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Govts kill millions (actually approaching 100M in the last 100 years) and you equate that with the equivalent of a weekend's worth of drunk driving. (And then there's Ted Kennedy....)

And no, it isn't "rich or govt". For all your bleating, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates don't give a damn about me. Meanwhile, every pol wants a piece.

Your "only option" doesn't work, so it doesn't much matter what would happen if it did.
Goodness, a fat joke. How humorous!
Ok, then Apple can have a larger impact in Foxconn's work policies than anyone else who is likely to be influenced by an article in the NY Times. I don't think the Chinese government especially cares about public opinion.
Yes, I also think is intolerable that those people have to do grudge work for such low pay. Let's hope they become unemployed soon.
As a fellow Kiwi I know what you mean. I don't want him to be extradited and feel the precedent of cooperation on something like copyright is a betrayal of our sovereignty, but at the same time, there's so much detail to this case and there is so much bullshit swirling that a (lengthy) trip to the supreme court in the US would seem to be worth the risk if it can establish some precedent which moderates the ever-strangling enforcement of IP legislation at the moment.
1. The general pathology when people focus on 'One Time Pads' is that they're blinded by the 'absolute security' of that one primitive, and don't think about the security properties of everything else. Breaking your hash function allows a plaintext-knowing attacker to rewrite a message, which is considered a break of your entire system. In other words, your system is only as secure as your hash function.

2. Since the general security of a system is contingent upon its easiest attack (even if that attack is somehow 'rarer'), you might as well use that same hash function to create a stream cipher and once again avoid the huge OTP. (which is why it won't be taken seriously)

3. Security of actual cryptosystems comes from widespread implementation, study, and abuse. While your system may indeed have stronger confidentiality properties, it most likely will have undetected implementation errors due to it not being widely scrutinized.

4. I think the meat of your argument is that BKD (backpack key distribution) is comparable to QKD. I do agree that your comparison is appropriate, but think it says more about QKD than BKD. Quantum key distribution still relies on classical algorithms for authenticating the classical channel (some kind of MAC), and today's QKD products even rely on classical block ciphers, as the QKD-produced keys are quite small.

5. I see no benefits to QKD in general. It only works between prearranged (and physically connected!) pairs of parties. Reimplementing the Internet with QKD means the links are secure, but ISPs still see everything. If quantum computing really does ruin the RSA and DLOG parties, there's certainly other public key algorithms.
I would also give people the option to "mark" a domain to add it to a running list and/or the ability to go "back" in direction as well.
Did Google kill the long tail?
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Where I live you can walk into a shop, buy a smart phone, then pop in a sim card and be off. Can you not do this in the US?

You don't pay any monthly service and I don't see how the carrier you have chosen to buy a sim card from has any basis for claiming that the phone I'm using is somehow not owned by me.

Since I purchased my first mobile phone around ~11 years ago this is how I have always done it.
Silly? One USB drive can hold several backups, each new backup rewrites the oldest one.

On the other hand, you need 30 DVDs/month (assuming daily backups, and a backup takes ~1 dvd), time to write them, and a space to store them. Also, it is way less reliable.
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Groupon: The next Amazon or another Myspace?
Wow, that is a great website for promotion.
Other factories never have any mishaps or accidents that kill humans. Nuclear reactors never melt down and hurt anyone. And so on and so forth.
Can anyone put some of these figures into perspective? How many injuries per worker and per dollar are there in the iDevice supply chain vs. 1950's american manufacturing, present day american manufacturing, other electronic manufactures?
Thanks for this. The animation is interesting. Ping pong Truman, for example. Learned some things too, like that LBJ finished up worse off the Nixon did.
I have the same question. I tried googling it, but no luck.
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In the ideal libertarian world, there is a free movement of peoples. People are free to move from one location to another in order to best optimize the system. This is great in theory but breaks down in practice. There are physical, bureaucratic and psychological barriers that keep people in one place. For instance, my father's family is largely from rural Indiana. We have had a family farm for several generations. In fact, my family has a road named after it (Hammer Road) because it was mostly occupied by members of my family that had lived there for so long. There are members of my family that will inherit that land and for several reasons will continue to farm that land for generations to come.

