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Google is the current default, because we still believe it is the best. But if Google were no longer available as a partner, there are other search companies that would pay for that traffic.
And the patents is where the problems lie. Which is the problem with not being able to pass the TCK - no access to the patent pool.

How does the MS CLR get around this issue? Surely their VM is infringing on some of this pool? Do they now licence from Oracle?

If only it WAS this simple... this hypothetical situation would be awesome!
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It's also pretty easy using Scala with Play if you do decide to switch at some point.
is this yours? I run ThatHigh.com -- would love to discuss possible partnerships. i get over a million page views a month, obviously that could be very targeted.

not sure how we could help each other, but perhaps we could meet sometime? are you in SF?
That's a really interesting way of thinking about it. I've recently been thinking about it as people's thinking in terms of Breadth First thinking vs Depth First thinking, though I like your thoughts a lot. From my (albeit limited, this is not a statistical sample) experience, it seems like smarter people are the ones who tend to worry more. Almost as though they can chase through situations quicker and come up with possible (bad) results that give them reason to worry. It kinda plays into that ignorance is bliss mantra, but that's just my experience.

I think rapid cognition is a gift, but the problem is that our gifted programs...or training for people who are like this isn't good enough to teach them how to handle their own brains. I think there should be more work done into helping people unlock AND manage their intellectual assets. Right now I think the situation in the US focuses more on the former and less on the latter. I feel like I'm advocating that smart kids go learn under Professor Xavier or something.
I think Google considers their infrastructure and expertise with web-scale data processing to be a durable source of competitive advantage. You need to be substantially as good as Google to do web-scale crawling and analysis to build a general purpose search engine. Google makes billions upon billions of dollars from having that available. Are they going to make billions upon billions of dollars with a huge competitive moat and 30% gross margins by publishing their competitive advantage as OSS and getting into hosting? Probably not.

Which is not to say Google isn't a friend of OSS and transparency -- indeed, they are the world's most reliable fans of OSSing the competitive advantages of companies which are not Google.
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You can use different keys for each file that you derive from the file itself. So if two user's store the same file they encrypt to the same data, but no one is able to decrypt such data without knowing the file.

On the user's account you would then store a list with keys for each file. Before this list is stored or updated on the server, it is encrypted on the client-side with the user's password, so that the server cannot retrieve this information.

Of course, the security with such a scheme is somewhat lower than with "traditional" encryption, as you can find out who shares a given file. But the advantage of this is that you are still able to block particular files, if, e.g., required to do so by law.
No. Otherwise open source would not exist.
While I agree with the second part, I think it's a fallacy to connect it with a fictitious group of people labelled "drug users".

True, there is a class of people who "use" drugs and a class of people "abuse" drugs, but in the common vocabulary, there's unfortunately no distinction between the two. And there really ought to be.

We (society) get all of the negative consequences of drug abuse and none of the positive consequences of responsible drug use.
Meta:

This, to me, is a fundamental problem with the Posterous culture. Here we have a post on a Posterous blog made by a Posterous co-founder which copies, in its entirety and with no significant commentary, a work published elsewhere.

It’s attributed with a link to the source — barely, in lowercased, tiny font, at the bottom. The headline is a link to the Posterous page, not the source (unlike Daring Fireball “linked list” items, for example). How many people will actually follow the link? Why is this Posterous blog entry #1 on HN when a permalink to the original source on Quora is readily available?

Let’s be clear. This is not “fair use.” It’s not plagiarism, as Garry doesn’t claim he wrote the anecdote; but it’s a violation of copyright. It’s publishing without permission of the copyright holder.†

My first submission to Hacker News was an original item I posted to my own website. It got quite a few reads — but a lot of people were re-tweeting a link to a full copy of it hosted on someone else’s Posterous. That user didn’t add much (A sentence expressing “me, too”). I was conflicted: Glad people found my writing interesting enough to duplicate and share, but disappointed that they were reading it on someone else’s site for no good reason.

I see now that if the company’s own bloggers consider copyright a joke, if they believe posting other people’s articles verbatim is kosher, well, can we be surprised their users do, too?

