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The whole article seems to be back to front.

As far as I knew Live search was essentially failing then they made it Bing and it's started to succeed.

Am I missing something here or what?

I'm no expert on the history but it seems to me that the opposite of what the author is saying actually happened!
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To be fair to the cutters in Congress, running a government that borrows 40 cents of every dollar it spends is going to lead to a catastrophe.
I'm sorry, but it really is only about rights declaration where needed. The only other useful image task is image attribution, but that needs to be done with text and not a rubber stamp.
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I may have misread, but wasn't the "clever bit" the part that tried to detect if an image was pornographic? (As opposed to just being an image.)

I suppose it could look for fleshtone colors or something; perhaps over a certain % of total, or if the fleshtoned pixels are "bunched up" in certain blobs of areas or something.
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From the article: "If business owners could hire people in the US to clean up their messy databases for $3.00 they wouldn’t need to go on mechanical turk to hire the same person for $1.50 an hour."

That's completely against the very pure form of economic rationalisation Friedman epitomises. A self-interested, economically rational business would hire the worker for $1.50 an hour. They get the same result for half the cost - it's a no brainer. In the absence of a minimum wage, the income of folks in developed countries are depressed towards the levels of income of folks in developing countries - without a corresponding shift of the cost of living. Minimum wages protect the poorer members of society in a developed nation from falling even further behind economically.

As to the point that "minimum wages cause unemployment" - I think this article misrepresents the nature of Friedman's argument in this respect, and completely skips the depth of his position. It also begins to take on the view that low unemployment is the end itself rather than a means to improve underlying social conditions. 0% unemployment with an average low-income wage of $0.50 is not 'better' than 5% unemployment with an average low-income wage of $7.

A final note - the minimum wage in Australia is currently nearly double that of the United States. Our current unemployment rate is about half that of the United States. Unemployment is far more dependent on broader economic factors than just the minimum wage.
Speaking qualitatively, I disagree. I actually use them interchangeably. When I'm using IE (testing features), if I have to search, I just search from the location bar, which defaults to Bing.

I feel like the results are essentially the same and I never recall having trouble finding what I'm looking for in Bing. Though I suppose one huge omission is the date filter. I use that a lot on Google and certainly miss it sometimes on Bing.

Most importantly, Google was essentially stagnant for years until Bing came along. Since then they've really upped their game. They cloned Bing image search. They took the context summary in Bing that I loved from the beginning and one-upped it. And I've seen more natural answers in Google to match what Bing set to do from day one.

I use and support Bing and you should too. What Bing did to Google is like what Firefox did to IE. It reminded them that they should be innovating still!
What is this for, then? It doesn't produce the watermarked image if you right click the image and save it, so I don't know how it would help...

Sorry to shit on your work like that, by the way, I can't explain why this bothers me, but it does :P
But most of that data stored is things like illegal music and film downloads.[* ]

With the rise in popularity of Netflix, Spotify, Pandora, etc. people will only use local storage for a cache. Why would you waste time downloading it, when it's on tap?

* Media producers are a little different in this respect and are always going to want local storage. However Jacques is mostly talking about the 95% of users who just have few 100mb of docs.
Depending on your exact needs, there's a moderate trend towards using game engines for this sort of thing. Two simulation-oriented projects:

* The Delta3d game/simulation engine is mainly funded by the U.S. military, for simulation and training applications: http://www.delta3d.org/

* The USARSim robot simulator is built on top of the Unreal Tournament game engine: http://usarsim.sourceforge.net/

Delta3d is open source; USARSim itself is open source, but depends on the non-open-source Unreal engine.
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UI controls are a contributing factor to Android’s ugliness. I’ll argue that Android doesn’t have a worthy equivalent to Xcode’s Interface Builder.

I have documented that iOS comes with scores of fonts available for Developers at http://iOSFonts.com at the same time (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) Android only has Droid Sans.

In many cases devs — and especially designers — for the mobile market are dog-fooding; they will likely use the iOS version of the app they make because they own the hardware themselves.

Google sets a low bar and a poor example for UX.

