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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.

I don't feel this is quite true. in the ebook-fleamarket example Amazon are also the person that handles any transactions under the tent, helps the customer find what they are looking for, designed the structure of the flea market, and is not insignificantly responsible for way in which a fair few people take their products home.
(To split a maybe-relevant hair) in a purely royalty-based resale model, with no pre-negotiated minimums, there is no wholesale price. There is only the retail price, and revenue flow per the royalty calculation.

Amazon clearly believes:
- the cost/benefit for this guy to sue doesn't work out in his favor
- no (or an insignificant number of) other authors will pull their content in an attempt to negotiate a change in the contract terms

Sucks.
Looks very cool. I can't wait to try it out. My biggest gripe against iTunes has always been speed.

Small tidbit of advice: Developer Terin Stock seems to have overcome the media key dilemma with his GSDesktopHelper app which allows Grooveshark to hijack the media keys when it is running (If it is not running, the add-on does nothing).

You may find something useful with it.
Code: https://github.com/grooveshark/GSDesktopHelperMac
More info: http://threestrangedays.net/gsdesktophelper/
I think it's more like saying "I want a drivers license, so when I can afford a car I don't have to keep riding the bus."
Am I the only one who read this and though, well that's sad for the author, but isn't Amazon asking for too much in general? I mean, we're talking about e-books. I imagine I could probably make an online bookstore that sells ebooks and gives the author 75% of the selling price. Amazon is taking $5.99 and offering him 35 or 70 cents. I fail to see how it could remain in business with the relative ease with which you could make a competitor.
"I feel like GNU/Linux needs a stand out distribution that represents how easy Linux can be for beginners and new users. This used to be Ubuntu but now I think Linux Mint is in a position to take over."

I think this statement really misses the spirit of what is probably driving Mint to the top of the charts. "Beginners" and "new users" aren't the ones flocking to Mint (assuming we believe distrowatch.com is an authority). Disenfranchised Ubuntu users who are unsatisfied with the changes to their favored platform are. To the contrary, beginners would more likely favor Ubuntu's Unity interface because it is undeniably simpler. Beginners don't have any concept of features customizing panels, so they don't miss them.
Who thought this was going to be? The purchase hasn't gone through, and even then, best estimates for any sort of closer working relationship was very late 2012 or 2013. Besides, locked bootloader, Blur? There was never any doubt that this was another typical Moto/HTC release. I bet it won't see ICS for a few months too.
two comments:

* this only applies if you are the FOUNDER or early employee. joining later and making your 0.14% of the company is good for learning a small part of how startups work, but it is unlikely to get you rich, especially after the discount you take for not working at Googlesoft (where salaries are at least 40% higher than startups). This essay is part of the story that early employees spin to convince you to work like crazy so they take home the majority of the rewards.

* the best way to make wealth consistently is to save money from your paycheck at a young age, invest it in low to moderate risk investments, and let it compound. this would actually argue for taking the higher paycheck from Googlesoft.

* getting rich isn't everything and work isn't everything. you'll be a much more interesting guy (and probably more effective, including at work) and you'll have a better chance of seeing something that is broken and needs a startup.
This might sound facetious, but it's not meant to be: if you are reading for the plot, then what is the advantage of reading a book compared to reading its summary on Wikipedia or some other site?

I sometimes wonder about where the value of reading (fiction) comes from: is it the plot and trying to figure things out before they are explicitly explained? The little details? The long, lyrical passages? The act of reading itself? Something else? I'm curious what your thoughts on this are.
The book appears to have been on sale for about 2 weeks, during which time 6 copies were sold through Amazon. So that is about 3 sales per week (from Amazon).

One would expect that this publicity will do a lot more for profits than the 'lost sales' would have.
But your model isn't right either. An author has to have a way to be compensation and depending on charity (of thieves no less) just isn't valid. The book has value or it doesn't. If it has no value then it shouldn't be created.
Isn't it true that IIS makes the most profit out of all the web servers and thus 'wins'? Just like that iPhone vs. Android argument.
I think that Amazon should probably admit the error and pay the guy. However, the publicity that the author is now receiving over this is probably worth far more than the price of 6,000 books.

In the end, he'll probably be secretly thanking Amazon for allowing him to rise above obscurity.
Agreed. I'd say 10% is probably fair.
The part that struck me was when he said something along the lines of: It takes 10,000 (or 15,000) hours just to get the necessary knowledge. Then, you are at step one. You may or may not be good, but don't know until you've put in the required time.

