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The article doesn't describe but one of the biggest difference is scalability. MongoDB supports horizontal scaling as a built-in feature. It's known that MySQL can be scaled out by sharding but you lose ACID with it.
Of course scalability is required only when the service goes well. But it's important to considerate it if you intend to be successful.

It can be said scaled MySQL is a no-SQL. MongoDB is the New MySQL with this point of view.
I've been using a LED bulb for 2 years or so now (it's on 24/7).

It's currently half the brightness of when it was when new.

I am not impressed, unless they have fixed that.

Also, if LED is so efficient, why do they produce so much heat that they need massive heatsinks or advanced cooling?
Blake will be doing some blogging at least more about his experience using Yesod. You can subscribe to the Yesod blog (http://www.yesodweb.com/blog) - we will link to his posts when they come out.
Wow...I did not expect to be picked up on Hacker News, I am honored! I agree that established engines like Unity/UDK are probably your best bet for making commercial games, but I am targeting hobbyists/hackers for the most part, who typically like to build engines the hard (or stupid :p) way, from the ground up.
I've used Joker (joker.com) for 11 years now. Barring a very large syn-flood attack on their infrastructure about 5 years ago, I've had no trouble with them. They also give you free mail-forwarding and DNS which is a welcomed bonus.
This kind of casual evaluation by a non-expert observer is incredibly meaningless. LEDs have a radically different spectrum from "regular white light". This shows up in weird looking colors when this light is used in real settings; the fact that the light "looks white" through the lampshade doesn't mean that it won't turn your off-white walls an ugly color, and your sofa, and the skin of your family members.

Saying that you "can't tell the difference" when casually looking at the two lamps, during the day in all likelihood, is something that's been done before with a million CFL and LED lamps. It usually doesn't actually hold up. In this case, there doesn't seem to be anything special about the actual LEDs - they just put many of them into a screw-in enclosure, for which they need liquid cooling to remove the heat.

If this was about actually saving electricity, and not about "environment theater" and a windfall for a few companies, they'd pass a steep progressive tax on residential electricity use, and let people figure out whether they want to have more efficient bulbs or to turn down their air conditioner, or perhaps just not build a McMansion which needs 1000 lamps to light it in the first place.
For those who wondered what nodetuts is: http://nodetuts.com/

It is a Node.js Free screencast tutorials tool
They aren't usually purple, they are usually a sickly greenish.
The language of the letter is pretty vague, it mentions "creation of a collaboration group to develop" which can be pretty munch anything (or nothing at all, actually).

I am not sure the Brazilian gov hiring developers is the best course of action. I'd much rather have it fund Apache Soft, Mozilla, or any other organization that knows how to do it.

In my experience, pretty much ever govt software I've interacted with (imposto de renda, nota fiscal paulista, the portal brasil fluke?) is incredibly bad. I fail to see the hand on clever people in them.
>Yes. They get money from advertisement, they should check reports.

I don't see how one implies the other. Drug companies get money from selling ingredients for makeshift heroin, they should stop its use?

> CA, USA, of course.

And which laws? Should they block advertisers of euthanasia? Political groups? "Terrorist" groups? This is a very slippery slope.

> How do they solve spam on gmail?

No, if I were to submit many reports with different advertisers from different accounts, there's no way to detect that as spam. There's no comparison with email spam, which is a one-to-many medium.

>I disagree on Adsense, but agree on Search. Making money from illegal activities is illegal in most (if not all ) countries.

Why the distinction between Adsense and Search? Do they not profit from Search?

Google isn't making money via copyright infringement - it's only a byproduct of the actions of separate perpetrators. It's like Microsoft being held responsible for botnets.
For me, the gym, sleep, and work all tie together literally; when I don't get the exercise I need, I can't sleep as well (or get to bed as early), and hence, my performance suffers the next day.
You think Amazon is trying to sell stuff to people that they can't run and will ask for refunds on?
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http://www.arduino.cc/ One of the major differences between developing open source software and developing open source hardware is that hardware results in tangible outputs, which cost money to prototype and manufacture.
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I've used Namecheap, Moniker, Hover and Godaddy. The only one I didn't like was Godaddy due to how difficult their site is to navigate.
I brought an LED bulb since I found the idea interesting.

Holy fuck that bulb sucked though. Not only was the color so bad it made my hand look like a body in a morgue but it wasn't powerful enough to light by study table unless the sun was up.

I don't think I will try again. A standard bulb works just fine...
Google also does business and has employees and servers in many other countries. Why should they not enforce the laws of those countries too?
Because you can lose legal muscle behind your name if it becomes such common use that users might use the word without knowingly referencing your company's brand.

