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That would be Trafigura. The British press was banned from reporting it (and still is). So they handed their material over to foreign presses in hopes that they would carry on reporting it.
Is it so that EB automatically provisions new services underneath it? Isn't that a bit of a risk?
It does make it harder to make money from your work, and it's the closest you can get to that while still using a (well-known) open source license. I have no doubt that lots of people are indeed using the GPL for that purpose; look at pretty much any GPL-vs-BSD debate for further proof.

That said, yes, the GPL doesn't actually make it impossible to turn a profit.
Not just that. This law even places restrictions of access to open source softwares from sites like SourceForge, GoogleCode, GitHub etc. even when the original developers are not from US.
automatic scaling would be a good benchmark for the true definition of cloud.

a lot of "cloud" services these days are nearly identical to VPS services of yore, with the added new ability to create/destroy VPS nodes whenever you want. very few of the big "cloud" providers actually handle auto scaling (as it's difficult in a world where all apps are not made the same).
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RDS pricing appears competitive to Heroku's dedicated databases. It's hard to compare them directly since RDS separates instance type, on-demand and reserved instances, provisioned storage, replication (crossing availability zone boundaries), and number of requests. Heroku on the other hand provides a fixed amount of storage (and one that's twice the max one can provision for RDS), a mix of instance types, and a connection cap limit. It's not clear if Heroku provides multiple availability zone instances similar to RDS.

Ignoring provisioned storage and request costs one can have a small on-demand RDS instance for ~$80/month. Heroku's instance (RAM/CPU) equivalent (Ronin) is $200/month.
If you decide to keep it, please keep displaying the header on subsequent pages. Ajax loading the rest on the first page is better, though.
> Also, if you're sending more than 2^68 bytes of data, CBC is insecure too.

Can you explain why?
First, he wasn't calling the people who work at Facebook stupid. Second, I have no idea how smart John Scalzi is... and you probably don't either.

He was criticizing the idea of Facebook. Facebook is a very well implemented system. But that doesn't mean that you can't question the validity of the system. Just because it's hard to build doesn't mean that it is worthwhile to use.
You know what would be cool? If the author went to www.facebook.com, found the rather prominent input box on top called 'Search', and tried putting something in it.

There's a lot that can be improved, but Facebook already has a search engine. One that even produces Bing results, like the OP wants.
You certainly can sell a book :-) I'll be getting it for my birthday in a couple of months.
He means web search.
I'm talking about searching the web, not my social network.
That box searches the web. It even uses Bing.
I was 7. I probably built something with Lego that was way cooler than a website.
Thank for your extensive comments, gnosis. They're very elucidating.
Nah, it's fine. The faster the traditional networks tank the faster people realize that the new hotness is elsewhere, and the faster resources and talent flows to that elsewhere.
Sounds like he uses Facebook mainly to stay in contact with his friends but hates that Facebook doesn't do everything he needs. Facebook doesn't have to do that and the rest of the internet is still there.
Birthday collisions.
So if your secret recipe contains 11 herbs, spices, and a pinch of dioxin that should be confidential?
I'm sorry but I still can't spot it. Tried searching for something and it returned my friends updates.

Even if it is there, I don't think there is as much emphasis/focus on this feature as there should be. I notice you work for Facebook so it will be great to hear from you what you think about focusing on web search as a central strategy.
Exactly. "PR and faffery" are the secret sauce that will make or break your business. You can have the best product in the world, but without "PR and faffery" you will never get beyond a handful of early adopters. More than that, any site that looks like it has become successful without "PR and faffery" has just done the "PR and faffery" in a subtle way so that it looks like it has not happened!
True. But they will fix that with a little time.
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=foo

'Web Results' in the left hand column. I agree with you about emphasis/focus.
I haven't used Bcc many times but generally Facebook messages seem all phony to me. It doesn't seem to be a real conversation; I don't "own" the messages the same way I do when I use a real email program. Even gmail offers me tools to work with the messages themselves: on Facebook there's very little I can do with the messages. Basically I can just reply or delete the thread: exactly the same options that I have with a status with comments.
What better time to kick him? The point is not to make the guy feel bad, it's to drive home the point that even people of inordinate intelligence can and will get this stuff wrong. Hand-rolled crypto is like catnip to a certain class of programmer, since we all like to think we're brilliant enough to do it right if we just apply enough brainpower. This is a good object lesson we all need to learn from.
The Facebook-Bing deal might be geo-targeted and not show up from India where Paras is located.
Here's the original video page at blip.tv, with download link available: http://blip.tv/file/3627639
I did say 'not in Brisbane'
This story was the one that broke the camel's back for me, in terms of waiting for Samsung/T-Mobile to ship a 2.2 update for the Vibrant. I dug around and found "Eugene's Ginger Clone" 2.2 ROM and installed it yesterday. My Vibrant is noticeably snappier, battery is lasting longer, and it's now devoid of bloatware.

