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Stella in the UK is basically the same as Carling's 'chemical' lager, it shouldn't be surprising that the hangovers are so bad.

Most lagers on sale in the UK (outside of city 'mini-marts') are brewed in the UK and all seem to taste the same (terrible) and give me hangovers before I have even stopped drinking. We have no beer purity laws like there are in places like Germany either, sold out brands that are brewed in the UK like Carlsberg / Stella / Kronenburg etc are nothing like their native counterparts. The difference when drinking duty free (real) Stella is like night and day (but it does go flat very quickly). The EU just wouldn't put up with such terrible lager, us Brits seem to lap it up though. Another one is Fosters, we seem to love it, apparently Fosters is Australian for 'horse piss'.

In Belgian off-licences, even the 'real' Stella is relegated to the bargain bin alongside Juliper. They 'reassuringly expensive' advertising campaign is a total sham.

Imported Heineken, Becks, Budvar (the original Budweiser brand from Czech) etc. seem to be the only decent lagers you can still find in the shops here, rip off prices though.
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Google also has a proposal called Snap Start that reduces the handshake to zero round trips when the browser has performed a full handshake with the server in the past: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-agl-tls-snapstart-00.html. It's much more complex and requires adoption in both servers and browsers so I don't think they're working on it anymore, but maybe someday.

Certificate validation can be even more of a bottleneck than RTTs to the server; I worked on a paper that's in submission where we gathered OCSP response times in the wild, and median times for some responders were as high as 500ms.
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Having coded in VB6 in my past life, I was very happy to get away from the 'dll hell' of VB6/COM.
Next up, Java. The more you deal with it, you realize the 'jar hell' is the same as before, just in a different form.
Now, I get to deal with ruby gem nonsense.

I wish they open sourced VB6 15 years back.
Too little too late (at least for me), even if the news is true.
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> This proposal overtly changes the security boundaries of that handshake.

Could you outline that in more detail?
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Modern unions seem to be worried more about "fair wages" (where fair is determined by the union) than preventing employee abuse. The fact of the matter is that there is choice in employment, especially if you are employable enough to be hired by Apple Retail. What is happening here is effectively the same as if Apple Retail, Best Buy, etc banded together to demand "fair wages" (as determined by them). In free markets (i.e. not what unions were initially designed for), unions provide excess leverage to employees that force companies into unfairly paying employees more than they are worth (and I feel this is a large cause of the U.S. auto market crash).
I was pointing out that it was interesting that in the car that was actually produced with this type of door, they used belts (instead of the worm gear you're talking about) so that the door could be manually opened.

This is probably the approach that any other mass-produced version of this door would take as well -- avoiding the worm gear so that the window & door could be manually moved if needed.

That addresses the main concerns people had.
The market working is a great thing. The issue is when the market doesn't work. There are many laws granting unions more power than they would otherwise have if the market worked.

For example, in some states, if 51% of the employees decide to form a union, the other 49% are forced to become members. Then the union can extract union dues from their paycheck, even if they don't want to.

Unions also destroy meritocracy, replacing raises based on merit with raises based on seniority.

Unions can increase wages far above what would happen if the market worked. At commercial airlines, you'll see some pilots making $200,000, and some making $30,000, for the same job, on the same route, with the same safety. Increasing wages above market prices causes unemployment, because the company is less likely to hire new employees. Without the union, in general you'll see lower wages, but also lower unemployment.

What'd I'd like to see is all laws mentioning the word union to be abolished. No laws protecting unions, and no laws preventing them either. If you can form a club, and raise your wages or working conditions, more power to you.
Are you talking about your experience during the Falluja campaign or working at a retail store?
Thanks, anyway,
Good idea,
I hope visit Brazil in 2016:)
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I am trying to get a sense of the kind of applications that use the Elastic Load Balancing feature of Amazon EC2. Are they computation intensive or more data intensive? Concrete examples would be great.
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I looked into this a while back, and here's what I still remember. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

* CMU has a good range of research, along with good aid.

* MIT (CSAIL or Media Lab) is good for novel interfaces.

* University of Washington also has a fairly well known program.

