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Because the US pays market rates for oil, including Iraqi oil. Generally, when you control something, you pay less for it. I mean, I pay myself much less to eat the vegetables I grow in the garden that I control than I do for vegetables from supermarket.
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from what I read that's still an exponential problem for Quantum computers

Shor's algorithm is cubic, not exponential, in the log (i.e. the number of bits) of the number being factored.
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This article seems to misinterpret scale-up vs. scale-out.

>Yahoo and Facebook are excellent examples of how Hadoop can scale up; but little is usually said about how Hadoop can scale the other way..

It says this right after mentioning that those operations have 5-digit sized hadoop clusters.
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No. Get the degree now while it's relatively easy. The longer you're out of the education system the harder it is to fall back into the student mindset. If you're 'not afraid of working hard', work on your startup while pursuing your degree. As an added benefit, I've got to think that your classes would be a great place to find that co-founder you're missing.
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I wouldn't use "there isn't enough due process" to describe why SOPA is a terrible bill, or any similar legal argument. Besides, many of those problems have been fixed in the Manager's amendment.

DNS blacklisting as a concept is simply unacceptable. The way it is applied in SOPA requires that a certain classification of DNS caching servers must pretend like a website does not exist, which reduces trust in domestic caching servers and stifles DNSSEC.

If people move to foreign DNS (or local caching servers), which is incredibly easy, the entire thing is circumvented. But a tricky side-effect takes place: the system is now balkanized. Servers in the U.S. believe the naming system to resolve to one IP, and servers everywhere else resolve to something completely different.

This balkanizing effect can break the effectiveness of CDNs, can congest Internet traffic, and overall reduces the credibility of the naming system. Passing SOPA would mean other countries would follow in the same footsteps. Once every country believes the delegation chain can resolve to whatever they want to, what is the point in an international naming system?

These are only some of the problems with DNS blacklisting -- nevermind the security problems -- which are not worth it especially considering it is so easily circumvented.

Additional problems with the bill, such as the vague wording which may consider Tor a tool for "circumventing" DNS blacklists and, therefore, illegal, demonstrate a huge lack of forward thinking and an unsustainable approach to copyright enforcement.

The doomsday scenario is that government sticks its foot in Internet policy and communication and pretends it actually has the reasonable capability to prevent piracy. It will never have that capability without large-scale violations of privacy.

There are also a good amount of talks regarding the precedent SOPA may have for general purpose computing and a whole host of other sensitive topics. I don't think it's responsible to just point at provisions in the bill and say "well it seems to add enough oversight".

Besides, the bill encourages preemptive takedowns by providing immunity. The tech industry behaviors that will result would be devastating.
Shelf the startup for now and start doing contract development work. You can charge anywhere from $50-125 per hour depending on your experience, programming/development expertise, and projects you've worked on. It will take you a while and you'll have to put in a lot of hours, but you have a much better chance at making money quicker than trying to make your startup work.

$65/hr * 40 = $2,600/wk

Even on the low end, it can add up to a substantial sum if you're willing to put in the time.
Cool, some of this an a lot of other info is available via web service at http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html
Sure. And for reasons like that, digital books are a good thing. What I was trying to point out was that the transition isn't as seamless as it is for video and audio media. The transition is happening, and will continue to happen (though I suspect that paper books will continue to be with us, even if in smaller numbers, for a long time).
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"Regarding your #2: Again, my interpretation is that this only applies to foreign sites (either foreign domains or foreign servers)"

And foreign sites aren't important?
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Thanks for correcting the mistake in the parent comment. For the uninitiated: as a simplification things you can do fall into three categories: halal (you can do it and it's a good thing), makruh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makruh, مكروه) (smt that's not a clear sin but should best be avoided), and haram (you shouldn't do it, it's sin), these all have subclasses and it's complicated, so this is a rough guide. The non-Muslim population generally encounters only the food aspect of this distinction, due to notices on restaurants and food items.

Now, many (orthodox) Muslims would consider lusting after women who are not your wife (or wives where that applies) as haram, and see the Internet as a thing that facilitates this. This is not a new thing, e.g. the Internet is heavily filtered in Saudi Arabia. You can't subscribe to, say, Playboy from that country or have it sent to you, because they check the mail items.

Now, whether all this makes sense in year 2012 is another question.
Assuming that's true - there's evidence the other way, of course - the question is why devices are permitted on board at all. If there's even a possibility that an active device can interfere with navigation and/or operation, the policy should presumably that they not be permitted on planes at all.