My family has every right to vote and do so proudly. A callous wave of the hand and saying "they should pay their own way" in order to be an equal citizen in this country is .. well, elitist, immoral and just plain wrong.

P.S. If you want to give everyone free internet or free phones (with the appropriate legislation to make contracts entered over said mediums binding, of course) then do away with the USPS. Until then you're going to have to pay for everyone's right to be a full citizen of this country by subsidizing the postal service.
This film should be made. Perhaps he could sell the movie rights to those guys over in Hollywood.
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Yeah, I wonder if the per-user profitability will fall now. It would make sense that the remaining DVD users are largely ones who are making a decision to stay with it because they actually use it.
Unfortunately, I don't have time to read all seven pages of this article, but what I did read seems awfully sensationalist. Not only does Foxconn make products for a whole host of other tech companies (as others have pointed out), but aren't there factories with terrible working conditions all over China making things for all sorts of Western industries? And what exactly does an explosion have to do with labor conditions in what's been described as a hyper-clean, hyper-organized factory (albeit to the point of overworking their employees)? Sounds like a terrible accident to me.

My main point here, though, is that none of this is anything new. Chinese factories are continuing to abuse their workers to increase Western profit margins. Short of completely reforming the Chinese government, what's the alternative? Employing Americans instead so that even more Chinese people starve?

Again, I hate to act like I read the entire article (and I'm now realizing that I probably could have in the time it took to type this out), but I just saw a lot of extreme language.
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They say they moved off ebs and onto local storage for postgres and saw a big increase in reliability and performance.

I did the same for my site last year and it was great.

This is one of the reasons why I haven't moved my Postgres databases to enterprisedb or heroku: they use ebs.
One year and half ago, it was calculated and then confirmed by an admin[1] that the monthly cost was around 22K/month, or 270K/year. jedberg added that they were projecting to be around 350K/year by the end of 2010.

Supposing that the cost increased linearly with the number of users (which sounds like a bad hypothesis, but is a start), the cost at the end of 2011 could be around 1M/year... That's impressive, but nowhere near the 300K/month proposed by rdouble.

So I would say that the monthy cost of reddit's infrastructure is around 90K. Which is really impressive.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ctz7c/your_gold_dollar...
He still comes off as a douche with a huge inferiority complex, trying too hard to impress people.
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Ask HN: How do you host your own side-projects?
I've got a bunch of side-projects, each with a non-trivial database (dozen gigs or so each), and I want to consolidate hosting providers. What do you recommend, and why?

I've looked at AWS, and I'm not sure I trust their EBS volumes. I've looked at NearlyFreeSpeech, but their data storage rates ($10/GB/mo) are far too high. I've looked at Heroku, but all the add-ons get pretty expensive. I've looked at renting a plain dedicated server, but not sure I'm ready to handle backups and such.

I don't have much experience in this, so please correct my assumptions where wrong.

Thanks very much.
Goodness, a fat joke. How humongous.

FTFY
relevant: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/flashkus/

Can't believe something like this does not exist yet.
Or you could get 25GB of MS Sky Drive for free.
Thanks for the clarification, I thought $300k sounded a little off since cluda01 asked about estimated monthly (not annual) cost.
Thanks for the link.
I'm not a frequent user of Appsumo. How long do deals like this last? Do you have to be logged in to take the course: as in, can only the purchaser take the course?
Just a couple of points to consider. In the static Casimir effect the mirrors cancel out virtual 1/2 wavelength standing waves so there is pressure outside of the gap forcing the plates together. In the dynamic Casimir effect the mirrors move fast enough to cancel out only half of the pair of virtual waves. The other half whose energy is provided from the movement of the mirrors remains.
There's a good analysis of how to design a visualization that shows both approval and disapproval here:

http://eagereyes.org/blog/2012/embracing-uncertainty-two-lin...
Great ideas also! Will add to the feature enhancements list.
The problem is that most SQL engines have commands for fine-tuning. Things like 'ignore index', for instance. That is a leaky abstraction - knowing the details of the system lets the programmer do better than the query analyzer. Similarly, sometimes a left join + null check performs better than a "where not exists ()" subquery, despite them serving identical purposes.

If you can change how you phrase a query and get different performance, while keeping the same semantic meaning, your language isn't just leaking, it's hemorrhaging. It may still be useful, perhaps world-changingly so, but it's a perfect example of the dangers of declarative programming.

