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Recursion?

##android?

I kid.

You can search for the full hashtag string (hash + word) in normal G+ search. I also noted a couple of days ago that the "Sparks" feature seems to have been revamped into a G+ permasearch / saved search. Your sparks now default to "Everything" searches (people, posts, Web, not sure about comments). And you can save any given G+ search to create a new spark.

Not sure if they're going to retain the name or if they're done messing with this feature yet, but it's one of the first things in a long time (well, a couple of months) that I've seen on G+ that struck me as useful and cool (granted, there's been a lot of under-the-hood tinkering and some interesting features released).

The whole Real Names / #nymwars situation has really, really dented my interest and faith in Google though.
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Could this mean Google will offer a file storage and CDN like AWS? What benefit could Akamai provide to Google besides more infrastructure? I'm sure Google could enhance their infrastructure without paying a premium.
Congrats Jude & Immad.
Finally a reason to get away from the contact forms that have not changed forever.
"2. I think the issue just comes down to online retailers dragging their feet because they want to enjoy their advantage as long as possible."

I wish it were that simple. This bill would have effectively shut down my small business (we're an online retailer). The overhead of paying taxes across many different states and municipalities is, frankly, impossible for smaller teams / startups to deal with. Even if we could outsource this, it would effectively reduce our margins to the point where we couldn't compete with brick & mortar. We already collect taxes and pay them to the states we operate in. This bill wouldn't cause us to pay more tax (we're based in California, so we'd probably pay less taxes as a result), but instead seems like it's more a result of anti-competitive lobbying efforts from B&M retailers.
What about taxing delivery services instead? If states charged a flat tax on UPS and Fedex, distributed proportionally to cities, would it be enough to fill the gap in state and city budgets?
> Dynamic languages can be faster than C now, and are only improving.

You're a bit too enthusiastic here, imo. JIT compiled code can in theory outperform AOT compiled code because of dynamic recompilation of hot code paths. However, you can get some of the benefits of runtime code generation via profile-guided and link-time optimizations without any runtime overhead.

In practice, no dynamic language is faster than C (AOT compilation), and they rarely approach Java (AOT compilation to bytecode + JIT compilation to native code) where raw performance is concerned.
Both. JVM also allocates a lot of memory (relatively) for even its smallest objects (round sizes up, frequent boxing and copying of primitives, everybody gets an automatic mutex), and fragments significantly because it has good garbage collectors that deal fine with that.

A lot of Java is optimized for this, and it would take a fair bit of work to make a JVM (and compiler!) implementation that changed the behavior pervasively.

Java assumes memory is cheap at many levels. And usually, it's right.
I'm not entirely sure that I agree with this article, or indeed whether what this article says is entirely logical...

First of all, the article is suggesting that simply dealing with companies with a certain amount of moral ambiguity makes you yourself somewhat inferior. By this logic, one cannot deal with any large company, because as soon as a company becomes multinational, it becomes so diverse that it is inevitable that it will step on someone's toes.

If we look at any large company, Apple with its manufacturing practices, Microsoft with its antitrust case, Intel with it's widespread claims of environmental damage from its manufacturing process, then we must conclude from what this article suggests, that no start-ups should deal with large firms. No firm can claim to be on a moral highground. Even organizations such as green peace, WWF or Sea Shephard, have caused damage to a certain amount of people but our own internal biases (such as a fear of GM or whatever else), and how the company position's themselves reflects how 'good' we think they are.

If anything, Monsanto was better at managing its disastrous PR, then we may have a better opinion of them. We need only look at companies like Apple and Intel to see how effective distraction can be in hiding a companies moral ambiguity. Therefore, I reject the premise of the article that small business should pick and choose its clients based on their 'image'.

Secondly, I think that the suggestion that Cloudant should not have publicized their contact is way off. What gaining a contract like this shows is that you are competent enough to deal with a huge infrastructure. That you are trusted with millions of dollars worth of equipment, whose malfunction may cause huge losses to a large number of people.

As far as I am aware, for cloudant at lease, they have a big win on their hands, gaining an image of reliability as well as a huge revenue stream, something which start-ups are hard-pressed to find.