Those 3 are the top programs, from what I remember. Here's a list of the rest of the schools that have something relevant: Georgia Tech (UbiComp), University of Michigan (school of information), UCI (UbiComp at school of information), Univeristy of Toronto (graphics and HCI), Stanfard (HCI and tangible computing), Northwestern (InfoLab), Iowa State University, University of Waterloo, and Texas A&M.

This is not an exhaustive list, but I hope it's a good starting point for you. It also depends on what areas of HCI you're interested in. Hope this helps!
It is pretty (and I want it for linux so I could use it!), but I think the real useful idea here is the separation of data out, and display out. If we could have that on a regular shell it would add a lot of usability. For this idea alone, my hat is off to you sir.
Store employees go through such a process?
I remember reading a bootleg draft of Gibson's screenplay a while back and thinking "this is terrible".

What I remember about Neuromancer was that after my first reading I thought "wow, that was cool". But it took a few more re-readings to work out, with any confidence, what in blazes was actually going on.

That said, with careful pruning and a big budget for effects, I think it could work on the big screen. I just hope they stay true to the 80s cyberpunk vibe.
I started my development career on VB (Don't judge me. I was young, I needed the money, etc).

I still have nightmares about "Method ~ of object ~ failed" error messages with no line number, backtrace, or anything remotely useful.
Google can not afford to think just about the law in front of us today. This normalizes an idea they can not allow to take root, that they are responsible for the web. That idea is the existential threat, not the proximate law.

In point of fact quite a lot of sites and startups here are actually in the same danger, it's just Google has the spare resources to actually notice, pay attention, and do something about it, where a bootstrapping startup can not.
Thanks! Reading this book at the moment, seems I missed a lot of good stuff since I signed up :-)
It will however give an opportunity for Eldernerds to post a link to this:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/
> Torture is already horrific, but at least you can only be

> tortured to death once. With brain simulation, it would be

> possible to torture someone again and again and again.

Already been done. To Jack Bauer.
I read it originally in "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser

http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/toronto_13feb98.html

Starbucks employs other strategies:

http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/04/are-starbucks-and-wh...

Other companies do less obscene variations like instead of a layoff of unionized workers: move the factory just beyond the 2 hour commute so most entrenched employees will be forced to make their own decision.
You also have to accept that you simply aren't going to ever be able to know everything about everything that you'd like to; you will have to make choices, pick and choose.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. You seem to be arguing against something nobody (certainly not me) said.

We all know that only by actually reading something will you know if it was worth the effort. The problem is that, for any non-trivial subject, there is more material available, and more material being generated, than anyone can cover in endless lifetimes.

Some form of curation is needed just to even know what exists, let alone to know what's worth reading.

Accepting that, would you then rather memorize a pile of summaries and tidbits and factoids, or would you rather take the time to read and consider a complete discourse on a subject?

Where does this false choice come from? I do not want to memorize a pile of summaries, and it's in fact impossible to consume a complete discourse on a (non-trivial) subject. Those are not the only options.

What I want are some heuristics to help guide me on what to read. Summaries are one tool; recommendations are another. HN discussion threads yet one more. Few people would pretend that any of these substitute for reading the source material.

I'll grant that there are people who consume summaries as a ploy to feign erudition, but honestly I don't think that's the motivation on HN when people ask for a tl;dr.

In fact, if someone were to try to read everything and not use summaries, etc. as a guide they would end up with very little understanding because, odds are, they would be consuming a fair amount of shoddy material to the exclusion of better content.
Unions depend on threats of violence or specialized legal action (using privileges which are only available to them by law). In a laissez-faire society, employers would be able to do business with competing workers against the union's wishes, and the union would fail in its modern function as a rent-seeking labor cartel.
Left foot braking can be done for very different reasons. First of all, you're probably driving an automatic. It's much trickier to use your left foot to brake when it's also on the clutch. ;)

In the context of F1, it allows for less time between being on the gas and getting on the brakes. Not sure if these are used in F1, but I also remember reading about funky techniques where you can use the gas and brakes at the same time to mess with the balance of the car.
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I used to visit that office frequently - it is one beautiful place in the heart of Seattle (the entire elevator door is painted with a big KISS mural, which I believe is one of J's favorite bands).

