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My understanding is that whatever database AWS supports it will let you scale up as much as required. Assuming this is the case unless you are and oracle guru or moving legacy applications i cant see this being useful for anyone other then large organisations who usually prefer to run their own hardware. Why pay for an oracle license if you dont have to. Especially when there are quite a few good oracle alturnatives these days.

I must be missing something here.
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This BrianHolt dude is obviously NOT clean http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1299094. Why did you not do basic research on who you were doing business with?
This is the exact issue that Net Neutrality was formed to fight (though lobbyists have intervened since then). Nobody except for the people who will profit from it want this.

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What's with posting articles from 2006? There are more recent sources with updates, including from FT.com (behind a paywall) and the investigative documentary about this which aired last week in Sweden:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=...
I generally enjoy reading HN, but reddit-style thought-policing like this makes me sick to my stomach.

The guy's not a rapist or a neo-Nazi, he's just not a socialist. Get over yourself.
Just because they don't find pornography immoral doesn't mean they can't appeal to morality on other topics.
Arrggg... we get Oracle but no PostgreSQL?!?!
I'm not against metered billing. I'm against them charging depending on what I power with that electricity, as it were. Also, everyone already pays for their internet access. They're charging people who aren't even their customers.

That gives them power equivalent to levying their own internet taxes on every internet user with almost no accountability.

We've already seen what politicians can do with that and these guys would be even less accountable than them.
OK, now I feel old. I was a sophomore in college at the time. I remember winning a a nice bit of cash when the Raiders beat the Redskins, but I don't remember anyone getting really excited about the product. To put things in perspective, the Macintosh cost about $2500 back then, which is roughly $5000 in today's dollar. Even as an engineering student, I only knew a few people with computers - but none with Macs.

I know that there are strong proponents of brand building, and that that commercial did help establish their iconoclastic image. I just don't know whether it translated into actual sales to the degree that it gets lauded. I'm not trying to be a contrarian for argument's sake. I just think that the success of Apple had way more to do with the return of Steve Jobs and the creation of innovative products that people love than it did with a brand building campaign.
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I'm in the same place. You're absolutely right about our broadband options sucking.
> 'moral high ground' [..] you kind of conceded that a long time ago

I hope you realise that that is simply your opinion you're stating as fact. Many people, including myself, have no moral problem whatsoever with porn, and would consider their piracy concerns as legitimate as anyone else's.
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Ah. So, this would be bad, then:

while true; do wget http://bit.ly/fHHbHh; rm fHHbHh; sleep 1; done

Managing Matters is a small business using Bell (according to Google). The PDF is a large file on their website.
You say "100% of claimed Tips". How much initiative do you take to inform publishers that they've received a tip and should sign-up and claim their money? What do you do if a publisher who has received tips declines participating?

The idea that I could donate money which the publisher hasn't agreed to receive and you could end up keeping it if the publisher doesn't decide they want to be a part of your service rubs me the wrong way.
Can't downvote you, but I don't see more facts in your response. Please elaborate.
I think you could use Witch. http://manytricks.com/witch/
The compile-time version will hang a Clojure REPL, too:

user=> (def d 2.2250738585072012e-308)
I'd like to think that having Mac fanboys hate you is a peripheral perk that comes with running Linux on it.

To be fair, I dislike fanboys of all shapes, colours and flavours.
Fair enough. I'd probably avoid doing that in the future if I was you, it could easily backfire.

Still, best of luck.
I think the main reason Amazon chose Oracle over databases like PostgreSQL is that it also makes it easier for a lot of people to convince their boss to move to AWS.
I would like to see that!
There's no need to embed any code on anyone's site. The whole point is that Readability automatically detects the main body content from a page and extracts it.

As a publisher, if your main body content isn't being detected automatically, probably because your HTML is awful, you can add some classes to the key elements to fix that. But that's not necessary.

There's also no need to register as a publisher to receive contributions. From their FAQ:

"Readability keeps track of pages visited even before a publisher registers with us to view their statistics. If your site has garnered traffic to Readability, we’re already earmarking money for you."

https://www.readability.com/faq/#view-plainGuidelines

However, you will need to register to actually get the funds.
I'm confused. Are you implying that the commercial was fan-made? If not, then how does a commercial produced by Apple equate to the tastelessness of their fans?

