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People like to watch professional players so they can learn things, and also entertained.

There is value being created for these individuals and JustinTV has snatched up the market by offering revenue sharing deals to get people to switch.

Just the other week, a player named TheLittleOne has 15-20k Uniques watching his stream for twenty four hours.

They are not massive audience draws like MLG, or GomTV, but for the cost of producing one could easily argue the marginal profit is higher.

Secondly, a lot of tournaments actually stream through JustinTV, like NASL. While not having the production value of the previously mentioned it has a large amount of consistent audience draw.
It is a successor to osCommerce. You wouldn't say it's horrible if you took a look at osCommerce's source code.
Show HN: I Just Open Sourced a Game I Made a While Back
I know that in the more generic form:

methodology is good, Methodology is bad.

I think this applies to any methodology, including waterfall. Another way to phrase this is "never stop observing, never stop acting on observations". Acting does not equate doing something, however. Even if you do nothing, and let the wagon roll on, you must know why you are doing nothing.
Java's type erasure is bad for matching List[SomeType], because information about SomeType is erased. This is my greatest nuisance of JVM with Scala.
On Silk Road there are lots of ways to money launder... one of the main ways is that you give someone bitcoins and they give you a "gift" on paypal so that there are no fees.
And yet we can predict (or at least run a humanly-feasible amount of experiments to discover) the properties of new molecules that are orders of magnitude more complex than an atom, such as recombinant DNA structures and fusion proteins - which are being used to great effect in medicine etc. It blows my mind
Interesting question. If you could get the app-store on your computer, you could just redownload the OS (buy once, install on any number of computers). But how do you get the app store on your fresh hard drive? A time machine restore would work, but what if you had no time machine... I wonder if apple will let you burn a dvd with the os once you purchase it. I am worried they might force you to go to an apple store (which would suck if you weren't near one), but who knows. If they don't offer a reasonable solution right now, I suspect they will have to offer one in the near future by force of customer outrage.
Will they offer a usb stick option for $29 ?
The download is 4 gb.
I'm a fan of this kinda stuff. Very demoralizing for those sorts of folks and makes the rest of the world laugh!
That's exactly why W8 will certainly have lots of proprietary objects you'll need to call in order to do anything useful.
After reading this I felt more confident in starting my own business. Going through all of it like before seemed so painstaking for both sides, although I know it is very essential to screen carefully the first few employees in a startup.
not to mention thinking outside the box.
The compiler can only optimize simple calls in tail position, so recursive algorithms can overflow the stack, because the JVM lacks the support for any optimization here.

No good IO/File API (because it needs support from the JVM for certain operations, which will only be added in Java 7).

No good Unicode support (it uses Java's java.lang.String).

Type erasure (although the consequences are not as bad as Java's).

Java's reflection API doesn't agree with Scala code sometimes.
Thanks for the kinds words and the feedback! We got lots of good feedback last time these things were discussed here on HN, hopefully we've made some progress.

Regarding our quick-start, we absolutely agree - except rather than simplify it, we'd prefer to get rid of it altogether by improving the UI of the product itself to the point where it doesn't need so much explaining. That effort is ongoing and should launch later this summer. :-)
The government's PR branch has really done a number on you. It's absolutely legal to host or mirror Wikileaks, under any reasonable interpretation of the law; remember that the only way that the government can dig up a case on Assange is to try to label him as a co-conspirator in directly obtaining the information. Just distributing the material is protected -- it's the same thing that newspapers do all the time.

EDIT: On reflection, I shouldn't sound so confident, because I'm not a lawyer. But that's my understanding.
I would like to hear more from application programmers here, about their experience in dealing with incast. For example, Facebook uses UDP to throttle messages at the application layer to combat incast: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919.

Also, a few catches with DCTCP:

1. It's not completely an end host solution and requires ECN support from switches, which should be widely available. Can someone pitch in about the availability of ECN in their networks?

2. DCTCP and plain TCP don't mix well, and hence not incrementally deployable. DCTCP and TCP+ECN also don't mix well!
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Except that in the specific example I have (this is my post), the results of the inner select (I would assume) should be cached because the condition in the inner select is a fixed set of criteria, not related at all to the outer records. Also of interest is that NOT IN(insert subselect here) doesn't raise the same issue. Additionally it prevents the entire query from using any indices... I have lots of interesting query planner results from this particular go around.

Also it's been fixed in 6.0-alpha just not back-ported, so I'm not sure I agree here.
Anyone else surprised by how many hugely popular apps Apple is going to kill with new Lion/iOS? Instapaper built-into Safari now, all kinds of messanger apps killed by iMessage, some of those photo apps going down the drain as well, Reminders app is a huge one as well. All targeting really popular app categories.

