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I've just read most of "Kicking Away The Ladder" (2002, Ha-Joon Chang) and this work makes it clear that Henry VII started the whole textile business in the XVI century. He had lived in the Netherlands, saw the wealth that it created, and put in motion policies geared towards building an industry in Britain (restricting exports and hiring dutch craftsmen). His successors continued his work and in the XVIII century this industry accounted for half of Britain's export revenue.

This book is quite interesting; it argues that those economic policies that rich countries now sell to developing nations (through the Washington Consensus, for instance) were actually only put in place after they had become developed. These policies include IP rights, opening up of markets, less government intervention (that's laughable), etc.
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No, it's running on Slicehost.
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Thanks for pointing it out (I'd never have found it).
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Hi everyone,

Do you know any resource about cloud storage or computing made out of cheap NAS servers like qnap/synology ? I'm thinking about that due to the low price of these boxes. Myself, I have a small QNAP and even if the ram is low and the processor also, I thought that having like 10 of these boxes would be great to experiment stuffs like hadoop or distributed cheap web hosting.

(Look at the prices, you can get a 1.2Ghz for like $150. That makes 10 nas for $1500)

Did anyone here try something like that ?
what does that mean? So we can make plugins in Lua and Python?
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Ask HN: Whom to follow on Buzz?
I like Buzz from a technical/design standpoint, but I can't seem to find people who share interesting stuff. Are there any people an average HNer would find interesting to follow?

Self-promotion encouraged, if you think you fit the bill!
Ask HN: Site selling my email address... anything I can do?
Hi all,
I registered a while back for corporate perks (http://www.corporateperks.com/), another site which claims to use collective bargaining based on what employer you work for.
I removed my account shortly since I learned they didn't have anything for Ireland. Ever since, I am getting few advertisement emails from some third parties (US specific). Now, I have a strong reason to believe they sold my id to spammers, since there we only 2 websites who knew it (other being facebook). + I never shared my email to any forum etc... And from the nature spam emails (mainly sent to entice managers et al), I can be fairly sure that it www.corporateperks.com.

I am really annoyed by that, thanks to my spam-intolerantness. Is there anyway I can stop this, fight back?
I was a webmaster, back in those pre-IE days.

It was a crazy time.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Adsense is remnant advertising, it's what you do to fill up the crap space that you can't sell yourself. In every other medium, network advertising is considered an option of last resort.

In the traditional media, advertising sales is a crucial function. A publisher lives or dies on the competence of their ad sales department and their ability to convince advertisers that space in their publication is worth more than just eyeballs.

It's obvious to all of us that a click isn't just a click. There are quality clicks and bad clicks. There is clear value in advertising even with no direct response. It's up to you as a publisher to convince advertisers that your readers are richer or more spendy or more enthusiastic or more easily persuaded than Joe Random.

Print publishers laugh at us for our naïveté. As online publishers, we just don't have the cultural sense that our job is to match up advertisers with people who want to be advertised to. That's the real value-add of ad-supported media, the content itself is just a hook to attract and retain the right demographic.

Ad sales is an active pursuit. If you're waiting for people to find you, you're doing it wrong. If you're expecting advertisers to know what space to buy, you're doing it wrong. If you're not thinking in terms of campaigns and strategy, you're doing it wrong. If you're not pursuing ongoing relationships with agencies, you're doing it wrong.

If you were an advertiser, would you buy advertising from you?
The one person I have found very interesting to follow is Tim O'Reilly, he uses buzz to fill the gap between a tweet and a blog post quite well.
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Probably because you are using a stable version, and MacVim 7.3 is still a snapshot.
I've been working in the telephony industry for nearing 2 years now. I'm currently the lead developer at a communications company.

I'd recommend installing Elastix (http://www.elastix.org/) on any old p4 computer you can find. Elastix is an Asterisk-distribution (fully open source) which uses a customized version of FreePBX (a pretty awesome web interface for configuring / managing Asterisk).

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You can't really beat them for US phone service.

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Check out my profile for contact information if you have questions or anything, I'd be happy to answer them.
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The same thing happened to me with emusic. Despite searching for a time I came up with no effective retribution, retaliation, or even limiting action.

That email address is now useless and permanently spam-binned. The only use I do have for it is as a honey-trap - any email similar to something sent to the emusic address is certainly spam.

But good luck - I hope you find something.
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>I'd say that American society ought to take a complete U-turn and start valuing and providing the highest possible quality education to the most and the most qualified citizens, not as good sold to people but as an investment in the whole of society since an educated population is a benefit to everyone, not just the educated.

Nearly everyone I know that I would consider 'the best and brightest' got most of the school they wanted paid for through scholarships. Many of them got housing paid for, too. This is even more true of grad school; it's often said that if you have to pay for your own grad school, you probably don't belong there, but there are a whole lot of programs for qualified people in undergrad, too.

And really, I think if we're talking about 'the good of society' we need to look real hard at what sort of degrees we are paying for.

