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A big part of the problem is that "content" insists on being wrapped up in "interactivity" that is confusing and subtracts value (or adds cost) in other ways (image carousels with ads, articles broken into lots of small pieces to generate impressions), and the internet routes around cost.

The central thesis that "pretending that content is free" is the underlying problem is interesting. Perhaps part of the problem is bad pricing. E.g. content that ought to be cheap (e.g. e-books, streaming video) tends to be more expensive or certainly insufficiently cheaper than content that ought to be more expensive (e.g. physical books, bluray disks).

Perhaps a big part of the problem is publishers "pretending" they add value.

Some publishers definitely add some value, but then they subtract value in other ways -- it's great that the movie studio figures out who the good writers, directors, and actors are and risks its own money to make a good movie, but it's bad that it's provided on a bluray disk with annoying copy-and-other protection in a hard-to-open package, and that it's more expensive to buy the cheaper to distribute and generally more convenient electronic version. Similarly, newyorker.com has great writing (and I pay for it) but the actual presentation layer (the website) subtracts value from it.
SSD drives contain multiple NANDs. So a well designed SSD controller will take advantage of that (including data striping, essentially turning your drive into a tiny RAID). Of course it is not clear how good your consumer SSD drives are at that, but any server-grade drive you are using in your db server should support parallel reads. It gets tricky though because it reads data so quickly it might saturate the io bandwidth even with a single request, I've never done that math. All I know is that SSDs make my queries magical :)
The only thing you can earn here by leaving a mildly divisive comment is a shadowban.
Applies to colors, beyond the basic few. That blend of red and yellow is named after a fruit. Violet is a flower. Purple comes from the Greek word for certain dye-producing mollusks. And when we get into the names of paint shades or crayons, we get names like "burnt ochre" (which could be the name of a smell too).
Yeah, this is because we want people who may not have a systems backround to be able to use Rust. That's just general info on the concept of stack vs heap, it's not Rust-specific.
Right, and now you'll need a special box just to receive antenna TV over normal analog channel range which they'll rent to you for a fee (and they are notorious for providing slow boxes that take 3-5 seconds to flip to the next channel or pause for long seconds to display a menu, or need to be rebooted constantly). I had the $10 a month TV, but once I found out they were requiring the box, I just cancelled it, I was basically paying them to avoid using an antenna, but now I'll just get an antenna.
a bundled benefit you get for a very small fee on top of the primary benefit, which will be the internet connection.

Its already like that with my internet provider. I couldn't even unbundle the phone (even though I don't use it). I didn't bother with the TV add-on as Netflix exceeds my TV-watching needs, but its not much above the cost of internet.
all I'm saying is that "not hard" as you put it and "30% more code, transactions, and a complicated test harness" don't go together for me. If they do for you then enjoy :-)
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Computers are not expensive. Many people use their work computers to play low-end games, and not too long ago, flash games were very popular and not just among hardcore gamers.
not aware

I wouldn't be so sure.
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They're flailing because they're not showing growth and share holders hate that. If they show a 2% loss in subscribers or subscriber growth stagnates, that's enough for them to freak out, despite their profits.
A lot of people in China, maybe not Japan, but China eat from street vendors, it's cheap and tasty, and yrs very sweet and greasy, alternatively salty and greasy. You can buy more expensive food at restaurants etc where things can be better, but few people, in my experience actually cooked at home. Just too busy. YMMV.
I live in Indonesia. Believe me, everyone is on whatsapp right now. Every community from school friends, business colleague, even neighborhood security is coordinated on a whatsapp group. The money paid by facebook for it is now seem like a great deal, as also for instagram.

As a developer, i wish they have an API though. A native desktop app is on wish list too.
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Sort of.
But logging to memory is more or less free in terms of resource costs. You can easily log one million lines per second to memory without your computer getting bogged down.

This also removes the rather heisenbergian issue of turning on and off debug logging. In a lot of application turning on debug logging is a surefire way of making sure any race conditions won't occur.

It also means that logging (to disk) will not occur in the performance critical bits of the code. The logging will be fully asynchronous as completely different process will be given the task of persisting the logs.
>I don't understand this - every product & service sold in the open market - from baby formula to clothing, from a meal at a restaurant to a flight - relies on competitive advantage that's proprietary to the seller.

I disagree, what products and services typically rely on is price which in turn is typically based on just how well a company can exploit workers and negotiate cheap prices for material, and of course advertising to make people buy their particular version out in a sea of thousands of practically identical products.

>A mindset to open this advantage up is somehow being selectively applied to software.