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At the moment that appears so.

If you wanted something similar for Python or PHP then you could use VMWares VApp stuff which gives you the PaaS solution on top of hardware hosted by Colt which gives you the IaaS solution.

The reason that the VMWare offer gives you Python, PHP or other stuff, is that under-the-hood VMWare are using Chef and you can run your own custom Recipes, hence you could deploy whatever you want as a managed platform... though you would lose the Eclipse right-click deploy (though honestly if you're deploying from CI you're probably not going to be using this anyway).

Edit: It being almost impossible to just find simple and clear documentation on the VMWare site, this is the info link I've managed to unearth: http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/overview.html

The key point is that you could create a virtual datacenter, hosted with a 3rd party like Colt, and then use Chef to manage it as a platform, and deploy directly to it as if you owned your own "Elastic Beanstalk".

As an aside, I for one am getting tired of the never-ending list of acronyms and strange product names that are coming out from every vendor.
At the moment I'm able to launch applications in the US East region only. When will the other regions support Elastic Beanstalk?
It's interesting how this works in the Dutch market: the Galaxy S phones aren't carrier-branded here (they're all called Galaxy S). On phone sites, you can select the phone first, and then choose for a contract from any of the 3 main carriers. It also means that when Samsung ships an update, you can use that update for your phone, whichever carrier you're on.

Samsung released Froyo in November, and you can install it on any Galaxy S phone bought here. The update isn't over the air though; you have to connect your phone to your pc, and which auto-updates it. In any case, the carriers have nothing to do with this update so any delays are purely Samsung's fault.
This is a possibility, I'd have to ask around to see it is the case. If so, I apologize for the snarky tone in my first comment.
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The job of the billing system is not to "remain abreast of changes to the law and accounting practices." That's the job of the accountant. I have a good accountant. The job of the billing system is to keep track of who owes me how much money.

I mean, I have an accountant for dealing with the law, with deprecation, and other more complex subjects. but I'm not going to make my accountant bill an $8/month customer.
An effective theory of change. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange

I'd say IQ, but that isn't a skill, now is it?
I think that's pretty vague.

I took a look at your sample report (http://usermetrix.com/projects/2) and your home page, and it looks like you have a combination of Java AOP logging and exception logging to a database, and then you make a report based on that? Is there anything "actionable" in the report?

So the people buying this service will be Java end-user app developers and their managers, no one else will really need it?

How about: "UserMetrix lets Java and Android developers measure feature adoption and exception message trends across applications to pinpoint usability and functional problems before your users notice"
No, I spot it now. But I wonder how many people actually realize that you can search the web from within Facebook. It almost looks like a side-feature while I argue that it should be a central feature of Facebook.
Just pointing out that men face real, actual discrimination, whereas actually there is nothing preventing women working IT jobs if they want to.
Maybe iPod touch users are stupid? In all seriousness, that's not a very rigourous way of polling.
Nitpick - NCSA Mosaic wasn't the first generally available web browser, Viola was around at least six months before Mosaic.
So basically the formula is, if you are going to commit a crime, make sure you form a corporation around it first. It literally shields you from prison time.

I wonder just how many people have to obviously die from someone's risky decision, hiding behind a corporation, for someone to serve even one day. The BP disaster sets the bar pretty high for everyone to walk away scot-free, the idea that one day there will be some other kind of event even worse than that is pretty scary.
It's funny you should mention being married, because that's why I don't have a Facebook account.

I signed up for MySpace because a girl elected to give me her MySpace username instead of her phone number. I haven't logged in since before meeting my wife, and never got a Facebook account because I haven't yet needed one.