Sure, some people care about thing X being done supremely well and will still pay for some apps. But the huge majority will probably be really fine with Apples version.
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It seems like it would be a lot easier to just shut down the USD-BTC exchanges. If people can't get money in or out of the system they don't need to worry about what happens inside the system. (I'm ignoring mining, since there's a serious limit on how large that can get.)
PDP-11 architecture is nice to implement in microcode, it's probably a little bit difficult to make it a RISC given that its power and simplicity comes from the elegant addressing modes encoding. The VAX was nice too, and the Tahoe/cci (kind of 3 address extension of the VAX IIRC).
What is a fair compensation package for a first employee at a startup?
No, Zend Framework dates from ~2006.
Restore with your current restore DVD/flash drive first then reinstall to Lion.

I assume new computers will still come with the restore DVD or flash drive in the case of the Air. Sounds like the starting point to me.
AFAIK you can't boot from a TimeMachine backup... in order to restore from TimeMachine in the event of an HDD crash, you need OS media. :/
Most of these companies do not have security people, audits, or even really logging. People should be suprised when there is security IMHO.
The way in which owning a physical thing "makes sense" is that you can defend a physical thing. You can move it to a location that's easier to defend, or build defenses around it, or whatever. Physical property is about defensibility; it's not a metaphor, but a capability. Information-as-property is a metaphor, precisely because defending the part you "own" of (what is otherwise) someone else's computer is so difficult as to be effectively impossible.
Mailing cash is scary and risky. Using Bitcoin doesn't remove the risk of fraud, but it removes the risk of your payment being lost/intercepted.
I know not everybody has an external case, but many of those who replace own HDs do. They can (as I do):

Use Carbon Copy Cloner to backup / prepare for system upgrade.
Surely it will have to unpack itself a bit.
"Since I founded my startup ..." <-- the underlying comparison is between "working at a startup" (which is understood to be a non-founder status) and "working at a large firm".

As far as internships are concerned, internships at large companies are generally more flexible regarding roles. Some even involve rotations, where you get to see a little bit of everything.
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Should of picked up shopify instead.
matt_s gets it right.

you need to produce requirements, make a design, create plans, implement code, test, deploy and all that -- it's the same if you're doing waterfall or agile, you're just sequencing these activities in time differently.

if you look at the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) you find a comprehensive list of things that have to be done to make a project happen and this list isn't any different for agile or waterfall... it's just the answers for how certain things are done (communications in the team) for instance are different.

One advantage of agile is that all phases of project management are going on in each cycle, so you don't run into the problem that now you're testing after five years of doing everything else and now you don't have any idea how to do it.

On the other hand, you can screw everything up in an agile project the same way you can in a waterfall, although the symptoms show up differently. Since you're testing every phase of the process, problems will show up earlier. However, it's easy for people to miss them.

In an agile process, for instance, you can plan a sprint and accomplish the goals you set for the sprint and feel like you're doing a great job. However, the sprints might never end and the product never gets delivered. All your PM tools tell you're winning all the battles but you're still losing the war.
As a first-time user, it would be helpful to see some examples of certain keywords and SMS responses. That way, I can see how the service worked for someone and that would give me a sense for how it can work for me.
Like politicians' expenses, bloat is only ever reduced, but it somehow keeps going up as time passes.
In my case that is a Snow Leopard disk (my MBP came with Leopard).

So I have to install Snow Leopard, download and update to 10.6.7(?), and then download Lion?

That's a pretty horrible user experience.
An important security vulnerability has been fixed in Flash
Oh yeah. You are correct. I forgot because I included a partition on my time machine disk that is an OSX dvd, and so have restored from nothing but my time machine drive.

Hmm.. it wouldn't be too hard for them to include a bootable set of disk utilities with your time machine back up. But did they?

I hate having to wait for answers.
Don’t throw out your Snow Leopard disc I guess…
And yet, just yesterday I met with someone and sold him bitcoins for cash. Anyone can be an exchange.
Is American law enforcement colluding with Cisco?
Which, at least in my state, is now illegal to sell (home-made). Unless your kitchen was inspected. Which nobody's is.
First, that is awesome. You've reminded me about a few projects that I really need to open up. Thanks. :)

Second, playing this game seems like a great way to develop intelligence, specifically spatial reasoning, as per the recent front page[1] article from Scientific American[2].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2562632
[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=you-can-i...
This is a fair point. Speaks to the idea that most overnight successes are 10 years in the making :-)
Always put an email's most important point or call to action in the first short paragraph, preferably in the first sentence. I sometimes forget, but my results are better when I remember this. As, for example, this paragraph.
Meanwhile, de Icaza has formed his own startup,
Xamarin, which will keep working on Mono and
commercial .NET stacks. But here's something
interesting:the Xamarin home page highlights .NET
development for iOS and Android, not Linux