I don't think the closing of that office signifies too much about product strategy. A lot of those folks still work at Microsoft on similar things.
It will probably come out similar to Aeon Flux meets swordfish
True. I wouldn't claim it's any suckier than PHP, for example. Both "suck", but both have their uses.
Why should management give up the control of a company they founded/own/etc?
You might also want to look at The Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
I am absolutely a fan of the technology, but much less so of the sport. I suppose my issue/question is: how do you enjoy all that just watching it on TV? (This is actually a serious question; are there for example real-time websites that give you an information overlay on what's happening, or do you just enjoy watching knowing how complicated it is underneath the surface?)

Sorry, on re-reading you do talk about off-track being just as exciting; so I suppose I'd rephrase the question as: where do you follow all this information?
This is interesting and a cool proof of concept.
I don't believe that, as you show it, it is something I'd want to live in.

I virtually live in a full-screen emacs (on CLI or GUI). Emacs provides a somewhat nicer shell world than straight up Terminal.app. Emacs has copy & paste, a fully editable window display and its own command history.

Why do I bring this up? Because I feel that your application as currently demoed is not going to help me. I don't want to see GUI icons in general.

What I do like is your connection to the OS display layer. The ability to render out a PDF-inshell is pretty nice. Without having to go grub around for the right configuration, I can't just go "load foo.pdf" and have it pop up automatically.

So I really look forward to see what kind of cool explorations you do.
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I left Microsoft on Friday but it has nothing to do with the reasons that seem to be spoken about on this thread.

To be honest, I have seen a ton of ex-Amazon folks show up on my team and in other teams :). There are only a few players in Seattle so people tend to go to one of them when they want to stay there (I decided to move to the Bay Area). That might change with people like FB, Zynga now having development centers there and giving folks more options apart from AMZN, GOOG and MSFT.
I've heard that larger banks and brokerages (not the underwriters) will start making shares available for shorting as early as Tuesday, which should help ease the share price down.
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And you see nothing inherently wrong with that task? (Otherwise, you'd label it as more than an "unpleasant task".)

"Memory Hole" comes to mind.
I'd love to see you it too, but it's pretty much guaranteed failure - both critical and commercial. It would take a genius to make Snow Crash look good and make sense on film...
Is there really no way for the machine to prevent private ports from being be known without a specific call? It seems to me that machines are designed to follow the standard to be nice and respond back [0]. Even with a whitelist, I have concerns that the machine is opening itself for a DDoS SYN attack by simply replying back rejections.

[0] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Port_scan#TCP...
I've had good luck with http://psd2html.com, but I've not used them much.
I've often wondered why, if corporations are subject to antitrust/anticollusion regulations, why unions aren't too. In both cases an entity or entities seek to gain sufficient clout such that the market no longer functions efficiently. Why should, say, the Boeing Machinist's Union or the UAE be allowed to monopolize the labor market of their respective corporations? Is it because there's a subtle difference between these instances?
As a very uneducated beer-drinker I hated Stella with a passion. (Later I discovered I just hate lagers in general.)

I think your point is wrong in the general case, and that it is hated for its quality rather than its popularity. But there are two important issues:

1) If you are not a discerning consumer of beer, you will follow the path of least resistance. Stella is well-advertised, easy to buy and widespread, so you're more likely to choose it over other (probably unknown) beers. That's what makes it popular.

2) More people are aware of the popular choice (by definition), more will have tried it than a less-popular beer, it will be mentioned more often, and will be sneered at more often. The frequency at which it is sneered at is a consequence of its popularity rather than caused by it.
We got it wrong -- our source who confirmed it retracted after hearing Doug's denial. We have since corrected the story. Our source was not as solid as we thought -- looks like it was a practical joke a group level. But whatever it was, we F'd up, and we've since taken it down. We are very, very sorry. Huge fail on our part.
You're making my point for me. You can spin it only negatively if you choose to do so, but it's not hard to find good points.

In your complaints here, it's pretty clear you aren't even trying to sort out a reasoned view at all.

