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This is one of those examples where yes, that sounds like a good idea but the size of the addressable market is rather slim.

Most self-publishers are not making huge amounts of money to justify spending more than a token amount on such monitoring.

A bigger app/suite of services to support self-publishers (especially as many are not tech-savvy) might be helpful, which could include this.
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What are you talking about? I don't think "mincing" means what you think it means.

I'm going by the mix of results on Google:

https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=...

Maybe it's a cultural thing; certainly in the UK at least, "mincer" or "mincing along" are definitely offensive.
This argument is pervasive on HN. Here is the best example of it[1], and please see CodyRobbins posts[2] on the subject as some of HN's best posts ever.

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=853100

[2] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=854042
One answer I've gotten from a mathematician was more or less: I like solving mathematics problems, and working in a company means I get a never-ending stream of mathematics problems to solve, where the question "why are these problems worth answering?" is someone else's job to solve. There's something liberating (for at least some kinds of jobs) about being able to just solve problems "for their own sake", because it's someone else's responsibility to invent and justify the problems, and you can treat them as magically justified problems that fall from heaven. This probably works better for people who like focusing on specific aspects of problems (e.g. treating something as a pure mathematics or engineering problem), and less well for people who like more integrated/cross-cutting problem solving (which working for yourself both allows and demands).

I personally find the bureaucracy/procedures a bit stifling, though. The paycheck is nice, but meetings and standard software and performance reviews and whatever is a drag, even in relatively freedom-loving academia.
I like arch, except for the stupid command line arguments to pacman. I wish they had just kept it more standard. There's nothing wrong with naming "install" install and "search" search. Feels to me like a case of inventing complexity just to make it feel a little more elitist.

pacman -Ss gnome # searches for gnome
pacman -S gnome # installs gnome
The way it's knees are overly bent is kinda creepy to me, especially when it runs.

But standing still it seems pleasant enough.

Also they need to code some imperfection into it - the absolutely perfect hand movements, unscrewing the jar and pouring are too precise - make it warble a tiny bit like a human would, make it shake the container at the end to get the remainder out.
I agree. Arch Linux configuration is educational and well worth the few hours it takes on your first try, but you should definitely have another computer with the wiki open while you do it.
I think there is some validity to the idea that 37Signals went against the flow, though I agree that bootstrapping and substantial founder ownership and only minor outside funding is not remarkable in the world of business.

What is somewhat against the flow is the degree to which 37signals pivoted and the degree to which its founders continue to influence the conversation regarding software via their writings and other public communications.
Being the tech dude that I am, had I decided to write a book and do this I think (perhaps - hindsight and all that) I would have changed the title slightly to prevent the automatons from causing such a problem. Akin to how Apple's App Store policies recommend naming the free version of your app differently from the paid version.
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And what a hacker-news response that was! Like when my wife tells me her problems, and I try to fix them instead of just listening. Its an Engineer thing I guess.
>I would say it's more like some people walked out of the library with them.

No. If anything, they are walking out of the library with a perfect copy of the book, while the library still has the original. Nobody looses anything. People need to stop clinging to paid distribution of content as a business model. It's obsolete.
Didn't know this was released. Helpful post.
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Hey,

First off be sure to email them and say you are contacting them on behalf of a client, be just a proxy in this negotiation. Secondly, focus on getting a price from them first. Even if it's something crazy like 1MM, respond back with I understand the value, but my client can really only go upto XXXX, I wish we could pay that, but this is their offer...

Lastly, if you really want to go after them and it's a name that's branded in a way. Just set a price like, sent an email saying look we don't want to contact our lawyers but be willing to buy for XXX.

Good Luck!
Dreamhost was doing a ceph beta with testers over a year ago. I see there's a number of blog posts about ceph on their site.
Thanks! I guess my first example wasn't very well thought out. (It probably still works, though: a mini-excavator costs about as much per day as five humans with shovels earning minimum wage, and should be way more efficient at tasks like digging up asphalt.) Maybe a better demonstration would be digging with shovels vs spoons.
Wouldn't using the mailing list's email address in the hashcash algorithm work? Then the mailing list's server or recipients' clients' spam filters could utilize the hashcash header, comparing it to the mailing list address in the To field.

