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Whenever I see announcements like this, I try and cap my enthusiasm -- I think reading about solid-state-drives in the 90s and not getting them until... well the last 2 years, I have learned to be cautious with falling in love.

THAT being said, this article suggests mass-production on a timeline of 5-years (give or take) along side other innovations like Intel's 50Gbps Thunderbolt.next() [1]

I'm really gunning for the world not ending Dec 2012 now; I want to see this stuff in a desktop PC ;)

Aside: It is fun to think about what changes to current industries would occur when computing power becomes insignificant -- for example, video editing/production, video games, voice recognition, security, etc.

Just in our industry, with the cost of a GB dropping to damn near $0.00, the first thing we saw was an explosion of apps dealing with huge data sets -- something previously only done by a few select mega-corps.

Anyone, just speculation and fun at this point.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/29/intel-touts-50gbps-interc...
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Perhaps I will add a play/pause button in version 2.0.
I feel terrible that I think of his son first every time I see something about him. May he rest in peace.
I wouldn't be surprised if they put a fair use clause somewhere. Otherwise you could hypothetically run a fairly resource intensive bot that scrapes data 24x7 using up aws download bw for no cost.
Not even a software firewall can pick up connections? I always look to firewalls for abnormal activity.
I'd say Anna Karenina is a good alternative. It's always been my personal favorite of his.
Carmack recently changed his opinion on D3D: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/03/11/carmack-direc...
Microsoft went down the D3D (well, the entire DirectX) path to court developers. They knew Windows95 could be much more successful if they could make it so developers could more easily write games for it. Developers were dying for reasonable abstraction layer on PC hardware. When 3D hardware became affordable, OpenGL continued its primary focus on perfection, which didn't give game developers what they needed (good enough, but FAST).

(Side note: If you ever want to pull your hair out, try going back in time to convert a DOS game written in X86 assembly using Mode X[0] blts that had been converted and tweaked from 68k assembly standing arcade game into a DirectX game a few months after DirectX is released for Windows95. Just figuring out how to convert the game time [which came from the sound card] into the DirectX world was unreal.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
You can see the source here: https://github.com/voloko/facebook-circles

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It is probably cost. Motherboards are high-volume products, and therefore the engineers who design them are fanatically cost sensitive. Adding $5 to the bill of materials for a feature that hardly anybody needs would be a career limiting move. Conversely, the people who actually need a 10 Gbps links are exactly the people who can be up-sold to a $50 cable.

In a few years it will be everywhere natively: competition will have driven the parts cost to pennies per board, and average customers will be demanding it.
> Climate change deniers essentially appeal to this aspect of human nature -- that we cannot plan for random events with very large consequences.

It's one thing to plan for a random event. It's another thing to propose trillions of dollars in taxes (both monetary and regulatory), wealth that could be used to further the human race by pursuing causes such as education, poverty, hunger, disease, standards of living, and advancing technology.
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Some heads-up:

1. When they grow, they may lose startup like service

2. Don't remember they lock you. You can never take your customers CC even when you want.
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The problem is that you never know when someone is just talking, just seeking attention, or is serious. Often, the most serious don't talk about it. They just do it. But even attempting it is bad enough and while many might make light of someone's threats about it as nothing more than lame attempts at milking attention, that alone denotes a fairly serious concern. There are several levels before the point of actually attempting or committing the act which are deserving of serious notice.

I haven't known anyone who went through with it, either (though I know many who know those who have). I'll tell you, however, that I'd sure rather know someone that made threats that I took serious and tried to get help for than know someone I didn't take serious and will regret not taking serious for the rest of my life.
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I would gladly take one - plamsalktm[at]gmail[dot]com .
No, you're right, they're the shell companies designed to avoid asking customers to pay CA sales tax. Virtual presence is fun until it means you have to start competing on a level playing field.

The affiliate program might be the strongest legal argument for in-state presence, but it's far from the only one. Apart from the subsidiaries, there's also the more than $3 billion they get from CA residents.

I think everyone here should have to disclose competing interests on this topic:

full disclosure: I work for a company (part time) that makes most of its money from Amazon affiliate revenue (but I personally am not taking Amazon's threats very seriously).
David,

I posted this to raise awareness about regulatory issues, not to solicit pity or life advice.

