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>it's also consistent with lots of totally harmless software doing totally normal things.

lol. What "totally harmless software" or "normal things" require userland software to monitor every keystroke. And not just monitor them, but echo them so that they appear in the logcat?
That's a no? ;)
Seconded. The docs great and the support is first class. And the API-request builder extremely useful when getting started.
It's not the technology workers that are getting hurt the worst by this change, though. It's all the other people in businesses affected by and attached to the tech industry, who don't have the flexibility to pivot quickly or at all.

Moving on to new technologies just puts more people out of work with nothing to replace their old jobs.

Additionally, technology is neutral regarding human nature. As we grow older, we are less comfortable with shifting around and there are attachments that make it more difficult.

Sure, it's great to be rootless and fancy-free when you're in your 20s, but when you hit 40 or 50, you have to start thinking about how it's all going to end.
Agreed about conflicts. One of the things that surprised me the most with git, coming from subversion, was how much easier it was to merge code and how there were less conflicts and how they were often much easier to resolve.

I tried to do mostly branched development in subversion but gave up on that due to all conflicts.
It's the same thing. The way virtual keypads work in Android and the same as the hardware keyboard. Also, it's already been noted that it is aware of HTTPS urls and reports those just as meerily (at least to the adb logcat, I can't make other claims).

Further, the keyboard doesn't magically work differently when it's entering text into one page other the other... not sure what track you're thinking on there.
That was posted few weeks ago. It's from zencoder's site, comparing to other 3 competitors (probably biased), but shows that there is already competition:

http://blog.zencoder.com/2011/10/18/zencoder-benchmarked-2x-...
I'm calling B.S. on carriers don't charge for your key-logging data.

My wire had some billing/technical issues and we worked through AT&T's data transmission logs, there were unexplainable uploads that seemed like telemetry or some kind of debugging. They denied it and told us it was our data uploads.

Now I know what that probably was ;)

Open up the tele-comm industry, this is really scare stuff!
Can't such software be reverse engineered?

Also, the home page for BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) says it's open source.
My primary gripe is with people claiming that oauth doesnt solve a problem. That simply providing a single header is all that is requited. That OAuth is too hard.

OAuth is a set of flows for obtaining tokens. These toekns are, by definition, bound to an application-user grant.

The rest is implementation details.

Which flow are you referring to as being succeptible to mitm attack?
I probably just don't fully understand the situation, however this seems bad. I'm usually for capitalism and the concept of supply and demand, but not in this case.

What's my marrow worth to me? Probably not much; a bit of time and discomfort but overall not a huge deal. However, for the buyer, it's the matter of life or death. Seems like it would be easy to extort someone who needs it.

This is one of the rare cases where I hope the market is very heavily regulated -- say, "Bone marrow is worth $1k. It's illegal to ask for more."
This assumes that you can evenly distribute your transcoding load over the course of a month. For most customers, transcoding needs are severely peaky - 10x or more from peak-to-average. So you either buy for the peaks and your hardware goes idle 90% of the time, or buy for the average and see long queue times. For most video publishers, each on-premise machine ends up using only a small fraction of 43,000 minutes each month.
Typesetting it in LaTeX makes it a PDF, so you could zoom in but it wouldn't reformat. However, I can always recompile it at a different size on my computer; I haven't ever wanted to change the font size of a book while reading it.

TeX does automatic hyphenation, and a ton of other magic, so the technology is there. However, it might be too intensive for an ereader--it would probably take too long and kill the battery life.

I also suspect there is not much demand--reading English novels on the Kindle is perfectly fine. It could be better, but you'd only realize if you read a better book. Russian is more of an issue, but I don't think Russians make up a big part of the Kindle market. I don't even know if it's sold in Russia.
> Hastings wanted to get the DVD-only customers off of Netflix so that he wouldn't have to pay for streaming rights they weren't using (or paying for).

I've heard this argument multiple times now, but it flies in the face of the much more logical argument made in the very next paragraph that the content companies want to replace their cable income (no matter what). Meaning in this case if he splits the company in two then they double their prices on the streaming. Given this, splitting seems like a big step for a temporary reprieve.
If you bought the domain in 1999, you probably used NetworkSolutions.

There is no change in pricing there... they still sell them at $35/yr
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This afternoon, 30% of our instances got a never-before-seen "stopwatch" icon in the web UI. This indicates that the instance must undergo scheduled maintenance. We see a new tab with details and deadlines.

