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As someone who just got a chinese brand android derivative for experimentation, curiosity and comparison I can assure you that if Amazon decides to differentiate heavily across brand they will efficiently partition the android universe. The difference between Hardware/Android and Amazon/Android is that Amazon is not hardware but ecosystem.

Here is a key why. The market place. Not having an integrated google calendering or maps or email system is okay, the android browser is great with html5 and youtube support. If they do not use the browser it makes things much worse but still bearable - I am sure suitable alternatives will turn up. But the marketplace is not freely available. You will not find it in any legal channels (you can find the amazon store though).

And then all those sites with links, QR codes etc will be broken. All those apps people speak of and the instructions to get them will not be readily matched. I know why this is, but people whose main interests lie outside tech will think android doesn't work - if the marketing places emphasis on the fact that the devices run android. Only those who know how to root, sideload and know where to find apk files will be able to get some access to the Google universe - for example google docs is not on the Amazon app store. That is, until the stores reach some level of parity in terms of alternatives and due to the fact that configuring for two stores is not such a biggy as things go. And then the division as partitioned by average experiences/expectations due to defaults will be complete.

For what its worth I much prefer the amazon app store in terms of functionality, search and recommendations. Based on appstore I suspect the amazon devices will only be available in the US first.
This would require a server-side component, as the browser has cross-domain limitations and couldn't generate arbitrary network traffic anyway. You could tunnel through websockets, however.
Good point.

The issue also kicks off a dialogue with debt investors, which should give Google information about what revenue streams are regarded as most stable. That could be useful info if at some later date they want to spin off some of their activities.
Borrowing at 3.75% is like getting free money. Real inflation rate is higher anyway.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
You can send a HTTP Get Request which is an upstream traffic less than a KB, and get back 100KB in data (downstream). Torrents where users have a 1:1 seed ratio, will ideally have 100KB upstream for every 100KB downstream.
Downstream has a higher total volume than upstream. (Case in point, Netflix.) 11% of downstream and half of upstream may represent the same absolute bandwidth.
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Available to the USA only - so not much use - but I will visit again when it is out of Beta.
If everything is a draft, how does anything ever actually move into "done"?

Anyway, sure, I'll join a cult whose founding premise was banged out in 20 minutes because the creators apparently couldn't schedule more time to collaborate on it. Which way to the koolaid line?
Because XUL is rendered with gecko.
I literally know about four or five people that have Netflix almost purely to stream Dora and Thomas.
Good umpire: "I call them as I see them."
Better umpire: "I call them as they are."
Best umpire: "They aren't anything until I call them."

Same idea:

Good programmer: Smart and gets things done
Better programmer: Writes large correct programs
Best programmer: What he/she writes becomes the definition of success.
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This is definitely on the roadmap, this initial implementation is just the bare bones.

One unusual thing with SEOmoz is that they get a huge volume of traffic through their blog where the conversion rate (to money) is low. What I'd love to see more is softer conversions such as social interactions, registered users etc.

Thanks for your feedback!
I think you've missed several huge things here. First, the plane goes specifically where you want it to go, on the schedule you need, modulo agreement with the other people who need it too (which tends to work out particularly well if going to the same event/destination). Second, "slightly more than a first-class ticket" seems a lot more appealing than "absurdly expensive". Third, no airport security circus to deal with. And fourth, note from the article that they take groups of varying sizes; they mentioned one group of 90 people who managed to fly cheaper than commercial.
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It sounds like an interesting idea with some real problems to solve. I'm not a professional sysadmin so wonder what the current solution is? That would be a great source of information which many people on here could provide.

My #1 concern is trust. Would a webdesign agency really trust all their SSL certs to Silo for $50/yr? Centralising that number of SSL certs at an random online service seems a little insecure. I'd probably prefer a truecrypt-encrypted USB key, or an encrypted volume of dropbox/whatever or something like that.

I wonder if there's a business here in just the SSL expiry notifications? It seems a common problem which is theoretically solved by Google Calendar but obviously no one actually thinks of a general tool for the specific purposes of reminding them about expiry dates.
Likely what they mean by HTTP is HTML(and related) over HTTP
1. No, it's not a good deal. You should get a salary from the first day and a reasonable vesting schedule that results in you actually having equity ownership. And, 1% isn't that great for a first employee, especially if they're deferring your compensation. IF they get funded, bully for them.
2. Yes, there are things you should know or ask. There are simply too many to list here, but for starters: How do they intend to pay you before they have funding or revenue? Are they cash flow positive now?

