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Yeah, internet, sliced bread and all that are great. But flying cars and a cure for AIDS would have been nice too.

My point is that in the '80s there was a lot of optimism about humankind's capabilities, people were saying "it's not a question of what CAN we do anymore, it is what SHOULD we do", implying we COULD do anything. I believed that at the time, but have grown increasingly skeptical (and I blame the brain drain away from science and into zero-sum games like finance for not fulfilling our potential).

Also, you are wrong about AIDS - apparently in USA alone there are around 18,000 AIDS caused fatalities each year (http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm).

You are wrong about AI too, it has already been implemented - in meat, of all things!
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I (like I guess everybody else did) scrolled through looking for ranges _my_ boxen live in, and found this:

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I wonder why _that_ got in there?
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I think many people underestimate the value of free books, particularly to children.

When I was young I read 1 or 2 books a week, every week, for about 4 years. My parents couldn't have afforded that many books. I could I suppose have dug around in whatever some charity shop had to offer, but I don't think I would have got such a rounded reading education.
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Was looking to do exactly this on my own. Will try it out!
I contacted them directly and they were exceptionally (and intentionally) vague.

I asked them how on earth they could provide a service like that at such a low cost, and why there were no bandwidth limits in any of the plans (bandwidth isn't free).

Their answer was that they couldn't tell me the answers to my questions as it would reveal business secrets or something to that effect.

At the rate of start-ups spooling up and shutting down these days, I wouldn't bet my site's DNS on a company that appears to have no sustainable business model, and is deliberately withholding information that I'd use to judge if they'll be around in 6 months time.
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This is a follow up to the first article that he wrote regarding UDID tracking and privacy exposure, using OpenFeint to link UDIDs to real-world identities. It's a bit shocking to see how many apps are submitting these UDIDs to multiple domains, and also interesting to note that Flurry is up there with Apple and OpenFeint as one of the biggest aggregators of this data.
Perhaps your experience with brilliant people is actually a good reflection on your own attitude. I can imagine brilliant people acting "arrogant" towards people who expect too much from them, but acting nice towards people who are not unreasonably demanding, otherwise they'd get swamped. This would not explain the arrogance of the moderately intelligent though, but I guess social interactions are a bit complex, so there will be quite a few factors in play.
Ask HN: understanding Sonatype's licensing model
Our startup makes software mainly for businesses. We're thinking of modeling our licensing structure after Sonatype's... if only we could figure how they do it.

Our base framework, call it software A, will be an open-source version, maybe GPL or Apache licensed. It contains lots of other GPL software, particularly the dual-licensed Sencha's ExtJS library.

Our commercial version, call it software B, is a slightly enhanced version of A, targeted at business users (ie. intranet).

Since one can't embed GNU GPL'd software in Apache-licensed OSS, we probably have to choose GNU GPLv3 for A, which is an umbrella for most common oss licenses. But that would make it impossible to have a closed-sourced B software package based on A. Or wouldn't it?

Sonatype has a similar offering: Nexus OSS and Nexus Professional. Nexus Professional is an enhanced version of Nexus OSS. Nexus OSS is released under a GNU AGPLv3, "GNU Afferro General Public License" [sic], http://nexus.sonatype.org/license.html

Now, how can Sonatype release Nexus Professional closed-source when its base, Nexus OSS, is AGPL'd? Aren't they breaking their own license agreement by reusing the community oss software in their closed-source, commercial Nexus Professional?

As far as I understand, to commercially re-release your own open software as closed-source it would need to be licensed under MIT/BSD/Apache in the first place, ie. IBM Rational Dev. and Eclipse. But then... I'm confused.

Besides, their software, like ours, has ExtJS, which is GPLv3 for OSS, but not for commercial use, which makes it impossible to use Nexus OSS in a business intranet without buying an ExtJS license. Right? Dunno... since ExtJS is actually commercially licensed on a developer base, using OSS that contains ExtJS is actually ok. But then developers from the community can contribute to Nexus OSS Github repository, which kindda makes the ExtJS license useless as there are endless developers contributing to the Nexus OSS project, whereas Sonatype probably only pays for their own ExtJS developer licenses.

I know, this is a mess of a question! But our startup will have an offering that is similar to Sonatype's, and we're not sure their licensing is consistent, or even legal, so we're afraid to imitate them.
dup

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2562371
Basically viruses work by fucking with the DNA of cells. These people obviously have cells that are too different in some key aspect for the virus to take it.
Well, the more you know, the more you know that you don't know.

Predicting what we'll have in the future is always going to be hard, because it's very hard to know the pitfalls, the actual hard problems of a technology. Sending stuff to Mars isn't hard, but having a human survive the trip is really hard because of radiation and psychology, and it took a while to figure that out.