(Postscript: This differs from Tumblr’s “re-blogging” in one important way: You only re-blog other Tumblr posts. “Re-blogging” is part of the Tumblr system. You expect it there if you post there. You don’t “lose” anything by it. I have no problem there.)

† I don’t know if Quora’s terms of service mean that consent is implied, but honestly, in this case and this case only (the case of a Posterous employee), it doesn’t matter, because it’s about setting precedent for the community.
The information on the encryption is not that in-depth. While I also don't have more information than available on Web-site, from the information available it seems that they server-side encrypt all files with the same key which is (therefore) available to Dropbox. Maybe they just use an encrypted partition or something like this.

If you want a similar system with better encryption look at Wuala or SpiderOak.
I completely respect the freedom of choice you are referring to in your questions but I am genuinely interested in finding out about marijuana's health risks.

Just like risk is a hard thing to quantify, so is "right kind of questions" hard to define. :)
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Wow, that is quite a story. I've seen and heard the brain be likened to a muscle, and that you need to literally train it to get it up to strength. If you can, get in to some 'lightweight' programming again until you feel comfortable doing that and then work your way in to harder problems.

I've stopped coding for about 3 years at one point (not the best period in my life to put it mildly) and once I tried to get back in to it I found that the stuff that I'd been doing just before quitting was totally beyond me, I literally had to walk myself through the code line-by-line (even though I wrote it only a few years beforehand) in order to make sense of it.

Now, after slowly working my way up again it's much better than before, I've done some more intricate stuff recently and working on the more complex stuff (for me, no doubt it is still childs play compared to what others achieve) is still tough but no longer impossible.

It scares me how much my skills dropped in that relatively short period through no other action than just doing nothing and the 'use it or lose it' mantra is one that I repeat to myself frequently now in order warn myself to never ever let that happen again to any part of me.

It also was a good lesson about taking things for granted.
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You know what, you're absolutely right. So, let's provide the link to the original article:

http://www.quora.com/What-does-it-feel-like-to-be-stupid/ans...

It actually is simply a violation of copyright. Anything over 15 lines cited iirc.

edit: fixed the link tx Alan!
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C#/.NET definitely infringes Java-related patents. But on the other hand Microsoft has been working on programming languages and related tools ever since the start: they definitely have patents with which they can strike back.

Heck, they are in the same league as IBM when speaking of patents. Only trolls have the balls to go after them.
> "Are they going to make billions upon billions of dollars with a huge competitive moat and 30% gross margins by publishing their competitive advantage as OSS and getting into hosting? Probably not."

But are they going to make billions upon billions of dollars when their competitors have instant access to a service that levels the playing field?

[edit] Okay, not quite level, but even with Amazon collecting their margin, it dramatically closes the gap in highly scaled computing, to the point where if I were Google I would not rely on cost advantage as a long-term strategy.

Competing on price is rarely a game you want to get into, it tends to turn into a race to the bottom more often than not.
For what it is worth, I have been told by the head of a paediatric mental health unit at a major hospital that there was increasing evidence in the literature of a link of some kind between marijuana use and the onset of episodes of schizophrenia, although the mechanism wasn't agreed upon. She said newer research was increasing the confidence in the link rather than decreasing it.
That's not really true. We support svn[1] and mercurial[2].

1. https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support
2. http://hg-git.github.com
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Thanks for the response guys;
I am wondering if there is a winner-bias at play here. (I don't expect too many drug "abusers" as referred in a comment above here on HN)
Run these numbers on Amazon S3 and you end up at $588 per year. Dropbox is a bargain at this price.

I will say that DB seems to have really awkward tiers. I could see people eating up a $13.50 per mo. per user rate a little easier than a $795 bomb.
Actually you probably should add in a team of admins unless you assume a single person is capable of 24/7 service and handle the possibility of multiple large-scale issues simultaneously. Also factor in expertise (not just familiarity) in all areas of infrastructure.
Sounds like a lot of gobbledy gook to me.
That's the neat thing about leaderless resistance.

