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If you like dragons -- Dragonflight

If you like sci-fi -- The Rowan

I was a big fan of her stories when I was younger.

May she rest in peace.
I would agree with that hypothesis.

What I've observed from running http://www.Apache.com for several years, is indeed an older crowd (40+) by a nice margin compared to a lot of the younger projects floating around that are generating a ton of buzz.

It's been much more rare in my experience to see a 20 something hipster programmer seriously diving in with the ASF. I'm generalizing though of course...

The type of questions and people I interact with through that project are older engineering types, and those with a long history in the programming and computer scene. Usually with an old-school *nix approach to things.

Just wanted to chime in with that, since like stated elsewhere in the HN comments, I think this blog post is more about the organization structure and members of the ASF than the actual Apache Web Server project... which we all love so dearly. ;)

- Chase
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If you're going to read just one book of her's I'd recommend Dragon's Dawn.
By "FPGA guys" I meant the guys who make FPGAs, not the guys who use them. There is still a pretty strong dividing line between FPGAs and DSP chips.
So true. When will they learn? This instantly reminded me of Bruce Sterling's classic book, "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier". A must-read if you enjoyed this post.
Ok, so how many studies is enough for you? These are repeatable experiments, if you don't believe the results, recreate them.
The best bet is that they will die in a few years. The fundamental flaws with their business can't be solved with self-serve.

It's not impossible to survive off the efforts of a predatory sales force without actually benefitting your customers, but small local businesses aren't the best prey and you have to actually be able to profit off it it. If you can spend that much money on salesmen, you're better off making enterprise software than social coupons.
There's an awesome ruby gem called vimpack (http://github.com/bramswenson/vimpack) that makes it easy to install any VimL plugins from github directly, a la `vimpack install git@github.com:user/neat_vim_plugin.git` It uses pathogen on the backside to load the plugins. It also provides easily cloning your repo for use elsewhere. It's how I manage my vim configuration amongs multiple different computers / other developers can use my repo as a starting point. I <3.
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I know, which is why I was using the almost-as-archaic sense of the noun :)
This doesn't apply to all cases, but in the example given... why are you using images at all? The button style could easily be created using CSS3 and allow you to sidestep all this inconvenience.
Sounds like a great idea, I'm working on my product/demo right now. And even if I was just getting told one or two things a week I already know I feel like this would be a good booster for me.

Hope you get a ton of volunteers :)
The quote I pulled was from the FAQ page:

https://posterous.com/faq
This is what I'm starting to realise. I live in Australia, and, well, it doesn't seem that way.

Either that, or I suck, and aren't a "good developer who can get a job on the basis of having a github account"
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Well, that's a shame for you. It's really not difficult (when compared to IE <=7 compatibility) to ensure that the site looks great on phones that ~50% of smartphone users own.
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Ooh, awesome. Clockless computing seems like a really nifty idea, but its difficult. I imagine it might go mainstream when Moore's law finally runs out.
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Also this seems like a good way to spread the connections of investors and startups beyond the standard hubs. ( Coming from the little state of Iowa that sounds like a VERY good thing to me. )
While forking is a solution, it hardly precludes discussion of other less drastic potential solutions to the problem at hand. It does nicely bound the maximum negative impact that Apache social problems can cause, though.
we've been a big user of facebook but now we're all cancelling our accounts. we used it to organise trips and meet people but now this is just all becoming too suspicious.
I also love Grooveshark, so much that I wish they'd put blocks on how much you can play for free to get more income. I often forget to log in, have adblocker on by default and after a few hours realise I've been using their service completely for 'free'.
I'm curious how does it harm anything? Did it kill any puppies? Maybe it's inefficient but harmful?

Also remember GitHub is a for profit company. Its allowance for Open Source hosting is a marketing tactic. Anytime they feel the marketing value is not there, they will shut it down. Not that I'm against GitHub. It's a great company for itself. But comparing the Apache to GitHub is like comparing apple and orange.
I'm sure these guys have thought about the longevity of data at rest when selecting the security strengths on the EC curves and RSA keys. These chosen parameters are quite high and they link to an article which mentions a period of up to 2040 before having to be re-encrypted or expected potentially be broken.

Make your own conclusions about that.

I'm not certainly a fan of session resumption and renegotiation's from a potential security aspect, anyone care to persuade me apart from a performance standpoint?
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Dragonflight was the first grownup-book I ever read, long long ago.
I'm not the OP, but if something raises my ire almost enough to make me blog about it, it probably isn't going to irritate me enough to fork a large software project. But the lower the bar for submitting a patch, the more likely you'll get one. And the more everyone will benefit from it (assuming it's a net positive patch).
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The mobile phone market has been disrupted time and time again, the most recent example being the iPhone. The iPhone was a revolutionary new technology on the market, and was quickly followed by Android, which improved on many features leading to benefit for the consumer.