Whatever they tell you, get it in writing. If it's not written down, then for all intents and purposes it didn't happen.
But, but, but... they're not democratic! If only they'd put more power in the hands of the common man, they too could enjoy such luminous choices for statesmen as McCain vs. Obama, Bush II vs. Kerry, Bush II vs Gore, Dole vs. Clinton, Bush I vs. Clinton...

...we gotta keep saber rattling that our way is better than theirs. Boo China, boo.

Edit: To the downvoter - okay, I'm joking around. But which of these premises do you disagree with?

1. The United States has more electoral politics in choosing its leaders than China.

2. The last 20 years of leadership in China show a much more nuanced understanding of policy and statesmanship than American leadership, where charisma and mass appeal tends to be more important than "hard credentials."

3. There might be a cause-and-effect relationship between point 1 and point 2.

Disagree with any of those? Yeah I'm joking around, but it's worth thinking about, no? Or maybe it's upsetting to think about... that I sympathize with...
I agree, this is the best way of looking at the issue. However, this approach requires one to learn a more advanced material first. It’s probably inevitable, but it may be a good idea to start with something more elementary. I’d suggest to start with a loose analogy with Taylor series (calc2).
It is highly unlikely AWS can handle that kind of load. AWS may be responsible for the netflix interface, but video streaming (the bulk of the data) is handled by CDNs such as Akamai.
The distinction between a scientist and an engineer is important here. In the dark days of modern China, mathematicians and scientists were regarded with as much suspicion as poets and philosophers. Engineering was one of the most intellectual professions you could have without being regarded as the enemy. (As for lawyers: there's not a lot of point in being a legal expert anywhere rule by fiat is common.)

The problem with the "engineering" approach is that it treats stability as an axiomatic good. It's quite hard to incorporate the rights of weird religious groups, troublesome journalists and out-and-out revolutionaries into such a world-view.
They are counting only at one end -- in this case, the client. So, traffic inbound/outbound from commodity ISPs. The traffic leaving servers is not typically considered "upstream".
His argument might be wrong, but is not absurd. The Fed can't guarantee inflation, and some very well known managers have lightened up on Treasuries. Also I'm not sure what "arb" Google is getting here, beyond an attractive spread to Treasuries for their debt offering.
For those of you analyzing costs -- it seems to me that some lower costs might come about for dead heading (flying empty somewhere else for a pickup of a full price charter). Presumably a given charter was going to require the aircraft to do that route anyway so they may as well get some cash for it.
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One thing ;-) Author of this text wrote:
"You have to be pretty popular to get elected, so should we conclude that Chinese people in general look up to and admire their scientists?"
But those in China's government wasn't elected in popular vote and for sure not in election like those in US or other western countries.
So it isn't in this way that Chines people in general look up to and admire scientists, but Communists Party of China look up to and admire scientists.

But in general I agree, it looks that China and Korea are much more in science than in humanities.
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Not really. For one, China is still a totalitarian (communist is really wrongly used here) country. And also my impression is that Tymoshenko is more of an isolated case - my guess would be that most of the current post-totalitarian leaders are either former officers (Putin, Borissov, Basescu), humanitarian/law majors (Komorowski, Parvanov, Orban, Gasparovic) or economists (Havel).

Unfortunately most of them come from the first category :/
The linked article is titled "Eight Out Of China’s Top Nine Government Officials Are _Scientists_" but...

The article it references states "...eight of the top nine political posts are held by _engineers_." but unfortunately does not name them.
That was a great explanation, particularly the summary at the end with the color-coded words corresponding to terms in the formula.

I came to the comments expecting to see nods of approbation at how cool this explanation was (I stopped taking math at about Calc 3, so no linear algebra for me) but instead I see people geeking out saying things like "to really understand you need to grasp the complex plane, and groups and DPTs and so forth."

Well, just so you know, for me the OP's intutitive explanation was enough.
Obviously one should not use this frivolous upgrading scheme on a server - I don't think anyone thinks otherwise.

At my own computer I don't see the problem. Python 3 replaced Python a couple of weeks ago in Arch, but it's possibly to use Python 2 (which I do, professionally) without too much hassle. As for kernel upgrades, I can always wait a couple of days to see if any major bugs creep up (obviously this requires keeping up with the news, which in itself is a small time investment).