Because apart from those actively disobeying as in the OP, there are countless more who forget to turn their devices off.
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I'm in a rural area of the US, and my home IP geolocates to the state capitol - more than 200 mi away.
Crashplan and backblaze both offer unlimited storage for way cheaper (roughly $260 dollars a month cheaper). Don't get me wrong - I'm all for onsite backups, especially for speed of recovery, but there are realistic & affordable options for cloud-based storage.
" Yoga is a way of life"

The more accurate statement is that Yoga can be a way of life if you choose to make it so. Just like a martial art can be a "way of life" (as in Karate-do - the way of Karate). But you can just practice your hour of Yoga a day, without any mumbo jumbo or assumptions about the ultimate aim of life and so on, just as you can practice Karate to get some exercise, or learning to fight, or to win a competition, or just have some fun. All are valid ways of approaching the "way".

And Vivekananda's works, while potentially interesting to someone who wants to understand Vivekananda's views, aren't, by any stretch of the imagination, the definitive books on what Yoga is and is not. Discussing what version of Yoga is the 'right' way and decrying other approaches is "inferior" or "just twisting" or whatever is reminiscent of the endless debates on the martial arts forums on what is the best style.

Or arguing about what "real" music is. with an implied 'those people over there aren't doing "proper" music' sneer.

fwiw I am Indian (not sure why that should be particularly relevant, but whatever) and a Yoga practitioner, of the "shut up and do the work and the ultimate aims will take care of themselves, meanwhile don't make pompous claims" school ;-)
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For me, Trello is a powerful alternative to the linear list. The linear list has it's place (grocery shopping, planning certain things, etc.) but I love the visual way that Trello groups lists of things.

When managing a project, having multiple buckets that contain lists, and being able to quickly scan the buckets is highly effective. With linear lists, I sometimes forget to check one of my lists, or the list gets stale, and things fall into the cracks. Because it spreads all my lists out on a single board, Trello (the HTML version, anyway) helps me avoid this.

I agree that linked boards would be a great enhancement.
"How cycling can wreak your body" or "how exercise can wreak your body" may not have the same catchiness to it but it is perfectly plausible headline.

Yoga needs to be done under expert supervision just like almost any activity that puts your body thru a range of motions not encountered in daily life.

Having personally experienced both Indian and American Yoga lessons - there is a fascinating aspect that comes up.
In the US almost always the discussions devolved into "I can master X pose for Y minutes without breaking a sweat" type ego stroking - exactly like "I can do 20 reps at 100 Pounds" boasting in a Gym. the whole mindset was Yoga was something that you had to master to beat in some sense.

In India (personal anecdote) the yoga teacher always emphasized "FLOW" - how smoothly can you transition between a set of fairly simple poses with maximum awareness. It almost felt like a totally different thing compared to the US style.
The next step would then be to expand the functionality of whatever you built by making it do something it was not originally supposed to do. You should then discover the shortcommings of your original solution and from that learn how to work your way around it or that it might be necessary to rebuild it because you did a crap job the first time.

Rebuild stuff!
I just tried it again and it does sync. Weird because many times it has not happen before. May be flaky internet?
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Is there a reason folks use Yammer over IRC? My company pays for Yammer, but nobody seems to use it. Most folks (at least in the engineering/sysadmin circles I tend to work in) hang out on the internal IRC server all day.
My original comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3433749

I definitely "added to the discussion".
Yes, there have been plenty of instances of downtime aside from the HR datastore - e.g. memcache and task queue have both gone down simultaneously and for more than an hour, which can be hugely disruptive but don't count as datastore outage.

Also, there are lots of instances of localized downtime that doesn't make it into the global system status - you only have to hang out in the IRC room to see people coming in with "is anyone else seeing really slow startup times" or "is anyone else not seeing logs updating for the last hour".
Geolocators usually just do the equivalent of a `whois -a` and use the address of whoever owns the block of IP addresses, i.e. your ISP.
What are the advantages of concatenating the data with the JS vs making a request? Only page load time?
As someone writing a compiler which targets Javascript, I'm curious: what exactly is the problem you are referring to?

No language is really like x86 machine code, either, but that doesn't seem to have stopped people from writing anything-to-x86 compilers.
This is precisely why a blackout day of major web sites is necessary. If Google, Yahoo, Bing and Facebook are all down for the day, not only would the users be made more aware of the issue, but the media would be forced to cover the blackout and subsequently SOPA, lest they appear completely out of touch with the world.
I struggle to see the correlation.
"we think it’s much easier to figure out how to extract a small amount of money out of a large number of users than to extract a large amount of money out of a small number of users. Once you have 100 million users, it’s easy to figure out which of those users are getting the most value out of the product you built"

Hm. This sounds logical, but is it really true?
I recall seeing a posted list that related student ID numbers to grades. I think I would remember if everyone got an A. Because I felt so guilty about that A that I did the assignments and turned them in, after the fact. The class was about morals and ethics, and the irony bothered me.

