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Hey ahadrana, I haven't found anything about the page ranks on the website, are they included? Do you know if it is possible to go only trough the metadata of the crawl, say to get the page ranks for a list of pages or do you have to go through the full crawl?
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I've always found arguments about fixed-pie vs. variable interesting. Let's assume that each person has a limited potential value they can create. We'll all die at some point (unless the singularity is near) and we can boost our potential limit with things like technology, education, bio-tech, etc. But, in the end, each person has a limit to the value they can create. You could also argue that when people collaborate they can increase their potential yet again but there are limits.

If there are limits to the total potential a person can create then I would argue that fixing up a car in your yard is creating value but it is only the difference between what your true potential value contribution is and what you're actually doing (i.e. watching TV instead).

To me, it seems like the only way the pie gets bigger is through population growth or the multipliers I described earlier (tech, education). I would argue that although in the long term wealth is growing, in the short term it acts very much like a fixed-pie game. If the richest 1% are capturing wealth >= the rate of increase in the pie then those who aren't capturing it feel as though things are fixed and they are losing out.
By all means, if you are the creator of a website, be as standards-compliant as possible. As a visitor, is it important if the browser is in quirks mode or not? Do you validate every website you visit?
I hope the QC doesn't drop even further for OCZ products. I've had decent luck with them, but I've heard horror stories from others.
Maybe that's what happened to the guy in the story? ;)
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What is the best way to get a domain from someone (how to approach them, what to say) when they aren't using the domain without encouraging them to quote you a high price for it?
Something that's always impressed me about Japanese robotics efforts is the level of polish in the efforts. Complete cases (skins) on the robots makes them feel much more advanced than the non-Japanese efforts I've seen. It's this thinking about industrial design, along with the awesome technology that makes something like ASIMO feel like an almost commercial off-the-shelf technology.

I've like to know much more about the software functions of the robot as well, which sadly, they don't go into much during the demos.
Joel did that with Aardvark'd. A single feature-length movie was fine, but I'm not sure if people who are (mostly) sitting at their desks are the best subject for an ongoing series...
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Don't you know how much of your life is wasted looking at twitter and google+ etc?

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I would say it has a bit of both kinds.
Meditation breaks are great, as is occasionally disconnecting from the matrix. But I'm not sure clicking through text on a website is the most effective way to accomplish this.

I'd say you're better off stretching for a minute or doing some light callisthenics. Perhaps while blasting doom metal.
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To debug code, I read it. All of it. Without trying to process it. Sometimes the bugs jump out at me. Not the only way I debug but it has its place.

One consulting project involved 900 modules in 200 directories. I opened modules and skimmed through, and the bugs were just everywhere. (No, not false-positives. Once flagged, you can read carefully and prove the bug). I abandoned that source base as unredeemable and wrote a simple 10-module driver to replace it. (The customer rejected it, couldn't believe I could be right. They hired somebody else, the product was cancelled and recalled 9 months later).
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It does rather rely on you being on the tip of a continent where the gulf stream goes past the front door.
Excuse me, but "mincing gate?" Mispelling of "gait" aside, is that really an appropriate comment to make in this day and age? I'm getting a bit bored of feeling like the HN inappropriateness police. If it's not sexism, it's homophobia... are we going to have a fun time of racism next?
Read the source code of http://lamernews.com on github http://github.com/antirez/lamernews .It's written by the author of Redis.
If it was perfect, spammers would no longer have an incentive.
"Huh? "Subtle visual cues" that seemingly cannot be described, but can somehow be taught and passed on? I call bs."

I'm still on the fence. Years ago I rented a room in my house to an immigrant from South Korea who got his work visa (and later his green card) because he could sex chickens and the local farmers couldn't get anybody local who knew how to do it. He got great pay, and relatively easy work hours since as the taskers became tired, their error rate went up. He worked with several other sexers who were all either from South Korea or Japan.

He could never quite explain how he did it, but he did teach a few Americans at the poultry plant how to do it via the technique described in the article before moving on to some different trades.
Custom skins layered on top of vanilla Android are such an antipattern it hurts.

It sucks for device manufacturers because it is costly to build.

It sucks for consumers because the manufacturers have an incentive to drop support for any device sold asap WRT software updates.

It sucks for developers because custom components are not standard across devices.

The only point in favour of custom skins is that it theoretically allows manufacturers to differentiate and as a result offers more choice to end users.