Because the FSF is concerned about software, due to it's founder being a developer. I'm sure there are efforts to have better dislosure of contents, preparation and materials used for the type of physical products you brought up.

>In a truly open and free market, malicious elements that include spyware, rootkits .. etc will get rooted out.

I find that incredibly naive, pretty much every company wants to exploit their customers for maximum return, Microsoft recently turned their OS into the equivalent of spyware in order to harvest user data for ad targeting, meanwhile the governments are actively making use of malicious elements to compromise as many end users they can in order to surveil them.

>which by the way is how evolution and biology has programmed all of us.

What? Are you saying we are actually programmed to hide our discoveries in order to be able to take advantage of our fellow man rather than share our knowledge in order to advance ourselves as a species ?

>BSD/Apache/MIT kind of permissive licenses offer true freedom.

For the developer, Free Software offers 'true freedom' for the end user. Ah, the old 'true freedom' nonsense.

>an approach that allows companies to focus on their value-add rather than re-inventing the wheel.

Meanwhile everyone needs to re-invent the value-add functionality, so you are still re-inventing the wheel.

It ends up saving proprietary companies money because they can lower the amount of developers they need, since they don't need to write as much code, only the 'value-add', this leads to less developer employment.

If anything you should be disliking permissive code rather than copyleft, since it is the former which really threathens developer jobs in the proprietary software sector which you seemingly fear for.

>Stallman is a vocal detractor [1] of ANY permissive open-source license.

Well obviously since they do not protect any of the end user rights which Free Software was created to protect. Again Free Software is about giving rights to the end user, not the developer.
How is it an "attack"?
wow, very weird to find racism in an article on block storage. "no tickee, no laundry"? how offensive and out of line.
Nazis? While your sentiment can be respected, comparing the US to a national-socialist political party that manufactured and entire industry of exterminating so-called inferior races is hyperbole to the extreme. Now if you had said Stasi..
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Also, duplicates are only detected for (I think) 8 hours. After that you can resubmit.
Only on certain shows, Hulu is still owned by networks that don't "get it".
This sounds a lot more humane than current practices. I would be much more inclined to eat meat grown without a 'brain' to suffer with.
Firefox has sponsored tiles too. It's easy to turn it off though.
Also called DAWGs (Directed Acyclic Word Graphs [1]). John Resig blogged about a similar problem 5 years ago, for which I wrote a JavaScript solution [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph

[2] https://github.com/mckoss/lookups
The ones I know of run their own servers for small things like wordpress blogs, small magento e-commerce installations etc.

To be brutally honest, they would be better off with a hosting service to take care of things since SSL is not the only issue they have and they lack full-time techies.
Same. They don't even really know what commercials are.
That's a very interesting perspective - although I think the futon analogy distracts from the central hypothesis. It does not bode well for the efficacy of test-heavy teaching strategies if prioritizing knowing how to "do" over understanding undermines future learning. However, it is a much harder problem to measure and assess understanding.
How is Cloudflare SSL a MITM attack? Obviously, they're in the middle, but you have to trust someone.
> CentOS 6.5 was used, SSDs were formatted with XFS and they were mounted into /mnt/ssd1 and /mnt/ssd2. XFS was used because that is our main file system for databases.

write barriers is a mount option [1] [2].

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/283161/
> This is what I don't get - how the hell did they manage to get investors?

Because they did a couple of things absolutely right which was to pick something that'd have huge, giant, insane rewards if it works and picked something that's not so crazy implausible that it would require totally new physics to work.

Sadly even if it does work I wouldn't want it because even though you can't hear ultrasound I'm sure it wears on your ears just the same. The wavelength of 40kHz is 0.339 inches and 60kHz is 0.226 inches which are definitely on the right order of magnitude to resonate inside your ear which seems...sub optimal. I seem to remember that their tech operates in this band.
Main problem with Oracle is cost. They are changing the licensing structure for the standard edition which is going to have some major impact on our business.
Enterprise edition's price is completely prohibitive even for a large company.
Most of the nice Oracle things require Enterprise. For example, RAC (clustering) actually works and is not bad, but to be useful you need Enterprise. The other thing that is pretty awesome is Enterprise Manager -- the web tool which lets you monitor your RAC, including looking at the executing queries, their plan and progress they are making. It is completely invaluable in diagnosing and improving slow queries. And it is, again, Enterprise only.
Couldn't asset freezing be more like "spending review" where the court approves certain spending for certain purposes?

I don't see any reason why ordinary spending on lawyers, rent, food, etc. should be prohibited before conviction.

