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This all VM thing is fine and dandy if you want to have an accessible mirror of your staging machine and reduce unnecessary stages. Although that in itself looks fishy - if developers want to stage something just to see if it works, then something is seriously wrong with your process or developers.

I'm amazed at the level of sophistication in this setup - using virtual machines and TCP proxies that do text replaces seems too much. They could have just built the configurability in the damn application. I have a .NET app that normally gets deployed on three servers and uses various remote resources like Amazon SQS queues, but I easily built a configuration abstraction similar to Rails' environments that lets me deploy on a single machine and even test locally with a debugger attached.

My point is that this problem looks as if it got solved at the wrong level of abstraction. Which, obviously, made it unnecessarily hard and complex. If I had to tackle it, I'd make sure developers do the right thing and try to make the app configurable enough first.
Thanks! I knew freeciv from when I played it on Linux locally years and years ago. Interesting, that they made an online version.
Well, actually the Bernouilli effect has its part, and so has the Coanda effect; however most of these explanation concentrate on an artificial setup, without taking in to account the actual angle that the wing makes with the air stream. When you learn to fly, you're first told that the angle of attack is the most important parameter to get lift. See the wikipedia page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_attack

The Bernouilli and Coanda effects, in most flight configurations are of relatively minor importance, except on some particular aircrafts.
Yeah ... finally a new packaging system. I think it's always good to start a new packaging system as there are only about 5 gazillion ones out there. A least they have enough sources they can look at when they run in the same problems that everybody else has run into before.
Writing a new packaging system seems to be the new Hello World.
Science Misconceptions in Textbooks and Popular culture

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771101
Were these not part-time volunteer firefighters?
Except for everyone else who still makes programs for people who create things which aren't just code or the written word... Audio, video, 3D, print and web visual design are all still done on the desktop, and only a slice of that is controlled by Adobe.
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I tried it but it wasn't self-serve. Someone had to contact me and ask me a few questions. I didn't like that.

Is it still like that? Do you have a minimum budget to spend?
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Not a bad article/video at all, but I don't believe the title of this thread to be appropriate.

They weren't so much behind twitter, as they were brought on partway through the game to help with some (I assume) scaling concerns.

(edit: I like pivotal, but keeping the quality on HN is essential to my being)
I wrote a long post. It timed out. It's probably a bit ranty anyway. Shorter version: I got well when doctor's were trying to convince me I should accept a slow torturous death as my only due in life (I guess so they could feel they knew something and deserved their high salaries) by eating better food and routinely buying new clothes (and throwing out the old stuff when it got too unclean for my needs). I prefer pissing my money away on cheap clothes from Kmart and affordable, decent food from various eateries to pissing my life away on doctors and antibiotics (which I had free access to at one time because I was a military dependent -- and I walked away from that).

This person has no clue what it takes to solve really hard problems.

PS: "Bread and Circus" is a form of Roman wisdom. Quit trying to give it a bad name. "Idle hands are the devil's workshop" and empty bellies are worse. In times of crisis, I practice a policy of "bread and circus". Making sure my sons and I are well fed and have something entertaining to do so we don't go stir crazy and can mentally focus on something other than our overwhelming problems has been critical to our track record of success.
One of the major problems is seeing what you are typing. With desktop zooming/hardware accelerated UI, it's not so bad. I have a 27" iMac and wireless keyboard and mouse that I use from a sofa 6 feet away. The major drawback with this set-up is the lack of mouse-only zooming (have to hold down cmd).
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Second vote for Munin, is simple, quick to install and set up and covers all the basics.
"I don't understand why this guy should be grateful."

I wasn't asserting that he should, Tyng was. And I don't want to get into a debate on the validity of software patents, because I'm still undecided on the matter.

Tyng stated that Apple improved on Gelernter's idea, and I don't think anyone will disagree with that. You compared the situation to Google and Microsoft copying Apple's ideas. I'm saying that isn't a fair comparison, because there is no consensus on whether Android is significantly better than iOS and whether Windows is significantly better than Mac OS.

"Apple was not grateful [for the creation of Windows and Android] so why should this guy be grateful."

I very much doubt that Apple saw the initial versions of Windows and Android as major improvements over their own OSes. Imitation can be the sincerest form of flattery, but doing it badly is simply insulting.