Our first mandatory reboot is due in a little over ten hours.

We have yet to receive any email from Amazon notifying us of the existence of this new "feature".

edit: An EC2 user pastebinned a copy of an email from Amazon support that provides additional detail regarding what must happen for each type of reboot: system-reboot and instance-reboot.

http://pastebin.com/VzNQDG37

edit: To be fair, Amazon does mention the impending new features in the official blog back in mid-November, saying that the new status items will describe "action[s] that we must take on your instance". http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/11/ec2-instance-status-monit...
Is there a collection of these kind of blog posts somewhere? i.e., for comparing the stacks of different sites?
We use IncrediBuild.
It was a good plan executed too quickly. First price increase to make mail less attractive, then split the companies down the road, then get rid of your part with mailing DVDs completely and then truly become the Netflix company you want to be. The only thing they seemed stupid about was how fast they could execute those steps. They did it too quickly and it unnerved customers and investors.
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I would also love to hear why you think that identity has anything to do with OAuth or this discussion.
I came here to say this, so thanks for saying it for me, calvin. Anyone reading on HN should probably set up two-step verification on their Google accounts.
Not necessarily. The amount needed could be too large for angels or might not meet the requirements of VCs. It might be too risky or it might be a nice solid company without high growth prospects.

The problem with private capital is that there has to be an exit strategy, acquisition or IPO. If IPO is closed off because of cost, private capital may be closed off for the same reason. I would like to see less restrictive regulation in this area, not for ideological reasons, but because denies small, but promising, companies access to public markets. Regulation is still needed to keep out fraud, but I dont think is should attempt to deny risk.
> Past few months

How can you know how good they are before you've even had a chance to renew your domain once?
and not just monetarily free, but free from ownership by any one interest or group
You can do this in iOS and Android as well.
Shut up about RMS already
I greatly prefer Norvig's resume:

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Tons of amazing feats with lots of details while still feeling normal and pleasant.
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I agree with your sentiment and most of what you say. But a lot of the general public are not good at computers. Remember the "facebook login" incident? If you tell these people that there a magic programme that runs all the time then they will always turn that off. As a result carriers will haves basically no information.
Shouldn't any investor do that?
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> probably biased

Thanks for the trust. ;)
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Well, I wasn't the CEO, so I was always on someone's team.
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Check out elm:
http://elm-lang.org/Elm.elm

Recent reddit conversation:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/mwbvj/elm_functiona...
>I would be very interested to know what he thinks about computer games

See Stallman's Reddit AMA (#7): http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/rms-ama.html

Essentially, he thinks that the production quality associated with studio games is not worth the sacrifice in user freedom. Your point about games being much like film is an interesting one. Elsewhere in the AMA, he says that he doesn't consider proprietary software that controls, eg, a microwave, to be unethical as it's functionally indistinct from hardware. Now, with some games (cough BF3) being functionally indistinct from movies, it would be interesting to know whether he believes those, too, are unethical. My guess is yes, as there are many things like DRM and data collection going on behind the scenes that the FSF is opposed to.
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Sure. How do you measure it? The way capitalism measures it is by how much people are willing to pay for it. Seems to work pretty well, or at least (to borrow Churchill for my purpose) less badly than any other system.

The upshot of this system, though, is that people have to figure out a way to get people to pay them for their contributions. It doesn't change for artists. Charging people for ~0 marginal cost copies is rapidly becoming not a way to get people to pay you. I think artists are going to do fine.
Ireland is left in the same bin as Mexico. You can see it up there, can't you?
I'd be willing to bet that self-made wealth from non-politicians correlates strongly with intelligence.
The last time I used git in a work environment [1] we named our branches based on the tracking system ID we used. So when I saw a branch labeled US137, I could look that up in the tracking system to see what was being worked on.

Our QA team would then pull the developer's assigned branches into a QA repository, do a merge and test. We had no probems [2] with a team of half a dozen programmers across as many time zones (one in Russia) using that model.

[1] My current employer uses SVN and I was told, in no uncertain terms, "The use of Git is a fireable offense." The lead developer really hates Git.

