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Agreed, given that you are dealing with Git, having GitHub go down shouldn't be a problem. Gitosis is nice in a simple way, but having a web interface to quickly/easily create repos, browse, and pass around url's is better.

I have been working on a little pet project called GitHaven (http://githaven.com) which is a simple web app that can be installed via a deb package. I have a test install running on http://git.meyerhome.net/ for those who are curious. I use to quickly push up private repos when I need to. Originally created because there seems to be a need for something between Gitosis and GitHub:fi that you can install wherever you need git hosting. If your interested in trying out GitHaven for your own development send me an email at ben@githaven.com
Great commercial, but the main message for me is that the Bing team has been doing something right.

The quality of other search engines has caught up to the point where brand is an important factor in the fight for search market share. Google's product is no longer clearly better than the alternatives.

Notice how most of the rest of the commercials on are for things like snack food, beer and cars where the image and consumer perception of the product are more important than the product itself. Those companies products don't do enough to differentiate themselves, so brand advertising has to do it.

This could be a sign that the search (really the information discovery) market is maturing and that product innovation will slow down as the major players focus all their attention on marketing and battling for market share. I hope not. While Google Search is good, it's nowhere near good enough yet.
You're shifting your argument: you pointed out correctly that the Shutte is a boondoggle, claimed it provided "not one significant piece of science", and finished by saying "Robots are far better at space exploration than humans."

I pointed out just one example contradicting the last two points. Trying to apply the whole cost of the Shuttle program to just this one project is not to the point, nor is implying that we couldn't have done it in a manner that cost less and was safer.
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Could you reduce the utility of a keylogger by allowing 64 chars, say, in which to embed your password and not allowing repetition of the same keyphrase within a given period? I'm guessing most would just enter the password as the first chars and then add a different digit at the end.
Every Company I've ever worked for, in the last 13 years in the valley, has had both UPSes, and, when we got to north of 100 employees, a Generator.

The real question is, should every small company have _two_ generators. :-)
Was the original blog entry really anything to do with American advantages? In my opinion, this response is miles off-track and I'm surprised it got enough votes to appear on the front page.

In the comments on that HN entry, I saw people getting stuck on the schools mentioned or the count of Twitter followers. They're largely irrelevant.

The key message is: if you can't leverage your network of contacts (through background/education and a social media starting point) to create a single major venture, you can still incrementally create yourself passive revenue.
The essence of the problem is in the generalizing of the conclusion. The experiment will rigorously demonstrate something utterly abstract and then the experimenter will make huge intuitive leaps when interpreting the results.

I have found this to be the most overwhelmingly common flaw with experiments reported by mainstream journalism, particularly those in the field of psychology.
The flight number is different, because the other one would start returning suggestions for guns as you were typing it.
Search is where they make their dough.
The reason the original post got all this attention is not because it suggested an alternative plan (nice try, a fail though), but because it was really emotional about the unfairness of inequality between US and non-US citizens (specifically programmers). That's what so many people are really concerned about.
For Outage #3 they said "After inspecting the HTTP logs, we identified a Yahoo! spider that was making thousands of requests but never waiting for responses." Spidering isn't an issue for the paid private repos since they have nothing public to index. However, the web access to private repos went down due to the spidering of the free user pages.
The Batman one was awesome. Too bad I can't find it anywhere. It was hilarious.
Law and medicine are perhaps worse because these professions impose relatively rigid career tracks upon their members. It's well and good to work 80+ hours/week at a "white shoe" law firm when you're in your late 20's without children. But, even the time off required to push out a baby and recover will have a negative impact on your billable quota. A couple years ago, a friend's firm adopted some new, supposedly mommy-friendly policies in hope of keeping more women on partner track. A few months later, they did a round of lay-offs which included her. She had been working part-time post-child after having received glowing reviews pre-pregnancy. Other firms have done better by offering non-partner track roles which paid less, but offered 40-hour work weeks -- a realistic option taken by a couple of women I know. Perhaps the whole up-or-out partner track model of traditional law firms must change. It's clearly from an era where the rising star was expected to have a stay-at-home wife to take care of things. It can't be the only model by which law can be practiced successfully. This model also adversely affects those opting into law as a second career.