As to 'try making it in C++': with a library for doing so with as much maturity as SQL? Sure. It'd probably be reasonably simple, if more verbose. And when it inevitably runs slowly, you can infer the reason for why A runs faster than B relatively simply, because it's doing precisely what you told it to do.
I actually found a spot just off-center almost at the bottom of the screen where you can't get hit by any of the boss shot patterns. Finding it almost instantaneously, I just realized I play way too many bullet hell shmups.

Otherwise, great looking game.
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Not everyone has the same fundamental values, you know. I value freedom, hackability and openness over the kinds of things that Apple fanboys seem to prize. That doesn't make anybody wrong or right, or either option better or worse; it just reflects the underlying truth that we don't all value the same things.
Evidently he was a hacker of some ability

I was actually (digitally) in touch with kimble and his BBS in my own BBS-days and feel a need to set straight that, to my knowledge, he was never very tech-savvy, and never a "hacker" by any standard. Instead he quickly made a name for himself for being a full-on fraudster of the sociopath kind.

Here's a (german) article that sheds some light on his earliest endeavours:

http://www.gulli.com/news/12565-nachruf-guenter-freiherr-von...

The gist is:

Kimble started out by running a warez-bbs and dealing calling cards (which was quite common back in that day). Things turned nasty when his BBS got busted. He did not only cooperate with the cops but there-after partnered with an infamous german lawyer to set up traps for other BBS operators and sell them (literally) to the authorities. This went on for years in an organized fashion. From all accounts that I've heard he was not strong-armed into it but rather made money that way and even bragged about it.

From there I think the ars article is mostly correct. But I wouldn't like to see him get away with his self-proclaimed "hacker"-image.

In the german BBS-scene of the 90s the hate for him was unrivaled. There were quite a few graphic kimble-related ascii-banners on some post-login screens.
Usually 1,000 ad impressions is around $1.00 (varies greatly though, can be lower like $0.15c and higher like $4.00+).

Assuming $1.00 per 1,000 impressions, and taking their 2.07billion impressions/month figure:

Roughly 2,070,000,000 / 1,000 = $2,070,000 in ad revenue per month?

Wild guess.
What a bummer. Amazon advertises EBS as being both faster and more reliable, but it sounds like they are delivering neither.
The app looks nice! :)
Have you checked out DuoLingo? Seems to be running on a similar but slightly different idea.
Of course. You have to accept in some fashion. You can't just put a contract on a billboard.
You're probably right as I calculated with expensive instances. Also, when I made my estimate I was guessing at image storage costs, forgetting that the images are coming from image sharing sites.
TFA - on page 6, I realize it is difficult - says that the the explosions were caused by aluminum dust filling the air which was not properly ventilated. According to the article, these factories are not "hyper-clean or hyper-organized."

The article is singling out Apple, but it also contrasts their attitude to the attitudes of HP and other companies which manufacture electronics goods in China.
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There's no way in hell it costs $300k per month to run Reddit!
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On the other hand, my email provider has never decided to just throw away my mail because it was too lazy to work its entire shift.

Which absolutely does not characterize the majority of postal workers, but it's happened enough to make the news.

There's no structural reason for any email employee to cause my email to not be delivered, but there is that structural possibility for a demotivated postal worker.
you should run glxgears to see what your fps is. it would also tell you if you're using software rendering or not.
My back of the envelope estimate. These are based on the figures from last year and the fact that they currently have 240 EC2 instances, some are large (guessed 70), more are x-large (guessed 170).

8760 is the number of hours in a year.

(8760 * $0.24 * 170) + (8760 * $0.12 * 70) = $430,992/yr in hourly fees

($1,820 * 170) + ($910 * 70) = $373,100/yr in reservation fees

373,100 + 430,992 = 804,092 / 12 months = $67,007.67/mo

Reference for last years calculations: http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/ctz7c/your_gold_dollar...
Wow. I'm kind of appalled by everyone's response which amounts to "meh this has always been happening, nobody cares."

Possibly the central point of the article is not that "Apple is bad" but that most of us are quite oblivious to the working conditions which bring us cheap and fun gadgets.