Although Anonymous is special, because typical leaderless resistance can only exist with very strict rules (see: ALF).
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I poke in on Mono from time to time to see what's new there, and I probably don't do it enough. It seems like every time I show up they've finished what they were doing previously and a rolling into a host of other new things. These guys are freakin' rock stars at this stuff. In light of the fact that Java's future has a lot of people flummoxed, it might be interesting to see if there's increased entry into Mono. Are there any good general numbers on the type of use Mono is getting these days? I'd never expect to see some kind of mass exodus from Java or the JVM, but all these new language features and paradigms going into mono are just SO COOL. In the face of how long it took Java 7 to get rolling, Mono seems incredibly nimble to me, but at the same time it also doesn't have that rock solid feel that I get when I think about developing on the JVM. Mad props to these guys, the just never seem to get tired.
I notice that did not stop plenty of information about this order to end up in the media within an extremely short time.

Presumably wired citing 'sources' means that some people are still willing to talk to the media about the information they received. Of course, 'hard' proof (actual copies) of stuff tends to be much more damning but you'll never be able to lock up that information carrier called the brain and it will hold plenty of bits of information.

What bugs me is that no government seems to have clued in to the most obvious and totally secure method of cleaning up their act and making sure that nothing worth leaking is done.
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Interested to compare to http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3252277/demand-for-tech-staff-high... which suggests that the number of IT jobs in the UK is growing, and that growth will accelerate over the next year.
When I programmed FORTRAN, there were much uglier things to shoot yourself in the foot with. For example, parameter lists in function calls were not checked: you pass in a double, and the function expects an integer? Good luck with that, the compiler didn't warn about it and no value conversion would take place (the runtime would just interpret part of the bit pattern of the double as an int), and it would probably crash at runtime.

Luckily we have function prototypes in C nowadays ;-)
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Ask HN: How do you use beta testers?
Does anyone in the HN community use the old paradigm of the beta tester? That is, do you have a select group of tech-savvy, early-adopter, high-feedback users that you use to test new features or new products? OR do you just throw a MVP out there and A/B test every iteration on all your users.

The discussion earlier today about 'toxic clients' got me thinking that the reverse could be true too and that there could be a class of, we'll call them 'gem clients,' who not only use your product with minimum fuss, telling their friends how great it is, but who also provide valuable feedback and suggestions? It seems to me the idea of a beta-tester still has value in-so-far as you can use it to get these high quality users early on, lowering the feature-set and polish necessary for a product to be minimally viable and providing real-world feedback at an earlier stage in your product development.

So how do you get those customers to adopt your platform? Where do they come from? Are they as valuable as my musings think?
Exactly this. I remember there were 5-6 problems they had: Gamblor, Prime Bits, SuperPatterns, a Unicode problem, and perhaps another graph related one. I managed to finish maybe four of them in my spare time at college, and wasn't too excited about working for Facebook. At the time I thought it was just a poor substitute for MySpace, which I didn't have much respect for anyway, and that it was technologically uninteresting. So, I never sent them in.

I wonder how fb engineers hired (c) 2005 are doing.
I've never smoked in my life, but consider myself pro-legalization. However I just love the UX and design of leaf.ly.
I'm the writer of that blog and I eagerly anticipate responses, thoughts, criticisms and put-downs :D
Can you link us on some studies disproving a link between Marijuana and some long-term health risk? I find it hard to believe that smoking something ISN'T bad for you, though am aware that there are other uses of it, as well..but a lot of people (if not most) tend to smoke it. What about the long-term cognitive impacts of using Marijuana as a mind-altering substance? Alcohol, caffeine and other drugs have long term effects, so what are the ones from Marijuana?
OK, I should check out the ACM article.

It definitely seems like one needs to pare down the interactions with the provider to some bare minimum. Limiting it to single, uncorrelated map-reduce (or even just reduce) steps seems like it would remove a lot of potential for abuse.

But who knows---if service providers tend to take in and operate on more data than clients (especially from multiple clients), it seems there is a fundamental information imbalance, and obfuscating techniques by clients can't possibly do as well as deanonymizing techniques by the provider in the long run.