Meanwhile, noone in the 80's thought we'd have the internet, tablets, or mobile phones.
In what seems like an eternity ago I had a similar decision to make - choosing between a very large (100k+ employees; non-IT focus) organisation and what today would probably have been called a startup (~10 people across 2 continents; IT product development & sales)

I chose (your) option 1, partly because I figured they were a good company to have on my cv whatever the outcome, and partly because they offered a few k more a year. Frankly I think you should try to ignore the money aspect, but when a few k is a sizeable percentage of your total salary, I know this is difficult to do.

10+ years later I've lived in 3 countries, flown business a lot more often then I would probably have paid for myself, and enjoyed the sort of perks you seem to like the look of in option 1. I've done some interesting technology based work along the way, but I've also done a lot of administrativa.

In my case, it was important that the organisation kept trading for the duration of my year's internship, or I wouldn't have recieved the course credit. If this is applicable to you, it is something to consider in your choice. Remember both organisations (their Australian office at least) could have risks in this regard.

Good luck!
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I don't get the point of things like this. If you remove every single blocking part in your code then you will always use up your scheduling quantum and become the lowest priority process (the mother of all blocking) anyway.
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[...] after hearing the problem from Neil Sloane, who suggested it as a variant of a similar problem first studied by Claude Shannon.

It figures ;-)

The web site http://boolean-oracle.swtch.com lets you type in a Boolean expression and gives back the minimal formula for it.

Nice, thanks. I'd suggest adding that example inputs can be had from the column at right (took me a bit to notice).
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> but for the user it should just be one click.

One click and a few weeks worth of waiting while the client uploads your complete music collection.
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You should try them out. When I bought myself one I lay for a couple of minutes on each of 4 models to see if it's comfy for me.

But don't buy too soft mattress. It could seem really cool at first time but your back will hurt like hell next morning. Beside it's more healthy to sleep on a hard mattress.

Anyway all of mattresses I saw are two sided. One side is little softer then other. Test the harder side at the store (it should be comfy for you) and if after several nights your back will hurt - flip to the soft side. You need to sleep a several nights on the mattress as your back needs a time to get used to it.
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Ok, sorry! I assumed you were talking about DRM because you mentioned iTunes+.
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I've submitted the translation for convenience. Didn't mean to confuse.
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I agree with everything you said except the bit about quality of life being similar. Don't those drugs have major side effects? Even if they don't, sex with another person is pretty much over at that point. Even if the other person has AIDS too there is a risk of reinfection.

Granted, having a similar life expectancy is nothing to sneeze at.
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What about rolling your own 'cloud locker' to stream media to your various devices?

Anyone who has decent upload capabilities (talkin' to you Fios) could have a home media server stream to all relevant devices inside and outside of one's home (audio is obviously easier than audio+video).

All I need is a semi-automated DVD ripper that can take a spindle of purchased DVD movies and rip them all unattended.

In several years, why shouldn't we have a colocated home media server that syncs with the cloud?
Thanks. This was very useful and complimentary to the main video; it gives a better picture of how they setup the mast, take-off and land.
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I just happen to be reading the LinkedIn S1 filing[1] last night and was thinking the same thing while going through it - these guys have not been getting nearly enough credit for what they have created.

LinkedIn was generating revenue within a year of being founded, and its current numbers are just crazy: 1,100 employees, 102M members, 75M visitors, 7.1B pageviews last quarter, $93M in revenue last quarter and on track to do almost $400M in revenue this year. Look at the revenue growth: 2009: $120M, 2010: $243M. Over a billion invitations sent last year. 75% of the Fortune 100 using their professional services as part of recruiting, and they have already diversified to three separate and solid revenue streams.

They are not profitable but that is because they do not want to be - they have doubled investment in R&D, development and marketing in the past 12 months. They still have plenty of room to expand, especially internationally.

I am not surprised that their target listing price has increased a number of times since the filing - they are on target to reach about $1B in revenue in 2012/13 and a market cap of $3B seemed low, it might still see a sharp first-week increase with the new list price.

Excellent return for the investors, who have only had to invest $103M[2] to date (Greylock, Sequoia, BVP and Kopelman). Not sure why they went with the NYSE over the NASDAQ, but this IPO could be a nice investment if you are looking for a tech IPO.

LinkedIn haven't nearly received the amount of coverage they deserve, it is a web 2.0 sleeper hit that went about building its business with little controversy, no huge news splash, no secondary market price surge, and no personality conflicts (at least not in public).

Edit: And not to forget, LinkedIn has made some excellent contributions to open source software, especially with Voldermont, their distributed kv store (I have used it in dev but not in production, it is pretty cool). If you are using Apache Lucene and/or Hadoop, checkout the LinkedIn projects.

[1] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1271024/0001193125111...