Mailing lists could even demand a lower hash target, requiring more energy to send messages to lists. This could rate-limit flame wars, for example.
Except he was playing by the rules, and got shafted anyway. They erroneously price-matched, making his book free, and depriving him of royalties. Their mistake; his loss.
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For instance, Java, .NET, ruby, C++ STL and Objective C. Most languages use them.

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/A...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fkbw11z0.aspx

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Array.html

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/list/list/

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...
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Swift is....... woeful.

Just as an example, they store object listings using SQLite databases that were file based replicated between nodes for HA. Thus when you had too many files in one container your performance would sink like a stone. Assuming it was never corrupted/etc...

I'm all for people working in this space though. A monoculture is rarely good for anybody.
If by "obsolete", you mean "a business that rolls in many billions of dollars every year", then you're right.
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Yep. A lot of big ISPs already block port 25 connections from residential lines.

That breaks a few things like the sendmail command on a default *Nix setup. But you can often set it up to relay mail to the ISP server instead.

It's a bit sad that you can't run a mail server at home. But very few people really need to do that. If you have a legitimate need to run your own mail server get a cheap cloud instance or use one of the bulk mail delivery services instead.

Blocking port 25 is a sane measure to protect Internet users from the spam and phishing mail propagated by botnets. Just like how some ISPs block the Windows networking ports to protect users with mis-configured home networks.
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I had the same reaction at first, but its pith became a selling point as I learned the flags. Of course there's nothing stopping you from wrapping the command.
Sorry, I had a nagging feeling I misspelled that.

The gait is quite typical of someone pulling a load. Check this out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEeTmWA1ALI

So, I'm sexist and homophobic? I guess I have to be the hyperbole police now. And racist? Rickshaw are common across half the planet, and a dozen 'races'.

The highest criticism I would consider fair is, Rickshaw-ist. I cop to that. I think they are emblematic of a class system, similar to sedan chairs.

If 'coolie' is considered rude, I apologize. I meant it in the sense

coolie definition: an unskilled laborer or porter usually in or from the Far East hired for low or subsistence wages.

If some urban slang definition exists that is derogatory, be assured I did not mean it that way.
Command line tool use much more often -x or --foo arguments that a word. Also -S is still faster to type than install, personally I won't switch for 'install'.

Nevertheless, you may add some alias to change the behavior if it's annoying you.
FINALLY - google took fking ages to do this
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And you should go fuck yourself, you self-entitled bastard.

You have effectively stolen from everyone with your belief in the ownership of expression. You and your buddy, PG, can go fuck yourselves.
You are making assumptions that are unwarranted. There are other uses for MD5 besides data integrity and data security. For instance, I generate an MD5 hash of a user's email address and use that hash for Gravatar. While someone who knows quite a bit about MD5 and the other person's email address, can force a collision ... all that would get him would be the other person's avatar image ... which is public anyway. In other words, using MD5 is perfectly fine in situations where collisions don't pose a serious problem.
You're a fine troll sir. Well played.

Now please go back to digg/reddit/4chan and tout this fine accomplishment where that's accepted.
I'd bet most people would have already been rescued by the time a bottle was found, too.
I think I just found our new marketing campaign. A CPA of a bottle + a handwritten note sounds like a good deal to me.
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The most efficient way to help homeless people is to walk up to them on the street and give them money. Not much room there for innovation. On the other hand, the cheapest way for society to help "permanently" homeless people is to pay their rent on an apartment. That might be more interesting.
It's got a ISBN along with the name.
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I can understand that Greg doesn't want to be identified, but I would love to know a little more about him and what he does to make a little more sense of this.
Misleading headline, its still 7% short in total servers polled.
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Latency matters sometimes. I'm an old-fashioned guy who still subscribes to a lot of blogs, and for that, a few days of latency is irrelevant to me.
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It always looks to me like it's running to get to the nearest bathroom - or that it didn't quite make it in time.
I'm getting a bit bored of feeling like the HN inappropriateness police.

Then have you ever considered not doing it? You really had to stretch on this one.
True, but the tricky part here is that Amazon got to set the wholesale price, too. Larger publishers have negotiated fixed wholesale prices (against Amazon's attempt to push back), but self-published eBook authors get a percentage of the retail price, so when Amazon varies the retail price, the wholesale price varies accordingly.
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FWIW, I've submitted a couple of (relatively minor) ones in the last couple of years. They were each fixed in the next update and I was credited in the security release notes.
This story has taken on a life of its own.