We recognize that we cannot avoid benefiting from cheap labor on a daily basis. But just as (according to the article) companies could choose to enforce safety standards, we too might be swayed to demand better from Apple and other companies if we had a bit more exposure to the realities of the situation.

And the article drives home the point that we (customers) don't really care; if we did, we would stop buying [widgets] and [company] would enforce those standards.

Nothing new, sure, but it helps to put a face on the reality of the situation in terms of icons that all of us can recognize.
This. If they were actually guessing wrong, they would just stop guessing. Even if they didn't employ mostly geniuses, they would know to compare their models against random chance.

But my guess is, their models will actually do considerably better than random chance. I find google searches massively more helpful than duckduckgo searches not because ddg isn't a good search engine, but because ddg isn's snooping on me and just doesn't already know that I work a lot with such-and-such CMS.

And this is really all much ado about nothing, since if google were to ever overfit and render me unable to find something that it thinks is not my usual interest, I would just browse right back over to ddg.
Many/most page views on Reddit don't have any ads. Promoted stories only appear on story lists, not individual story pages, and don't appear 100% of the time (the space is also used to promote random new submissions). The graphical slot in the sidebar is almost 100% non-paid in-house ads.
You had high hopes, but with the last president not even hopes. It's totally different, what's worse?
Cool graph though.
I kinda agree with the general spirit of this post, but I'll posit that there's a lot of stuff that's "old and new again." That is, things that were once new and shiny, that didn't catch on or really take off "big time" for whatever reason, but are waiting for that "second wind." Some things are just ahead of their times anyway.

That said, some of what excites me these days:

The new batch of programming languages that are coming out / came out recently: Clojure, Scala, Rust, Go, Fantom, Ceylon, etc.

Machine Learning, especially with the availability of a toolkit like Hadoop that prepackages scalable version of many popular algorithms.

Technologies for extracting knowledge (with rich semantics) from unstructured data (Apache UIMA, for example). And on a related note, things like Apache OpenNLP.

And I'm still fascinated with the general notion of a "Digital Nervous System" for organizations, where the IT systems are really analogous to the human autonomic nervous system. Bill Gates started hyping up that phrase back in the mid to late 90's (it existed before then, but Gates really got some buzz behind it), but nobody seems to have truly achieved that level of integration and sophistication to this day.

Semantic Web technologies are something I have a lot of interest in, and that still excite me as well.

I'm really intrigued by the possibilities of applying tools from Network Science and Social Network Analysis to different kinds of problems as well. It's not strictly programming related, but there's interesting stuff going on in the world of complex dynamic systems and studies of emergent behavior, that could have some impact on computing in days to come.

Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Multi-agent Systems, Grid Computing, Swarm Computing, Evolutionary Computation, Reconfigurable Computing, Genetic Programming, Biocomputing, and, hell, even good-old-fashioned AI stuff (logic programming, expert systems, etc) still excite me. I believe there's still progress to be made in all of these areas.

But, then again, I'm an old fart, so what do I know? Now getoffamylawn while I go play a MUD and surf Gopherspace.
Google AppEngine doesn't seem to allow the 418 response code. Failed expectations at the best: http://geekceo.com/418
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Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, Dell, HP, etc.

WHY single out Apple?
A VPS or Dedicated server might fit your needs.

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There's yet another set of examples from gaming e.g.
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/owhaz/dear_nimblebit...

Alan Kay claimed there's only three new things in computers since 1980 (though he couldn't remember what they were): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/357813/help-me-remember-a... and when he asked for new things since 1980, the web seems to be the only one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...

One fundamental change is that computing is a fully accepted consumer market. I hear ordinary folk using technical jargon at in cafes. It's in a hit sitcom (big bang theory). This means that anything new won't feel any more special than new toothpaste or washing powder technology. The future has become commonplace, like the grimy worn spaceships of star wars. So I guess we're "hipsters". But excitement over the new has always been fundamental to science and technology.

There's another view: If things seem boring, it's because you are boring. Invent something interesting.
I really don't understand why the really rich with personal cooks let themselves stay fat. This guy could of have bacon and eggs for breakfast everyday with a ketogenic diet, have all of his nutrients and portions tracked and lost weight with zero effort very quickly but he get's his private cook to cook obvious crap for him all the time.
No its not ok. But WHY single out the iPad?