I wouldn't do that today, because I'm more aware of how irrelevant school is.
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I guess I should really participate in emacs-devel a bit more, but I've always been in favor of allowing Emacs to support multiple languages with a common runtime. Emacs Lisp is slow, that's true, but there's no problem intrinsic to its syntax that makes it slow. Similarly, there's nothing intrinsically slow about the runtime that Emacs provides; it's a bog standard dynamically-typed language with the slow stuff implemented in C. What we need is a proper compiler, one that can compile Emacs Lisp to either native code, or a proper intermediate representation that can be optimized. Unladen Swallow seems like a good model.

With a proper intermediate representation, we can begin writing compilers for other languages. Then you can write your extensions in Common Lisp, or Emacs Lisp, or Scheme, or JavaScript, or Perl, or whatever you feel like writing a compiler for. This won't fragment the community, because the runtime will be the same for every language; yes, there will be syntax differences, but in the end, everyone is programming to the same API. This is different than what Vim does with its programming language support (recompile Vim to embed opaque interpreter object, pray when you choose more than one language).

The only problem is that Emacs Lisp is fine for 99.9% of use cases, and it's fast enough for 99.9% of use cases. One worry I have about "proper language support" is that people will start "engineering" Emacs extensions. (By which I mean, treating software designed for interactive use by programmers as though it's "enterprise" software. When you need to write software that must not fail, concepts like encapsulation are very important. But when you're writing software that's designed to be edited by the user while it's running, you can't write it that way. Emacs Lisp explicitly encourages this, but CL, Scheme, and JavaScript don't.)
Pfft. Just add another remote dependency with its own round-trip to some unknown target which may or may not be well-adminned. What's the big deal?
This will also happen in Cil2Js. Any .NET library method (including system libraries) that is implemented as CIL can be converted directly to JS.

In mscorlib however, there are many methods that are implemented directly by the .NET runtime; i.e. they are not implemented in CIL. Cil2Js will provide replacements for these, either written directly in JS, or in CIL (compiled from C# source) that will provide identical functionality.

For example, string.Length is not implemened in CIL. In fact, may of the methods on 'basic' types such as System.String, System.Array, System.Int32, etc... are implemented internally by the .NET runtime.
I'm confused. The surest way to get 45K in 9 months would be to just get a job. If you're a programmer, then this kind of job is trivial to find ($60k/year is about the minimum you'll find at any medium sized company), and you can quit in 9 months when the baby is born. ;)

All of the entrepreneurial options come with massively higher risk, and since you say that the consequences of not making the 45K is high, this seems like a no-brainer. Get a job.
After 10 years of building and scrapping my own web based project management tools, I discovered Fogbugz was sufficient for handling detailed information and dialogue back and forth. I typically do "1 issue/feature per case" and keep my life really simple that way. The customer indirectly has a complete record of the entire design/development/signoff process of each feature by email.

Trello though, I find myself using more and more just for my overall kanban/burn of what I need to be doing at any oen time -- something I've struggled to get setup (my own initiative) in Fogbugz. I wish I could pull in my FogBugz filters but I'm sure others are requesting such things.

Trello is a great shared to-do list, and dare I say maybe even more relevant to getting things done than Basecamp, for me.
They're probably banking on the fact that the like of Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook et al won't take the nuclear option and therefore SOPA gets forgotten without the attention deficit eyeballs keeping it relevant.
That's the part where everybody can contribute. Have an open source library you like, fork and add the composer part.

Indeed it will not always be that easy, because the project has to be structured in a way that the autoloader could work with.

Maybe even merely giving the heads up to library developers would be enough to get them to accept it; worth a shot, right?
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I thought it was called the coffee shop.
Sweet Jesus, I would fire a developer who didn't encrypt passwords.

#2 UTC, option 3

# use existing code where possible, this is something that's been done a million times

You're not a micromanager ... (I think) a micromanager is someone who stands over the dev's asking irrelevant questions, or offering unneeded opinions, or actually telling us how to implement (not what to implement)

I wish my manager was more like you, because it's clear you understand the importance of making the right architectural decisions. Fire your lead dev and hire someone who binds with you better.
Quite possibly. Libraries/Amazon need to get up to speed on this. I have a Kindle, as does my brother, my mum, and my nan.

My mum is a member of a library, and they have ebook which she can download and read on her laptop. However, she can't read it on the Kindle, as they are distributed as DRM protected ePub's.

