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SMS and the telephone network did have default clients for a long time after they were introduced -- in both cases, the default client was the phone you had. Mosaic, Navigator, and IE were all so close that Wikipedia describes the latter two as being based on Mosaic. It does help adoption to have a single, obvious client, but a close second would be having the clients be indistinguishable save for branding for non-expert users.
That's a natural consequence of small world graph. Reducing super-nodes can substantially increase travel distance.
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Finger-responsive touchscreens were around long before Apple used them - they were just generally larger than the iphone. Surely you must have seen them somewhere, from museum displays to fast-food cash registers.
Self-discipline is a must, it doesn't matter the project you are working on, the motivation goes down from time to time.

Anyway I think you are young, really young actually, so keep starting projects, one way to keep them interesting is to see those projects as solutions to problems and if that helps you out with something real that would be perfect (like a to-do lists manager).

If you can't keep working on the same project for too long, well, don't worry, you've learnt english and you are smart enough to know some things at 15 (many proffesional developers didn't know how to program at that age, and even later). So try to study more, learn new things and eventually you'll start to create things.

To be more productive try to exercise, that will help you to be more self-disciplined and it'll give you more energy.
It depends how long til your options would vest, if its more than another 6 months, I strongly recommend you consider looking for another position, even with only 6 months experience you can find another job, especially after having been working 90 hr weeks
I compare Google's Android ecosystem to a restaurant:
I ate once and received wonderful food and service. I go there again next week and the food is cold and the service is rude.

Android's inconsistency is as big problem for Google as it is to the restaurant - if it's inconsistent, I stop going.

I own several Android devices, with the SGS2 being the latest. If it is going to be inconsistent with the update & timing as the rest of them - next time I'm going to the competition, whoever it might be.
If you think that's Hayeks argument, I suggest you go and read his works again.

He went to great pains over his career to point out that he never said that imposing increasing controls over people necessarily leads to dictatorship. His point was that, in order for a centrally planned economy to work, you necessarily had to capture increasing amounts of activity under the control of the government. And that increasing control by government was by no means

It's true that Hayeks original ideas have been characterised by many different people and groups to the point where it is impossible to know what they mean unless you go back and figure them out for yourself. It's also important to know that Hayek wrote his original works while socialism was still a bubbling, living idea in the western world, and not the failed anachronism it is (should) now regarded as.

My point here is that you always have a choice in the way you want to run things. Down one path is increasing amounts of control, and there should be no argument about what lies at the end of that path. Of course it's not inevitable that, once you start down that path, that it's impossible to reverse. Down the other path is not increasing amounts of government control over people.

35 hour weeks are not a radical idea, sure, lots of people have agitated for them for a long time. But the way the thread was written was that everyone was going to be forced to work a 35 hour week. Maybe the OP didn't presume to force people, but if it's not forced, it won't be obeyed and thus will be pointless. Besides that, the entire thread showed a complete lack of understanding of what creates real jobs and wealth, with statements like 'we produce too much'.

If the last half century of European history gives us anything, it's that the welfare state is doomed and that you can't magic up productivity and wages growth by government intervention.

Sure, conjuring up mass murder was probably overdone for this forum, probably a case of being a bit hot headed when I originally posted. But whenever I see outbreaks of this type of thinking among what appear to be young people, I get anxious that they get some history and context into the fact these ideas have all been tried and failed in the past.
Interesting but a good example of how Google+ is made for geeks, by geeks. Social is about mom and dad and my sister, not me. I get this, it's cool, but it's confusing and useless to them. It seems to me Google keeps missing the point and as long as that happens they simply won't be able to pull people off Facebook.
A better 'Buy me a beer' site. It should be more frictionless, and you can take advantage of the low spending to prevent fraud. I want to a one or two click 'Buy me a beer' link to send someone 5$ for answering a forum question, or an awesome pull request or whatever. Maybe if I use it more than twice in a day it re-challenges me for a password, or something. Send me confirmation emails, or a text every day I use it, or for each event. I dunno. Something about the paypal workflow causes me too much hesitation and friction.
This decision is better than their CEO pick (meg whitman) but these big decisions affect each other... I don't see much future but decline for HP
Cloud implies running in virtualized environment. Dedicated implies that only your bits run on that hardware which is huge for I/O.
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You're already well ahead of where most people who become programmers are at your age. I'd recommend looking for freelance work online and start getting paid work experience as soon as possible, there are a number of freelance sites for this... then you can start looking into how to get a visa to work in another country when you turn 18
Deregulating law is a joke. There is so much to learn to effectively and properly advocate for a client in this legal system. Also it's worth noting that two states (NC and VT) allow you to become a lawyer without going to law school but both require you to pass the bar.