I know that startups are hard; that's why I do them. It's just bullies like you who make them especially so.

Aaron
> and the botnet uses the domain names of the C&C servers as the encryption keys.
... what? That kind of defeats the entire purpose of encryption when they key is something like that. Besides, what are they using this encryption for. It seems more likely they want a check on the integrity of messages. And even still, a MAC is equally worthless since it's not public/private key.

Maybe it is public/private key, and they use (derive?) the public key from the name of the server?

Either (1) this botnet is really weak or (2) the writers of this article have distorted the truth.

I suspect (2), but I don't think they did it deliberately. I suspect it was an attempt at simplification, but they went too far.
This is an interesting concept.

You could definitely release interesting stats on what people like, particularly on how certain subjects correlate with each other.
> what is the correct clothing to wear on a
> website when you discuss attempted suicides?

You're missing the point: What value does the photo even add to the focus of the discussion? There's already a icon/avatar photo of her in the top right corner with her twitter account. Why are we blasted with a huge photo of her (regardless of what she's wearing)? Personally, I would find a huge photo of a guy with a beard toting a sweater vest and smoking a pipe just as jarring.
I'm sure glad I don't get all the law enforcement I pay for.
Ask HN: How much WERE you earning in CA with the Amazon affiliate program?
And are you considering moving your operations to a different state?
Does Facebook copyright "white text on blue background"?
Haven't seen it yet, but I've heard good things about Something Ventured:

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Where can I find his photo?
exactly. if the viewers of these videos intend to become serious software developers then they can just correct whatever wrong shit they learn. if they don't care about best practices then it is still better that they know how to do the basics to automate mundane tasks then not know any at all.
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Again, you're focusing on the wrong thing. Being honest (or "sharing my opinion") doesn't make me a bully. You titled your post "Death by regulation" and I think you're doing yourself a disservice by choosing to believe that regulation is the reason why FC hasn't succeeded.

I'm happy to help. I'm a mentor at I/O Ventures where I hold office hours periodically -- please feel free to drop in, or shoot me an email and I'll let you know next time I'll be there. Even if you don't think I'm qualified to mentor, I'm certainly a good person to bounce ideas off of, and you can probably guess, I bring a healthy dose of reality to discussions. ;-)
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> Maybe it is public/private key, and they use (derive?) the public key from the name of the server?

How would that work though? Maybe I just don't know enough, but I can't think of a way to generate a public key from some known source, and then somehow derive a private key from that source such that no one else can derive that same private key.

I guess you could generate an RSA key pair using the domain name as a seed for your random number generator, but that seems like a terrible idea. As soon as they introduce some real randomness in to it, then you're no longer deriving the key from the domain name.

I also suspect (2), but I wouldn't be surprised if they added some extra distortion to make the article read more like "Look how impressive these guys are! They made their own encryption algorithm!".
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Monopolies only exist in two situations:

1. They supply the market demand perfectly.
2. Government forces them into that position directly or indirectly.

There are no exceptions.
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Have you tried something that doesn't have the overhead of torrents and can make many concurrent connections like a local HK usenet server?
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Read the description of the "game". So.... neither Risk or Warcraft or WOW. Foursquare is involved though, that's the only honest/accurate part.
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> ... if Amazon wants to ignore this, and still ships to CA residents, what recourse will the state have?

Charge a use tax on the goods, like sane states do. The trick would be incentivizing people to pay the use tax. (Oklahoma incentivizes by letting you pay estimated personal use tax. Pay a tiny, flat fraction of you income on your tax return and you are immune from use tax prosecution.)

> If anything, wouldn't this all fall under the interstate commerce powers of the Federal government?

The U.S. Congress could, if they chose, require that interstate vendors be able to collect and redistribute use tax. A standardized federally-administered database would make implementation tractable. The hard part would actually be dealing with businesses who plan to resell the goods, who are exempt from use and sales taxes.
Government getting the hell out of the way of people voluntarily interacting the marketplace is the best situation.