I think it's hard to tell what Apple would do if some company took Apple's ideas and made significant improvements to them, since I can't recall such an event ever happening. Well, maybe one: the Palm Pilot versus the Newton MessagePad. And I don't think Apple sued USRobotics over it.
http://mmo-mumble.com is my one-man hobby project, and is solidly profitable. The app is really the control panel/management interface/widgets, but obviously the service encompasses more than that.
It's not about "filthy rich" it's about living a normal, middle-class lifestyle. It takes as long to become a research scientist as it does to become a doctor, dentist, etc. And the pay is not even half.

Then again in the UK anything "technical" doesn't get a lot of respect. Engineers do a bit better than scientists, but nowhere near lawyers or accountants. Science and engineering are not even considered among "the professions". IT is one of the few niches where meritocracy at least prevails, not even there is it guaranteed tho'.
more websites should re-contextualize computer misbehavior. it briefly worked in the human domain for gg allin.
Great to know. If you have any good ideas let me know so I can steal them, give you what the idea makes in a month and you can root for me.
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I have seen many examples of this incorrect explanation in textbooks and posters. It boggles the mind how it has survived for so long. I actually shockingly saw the same incorrect explanation in one episode of NOVA (yes it has gone downhill).

The biggest problem with this diagram is that the air leaving the wing is horizontal, which is (a) wrong and (b) really screws up a kid's understanding of Newton's laws. If the diagram correctly showed the air being forced down by the wing, then a kid could figure out that the wing creates a downward force on the air and the air creates an equal and opposite upward force on the wing.
Ok. This is indeed a significant cultural difference with the one I have living here in France.
It wasn't the spelling mistake, it was the complete lack of content. I would expect more of a writeup of why they they are giving it to him, etc, etc. The spelling mistake really caught my eye though - it just seemed unprofessional. It's just not what you expect when you hear "Nobel prize".
I wrote this up as my notes on the talk as I did with all the others. I set my self a target of posting the notes by the time the next talk started otherwise I would not have got round to writing the notes up. Read them in that context and am very happy to get other input if I missed anything which I am sure I did.

Joel's talk was interesting but it was not hugely structured so notes probably represent that, though I take full responsibility if I misrepresent.

The issues around shares and employees however were a mess. Joel's company structure evolved out of Kibbutz where reward is based around time served and seniority of people. He admits happily to making a big mess of this and suggests getting advice from the outset. He had assumed that he could just give employees shares once the investment had been made but of course, if he did, they would have had to pay tax on them at market rate.
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Your lightning talk was ridiculously good. I didn't even attempt to blog the lightning talks - and many of them weren't capable of being annotated.

I cannot wait to see the video of yours. A highlight of the event for many.
a plane can fly just fine upside-down for the same reason you can steer downwards while right-side up.
This cannot be the Coanada effect because the airflow leaving the wing is completely horizontal. If the Coanada effect was present the air travelling over the top surface of the wing would leave the wing at a downwards angle and that would cause lift.
Some people want to pay for what they feel are "unbiased" points of view. The paywall is a sure prevention of "friends of friends of friends of the owner" 5-star voting bombs like in Yelp or Amazon.

I guess that's the reason why Consumer Reports is still going strong, paper as well as on-line subscription fees and all. They recently bought Consumerist, IIRC.

And, if Yelp hasn't reached critical mass in 6+ years in those categories, it must take awhile and/or is too fraught with shill reviews and grudgers, griefers, or trolls to make it worthwhile. Meanwhile, Angie's List has had a 10 year head start on them.
to be bad at theory just keep putting things into practice. theoreticians hate that.
It doesn't seem that it was necessarily stinginess of neglect, but rather stinginess imposed by their situation. Like the article said, it took hours to create a new shard, downtime that Foursquare definitely did not want.
It will be interesting to see whether China is going to follow through with their threat to downgrade their political relations with Norway now.
My politically incorrect opinion is that what it takes for a woman to stay thin usually means living in a way that doesn't go along with having babies and devoting yourself to them at the expense of having a life of your own. Men can't get pregnant and generally don't devote themselves to their spouse/children at the expense of a career the way women frequently do. A "good husband and father" is generally one who makes good money, not one who quits work to care for the kids. A lot of married women have trouble finding the time to go to the gym and such. A woman who can manage to do so is probably not being treated like a domestic slave. In most cases, it is the "being treated like a domestic slave" thing that is what really hurts the ability of women to earn good money. Men generally aren't subjected to that. If they are neglecting their health to be slavishly devoted to something, it is usually slavish devotion to their career -- which typically does lead to more money.
Was silicon valley really originally about changing the world? It is my understanding that the customers for integrated circuits during the 70s and earlier were primarily the military and large corporations. While delvoping technology for those sort of companies may be more "real", it hardly seems like that sort of work would be any less profit-driven.