Kleenex is the staple case.
Here's google's policy on copyright violations in AdWords:

https://adwords.google.com/support/select/professionals/bin/...

To quote:

"For AdWords and related programs such as Google AdWords Certification, if we receive a notice or otherwise have reason to believe that an advertiser's or client manager's site is infringing, we may remove the offender's advertising in compliance with the DMCA."

So, they already do this. The question is, whether or not the VLC team has submitted a complaint that meets their criteria.

My guess is that this is something the FSF should really get involved in, except they are probably too busy taking money from Google to talk up how "open" Android is to be bothered by a little pro-bono work from a hard-working group of OSS devs.
I wonder if Microsoft has employees working on trivial things they can patent, so they can go after other companies with similar technology after that.

Is it possible to build something without infringing on some patent anymore? (even if nobody is suing you)
Here it is in a book from 1995: http://books.google.com/books?id=JSnOPYKwwtQC&lpg=PA350&...
What does a domain registrar do exactly? I buy the domain and they hold the purchase records for me and then tell me when it expires. What is a crappy registrar and what problems can you face with a crappy one?
>They have the resources not to.

This point is crucial. Could you elaborate?
The idea of Shuttle was good.

The execution was flawed.
If you want to know more background on Project Harmony, read "Project Harmony Decloaks" at https://lwn.net/Articles/437734/
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As an LED enthusiast I knew it was only a matter of time before a good LED bulb came out. I'm hoping Switch lives up to this preview of it.
Fair point. I'll give you that.
Replying to self since we are at the max depth.

So, from the perspective of a business analyst, you are saying that Google has no incentive to ensure the quality of their search results because they don't receive any additional money from the people who use it?

That sounds like very short-term thinking to me, and Google is a famously long-term thinking company.

OT your line of reasoning reminds me of Excite when they were considering using Google's results. "[Google] was too good. If Excite were to host a search engine that instantly gave people information they sought, [Excite's CEO] explained, the users would leave the site instantly." [1]

[1] http://cdixon.org/2011/05/16/accurate-contrarian-theories/
If STS-135 doesn't catch fire, then that's a 1.48% mortality rate.
My experience with Gandi is quite different. I always received timely responses to my emails and I'd say their service was always in line with their "No bullshit" punchline.

For more on this, read http://www.gandi.net/no-bullshit

I've been a satisfied customer for five-plus years. Being French, I wonder if the difference in support might be related to language issues (but isn't Marco Arment French?).

Also, they tend to hire good hackers even though they may not offer the best work experience for a hacker. I hear they let them work on other projects if roughly in line with the company's development. For example the main guy behind dotclear (a blogging engine) is/used to be working there. IIRC, a guy working on OpenBSD is also working there.

And they support some Open Source projects: http://www.gandi.net/supports/
A bit of history: when AMD and Cyrix started gaining market share selling their x86 chips, Intel went to court to try to trademark "486" and failed, so the 586 became Pentium.
I guess it all depends on who you are. Some international carriers I've worked with, handling SMSs is a net loss to them - but they have to do it(as a side offer to gain customers for services they do make money on, mostly voice traffic, and because they're lawfully bound to do it as they're operating a country's international SS7 border gateway).

Also, telco equipment isn't cheap. All those tens of thousands radio towers, exchanges, cables cost arms and legs. They have to make that money somewhere. Though, I've no doubt someone's getting far richer on your SMSs than what would be sensible. Entering this market is a huge barrier - you need expensive equipment, you need licenses, you need interconnection arrangement with other carriers, and you often need to build up a physical network. Thus, few actors and little competition.

Here's btw. a screenshot decoded SMS message captured on a SS7 network for your pleasure :-)
http://imgur.com/E0qKv
Wow my Bluehost server has 2,649 sites on it! If each site had only one domain name, then Bluehost is grossing around $15,000/month from this server. Many Bluehost users have multiple domain names. But even if they had 3 per user on average, than Bluehost grosses $5,000/month for this server.

The few I looked at with domainvalues.com all had insignificant traffic. Occasionally the Bluehost server slows way down with a high server load. My guess is that a small handful of sites cause this and I'd be curious to know these sites' names.

Is there a way to just look at a list of sites that have more than a certain number of daily pageviews?
Downvoted for referring mises.org.
Largely because of taxes. Brazilian taxes are extremely high.
http://www.quantocustaobrasil.com.br/site/downloads/impostos...
This table is in Portuguese but it's easy to understand. The second column means the tax percentage of certain product / service.
It's published by the union of Ministry of Finance's workers.
The liquid cooling technology is what enables so many LEDs to be inside a small enclosure. I don't see how that improves the spectrum. They company doesn't even seem to make any claims along those lines (measurable claims that is - they do say "everything will look great"), they just say they meet certain color consistency standards for LEDs. As do the lamps you bought, probably.
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Radio Shack™ would disagree.