Last point: I think you'd be hard pressed to find firms outside of the top 5 that can still charge over 1,000 for a partner's time. Def not an associate no matter their seniority. Most big firms have cut their rates to keep their clients. Some big corps are wising up and refuse to pay a 1st year attorney 500 an hour.
RMS is uncompromising to the point of being tactless. Always has been, based on the old email threads people pass around.

I wouldn't call him hypocritical, though. I think he's wrong about some things, but he goes to great lengths to make his life consistent with his ideology with no regard to practicality.
"attended to [urgent] personal/family matters".

>some nerdy comeback

it isn't first time you use "nerd" as pejorative. Why such a hate? Did nerds pick up on you at school?
> NYU runs a start up incubator

Would you rather use that incubator or the Stanford system?

Stanford's president founded a reasonably successful startup.
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> Cloud implies running in virtualized environment. Dedicated implies that only your bits run on that hardware which is huge for I/O.

True, but the blog post didn't say if they are using virtualization or not.
> More generally, is no one worried about what Stallman is worried about?

I am not. I don't even know what is Stallman worried about. Some weird definition of freedom and some weird threats to the said freedom. His ideas are outdated and misplaced: it's like rms preaches tips for survival in the desert failing to notice that dessert is no longer there and we are in the jungle.

> Jobs' explicit stated goal was to destroy the only Linux mobile platform (through patents)

Is Android really the only Linux based mobile platform? I highly doubt so.

> and his policies on the App Store and elsewhere were explicitly hostile to Free Software.

This is a blatant lie.

> Had Jobs been successful and perhaps lived another ten years, we might be living in
> a world with no Free Software on our personal devices at all.

Another baseless speculation. How convenient to ignore reality and all the contributions Apple has done to open source.

> (with both App Stores of course rejecting GPL code).

But there are other licenses besides GPL which are more free ant compatible with App Store.
JonWood is claiming that "yes, even small companies would want this" by making an economic argument about the value of e-mail per employee; his claim is that $4.16/month/employee, even with a handful of employees, is not that much.

Meanwhile, you seem to be making a snippy ("sorry") counter-argument that his calculations are failing to take into account that if he had that much money to spend, he would be underestimating the cost of his system administrators, which would cost more than that.

I am sorry, but I don't understand... you both seem to be agreeing with and arguing with his point, by claiming that something unrelated (the units don't even seem the same to me: money made per employee vs. money spent per administrator) was not taken into account.
The minimum thing required to save someone time and/or money. If it will save them time/money, they will pay for it.
It's too bad we only saw his face and not his interaction with the slides, watching him explain the circuit and math examples live was like watching an olympic gymnast.
Thanks for this post. I currently own/run a niche social networking site with a little over 60,500 registered users and see several thousand users on the site at a time. I bought my own servers co-locate them in a large hosting facility in northern Virginia. The initial costs were the hardware, of course you can lease it if you want which can be cheaper if you intend to upgrade existing servers on a yearly basis. We do not need to do that quite that often, so buying them outright has been economical for us.

The ability to customize our boxes has been a big advantage for us and given the hosting facility has all the redundant power sources and bandwidth pipes we never see any problems. I will mention that most of our traffic is east coast based and given our servers are on the east coast we have not seen any problems. If we see traffic expand we would look to put some boxes on the west coast or midwest.

At one point I looked into us switching into the Cloud with AWS and and Rackspace, the costs were much more then we pay now.

In regards to bandwidth, most of the clouds pricing I have seen are based on total usage, our bandwidth is based on the 95 percentile usage. And it's not capped, so if we have a spike of 20mg/sec the pipe is open to fulfill it. The 95% pricing model as worked very well for us. We average a few mgs/sec and our bandwidth costs are under $50/month. I'd add to author when he talks about negotiating, do it, you can get a great deal (s).

I looked into AWS for another start up I am doing in the communications space and we tried it, for not a lot of users on the cloud it was very expensive. We moved to Rackspace and have limited our alpha users to $100, it's still expensive and as we move to launch over the next year we will go with dedicated servers.

Thanks for the post.
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I will repeat it till my dead I never had any issues with Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPods.

vs

When I called last time because a failure they send me immediately a brand new device.