I wonder if it is the case that fully homomorphic encryption might _increase_ the potential for such information leakage relative to a partial homomorphic encryption; the more algebraic structures for which an encryption function is a homomorphism the more vulnerable it is. If a fully homomorphic encryption captures the +, * operations of a ring, you can exploit two identity elements, one for * and one for +. The next step in 'badness' would then be something like R-modules, where in addition to the ring you have another group (and another operation and identity element).
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I've always insisted that I just liked reading and puzzles and things, and if anyone else spent as much time reading and writing as I did, they'd be pretty smart too.

Fifteen years ago, I would have told you they secretly understood that and thought you were a sucker for bothering. I always suspected that people used the concept of "intelligence" and their supposed lack of it to excuse themselves from responsibilities such as reading a god damned book once in a while.

How could either of us be disproved? Ability and sustained effort go together so consistently that the exceptions are too rare to mean anything. Whether success enables effort or effort enables success, there's no denying they're found together. I did many things "effortlessly" in school because I started learning them years before. I read (and studied and reread) an Isaac Asimov book on basic physics ("Understanding Physics") in junior high, so is it any wonder physics came "effortlessly" to me in high school? I started learning high school chemistry from a "Chemistry the Easy Way" study guide a year and a half before I took the class; is it any wonder I got As despite being a lazy student who never paid attention in class?

Of course, part of the draw of learning physics and chemistry was that I was acting out a role I enjoyed, that of the "smart kid." So I was "smart" because I did the work because I liked being
"smart"... who can find the beginning of that? I remember that in first grade we decorated coat hangers with little construction paper cards for each book we read, and I wanted mine to have more cards than anybody else's. There's no telling how it started.

I might really enjoy slam-dunking basketballs if I just did it more, but there is a really good chance that its never gonna happen, no matter how much I try.

You should admit that you really don't care enough to find out how your body would respond to six months of an hour of daily training aimed at dunking a basketball, and you should consider whether your attitude towards dunking a basketball is any different from a "stupid" person's attitude toward acquiring "intelligence." A twinge of regret, yet security in yourself as you are, and fear that commitment to change would be futile, and worse, appear foolish.
How do you access a file that large? Presumably you don't have to stream it from S3 to EC2 in its entirety in order to do computations with it. Does that mean you can have random access into it in order to work with a chunk at a time?
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Someone calling you weekly and saying idiotic things?

I wonder if anybody would pay for that, and, at the same time, whether that would be a sign of narcissism.
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I definitely see a connection between this and their recent addition of Cluster GPU instances... big rendering files, scientific data sets, etc... http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/11/15/announc...
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I would like to remind you of 4chan's official motto: trolls trolling trolls.

I love how the response to my ironic post is ad-hominem attacks and calls to come out with the downvote pitchforks... Are we on reddit?
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Sadly, the nature of the internet is that unduplicated content will die out within a few years. It should be OK to wholly copy an article, while at the same time pointing back to the original piece and original author.

Granted, the duplicator in this case should have made the original author more visible.
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I don't know, does reddit have anonymous cowards ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqq8-3ZBFeE @8:00 there's some myth debunking about alleged health risks due to smoking mj.

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Sounds like an extreme case of the Dunning-Kruger effect in combination with our good friend, the Impostor Syndrome.

I'd say that you should seek external validation, i.e. make something and have it ripped apart on HN.
If it really was more cost effective to run your own infrastructure, then I wonder why Netflix is going out of their way to migrate all of their infrastructure to Level3 and AWS. They're even discussing the details at the last cloud computing meetup: http://www.meetup.com/cloudcomputing/calendar/14476942/

[Edit: Slides for Adrian's Talk on Netflix->AWS Here: http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-on-cloud-combined...

Video of his talk here:http://blip.tv/file/4252897
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Unless you are ruthlessly disciplined (Craigslist), it rarely makes sense to roll out your own infrastructure. When you start to sustain IT Systems in a corporation, the real costs are not only what's visible, but also the cost of managing, hiring, budgeting, change control, procurement, etc...

Plus - you get to ride on all the scale discounts of your cloud hosting company. And, huge win - you don't have to chose the "Safe" technology solutions (Cisco + HP + EMC, or Juniper + Dell + Hitachi) - but you can let your cloud hosting company go spend a fortune on vetting an inexpensive, innovative, but unproven technology, and then ride on their investment in that vetting process.