I'm not one of the "best and the brightest" - I'm not claiming to be some sort of 'john galt' figure, carrying the world on my back, hell, I don't even know if I'm a net positive. but I think I've made some small contributions. Some people, I think, create real value services I provide, services that are quite a lot cheaper than the competition. And the book I wrote, while it's not the best book in the world, is the most up-to-date book on the subject. I mean, I haven't sold that many copies, but we're most of the way through the first printing... it's something.

If after highschool someone told me "Hey, go to school... we'll cover housing, tuition, books, everything" I'd have gone to school and studied history. If I did that, do you think I would have contributed back more or less? Maybe I would have written a book then, too... sort of a "war nerd, only without the wit" or something. I dono. Maybe I would have done something good and important that was enabled by the degree... but my guess is that I wouldn't.

I mean, what actually happened was that my parents said they'd try to help, but I'd have to work to cover a large part of it, and it'd be a hard slog through community college, then through a UC. This was 1997-1998, so obviously, there were huge opportunities available for the taking. Now, you can argue that maybe I should have gone back to school in 2002, but while the boom lasted, working was unquestionably the best decision.
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The numbers I mentioned are specifically for the smartphone market - 'Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Operating System in 1Q10 (Thousands of Units)'.

Most people on HN have a really poor understanding of the global market. The US leaders are not the world leaders in the mobile space.
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And since IE became an integral part of the operating system, from that point on, the OS was always as unstable as IE. Brilliant idea.

Of course we all new that it was a lie, despite Bill Gates testimony that it was impossible to separate the browser from the OS.
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+1 I'm also there. It's a great place for startups right now, in my opinion.
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Just out of interest, is there any power saving benefit whatsoever gained from displaying black on a TFT screen?

Black pixels on a TFT may even increase your power usage (they must be turned on so that they don’t let through any light), if only marginally.

But we will come full circle soon. OLED displays do need more power for white pixels than for black pixels.
The point is that he is of South African origin.
This is a cultural problem, I think, and one that is hard to fix through technical measures.

The root of the problem is that the rating system is programmed as a measure of /comment quality/ while people use it as an "I agree" or "I disagree" which is something different entirely.

We could add a separate counter for "Agree/disagree" and "quality comment" but you'd still need the cultural change. You need your users to value quality comments, even if they disagree with the content of those comments. Looking at an argument you disagree with and seeing it's merits is a hard thing to do yourself; it's a very difficult thing to get other people to do.

If we want to change things, I think a better thing to look at is maybe making who voted publicly viewable? I know I quite often upvote people I argue with (I mean, if your comment is worth responding to, surely it is worth an upvote) and I think if they can see that I upvoted them, it sometimes inspires conversation rather than argument.
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"And today, it happened again. This time on reocities.com, my rescue attempt for geocities where it helped to pay for the hosting. After serving up the ads for a while suddenly I'm shown a nice blank rectangle where the ads were before. No explanation"

Uh... maybe the fact that it's a bunch of stolen content?

To the OP, I realise you're trying to do a noble thing, but that content is not public domain. Trying to preserve it is cool. Trying to profit off it is not so cool. Bit of a grey area and it's easy to just turn you off than get into some heated, obviously biased discussion with the site owner.
De Beers. GREAT EXAMPLE MAN!</sarcasm>

DiData is horrible and overcharges clients.

There's plenty of other semi-exciting startups in South Africa, like FireID.com
While adsense was my main route of raman profit, I'm considering to converting to something like fiverr. Creating domains and websites every 2 weeks for a niche is fun/mind numbing/building {research|programming} skills, but if I can just score two gigs a day on fiverr I can typically match/overcome my adsense on 2 sites. Without the hassle of updating, maintaining, and worrying about my {linode|sites|keywords}. There's also the fact that domains go stale after a niche dies off, so, domain renewals etc.

Now if I have the opportunity to snag a domain about the bp oil spill before it gets in mainstream media and snag in $30+ a day... adsense might be my piece of cake again.

You can't completely knock adsense... its basically nonsense advertising. You never contact google, they never contact you (unless you violate the 1 page, 10 sentence ToS). My girlfriend and my uncle both use it and had a harder time setting up a facebook account.
"Typically, AdSense pays much, much more poorly than individually negotiated advertising buys"

What you are saying is true in some but not all cases... It's a bit more complicated than that and depends on how targeted your app/site is, as well as how much traffic you are getting.

Small startups with a lot of possible advertising topics can't solicit every possible niche. You would have to have a sales person selling bingo ads one minute, then the other niche, then the other niche etc. and then manage all those relationships.

What Adsense does is manage all that for you. No salesperson investment, no ad software investment, no prospecting etc. Also, Adsense does some other things like customizes the ad to the user's behavior (across sites), not just the page content.

Maybe what you are saying makes sense in the case of Demand Media because they have a lot of sales people.