In reality though, I suspect very few end users to pick their Android based on the custom skin it comes with, and I'm sure many would be pissed if they realized that custom skin is the reason for them not getting free ota upgrades to something they gave a nice chunk of cash for.
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You list with them, you play by their rules. They're not locking you into their store in anyway shape or form.
Regarding consoles, it's pointless to have any more than 30fps because the controllers are stupid enough that reaction times are not the bottleneck.
How is that more realistic? People using Ubuntu as a search term does not accurately reflect install base.
Can somebody who has experience developing Android apps give an opinion on the quality of this tutorials (code wise).
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"If these were physical books", there would be a material loss involved: Publisher A paid to produce X books, the distributor lost part of them, and now the Publisher cannot sell them anymore, suffering a direct and quantifiable economic loss.

Here, it's more like the distributor left their books around in a library, and some people got to read them for free. The publisher can still sell them. There is no direct loss, the damage is hardly quantifiable (it might actually turn out to be a net positive in the end, given all this free publicity).

The digital world is funny like that.

EDIT: this is not to say that Amazon shouldn't be held accountable for their mistake, if there is a breach of contract involved; just that it doesn't matter whether there were 6000 downloads or 60.
GAh! Information overload! Pop "ambient" music, animations, and shit to read; WTF kind of quiet place is this?! If you really want to take a break to reflect, go sit on a park bench outside with a pen and paper.
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Maybe at first, but I think the GP's idea is more generally to make sending spam not a viable way of making money. If end users never see spam and spam profits drop from 0.2% of email addresses or whatever they're at now to 0.000000000002% then other methods to make money will be used.
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I already specified that perfection is impossible. Even if every email is routed via a human filter instead of a computer filter, there would still be mistakes.

If a spammer can't get a message through, they will keep tweaking it until they succeed.

If even 999 out of 1000 spams are blocked, they'll still keep firing.
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I'm interested to hear ideas from smart, entrepreneurs about this scheme.
Presumably those protections would prevent this bot from collecting data as well?
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The tone is likely a reaction to the pressure that has been placed for so long on people to work more. Forget the amount of pressure bosses place on their people to work more. Colleagues, friends, and relatives all do the same. When they don't see you working a lot, they project an idea that you're lazy.

At least that has been my observation of the general mindset at least over the last 30 years.
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In a functional open-source ecosystem third parties would be pushing their innovations and enhancements back upstream for the benefit of everyone. Instead it's just a bunch of downstream, second-rate UI hacks that are different just for the sake of being different.

I think it's crucial that the mobile OS ecosystem is not dominated by any single player, but I find myself in the extremely unexpected and awkward position of rooting for Windows Phone.
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If this is true, then content piracy should also be legal. (Amazon effectively did the same thing as a pirate posting the file to a torrent tracker: they satisfied some of their potential customers with a free copy, invalidating them as real customers.)

Conversely, if piracy should be illegal, then this is false, and Amazon is in trouble.
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Not on OS X. I'm sure I've seen a tiny js library on github that does browser sniffing and gives you the relevant keyboard shortcut. Can't find it now.
I think first you have to explain what it is. I read part way through the FAQ and gave up.

Perhaps a screenshot or something but basically....

1. What problem are you trying to fix ?
2. How did you fix it ?
Thanks for bringing this distribution to my attention. I've been trying to force myself to adapt to Unity but I'm still not enjoying it. I feared switching to another distribution because I've grown accustomed to Ubuntu's ease of package management and hardware support. I don't have the time or inclination to fiddle with text file configurations any more these days.

Mint appears to address all of my concerns, providing a distro based on Ubuntu but stressing ease of use in ways Ubuntu was not willing to (including flash, full multimedia support, Oracle's java, etc in a fresh install). I am excited to give the live dvd a try!

I am especially encouraged by their plans for reconciling users' workflow patterns with Ubuntu's switch to Unity and the Gnome's new interface. Very pragmatic approach in my view.
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My first Arch install took well over a couple hours, and was a pleasurably educational hassle. I think it took me over a day to get the system completely working back then. And that was despite my background using Slackware. But every time I've installed since then, the duration has more-or-less halved, and my most recent install was easily under 30 minutes.

The biggest gotcha for me as a newcomer was trying to install on a laptop, having no ethernet access handy, and not knowing that I'd need to install wireless_tools when running through the initial setup in order to get online.