[2] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/linkedin

[3] http://linkedin.github.com/

[4] http://project-voldemort.com/
The main advantage of sexual reproduction is faster evolution. It makes evolution like a huge parallel computer instead of like lots of small, very slow serial computers.

If you examine asexual reproduction: you get a "tree of evolution". Each node in that tree is slightly "more evolved" than its parent on average (natural selection prunes the devolved ones more than the evolved ones).

However, each branch in the tree has to evolve every single feature independently from its sibling branches. You only inherit evolutionary enhancements of your own ancestors.

Assuming a tree of depth N: each node in the tree has only O(N) ancestors, and thus, about O(N) evolution experienced in each node.

With sexual reproduction, you also recombine the evolutionary advancements of two ancestors into new nodes. It is no longer a tree, but a DAG of nodes (Directed Acyclic Graph). Each node now has O(2^depth) ancestors. Evolution can recombine features that took a long time to develop into a new baseline, and evolve from there.

This is an exponential increase in evolution speed -- and I believe that is so incredibly huge of an advancement, that I predict that even species we believe are incapable of sexual reproduction, are probably sexually reproducing (e.g: exchanging DNA in some way) because it is too huge of an advantage to give up.

Lastly, I find that it is interesting that there's a similarity between sexual-based evolution process to one of the frameworks we use for parallel computing: "Map/Reduce". Take a single node in the tree, and just "Map" (mutate & select) over it multiple times, you get slightly better nodes. Now combining the mutated & selected nodes together into descendants is much like "Reduce". "Map" is not a useful parallel computation, but "Map & Reduce" is.
He also could rellocate and send his children in France for their studies, he certainly have family there who will be happy to host them :-).
Keeping things simple is hard. It takes a willingness to admit your mistakes and the time to go back and correct them.

If you want something to last, you've got to fight to keep it from rotting under the weight of its own design. The less design, the more easily it can adapt to change.

Ingrained in the Go project is the philosophy that things are always worth fixing, no matter how small. I don't think the value of this idea can be overstated.
They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. All they needed to do was generate a little random data and email it to their clients.

eg. /reset?token=XXXXX

Only the recipient of the email can use it and it will let the person reset their password. It's so standard fare, I'm not sure why Sony needed to go this route.
"Useless" is also the wrong word.
Well, I'm pretty sure I repeatedly scanned 129.168.0.0 NASA Lewis Research Center last month, due to a typo :(
A business idea is conjecture, execution is an experiment.

The word 'invented' here is a vocabulary failure.
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And then, recently, we removed O_CREAT from Go entirely! :-)

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/msg/75d1090047be3...
Yes, I think this idea is being taken up by the researcher I linked above.
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University of Edinburgh uses Haskell. (Although it was C when I studies there).
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What does not being in C have anything to do with that? Whatever tricks Twisted and Node.js and friends use can be done in C, just with a different syntax, but at the end of the day it's the same machine code. I don't know how Twistd handles file I/O but Node.js uses libeio which performs all file I/O in a thread pool. It's no better than what you can do in C.
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If database throughput is that important to you then you will put it on an idle machine that has no other services running, or assign a dedicated CPU core to it.
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Kudos, I've started the same project a few months ago, but I had no time to finish. The only question is what are you going to do if amazon integrates the bounce handling into the ses api?
Think about it as a flying motorcycle. It trades safety for more mobility and lots of fun.
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The Bounce API will become only a little part of Bouncely. There's many more things that amazon doesn't do (usually) that I want to integrate.
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First mover advantage is mostly a myth, except in the very short term where it's trivially true. Even if whoever copied you had waited until you launched, if they are indeed "faster/better" than you, they'd catch up and overtake you soon enough. If your idea is good enough, competition is a fact of life you're just going to have to live with.
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One more extension for Chrome (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ihmgiclibbndffejedjimfjmfoabpcke) for translating directly, by the way, which has the same functions with Bubble Trans.

I have an impression that every developer thinks that he's obliged to `write` a translator for Mozilla/Chrome/Opera.

Am I write?

P.S.: Do you use something like that for translating rapidly?
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But by doing that you also acquired a skill to spot patterns and connections: I'd argue, that this ability is important part of intelligence.
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sorry if it was already posted, i probably missed it - overall an interesting read, and somewhat different view from most of the "5 things/ideas/points" type of articles on HN lately.
Have you considered price in your analysis?
is there something special about it? Something that can have an impact on the average user?
Also, a <title> tag would be useful :-).

But apart from this, I now I'll face this very problem soon (well, for a relatively fluctuant value of "soon"), so thank you very much for sharing this _raghu!
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You're thinking in legal terms. This is about money.

Amazon is one of the largest music sellers in the world. Google is has enough money to buy the whole industry.

Pick your fight.
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