Can yellow journalism get any worse than already is?
WWDC looks like the stage for a Startup Holocaust.
Low-hanging fruit simply means "reward" for little effort. The low-hanging fruit may very well be the biggest, sweetest of the bunch.
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For incompatibilities there would/will quickly rise frameworks that abstract you from them.
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Devils advocate, is it much more of a step then downloading all the other software updates that have been released since you acquired your disc?
How is this different than storing dollars in an offshore account?
Sounds like his business is dying as he cuts parts away. If he could get the right amount of pastries ordered, why would he not make money? You sell half, so order half. It just sounds like he wasn't paying much attention when he wasn't in financial trouble.

Sounds like a pretty reactionary guy. I might agree that credit companies exploit small businesses, but a bakery too? Everyone is out to get this guy.

I just hope he doesn't get his own ATM in his business instead of taking credit cards.
Apple's iOS 5 coming this Fall
Sure, that’s when you have a working and bootable backup. If you don’t (for example because you are using Time Machine) it’s not really clear what you do.

I think Apple has thought of some solution, we just don’t know it yet. It’s an interesting question.
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I'll let others chime in, but the DCTCP paper mentions "our application reduces the amount of data each worker sends and employs jitter. Facebook, reportedly, has gone to the extent of developing their own UDP-based congestion control [29]."

I recently talked with someone on the Facebook memcached team about this problem and they mentioned that moving to UDP has been useful, but if I'm not mistaken, I believe they gave up on 100% in-order reliability in return for low-latency.
If you install a valid registered copy of the OS on the hardware, I imagine none. For the people that obtain the OS through not so legal means, then I imagine they'll still be able to get around it as most application on the appstore are obtainable through other means.
The next big problem Apple wants to tackle: Your data
Apple=Microsoft+Intel
The goods have to be shipped from somewhere to somewhere. How hard would it be for the feds to find the origin of the packages?
I think that was the point of the 'ZF' comment. Whatever varien had as an ecommerce package before their ZF uptake was likely different enough from what Magento was that it's not terribly accurate or useful to say "magento's been around for 10 years".

Magento in its current form has been around for ~4 years.

Wikipedia even indicates that Varien was using osCommerce before Magento was developed, so they likely didn't have a full commerce stack of their own for the last 10 years.
Drew found a cofounder before doing YC.

Can't think of any truly one man operations off the top of my head, although Zuckerberg was almost running the entire show at Facebook.
I'm sure that their sales team wants people to think that, regarding hardware ;)

On the other hand, regarding jumping from 10.5 to 10.7: would this require the purchase of a Snow Leopard DVD, so that 10.6 would be covered in-between? I'd be curious to know.
Pretty horrible experience for a tiny minority and a great experience for the majority. Sounds like Apple.

I'm sure Macs without floppy drives were a terrible experience for people that relied on floppies.
In re your Game of Thrones example: HBO is actually sitting pretty as compared to the big networks like NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX. After all, HBO doesn't really care how its subscribers consume its content: be it on the HBO Go iPad app, cable on-demand, DVR, TV, iTunes, or even (to some extent) by way of piracy (1). After all, it's monetizing the subscribers one way or the other. Networks can't count on the same, and if they try to transition to a premium cable model, they'll face stiff consumer resistance from a user base accustomed to getting its network content free of charge.

(1) The reason HBO doesn't need to care about piracy as much as networks do is somewhat counterintuitive. You'd think that, since HBO monetizes viewers directly, it should be deeply concerned with losing viewers to piracy. But actually, there's a reasonable argument to be made that HBO gains more users from piracy than it loses. Piracy serves as a great marketing vehicle for HBO's content, while not really stealing away a significant number of current users. Net-net, HBO might actually be better off for the existence of piracy. But that's just a hypothesis.

(2) Eventually, HBO will need to adapt its subscription model, which is predicated on semi-indirectly monetizing users by way of monetizing cable providers based on size of user base (among other factors). What does the adaptation look like? I'd imagine it's a future in which all cloud-based curators of content (Apple, Netflix, etc.) are monetized by HBO and other providers in a similar fashion to how HBO currently monetizes cable networks. In this sense, I don't think a la carte is totally going to replace subscription models for HBO and its ilk. It might be a nice complement to, but certainly not an immediate replacement for, business as usual.
Or just restore your time machine backup. I've done that across several macs for hard drives/dead boards/etc, as well as just straight upgrades. I'm still running on my original Tiger install from 2005 or 2006 (whenever it came out). It's been upgraded along the way.
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NASA plan takes the Internet into space and beyond
Bitcoins are much less anonymous than normal net traffic, even. If someone sends you some money, you get to know the address it came from, and plug it in on http://blockexplorer.com/ and you can see which addresses that address got its money from, and how much, and you can trace it all the way back through history to find out which block generated the money and how it got to that address. Depending on how people consolidate their wallets, you can even see how much money they have.