Let me clarify: There's no reality show.

We're doing the same thing we've always done - we're just bringing it in house. We used to outsource the shooting, editing, and production. Now we hired someone in house to do this for us.

We've been making videos for years.

From trailers for our book REWORK:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2137-rework-trailer-1-staying...

To parodies of political ads:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2209-karl-roves-book-vs-rewor...

To interviews with founders:
http://37signals.com/founderstories/slicehost

To customer stories:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEoAN06Nllk

I hope this helps erase the sensationalism and wild speculation.
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No, my point was simply that analogies between real and digital world are flawed and shouldn't be used.
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What you say is true but since it applies to a relatively small percentage of the population the energy savings of year-round DST would be negative. We know this because that is what happened when there was year-round DST, during Jimmy Carter's presidency, as a result of the Arab oil embargo.

From an environmental and energy perspective the current DST calendar is nearly ideal.
Netcraft confirms it!

(Sorry, the old ways die hard :)
There's always Theremin (http://theremin.sigterm.eu/) although it hasn't been updated in a few years.
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I don't use Arch personally, but I have found that every time I've looked for documentation on something lately (like setting up xmonad), I would be directed to the Arch wiki and forums quite a bit. They seem to have a good community going on over there.
The app should be able to easily post your book to most major ebook markets.
And there you have your answer for why NuoDB.com used to be NimbusDB but then changed all of the sudden.
You usually can still run a mail server on your home connection. The port 25 block usually only blocks outgoing traffic. So you can still receive incoming email on port 25. You just need to make sure that you configure your mail server to smarthost all outgoing email via your ISPs MTA.

If you've got a dynamic IP, please don't even attempt this. If somebody else gets assigned your IP before you have a chance to update the DNS, they could potentially pick up your email.
In what way is this table layout not that accessible? I just fired up Voice Over and it read the page in the expected order. (Heading, left text, right text, chapter list.) The only complaint I would have is the bad alt text on images in the chapters (but every site has that problem it seems).

The font size can be increased without much issue (again, no more than most sites).

* I'm not blind or hard of sight, so I'm not an authority on these things. Just curious.
" look we don't want to contact our lawyers but be willing to buy for XXX"

Conscience permitting...
Nginx's share actually went down, just MS's share went down more.

Apache is the real winner here.
I'm having trouble understanding the disconnect between the complaints about recruiters expressed here and my own motivation as a recruiter.

I wrote a longer response here: http://blog.teamgrep.com/2011/11/08/response-to-knyle-style-...

I think it boils down to: what are you trying to achieve as a recruiter? For me, it's about stepping outside my boundaries as a single engineer and my curiosity about the greater startup community.

Perhaps these organizations aren't doing their due diligence when selecting a recruiter?
I feel like if this were an Android flaw, I'd see it in the title. Miller was booted from dev for discovering a major flaw in iOS. A hacker can have full access to the phone and personal data by just downloading an app from the App Store. Definitely worth mentioning in the title.
This series really got me thinking about the programmer as a craftsman or an artist. I know pg has written about this before, but I felt the connection for the first time as I watched these videos. I really empathized with these guys: the obsession, the passion to perfect some skill, wanting to create utility for others, the risk of failing or looking crazy, the excitement of using something you've built, chasing perfection. It all clicked for me. I think we've all caught the same bug, in some way.

Check out the other video in this series about a distiller: http://thisismadebyhand.com/film/the_distiller

All in all, this series is really beautiful and really well done. I'm looking forward to what's to come.
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I don't understand the point, even a minimalist design is a design.
Why buy the .com version of their domain? Or, I suppose the better question is why go after their name to begin with? It makes you guys look pretty bad and a little of that smears off on YC.

http://howilearnedeverything.com/2011/10/30/clearing-the-air...
What has changed is that the cost of doing business in scientific fields such as chemistry and physics has become immensely higher. The current paradigm requires a facility on the scale of CERN to even have a hope of overturning Einstein's pen and paper side project of relativity via the discovery of faster than light particles.

In other words, the barrier to entry has been raised in science. Nobody is going to place a 25 year old Phd in charge of a major chemistry research laboratory these days.