Since I'm not too experienced I guess there are situations when I would wholeheartedly agree without you, but I've yet to come across them.
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They just need to get ahold of the do not fly list, there are a few hundred thousand people there that can take private flights but not commercial airline flights.
That's funny... Americans don't have an economically rational aversion to becoming movie stars in much the same way.
Really great article with a good insight into daily life. I like the way he talks about basic physical maintenance/updates and applies the same concepts to software/hardware updates. Cleaning the gutters is no fun, but I have to do it every week in the spring and fall. The moral, I think, is to accept or even embrace change and learn to deal with it.
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I think it is a trend for current communist countries/dictatorships. Of course there will be corruption and nepotism, but why would you decide on someone without an engineering background to run a country?

If you give voting power to the people they'll just choose someone with a nice face and smooth voice, telling its all gonna be ok.
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Modernizr classes are best used in the `.no-feature` case, where you do something like use background images or another clever CSS use to mimic the feature or handle the fallback situation.

Switching from progressive enhancement (applying styles if you detect a feature is supported) to graceful degradation (applying styles if you detect that a feature isn't supported) doesn't solve the underlying problem. In fact, it makes the situation worse. JS failure with the progressive enhancement approach means that everyone gets the fallback experience; failure with the graceful degradation approach means that you're potentially asking a browser to apply CSS that it doesn't understand and not offering it a fallback.

No matter which way you cut it, having CSS predicated on classes set by JavaScript creates a dependency where one should not exist. I realise that's the whole point of Modernizr, but in my opinion it isn't the right way to solve this problem. Others may not agree, and that's fine, but it's critically important that developers being encouraged to use Modernizr (or its underlying techniques) are made aware of the tradeoff they are making and the potential impact that may have on their users.
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well that's just great.

how many layers do you have to unpeel from our government before you find anybody that isn't a lawyer.
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The article is a bit disingenuous. While this might bring the cost down, it's certainly not going to be an alternative to commercial flights.

I think anyone with some common sense or basic economics knowledge would get that on average it's still going to be more expensive than a commercial flight. The point is that the use of social brings the price down.
Netflix isn't using AWS for their bandwidth. The media files themselves are being served by Level 3's CDN (http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/11/us-levelthree-idUS...). Netflix is using Amazon for a lot of their application servers, but when you're serving as much bandwidth as Netflix is, you go with a CDN for media distribution.

That's not to say AWS is bad or anything, just that AWS isn't supporting all that bandwidth for Netflix.
Seems like YC will take anything with a few good people and buzzwords this day - ignoring the fact that there are 500 million social networks already... Seems better suited as a fb app or something. Either way I personally have little use for this, it's called a calendar...
Could it also be a case of Google's financial planners thinking they "don't have enough debt" in the eyes of investors?

If their debt to equity balance sheet is too tilted, they could be perceived as 'lazy'. This move could be a way to acquire more debt that is easy to manage, as well as improve their credit rating (if they need it).

In some ways, I wonder if this is a move to boost their stock price, after the dip it took recently due to backlash from their earnings call goofiness.
One benefit of flying on a private/charter plane - you don't have to go through security.
Perhaps it's a misunderstanding of Australian police investigations, but I wouldn't expect them to arrest a witness. If Grubb was really arrested, that suggests (to this American who doesn't know anything about Aussie police) that someone accused him of a crime. Facebook has a motive; they want journalists to think twice before reporting on Facebook privacy flaws. Nobody else seems to have a motive. Not that there's any point in jumping to conclusions at this point -- surely there will be more information available soon.
About a decade ago, when I was studying the history of mathematics, I noticed that in 1776, the world's greatest mathematician (Leonhard Euler) was in St. Petersburg, Russia, just when many of the world's greatest political scientists were either in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (the signers of the Declaration of Independence) or in various parts of Britain (e.g, Edmund Burke and Adam Smith). To this day, the Russian-speaking world exceeds the English-speaking world in the quality of its primary and secondary mathematics instruction, and it is perhaps no accident that the first of the Clay Millennium Prize problems

http://www.claymath.org/millennium/

was solved by a mathematician who was educated in Russia. But also to this day, the United States and Britain enjoy an astonishing degree of political and economic freedom and rule of law

http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=594

and gain many of their best mathematicians and mathematics educators as immigrants from non-English-speaking countries. It is too early to say whether a lot of engineering-trained persons in government is mostly a feature or mostly a bug. I wish China well in going the direction of Taiwan (another place long ruled by technocrats) in developing the rule of law and an open political system with many guarantees of personal liberty. But it is by no means an invariant characteristic of human societies that those with the best math and science minds thrive best over the long term.