The amount of time it takes varies greatly according to what you consider to be complete. I never stop tweaking my system, and there are always some points of dissatisfaction with it. But Arch is a great distro. It's very well-documented, and is pretty much delightful to configure.
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"If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year."

Wow, in hindsight this seems way too hacker-centric and elitist. The assumption is that all that other corporate stuff creates no value. I don't think that's true. I think that marketing, sales, etc., can be what enables the $80,000 salary and the combination of everything can be an overall multiplier. Otherwise, the proposition that a marketing firm can help you increase sales would not be true.

Contrast with Joel Spolsky's article about how managers are there to abstract away everything but the hacking problem at hand. There is value created there, and a good manager can multiply the value of a good hacker.
I'm curious if Dropbox will proactively adjust their capacity/pricing, or wait to react.
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"Nothing," really? This seems like a very real-world sort of test that gives a fairly decent indication of the kind of pictures that you're likely to get in the conditions indicated. It's not scientific, and there are lots of uncontrolled variables, but it's still useful.
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Actually 24 fps was chosen for film (way back when film was first standardized) because it was the lowest frame rate at which your eyes interpret the separate frames as smooth motion. 60 fps makes a huge difference over 30 fps in a movie.
It's less like that than it is "When we're operating at a scale that makes it more affordable to own hardware than to lease, then it'd be nice if we could."

The other unmentioned benefit is in scratching your own itch. If you want feature X, and Amazon won't give it to you, you can develop it in-house and host it yourself.
Last commit on August 04, 2011.
https://github.com/bjpop/berp
java folks have been hanging by the future awesomeness of JIT for quite a long time now...yet people still go to C++ for performance
>Here, it's more like the distributor left their books around in a library, and some people got to read them for free.

I would say it's more like some people walked out of the library with them. The author most certainly did lose something: sales.
Every time the 37signals topic ends up on the table, people talk about how they went against the flow, how they are not running on huge funding round and basically how they are an exception.

Let me get this straight. Huge funding rounds is the exception. Startup is the exception.

I work on OpenSource stuff everyday, get to play with the same technology as the next startup guy and I'm very proud of calling my company (ie. the one I work for) a Company. I'm proud and happy to have the chance to participate in growing this company and our technology and it's a battle of every contract.

There are millions of us.
You simply can not get that sort of accuracy without vastly increasing the number of false positives.
This makes sense to me - and, I do this all the time, especially with games.

Recently, I took a three-day trip and wanted to zone out on a game, so I started playing a card game called 'spider solitaire', based on a friend's suggestion.

I had never played it before, and I found it to be very challenging with all the difficulty settings set to the maximum. And, at that difficulty level, I would quickly lose every attempt, and it was very frustrating.

But, by the third day, I found that I suddenly winning 15-20% of my attempts. Not statistical evidence by any means, but I was playing enough to definitely see a drastic change in success.

The funny thing was that I had no idea why I was suddenly winning. I didn't consciously change my playing methods. In fact, I 'felt' like I was just moving the cards around the same as I was before.
Wow, this is really amazing. A lot more interesting than their kickstarter page, too.

Just like the coders/researchers of this application, I always wondered why traditional weather radar sites didn't do this.

I would love to play with their data. I was planning on checking out OpenCV sooner or later anyway, is this raw weather radar data publically available, or do they pay subscription to get it?
I think somebody is making unfounded assumptions about the mental state of another person. A common, albeit embarrassing mistake to make.

And yes, I know full well what it means :)
8 hours of ditch digging with an excavator does not represent a total of 8 hours labour time — there is a vast amount of labour embodied in the machine: its design, the extraction of the materials, the construction, the transportation, the extraction, refinement and transportation of the fuel and so on.
"Potentially troubling" maybe. I see no evidence that their motives are sinister.
I suggest not taking the "no framework" approach, as you will never be able to test exhaustively across the various mobile platforms (and also the various versions in each).

I agree jQuery mobile is a bit bloated, but with better processors in phones these days, that is no longer as much of a concern as it was a year back when JQM project was launched.
Content piracy is unauthorized distribution. Amazon here was authorized to distribute the material; they are in trouble if and only if the authorization was somehow revoked when the price reached zero.

My point that there was no real loss is tangential to the actual case.
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Sounds more like a feature in a bigger app, but yes, I agree with you. There's something there.
Who sells in a marketplace where someone else sets your price for you automatically without your approval?

Amazon isn't a distributor in this case any more than the person who owns the tent at a fleamarket allows people to sell underneath it.