Also I would guess that the prominence of silly start-ups that are based on "game mechanics, addiction, self-reference, and narcissism" is made to appear larger because these sorts of companies need large numbers of people to be aware of them. Start-ups that create products that are not used by the general public probably will not seek publicity and thus you are less likely to read about them on tech crunch.

I have interned at three start-ups over the last 4 years and none of them have ever been mentioned on Techcrunch, despite one of them being involved in some serious M&A action. But why would they be, since readers probably are not hugely interesting in moving silicon wafers around a fab and companies are unlikely to find customers for their protein analysis hardware.

So before you lament that lack of "real" start-ups, consider the possibility that you just are not hearing about them.
One option (not saying it's the best) is you could try unashamedly following someone who's getting good early traction. You can be the mouse that gets the cheese if you can learn the space and out execute them.
The last North Korean Twitter account to get social media attention was fake, why wouldn't this one be?

They don't have the internet in North Korea.
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Is it really that easy to tie up so many federal resources?

Yes. The Secret Service came to my house, with guns, because of a one-sentence Slashdot comment I wrote.
Since all comments were about the same, I'm just gonna answer yours: To be fair, compared to you guys I'm a total European Douchebag Socialist. I get that. So my childish instinct says, the moral thing in this case would be to just bill the family a few thousand $. But I guess that approach lacks the appropriate toughness. It's probably a cultural thing.
Help a Indian CS grad
Hello, I am a first year student in a BS Comp Science course at a Tier 2 Indian University.
I am very frustrated and scared due to what I have read and observed in general about IT/CS jobs. I just need you guys to give me some guidance about what i should pursue.
The job scene in India is normal. Most jobs are with the Big outsourcing Consultancies like Wipro, Infosys et al. After talking to family and friends in the industry, these jobs seem like a scam, pretty much same tasks day in and out. I dont want to be a billable warm body.

I on the other hand, have studied computers and the science behind it since i was 12.I am good at development, and yes i have also read TAOCP thrice and i am well versed with algorithms and low level hardware and architecture, In short, i am not a code monkey. So now i am in a dilemma as to what i should go deep into? I love infrastructure stuff like Networking/Sysadmin/Build and release stuff. And since most programming jobs in India are mostly boring java/.net jobs, i want to avoid them.

Can you guys guide me as to what specialization i should go after. And since it is India, I will need certifications to prove my worth. I was thinking of Doing Red hat certifications and cisco and juniper certifications(just to get my foot in the door). If you guys have any suggestions, I would really be helpful if you guys could help me out.

My current skills:
Programming: Python(love it) , Java (safe backup for job), C/c++ (mostly QT), mostly all types of shell scripting.
Frameworks: app engine (both python and java), django, sql alchemy. and all other java frameworks starting with 'J' :)

What i am intrested in:
Networking Hardware/ Planning/ Design.
System Planning/ Design / Maintainence. (any platform)
mostly data center jobs.
A few months ago we ran into such concept while chatting with a fellow programmer. But instead, we thought about using such filter to count appearances of brands in youtube videos. If their product works I bet this dudes will be bought by some corporateion and their app/filters will be used for sth like that.
Thanks. I didn't know about those. I've configured them in my ~/.bashrc now: http://github.com/avar/dotfiles/commit/43454870
Why does the URL of the archive at the bottom of the page shows "1969", then?
Afifi’s encounter with the FBI ended with the agents telling him not to worry.

“We have all the information we needed,” they told him. “You don’t need to call your lawyer. Don’t worry, you’re boring. “

They shook his hand and left.

Yep, don't worry, no need to call a lawyer everything's cool. High five?
Excellent. When software patents start costing huge companies $625 million a pop, they'll be gone Real Soon.
This idea has been kicking around the WEIS community for some time (http://weis2011.econinfosec.org/)
this looks really cool,
history repeats itself in the future :)
Definitely. I know a couple of people who work there and they are some of the smartest/best programmers I know.
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Could you elaborate? I live in Norway, but isn't known to the China-Norway political relations.
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The peace prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and not the 'normal' Nobel Institute. The official site for the peace prize is at nobelpeaceprize.org and the official announcement is at http://nobelpeaceprize.org/en_GB/announce-2010/
Just read the Wikipedia page on Lift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)
After that you've got to provide a link so we can see what you said. Or have you got something to hide :)
Lol, I don't know what you are talking about. Is that a book?