Also, the immediate authenticity I felt by this man and this story is something amazing. Great way to start my day.
I would say it is just a different way of teaching and probably also a way of creating an opportune niche, at least for some time. Every student would eventually figure it out and be able to differentiate between the two and I am sure they would have been able to describe the difference if they actually tried, just were not willing to and the more polite and unproblematic way of saying "no" would be to say "you cannot describe it, you can only learn it at that one place in Japan".
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Arch taught me a lot about my computer. I use a libre/Free Software distribution of it, Parabola GNU/linux-libre.
"Networking needs to define a format spec for routing and switching, and then have vendors meet the spec."

Please check out the IETF (www.ietf.org) -- This is exactly how it works.

But BGP has no security, is complicated from an implementation standpoint, and you are right, there is a bit of a software duoculture. Juniper and Cisco. That's it.

This has happened before... too bad the routers didn't crash BEFORE propagating the bad BGP updates. :-)
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My main issue with JQuery mobile was that the fixed bar did not work at all during scrolling. Will take another look though, maybe it has improved.
I think the statistics are entirely irrelevant now -- if they were ever relevant in the first place.

Almost everything serious runs behind some sort of proxy, and those proxies often front for heterogeneous back-end systems, and even those back-ends might offload some of their logic to other systems.

There are too many interweaved layers in complex web services, and too many parts that can be (and routinely are) put together in too many different ways. The identity of the front-end is interesting only in a rather attenuated sense, and it can usually be trivially swapped out for another.
With 960.gs, it's quite easy to do this with push_ and pull_ directives.

It doesn't change, semantically, the order of the markup obviously, but that's to be expected.
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Here is a link to the downloads: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options
They're offering 35% or 70%, not 35 or 70 cents.
interesting. will compare this to phpfarm.
Very cool! I use gnuplot and a simple Ruby script [1] to plot my ab results. I may take a crack at adapting this technique to a Ruby script so I can see my results in real time.

1 - https://github.com/bradland/apache-bench-grapher
It is absolutely recommended to check their http://www.archlinux.org/news/ before update. They (usually) do warn on stuff like this.
It's not that handmade is always, better. It's that handmade is often better when it comes to specific uses. It's similar to the choice you make when you write code when you could have taken something off the shelf to use. Sometimes you need the edge that built to purpose gives.

This is definitely the case for high performance knives. The choice of steel and the geometry of the edge, bevels and belly can be easily customized to fit the specific purpose of the knife. The first couple of knives I have made don't look that great, but since I nailed the heat treat and grind they are the best cutting implements I've ever owned.
"With a little ingenuity, the British finally figured out how to successfully train new spotters: by trial-and-error feedback. A novice would hazard a guess and an expert would say yes or no. Eventually the novices became, like their mentors, vessels of the mysterious, ineffable expertise."

I think a lot of programmers here learned programming the same way too. Sitting in front of a compiler/interpreter, edit the code, try to compile and run the program. We will get a "yes or no", and if no, we repeat the procedure. Today, we can program without thinking consciously "will this code compile"; We just write it and a lot of the time, it compiles just fine. If we were to teach someone having trouble with programming however, the most useful advice we have is usually "You just need to spend more time with it".
Not having a clear-structured and measured method doesn't equal to not having any method any relying purely on your subconscious. Sounds more like you were parsing through the code and lots of typical hints such cesspools usually have made it pretty clear very quickly.
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Just watched both available videos in the series and can't help but be inspired. The point that the "art is in the details" of a hand made item really resonates with me with respect to handmade guitars. Factory made guitars, from the big manufacturers such as Fender, Gibson, Martin, etc. are excellent guitars, but there's something about the attention to detail in a hand made guitar that makes it special, makes it art. I really hope they plan a film focusing on an small, independent luthier.
And the same contract says that they are not liable for damages in the event of an error.

The contract does not support a claim for money, that case is a moral one rather than a legal one.
There is nothing insightful in this article. The same comments are repeated ad nauseaum in the Android fan sights' article comments.

If you ran up to someone in a Verizon store and tried to convince them not to buy the Razr because it won't have ICS until February, they would laugh in your face.
This is the reason government regulation never works as well as the regulators expect. It is the distinction between "tacit" knowledge and "explicit" knowledge. Most tacit knowledge is both local and non-verbal, some can be explained after the fact, like the chick sexing technique, but the verbal description itself isn't the useful part. And it is contained in the heads of the people actually doing the work so it is rarely, if ever, taken into proper account when formulating regulations.

