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The "IPv4 marketplace" idea has serious issues of its own, though:

1. it's ARIN (and, I think, other registrars) policy that you do not `own' your assignments in any legal sense. So if you sell them you may be committing fraud. If the deal goes bad it's not clear what the legal recourse would be. This is just a flipside of the "take back the /8s" problem: it gives too much for the lawyers to do.

They might even collide: suppose a large company with a /8 (say, Haliburton) decides to open a IPv4 marketplace. In response, ARIN says "well its clear you have more IP space than you need, so we're taking back your allocation effective next month" Now who has the rights to those IPs: the people who paid Haliburton for them, or those that got them in new assignments from ARIN?

2. Just having an IPv4 address isn't useful if it isn't routable. To split up a /8 into tiny salable bits means that all of the backbones need to update their BGP route prefix filters.

If this were done under the auspices of ICANN this wouldn't be a big problem at all: if ICANN says that the allocation policy for an address range has changed then all of the big players will follow suit. (There can be a few remaining routing issues for a new /8 on the periphery but they tend to get sorted out fairly quickly)

Would a similar announcement from Halliburton have the same effect? Doubtful, especially if it is done in opposition to ICANN's wishes. So probably any IPs "bought" in this system won't actually be routable.

3. Related: even if there was a healthy, 100% legal marketplace for IPv4 space it could only be practical if they were bought and sold in large chunks exclusively. If everybody who wanted some space for their company had to buy their own /28, the global BGP routing table would completely explode.

The only workable marketplace would be at the ISP level.

4. The registries are all united in wanting IPv6 deployed. Having companies making big profits selling their lucky IPv4 windfalls means that there would be deep-pocketed people with a vested interest in stalling IPv6 even more... after all if IPv6 were widely deployed the value of `their' IPv4 addresses would plummet.

Now it is true that if the IPv4 situation becomes dire enough, some of these players might decide to suddenly get into the hosting game and put more of their IP space to use. For instance, Apple has a /8 and just built a HUGE datacenter.. maybe they want to do their own version of EC2? The idea is a little odd but maybe not unthinkable
What I find even more frustrating is getting enough karma to do things like downvoting, and then losing those abilities out of the blue because the requirements were moved up.
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Hm, it strikes me that there are absolutely zero advertisements of any kind on that page.
Any site that wants Google to stop copying their content to Google news can ask Google news to stop doing so. It's very simple.
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Exactly... to beat Google, you need time and data. Or you can do what MS did to fill the gap for a while.
I have no bias against them other than the fact that they seemed a pulpit for AQ, but even then I'd rather have something than nothing.

I don't watch Fox, MSNBC, or the rest unless I have to, so it's not an issue of who's better or the least biased as much as it is who will waste my time least.
This is a much bigger problem than ATDHE:
http://torrentfreak.com/us-resume-file-sharing-domain-seizur...

DHS seized a domain that had twice been ruled by a court of law in the corporation's home country, an EU state, to be operating completely legally. The corp. has absolutely no presence whatsoever in the US.

This one domain may be the straw that broke the camel's back — it wouldn't surprise me if the rest of the international community begins moving towards demanding that the US forfeit control over the 3 root TLDs posthaste.
Let me put it this way- If I were running a cable company, and I had to make a pure business decision on whether to carry AJE, I wouldn't do it. People were up in arms over a "mosque" several blocks away the WTC site...People were outraged at our President's middle name. there would be a HUGE uproar if cable operators started broadcasting "muslim propaganda" in our homes. I'm talking mass boycotts.
I'm not sure about the IRS, but I know for a fact non-profits have been in a bind with Apple for years for just that reason. Apple wants 30% of the donations. Or rather, Apple will not allow credit card transactions that do not go through in app purchase.

Every charity wants to arm its people with an iPad or send out a free iPhone app to collect donations. Ever notice how there aren't any?
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I will also be "that guy"---as another commenter said---mainly due to the author's title and finishing rhetoric, even though he is not even attempting to make any convincing arguments in the body but merely pointing out SO's technology stack which has been known since quite some time.

Yes, StackOverflow is a nice success story for a .NET stack, but I think an important piece here is actually mentioned by Joel:

"We are using about 1/10th of the hardware that they are, unfortunately, and maybe that’s because they are not good programmers"

StackOverflow says little about "the power of WISC" and more about Attwood and Spolsky being good, experienced Microsoft-tech developers. We cannot compare the power of WISC vs the power of LAMP (for example) when performance and productivity are metrics. It's hard enough to compare each one on its own, but even harder to mix the two. The purported value is thus a red herring. Compare SQL Server to MySQL or C# to PHP, and then we'll have a discussion.