It seems to me to be the difference between spending time and wasting it. All I've heard about the site is photo sharing, discussing parties, people being shocked at the drop-down other people clicked for their relationship status, and games that used to be pointless (like that silly game about buying your friends or the vampire game) but have recently become manipulative and borderline malicious (Zynga). It consumes time without providing value. I have enough useless stuff competing for my time against valuable stuff.

So far, the only actually useful social site I've used is GitHub, which is more about adding a social component to doing things. I do enjoy Twitter (which is pretty tolerable and not too demanding if you keep your "following" count low enough), where I read jokes my friends make and occasionally find an interesting link or two. I had high hopes for LinkedIn, but it mostly gets me recruiter spam. ("Do you want to add me as a connection so we can network?", "Do you want to do VB.NET?", "Do you want to move to San Francisco?", "Do you want to take a pay cut and work overtime because our atmosphere is so darned quirky and fun?", and my favorite so far, "Do you want to work for Zynga?"...Nope, none of those.)
> Trademarks can be involved as well: e.g. you cannot resell Firefox and still call it Firefox.

This shouldn't be an issue here, as they've changed the names. They, e.g., sell Scribus as "Desktop Publishing Studio".
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In case you weren't paying attention, the branding was only changed in the Amazon listing and maybe the physical packaging: I haven't bought any of those, but considering that they just blurred / cut the window names from those screenshots, I assume they didn't do anything else.

Branding an application with a different name (i.e. removing all references to the old name from the code-base) takes effort and it's not just a matter of changing the main window title. Just ask the Debian people that rebranded Firefox to IceWeasel.
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There will be quite a bit of management to do, either you have to do it yourself or you have bring someone in to do it for you. In an ideal situation, a project manager can be roped in to manage the P/L, schedule and as well as the scope of each project. You can be a resource for him. Of course the strange thing for him is that he will report the P/L back to you. Kinda of ironic, but it could work, and you still get to do what you like and do best.
upvoted, but since I'm the OP, just wanted to say that yes, this is what I meant.
I've remote-paired a couple of times with skype + screen.

It is very important that both have a good headset/mic.

In screen, we used a shared session and each keep a separate terminal window open for each tab in the session.

The downside was having to develop on a remote machine, but it worked well enough for a few sessions.
why reinvent the wheel badly?

They should just give users @facebook.com email addresses and put in a webmail UI.
In fact, it is disappointing. iPad's readability is nowhere near the iPhone 4.

A screen update, for a device whose primary purpose is reading, is really needed IMHO.
Some time ago, a friend of mine told me that he had a great idea, something like Facebook, but, you know, for the "geeks" and all ze teknischen peepers, blogging, photo sharing, video, everything. At that point, it had simply occurred to me a very simple (and obvious) question: "Well, isn't that exactly the world wide web?"
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Oversimplification. You obviously cannot form a corporation then commit any arbitrary crime and escape judgment. And there have been a number of cases where a corporate executive has committed criminal misconduct that they have been sent to jail for. It's what there is no particular person to whom blame can obviously be assigned where the problem we're discussing comes to pass.
declining quality and costs rising faster than inflation. hmmm, I wonder what entity could be responsible for distorting yet another industry.
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/AU/US

It's missing YCombinator :(
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Interestingly enough, how you made a complete post without actually verifiying the issue .

And as a side note, how do you manage to get all your posts hitting to HN homepage?
for reference, David Mark on jQuery http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/37cb...;
Gizmodo leaked the whole thing in january.. everyone knew about the display, cpu and front-facing camera.
Pay-by-use has always been a risk and people have been using the API + third party libs to automatically provision resources for some time now.

Nothing new here, except that they're squeezing Heroku and GAE now.
> And how many people had their cassette of the Repo Man soundtrack eaten by a Walkman?

Wonderful writing.
The data is not being questioned, the conclusion is.
Nice :)

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/GB/US

eg go to the US if you want money, UK if you want quality of life.

Surprised at this though "The number of adults living with HIV/AIDS in The United States is 0.60% while in The United Kingdom it is 0.20%."
> People then upvote it even though it isn't related because it might be insightful.