For a really good explanation of the differences and the problems caused, read Thomas Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions. Hayek's Use of Knowledge in Society also discusses this, as do other books and essays, but Sowell's is more readable and his examples are closer to contemporary (it was written in the late 1970s and published in 1981).
:(

You're going to shard a SQLite database into a series of objects to deal with "large" containers?
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The new Jules Verne inspired theme looks great.
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I've done both. Currently I'm working for a company. The one awesome, amazing thing is that on the 15th and end of the month I get a paycheque, and it's always the same. After taxes, that money's all mine, to do anything I want with. Also I get _paid_ to take vacation, and it's strongly encouraged.
In my personal experience the main problem with scientific research today is caused by publication counts representing the sole metric for academic success.

Research is 'optimized' for publications and segmented according to conference schedules. That in itself I consider detrimental to the research effort. However the major damage in terms of advancing resarch in my opinion is caused by the induced tendency of scholars to closely stick to the main stream paradigms, trends and topics. Naturally it is much 'harder' to do research that does not directly build up on the current state of the art. Such research usually takes much longer and therefore results in a lower publication frequency. Secondly it is carrying a much higher risk of not bringing about positive results. Thirdly I deem the chances for acceptance in peer reviewed conferences and journals to be much lower. Such venues are often biased towards current main stream research trends.In my observation there is also an aversion against research that questions the state of the art. People who have spent years or decades to master every aspect of the state of the art have a strong incentive to shoot down anything potentially disruptive.

As such the incentives are misaligned with regard to the aim of science of figuring out new things.
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"To the extent that consciousness is useful, it is useful in small quantities, and for very particular kinds of tasks."

I wonder where programming falls on this?
Perl is like a corpse of a beautiful woman. Tempting, but still so very wrong.
Bandwidth depends on the size of the thumb drive, and error rate depends on the find/open rates of the bottles, as well as perhaps whether or not the thumb drives fail over time or are even used...

What really kills you though, is the latency.
Start big: "scientific research needs to be disrupted!" (a trendy word) How? At the bottom: "government agencies funding research should require that those submitting papers must provide their research free of charge".
I consider myself a pretty seasoned C# developer with experience in Silverlight and WP7, but I found this tutorial really confusing to follow. I can't imagine first timers learning WP7 programming from this tutorial. Lots of unexplained boilerplate code.
I am surprised that Amazon didn't pay him a small token payment, perhaps a couple of thousand dollars.

In the past Amazon has given me two grants for free AWS usage ($1000 and $300) so I personally consider them to be generous, for a corporation. I would bet that no one with real authority at Amazon reviewed this case because if they had, I think they would have made a small good-will payment.
Big time trouble dead ahead thanks to the Federal Reserve.
There's a submission of the release notes at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3211027
(SpiderOak / Nimbus.io cofounder here)

In addition to supporting the founders personal ethics about software freedom, we feel an open source backend is important for just the sake of confidence.

Some people will want to purchase the minimum of 10 machines and host a Nimbus.io storage cluster themselves (and we are also making our hardware specs open source.) Other cloud storage providers may even do this. We hope a few people will consider the hosted option, paying Nimbus.io $0.06 per GB.

In any case, all of these are a win for us. We're already spending money every day to maintain a reliable storage backend for our encrypted Backup & Sync business at SpiderOak.com. Nimbus.io is an evolution from that. Community involvement here is most welcome. :)

Aside from that, it's just a design we are excited to share. Every other distributed storage system I could find uses replication instead of parity. A system based on parity sacrifices latency but can deliver higher throughput on individual requests (at about 1/3 the cost.) There are use cases even outside of archival storage where this is attractive.
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I definitely second Omniauth+devise - my go-to for Authentication.
Perhaps a better, and more rational argument, is that we should care more about the oil being burned around the world, and not less about the amount of trash being thrown into the ocean.
Gamers create scientific 'recipes'
"People need to stop clinging to paid distribution of content as a business model."

If there's no money to be made in producing content, then nobody will produce content (aside from financially independent amateurs, in the model of the 18th century novelists). There needs to be some way to monetize the labor and time that goes into the production of art and entertainment.

IMO, anyone who claims that paid distribution needs to go away also bears the burden of proposing an alternative that makes rational business sense. Ads? Donations? Netflix-esque subscription models? Pick one or pick something else entirely, but the answer isn't "business as usual, except nobody earns a return on investment."
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Thanks for submitting, bit may I kindly ask that you stop posting submissions of your own content? You have 14 submissions in your history, all to your own blog. Almost none of these have any votes. You're not doing yourself any favors, and your strategy doesn't seem to be working anyway.

If your content is considered interesting and worth posting, someone else will do it for you.
"10,000 hours of training, according to Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. Gladwell based this assertion on the work of Anders Ericsson, who studied classical violinists and found that, in every case, it had taken a regimen of 2-3 hours a day for 10 years to develop their abilities. Later research by Ericsson and others confirmed similar results in other fields."