Physicians finish residency around age 30 -- about the average age for college-educated women to have a first child. A friend of ours had to delay residency by two years because a pregnancy required bed rest at the time she was supposed to be finishing up her internship year. The next year's match class was already full. So, after a MD/PhD and fellowship, she will have her first real job at age 37. Maybe the traditional model of "lots and lots of school" followed by being a full-fledged doctor could be replaced by some sort of stepping-stone model which where one could opt out of the rat race for a couple of years in the middle. I'm imagining a path that allows on to practice as doctor-lite (like a nurse practitioner) and later become a full-fledged doctor.

I don't think one can "have it all" -- meaning that a parent can't compete successfully with those willing to sacrifice their lives to work and still show up at the after-school soccer games. Society will have to figure out alternatives for those models of success built-up in the era where it would have been redundant to prepend "stay-at-home" to "wife."

I'm not suggesting that there's anything morally/ethically wrong with the way law firms work today. If a private business wants to limit the available work force through an incentive system that's not fully utilizable by 50% of the population, that's its right. I'm not so comfortable with making a similar statement about medicine because the rites of passage are implicitly set by government regulation rather than market forces. It's not as if I can start-up a certification program for high-end health professionals which will compete with the AMA's MD designations.
Having undergone some fairly extensive oral surgery just last week in order to combat a major infection that got out of hand before I was even aware of its existence, and also having a fear of dentists in general, I'm not sure if I find the thought of plasma jets being fired into my mouth comforting or terrifying. Either way, I think I prefer to remain unconscious during the procedure.

Really though, even if it's not a good solution for serious dental problems, if it can provide a pain-free, fear-free (that drill just terrifies a lot of people, honestly), quick means of dealing with minor tooth decay, then perhaps more people will seek treatment earlier, before things get out of hand.

I still think the number one factor in individuals not seeking proper dental care, however, is cost and the fact that it's just so hard to get good, affordable dental insurance (or any dental insurance at all). We could go on for hours about the flaws in our healthcare system in the US and about how hard it is for many people to get insurance, but getting dental insurance is even more difficult in a lot of cases.

Sadly, I don't think adding plasma and lasers is going to drive the cost down any, at least not for several years. Not that this, in any way, means I think we should stop innovating, because innovation is going to lead to better care and, hopefully, eventually, more affordable care.
Actually the US defaulted twice in the past 100 years IMO:

In 1933 they broke the gold standard and confiscated citizen's gold. After the gold was converted to paper money they took the official price from around $20 an ounce to $35 an ounce thereby reducing the purchasing power of the paper (you needed $35 to buy what once cost you $20 just a few months earlier). Since Treasury notes then were essentially gold certificates promising to pay the bearer in the dollar value of gold, the US defaulted because they wouldn't honor the conversion. US Citizens were not allowed to own gold outside of jewelry again until 1974.

In 1971 Nixon closed the gold window for international holders of dollars. Foreign countries with dollars would no longer be allowed to convert their dollars for gold at the agreed to rate of $35 per ounce. So this too is a default as the terms of the agreement were not followed and we left foreign holders with dollars that were declining in value rapidly due to our inflation.

I'm not expecting the US to default any time soon, but there are ways for it to happen that technically aren't a "default" but achieve the same outcome. High inflation is the most likely way they'd do this if it came down to it.
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You will likely lose it to apple if they find out about it.

Point it at an affiliate store and wait for that to happen.
There are lots of accessories for iPhone. Its just a matter of time, before these pop up for iPad. you could try selling those, for affiliate commission.
Domain squatting is icky business.

I'd get rid of it ASAP. Why waste time monetizing a site when Apple's lawyers could come knocking at any moment?

If it were me, I'd call Apple and offer to trade it for an actual iPad.
Any service that uses any sort of contact importer will need your password if you would like to get any use out of said importer.

How can anyone read your GMail contacts without your logging into your account?

If the utility of this tool is lost on you even though this password is clearly not stored anywhere, you can manually go out and find on-Facebook friends yourself.
What I'm referring to when I say "stakes a claim" is a) the sort of thing the IPCC does, science policy, and b) the documented abuse of the peer-review system by ClimateGate conspirators.

And that's quite bad, since the point of a fair amount of science is to have real effects on the world at large; both these abuses is going to make that much harder. They could also have bad effects on science funding ... why should people trust such a system?

Potentially worse is that this general group of people has been crying wolf since the '60s (no later than the publication of Silent Spring in 1962). One day we might truly face an existential threat and our ability to deal with it will almost certainly be crippled since we've been hearing a "we're all going to die!!!" message for half a century, and we're still here and seem to be doing quite well (e.g. life expectancy is going up).
I suspect you're over-estimating the traffic you'll be able to attract based on the domain name itself. I'd sell the domain to the highest bidder and reinvest the money into something that can have a strong ROI over the next months/years.
Watched it - it was ok. Nice relaxing tone/pace.