We can only hold cloudant responsible for it's own actions. In no way is Cloudant supporting the actions of Monsanto. Farmers will not buy seed because cloudant manages their cloud. But other companies, ones we classify as 'good' may use cloudant because of their affiliation with Monsanto.
They should have read this http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html

specifically #8. Slowness in Launching
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We're thinking of using a semantic linking tool like Zemanta - which seems OK. I've search around for similar tools and found Apache's Stanbol project http://stanbol.demo.nuxeo.com/ - the demo sucks for what I was trying. So, any other paid or non-paid service out there? We manage a community Q&A site and we'd like to use this service for helping our answerers provide references for their answers. At least, that's the plan.
And most recent is always so terribly relevant in Twitter feeds ....

I'd like to see some sort of ranked system. Google does really good for relevance, but timeliness also matters. Some sort of score where a relevant / trusted but not quite-so-recent post gets promoted on top of spambots would actually be a Good Thing[tm].
I think we've got enough people that have emailed me interested that this problem is going to be solved soon.
Try putting your device in DFU mode. This worked for me, after that clicking restore (then update/restore) went straight to the verification phase.. Previous backup was restored when I finally get the update installed.
Isn't that because it's sometimes useful to kill everything?

I'm no expert, but my understanding of the problem is that if you attempt to kill everything, you'll end up with a few super-resistant [things] (organisms, bacteria etc.) who'll only increase the problem:

http://evoled.dbs.umt.edu/lessons/background.htm

Going off on a slight tangent, my personal worry is where we'll be after another 10 years of antibac hand wash use. I'm open to being corrected, but my current understanding is that we should be very, very worried.
Yeah. He's also assuming that fast file access equals fast databases, which is partly true and partly utterly wrong.
A lot of traffic runs through Akamai.

Google can mine that data and use it in their core product, the search engine.
Or maybe they don't need to: http://www.bnet.com/blog/advertising-business/inside-the-rev...
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Making the code capable of the correct (but apparently not desired behavior), with a simple flag to turn it on is often the right solution (when you've received insurmountable push back, "Disagree and Commit!"). At that point, you document it in an oncall wiki and when someone finally decides it's actually a bug (or the people that said no 'go away'), it's sitting there with a good audit trail so you can tell your teams oncall one or two words and they can flip it over in a few minutes (after some QA). Note: I only learned this after surviving a really bad manager. I'm not saying you should have known to do it.
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I'd imagine there is very good opportunity for a company to create an API of all of this tax information and monetize it.

I hope that doesn't happen. If the government is imposing this burden, there should be a free database available for everyone to allow compliance.
It's great news for anybody who wants to use CouchDB, because this means that they're going to run into the problems of big deployments, and that they'll have the money and the motivation to fix it.

Better that Monsanto pays for the big-fixing than me.
Stop being so negative. Here, I found this video to explain it to you...
I'd like to see the burn rate and where the money is going if I am to donate.
It's a pity that Daniel Lewin isn't around for this, I'm sure that it would have been a very nice crown on his work.

to whoever saw fit to downvote this: I hope that people will still remember your name a decade after you die through no fault of your own when you co-found a company as successful as Akamai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_M._Lewin

The man was a true hero as far as I'm concerned.
Says the guy whose account is under four months old... while responding to one whose account is slightly over two months old. The ironing is delicious.
I generally prefer phone contact. Not because I actually prefer talking on the phone, but because of how different most companies treat email and phone contact.

When you talk on the phone, you have someone who's listening to you right now, and if they misunderstand you, you can re-explain. If they continue to be unhelpful, you can talk to a supervisor.

Email, on the other hand, seems to go into a queue, which is responded to with one of a variety of boilerplate responses, most of which aren't really quite to the point. Yeah, I can respond when it's convenient to me, but so can they, causing a simple misunderstanding to require multiple round trips of idiocy lasting several days.
This post being at the top worries me more than the post PG replied to :-/

1. You seem to think that consuming a GMO is a riskless way to save money. Consider reading "Assessment of the food safety issues related to genetically modified foods" by Kuiper et al. or similar to understand how scientists currently asses risks for GMO food, and then the history of any substance later discovered to be harmful to humans (I recommend Gately's Tobacco book). We have a lot of evidence but it is far too soon to call the GMO race, as the potential benefit is something like $3/meal and the potential cost includes things like cancer.

2. You are forgetting that PG also consumes GMO food, and that OP also runs a business.

3. In transactions engaged in by intelligent people, both sides believe they are getting more value than they are giving up. Because of this, your distinction between OP giving money to Monsanto and PG getting money from Monsanto doesn't matter -- both sides are benefiting more than the cost incurred.