I don't have to be routing packets for you to find all this out; every transaction goes to every node.

There are "laundering" services which try to play a shell game with addresses, but I think they're probably easy to reverse-engineer, at least probabilistically if not completely.

OTOH, unlike IPs, you can't pinpoint addresses to any location though or find out who owns what addresses for sure. I guess they're more pseudonymous than anonymous.
I completely agree. It's painful to develop in and painful to use from a client perspective. I used it for some client projects a few years back and ended up just migrating them to spree after getting tired of client calls every time they attempted to update a product listing.
It breaks anonymity. Transactions are public and that static address is public, so anyone can tell how much money that static bitcoin address has received.
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Introducing appointment slots in Google Calendar
"Being reasonable" and "wanting to change the world" usually won't go together
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Why does modern Perl avoid UTF-8 by default?
Not to take all the good points away from this article, but I found these two statements contradictory:

1. If you do have a fixed time, then scope is variable

2. If you have to give a fixed date for delivery - it's very, very difficult to be agile.

I've found that #2 is possible as long as you allow for #1. When you have a deadline, you actually become more agile - decisions on what should and shouldn't be done are quicker and the cut off line between "must have"s and "nice to have"s is more obvious - simply because decisions have to be made. Think of moving out of an apartment: are you surprised how productive you get in those last few days?

I have also see misuse of #2: teams take #2 as carte blanche to hold the business at ransom to the "it'll be done when its done" mantra.

It almost seems like there's three kinds of agile nowadays:

1. Big A - the agile that the manifesto became for whatever reasons

2. Small a - the agile that the purists conjure up in reaction to Big A

3. Reality - where when it happens, you can look at each other and say "We were really agile right there - and shipped something right!"
1 in 4 US Hackers is an FBI informer says Eric Corley, editor of 2600 magazine
Scala had a CLR version from pretty much the beginning, so I don't think it was designed with the intention of exclusively targeting the JVM.
You are making predictions about the future based on opinions that have not been verified.

The whole point of the article is that your intuitions about what is true or false is unreliable. Instead it is better to experiment with different options and measure the results. Choose the best option based on real data rather than unreliable intuitions.
Now consider the other side of the equation.

Let's say you are a founder at a small startup. You are looking for the best talent. Rarely do you have thousands of people knocking at your door asking for a position. You have to go out and look for the best people. You will find yourself in one of three positions:

A) Not finding enough people -- then you have the ability to interview everyone, and any candidate may have a chance of getting in the door.

B) Finding too many people -- then you don't have the bandwidth to interview everyone, and you need some sort of heuristic to decide who to interview first. This is where pedigree comes in.

C) Outsourcing to a third party recruiting firm -- generally, even if you instruct them not to, they will send you candidates with strong pedigrees
java.lang.String is UTF-8 by default unless you call toBytes() with a different encoder.. how is this not "unicode" enough? (Honest question).

Type erasure is a huge pain though.
I think it was more he changed the product mix to something that his customers wanted. He replaced a variety of custom/daily baked goods (cookies, muffins, croissants and whatever else), that he was struggling to sell out every day at likely a buck or two with 25 cent store bought donuts that led to more sales of his higher margin items.
It's a pleasure to see someone take the stand and go against the rash of blog posts and articles against Groupon.

The main point of this article is that Groupon has value in connecting the online and offline world. Even if people use Yelp to decide on a restaurant, or search Google to figure out where it is- those companies never get profits from that because the restaurant never knows what sent the customer.

Groupon is able to monetize the online to offline sale by clearly letting the business see that Groupon brought in a customer.

He also says that while the daily deal structure might be risky/dead they can easily pivot to other online to offline connections like instant deals to your phone while walking by a restaurant.

Personally, while I think that monetizing the online to offline transaction could be a huge business opportunity I don't know if I am willing to risk money on watching Groupon make the pivot. If daily deal as a model is crumbling (which many people have blogged about), then you are betting a whole lot that the database of merchants and customers can be leveraged in a new business model.
I think that the terminology you use is very different from the standard one.

> If you can't dispose of a "cache" without a thought beyond "Gosh, my app's performance is going to suffer until this cache is repopulated"

According to what you're saying: "Write cache" or "dirty cache" are oxymorons, and yet these terms are used everywhere.