'Last time' seems to indicate that you come across a number of failures. Which particular device are you talking about here?
It's also interesting to note that the Office team has done these in the past, at least one other time when Stephen Elop was running the division. Perhaps that says good things about where Nokia is heading.
I think you're missing the point here. I sank tons of money into arcade games just as you did, however neither one of us needed to add quarters during gameplay to get new items to use. You also can't compare purchasing a console game to the money that gets used in social games. Your points of comparison are apples and oranges. I can respect that you feel comparing social games to gambling is wrong, but it's purely subjective. Gambling and gaming are both forms of entertainment that cost money. If you set aside your bias and look at the facts of the game mechanics, you'll see that the comparison is actually spot on.
Gaining control of the downlink station is pretty bad. I wouldn't say they were in control of the satellites though. The tasking files for satellites are unique and extremely esoteric, and although it's possible for an attacker to figure out how to command any given satellite (it's not the same for every one), it's much more likely that they compromised the location to get the data that was downlinked, which is extremely valuable. Lots of military instruments downlink through Svalbard and that they might have had command and control over two particular satellites is not nearly as concerning as them having data access to many more in real time.
Yeah, that wand of wishing that drops off of some random orc is always fun.

Though things get a little bit easy once you get your two blessed scrolls of charging, blessed Platinum Yendorian Express Card, blessed Orb of Fate, blessed +3 silver dragon scale mail, and whatever else you can wish up from the remaining charges.
Data centers are too reliable
Show HN: Hellepoll is a blazingly-fast async HTTP server written in C++
This is based on an approach I made for a very high performance message and video multiplexing server.

The project died, but I'm glad I get to share the a basic version with some http test code now.

I admit this is the second time I've tried to show this off here today; I posted earlier but it got lost when no-one was watching :(
this has been the case for a long time. they also banned business videos until the recently added business plans.
Coevolution of Altruism and War
It's true they've always been strict on this topic, especially with game videos.
"For many people, being forbidden to use a piece of hardware that you legally own in whatever way you want is an unacceptable intrusion on personal freedom." So don't buy hardware with those restrictions! For all the acknowledged absurdity of your opening (there are laws that exist to prevent that sort of thing), the fundamental fact of the matter is that as a consumer, you are free to choose not to buy something. If the market doesn't offer what you want you have two options; the obvious one is to do without. The other option is to develop your own.
Alas, it doesn't matter how well RSS works for its current users. What matters is how well it works for publishers.

It's not merely that Twitter is easier to subscribe to, that the feeds are easier to set up and serve (there's almost nothing to do; Twitter's engineers do all the work), that the Twitter link-sharing protocol is intuitively obvious, that Twitter has a legendary brand while nobody knows what RSS is, that Twitter clients show the actual rendered HTML of the linked page (complete with those ads) rather than an often-incomplete text teaser or a bunch of broken formatting.

No, the killer feature of Twitter is the viral loop. Any individual tweet can be trivially forwarded, or trivially broadcast to an entire hashtag. And every tweet or retweet is also a self-contained advertisement for its author and a call to action: It takes only one click to bring up the entire history of its author's Twitter stream, and only one click to subscribe to that author's future Tweets.
Looks like they're using some kind of sunflower phyllotaxis for placement. Especially obvious when you zoom in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/23_Mathematical_C...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge
Also, you don't necessarily take a huge hit in I/O with virtualization. VMWare on dedicated hardware with all the virtualization extensions will be pretty comprable and a lot easier to maintain then straight up raw iron.
If a website is good enough, its not hard to just make a screen scaper and turn it into an RSS feed.

This scrapes the HN front page every hour and is a lot easier to check:

http://hn.af.rkive.org/feed.php?id=4
I'm surprised no one has mentioned AWS dedicated instances: http://aws.amazon.com/dedicated-instances/

20% more expensive but it seems like the easiest way to fix the problem if you're already on Amazon.

That said, I totally agree that Cloud-based IaaS is not a good fit for every situation.
no it was a joke inspired by very popular Russian ATM crime :

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/10/07/Illegal-scanner-found...

Another - Russian security agencies use Western hardware ( i mean what other option do they have seriously ?). Before being put to use the hardware is disassembled as much as it is possible with specific goal of finding the "mini-scanners". Similar history - http://www.spybusters.com/Great_Seal_Bug.html
One of my favorite puzzles - what answer do you get? (image)
Firefox 4 removed the RSS icon from the address bar on pages that have RSS feeds. Chrome doesn't even have an RSS parser now.
The disk problem is maddening, and I used to be a strong proponent of dedicated hardware for this reason.

However, the provider I use (Joyent) recently added some kind of disk scheduling that prevents these problems. I don't know how they do it, but hopefully more cloud providers do something similar.
That is some of the most blatant character assassination I've seen in this thread so far.
The difference is that one type of game has mechanics and the other doesn't. Social games are like gambling in that they both strictly put you in a Skinner's box, and there is no game-loop. Traditional video games have strong game-loops and this is a different kind of enjoyment.