4. Your second to last point ("If Monsanto's business practices bother you, factor that into your purchasing decisions") is obviously true, and exactly the kind of thing OP seems to agree with -- he has even taken it further and used those morals in the design of his own business.

5. "Monsanto is not the only beneficiary of their evil ways, though: because of their evilness, millions of Americans spend less on food than they otherwise would" ... and have an increased risk for all sorts of disease. See #1. What odds do you give that GMOs do not cause an increase in disease? In light of that number being non-zero, would you like to take back this statement?
I'm not sure where all the memory goes. My 'hello world' test app used around 30MB heap and 25+MB for permgen. It had a fair number of threads running, not sure what the overhead is there, but the process as a whole was using about 100MB. I couldn't make the heap any small without getting out of memory errors if I hit it with a light load.

edit: keep in mind this memory includes your app server, in my case I was using jetty.
I mean buying a company that serves your competitors' content.

And yes, diversification is also dirty. Diversification is the worst reason for companies to merge. If I wanted to own both Google and Ackamai, I could just buy shares in both companies. Investors should be responsible for diversification. There must be a reason that the combined companies are worth more for this acquisition to make sense. My thought is this will create negative value because major customers (MS/Apple/Facebook) don't want Google to see their traffic logs.
The reason for the terminator gene is not to support the Green Revolution however. The practice was successfully carried out in North America long before GURT was even conceived.

The reason for the gene is to ensure Monsanto's share price continues to rise, by ensuring a recurring stream of income from a product that was never previously purchased beyond initial implementation.

Hence, false dichotomy.
I refuse to grow some fucking testicular fortitude and resent your implication that fortitude is masculine ;)
Larry's on a spending spree.
The problem with aggregators like Digg/Reddit/HN is that anger will unite a mob quicker than discussion. Eventually you end up with an angry echo chamber populated with the worst sort of content.

HN opened my eyes to a group of problem solving people who could generate a discussion that was better than any linked article. Originally the commenter attitude was "HN vs the problem presented". This slowly gravitated towards "My solution to the problem vs. your solution" with the associated rudeness, arrogance, and appeals to authority. Now it's headed towards an "Us vs. Them" kind of attitude similar to r/politics. Where you're wrong just for your identity or associations.
Are you guys even making any money?
Yes, so the combination of Google + Akamai would be big enough to trigger anti-trust concerns, I would imagine.
iMessage should work fine, location based reminders on the other hand are iPhone 4 and 4S only.
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Akamai already mines that data for their ad network.

http://www.akamai.com/html/solutions/ads/acerno.html
More: you can use iMessage on iPad and iPod touch to send message to someone using iPhone.
Banks are as annoying as you can get for this. Imagine being cold-called and being asked some questions to prove you are who you say you are.

Imagine then the correspondence the same bank sends in various forms about keeping the same information to yourself to prevent your account being compromised.
They already do. http://code.google.com/apis/storage/
I read it in a HAL 9000 voice:

"The Siri AI series is the most reliable computer ever made. No Siri AI has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error. "
Agreed. Yes, consumers taking down Monsanto would be a rather large task, but that doesn't mean you can't do your best to support the other players (particularly those that might better fit your ethical framework). Money does very much talk in the U.S. (note how our political system works--donors and lobbyists)--it's just a matter of having enough of it (or, in the case of Monsanto, taking it away) to make a difference.

Not everyone has access to a CSA, and that's okay, too--you can still find ways to get at least some of your food that isn't a product of Big Ag.
I don't think there are two separate crowds. I think HN's initial population of smart, mostly apolitical nerds has been diluted by the arrival of a lot of new users who are not as smart, and are thus more excited by shallow controversies.

Politics happens to be a big source of shallow controversies. But I don't think most people who upvote comments saying "Fuck Monsanto" do it because they have a deep interest in politics, any more than most people who rail against "Obamacare" do it because they have a deep interest in politics. They do it because they're dumb. It's the shape of this sort of idea that excites them, not its content.
So, Larry Page wants to own Google and Akamai, he's already got plenty of google stock and a bag of money, and he's decided to buy shares in the other company.

Why should he not be allowed to diversify but you would be? Companies can invest in other companies, the shareholders diversify indirectly. And if you don't agree, you can always sell your google stock.