He basically argues that if one person is in charge (has final cut), the product will be as good as their taste. If no one is in charge and decisions are made by consensus / bureaucracy, then the result will be as bad as the worst persons taste.
The test for whether you really have final cut is whether you'd get to release something that is crazy and no one else agrees with. Ex. the ending of the Sopranos.
His advice is that if you don't have official final cut, but you know that you're right about something, you can "take" final cut by making your way the only viable option. Ex. Hitchcock planned meticulously and only filmed enough footage to make exactly the movie he wanted, with nothing extra that the studio could use to edit it and make it worse.
SLAs are largely meaningless pieces of paper invented by folks who either think that downtime can be wished away by writing the number 9 enough times, or largely meaningless pieces of paper meant to quiet the discontent of non-technical stakeholders by pointing them to a suitably impressive numbers of 9s.
not sure if domain name is that important, for such tiny sites. Most of your traffic is going to be from search engines, so I guess you'll need to worry more about SEO than coming up with a memorable name (as people aren't going to remember it). From SEO point of view, keyword rich domain names are important, not sure how much though.
The way I see it you only have one option and that's use it yourself and try to make it into something that can make you money while staying off Apple's radar.

I base this on the following conclusions:

1. As gte910h points out it's next to worthless to sell because Apple has shown it will target companies that try to exploit it's trademarks.

2. You can't just resell iPads you have to be an Apple reseller and the chances of you getting the nod from Apple are slim (in fact you run the chance of getting sued just by putting yourself on their radar)

3. Apple gives resellers virtually no controls over pricing ($20 or less) so it isn't worth it to pay a site to partner with.

So if it were me I'd set Google Alerts to tell me every mention of the iPad and create a directory of reviews/media stories/etc... Then try to sell ads. That way you stay off Apple's radar while hopefully making a little cash with minimum effort.
Yes, it is pretty bad for github to have so many problems in so few days and if he isn't happy with the service he should leave.

However, seems like he doesn't really understand how to use Git if github being down is barring him from doing his job or deploying his work. Having a single point of failure while using a distributed version control system is incompetence on the developer more so thann it is a problem github being down. Github provides you a lot of nice features and fancy web based interfaces and some social aspect to coding, but to rely solely on it shows a lack of understanding and removes many of the benefits git provides a developer.
"Notice how most of the rest of the commercials on are for things like snack food, beer and cars where the image and consumer perception of the product are more important than the product itself."

Interestingly enough, the reason those companies buy all those ads is that enough Americans go to the store to buy more beer/chips during halftime that the ads actually pay for themselves before the end of the game. IIRC the checkout scanners enable the execs at these companies to watch their sales in real time.
She is the BBC correspondent for Paris - that pretty much guarantees she knows the culture of Paris inside out and can speak as a native, the Beeb does rather have it's pick of candidates.

Certainly as this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8038512.stm shows she can get on in a French Uni Psychology lecture. I don't think her linguistic skills are going to be the issue.

An interview from when she took on the position: http://www.fabfrog.com/2007/10/23/changing_the_bbc_girls_in_...
Having evaluated some XMPP solutions (over BOSH), one of the problems I have had with it was about the openness of the protocol. You need to tweak the server a whole lot if you want to close down what your users can do and from where they can do it; it becomes complex to synchronize all the data from the backend of the site: who ignores who, privacy settings, friend lists, etc.

Another problem that I had encountered was about BOSH. From what I had read in the RFCs, the BOSH session is based on random seed that you hash over and over in SHA (say 200 times). The server then just has to SHA your message to find the hash of the previous message. This, coupled with the basic session identifiers effectively makes it relatively complex to have the chat working over multiple windows or tabs.

There might be other reasons, but those are the obvious ones to me.
They should have kept quiet, and replaced the cameras with fakes.
Indeed, GitHub's terms even state "GitHub does not warrant that ... (ii) the service will be uninterrupted..."

If uptime was a serious factor for you, you'd probably pay for an SLA to ensure uptime and compensation for downtime... and a SLA wouldn't be cheap.
Google wouldn't have run their ad if it wasn't for statistics
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...so yeah, I've always been bothered by their password hogwash. I suppose I'm glad to see that they're actually as terrible as I thought they were.
Why does it matter, really? If someone hacks your account and somehow charges a bunch of stuff to your AmEx, then you're not going to be held responsible anyway. And since it's a credit card, you don't even have to pay out of pocket or take interest on the disputed amount.