If you are referring to cell carriers, there is a high infrastructure cost, however even that does not prevent disruption. A standard cell tower can cost upwards of two million dollars, however the OpenBTS project has shown that software radios can significantly reduce the cost to the tens of thousands of dollars per tower. This, combined with a limited initital rollout can keep the infrastructure costs under one hundred million, not an unreasonable number for venture capital funding once the technology is proven.
So, when going to write laws on $TECHNICAL_TOPIC, it is now illegal for anyone in $TECHNICAL_FIELD to even try to advise the Congressperson.

That's not progress.

Oh, and before you answer that one objection, that's one I choose from many. You've killed way too much necessary speech with that restriction.
sigh And here your PR guy wanted to fly me to New York to talk to you. Obviously the effort would have been wasted.

Replication events are too important to be designed to fall on the floor. I want at any given time to know approximately how far behind replication is; I want primary write events to block until replication is at least durably scheduled; and if I pause or slow operation and wait for replication to catch up, I want to know that it _is_ caught up without holes. Cassandra fails utterly to meet these minimal requirements.

Master/slave queue is not the only way to meet these needs, but unless a replacement can fulfill the requirements, I can't responsibly switch.
I'm happy that this team is trying to do something different for education. That said, I don't think an arg is the best solution. Perhaps for very young students it would be a fun addition, but as students grow older, the arg would be seen through jaded eyes as worthless (just like grades).

Frankly, I would like to see a beefed up curriculum that is more flexible and challenging for the upper decile. Too much focus is put on the lowest rung at the expense of the top performers. Just because a student is smart doesn't mean they don't need instruction, attention, and mentors.

Frankly, I think a healthy dose of reality (at young ages) would also be beneficial. Emphasis on the value of time, the importance of building a solid educational foundation, the benefits of specialization, and the importance of collaboration.
An explanation would be appropriate if you're downvoting.
Also trying to open source all the code from the hack so future hacks and causes can iterate what's already created.
You use argument from authority ("It's based on Dynamo, which is made by Amazon, so you know it's good!") while accusing me of a strawman for reporting my own personal experiences.

Good thing there is no god, or you should have to watch out for lightning.
In past Forth threads I've complained the the Forth model for a computer seems just too at odds with how modern CPUs actually work for me to want to learn it. Well, I look at this thing and its like the soft draft of the future slipping underneath the door, whispering that maybe I should learn Forth after all.
I like Grooveshark's business model.. I think it's one of the most clever of all the new media companies.

Media is a two way market. Both content owners and buyers must be completely satisfied for the market to work effectively.

The two problems with labels: 1. they want to get paid alot and 2. they want to control their catalogs so that they can control their marketing.

The two problems with customers: 1. they want to pay less and 2. they want to listen to whatever they like.

Grooveshark solves these problems completely. They pay copyright holders to stream songs on the system and charge customers through ads or fees for the service.

At the same time, missing songs in the library can be uploaded by users and they get fairly paid for the "work" from Grooveshark's profits. Content owners don't have to do any work to seed the system with their content but they get paid for every stream or download.

So labels save money by not having to manage their content, since, in theory, it's already been uploaded by users and the crowdsourcers make money "working" for Grooveshark.

The catalog ends up more complete than labels typically allow and the users are happier. Everybody wins.

The only problem is that the system only works if the labels give up some control and they HATE that.

Hopefully Grooveshark survives, I think it has the best shot at finding a workable path for everyone.
Sorry, I'm sure you have the best intentions but it's not possible to go in 8 weeks from "no computer science background required" to a rails junior.
Not everyone has a job that pays in dollars/euros/pounds...

I'll do this some day anyway :)
I hope this means that there will be an actual Doom package for Debian in the near future.
missing touch support!
Apple gets control over porn domain names
Ok, there's a lot to cover here.

First off, the Apache Software Foundation isn't trying to absorb anyone or anything. Projects and people come to the ASF. It's a specific policy of the Foundation to NOT solicit projects. If someone says they're representing Apache and soliciting projects, they're wrong.

Secondly, Apache is very opinionated about how projects should be run. This comes from years of experience as not only a successful project, but as a successful non-profit organization overseeing dozens of projects. If a community doesn't like the ASF's style or rules (such as no dictators, benevolent or otherwise), they don't need to be there. No one wants to keep projects hostage. Part of the point of the Incubator is to get this figured out earlier than later.