That commercial was from '96, and the ranks of Apple fans have grown quite a bit since then (Apple wasn't even running a unix back then!) so I'd venture that quite a few current Apple fans never saw (or maybe saw but don't even remember) that commercial. How does that commercial prove that these fans are tasteless?
You can read PDFs on the Kindle fine.
Tried it in Jython too, of course it fails. I'd have been more surprised if it worked, but it's still amusing and had to see it.
It will work better for Instapaper. I use it regardless of the site formatting, maybe biased towards the longer pieces, which is a good thing.
makes sense, same thing in scala:

Welcome to Scala version 2.8.1.final (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.6.0_22).
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.

scala> 2.2250738585072012e-308

(infinite loop)
This whole thread is EXHIBIT A of why there should be no politics here.
I have a feeling we will see this come up in more places. When we fixed the code for PHP we saw very similar code in a lot of other projects.
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I think, though, that for "never loses changes" to be meaningful it has to be shorthand for "never loses changes unless you do unsafe things". I mean, it certainly loses changes if you don't push to anywhere and then delete your .git directory.

The -f should mean "don't do this, it will probably wreck your shit". Unfortunately certain tools seem to require it way too often so it seems to be going the way of the venerable confirm dialog.

"Deleted all my files? I dunno, some funny box popped up and I hit OK. Was that it?"
FWIW, Paul Graham, made a fuss about putting in a simple link to the searchyc page for searching through archives. His reason was that he didn't want to spend time on something that wasn't really focused on the important issues like comment quality.

He took a lot of flack for, what was surely just a 2 minute job editing some html template, but I can kind of see that logic now.

When you add the link, it signals that you deem "Searching Archives" as an important feature of the site and then it's suddenly no longer just a simple href= entry in a text file somewhere.

Dealing with SSL could be in the same boat. By adding it, you're implicitly saying that 'this site is serious enough to warrant proper security measures' and then that's another rabbit hole that's difficult to get out of.
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Just to confirm .NET/C# handles this and correctly. So does IronScheme.
My point was that they can do it and you wouldn't be able to tell as they always have access to the webcam anyway.
Yes, I often see this and it's almost always that a VIP has moved physical hosts for whatever reason (e.g. planned maintenance on the original box). Occasionally it's that someone's re-JumpStart'd the box. That's sufficient to create a false sense of security, if it ever happened "for real" I would likely dismiss it.
"Helps big companies and the politically-connected"

exactly

Q: Why can't I set up my family's income as a charity? I'll give away 1% of earnings.

A: Because I can't afford lawyers, politicians and accountants to protect me when the government threatens to put me in jail.
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As a side remark, I'd love it if github had an option to disable forced pushes for a project. In general they are very confusing in collaborations.
"FEW tasks are more exasperating than trying to assemble flat-pack furniture from IKEA"

Am I the only one that enjoy assembling flat-pack furniture and believe it is extremely easy?.
In case it's not apparent from my comment, I agree 100%.
Makes your furniture cheaper... and your taxes higher.

You can't produce evidence to support that. An entirely reasonable idea: the increased economic activity generated by Ikea success and happy, employed staff and nice affordable furniture more than offsets the tax revenue that would have been collected.

The flexibility that success stories have to move around and chase better taxation rates makes taxation lower for the rest of us. The barbarians in the capital know that if they make conditions too unnice, the successful people will up and leave. The rest of us are free-loaders on the desire of countries to attract those groups.

If Sweden or Europe changed things to crack down on Ikea, they could move plenty of their operation to Singapore.

You'll have better luck with fair, broadly-based taxes

By fair, do you mean something like the same rule for everyone? Anything broader than that will move into the sort of cajoling you dislike.
On the other hand, it may be hard to judge that from your personal experience as it seems that neither you nor your friends were in the target market. It would make more sense to hear how it affected people with $5k to spend in 1984.
Do you have a source for this? As far as I am aware your brain mostly burns glucose like the rest of your body. Admittedly glucose is also a sugar, but in the context of this talk sugar refers to sucrose (i.e. the white stuff you put in tea) which is 50% fructose, 50% glucose. Which would imply that sugar is still inefficient "brain fuel" compared to other carbohydrates like pure glucose. If you have any sources/references showing me wrong about the brain metabolizing fructose I'd be very interested and grateful if you could point me to it.
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And the fact that this comment was modded up to eight "Waaaaah, your ideology makes me sick" is a sign that things have gone way off the rails.