There are other factors, too. Some of which are that there is a higher ROI on iOS apps, a larger market share (when you count iPod touch as part of your audience), and an audience more likely to be concerned with quality.
Formerly good at math, but I've lost my skills. Any advice to grow them back?
This is quite a cool trip down memory lane and kinda makes me miss those old text based interfaces.

The other thing I always enjoy checking out is the "code" being edited on screen - I remember spotting some great code in the movie Antitrust, but I cant remember what it was unfortunately.
You want to take some redundancy into account. Even with that, it's still cheap.

Tapes degrade and break down as well. Everything needs maintenance. If you want really long term storage, there is no other option but to copy the data to new mediums once in a while.
Not only that, but big game developers think the industry is a hit-based one, and, as a consequence, have stopped designing completely new games and instead making endless sequels to their already successful franchises (you can see this in their financial reports, under the risks section). This also helps to explain why some indie games are so successful, as they create completely new games with some interesting combination of gaming mechanics.

This article is evidence to the whole long tail concept all over again, but now in the gaming industry.
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The 'exceptions' at this point could fill a list a mile long, especially if you count mobile games, where it's even easier for indie developers to compete. I picked those three in particular because:

Braid: A very successful indie game distributed entirely through relatively traditional channels (e.g. XBLA, Steam), in contrast to the other two. It was also rather unexpectedly innovative in a realm dominated by relatively generic platformers.

Touhou: Almost certainly the most successful indie game series in history in terms of the total profit across the franchise it created -- but probably not as profitable as Minecraft for its creator because he intentionally limited his monetization of it.

Minecraft: Probably the most successful indie game in history in terms of net income... and the topic of the article, obviously.
Bing is dead?
Why is matrix code not getting as much consideration ?
That's an excellent point well made. The logic of democracy is trumped by the logic of real life.

However, in this issue I don't think we're talking about a 49-51% split. This is a very powerful minority imposing their will of a largely silent majority. Your logic still stands though: At what point do we break our union. Anonymous's action indicate to me that we may well have reached that point.
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http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know you said you are currently using colocated servers but have you had a look at http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h... ?

A few of these replicating between each other might be cheaper than the less dense server + S3 combo you have at the moment.

[edit] The cost of the Backblaze units is ~$117 per TB so it would cost ~$59,000 to store 500TB or $118,000 for 2 redundant copies.

$118,000 would be equal to only a few months of hosting 500TB on S3.
Yes, this is true. But unfortunately, if LISA were allowed to be completed, LISA would be in the same situation soaking up all of the budget. LISA was expected to cost more than a billion dollars. As is true for any project of that size, there would be overages.
Did you look at the right click saved image? because it should contain the watermark, if it's applied on the website, it's not a serverside image anymore, it's a dataURL and therefore has to contain it when you save it.
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I believe this would mean giving up the main advantage DropBox has over all competitors: It's the first cloud storage provider that sucessfully mixes local storage and cloud storage by providing transparent synchonization. After all, the DropBox folder is just a plain folder, but it is sync'ed whenever something changes.
Without the local storage part there would be no reason to use DropBox as one could simply use for example a WebDAV share or SFTP.
I'm pretty sure this is also the current vision of the Dropbox team. They are making a lot of effort to become a platform not just a product.
According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Australi...:

Having a mandatory Government Internet filter that would automatically block all access in Australia, to overseas websites containing material that is Refused Classification? Refused Classification was defined as Images and information about one or more of the following: child sexual abuse, bestiality, sexual violence, gratuitous, exploitative or offensive sexual fetishes, detailed instructions on or promotion of crime, violence or use of illegal drugs. 80% were in favour, 19% against.
Just thought I'd let you know your text rendered very small on my browser, and the light grey quotes were almost unreadable.
My response would be that the bigger corporations are dictating what we use. Blackberry use QR and I see alot more content with QR on it. I like the fact data-matrix can offer much more in terms of less erroring, more security. But i must admit i have not seen anyone using matrix code.
It would work in a direct sunlight, something that no laptop is capable of, but with the constant redrawing, I'm not sure if these nice power figures would actually hold, sure, my e-ink reader can last for at least weeks, but that's perhaps one redraw per minute, or even more, and with CPU and whole system almost completely idle in between.
True, but loongson is the first one that comes to my mind. I'm not familiar with the other MIPS licensees or the power consumption of their chips.
What I don't understand is why having multiple streams inside a single TCP channel is preferable to having many TCP channels.
True but, in the 13+ years I've been in the industry I've not once seen or heard of a failed tape ..
Dropbox sits in that transition period from local to cloud storage. I said earlier in my comments that cloud will be an OS feature and Apple will lead that.

