently they don't oversell, for one.

http://fanaticalvps.com/

Not to nitpick, but the article has several other grammar mistakes:

> Curfew and other civil orders were imposed in Yanam because of the uprising led to the murder of the Regency president.

> Eight Regency Ceramics workers were injured in police firing that followed [...]

And so on. I think that they might have forgotten to send this to the editor (not being sarcastic).

Where do you get this estimate from? (Not disbelieving you, just curious)

There seems to be a lot of hate for antiviruses here on HN. I have this question, then - what kind of features would YOU want from an antivirus? If a startup was to launch tomorrow with some sort of antivirus or similar product, what would it need to have for you to buy/subscribe/etc.?

From the excellent HTTP Status Cats:

http://httpcats.herokuapp.com/418

I'd be careful of sites like this - there are bound to be people trying to capitalize on the takedown by hosting phishing sites. Another "MegaUpload came back" site is:

hxxp://megavideo.bz

Don't visit it without a patched web browser, either.

WARNING: It looks like these links actually cause your computer to attack sites. Don't click these if you have a problem with that, fear getting arrested, etc.

EDIT: seems that the parent comment was edited :)

Alternate (and more well-attended) event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/232028526874851/

Absolutely stunning effect - nicely done. Just a small report - using Chrome 16.0.912.75 on Windows 7, waving the mouse around absolutely kills my CPU - the browser process uses 75% of one core.

Hah, I'll freely admit that I'm not experienced with the "other end of the cat", as it were. But I do stand by my personal principles, even thought they might be inconvenient. And as I mention in my reply to InclinedPlane, I'm not saying that I'm completely opposed to the concept - but rather that at-will should be a contractual option, rather than a default.

Right, but my opinion is that the protection option should be the default, with employee (and employer!) free to negotiate a mutually beneficial agreement.

In my mind, it's a matter of inertia - if "protected" is default, then if an employer wishes to have the ability to fire anyone at will, they need to offer concessions - whether it be a higher salary, or the ability to quit at will, or whatever.

However, if "not protected" is the default case, then it becomes far more difficult for an employee to obtain such protection, as it's not beneficial to the employer. And as such, barring anyone who can negotiate their own contract (the minority, generally), most people will remain unprotected. And I believe that to be a problem, for reasons I mentioned elsewhere in this comment thread.

I actually agree with your point there - if the employee wants the privilege of being able to quit at a moment's notice, they should also be willing to give up their employment protection. However, if the employee is willing to give notice, then there should be equal protection for the employee.

Please see my response to kiba, below. I'll reiterate, though - it's a personal view, and I'm no economist, so please take it with several grains of salt :)

Well, in short:

1. Anti-discrimination laws still apply, even in at-will states in the USA, but all that means is that the employer has to state that they fired the employee for ANYTHING ELSE, even if it's actually for a discriminatory reason.

2. Being fired without cause means gives greater opportunity for employers to abuse their employees - and, considering the general principles of game theory, it WILL happen.

3. Notice vs. cause can be separate things, but many people nowadays don't have the ability to survive longer than a couple of weeks to a few months without a job, and being fired without any notice can literally ruin someone's life.

Again, this is only a personal view - I'm no economist, and I don't pretend to have all the answers. So, please take this with several grains of salt :)

Counterpoint to the idea in this article - I don't like the idea of at-will employment. I'll keep the political or ideological ranting off HN, but in short, I don't think that being able to fire any employee for any reason whatsoever is a good idea.

Interesting to hear how things are in other parts of the world, though.

EDIT: If you're downvoting, by the way, please leave a comment about why. I don't really care too much about the karma, but I'd love to hear why people disagree (and for the record, this comment is at -1 at the time I edit).

I'm going to piggyback on your comment here, since it's at the top of the comment thread.

From the Reddit link:

"Name Cheap messaged me with a special discount code for reddit users: BYEBYEGD I'm not taking any positions i'm just reporting it. I asked him to give reddit users a better deal."

I'm not affiliated with NameCheap at all, but if you're going to move your domain, this might make things easier.

I've seen a lot of criticism of the choice to use interfaces in Go, but I don't understand why. Can someone explain to me why some people seem to dislike them? From my point of view, all they are is effectively the static variant of duck-typing.

Well, if it makes you feel any better - I thought the idea was really cool ^_^

Please post a follow-up, if you can!

Perhaps it's just me, but this story has disappeared and doesn't show up at all any more. Was it removed from HN for some reason?