But it's not practical for a small startup if they cover more than a few topics. They will end up with less-targeted run of site ads with lower CPM and more ad management headaches.
The home page calls 7.3 a stable release. In my case I think it's because 7.3 is OS X 10.6 only and I'm still on 10.5.
Do you find that self service ads pay significantly more than remnant advertising/ad networks? I know that a negotiated direct sale will pay several multiples of what AdSense will, but do the self service ads come close to that?
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Look, O-notation has a precise mathematical definition. So the question whether O(cn) = O(n) has a precise answer, independent of whether the answer happens to be helpful or practical. The answer is "yes". A proof can be found on wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
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I don't think it's required, but, really, why wouldn't you be running varnish? It's just amazing.
"Trust" is key.

I speak from (painful, expensive) experience.
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More fix needed: "an n digit number can be factored in n^12 steps."
OIO-Publisher is available as a WordPress plugin or stand-alone and is quite powerful. It has all of the features you've requested except stats for the advertiser.

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As I understand it, the Dalvik VM used by Android is byte-code compatible with the canonical JVM. Moreover, the byte-code assemblies that are run on it are compiled from source files which conform to the specifications of the Java programming language.

I fail to see what manner of obtuse semantic dickery could render such a setup as "not java". Though I suppose Java developers don't believe in Duck typing...

Regardless, whether this particular setup amounts to a particularly patent-infringing use of Java technology is a legal, rather than semantic, matter.
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>> I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I feel it most strongly when I’m reading. I used to find it easy to immerse myself in a book or a lengthy article. [...] Now my concentration starts to drift after a page or two. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as though I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.

> The author is Nicholas Carr. According to Wikipedia Mr Carr was both in 1959 and thus is now 51. Like me, Mr Carr is aging, unlike me Mr Carr seems to be blaming changes in the operation of his mind on the Internet.

I'm 31 and I feel same change in how my mind works when confronted with a book as Nicolas Carr does. I can't blame aging and I've spent most of my time for last few years reading the internet so there might be something to it.

It might not necessarily be bad. I was always impatient with books that had low ideas/wordcount quotient. I couldn't force myself to read Hobbit and I fell asleep on Bladerunner at the same time immensly enjoying short stories by Henry Kuttner. I think that internet just brought down my tolerance to level I never expeirenced before.

I can't even imagine what would happen to my brain if I fed myself with TV or The Times at the same rate as I'm feeding myself with internet.
I think he's saying it's not actually going to kill Android or any other Java-based platform (like some people fear), but it might make some people a little more skittish about embracing the platform and it might drive OSS development to a platform whose rightsholder doesn't go around suing people for trying to create their own version.
That's a fantastic idea and something we've been looking for for a while. We couldn't find a feature a company would pay for, but the caching is it. Thank you again for pointing it out, we can approach many lawyers/journalists/universities this way.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/

Long form essays that really aren't afraid to engage with an idea. Also, you should check out the personals section, as they are a lesson in wit.

And obviously http://www.nybooks.com/ , too.
Very good read. I'm not considering myself as a Java developer (even if I wrote some java) neither an Android one and this really helped me to have context and more background about this lawsuit.
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Could you elaborate on the procedure? This would make an excellent future reference.
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One issue is that a lot of this wasn't declassified until long after the initial histories were written. Winston Churchill's fantastic multi-volume history makes no mention of ULTRA and I recall that a lot of the engineering stuff was only declassified in the '70s.

I remember well searching for the book The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945 (http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-War-Scientific-Intelligence-193...) in the summer of 1978, the year it came out (the library hadn't yet gotten its copy).

I'm almost finished reading a UK printing of The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (http://www.amazon.com/Deceivers-Allied-Military-Deception-Se...) which was first published in 2005 and it comments that a lot of its material was only recently declassified. Prior to it the only detailed history was the bit known as The Man Who Never Was: World War II's Boldest Counter-Intelligence Operation (http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Never-Was-Counter-Intelligence...) from the '50s, which wildly overstates the importance this particular bit of deception used for the invasion of Sicily. It was one of many pieces which in total achieved complete success, but it and they don't hold a candle in "boldness" to FORTITUDE SOUTH and QUICKSILVER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude) which convinced Hitler and most of the Wehrmacht high command for well over a month that the Normandy landing was only a feint.
> Trying to profit off it is not so cool.

I don't think that 'profit' means the same to you as it does to me. At adsense income levels reocities will never be profitable, and I have a couple of thousand thank you notes collected by now that prove that on the whole people are pretty happy that I did what I did.

People that request removal of their pages have it backed up now (I do that for whoever asks to create a zip file of all their content), and those that don't want their old stuff online any more because it is either inaccurate or because they can't update it (reocities is 'read only').

In some cases they want it removed because they put private info online back when everybody did that or because they are now professional designers and don't want their geocities stuff to haunt them.

And, of course, whoever asks has their content removed, once every month or so I filter my inbox on 'reocities' and 'geocities' to process the removal requests.

It's still a manual process, that's how little it gets requested, but I probably should automate it somehow.

If in the long run reocities contains no pages and all the stuff has been moved to the proper owners again then I'll be more than happy, that would be the best outcome.

Having some adsense ads in there was a way to offset some (but not all by a long shot) of the hosting costs.