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/on-luck-success-a...
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Their blog post from yesterday describing nimbus...

https://spideroak.com/blog/20111107183539-spideroaks-new-ama...
I hate the way this thing runs, it's so...sneaky.
> In my personal experience the main problem with scientific research today is caused by publication counts representing the sole metric for academic success.

It also leads to bloat in the literature: People learn the "least publishable increment" and go publish that.
Thanks for clarifying this. I honestly love the style of videos you guys create, and I am glad you guys are putting more resources into creating more.

Best of luck!
Since this was not posted on HN maybe it is a shameless plug that's worth it:

http://antirez.com/post/short-term-redis-plans.html
The pagerank and other metadata we compute is not part of the S3 corpus, but we do collect this information and probably will make it available in a separate S3 bucket in Hadoop SequenceFiles format. Be aware that our pagerank will probably not have a high degree of correlation to Google's pagerank number, since their pagerank calculation is going to be a lot more sophisticated than our version.
It's just a question of degree. Is height solely determined by genetics? No - we know that nutrition plays a large part. But potential height is still dominated by genetics. It doesn't matter whether or not he eats his Wheaties, the average kid is not going to grow up to be Shaq, period.

Ditto for intelligence. Things like iodine and breast feeding seem to be capable of boosting IQ by a few points each. Doubtless there are other factors. And yet, there is little reason to doubt that there is a genetic ceiling to any given person's potential IQ, at least if you accept that IQ stems from physical properties - in which case, how could it be exempt from genetic determination?

This is reality, and there is little hope of improving the lot of those who did not win the genetic lottery without first accepting that there is, in fact, such a lottery.
Unless scientists and researchers start to put the interests of collaboration and “open science” ahead of their desire to be promoted or win tenure the system will not change

This is the main problem because most won't.
This is pretty usual when it comes to major revision changes in the compiler or standard library with many languages.

This is what you should do:

1. checkout berp from GitHub

2. try to build using cabal in the checked out source tree

3. if there are failing dependencies, hack Cabal build files. this case is probably trivial and berp developers have left containers < 0.4 without a good reason (I may be wrong here, see what's changed in the "containers" package).

4. go to step 2, repeat until software is built

5. submit the change to github, file pull request
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Can't they delete the free copies from the kindle devices? Not that I really like that, but that seems to be the use case for that feature.
Pretty much, it's always faster to read from multiple disks.

There are many reasons why. First is that by splitting things into small blocks spread around the cluster you have more consistent load (why is left as an exercise to the reader), you can more easily read ahead from later blocks, etc.
> Pacman is especially confusing since -S actually means the sync mode. Which doesn't really fit with the idea of installing a package.

The idea is that you are synchronizing your copy of the local package (which is currently empty/nonexistant) with the remote copy. It's also the same command you use to update that package. So,

pacman -S foo

will upgrade foo if it exists locally, and find and install the most recent version of foo if it does not.

Once you get used to it, the command-line switches in pacman actually address your second concern (the one with apt/yum). In pacman, everything is built on top of a very simple database model - it just so happens that that simple database model is also powerful enough to serve a range of complex functions.
Nowhere in that article do I see them state that the downloaded code is able to escape the sandbox. They certainly imply it pretty heavily, but I can only assume that's due to general cluelessness, or less charitably a desire to sensationalize the story.
The idea is to limit each "shard" to some number configurable number of objects, say, 1 million. As the container grows, the db can be split in two and each of the two new pieces can grow. The original container entity keeps an index listing of what each of its "child shards" hold, ie the start and end markers.

There are tricky problems to solve, of course. How do listings work? Will shards ever be collected? What are the performance tradeoffs? How does replication handle shard conflicts?

These issue will be worked out, and it should eliminate the write bottleneck in large containers. (Note that reads are/were never affected by this issue.)

This implementation of container sharding is something that is being evaluated. It may or may not ever make it into swift itself.
Thank you so much for your response/advice. I tried doing what you mentioned as I have a PR firm and said I was trying to acquire it for a client but they set a ridiculous amount for a domain that is really not worth anything (not a special name, etc) and when I said my client can only pay XXX they said no. Anything else I can do or just let it go? I gave them a value pretty high (higher than I have seen on auctions for much better/more valuable domains) and they have had the domain for 10 years and done absolutely nothing with it so I am not sure why they think they can get such a high price for it.
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Reminded me of this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646501 about a guy who created a knife from scratch, starting with the construction of this own smelter.