[2] The problems we did have came from upper management that kept changing their minds about what to work on.
ICloud Basics | mcgvr
Ignoring the security through obscurity mess, the more salient point is that there are classes of problems that cannot be solved at present without a locked down client. If solving such a problem is the entire function of the device I don't know that I'm against this.

Technology will eventually solve such problems (thin clients or fully homomorphic encryption) but these have serious issues of their own.
Ask HN: Irrational Fear of Competition
I do some work for a [very] small web development company. A few years ago, this company built a custom web application for a local business in a small niche market (estimated 600 US and Canadian companies in the industry). Since then, we have converted it into a subscription-based product to sell to the rest of the companies in this small market. Many businesses hate the existing solutions (there are only a couple) and are looking for something better.

So far so good, but I think they're doing something wrong.

If a company wants to try out this software, they have to call our sales guy. Mr. Salesman will get their account set up and hand them the login info.

There is no product website. There is no signup form. They market this application from a Twitter account, Facebook, and a blog. There are also no plans down the line to build a website or signup form either.

When I asked why, in this day and age, we don't have these web app basics in place, and why they aren't even a priority, the reasoning I got was something along the lines of...

"If we offer frictionless trial accounts, our competitor (who presumably has more money than we do) will undoubtedly see what we have and steal our features. We'll lose our edge. We would rather screen our customers to prevent that from happening."

They've been on this route for a little more than a year, and you can count the number of paying customers they have today on one 3-fingered hand.

--

So perhaps I speak from the position of a young know-it-all, but this sounds to me like an irrational fear of competition. I'm aware that new startups frequently launch in stealth mode, but this isn't exactly cutting edge technology we're talking about.

In my opinion, they have added friction to the process in the hopes that they can keep whatever edge they think they have, meanwhile missing out on easy signups and potentially more paying customers. It just doesn't make sense to me.

Then again, maybe they're right. Maybe that's the only way to survive in an industry this small and I just haven't figured that out yet.
Ql.io is interesting.
Sure it does: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/10/12/the-correlat...

Causation is a bit trickier to show, though.
Totally agree. When first learning git, I got comfortable with git stash: work work, bug comes along, git stash, apply bug to master, git stash apply to get back to my state, work work. Then I started getting comfortable with branches.

Git stash is a killer feature that every developer can relate to, and highlights git's power.
This, and branches. I rarely used branches in svn, but I branch all the time in git locally.

If you try to use git like svn, it's pretty frustrating. Seems like a lot of work for no gain. But if you embrace the git philosophy of commit early and often and local feature branches, you'll understand how git got so popular.

In svn, I often run into the situation where I'm working on a new feature, want to save what I've done (because it works), but it's not ready to check into the central repo. Then I usually do something that breaks the whole thing locally, but I have no way of undoing that change since nothing has been committed yet. I've seen svn users copy and paste entire directories just to "snapshot" their work. With git and local commits, you don't have this problem. You "save" your progress as you go along by committing it locally and when something breaks, you revert locally. Then when your feature is ready, you push the whole thing to the central repo.
A company in the 70's sold 500 of it's restaurants (it's main source of revenue) and the "pundits" called them crazy. The stock took a hit but the CEO remained on course. He stuck to his guns.

30 years later, it is one of the most successful companies in its industry. You may have heard of them- Walgreens.

The CEO of Netflix is not dumb. He killed Blockbuster. He knew what he was doing when he split the company to save the future of his company.

His only mistake was not sticking to his guns.
>Javascript (which is basically just a Lisp with infix syntax ;-))

No, it's not.
Actually, clicking anywhere on the graph will flip to the definitions, which is very bad UX.
Since when is fun a complete waste of time? People are really missing the point of life, no?
Yes. "Smart people make more money but don’t end up any wealthier" is the more accurate statement

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/smart-doesnt-...
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Seems it's all too common that those who are watching the metrics, forget that the metrics change.
The site highscalability.com has some good descriptions (look under the 'REAL LIFE ARCHITECTURES' topic).
The core team have been aware of this work since it started.
Wealth does correlate with intelligence:

http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-covariance-between-cognitiv...

The phrase "does not necessarily correlate" needs some unpacking. I think anyone would agree that for N=2 that's true, but for higher numbers it would indicate sample error.
That seems like a bit of confirmation bias. You're arguing that Neflix can do no wrong because:

1) They took out a large incumbent competitor, therefore it's impossible for them to make bad decisions.

