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We are busy setting a small UI/design firm and if you are not in a hurry I might get you a freebie.
That's a different situation, as pulping and reprinting books represents a significant outlay. I would interpret that as "we'll give the publisher a new PDF and instruct them to print with that instead, effective immediately".
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That's nice. How many flickr accounts have the option to set "US Government work" as the license for their photos? No one other than the whitehouse account, so far as I'm aware.
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Read their TOS and policies, may be they mention something.

Google "their name" + legal issues, may be you find a blog post or a forum thread about them on the web.
The "metric" is always relevant. Your confusion comes from the fact that you're thinking about whether those errors are reflected in a user's experience. If you think about the concept of RAM coupled with the fact that desktops are most likely running every little piece of software available (OS, a browser with several windows/tabs open, IM programs, a game, etc.) you'll see why this is a big deal. And let's not even mention servers and machines where actually significant work is being carried out..
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Is there a "no longer" missing in that first sentence? Or am I missing something on the SEAforth / GreenArrays web pages? What I see on the SEAforth page seems to suggest that FORTHdrive was discontinued last year.... :(
I don't think that there was any mention that error rate was dependent on manufacturer.
If I can't afford electricity to be down, the yes, the business should have generators. I would never put my hosted servers in a data centre without generators, for example, as the stuff I put there is there instead of in our office because it needs a solid environment.

On the other hand, our office servers are on a single circuit and we don't worry about it because a temporary electricity outage just means a few man hours lost productivity (rather than potentially large losses for our clients, leading to bad will and lost business for us)

If a Github outage is so critical to you that it's more than a few man hours lost productivity, then it means you're using it for something you either should have in house or should have adequate backup procedures for. And this holds regardless what you substitute for "Github" in this paragraph:

If it's critical, you ensure you have a backup, as it's virtually guaranteed that there will be some single point of failure outside of your (and theirs) control.
Dude 99.99% of them are illegal and run in either Pak/US.
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So... he's basically saying that a great user experience, as well as good marketing, is the barrier to entry, rather than great engineering?
One way they are compatible is by picking and choosing what to believe in. This seems to be the most common approach I've seen, though its often done by not looking too closely at the topic.

However, I imagine you want something more satisfying than that. What you're saying makes sense If A and B reach contradictory conclusions, than one of them must be false. However, I think a lot of problems come from thinking that we understand reality. We're just starting to scratch the surface so we may discover things that allow us to accept both science and religion.

The analogy I like is of the guy who tried to see how much it rained by throwing spaghetti on the wall. Thats the wrong tool to use. Maybe logic/our brains are not powerful enough to answer these questions.

(Apologies, this is not the best explanation of what I'm trying to say).
Well it's not something to boast about, more lines = more bugs - I don't want to crash
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One of our customers wanted an SLA with more teeth. They themselves with a straight face proposed an SLA that would give them ca 8 GBP in credit against hosting fees per day of downtime. This is a multi-million pound business. We said yes, of course.

We'd happily negotiate something with real teeth, as I'm sure most service providers would, and I'm sure Github would too if a big customer pushed for it.

But you're 100% right - if we did it'd be expensive, because we'd have to turn right around and insure ourselves against the risks incurred if the amounts were remotely serious, and we'd pass that insurance cost straight on.
I'm no expert. But if you have no user interface background, try to read User Interface Design For Programmers (by Joel Spolsky) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/fog0000000249.html

I think it's a great source to get you started.

There are some good posts on UI on codinghorror.com, but the site is not dedicated to it -- you'd have to dive in to find them.

Also, try to look at how others do their web applications. 37 Signals' stuff may be inspirational, and you can look at how Gmail and Google Reader work.

FogBugz can also nudge you into the right direction: http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/
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What exactly was emotional about Max's post? Or about US vs non-US differences? Was it that puny and barely irrelevant line about Bulgaria? It's a shame that something like that or the 400-follower figure left anyone missing the point. You're the only person that's seemed too concerned about the country of origin issue. Most are talking about MFA, followers, 400 projects, etc.
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Even if they do "guarantee" it, what happens if they fail to meet their guarantee? Most likely they'll credit him with a refund of his hosting fees for the downtime, or if he's really lucky some small multiple of it...