In fact, I've never dealt with a company that makes it easier to dispute incorrect charges on a card; It's usually a matter of calling them, to which they respond "ok, we'll take it off."

If AmEx thought the amount they'd have to spend on security upgrades would be less than the money they're losing to fraud, they'd spend it. It's almost certainly more difficult than it seems on the surface. A random confused customer service rep's mail is worth a chuckle, but it's not a smoking gun that proves widespread incompetence.
I think when companies like 37signals talk about firing clients, you might be the guy they had in mind.

Just saying... I suspect that they can do fine and provide "four nines" without your $7/month contribution.
Nobody expects a journalist/blogger to have a knowledge of dentistry. But at what level of professionalism do we expect them to track down a dentist for a quote?
Yep, but at this point, Google is literally synonymous with search. Android, however is still much less recognizable than the iPhone. Then again, marketing to that many people is something of a science, and I admit to not understanding it well.
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"Google user" = "geek" now?
that's terrible advice. An investment advisor needs to know about your overall wealth to tailor a strategy to your situation. And 5 million is not that much. Managing 5 million or 10 million is pretty much the same amount of work. It actually gets easier when you're dealing with bigger sums because some bonds only trade in larger amounts.
This is a cultural difference that, at least according to one theory, actually reflects an authoritarian culture rather than an egalitarian one. It comes down to why people follow orders. In egalitarian societies, people see the ability of one person to tell another person what to do as role-based, purely for the sake of efficiency. In authoritarian societies, people see it as based on the personal superiority or privilege of the person giving the order.

This can cause friction when two people from different cultures step on each other's sensibilities. A person with an egalitarian mentality working in a corporation in a less egalitarian country may be shocked at the way his "superiors" speak to him -- as if they were any better than him! A person from an authoritarian country may be offended when someone who is not his "superior" tries to "order him around," because "giving orders" presumes a hierarchical relationship between the two.

From my point of view, it's quite convenient that I feel free to tell other people what to do, or do what other people tell me, without worrying about whether that implies a power relationship between us (+). But then, I would feel that way about my own culture, wouldn't I?

For one analysis, see this book, which is oriented towards management and business communications:

http://www.amazon.com/Cultures-Organizations-Software-Geert-...

The author identified five dimensions that he thinks are the most informative about national cultural differences. This how France and the United States compare:

http://www.geert-hofstede.com/hofstede_dimensions.php?cultur...

Note that France scores much higher on the Power Distance dimension, which attempts to measure "the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations and institutions (like the family) accept and expect that power is distributed unequally. This represents inequality (more versus less), but defined from below, not from above. It suggests that a society's level of inequality is endorsed by the followers as much as by the leaders."

Obviously it's a gross oversimplification to measure national differences on just five dimensions, but it's also a gross oversimplification to presume anything about France merely from its embrace of "liberté, égalité, fraternité." The United States also officially and quite ostentatiously embraces equality, yet in the eyes of many, the United States is a leading exporter of inequality. The "equality" we celebrate in the United States can seem hollow or even trivial or useless from another perspective. Different cultures have notions of equality and inequality that appear simple to them while appearing complicated or contradictory to people from other cultures. I took a few semesters of French in college, but I don't have a clue what "égalité" means to them, only what it means to other Americans.

(+) I just have to worry that if I'm consistently taking orders instead of giving them, then I must not be coming up with many good ideas!
Knowing how many HN readers actually work at the big corps (MS, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc) odds are this is on their radar now.
Those don't seem like quite the right statistics, though. The main risk is whether something that gets good reactions on YouTube will: 1) get good reactions from a superbowl TV audience; and 2) actually drive enough traffic to the company to be worth the cost. Just the YouTube viewer data doesn't answer either of those questions. (They might have had other statistics on that, of course, but if so, they haven't shared them.)
Hrm. I really don't know! Perhaps it's best to maybe call in to the department who runs the campus web site and even just petition for them to hire you to do the development? Maybe you could get in - prove the app works - sell some advertising for the local campus businesses, then roll-out / license on your own to other campuses?
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Are you seriously suggesting that visitors should supply email account passwords to any site that asks for them? How is Facebook different from any other phishing site?