To put it on her Kindle she would have to remove the DRM and convert to mobi... But she doesn't need, or even want, the DRM removed.

Also, second-hand books. I could very easily get hold of a Dan Drown's The Lost Symbol for £0.50 in a charity shop/second hand book store. But it costs £4.96 to get the Kindle edition. There's also no way to trade/sell/give Kindle books to other people.

Removing DRM but then deleting within loan period- or pirating and donating £0.50 to charity - for ebooks seems morally equivalent to me. But it's illegal/break of copyright.
or the Internets?
I think they're claiming that it's true for Trello, not necessarily overall. Their other products are a testament to the fact that they're happy to go the other route (lots of money from few customers) with some products.

But since they think they've found a new form of "Data structure that anyone can find helpful", they'd rather try to get everyone using it than try to specialize it for a few verticals that might pay them a lot of money for a form of it that is optimized for their business.
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I would advise you to read Swami Vivekananda

Vivekananda was an extraordinary man. He came to the US in the 1890s not knowing a soul and ended by winning everyone over so completely that he became not just widely admired but loved. He had movie star looks and a brilliant mind and was the perfect figure to expound Hinduism to the West. His writings are marvelously alive and his English is first-rate. He deserves to be better remembered for the pivotal role he played.

As for explaining to yoga class attenders that they don't know what yoga is, forget it. Someone I met once brilliantly said: "The east never came west. What came west was a western version of the east." In particular, Western interest in Eastern religion (as well as in supposedly non-religious practices like yoga and meditation) has everything to do with Western societies' reaction against their own religions. It's self-referential.

We prefer to get our religion unconsciously these days.
I wish Grooveshark was a legal service. I haven't downloaded any music since I've started using it.

It's sad that the labels can't take a hint. The music business is changing (just like the software business). Businesses that don't go with the flow will eventually be left behind.
That's definitely a gaudy implementation. Who needs a salutation on a website? "Hello, from Lexington, KY!" just seems to be a callout, "hey look what we're using!" braggadocio from the developers/designers/CTO. Just adjust the page if you want, but you don't have to call attention to it.
It's because the major record labels already chose their strategy when they became record labels. They exist for the purposes of managing and licensing IP and suing those they believe are infringing. Bottom line: what do they want fresh talent for when they've made so much money doing this?
I personally don't think a basic income guarantee will fire passion.

I'd write software for art's sake even if I didn't get compensated for it.

However, I feel it is critically important to the discussion: Libre does _NOT_ mean Gratis!

To answer the question asked by billpatrianakos: "I still feel it hurts software developers. How does this not bother you?"

Software has been shared Gratis ever since it first existed (even before the PDP-7 era).

And yet software developers have been making far more than your average auto mechanic in all that time.

The distributors have been the ones most threatened by Gratis sharing. They can't mark up the software when they put it in a box and add a pretty manual (and add DRM or some form of copy protection, which only hurts honest consumers).

There will always be skilled hackers (i.e. developers), just as there will always be musicians creating music, even if the RIAA and friends disappear.

Gratis sharing is free advertising. The honor system is ultimately the only system of compensation that does not break in a system with no scarcity and unlimited sharing. Software has been born into that system; music and movies and writing are discovering that they now live in that world too.

Although it's new for musicians, hackers understand it intuitively.

Gratis sharing does not mean you don't get paid. However, if you go with a non-Libre distribution channel, you may not get paid. Artists who sign up with a label may end up paying the label for the privilege of performing. Admittedly that's an extreme case, but the fundamental theory of a non-Libre channel is trying to create artificial scarcity using computers where there is none -- so you only end up hurting your paying customers. Those who do Gratis sharing will only be affected marginally.

To get paid, just focus on providing the services to your customers. The customer is always right, yes, but also you should be able to see their needs more clearly than they can, themselves. In this way you become valuable to them as a source of continual improvement. Great musicians do the same.
In college I wrote a little Sudoku solver for an algorithms class which was more or less brute-force with backtracking (and a little intelligence about which part was the weakest and should be brute-forced first). A fun exercise, but for better or worse, I don't play Sudoku anymore. I solved it; the slowest part of getting the computer to do it for me now is the data entry. I've lost all motivation to do it by hand.

(Online + GPL'd: http://random.fennecfoxen.org/webtoys/sudo/sudo.html )
I'm an Indian too and have attended classes under atleast 3 different schools of Yoga. Let's not beat down the schools which focus on asanas. If you do an intense study of Iyengar Yoga, you would understand that it is a fantastic system with the attention to details that is hard to find elsewhere.
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