Words are cheap, especially in the world of typical SLAs.
I wonder hoe much of this is hackable?
As a general tip, any time you feel the need to show a message telling the user how to interact with your application ("double click on X to ...") you should reconsider. Besides which, double clicking isn't a good UI mechanism for web apps (or any other apps, really).
Interesting read. I hate however the amount of footnotes. I find the CS style (references at the end, almost not footnotes) much more readable.
Sounds like a good opportunity to open bank accounts in another country? Or could you paypal it to another account and have them withdraw and wire cash?
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> First, let's assume you have a system with no error-correction nor parity. The probability that you'll experience a bit error during the time T will be 1-(1-p)^m .

OK, let's assume that.

> For T=1 hour , p = 1.3e-12 and m = 42^308 that gives 0.044 or 4.4% .

WTF? Where did those figures come from?
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Thanks. I agree, I felt uneasy about this whole double click thing. It will be gone in the next update. Do you recommed a special button like "launch" instead?
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This article contains a fundamental flaw. It estimates the upset rate in memory due to cosmic ray flux as upsets/bits/hour, but this is an incorrect unit. Upsets depend on the total physical size of the memory (and thus the total neutron flux) and the sensitivity of each memory cell (bit) to cosmic rays. Sensitivity may increase as you decrease the size of memory cells, but not in lock-step with the change in size. A room full of 4 Mbit memory chips will almost certainly have a higher rate of upsets per bit than will a single 2GB DIMM. The figures quoted in the article are from studies of computer systems in the 1980s, so upsets/bits rates are much higher than would be expected with modern RAM (which has 3 orders of magnitude more bits in the same volume).

This error is probably why the article's theorized SEU event rate for modern systems is about 3 orders of magnitude higher than experimental evidence suggests (such as from this Google study): http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
World of Warcraft seeks reapproval in China gov't tangle
To log in to my bank online I need a browser certificate, my login, my 4-digit pin-code, and a 6-digit one-time random number from a little card my bank sent me. To get the browser certificate you need my login, my 4-digit pin-code, and another code the bank sends by SMS to my cell-phone.

I love my bank, their authentication is cheap, platform-independent and reasonably secure. It's definitely safe from keyloggers, because it requires access to items that are in my possession. And best of all, it's not annoying for me as a user.
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It follows nicely on that posterous v tumblr post a couple weeks ago. Design matters. I guess the question becomes how much? And that probably varies based on industry and who you are competing against. Do you have to be amazing or better than everyone else?
Round here we use a variety of techniques:

* As everyone else has mentioned: headphones.

* Work at home when you're doing a particularly complex piece of work.

* Stagger working hours so that there are times when not all employees overlap - start time is anything from (approximately) 8am to 10am.

* Set instant messenger statuses to 'away' or 'in a meeting' for critical work. (This one only works for people not within line-of-sight.

* Have team leads (approx 1 for every 6 people) who can answer more general questions and so act as a buffer between programmers and people who might need to interrupt them.

* Provide people with the ways to find answers rather than the answers themselves (This has the dual purpose of making it less convenient to ask you than to look stuff up, and teaching people to be more independent.)

* Have times when you are more clearly interruptible - this groups the questioning / passing the time of day, so you can get a longer uninterrupted stretch later.

edit: formatting
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It is so bad because it fails to take into account that there are multiple failure points involved (his git host, his internet connectivity, multiple transit providers and routers beyond either his or his hosts control, electricity supply etc.) and that getting a more reliable git host won't even address one of them - no hosting will ever achieve 100% uptime, if only because of eventual human error.

He'd be better served first addressing the significant flaw in his overall process of not having a fallback that bypasses as many failure points as possible.

I.e. why does he not have a constantly updated clone of the repositories locally at the provider hosting his actual sites, so that he can deploy as long as he can get hold of an internet connection somehow and is able to connect to his hosting environment?

This bypasses the local electricity supply, his office internet connection, the transit providers between him and Github, etc., because there are many easily accessible ways of getting an ssh connectio in a pinch, and the remaining dependency is his production hosting, without which deployment wouldn't work anyway.