All of the words in the English language are gone for naming purposes. If you want to alter the laws to prevent protection of novel phrases then you doom us all to a future of Xobni, Loopt, Wufoo, Weebly, Buxfer, Zenter, Zecter, Fuzzwich, Fliggo, Voxli, Nambii, Olark, Mertado, Movity, and other companies drawn as Scrabble™ hands. (Ok, you can't draw Fuzzwich.) Names that don't function as names because you can't say them to someone and have that person later use them to identify the entity because they can't spell it, don't know what it means, and will forget it before they need it.
> The experiments, in which hundreds of people participated in word games and other activities online, suggest that splitting the benefits makes cheating seem less unethical, Wiltermuth says.

Eek. I don't think we can necessarily conclude that or anything like that. The ethical-ness (or not) doesn't even have to enter people's minds for these numbers to happen.

Other possibilities:

What if perhaps people just like helping people in a stackoverflow-esque way? Maybe someone won't cheat if its just them, but if they can make someone else happier/feel better, then they will?

What if they enjoy the sense of camaraderie? Working together while cheating at some game is still working together.

They don't have to be thinking about ethics in the least when choosing to cheat more (or less). People simply like helping, interacting, and working with other people, pretty much regardless of context. I doubt cheating more at a word game when another person is involved is anything more than this.
No, of course they do, but only so you'll come back and can be shown more ads. And "incentive" is quite literal: ads are Google's main (only?) revenue stream. If they don't get eyeballs, they have no inventory of product to sell to their real customers.

Look, I'm not saying this is good or bad. But it is what it is.
How can you say "intellectual" property and GPL in the same sentence? That's fucked up, seriously. The whole point of the GPL is to help erode the copyright system and make it unnecessary.

Of course this situation is not specific to VLC, other open source products are affected by this scourge and there’s not much we can do about it. They have the money to buy adwords, we don’t. Sadly, as a non-profit organization we don’t have the money to sue them.

Really? You would sue them? That's kinda dumb don't you think? Kinda gives legitimacy to the shitty copyright system...

Anyway, my solution would be to ask for money so that you can afford to take some action.

The other half of this solution is to setup a few spammy/malware-looking websites that offer the genuine product. Out-spam the spammers! There must be a reason people are falling for the spammers' marketing after all.

And judging by the domain names, you failed to pick up on that marketing. They have some key domain names; downloadvlcplayer.net, vlcdownload.org, vlc-media-player-blog.com. Those domain names should have been bought up a while ago. Create a new domain, something like free-vlc-download.com.
Sorry, I'm a little confused at this statement. That's not a problem with the approach, in fact it's exactly why such an approach should be preferred.

If anything you seem to be saying that you find being a mentor a p.i.t.a, which is perfectly valid but not really a part of this conversation.
Yeah, fuck this. If a for-profit entity needs you to sign a copyright assignment, ask for money. Otherwise, just fork the project. People are smart and will find the Free version. Remember "Hudson", the Java CI project? Neither do I. Remember OpenOffice.Org? Neither do I.

It's nice for companies to sponsor free software development, but in doing so, they should play by the same rules as everyone else. Otherwise, it's work, not a community project.
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I would speculate that this could be something like http://turntable.fm built into Facebook.

If so, what a great way to keep users actively using Facebook: I can imagine someone spending a lot of time doing other things on the site while listening to music with their friends.
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No, I know people who wanted the Android phones, and I expect a market for Android phones. I know quite a few people who still like Blackberry and have taken the "free" phone when AT&T was offering some BB models that way. I want to know the % of the audience that is in the "I don't care" category and would take an iPhone if it were the free phone. I expect that some people might have and older iPod and think of this as a cheap replacement.

(no clue on the down voting - seems like you cannot even imply free is a factor)
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They can create their own versions of those spam sites that offer the genuine product. That's what I would do, and they should have bought up some of those domain names earlier. The URL gives a lot of hints and definitely helps SEO.
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How many times did we actually need those capabilities?

edit:

> 1. Gentle delivery of large modules for attachment to existing complexes. - Probably lost, the main reason the shuttle is gentle is because it carries fragile humans.

I cannot imagine we don't have any launcher that can do that. Any launcher, when approaching its payload limit, should be very gentle (as in pull low G's). A Saturn V was much gentler than the SRBs in terms of vibration, BTW.