I'm gonna set my noprocrast to 87000 minutes now and come back in two months.
Don't recall saying you can't.
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That's fair. Those are some major features. I don't find them to be of any particular hindrance though. Frankly, I find I read more quickly on the Kobo, as opposed to traditional book formats.
Thanks for such an in-depth response.

Pertaining to #4 -- it really is for personal reasons. I'm actually quite reluctant to sell the site, as it routinely generates money for me and requires very little work. I do not believe that some sort of peak has been reached. I merely want to work on other things and not have it constantly on the backburner. The subject material isn't universally acceptable as "safe" content, either (it's not porn, though).

Yes, the site is relatively new. My traffic, though, doesn't look like a typical viral site -- it's very slow growth, very organic, and I have zero reason to believe it's about to hit a cliff of any kind.

Also, my adsense earning are as stated, but I am able to get some companies to advertise directly on the site for about that amount per month alone. So the revenue is actually twice that amount. Unfortunately, this isn't a dependable recurring source of income, due to the subject matter mostly.

Is flippa a good place to try to sell a site like this? I've been contemplating doing a threewords.me - style sale, but I want to limit how connected my identity is with the site. It's an interesting situation, to say the least.

Again, thanks for the advice. I didn't expect anyone to answer at 1am :-)
Looks cool, but what's the differences between this and other video website?
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We hope to always error on the side that will benefit the user in these cases.

Telling web publishers they have tips waiting for them is tricky business, i.e. Don't want to be spammy. We hope to develop some interesting ways to notify people that they have tips; but tippers have been filling this void by mentionig on services like Twitter that they've tipped someone for something.

For now, if a tip goes unclaimed by the publisher for 6 months, it's automatically canceled, and the money is returned to the tipper for them to use to tip something else.

We don't currently have a way for someone to block or decline tips for a particular website, but we've talked about adding this type of feature; someone could claim their site, then say they don't accept tips there.

Bottom line, we don't have any intentions of keeping people's money that goes unclaimed, we rather return it so they could fund other tips with it. People can also help support our operations by tipping us, TipTheWeb; eating our own dog food.
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Same story from the BBC, submitted 5 days ago to thunderous silence:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2146951

I think this is an interesting developement and I'd like to see some discussion of it. I wonder if that earlier submission was simply unlucky with its timing, or if people just don't care.
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I'm basing that assumption on the fact that, in the past, whenever I spend a week or two weeks or a month completely focused on the site, I see a significant (2x or 3x) increase in revenue.

Sometimes it's because I find a way to get more traffic, and sometimes it's because I can find an ultra-targeted advertiser to pay for an extended period of time. The problem is that I have zero interest in the subject material and would prefer to rid myself of it completely. But it's definitely got significant value and I want to make sure I don't just give it away for nothing.
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To take the topic a bit more seriously, it seems to me that having to watch crazy European porn is, perhaps, not such a big deal. The music industry often likes to say that without big money coming in, no one will make music. I don't think that's true, but I especially don't think it's true when it comes to porn. Somehow, I have a feeling porn will survive even the coming of the internet...
I remember when everyone was bashing PHP (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066084) when they were bitten by the same issue. Then there were articles about this being maybe a GCC bug or at least design issue but people were still saying that it's PHP's duty to take care of this.

I was always afraid that this might bite other environments too as the code that caused the issue in PHP was apparently taken from elsewhere (see http://blog.andreas.org/display?id=9 for a detailed analysis of the problem). Now this is turning out to be true.
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I think the bonus question is more counter-intuitive, not only is the inverse ratio not the reciprocal, it doesn't exist.
This the ft.com article you're referencing? http://const.it/dewall/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2437643c-29... (link bypasses the paywall)

I personally prefer the economist article. I read it back in 06 and I've read a few more on the Ikea tax setup since then. It seems to still accurately represent the situation, some numbers might be out of date but the gist is the same. That ft.com article is a bit sparse, seemingly written as an update for people already aware of the issue, and as you say paywalled.