It would be a simple, cheap and prudent safety mechanism if being able to deploy immediately is business critical for him. It's a matter of a single command in a crontab on one or more of his production servers.
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There's also an excellent National Geographic documentary on the subject available on Hulu http://www.hulu.com/watch/70093/national-geographic-specials... I've never been a fan of sparkly, expensive things (seems like a waste of money for a small, sparking rock, no matter how 'rare' it is), but it definitely turned me off to diamonds even more.
Almost all music streamed and played in India online is illegal. PPL India (http://www.pplindia.org/aboutus.html) cracks down on such websites.

One needs to obtain specific license from PPL for streaming music online and such a license is quite expensive.
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I was about to post the same thing. Seconded; gripping movie, and according to my subsequent research not too much Hollywood artistic license either.
Maybe this is an argument about what "beauty" means. The "alternative" presented in the text of "straightforwardness and conventionality" are examples of what makes code beautiful, in my opinion.
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Not really worth the read; if only because it's confusingly written and reads mostly like the writer copy/pasted from the guys website.
I live in the UK. Recently I ran numbers to move to other places because Im fed up of the political climate and in no position to make changes.

Anyway; the US was the most expensive move. Im staying here because the UK is close to the cheapest option but there were other places a lot cheaper than the states.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I still like Python very much and its unlikely I'll stop using it completely any time soon. Its still useful for a lot of tasks, though most of my heavy programming tasks are being transitioned to Clojure. I personally love functional programming, so it was a pretty natural progression for me.
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C'mon - why is the troll/joke comment being upvoted? It doesn't add much to the discussion :(
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I'm not Bruce Schneier, but to me this sounds like an incredibly lame security policy. If someone asked me to write a piece of software implementing this policy, I think I would just laugh.

The hypothesis that this is really because they're running very old legacy systems behind the scenes seems very plausible to me. Over a decade ago I occasionally worked with computer systems in banks and large retailers. In some cases the banks were still using computer systems for processing transactions which were more than 25 years old, and usually only one or two highly prized gurus on astronomical consultation fees knew how to run and maintain those systems.
Funny, in a myopic kind of way.

Broadband access - Sure, the US is better than most of the world, but pretty mediocre compared to the western world.

Computers - I'll give you that one, gadgets are pretty cheap in the US, you'll have to go to parts of Asia to beat that.

Safe Environment - It doesn't matter if you mean crime or natural disasters or corruption, Canada and most of Europe beats the US on this point.

Cars - Remember that the US is built such that it requires everyone to have a car. There are many places elsewhere where you really don't need one, which cuts your costs for transportation by a lot.

Housing - You forgot this one, perhaps because the US has the most expensive housing in the western world? Compared to the average salary it's pretty ok, but we were talking about the absolute cost of living, not the relative cost of living.

Tax Burden - It's definitely lower than average compared to the rest of the western world, but it's also nothing special.
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It's being upvoted because it is probably true, despite being entertainingly worded.
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I'm guessing security issues. Of the funding of guns and bombs kind.
hehe, funny stuff:
China's regulators screen online games for erotic, violent or other objectionable content ... <snip> ... skeletons in the game appear as normal human bodies

I fail to see why that change was made, it feels as if they were just looking for something to change.

The sole purpose of the game is to kill things. Was this changed due to violence? I'd think that a puddle of blood would be a bit more violent than a pile of bones, to be honest!

Objectionable content. Okay, sure, skeletons can be a tad bit scarier than a human. But c'mon, look at the gnomes!

Erotic content? I guess one could argue that skeletons are nude...

Yeah, that's gotta be it.
First of all, LOC is terrible measure as we all know. Second, the author separates the plane's LOC into avionics vs. entertainment but lumps them together for cars to make the car LOC count bigger. It isn't a fair comparison.

That said, maybe the auto industry needs to learn to separate their systems like the airline industry since they have entertainment system buttons moving seats. I don't want my volume to affect my cruise control, thanks.
This is a pretty weak list. Not sure how it really relates to visitors of HN.
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I'll only sell them to someone who is active in the Lisp and Haskell communities; I'd rather renew them than have them go to some domain search spammers. These domains will auto-renew on Feb 21 and, if they do, I'll just hold on to them or sell them for $30/ea.
What does this app do? I clicked "start", and was plopped down on the home page with a frightening amount of information. It would be nice if you explained in a sentence or two what the app does, and why I should use it.