If MS/Apple/Facebook don't want google to look into their kitchen then they are of course entirely free to set up their own CDNs, and if they leave and you think that this will create negative value you can make a killing by shorting the stock.

I'm not brave enough for that though, and I don't presume to know which way that will go.
True. But I think that Facebook is making effort to dogfooding its Graph API, notably, its mobile website and mobile apps are all built off its Graph API (Yes, there are few private API calls, but I don't think that's a big deal as long as "private APIs" don't have functional collision with public ones).
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I like all the logical fallacies that have been thrown around in this article.

While the “99 percent” don’t yet have a clear outline for how they’re going to change things, one thing is clear: they’re frustrated.
No, you're frustrated. The 99% have no idea how this even affects them. But that's how it goes, right? Sanctimonious preachers denouncing practices they don't care to understand, and don't have a solution to, while the 99% follow along blindly for "the cause".

Additionally, if YCombinator is promoting a world where values don’t matter and economic transactions are the only thing that do, then they are truly part of the old guard.

I'm missing the logical link between Y Combinator promoting such, and pg's comment. I've had the opportunity to speak to some YC founders, and the two stunning things I remember is "make things that people want", and "try and make peoples' lives suck less".
The headline is deceptive here since the "teacher's union" doesn't actually represent professors, and professors don't actually prioritize teaching in the first place. This concerns lecturers, who have always had a very tenuous position in the UC hierarchy (since lecturers don't get tenure). It's quite unlikely that lecturers would go on strike over online learning; if they did, it's likely that UC would simply replace them with graduate TAs.
By analogy, imagine someone wearing an Abercrombie & Fitch shirt.

They are trying to associate themselves with a well-known brand in order to gain some kind of status or legitimacy.

But when you do that, you are also at risk of people associating you with things like Jersey Shore and sweatshops, employment discrimination, superficiality, and so on.

(A&F was so concerned that it has offered to pay Jersey Shore cast members to STOP wearing their brand.)

Large corporations tend to avoid issues seen as "controversial". It's not necessarily about right or wrong, it's about anything divisive enough to possibly be a significant detriment to their brand image.

When the NUMBER ONE Google result for "world's most evil company" has your name on it, you are PR kyrptonite.

The only person to blame is the flabbergastingly unaware CEO of Cloudant.

This is on par with "YC robotics startup chosen as #1 supplier of automated puppy-gassing chambers by animal control!"
Do you realize that your long winded argument is a giant argumentum ad hominem fallacy?
2 weeks vacation plus 6 days personal days when you start. After a year, they bump it up to 3 weeks. They raise it to 4 weeks after 6 years of employment. Not too terrible, really, but not great either.
Except that if the RIAA could/would actually put a musician
out of bussiness, that musician could do another line of
work to earn enough money to eat.

What Monsanto is doing, basically, is redisigning crops to
work on their behalf. Whenever a crop can develop properly due to the proliferation of roundup resistant weeds, you
have to buy the newest crop from them again, wether you like it or not.

Also there is the (theoretical) risk that someday they
won't be able to keep up with resistance, which could
curtail food supply, and won't make a difference wether you
can purchase it or not.
It is completely useless for me. It's also completely useless for deaf people, or for people whose phone system doesn't interface well with yours, or for many other classes.

That's not necessarily a bad thing; it's an essential characteristic of the service. Just be aware that you're excluding a lot of people.

Your particular application takes advantage of the synchronicity issue. Other than that, the only issue that applies to everyone is the cost.
PG's response is 100% correct. It is the OP moral or religious viewpoint and that is all. One view point.

Find another way to lobby against causes you believe in, don't expect random businesses to boycott a cause just because you believe in it. Others may not.
So why would they want to buy Akamai?
One of the things that hampers C is its string processing. By using a nul terminator, rather than an out of band length indicator (a la Pascal, Perl, Java) many string operations become a O(n) operation, where n = length of string, rather than a O(1). When running things such as cobbling up HTML templates and prepared SQL statements or evaluating DSLs, sucky string handling really starts to matter. Some would argue that it matters more than how fast you can calculate prime numbers or fibonacci sequences.

I've ranted about this before: http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.12.html
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I think the bottom line remains this: Cloudant gets to choose with whom they do business. They, and pg, were both proud of the fact that they chose Monsanto - I think this exactly the kind of thing that 'the 99%' are protesting