> 2. Bringing cargo down gently. - Partially lost: the cargo bay is much smaller.

How many times did we need that? We could keep one shuttle operational for that kind of mission or just build a bus-sized capsule that would go up empty and land on parachutes.

> 3. Safe "proximity operations." - Lost or at least made much more challenging.

I am not sure I see a scenario where we would need that. The arms attached to the station are adequate for manipulating objects close to it and capable of doing it very precisely. Automated cargo vehicles have been servicing space stations for decades.

> 4. Temporary deployment of a workbench in orbit for experiments, repairs, and other assembly. - Lost.

Do we really gain so much by bringing the workbench back? Why would "temporary" be an advantage here? Couldn't we just pack the supplies and leave the workbench there?

> 6. Flexibility of crew composition. - Lost.

We could have built a larger Apollo capable of launching 7 people. For a fraction of the price, most likely. If putting people in LEO were cheaper (a promise the shuttle never fulfilled) we would have far more diverse crews in space.

And all of that negates the fact the shuttle is useless for anything beyond LEO. And LEO is costly because we have to take everything with us.
This is very interesting. I was wondering why I got spam through to my Gmail account this weekend. This is the first time I can definitely see the
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I like to give myself small, somewhat easy to achieve tasks that are subtasks of the larger task. Then I like to create time limits to accomplish those things. This keeps me focused on what I have to do…
The risk is worth it, if the mission actually does something. Most of the shuttle missions were just jerking off in orbit or hauling stuff to the space station.

The shuttle program was an unmitigated disaster that set back space exploration a generation. By trying to build a "reusable" space plane we ended up with the most complex machine ever built-- and complexity is dangerous-- that does nothing especially well.
> How can you say "intellectual" property and GPL in the same sentence? That's fucked up, seriously.

You understand very little about GPL. GPL is very strongly linked to source code copyright and source code modification. It isn't BSD or MIT.

> I don't think it's tAnd judging by the domain names, you failed to pick up on that marketing. They have some key domain names; downloadvlcplayer.net, vlcdownload.org, vlc-media-player-blog.com. Those domain names should have been bought up a while ago.

With what money?
Chessboards and colorings
Godaddy seems to get more orders through affiliate than retail.
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Well, you're saying "it is what it is," but you're only providing arguments, not evidence. I think rryan has presented actual evidence in the form of how Google is structured.
Which of those would be okay in a copyright-less world? Which ones are morally/ethically bad (without copyright law)?
This is incorrect. I've never heard it called that. You better run memtest86 instead of realloc.
The decision to cheat always comes with an ethical dilemma for any non-sociopath.

How much they value that ethical choice depends on a lot of factors, though, and this study would seem to show that the benefits outweigh the ethical concerns more often when the cheater isn't the only person benefiting.

And I have to agree. I've been in plenty of situations where I would not have gone against my ethics for just myself, but when someone else was involved, especially if they're counting on me, then I go ahead and do it.
Wow, I don't even know what Turntable is from their website because I'm Canadian.
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Google refuses to comply to some French law about logs retention because their servers are not in France. Why would it be otherwise in the opposite situation?
I bet that's one of the reasons why Microsoft Research exists.
A crappy registrar spams the hell out of you and makes the renewal process long, painful, and full of irrelevant marketing.

A good registrar provides you with a service that is easy to use, unobtrusive, and provides flexible tools for managing (updating WHOIS, transferring, configuring) your domains.

The actual task of domain registration is technically straight forward, but it is the type of service that touches a lot of businesses, so it attracts a the type of business owner who looks to leverage their large customer base. This allows them to push the cost of registration down to the point of being a loss leader. The real value for them isn't in selling registrations, but building a large list of customers to whom they can sell "value add" services.
#7 is a killer feature... that will be awesome
I'd assume that they are using http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/ on their JavaScript.
Not Always.

The thing we use to communicate rests on an infrastructure called the internet - A US Government funded Project (DARPA):-)
Thanks for the motivational reminder. I've been getting hardcore into my product development and sacrificing the time I'd usually spend going to the gym and other activities. I've found that I can mix social occasions with work by bringing my laptop, but with gym I can't really do that. So I better hit the gym now and get it out of the way.
Well done. And fast. I've always wondered how this works, you cannot just query the host, can you?

As these reverse IP services disappear frequently, here are some alternatives:

http://sharingmyip.com/

http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/web-sites-on-web-server/

http://www.myipneighbors.com/

http://www.linkvendor.com/seo-tools/domains-from-ip.html

http://domainbyip.com/