I see that while I clicked away to write this I got the "welcome to statgadgets" popup. I still don't know what the data sets are or why I would want to "analyze" them.
But of course we "scientists" know that weakly held opinions are what science is all about.
Why does NPR have it in for Toyota?
Lots of cars have recalls. Even a reporter from NPR said this morning "Statistically speaking, it does not happen to much of anyone, but you do not want it to happen to you"

NPR said this morning "You are 30 times more likely to be stuck by lightning than to be affected by a stuck gas pedal".

I'm not taking Toyota off the hook here (after all I own a Prius that is going in for recall repairs), but the Toyota coverage on NPR has become hysterical and over the top.
The 'available graph types' need to be linked to examples.
I'd recommend using a single click to launch (and click on a checkbox to select it).
Also, why do I get "permission denied" when I try to drag an item into a folder?
This is really nice. Took me a moment to figure out how to use (eg dragging the fields for the graphs), but nothing too tricky. Over all, its nice and looks like it could end up being quite useful, going by the other (as yet unimplemented) menus). Keep it up!
Because it is almost certainly true. I used to work at Amex, it wouldn't surprise me if all banks are in similar situations.
Good idea, just did so :)
That is the problem with these vague terms that are used to describe poorly defined virtues, isn't it? Everyone can take whatever meaning they choose out of a term like "beautiful code." For you, I suspect "beauty" is nearly synonymous with "good". For the author, I think "beauty" was closer to "elegance." But there I go, defining one vague term with another.
It's the 21st century equivalent of tracing your place on the page with your finger as you silently mouth the words.

Kidding:-) I had a boss who was always highlighting stuff back and forth, and it definitely seems to be some sort of nervous habit more than anything.
I'm responsible for a handful of servers where 'actually significant work' is being carried out. My reasoning applies to those machines just as much:

- how much memory is in use?

- how large is the chance that a flipped bit is read (as opposed to being overwritten before being read)?

- What are the consequences of the flipped bit?

Apart from that: there are quite a few desktops in the world where 'actually significant work' is being carried out.
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Very generous offer. I'd expect both of them can become somewhat valuable once they have some content and a bit of SEO.

I'm curious, though, why don't you just aggregate some content on to them? Perhaps throw up a blog or two, some Google Ad's and Amazon links? It doesn't take that much work once you have the implementation in place. (Okay, it would be hard for ME to maintain it, but that's because I have an attention span of a goldfish when it comes to writing)

I'm not active in either of the communities, so don't see this as an application. :)
Stocks are inherently riskier than bonds. Lower on the capital structure of companies (last to have a claim on company assets) and stock cash flows have much greater uncertainty than bonds. The statement that "stocks have higher returns than bonds" should NOT lead one to invest too much in stocks in pursuit of those returns (yes, it has -- the "dumb money" you describe), since there is greater volatility of returns around the average.

Portfolios should be built upon bonds, with stock market risk layered-in only to a degree.
If you have a local community college, they should offer math courses that will teach what you need to know at a reasonable price. I'm not sure I would recommend any text to learn math on your own.

Mathematical Modeling of Physical Networks has an interesting approach to teaching Electrical Engineering. Not sure how it would work for someone new to EE.

ARRL might have some good sources of information. The ARRL Handbook is a good reference.
Hey Killian, that looks nice. How do you get this to work in IE? I tried to look at the examples in IE7, but it just froze.
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http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=345974# is also a good read. This is from a few years back, but he was getting £100K+/month, mainly from PPC in the UK.

It's fairly easy to find a niche and iterate until profitable. However, it can all go horribly wrong as well.
the de beers de facto monopoly is a schoolbook example, e.g. why do they make commercials if they are the only ones seeling something?
Because they have to prove that diamonds are actually better than other luxury goods (and also interesting is the fact that their commercials sell diamonds, not de beers diamonds)
Where do you get location-targeted ads from? I don't think adsense allows you to target by location.
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The example page has 25 graphs it tries to generate all onload, IE can't handle that at once. It could be fixed using a queueing function but I haven't written one yet.

IE can handle it fine (slower, but fine) if you use just a couple of graphs.
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Thanks for sharing this. Note that on the front page's copy, you have Jekyll spelled as 'Jekill'.
Nice documentation, and nice looking graphs.