Ermm... this one is different I guess. Check it out?
But yeah it has Steve Jobs reference. He is "that" evil, you see.
There was this idea floating around on some virtual reality forums some years back about an "adblock for real life" that would work in a very similar way with a head-mounted display. In terms of pattern recognition it is not at all difficult. Detection and tracking of a set of images is pretty much a solved problem in computer vision (doing it reliably in realtime is still somewhat of a black art). I like how this is framed as an art project, and it's a very cool proof of concept, though it's an issue that it doesn't black out logos until after they have been seen, and the blackout box blinking on and off as the detector passes its threshold only draws attention to those areas. A practical implementation could use inpainting algorithms (also built into OpenCV, and even provided in one of the samples) to fill the logoed areas with background-like texture, so that it's not an obvious "censored" black patch but a smooth transition.
iTunes opens lots of error dialogs, loses files and fails to play tracks when it's run in an account with an nfs home directory.
This reminds me of a fairly simple approach to commercial skipping [1] in the early days of DVRs: the TV station's logo is never visible during commercials but always during regular programming.

This was for German TV in the 1990s/early 2000s. I've never watched much TV, neither in Germany nor elsewhere, so I don't know if this applies to TV in other countries or if it still applies in Germany these days.

Still, I always thought this was a smart solution to an otherwise quite difficult problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping
Ask HN: Help me understand online payment gateways
I'm a long time developer that's recently moved into web development. I'm also based in the UK, so that seems to limit my options somewhat significantly.

As I understand it, my options are either speak to my bank about a internet merchant account, or use a third-party payment processor. It seems however, that if my company is newly formed and thus doesn't really have a trading history, the likelyhood of my bank allowing me to have an internet merchant account is slim. Using a third-party payment processor usually - from what I can see - results in customers being redirected to a third-party branded checkout page, which I want to avoid. Is this correct, or am I missing something?

If I have a merchant account and people are submitting payment data to my server that I am then passing on to be processed, I am responsible for PCI DSS compliance, correct? (Am I correct in my understanding that Braintree gets around this by having your checkout form POST to their servers?)

Lastly, can anyone recommend a means for me to accept credit and debit card payments [in pounds Sterling, for a UK site] for a newly formed business that doesn't use a third-party [Paypal, Google Checkout etc]?
> It used to be filled with nerds who wanted to change the world. Now it's filled with hackers who want to get rich.

What about nerds who want to change the world, but know they'll have to get rich to do so?
The director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute says a high-ranking Chinese official has warned him that giving the peace prize this year to a Chinese dissident would harm relations between Norway and China.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAekET4T1D...
Is giving back the device the right thing to do in this circumstance? Shouldn't FBI produce proof of ownership of the device? What if sometime after FBI leaves, CIA shows up and says it was their device and they want it back?
I think this movie was issued by Facebooks PR department, to further embark the notion that Facebook is 'the only social network'.
Again, finding 6-12 month contracts at 40 hrs a week isn't hard. So you don't need to make $150 / hr to make $150k / yr. $75 / hr will get you there if you can bill 2000 hrs, and doing a longer-term contract gig like that will get you there. As for the rate, these companies aren't "outsourcing" or "offshoring" in the sense that you're thinking of. They just want to hire someone to get their work done, and they're desperate enough that they don't care where you are.

Again, your experience might differ, but this is what I've found.
Two most well-known Chinese liberals share the same name -Xiaobo, what a coincidence!
The other one is Wang Xiaobo, whose name is much more influencial in China.
Get a good CPA before you try this; the IRS takes a very dim view of people doing this where the revenue is all based on a service that 1 person is offering.
This almost makes me miss not having a composited desktop.
This is not an award given by the Norwegian government. It is given by the independent Norwegian Nobel Committee. If the means anything for the chinese I don't know, but it is a huge difference with regard to the two countries political relations.
If you are looking to stay on and work in India, it's probably a good idea to go out looking for people and companies doing interesting work. I'm sure there are some.

Where are you based?

I hear there is a good startup scene in Bangalore. I know at least one friend who's recently moved there to set up his startup. I can put you in touch with him.

I've even seen some incubator programs (being touted as "India's YCombinator"):

http://www.iaccelerator.org

http://themorpheus.com/

http://www.paisa.com, based in Pune, is an interesting company and I think they are working with some interesting technologies too. I exchanged email with one of their founders recently and they sound like fun people.

This old thread might be useful -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=54085

Feel free to drop me an email.
Having several months of living expenses saved up is a life-saver here.
For the record, this seems to be resolved in the nightlies. The score I got on a C2D E6600 with Minefield 4.0b7pre built in the last day or two is 994.