Thirdly, about git and subversion. First off, there's increasing support for git at Apache (see http://git.apache.org/) but there are some serious drawbacks for use of git. Consider this: subversion was practically made for Apache in the way Linus made git for Linux. With that in mind, subversion isn't going anywhere at the ASF. Some of the rational is just plain stubbornness, but some of it goes straight to the core values of the Foundation.

Apache has become, for better or worse, the place where lots of projects go when they grow up. Growing up is hard to do. It's not fun. You have to do things like get a job, pay taxes, etc. When a project grows up, people start caring about who contributed what, under which license and making sure every line of code is legit. A lot of engineers don't care about this, but businesses and their lawyers do. A lot of the Apache Foundation "bureaucracy" is to handle this oversight and paperwork.

Git is an impressive tool and github is awesome for what it is, but it's not a non-profit foundation and it won't replace one. Confusing the Apache Software Foundation for your coding sandbox only suggests you don't understand the true purpose of either.
Just a nitpick, Backbone uses RPC, not REST. URLs are essentially hardcoded in the client - Backbone constructs URLs like e.g. "/collection[/id]" which is totally RPC. Which is not a bad thing, it's just not REST.
So, the system works.
Mee too, I'm from Europe though.

Maybe the OP or somebody in the class could share what they do with as much details as possible on a blog as they go?

Would be interesting.
I'm interested! How many/what hours/day would this be, and when would it start? -Shannon shannon at starrynightcoaching dot com.
I've been trying to find a conclusive answer on that. According to http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/how-much-of-your-phone-i...

When CarrierIQ was dubbed one of the Fierce 15, they were working with seven of the top ten major OEM’s, as well as Verizon Wireless, AT&T, and Sprint. Currently, Trevor has found CarrierIQ in a number of Sprint phones, including HTC and Samsung Android devices. CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone or on feature phones, but Trevor has found RIM’s Blackberry handsets and several Nokia devices with CarrierIQ on board as well.

But that was a passing mention and I haven't found anywhere else to back up that claim.
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Also, page 2 and on show people for different locations (eg. I searched for "Melbourne, Australia" and got some people from there, but the next page is Tokyo, and the next one is... Oregon? Refresh the page... get Texas. Location coordinates haven't changed though.
If you're using git, as the OP suggets, then you're going to fork it just to work on it. Forking isn't dramatic. Code is open source for a reason. If you have a critical bug in code you need running in your infrastructure, take ownership of it and fork it. Then do the dirty work to get the patch pushed back up stream.

If the maintainers really aren't doing what they volunteered to do, then volunteer yourself and get it done.
What do you call this? Side by side purchase options?
Anyone have any idea if there is a term for this kind of side by side purchase option comparison?

http://imgur.com/gmlWO

Is there an easy way to implement this other than to hand code it (or create an image)?
What are the software stacks that are available on the chip? Forth must be there. Anything else?
Sure, but the point is that being a member of the BSA doesn't imply support of SOPA. Maybe it did yesterday, but it especially didn't a few weeks ago, before this whole thing received so much attention.

The simplest explanation is that the members who were indifferent before, have changed their position in light of the recent "noise". But you can't work backwards and say that those members were originally in support of the bill.
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Here's a non-terminating compilation in Perl:

perl -wle'BEGIN {1 while 1}'

Heh.
Well, that's true, technically. But can't you name your functions things like "++"?
Just tried logging into SciVerse but unfortunately my University has no subscription to that specific journal.

Can anybody let us know a bit more about the framework, e.g. sample size, test conditions, test participants?
The thing about your 300 songs is that they aren't 300 songs in your collection.. they are 300 songs added to the system.

If anyone else streams or buys those songs, then the content owner will get paid.

Meanwhile the ads or the $6 a month fee goes only towards the songs that YOU actually STREAM from the service at streaming rates. Plus you can buy other songs for 99 cents.

If you never listen to your uploaded songs again, someone else will and they will be the ones paying the content owners.

Content owners get paid whenever anyone strams or buys anything on the system regardless of where it came from.
It's true now, it was true at the dawn of animal husbandry: it's more expensive to capture and domesticate wild animals than do the hunter-gatherer thing.
Someone should build a website to maintain all the projects Google killed. They might not be suitable to Google but someone else could build on the ideas.
Hate to be the grammar cop here, but the consistent misspelling of "its" in the article is distracting. If the author is here, could you please fix that? It's taking away from a very well-written and insightful piece of writing.
I/O performance is still abysmal even on their largest instance type when striping over 20 EBS volumes (I benchmarked that a while back). And we still noticed a high variance in I/O performance during peak hours despite the striping.