Thanks for the additional and up to date info though.
Personally, I use a port of Readability in my feed reader to get around feeds with summaries in it. I should probably release it some time soon...
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The concept of this is "drop" we give a solution for everyone who always have a problem in terms of mobile media format transforming, Now with this, all you need to do is drop many types of media to wizdrop and you can watch the video on your smartphone immediatelly
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Exactly. There's nothing paradoxical about this at all, just a bit counter-intuitive.
I think this probably has something to do with the new subscription model they're rolling out with Newscorp and the Daily. I'm not so sure it's as cut and dry as this article makes out, and I'd wait to hear from Apple about that "access to purchases they have made outside the App Store" bit. It sounds a bit weird to me. I can think of a hundred ways that's not enforceable or even legal.

As I understand it, the only difference here is that the paying for content on an Apple Device now has to go through Apple. Which I think may well be a bonus for end users (in terms of convenience and security), but not so great for people like Sony and Amazon who were expecting to get 100% of the cash but now they'll have to pay 30% (probably) to Apple.

They may think it's unfair for Apple to muscle in on their revenue, but they didn't invent iOS or the iPad or the iPhone or the iPod Touch...

so..... neeeerh!
Growth is the most important factor I think to seek investment. So you can rapidly expand which is sometimes needed: See the Foursquare vs. Gowalla battle.

Even traditional businesses which make a profit can seek investment too for several obvious reasons:

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On the teams I've worked on at Google, we pretty much take the same approach. The only problem is when you're looking beyond your own team's contacts, and you have to search a few different spreadsheets to find the contact of interest. We've thought about using the API to provide a central search to all of the spreadsheets for that case, which wouldn't be too difficult to do.

I'm sure the real contact management tools are nice, but I also love the beauty and ad-hoc nature of spreadsheets. It's so easy, anyone can do it, and so everyone does do it. Might as well embrace it and build on top.
"Konstantin reported this problem to Oracle three weeks ago, but is still waiting for a reply."

This speaks volumes about Oracle as the Java's steward.
Ah, so it's completely mediated by their app. That's a clever way to get publishers to sign up -- "you could be earning $X right now!"
Replacing income tax with a consumption tax would see the super rich pay even less tax as they spend a smaller percentage of their income compared to those with a lower income.

[edited to fixed a typo: "the" => "they"]
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Thanks for the info. For our internal tests our app renders a template a few times a minute with ~500 nodes, but all our users are on Firefox 4 or Chrome latest so no-one’s noticed a problem. If we stard building client-facing apps I’ll definitely look at the alternatives.
I'm an anarcho-capitalist i.e. I've never seen proof for objective morality of any sort (including democracy) hence I support free markets to make the rules of society by group selection and feet voting.

Just as humanity doesn't need a forced state religion to be religious, humanity doesn't need a forced tax system to be social.

Please consider this view point. Don't confuse personal ethics and political morality.
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The frustrating part of the exercise is running through the mouse maze that IKEA stores are designed after.
Thanks for clarifying :)

I don't know that I agree with the refund strategy as the way to handle the issue but it's good to hear you guys come down in a good place ethically/morally on the issue (as you say, the most important thing with this sort of site is trust).
I forgot to mention, this term includes purchase redirects to mobile Safari. The Kindle app accomplishes this but it is fairly disjointed. Recurly mobile payments (http://recurly.com) has a solution that is seamless and redirects back to the app upon checkout completion.
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I have to agree with Yokum, it is hard to find a better deal than this.
I spent 3.5 years of my life in constant, excruciating "please just kill me now"/"I will sell my soul to the devil for 24 hours without pain" kind of pain. Prescription pain killers did little to take the edge off. I'm no longer in constant pain and haven't been in years. Whenever I read something like this, I wish I could help the author resolve their problem and stop hurting so much. Usually, I can't, I think largely because most people don't believe it is resolvable. I would try to write to them (assuming I could even find contact info) but that never works.

:-/ :-/ :-/
I agree that we're at cross purposes, and you're closer to the nitty gritty than I am. I do admit to surprise that you find it more expensive to maintain old equipment than it is to purchase and maintain new equipment though. That's startling, and goes against the behaviours in the tech companies I've worked in.
Yes, you are right, the article says exactly that. And now, what is your opinion about this strategy? You consider it a bad thing to do?