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Feedback: Great idea! Design can use some help. I would follow a format more similar to hn news (minimal design). Also, if you are going to advertise, put it at the page footer. No one will enjoy looking at the ads on the side of the page. Once again, great idea. If you need css help, email me, I'd love to contribute.
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I don't see the major new issue here. Everybody gets their tv of a torrent or rapidshare or some other place that is willing to give it to them. Copyright holders know, but don't seem to want to do anything about the legality of this issue.

So why is this a discussion worth having.
The real tragedy is that MMORPGs are better than real life for many people.

Personally, I try to view my life as an RPG. Ie levelling up, acquiring awesome loot, raiding with my loyal guild mates, etc. Fun life analogy.
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Same talk different location, but hosted on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7r2X9qC8jo

from post on Zach Holman's blog : http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-g...

previous discussion : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3024588
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In a cellular network, even just establishing a connection is while use up resources. It's not just about licensing fees. There's a lot of low level control signaling required to keep a terminal connected and in sync, and a base station can only keep so many connected at once. So you really want to connect rarely and then download a lot at once and disconnect again. The more seldom they connect, the more terminals you can support.
He's attempting to understand who his audience is with this act. I don't read more into it than that. This isn't the same situation the recording industry is in. If they gave their music away for free they would be broke.
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Digging deeper, we have this little gem: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

Choice quote: "From the perspective of the Macintosh that we were already in the midst of bringing to life, it seemed like ancient history the day it came out."

And this is typical of companies taking the wrong approach (trying to release the perfect product rather than the minimum viable product). IBM and Microsoft got the product out fast, iterated, and generally executed better than Apple for two decades because of this. The sour grapes were palpable any time Steve spoke of Bill.
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Megaupload made the bulk of it's money from upselling customers into premium accounts.

The only way to make good money from ads is if the ads are relevant for the people who come for the content. I can't imagine many relevant ads for people who are coming to a new record label's site for a particular band. They'd probably make more money selling band t-shirts.
I would expect the opposite to happen. What you just described is exactly why sales work. An item is perceived as being better because of it's price, but hey look, I've been lucky enough to get it for less than it's worth. I imagine this will just bring them down into more of a budget clothing line.

On the other hand, it could be that the JC Penny name will retain it's feel of being worth X, while costing X*0.6 so consumers really will feel like they're always getting a deal at JC Penny.
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I might be missing something due lack of experience with MongoDB, but what did disk I/O have to do with the secondaries falling behind, and why did effectively eliminating one of the secondaries "fix" that? The description makes me think there's a pathological case lurking in MongoDB that needs to be looked at more closely.
You can't eat bits. When everything else is non-scarce, you can reasonably argue that everything should be freely available. Until then, the right to control licensing is the simplest and most fair way for a creative professional to convert their effort into scarce resources.
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That's the whole point. Why pirate it when non-US residents are willing (and shall) pay for it?
This whole restriction thing just doesn't make sense from a business perspective.
Can I use it on web page? Not for cli?
Read "How the Internet is Changing Economics." http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-internet-is-chang...
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We recently did a study with an Estonian university which had an early-stage IT development idea. Our community was able to find a patent from 2010 that somebody else had developed, describing exactly the same thing they’d been planning to develop. As a result, they could avoid wasting resources and instead build on the existing knowledge that was out there. And avoid a potential lawsuit.”

Of course, if the patent holder had been unwilling to license it for a reasonable price, the university is now guilty of willful infringement if they try to develop it themselves, even if they don't actually build on the existing patent.
Is their slogan "Squeal if you'd like a porkchop"?
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No, it's CLI tool only.
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Great do not pay attention for asking some people to use it for web page. CLI rules
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I think this hasn't been done well because it is more difficult than creating something like wikipedia. One of the reasons wpedia works is because you can enforce a non-redundancy policy. There can only be one article on any one topic. In education, however, there are many ways to teach any one concept. So you have to allow people to create different lessons on the same topic, but also create a simple pathway through all these lessons. Khan academy has been successful in this for math, but I think a good part of that is because there is one person clearly running the show, an intensely productive man who spits out several videos a day, for years. Crowdsourcing that work is an interesting challenge.

As a teacher, I'd love to see this done well. But it seems most people who go into these ventures either don't get education, or don't get technology. It seems there is a pretty small group of people in the world who really get both fields. It's also hard to put together a team of people who get both. And finally, the profit motive kills a lot of education endeavors. Education is fundamentally a human right, and profit motives tend to exaggerate the achievement gap. There is plenty of room for new thinking in this area.
How do you want to use it on web page? Explain pls
When travelling in Puerto Rico recently I tried to access Hulu, and got the message that it is available only "within the United States."
Daphne Koller was not the DB professor, she was scheduled to teach a class starting this month, but has not taught any online classes yet. The DB teacher was Jennifer Widom, who is not part of the initiative described in the article.
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Sorry to differ , but Barber's book is certainly gentler then Bishop. But Bishop book is amazing , full of amazing insights !
I don't get why they would cooperate with the dude from the ML class
The defendants are claiming bi-lateral agreements are legal, and only bi-lateral agreements existed rather than a 3+ party conspiracy. Whether either claim is true, I have no idea.
Mad Men is a big-budget TV show. Its per episode budget is north of $2 million.
I think a fair way to treat it may be to set up a schedule for your equity to be vested, if you did not do that already.