2) A single company in the past made an unpopular decision that worked out well for them.

I could similarly say that Apple firing Steve Jobs was the best thing that they ever did. Just look at them today!
Oops, apparently I offended some of your fans.

How many people were working for slashdot if I may ask?
You probably can't go into any details, but can you describe the rough approach R-01 is taking? Is it based on some existing paper or something completely new?
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The presentation has been incredibly helpful for me in understanding the reasoning behind NoSQL. Thanks for doing it!
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One of the downsides of git (and mercurial and others) being evangelized so heavily as next generation distributed version control systems is that some of the more fundamental improvements get passed over. These are world-class version control systems, even discounting their dvcs capabilities. If you do a merge with git/hg vs svn or even perforce or TFS you'll get about as good an experience and a workflow as is possible.
This depends on who the developer works for and on...
This is why we have SSL. SSL protects against exactly these kind of Man in the Middle attacks.
In no way have you disagreed with me. You just reworded my "Even the best support team can't do anything more than 'give it back, please, new registrar'" statement.
All ISP can do loads of packet sniffing. Remember FireSheep? So in theory they could intercept every non ssl request and see what sites your going to.

But things like that might be illegal, and expensive.

Kindle Fire is a different kettle of fish and is almost certainly not used by most ISPs.
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It's not just the programming stuff I wish I could filter, it's the worship of Ruby, node.js, CSS, etc. Web languages that really aren't useful in the hacker sense of the word, but rather in the business sense of the word.

My opinion wasn't so much about what would replace those posts, but what not having those posts would attract.
On the Death of Steve Jobs | mcgvr
A few of the agile "standups" I've been involved in have been run well, at a recent job I had the opposite problem to what you describe. For several months we had a team that was about a dozen folks, and a daily standup that typically clocked in at 45 minutes to an hour and a half, every day.

It boggles my mind how any manager can see 60 dev-hours a week get pissed away and fail to see the importance of it.
OAuth is an authentication mechanism, meaning it implements a principle of logic stating that a subject is who he/she claims to be (authN), and then asserts that to a relying party (authR). In other words, OAuth establishes identity.

Your question about MITM is answered at http://www.subbu.org/blog/2010/09/oauth-2-0-and-cookie-conve....
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Your reply conflates two things: copyright and big labels. The control of artistic expression landed in the hands of big corporations because only big corporations could handle three expensive things: 1) production, 2) distribution and 3) promotion. All three of these things have recently become way cheaper thanks to digital tech. Big labels are becoming less powerful every minute. It is now perfectly possible for an unsigned band to produce their own recordings in a home studio, sell them on the Web and promote them on the Web as well. If copyright is abolished, this will no longer be possible because the band will no longer have any right to profit from the use of their songs. Even if a million people love their song and listen to it every day, they get zilch.

In short, I see the big label problem, but the problem was never copyright. The problem was expensive production/distribution/promotion.

"They don't have a natural right to be compensated for the work they want to do."

Copyright does not give people the right to get compensated for what they want to do. It compensates people if they make something that other people want to use.

I don't want to talk about "natural rights". I find the notion fuzzy and suspect. I think it only complicates the issue at hand.

I would like to live in a world where people get rewarded when they contribute to society. (Someone who writes a song or book or software program that a lot of people like is a contributor to society.) Either you find that vision desirable or not.
The point isn't that zero people will be writing software, the point is that the few people left will not accomplish a fraction of what's currently being done.

If there were no copyright for film, you'd still have films being made for various reasons (hobbyists, educational, propaganda, vanity, advertising, etc.) but there's no way you'd see stuff like Avatar get financed.
To elaborate, JavaScript doesn’t support macros, which allow arbitrarily powerful semantic abstraction. And JavaScript does not have a regular syntax, so even if it did have macros, you would have to special-case each type of syntax (curly braces, statements, post-++ operators within lines) and handle them specifically. First-class functions and closures do not a Lisp make.
Could this have something to do w RIM management not wanting to canabalize it's already dwindling BB phone market? I've never used one but the ppl I know still clinging their BBs cite it's email capabilities as why they're sticking around.

Tablets and phones don't seem to directly compete, but then again they're both mobile devices.
I imagine there are quite a few people who would agree with you; had Jobs stayed on at Apple, he wouldn't have learned the hard-won lessons from starting Pixar and NeXT.