"Can you beat phenomenal performance, reduced CPU usage and great productivity which now comes at no cost up-front?" I can copy and paste that into any flamewar thread on any side of the argument and it will still make sense and you will still want to agree. The reader here agrees with the question, and never with the thesis---as much of a thesis there can be in this post, which is only implied. An unbiased question to be asked should be, free licenses or not, is WISC worth it? Well, no:

* Windows -- Yuck. The only reason to ever want to develop on Windows is if you are using the AllegroCL IDE[1]. Windows as a server? Is there ever any argument there, or is just acquiescence due to the rest of the stack?

* IIS -- Seriously? Have you ever had to manage a farm of servers all running IIS? There may be tools out there to automate IIS maintenance across servers, but do they beat good ol' text config files?

* SQL Server -- Fine, it may have its merits without needing 10 years of experience, so again, where's the SQL Server vs MySQL practical comparison?

* C# -- Mixed feelings. If you're stuck with the above three, not too terrible of a choice if you know the language well and are in a hurry. Else, learn Boo.

Pardon my sarcasm, but there really is no point in belaboring the merits of WISC in terms of performance or productivity. It has its place, and its values, but this leads to a different discussion.

But here's kind of what I felt[2] when I was developing on the MS stack at my previous job:

"I once saw a nature special in which some insect or other dragged some other dead insect somewhere then turned around and dug a whole for it to bury it but the researchers moved the dead insect a bit while it was digging so it had to drag it back but while it did they filled in the hole and back and forth this insect went indefinitely until a PETA sniper took out the researchers."[3]

[1] The AllegroCL IDE is only "full-fledged" on Windows.

[2] After taking the red pill, of course.

[3] Kenny Tilton on comp.lang.lisp
That's because Al Jazeera English receives its funding from the Qatari government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Editorial_independen...
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I've been through the gambit of making heavily used applications under ASP, ASP.NET, CakePHP, and Django. Part of what comes up in these kinds of discussions has to do with how a .NET website works vs how a "Linux" website works.

The difference in performance per hardware dollar for a .NET setup and a Linux type setup can be quite large. Especially if you compare an ASP.NET site to a PHP site. The .NET stuff is going to be compiled, or at least pre-parsed, and likely jitted. To get comparable performance out of PHP, you'd need to use APC or Zend or something similar. For small sites the difference may not be all that large. But if you're using something like CakePHP, there can be a good amount of stuff for the server to parse on every single request.

Also a dead simple dumb LAMP setup is going to use Apache prefork, and won't have nearly as good scalability for the same amount of memory as an ASP.NET setup would. A naive Linux PHP setup is actually more like what the ancient, pre-.NET world of ASP looked like.

So in short, ASP.NET is going to blow the doors off of a dead simple LAMP setup if you have a huge amount of code and don't use Zend or APC. A more modern setup under Linux would do much better of course, say Python and WSGI use Apache-worker. This setup is going to give much better performance (due to not having to precompilation) and make better use of memory (through threads in apache-worker vs what you get with apache-prefork).

Microsoft's technologies come out of the box building higher performance apps in the default configuration than some of the more naive pure-Linux approaches.
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Do you really go around calling people morons? Is it just on the internet, or do you do it in real life where you're not anonymous too?

If it's the first case, then that's a pretty cowardly way to act. If it's the latter, then you should just be ashamed of yourself in general.

Calling names is not OK. I'm pretty shocked you got any up-votes for your comment at all, and I'm ashamed of everyone on the site who gave you the bump.

EDIT: AT time of posting this comment, he had +8. My faith has been restored in the HN community.
My concern is this - does this nullify my ability to use Feint or Urban Airship instead of Apple's iAP? If so, that freaking sucks, and it might be the deal breaker for me.

I love native apps, and I love Apple, but more than anything, I like choice and ease of use.
Not a memory expert myself, but a friend of mine dismisses overly large swap as consuming more RAM to handle it's addressing - that is, the more swap you have, the less of your RAM you can access.

I'm not sure what the consumption rate is, but he won't create general servers with more than 2GB swap (if that), no matter how much RAM the system has.
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Rolling it out in waves. Starting with the people with the most referrals.
If copying is going to stop, I'd like Google to stop copying Bing's look and feel, it's getting really annoying.

ps. I want my old image search back and my old map controls back
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Let me point out a major inconsistency in Apple's position.

You can buy music from Amazon. You can load that into iTunes. You can then play it on your iPhone/iPad/iPod.

Why can't you do the same for Kindle (etc) books?

For Apple to take this position is terrible for the users. iBooks for example has nothing in Australia (beyond Project Gutenberg). Literally, nothing.