What if we, as a community, decided that deliberately trying to float with highly rated comments by posting completely unrelated "responses" is not something we'll tolerate, and downvoted violators, regardless of the insightfulness of the comment? Tangential responses are something more of a gray area, but I'm willing to let them be voted upon on their own merits.
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Maybe I'm missing something because I've never seen it before, but has anyone ever tried leaving blank space at the bottom of the first page relative to the total number of comments? It may work better on items of fixed length than comments, but even on comments it would at least make the scrolling a little less jumpy.
I don't know the actual statistics, but I heard that nearly everyone from my high school went to college after graduating. Even though I got good grades, I was actually a bit of a slacker myself in high school; mostly because I did a lot of extra curricular activities (ice/roller hockey, drumline, cello, studied Japanese and computer stuff). However, I heard somewhere that about 30% of the kids from my high school would drop out from college in their first two years. This seems about right based on what I saw on Facebook. Some of them were slackers, some of them must have had no interest in college and probably shouldn't have bothered going.

Anyway, I'm in grad school now, and I haven't noticed many slackers (maybe a grad student taking a weekend off?). Although, I didn't really notice many slackers in college either. That may be because I went to a research-focused University to study engineering.
That's one of the controversies with English libel law in general, which is fairly strong, applies a burden of proof to the person accused of libel, and doesn't have truth as an absolute defense.
I agree that there is a huge responsibility placed on the shoulders of students, as there should be, but there is a deeper problem here. Colleges should motivate students to inquire, to learn, and to challenge themselves. While this motivation could definitely be indirect, it should still be one of the primary goals of educational institutions (not only universities, but schools of all shapes and sizes).

One of the best ways colleges could motivate students is by making sure the curriculum and corresponding coursework is up-to-date. Now, it may have just been my department (enterprise systems engineering UIUC), but 99% of the material covered during my college career was extremely dated. The 8th edition textbooks were almost identical to their 1st edition counterparts published 30+ years ago. The homework assignments were re-used year after year (which made the acquiring the solutions ridiculously easy). You have no idea how disheartening it is to walk into class every day or sit down to do homework knowing that you will never, ever in a million years use anything you are "learning". It's not motivating. It's not encouraging. It's not challenging.

The 3.5 years I spent in college were, without a doubt, the worst years of my life. I just graduated (early, thank god) and I feel like my brain clicked on for the first time since 2007. Don't get me wrong - I am a huge fan of learning and critical-thinking (taught myself Ruby on Rails over the past few months with no prior programming experience), but it's pretty damn hard when you can get through one of the most prestigious engineering programs in the world on auto-pilot.
Would you be willing to make a wager that their p-value < 0.001?
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"Ooh but then you're disloyal and a job hopper!" - Calacanis et al.

As I stated last time, only businessmen and finance grads are allowed to exercise self-interest. When labor starts responding to the market they get really mad.
Too many amateur investors in the market.
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I, for one, tend not to even read comment threads larger than a certain size, unless I want to see specific reactions to an article. I think jedsmith has it partially right up above when he says "it's about contributing to the conversation", but for me it's also about reading conversations that I can hold in my head. Beyond about 40 comments, I'm not sure I can do this at all.
I think the problem with comparing the United States with other countries in general- specifically Sweden/Norway or even the UK or Canada is that the United States is just so much bigger. So, the characteristics of the "average" person are hardly representative (obviously). It's hard to imagine that this site can adequately compare life in two places. A better comparison may be single metropolitan area or state. I.e I think it would be more relevant to compare NYC with London, or Massachusetts with Sweden.

To the credit of the website though, it is cleanly designed and pretty interesting to play with. Cool.
Yep, could someone take this over? And, also fix all the memory leaks while you're at it, thanks! (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...)
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As far as I can tell, Stuxnet did what it was supposed to do, and left no provable trace to its authors.

Seriously, what more could the authors want? Additional sophistication, just to keep some random bloggers happy?

I'm pretty sure their mission was "destroy some Uranium centrifuges" and not "create the perfect stealth cyber weapon". They succeeded at the former, so it doesn't matter that they "failed" at the latter.
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/IN/CA

I /think/ that the way likelihood of HIV/AIDS is calculated needs to take population into account in a better way. Fun comparison, though!
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I've never really liked the term "maintainer" sort of implies to me that the role is going to be monotonous patching, fire fighting and bug fixing rather than that and influencing the product's direction with the design and implementation of new features. I think "lead developer" would be a better phrase.