For civil cases it might be different. If there are specific contested assets, it might make sense to freeze those.
A better "instrument" would have been LED(s). Real power, more blinky blinky.

You could even attach a ultra lower power microcontroller dev board to it[1] and show the less technical audience "look! computer powered by spooky magic!"

1: like this: https://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/lowpower/Pages/efm32gg-s... super low power microcontroller demo board that runs off of all sorts of energy harvesting rigs like tiny solar cells, thermoelectric piles, and so on.
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And because drivers here are on the hook in any accident involving a bike short of someone throwing themselves under your car.
1. I make myself carve out at least 2-3 hours per week to learn something new. If I start reading/watching something that doesn't measure up to my expectations I "fearlessly ditch it" much like bklassen suggests with boring topics.

2. Choose what will be the most beneficial for furthering your current situation. For example, I'm currently focusing on learning more Python programming as it is necessary for an algorithm I am creating.

3. To keep myself creative, I've taken a hands-on art class (yes, my first one), read some mindless fiction, and did an online language course. I fully believe in broadening your experiences and exercising parts of your mind that you don't use as much.

Hope all of that helps, best of luck!
I think that discount codes will come big time instead of ads. You buy subscription from Guardian and you get some promo codes for something. The add guys still pay to reach you, have perfect measure on effects, and you can just ignore the whole thing if you are not interested.

Almost like simpler Massdrop (whose emails I mostly ignore but check from time to time)
So yeah I see some complaints about Linux, but there is no way Windows or OS X would have been a better choice for a product like this. Steam Machines are supposed to be the Android of the console world. Valve would have had to work closely with MS to create some locked down platform to keep people from screwing it up. You couldn't just slap stock Windows on there... and imagine the licensing fees. Linux was the best choice.

I do believe that when Vulcan comes out and Valve or some other company throws some money at advertising, steam machines could easily come to dominate the console market, just as Android came to dominate the smart phone market.
Talk to CloudFlare Support instead of HN?
It's simply not needed in my judgement (in my place, time, circumstances, biking speed, traffic, road layout, route, car drivers are used to it, weather, quality of bikes, etc. etc.).

Millions of others, bicycling day in day out, think the same way. They're not all dumb.
Even beyond airtime, the stupid ads and logos blotting out the screen during a show is becoming inexcusable. Sometimes those things can take up a third of the screen!
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But don't the cable companies own Hulu? So they have realised the change is coming, and have already adapted.
You have an enforcement problem.
Just out of interest, what would be considered mildly divisive on here, besides aything political that disagrees with the HN consensus?
Aside from ads, freedom of choice with respect to just what you watch seem to be the other key motivator.

With the capability of streaming and on-demand services, why would any consumer put up with having to choose any channel with a fixed programming schedule? I almost certainly don't want to watch what you're trying to sell.

No other industry seems to operate in this manner. When it comes to books, games, music, etc, consumers choose specific products. With cable TV you don't get that granularity of choice. Netflix just brings the traditional TV model into alignment with seemingly everything else.

Anecdotally, cable prices seem to rise but the new channels that are sold to me as a benefit are the exact opposite of what I watch. More sports channels? Despite me having never tuned into a single one? If you're going to profile me, at least make an effort to do it well.
Although notably the Oracle version along with MySQL has some features on RDS which PostgreSQL does not (like a HIPAA business partner agreement available for example).
You should be shadowbanned!!
I am skeptical that the food pyramid has anything to do with what you call the "modern diet". What seems to be happening is that food is cheaper and more diverse than ever before. This appears to be a byproduct of technological progress and trade, not some government chart.

Fortunately, almost everybody ignores the food pyramid. They just interpret it as "oh, I should try to eat from all the food groups". Fine.

The problem with the food pyramid is that it is based on obsolete science at best, and was probably designed by food industry lobbies.
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Also available (probably UK only) on the BBC page here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl2ky - which offers an .mp3 download :)
A 500Mhz ARM chip in your TV and some embedded firmware that can run an outdated Netflix app does not an X-box with multicore processor, GPU and gobs of RAM and storage make.

Not to mention the market is so splintered with Smart Devices right now. How do you develop on one that makes up 5-15% of the market and turn a profit?

The one area you're right though is that you don't necessarily need the console right there at the screen, it can be somewhere in the house, and stream the content over the LAN to your screen. Steam works this way now.
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Same thing with Charter for me. They constantly try to sell me a $7/month addon that will give access to over-the-air channels through cable. I got that with a >$10 HD antenna, so I'm not sure what the value would be. (and I've barely used that...)
Except we can describe unnamed colors relatively to nearby named colors. e.g. "That's burnt ochre with a touch more blue." Every graphic designer and photographer works this way when proofing prints.