However it will not start with pure storage(their approach of experience rather than specs). It will start with your music,video, pictures. Than your ios+local apps (with preferences and save files). And then Computer setup (remember your OS setup). Thats why Apple is easy with offering SSD harddisks in their top tier products.
Don't do the "friends" thing--reason: the friend zone. What would be interesting is if users could post content to a generic stream sorted by proximity, sex, and age. Users set thresholds for mutual likes before their information is made available to one or the other. The more you like another user's content the larger or more visible it becomes in the stream; the more another user likes your content the "hotter" (perhaps in color?) it becomes in the stream to you. The important thing here is to make sure there is a positive feedback loop between two users, ultimately creating content posts that are both "hot" and "large". If anyone is wondering, there are studies showing that compatible people like the same things, however obvious the notion may seem.

If you want to beat a dead horse: allow fb users to add people they like to your service whom aren't their friends using their URIs on fb. Use fb's ad api to allow users to pay for highly targeted ads to these people they like (<--monetize this). This will also help solve your chicken and egg problem. Where two anonymous users add each other's fb URI, there is a match and both are notified (you can crush crush notifier).

Bonus points if you can combine both these concepts into one service uniformly. This would be how I would make a dating service. Btw, nice domain name.
Oh, yes, you're right about that! That does make it more useful, now people who casually save your images to look at later know which website it was from.
Sorry, I missed the original (presumed) typo. My sense of humour has now been rebooted. :-)
I think latency is also a big issue for these displays
I can guess why the Dutch are better english speakers than we here in Germany. In the Netherlands movies and tv-shows are not dubbed - only subtitled. In Germany everything is dubbed.

Since I decided to watch movies and shows in english my (actively spoken) english improved (reading and understanding was never a problem). It's not perfect but it's far better than the english I was speaking after I left school.

Blame the TV :)
It'd be exactly like a flying car except that it isn't flying and isn't a car. Great stuff!

I'd settle for nothing less than an immersive virtual world in which we can have flying cars.
Thanks for pointing that out, as others have written below, I'm a new user and while the system here looks pretty similiar to the one at Reddit, the type of comment that is appreciated here seems vastly different. I was kind of surprised to instantly receive 3 downvotes for my first comment that just expressed my happiness to have found this community, and while it was pretty void of content, the rules expressly state that empty comments can be OK if they are positive.

I agree that the system is quite a bit too trigger-happy. Being shadowbanned is a pretty shitty spot to be in and I don't think 9 downvotes over 4 comments qualify for such harsh punishment.
This isn't my area of expertise, but when you factor in redundancy, you're looking at a petabyte of data just for what you have now. You'll need it to failover plus have at least one full backup at a separate location. Commodity hardware almost seems prohibitively expensive. You'll have the hardware, 600+ 2tb drives just to start, space, electricity, cooling, maintenance (with that many drives, you'll probably be replacing them often).

If you went with the solution that BackBlaze rolled for themselves, you'd be looking at 15 of their servers (for redundancy), without even adding any more data in the future. Using the solution they came up with, that would run almost $120,000. I have no idea what the monthly maintenance expenses would be.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-h...

You are undertaking a nearly herculean feat, here. I don't think any of the professional data storage solutions out there will be any cheaper, either. In fact, a petabyte of storage (especially if you need doubles of all hardware to place at another location) would probably run nearer a million bucks or more.