For Apple to deny a user access to Kindle books that Apple doesn't themselves offer just because they didn't get their 30% cut is simply ludicrous.

Gruber bashing is popular here but let me just quote one part:

> Translation: We haven’t changed the rules, but what used to be allowed is no longer allowed.

Doesn't sound like Apple apologism to me.

I'm really disappointed Apple is playing semantics on this one, arguing their vague rules haven't changed, just that how they've decided to interpret them and the enforcement steps they're taking, have.

One could argue Amazon might accept a smaller cut but that is a real problem for Apple. They sell a significant amount of iTunes credit through retail channels and that is sold at a discount of probably 15-30% (eg in Australia you can always find some big retailer selling 2x$20 for $30 or better although better is much rarer).

So Apple could decide to take a smaller cut and make a loss on that with retail iTunes credit hoping that the people who pay through credit card balance it out but I have trouble believe that'll happen, particularly since I can't see Amazon accepting anything more than 10%, if that.
Most sites are very happy to have traffic from Google. Those that aren't can simply configure robots.txt.
9/10 desktops run Windows and IE still has almost 60% market share, despite being much worse than Firefox or Chrome (yes IE9 is a huge improvement). Microsoft could do a lot of damage to Google by leveraging their desktop monopoly. I think Google has around 70% search market share, but they're easily replaceable. By the time the courts sort it out, the damage will be done.
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Let's face it, designers are helpers. That's why YC wants to provide them to the startup they believe in. Sometimes there are diamonds hidden behind poor graphic designs. They know that.

The bad news is that it is not exactly "cheap".

Question: is there such a thing as a "no distraction design", ie a graphic design that exposes the true value of the technology, ie a design that is the contrary of a great makeup on an ugly face?

Such a thing would help figure out what deserves attention, from a technological point of view.

Another benefit, given that developers are sometimes poor at graphic design, it would also "remove" some ugly makeup from nice looking face...

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As the vast majority of news networks have been scaling back "expensive" forms of journalism like having dedicated foreign bureaus, Al Jazeera has been one of the precious few news agencies that has been rapidly expanding it's foreign bureaus. The move is really starting to pay off for them.

In an increasingly globalized economy where we need much better coverage of international events, US news networks are going to find themselves scooped and out reported by Al Jazeera again and again. It's an impressive news agency, and to think, we bombed their offices twice in the last 10 years by accident[1].

ref:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_Iraq_War#...
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4% to 5% is norm from my experience in NYC - however keep in mind how your company is doing.

As for squeezing out more - do as others have suggested and see if you are earning what you should be according to market rate in NYC and your level of experience. Bring any accomplishments to the table that have helped the company over the course of the last year.

Bottom line is, be fair to company in what you feel you deserve and be fair to yourself as well - don't be greedy.
This is the key to effective programming. I like to measure what the code ENABLES both the end user, and the programmer in the future (design leverage) - not just what it DOES FOR the user in a literal way.

The code becomes more abstract, more of a model, and the software may become a 'tool'. (You'll find that as you program you will naturally refactor to a more abstract model and things will "click-in" and work the way you want it the first time)
SO is optimized for askers, not for answerers and intentionally so! The whole goal of the website is to make asking questions simple, finding related questions (reasonably) simple, and getting good answers quickly. As you can see from profiles of some users, some people exchanged their books for SO (why look it up - just ask). True, the rep game is a tough one, but so is life, so get over it.
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Nice article. Should almost be understanding turnover rather than solving it.
This is eerily similar to the situation that Android phone manufacturers face from the carriers—either let Verizon et al get their cut and impose their restrictions or don't get access to their network. Verizon is routinely critizied for sticking their fingers in others' pies. On the other hand Apple gets accused of "improving the experience for users".
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They can watch it and make up their own mind. Can't they?
Props for that...I'm a big RP fan, and I like seeing him appear where he was voted. Touche.
At their scale the slightest percentage of users having broken IPv6 implementations means millions of users cut off form their service.
What are you accepting payments for?

WePay is great for anything based around a group. They have a really nice API - I built http://www.everribbon.com with it

Amazon FPS is also really great if you want to do anything complicated. Unfortunately this means that the API is also very complicated and a bit hard to dive into.

Shoot me an email if you want to ask me questions about either one.
There's no Kindle app for Barnes&Nobles' Nook or Sony's Reader, there's no iBooks app for Amazon's Kindle either. Apple is the only ebook reseller that allows other ebook resellers on its platform. It's to be expected that Apple wants to charge the other ebook resellers for the privilege.

How much Apple wants to charge publishers and distributors is unclear, but I have a feeling that we'll find out more at tomorrow's launch of The Daily [1].