For example: cable easements. Get rid of them. Get rid of all easements. Without them, you would have a variety of options and methods of gaining access to a number of utilities (internet, power, etc) as well as new services that have not yet been created.
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Just added you to one of my circles. Hopefully that counts as an invite? Good luck!
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I absolutely get the craziness of the claim. But given it's listed fifth of five claims they take issue with (others being outright trademark infringement,) I imagine they really only care about it in congruency with the others.

I doubt (hope?) that even a giant like Facebook would go after every person who uses lowercase white text on a blue background.

(That said, I've never used the app in question. I'm assuming the other claims, not referenced in the post, have a ring of truth?)
I agree that not everyone is an attention whore, but if they have enough people that they need to use social networking with that they have to bulk-load them, then they probably are. My contact book is enormous, but I don't need a social network for most of those people. I don't need to update my coworkers on anything outside of work and I doubt businesses are using social networks for their employees to conduct business with. I certainly don't need to do social networking with someone I might have had a meal with while on a trip oversea, either. Keep them in my address book. Drop them a note sometime. Sure. But the number of people a non-attention-whore needs to interact with on a basis frequent enough to justify being part of an actual social networking application surely must be well below the "bulk loading" number?

The step of categorizing your social networking broadcast channels into proper groups has been years overdue. That's a great feature. I'm just saying that maybe people should pause and take a minute to actually do with Google+ what they originally intended to do with Facebook. You know, four or five years ago when the whole world switched over to Facebook, because it was the place you only "friended" people that you actually knew as opposed to "everyone with a pulse" that you friended on MySpace? Seems like everyone let that get away from them (and they frequently complain about how exactly that has happened to them). So instead of rushing back into the same situation, it's a great time to rethink how we're using such a service.
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I've gone up to 10MB/sec...which is close enough to the theoretical limit of 100Mb/sec. Locally the product works as advertised. But only locally.
I think there's a more practical reason behind it. In the United States, it's actually pretty hard to get someone committed against their will, and plenty of psychiatrists have argued that it should be easier to do so (and not completely without merit). I mean, how many people on the streets are there because they're incapable of taking care of themselves? How many people have committed crimes that could have been prevented with a mental hospital stay?
The article argues that good situations resulted from government action. The reality is that while these situations are viewed as good, they are not neccessarily the best. Only when individuals are able to voluntarily interact in the market do the best services and products meet the best prices and innovation is at its highest. One of the main factors that does not permit government from being able to exist in a market in a positive way in comparison is due to a complete lack of price model interaction. Government (by its very nature) does not depend on consumer response (price model). It thus has no way of allocating resources as efficiently as it would were it to exist without tax dollars (confiscated property, not gained through competition or voluntary interaction). As such, it cannot gauge weather or not the things it is doing are the best or the most effective to meet the demand.

There are mountains of writing on the basics of free markets and Austrian Economics, if you would like me to link you to some resources.
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RTM and his controversial (for that time) Internet worm were key influences during my early years with computers and computer networks. My condolences to him and the rest of the Morris family.
Isn't this a good argument for protectionism? Why should people trade outside their own borders anyway?
unfortunately, Amazon didn't have the balls to fight New York sales tax. Too many large, high-profile affiliates in NYC, I guess.
What sad news.

When I was doing my doctorate in security I used to attend or give papers at the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Workshop (http://www.ieee-security.org/CSFWweb/) which was held in a lovely old hotel in Franconia, NH. This was a really small gathering of people deeply involved the theory of securing computers.

Bob Morris and his wife Anne used to attend each year. It was unusual for people to bring their loved ones to this gathering and having the two of them there gave a certain holiday like atmosphere to the whole affair.

He was a gentleman and very kind to me as a young graduate student and I remember well playing games in the hotel grounds with him and Anne. At the time he was Chief Scientist at the NSA and the Rainbow books had been produced under his gaze. But he was humble, approachable and helpful.

Condolences to rtm.
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Condolences. The world is better for having had him, and worse for having lost him.
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That didn't seem to work. (I checked my spam folder, too.)

According to this article, it says that an invite link is at the bottom of the right-hand side of your stream:

http://searchengineland.com/how-those-in-google-can-invite-o...
Because the state is not allowed to. The items are still being entirely taxed, people are just dishonest when they file their taxes.
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David,

I don't even know what to say. Your point seems to be "Shit happens...but it's all your fault."