On the other hand, in software development, the arts, and other creative fields with low barriers to entry, younger people continue to demonstrate genius regularly.
Exactly, with the creation of more wealth, you can afford that kind of nice services :) like a cleaning lady :)

In Mexico and South America, it's even expected that if you're well off, you're going to have household people (gardeners, cooks, cleaning staff).

Here in Uruguay I used to have a cleaning lady (once a week) when my income was U$ 500/month ! (she made U$ 10 per visit).
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I wouldn't call making /usr/bin/python point to python3 stable. I got nothing against their philosophy per se, but let's not make it something that isn't. a primary feature of a 'stable' system is that you wake up to the same one you left the day before.
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It is within 1% across all sites. Across large sites it's 7%.
Pulled that one right out of the ol' keester, huh?
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HashCash would make it more expensive for everybody to send email, not just spammers. It's also one of those things that doesn't really work unless everybody starts using it.

What are you going to do to emails without the HashCash header when 95% of the World is still sending email without it? Does it matter to anyone else what you do to those emails if you're the only one doing it?
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So can you add admin like facebook? manange other pages.
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I wonder how much his location comes into play. Would he have the same success rate throwing in the same # of bottles from anywhere by the ocean, or are we reading about this because of a unique set of circumstances? Either way, it is a cool story :)
You are confusing open source and free. You don't have the right to redistribute open source software. Free software guarantees this right.
In part 2, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the member you're adding for jobs a key? Isn't the code to see if it's already a member unnecessary? It shouldn't add duplicates since the member's value doesn't change (it's a key). Granted, it's unnecessary to re-add the key to the jobs sorted set as the code does, but the explanation doesn't seem right. On the other hand, you could call zadd again to change the score.
It's about time but surely quite a bit half-baked ...

Right now, there's no concept of having page "administrators", so the person who creates the page is the only one who can post to it. Also, no transfer of "ownership". Both these things are "coming soon" apparently but make the whole experience a bit suboptimal right now.
I prefer the description "100% accurate" to "misleading".

If I'd have used "Market Share" instead of "Active Site Market Share", you might have had a point.

Would you have prefered this title? ...

"Nginx now within 1% of IIS's Active Site Market Share and within 7% of Server Number Market Share"
I agree, although it would be even better if Amazon just paid the poor guy without someone having to make them do it. This clearly wasn't intended and it's not like paying even the full sum would make a lot of difference to their bottom line.
I saw a documentary on this a few years ago. The visual cues can be very subtle, and they do the sorting at insane speeds. The chick is litteraly flighing to one bin or the other, and just stops a fragment of a second in front of the guy. This, with an error rate ridiculously low (like one in a few thousands or something like that).

I believe the operator really doesn't know how he parses the information, and at these speed and error rates it must be something more than seeing bumps or not.
Yes exactly. Nimbus.io is designed for long term archival storage at more affordable prices. We think it's a great time to be competing on price.

We may compete with S3 for low-latency service later on (latency can be made arbitrarily low by spending enough money on caching.) Initial calculations suggest we could be almost as low-latency as S3 and still under price by a good margin.
woeful seems a little harsh :-)

There is a current workaround for the issue you describe: use many containers. However, there are 2 ways to solve the issue for good. One (the simplest) is to have dedicated hardware for the account and container servers, and provide that hardware with plenty of IOPS. Our testing has shown sustained 400 puts/sec on a billion item container with this kind of deployment. The other solution is to change the code to automatically shard the container (transparent to the client) as it gets big. This is something we (the swift devs) are working on. I hope that it will be done in the next several months, but, of course, a complex feature like this is hard to fit to a predetermined timeline.
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That is true, but better served with ceiling lighting (more even flux in your field of view
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Some people find employment attractive because they have run their own business. Some people find large corporations attractive because they have worked in small offices. Finally, some people place less value on being their own boss than elsewhere.

And if you think being self employed/an entrepreneur/owning a business is going to make you free, you're confusing hard work and stress with Fuck You money.
From what I learned from a BD engineer, Japanese legged robotics use mostly static equilibrium in contrast with the (more advanced?) dynamic balancing of US and European robots. Asimo might look cute, but if you compare the gait of any of the popular MIT, Boston Dynamics or CMU robots to the Japanese, you soon notice that the latter don't look very natural or adequate to unpredictable terrain.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Robotics#Loco...