In any case, Amazon's automatic algorithm to save themselves money from having to pay humans to do it nipped them this time and they owe the author. Do the right thing and settle Amazon. Take it out of the programmer's pay if necessary - better yet their manager who was supposed to review the code before it executed.
What are you talking about? I don't think "mincing" means what you think it means.

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/mince
Ceph is a very interesting project. RADOS, their distributed block store is now mainline I believe and the project is coming along in leaps and bounds.

I'm unsure if anybody has a large scale RADOS based blob store though. It would be interesting to see how it holds up.
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I think Amazon should be made to pay something, although maybe not the full $13k, simply to make damn sure that they sort out their systems and this doesn't happen again.

If Amazon gets off lightly they probably won't change anything, and this could happen to some other unsuspecting author.
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Look how low to the ground the foot is, though.
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You got all of that from his comment? Damn.
Some discussion of implementation on github: https://github.com/bjpop/berp/wiki/Developing-Berp
Interesting. If they only open source their client side libraries it would be a rather sad development.
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> The author most certainly did lose something: sales.

But they didn't lose 6000 sales, they lost however many sales they would have made at $6. So it's tricky to quantify the damages.
I once heard someone say programming is more like contracts/legal stuff than spoken languages. Dunno how true it is.
No, it's like people read the book, went home, and wrote it down again. The original book is now back in the shop and the publisher is free to sell it.

How can you "lose" a sale that you don't know you'd get? I bet 6000 downloads for an unknown writer of zombie-pulp wouldn't have happened without the £0 price tag. We can argue about it all day, but the fact is that there is no direct loss, and if there is an indirect one, it's still very, very hard to quantify.
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Except apparently they didn't abide by their own rules ... hence the problem.
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'Who sells in a marketplace where someone else sets your price for you automatically without your approval?'

Most people who sell products do. You sell at your wholesale price, and the retailer sets the retail price.
> It stops our mail server from being used as an open relay though?

From outside of your network yes. If one of the computers inside your network is infected your mail-server will happily deliver the spam mails.

> How does blocking 1 specific port stop the issue anyway?
> They can just change the port they connect on?

I don't know of any SMTP-Server that accepts E-Mail on Ports other than 25. Port 587 requires authentification before sending an E-Mail.

I thought most poeple don't accept E-Mails sent from isp-networks with dynamic ip adresseses. Maybe that's not the case and they try to reduce spam this way.

> I was offering an opinion on how to resolve those issues.
> Changing which port accepts the mail is in my opinion pointless.

Nobody changed any ports. E-Mail is still send to port 25 from mail-servers. But if you are a not a mail-server (e.g. a client in a network) you have to use the submission port and authentificate against your isp/comapany mail-server.

you can still use port 25 on your isp mail gateway but now they can filter and rate-limit your emails.

> It's like saying that most burglars come in through the back door so the government blocks everyones back door, they will just come in the front.

not really. it is good practive to only act as mailserver if you are on a static ip and mx records point to your server. none of this is fullfilled by dynamic isp ip adresses. So this just stops the unwanted practice for good.
Anecdotally, ArchLinux has bitten me before with its rolling releases. They moved the hostname utility to a new package, but pacman (their package manager) didn't prompt or download the new package. This promptly broke my laptop's network stack right before I left for a weekend trip. Now I didn't have internet, and I didn't have internet to find out how to fix my internet. It all worked out fine by writing a bash script named hostname sitting on my path that echoed a constant string, so I could connect and download the new package.

If you are looking for a pain-free linux system, Arch Linux isn't it. You will run into little things like this, living one step behind the bleeding edge (basically someone compiles your software for you, does a sanity check, then you get it ASAP). Don't get me wrong, I love it, and will continue to use it as long as it has the most flexible and clean system, because I appreciate their dedication to simplicity of implementation.
...after a long, long series of annoying platitudes. I stopped at the "welcome to the quiet place" and thought for a while (half an hour). Then when I came back, it wanted to moralize at me! I gave up, didn't see the end.
Your point only hold up if the _only_ reason for compensation in the case of physical books would be the cost to the publisher to print them.

I'm trying to understand your point as far as intellectual property. Is it your belief that IP should not be compensated for and the only cost of the work should be whatever is necessary to the goods into consumers hands, be it physical or digital distribution?

I'm not trying to debate that particular position on intellectual property with this post, I'm just trying to establish if that is in fact the position you're taking.