Any recent dedicated server with 16 spindles will completely annihilate EBS in terms of IOPS. And that's with plain old spinning rust - add some SSDs and EBS ain't even in the same ballpark anymore.
This thing is a joke. Searched for Atlanta Georgia and came across someone who had no open source contributions on and three skeleton projects as a top guy while high profile open source contributors were not in the system.
Offer HN: Anyone want the robotvm.com domain?
I've been sitting on this domain name for ages and never wound up using it. I plan to let it expire, but if anyone wants it I'd be happy to give it to you for free (you may need to pay transfer fees).

If interested shoot me an email (in profile). If multiple people are interested, it'll go to the coolest (and most likely to realize) project!
No, but are you still strongly typed?!!
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It can sometimes be hard to fork a project just for a patch to one simple bug. Once again, GitHub really shines here: you can go to any project and see all of its pull requests, so you don't have to go hunting for patches attached to bugs, and it becomes quite clear and public when a project isn't properly or expediently merging in patches.

The GitHub layout is really telling of the new open source philosophy. They put the code front and center (main page), and right above it show you with first class status all the bugs it has (issues link) as well as all the proposed changes (pull requests link).
One of the things I'm looking forward to is, in a few years, handing my worn copy of the Harper Hall series to my daughter and introducing her to the world of Pern.

I think I got my copy when the Science Fiction book club sent it to me because something else I had ordered wasn't in stock. I thought "sure, I'll give it a shot" and I was hooked.

Is it great literature? No. But it was one of the first fantasy series I ever read, and I still read through them every few years.

In fact, I think I'm going to start it again tonight.

RIP, Anne McCaffrey.
That seems to be all they're offering that's different from github's advanced search: https://github.com/search?type=Users&language=Python&...
I think by 'ideological' we're referring to a set of moral values, rather than an irrational belief.
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While correct, it would benefit Apache in the long run to foster better communities and tools for their projects to grow. While they provide value in terms of the protection/process/management it's all for nothing if the developers can't collaborate effectively.

GitHub has changed many developer's UX of opensource development to the point that they don't want to do it "the old way". Apache should be looking to grow in this direction to keep their developers and projects engaged.
Sorry for the misinterpretation. If I was an FPGA manufacturer, I'd be trying to buy a company like Green Array and beat the CPU manufacturers to the middle ground. Agree about the current divide, though I think it will weaken and eventually disappear.
It was a grassroots campaign of unaligned users of the internet. People from vastly different professions and backgrounds enacting change through varying means; twitter, direct mail, facebook, google+, blogs, articles, comments etc.

There is no system. That's what makes the internet awesome.
Because it may be commonly accepted, but it's rarely actually done so well.
Yes, 50% of users, but from various posts with statistics of actual web use, it iOS is still heavily favored. Same can be said about actual app purchases. iOS users seem to use the smartphone more than Android, at least for now.
That's an inadvertently funny post, considering how it reflects the less-than-completely-well-informed opinions of the people in the TV ad. You write "I just don't think it's gonna do all that much to stem the Apple/iPhone juggernaut any time soon." You don't think so? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/8855070/Samsun...
they definitely are here - just very fragmented
push vs. pull. Basically the tools and overall environment grew up to have pull as a feasible model.
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Actually, this is empirical evidence of the validity of this approach gained through observation of successful, real-world implementations. I'm not saying it's good purely because it's from Amazon or because any one person said it was good, but that there are many successful large-scale systems built using these principles that do not suffer the durability issues from your hypothesis.

While not proof in the scientific sense, this type of evidence is used as a basis for scientific theories that explain much of what we know about the world.

However, I still look forward to your detailed, rigorous rebuttal of my arguments in the previous comment.
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This is all new to me. Does anyone know if these chips could be used for bitcoin mining?

However, I believe you would have to write completely new programs if it is possible.
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Heh, I was hoping Hacker News would get it. Didn't want to add a cluttery disclaimer.
Yeah, that makes sense.

I was mostly curious about how much faster their new implementation was over the old, and how much slower it was than RSA-RC4-SHA.
Sorry, explain to me clearly why that is the One Answer and we must stop discussing alternatives?

You're answering a question I'm not even remotely asking.
Part of this is harmonic with what Deepak Chopra mentions in his 7 Laws of Spiritual Success, wherein one of the teachings is to separate your intentions from outcomes.

If you keep visualizing a specific outcome, odds are likely it will not occur and you will fail... however, if you walk that back to it's core intention(s), the possible outcomes that satisfy the intention are much greater, and likelihood of success (and resulting fulfillment) are much greater.