This is only possible because color is the sum of only three distinct sensations. The dimensionality of smell is likely way to high for this.
Yawn. That sounds like your typical "this forum is going downhill" sort of talk. Do you have anything to back your claim?
I wish that every ISP was required to collect a "Distributed Content Fee" that every domain would get a portion of according to the number of visits they get. I think that would really help level the playing field. A lot of good content goes unrewarded (or uncreated) b/c their is no good way to monetize it.
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> Because people spend a trivial amount of time cycling vs driving on average,

That strongly depends on your location.
It said that the changes in mice due to changes in nutrition were reversible but changes in the offspring of mice with altered diets seemed permanent.

That's "derailed evolution", isn't it?
I see cable TV going the way of the dedicated phone line - a bundled benefit you get for a very small fee on top of the primary benefit

In my region, it's already cheaper to get a package with cable TV than just internet. I have friends that don't even take the cable set of of the shipping box. I assume Comcast's per subscriber cost to cable channels is lower than the ads revenue from artificially inflating subscriber numbers.
Be careful that comment is starting to sound divisive.
You should edit the word shadowban to "Hug and Rainbows"
I'd wager that your steam library is atypical, but I don't have any evidence for that beyond my own and those of people I know.

Also, tech companies that big can't even get basic navigable menus right, so I'm not sure I would agree that virtualization would be easy for them.
I know someone from this town. They are still proud of their chicken.
Sounds like a better option. Why should I trust a single company when there are open source non-profit alternative?
I can't say for sure, but I think at least in biological sciences, heritability specifically refers to genetics.

From wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability): "Heritability is a statistic used in breeding and genetics works that estimates how much variation in a phenotypic trait in a population is due to genetic variation among individuals in that population."
If you receive equity for being around for the long-term, shouldn't that actually be written down somewhere and made a hard requirement of retaining that equity? Otherwise it's just wishful thinking, not reality.
This is an interesting angle on the gut microbiome knowledge that we are just now starting to explore and establish. It is also an intriguing sidebar to Jared Diamond's essay "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race" [1] (see this [2] discussion for a more balanced commentary that tackles the essay's actual points instead of the misleadingly sensationalist title).

There are some pretty sensationalist claims asserted for the gut microbiome at the moment, but it's early days yet so we're not certain what works for who, when, where, and why. I can say on a personal anecdote that after decades of not being able to eat the spicy foods that I enjoyed in childhood, I went through a course of probiotics for a year (they actually hang out here on HN), and now I can dial up the heat. It wasn't a controlled, double-blind study, but I'm sufficiently satisfied with my N=1 experiment to tentatively ascribe the result to the probiotics until new evidence arises to show me otherwise.

[1] http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...

[2] http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t...
The frontpage algorithm weighs more heavily for those who have previously made frontpage, right?
Do you have any statistics to show the division of HN before and after posts like this? If you don't, then clearly you're wrong about this, and everything else you have ever said.
It's like that for almost all IDEs. I remember thinking the same thing for Visual Studio, Android Studio, Eclipse...
I'm surprised that we haven't seen this yet.

The second a popular link shortening service goes belly up I'm sure someone somewhere will buy the domain and setup a program to redirect all the shortened links to an ad-ridden search page.
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The essense of "MITM" isn't the Middle but the fact that the Man is unauthorized, Eve to Alice and Bob. If Alice and Bob agree to put CloudFlare (oh, look, the C already works!) in between them, there's a Middle but there's no [unauthorized] Man.

SSL's purpose isn't to create some sort of quasi-mythical "direct connection" between Alice and Bob, it's just removing the general Internet as a vector for many attacks. An utterly critical building block of the global Internet, but nothing more; certainly not a magic invocation that casts the spell of Security +1 across the entire communication, neither in fact nor in intent.

It's worth taking a moment to try to explore what the idea of "direct connection" is that you have in your head, in a world where Bob is probably already a program generating HTTP with no human interaction in an arbitrarily-complicated manner, with arbitrarily-complicated combinations of SSL accelerators, WAFs, and whoknows what other network appliances, even before we consider what it means to assemble a page from JS and images from 10 different domains representing other entities, and where Alice is using a browser and arbitrary plugins, each of which she is implicitly trusting, and possibly a proxy. If you examine this closely it becomes surprisingly complicated.
Don't forget that, as a non-sports-watcher, you get to pay a fee to subsidize all the sports channels you don't watch. It's not even the cost of the channels, per se... you get the extra "regional sports surcharge" on top of that.