Also, I didn't say that FaceCash hasn't succeeded, and I didn't say that regulation is "the" reason why. It's far too early to tell.

When your honest opinion is consistently derogatory toward a single person no matter the circumstances, and you never have the faintest praise to offer, then yes, I think that does make you a bully, albeit an honest one.

If you truly want to help, and you truly believe that I just don't know how to "execute," whatever that means, then fine. E-mail me with what I should have done differently, and I'll be happy to share some reality with you.

Perhaps you can offer some lessons on "execution" to Jeff Bezos as well. Based on what the California legislature did to him today, he's clearly in need of some mentoring.

aarong at thinkcomputer dot com

Aaron
I think that he just describes the hybrid between a developer and a product designer. A mix that isn't always good: you shouldn't implement what you design. But for startups it's often the case.

Regarding @geebee "putting developers into a box where they are simply executing specs" I think that the "developer driven culture" has gotten us to the point where we have forgotten that there need to be _a single_ person in charge of designing the product. Otherwise it will be impossible to keep the product integrity. Read The Mythical Man-Month.

Also, the "spec" isn't some kind of pseudo-code. It can be the user manual, a design document or a prototype. Actually, it MUST NOT include any implementation details, since that is up to the developer to decide. It's his domain, he knows that better than anyone else. If the developer feel that he misses out on something, maybe he should try to be a product designer instead. But for the sake of the product, he shouldn't be both.
It doesn't really make sense, though, to charge the same level of tax for a store that has a significantly lower impact on local infrastructure. Amazon doesn't have to build space-wasting parking lots, drive one car per person to the store, etc. The significantly more efficient distribution model should be taxed in consideration of its reduced resource use.
But to sacrifice the gains in the first 90% for the sake of the remaining 10% just so that the remaining 10% is handled in a way that is maybe possibly better than what we might have if we went the other route? That sounds like a questionable benefit for a huge cost.

You do have a point though, perhaps a hybrid approach is best.
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I have experience with this (depending on your product). Drop me a line and I'll see if I can provide you with some help relevant to what you're selling. email is in profile.
Actually, commodity hardware that you can buy today for less than $1000 would have made it to the top tiers of HPC Top500 just 11 or 12 years ago. But most of this was done in a step by step evolution of old technologies, not in a revolutionary way, because most of the revolutionary technologies that make the news are not really feasible for mass production (at least at the time of the discovery - remember the costs of the solid-state drives back in the '90s).
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I believe hiring the best is the desire of all employers, but software people, of abilities big and small, are in short supply in today's marketplace.

I mean, if you are really going to set out to hire only the best, why even look at people who are just a designer or developer? Why not hire the person who is kickass at designing, developing, and writing?

Someone who has intimate knowledge of all areas of software development is going to build a better product than three people who are only skilled in their limited subsets.
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If you can't create an account after the first invite, get another. Then it will let you in.

I've invited a few people below who haven't confirmed their success :-)
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you can easily scrape google without having to use something as bulky as htmlunit.

When I teach people how to scrape, exercise #1 is scraping Google with Ruby Mechanize and Nokogiri. xPath is your friend
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Fake doors. I saw @jesskah speak about these at an Ignite talk, and she did a great job. Here's the link (http://bit.ly/lQpnOY), but essentially it's putting up a "door" that leads to nowhere in your application, and you can see how many people try to check it out. Kind of like baiting for fish.

Obviously you don't want to do this on a large scale, but check out the talk, it's only 5 minutes and she can explain it much better than I can.
Alright guys, so we all lost our Affiliate programs. What are the legal implications for just putting down an out-of-state friend's address in our Amazon account information?
If you go to Google and look at the html source code you’ll be astonished to see pure Javascript obfuscated code.

If you turn off javascript on your browser, I'm pretty sure you get straight html. That used to be the case anyway. Most scripts don't signal javascript-support.
Looks to me like they are paving the way for the Facebook iPad app by try to reduce any risk of confusion between non-official apps.
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That doesn't seem to be working now; we'll just have to wait it out.