P.S. You did see below the fold on the submitted article, didn't you, what the blog author thinks China can count on just from the fact of the educational background of its leaders? Not much, just from that fact.

P.P.S. to respond to first reply: It's my understanding that the government of the Federal Republic of Germany consciously DE-emphasized technical education after World War II in favor of more emphasis on humanities and social science in the primary and secondary school curriculum. I thought it would trigger a mention of Godwin's Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

if I brought this up at first, but I've read that many observers of prewar Germany under the Third Reich looked at the quality of the scientists there (very high indeed) and thought that Germany would be hard to beat in the war. It is well known to people who read interesting histories of World War II, such as mathematician T.W. Körner's book The Pleasures of Counting,

http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Counting-T-W-K%C3%B6rner/dp/...

that there was a battle of scientists versus scientists in the war to find smart methods for fighting the other side. Ultimately, despite the great advantage that German's prewar primary and secondary schools and universities and civil service system gave Germany in building up a supply of smart technocrats, the Nazis' disregard of personal liberty drove away many of Germany's best scientists (notably, many Jewish scientists) and added talent to the Allied side.
I've got a better idea in the same space.

I've always wanted somebody to take the idea of "leave when full" minibuses in the 3rd world and apply it to popular airline routes.

How cool would it be if there was an operator running flights from Los Angeles to San Fransisco using small commuter jets with no fixed schedule and plenty of planes. You'd just turn up, buy a ticket, make your way to the gate, and get on the plane. When it filled up it would taxi away and another one would fill its place.

Average wait time: less than 15 minutes. No more showing up at the airport 2 hours early.

Naturally, you'd have to charge a premium, but if you pick your routes correctly and target people with more money than time, you would clean up.

The only downside is that you couldn't do it from actual commercial airports like LAX and SFO because you'd never get a slot to take off. You'd need to use smaller airports such as Boeing Field in Seattle. It still seems pretty doable though.
It's maybe a trade-off? Sure we have bozos for politicians in the US, but in the US government corruption usually doesn't lead to people 'disappearing.' Though we're definitely making great strides in that direction.
It depends on many factors (f.i. are the founders successful entrepreneurs? how long have they been working on the company? do they have a working prototype? a product in production? does the company already have customers? revenue? profits?), but in general 1% is not enough for a first employee, especially if you are not getting salary until the company get funding.

I'll shoot for something between 5-10%, but again, it's difficult to say without knowing the details.

Other things to consider

- vesting schedule

- vesting acceleration on single/double trigger
Ask HN: What does the software industry without patents REALLY look like?
Keep in mind, we have an example of a software industry where patent use is virtually non-existent - HFT and quantitative finance almost exclusively use tight confidentiality and trade secrets to operate.

Without patents, do new compression algorithms, data structures, etc stay trade secrets only to be used in situations where they can be protected?

Not defending just making a probing question at a weak spot of the argument that I haven't seen seriously confronted.
"Doesn't write large programs."

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Exactly. This is the specific reason why I ask if these portal pages, the DNS hijacking violates some RFC.

I do understand the desire and even the need for some form of authentication, or notice you are on someone else's network and ought to read what the terms are.

But the behavior of how that is implemented today is totally obnoxious, especially since for the most part, the terms and agreements are boilerplate intended to satisfy some lawyer, and functionally get in the way of why the vendor or site provided the wifi access in the first place.
Chomsky has a great quote about this: In the U.S. there is basically one party - The Business Party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations of the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies, as is most of the population.

I'm not against business, but it shouldn't be our singular goal as a society.
There is a point-of-view that movie stars/rock stars/etc don't really work that hard and get a ton of money and fame, but that seems to actually deviate from reality.
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Let's start with building another human, then, beginning with elemental chemicals. I think we all know how far we can get with that.

Or, let's try to engineer an entire economy to supplant the emergent system of markets. Oh, wait, that results in millions of people starving to death.

Some systems are so complex that it's beyond our abilities to dream about how we might approach such a problem, let alone execute it. Given that we've been so unsuccessful in assigning a definition to creativity or intelligence, I think that these things might be in the same category of overly-complex systems.
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