It might even be worth, as someone else linked, considering BackBlaze themselves. At least find out what they could do for you. They offer a business plan at something like $50/computer for unlimited storage. Obviously they're not going to store 0.5-1.0 petabytes of data for that price, but on the scale that you need, you might be able to negotiate something that surpasses what you could accomplish at any reasonable price -- and you have the added benefit of any catastrophe being their problem; not yours.

If you truly only rarely need to access your data and speed of that access is trivial to you, then as others mentioned, Tape could be completely feasible. I have no idea how much money it would cost, but you're talking a TON of cartridges and some sort of rotational system. If you expect the amount of data you need to continue growing at a rapid rate, you might even end up considering something like Spectra Logic offers. I have absolutely no clue how much their solutions are, but they can store up to 91 petabytes of data which I imagine would do you quite well for a long time to come:

http://www.spectralogic.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=products.di...
You can filter the homepage for submissions with a minimum number of votes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200

HN has loads of hidden features. I suggest judicious use of google's search operators to find them all.
Hah, this exact thing occurred to me lying in bed last night :)
My issue with reading emails as tehy come in is that it breaks my flow when I'm developing.

As Jeff Atwod stated here : http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/the-multi-tasking-m...

There is no such thing as multitasking, so the average 1 min to read a mail is actually much more of a loss in terms of productivity, and more importantly comfort in doing what you do.
I use something similar but a bit simpler to read:

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Chapter 6 of "The Mind of God" by Paul Davies also addresses this topic (http://www.amazon.com/Mind-God-Scientific-Basis-Rational/dp/...). I read the book a long time ago but IIRC this was a particularly interesting chapter, as was Chapter 4 (Mathematics and Reality).

However, Davies book addresses a set of finer questions than the Wikipedia article. Rather than directly asking "Why can mathmatics be used to model nature?" the more probing question is "Why is there order of any sort to model in nature?". Indeed, in the preface of the book is this gem:

"If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion fo why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would truly know the mind of God."

-- Stephen Hawking, concluding passage of "A Brief History of Time".

A remarkable book, I recommend it.
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I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they outsource the non-iOS development. Many multi-platform shops I know build only one flavor and then to save on full-time developer costs send out the work on other platforms elsewhere. I know of a few startups doing mobile apps who are now hiring Android devs, but did those apps as a purely out-of-house thing when they were small.

And it wouldn't be new for the industry. I had a buddy at Midway Chicago for many years, where they used to do many of their sports games on XBox and outsource the PS3/Wii ports.
That will help when interacting with the British or even the Americans, but I'm not sure it helps on standardized tests.
"doing something so important that it requires 100% of your attention (this never happens for more than 10 minutes)"

The author is clearly not a developer.

I like to check my e-mail twice a day. And then just close the program. Keeps you focused (more than 10 minutes).
There's a lot of people buying legitimate music and films now you know..? Plus photos and videos that people make themselves will always take up a significant amount of space.

I don't dispute that remote storage and streaming will become normal - I just think anyone who looks at the costs and thinks it'll be cheaper than having it locally stored is kidding themselves.

It'll definitely be better than having it locally stored, but it'll cost more too.
The thing I don't like about cloud services is this: They can be served a search warrant to let government go through what belongs to me without my ever being notified.
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Does this same issue exist within Lighttpd with a FastCGI setup?
I think developers have a real problem in finding good designers (and not photoshop experts). Similarly designers have a real problem in finding good clients, clients who understand that sometimes what they want may not be what's best for them. But, as in any partnership/collaboration/relationship both parties will have to give up some of their ego for things to work out.

If you want to attract professional designers don't focus on the eLance/99Designs bidding model.
Does the author mistake the past with the future? A cloud-based home dir is basically a network file system (samba,afs,nfs,...) We had them for decades and they suck. Dropbox is an improvement, because is not necessary anymore to be "always on".
Don't you think the whole "lose face" part of the japanese culture is a run down model? With all the mistakes made in the Fukushima plant pre and post incident due to not wanting to lose face (or not controlling enough so that the other party doesn't lose face), it's hard to overlook all the bad things that this concept brings...

Or to ask differently: what do you think is good about the concept?
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