There is overlap, especially in RPG's, but the big difference is that you can enjoy traditional games without the rewards.
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Why stickers bring out your creativity and are useful?
> Cloud implies running in virtualized environment.

Unfortunately, 'cloud' implies nothing. Apple's iCloud isn't necessarily storing my data using VMs and EBS/BigTable type FS. They could be using dedicated W2K/IIS 4.0 boxes storing BLOBs in MSSQL and still be considered cloud by everyone.
Why, you could even have the screen scraper export to RSS!
Thus far, Google has shown a remarkable lack of backbone when it comes to the carriers. They're free to kill/restrict tethering, block non-Market apps, disable SIP support, not to mention the non-removable bloatware situation that motivated the app-disable feature in the first place. I'm not yet convinced they're willing to say 'no' to the telcos.
Can you just paste the GPL in there? If so, I'm not sure why there'd be an incompatibility. Or is it not incompatible anymore?
I used to feel exactly the same way you do... but to be honest, over time, I'd say these kinds of conversations have actually gradually affected my viewpoint.

I agree that the conversations, _in the comments_, never seem to resolve, but never underestimate the impact on people who aren't typing. Knowledge, education, and maturity aren't equally distributed, but conversations like this, even if they are exasperating, are one way to change that. It's affected me, anyway.
> Regulation :-( Ford is not allowed by law to build cars that can only be serviced by Ford. It should be the same for computing devices.

Whilst I understand your point, that's not an apples-apples comparison. A car needs to be serviced, in order to remain road-worthy and safe. A computer, ideally, does not (even more so for smartphones, as they stand now).
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Wow article got knocked from 3rd to 35th instantly. Downvotes are incredibly overpowered
Stallman comments on HN are so heated, in part, because a big part of his message is that developing non-free software is unethical. Not just wrong or misguided or foolish, but unethical. Morally wrong.

What percentage of HN readers develop non-free software for a living, or for part of their living?

So it hits a nerve, I think. And I am consistently drawn to Stallman threads on HN because people's reaction to this is so interesting.
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"Capture" is a loaded term. It could be that "the 1%" are simply creating more than their previous share of wealth. Clearly, some of them are looters, but lumping the looters in with the creators does the latter a tremendous disservice.

I think both The Economist and the Occupy Wall Street protestors are conflating two distinct groups: those who get rich by creating wealth, and those who get rich by diverting the revenues of the state into their own pockets. The latter group consists of special interest groups—and certainly includes virtually the entire banking and finance industry. What most of the protesters seem to misunderstand is that their target shouldn't be capitalism, but rather special interest groups—and the system of government that allows such groups to thrive. Unfortunately, the latter is a problem so big it's hard to grasp, and solutions aimed at the actual source are, to put it charitably, off the political map.
I think currently the biggest problem with the cloud is the inability for cloud providers to truly estimate and understand their risk, which also means that customers don't have the ability to understand their risks either.

For example, Amazon could estimate 99.95% downtime, because of physical and geographical redundancy, etc. But this analysis would be faulty, as their outage earlier this year showed.

There are a litany of long-tail black swan events that could bring down entire datacenters, that people just can't anticipate. Not even including earthquakes, terrorist attacks, etc, but even simple upgrades or misconfigurations like the one that took down their datacenter in the East Coast. Yet, they still advertise a SLA of 99.95% availability, etc. Is the risk to downtime really only 0.05%? Was the event that occurred really a 3 standard deviation event? I highly doubt it.

This complete lack of true ability to estimate risk means that customers also have essentially an inaccurate view on what their risks are. Like the one commenter who said that a small business ran their POS device over the cloud, if you told them that they would be down 2 days out of the year, would they really be interested in that? Probably not.

In a similar vein, the authors were likely promised great uptime, but no guarantees on I/O or CPU performance, which is something you don't think of. The cloud provider doesn't have to be down for your web service to be drastically affected. I suppose since this is all new, the customers are learning which questions to ask, and the cloud providers are learning which things to guarantee, so hopefully this is worked out in the next year or so.
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Dropbox is in the business of enabling stuff, not disabling malicious behaviour (or making it more difficult or whatever).

Specifically, if someone has malicious intent, software is not likely to stop them.

You can't solve people problems with software is a often used mantra.
Probably not. The guy who authored the blog post says that Google Maps use in Android apps won't be bound, I imagine the same would be true for iOS: https://twitter.com/thormitchell/status/129665976001236994
Um, why not? Sorry, but that is over the top. Maybe it surprises you that I have in fact talked to women in real life before. I even asked them questions occasionally. Most didn't falter from that kind of "aggression".

Also I didn't even look at his username, so the gender really played no role.
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