I mean, look at these: why would more blow out of a car with a sliding door than, say, a minivan with a (much larger) sliding door? Why wouldn't Grandma be unable to use grips at the top & side of the door (or: maybe cars targeting aged drivers don't need to switch to this kind of door? There are plenty of other target markets)? Why would the door be uncloseable with a dead battery (can't we assume it would be counterweighted or on springs, to minimize motor requirements)? About door dents: if there were any significant number of these doors around, my own car would be that much less likely to be dented -- plus, I'm not keen on denting other people's doors. For the whole final scenario with kids in the rain -- er... just don't open your door until the kids are ready. You're sitting right there, and you control the door (unlike if they have their own door in the back).

But what's the impulse that's driving you & other commenters to just knock down the idea as quickly as possible, rather than explore it?

It's not my idea; I don't have any stake in the game, but if I notice problems with someone else's idea, my first thought is "are there ways to fix that, and are you implementing these solutions".
Apple would probably have faced more PR backlash from the public if they had attempted to quash a union then. It's a reasonable point to say that unionizing now is more difficult.
This is amazing stuff - thanks much!

I made a slightly more readable HTML version (with linked TOC and back links) here -> http://bit.ly/lSLTVT

This could be converted to an ePub I think, with the linked TOC. If this a problem let me know and I will take it down, or maybe you could post it on http://edweissman.com/53640595 to get the linked TOC?
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Well yeah.

But "we put the pieces together" isn't a defensible advantage. Once one company has done it others can easily copy it (with less skill) unless they have something that makes it hard to copy.

Here's some common defensible advantages:

1) Technical. Google developed a technically better search algorithm than their competition and stayed better long enough to become dominant in the market. (That market share in turn allowed them to build a massively profitable business).

As discussed, I don't think Octopart have a technical advantage.

2) Network effects. Facebook had better network effects (and more reliable technology) than their competition.

Octopart doesn't seem to use network effects anywhere.

3) Business relationships. Microsoft leveraged its existing business relationships with computer manufactures in operating systems to build market share in web browsers by stopping them installing Netscape

Octopart doesn't have enough market power to do this.

4) Capital. Netflix offered movie studios enough money to make streaming attractive, which other companies had never been able to deliver.

Octopart doesn't have a capital advantage

There are other defensible advantages, too, but I'd be interested in knowing which applied here. What's to stop me hiring a bunch of cheap coders, copying Octopart and then beginning a race-to-the-bottom in terms of profits?

PG has replied to my initial comment and said that they have broader long-term plans. I think that's good, because I stand by my initial comment: I'm surprised this was attractive to investors.
If you ask me, "to succeed" is when you do something you believe in, and enjoy the process, regardless of the outcome.
Alternative: release the source under the GNU GPL or some other open source license. No such thing as piracy then ;)
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I agree with your sentiments, but in the US, there are also many laws that restrict the power of unions, particularly government employee unions. There are laws that prevent government employees from striking which drastically limits their bargaining power.

Are you sure you want French style transportation strikes in the US, and government employees organizing strikes to get more vacation?
Because unions protect the worker from being abused. The power balance is heavily in favour of management who can fire workers on a whim.

Also, the market isn't efficient. If you look at any large corporation, the amount of bureaucracy is crippling sometimes (of course some unions turn into bureaucracies which also hurts).
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The acquired a company of mine a while back, can vouch for them, although at times it can be a bit hit and miss.
1.9 doesn't always result in speed improvements. We benchmarked some of our code against REE and 1.9.2 and the difference was negligible, if at all.

I agree with you however. 1.9 is the future and that's where they should be spending their time. Let 1.8 die already...
There are many laws granting unions more power than they would otherwise have if the market worked.

THe employer still has a lot of power. You can be fired at a moment's notice and be forced into poverty. That's waaaaaay more power than a union has!

edit: I forgot to mention that a meritocracy doesn't exist. People come from different backgrounds and some have had more (or less) opportunities to improve their skills. Rewarding very skilled people is great, but you should also be rewarding less skilled people by giving them more training (which many companies skimp on...).
Here it is:
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Yeah. In my experience they have an exceptionally low false positive rate.

That's what makes it so much easier for me to think that they could apply their (exceptional) brains to lowering the (seemingly) high false negative rate.