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/02/01/the.daily.peek...
No "thievery" was involved, he licensed it in exchange for access to pre-IPO Apple stock.
Yes, although in some ways MSR is less in the bubble than the rest of the company -- people go to conferences and are aware of what's happening elsewhere. Microsoft's bubble applies just as much here as Google's: I'm sure a lot of folks there can't understand why Google or anybody else would think there's anything wrong with what they did here. When bubbles collide.

My charter back in 2006-7 was "game-changing strategies", which meant getting people to think outside the bubble. So we did a lot of work analyzing Google's, Yahoo's, and Microsoft's corporate culture. One of the things that's core to Google's identity is preferring algorithms to anything that has to do with people, and that's very much on display with Binggate.
Ask HN: Review my startup: What the Trend
What the Trend, or WTT, helps you understand the “why” to Twitter’s trending topics. When a new topic becomes popular on Twitter, it's listed as a "trending topic” on WTT. This trending topic is then defined, voted on, redefined, and eventually ‘verified’ by our global community of ‘editors’. Basically, WTT is a crowd-sourced ‘engine’ for explaining why trends are happening globally -- and in near real time.

These definitions of trends can then be consumed by anyone via our API (which is cloned from Twitter’s API with additional metadata). Half of the top 10 mobile clients for Twitter consume our feed, and we deliver over 2.5 billion definitions a month.

As this is currently bootstrapped, I’ve begun looking at different business models, but I welcome feedback as to what you guys think would resonate most with the people willing to spend.

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This is probably one of the reasons I stayed away from iOS. Too much policing. It is absolutely ridiculous to force Amazon, Sony to offer purchases through the app store and give 30% of their cut to Apple. I hope Amazon and Sony takes off their apps or charge an additional 30% if the purchase is done from the respective iOS apps.
Well if you're just starting out, you probably don't want to go all out. Start simple and cheap. There are plenty of affordable and reliable hosts out there. I use a dedicated server with JustHost... I upgraded from a shared server for pretty cheap. Their shared server lagged every now and then but was overall very reliable... and I've had 0 problems with their dedicated server. As far as control goes, I have quite a bit of control over everything - as much as I really need. You can add SSH/Shell access if you really need it. I'm sure other hosting companies out there offer a bit more control than JustHost (or similar) but if you want ABSOLUTE control, you'd need to host the site yourself. The best thing for you to do when starting out though is save your money... there's no point in going all out until you expect a lot of traffic.
I guess I'm taking it for granted that any piece of code is going to have multiple bugs in it, and you're going to spend more time debugging than you did writing. I still don't think you've said anything that shows the maxim to be false in the general sense, only in the sense that it could be worded a little more clearly.

But it's a proverb, not a design spec.
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Shouldn't that be:

6ren: You're welcome.

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"Think about this from Microsoft's point of view, the [foobar] app is free, uses Microsoft's infrastructure, and Microsoft get nothing out of it, besides the increased usefulness of their devices (which isn't tiny)."

Yeah, that's right. Even fucking Microsoft is more level-headed and market friendly than Apple.
It's somewhat mind-boggling just how little {RAM, storage, CPU speed} this thing has, while still able to do useful things.
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"so Google set up a honeypot – some made up words like [hiybbprqag] linking to random unrelated sites."

That's not my understanding of what Google did at all. Google fed back search results for keywords that didn't exist on the Internet -- period, and they started eventually showing up in Bing.
This video makes me so mad. How does the police find these braindead "plain clothed police" fighters?

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but this is EXACTLY why there should be no gun restrictions on the people.

A couple of bodybuilders wouldn't dare to go up to a revolutionary mass of people in Texas.
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the sooner government steps in and clips Apple's wings the better

What exactly do you want the government to do?
I can't wait until the day competition from Android will force Apple to be less arrogant and abusive but we both know that day has not yet arrived. Apple has 99% of tablet market and probably ~50% of smartphone market.

The important figure is that it's 85 million devices as of April last year (http://www.tipb.com/2010/04/08/50-million-iphones-sold-35-mi...).

Do you actually argue that it's ok for Apple to forbid competitors like Adobe, Mozilla, Sony or Amazon from having the same access to 85 million (and growing) users of iPhone/iPad as Apple has? Is it a function of market share?

The cause => effect in those situations is simple. Those who have enough market share to impose abusive terms, do. Whether it is Microsoft with Windows, Apple with iOS or telco companies collecting outrageous fees, they do it because they can. A 90% market share is not necessary.

In all cases it limits competition and as an end result hurts users who pay higher prices and don't get to use innovations that the gatekeeper doesn't like.
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