Say, typically your equity may be vested over 5 years. If she had put in a year so far then 20% of her equity has vested. The rest will start accruing once she re-joins the company.

That would be a fair way to go I think because if she does return then you can continue your partnership.
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Every single time I want to vote or comment here I have to login again even if another browser tab is open and I am logged in there (I use the Clickpass option). Refresh does not help. Anyone else having the same problem? I'm with Chrome on Ubuntu
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I think the big difference, and what I think works well, is most sites I've seen do the stock photo thing as an accent (microphone girls anyone?) and it rarely works well imo. What I liked about 37 signals version is putting someone approachable and friendly--someone from their target market in particular--front and center and blown up. Again, often used in print, but first I'd seen it done well on web.

And that's good, sounds like no points for originality, photoshop doctoring, or ironing shirts, but at least I'm not a total scumbag design thief. I can sleep at night :-)
Oops...my bad. Daphne Koller is the instructor for the upcoming Probabilistic Graphical Models class http://www.pgm-class.org/
Yep, cli rules, but will be great if i can use it on web page :)
True, most managed funds are a rip off. I remember many eons ago in my first job out of school, I worked at a factory. The company selected super fund sent some peons out to brief us about our fund, but we just shredded them by asking common sense questions. The peons were obviously PR people who had no idea about investment and were hoping that some four colour glossies would keep us happy.
Two amazing things:

* Non-issue being treated like it's a world-wide catastrophe of some sort

* Total inability of a startup founder to say "Okay, we fucked up" and do a proper mea culpa before it becomes a PR clusterfuck
You have some complaints about the ML class?
> Purely coincidence.

I'm sure it is, and I didn't intend to suggest malfeasance, I'm sorry if it came out wrong.
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I think perhaps banning the ability for politicians to gain financially would be the key. Lobbying is somewhat just group participation in a democracy. But funding political campaigns and making deals is where it can get evil and allow corporations influence that they shouldn't have.
See also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postings_file
> Copyright holders know, but don't seem to want to do anything about the legality of this issue.

Except, of course, the minor detail of influencing legislators to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars to change to law so they can shut down anything "torrent", "rapid" or, indeed, "share".
unifying copyright laws globally has already been tried with ACTA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Counterfeiting_Trade_Agree...]

It's a dumb idea - flawed with millions of different problems and basically lends itself to favouring countries whose majority of national assets are heavily based on intellectual property [hence the reason ACTA was put forward by Japan and USA - the later mainly due to political lobbying]

The reality is - enforcing copyright laws based on one jurisdiction [ala USA] - on every other jurisdiction is a bad idea. Of course, the USA tries to "force" its bilateral and multilateral trade relations with new clauses requiring higher intellectual property standards. This 'stark picture' is already being painted on the 2010 USTR Special Report 301 [basically bad IP enforcement countries - primarily the BRIC [brazil/russia/india/china] block] where not one single African nation is listed on the reports Watch List - WTF ? Yes, why are some of the poorest african nations strongly enforcing IP rights ? You guessed it - trade preferences with the USA.

So yes - it sucks "only within the United States" - but I would rather that than some moron in a USA movie studio office, sipping cognac and lighting up a cigar telling me how my country should run its domestic law [pardon the gross generalization of movie studio executives painted from movie studio produced movies].

No thanks.
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I agree with you but doing so means that you have to acquire the talent to build the new business model. No major tech company seems to want to take that risk.
Seems like excessive dependencies for such a simple tool. Could probably build such a tool in SQLite and bash just as well.
I don't think it's just the higher classes that look out for each other, you will find inverse snobbery everywhere. It's just more visible in the higher classes because they have disproportional income and influence.

I think most people here would rather hang out with another techie from a rival company than they would with the head of marketing from their own company.
Actually, a number of people have complained that they do. Very few indie movies are in the same theaters as Hollywood movies, though whether that's effected by the latter depends on who you ask.
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The reason why the secondaries were falling behind was because the I/O was maxed out on the primary. It was barely able to keep up with the regular load, and hence reducing the load (by only having one node replicating instead of two) reduce the I/O load significantly.

That said, reducing the number of secondaries was just a short-term solution. The long-term solution is to convert to a sharded environment and offload the one maxed out node.
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"offer a service that shares a list of links"

I thought bundlenut was a pretty cool idea: http://www.bundlenut.com/ Is this something you're thinking about? They were on here not too long ago.

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Yes, there are some obvious benefits of column stores and simple vertical partitioning cannot serve the purpose. Compression and cache locality would still require a lot of changes to be made on lower layers. I think there is ample scope for a DB Engine that allows some tables to be column stores when required.

It is also noted in one of the papers (I forgot which one) that Column stores work better for read intensive use cases, probably because disk seeks would be less (appends/changes to one one section of a table and not 5 sections)
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Perhaps s/he means "given that it's written in Javascript, can I run it in a browser?"

I'll venture that the short answer is "no" because all the interfaces are for the CLI. But it looks like most of the application logic (in libs/commands.js) is separated from the interface stuff (in cli.js) so it could be repurposed if someone wanted to put the work in. Probably not worth it tho cuz it would be so different from the node app re: dependency management, interface, storage etc.

If you want a web to-do list, there are a million. Check here: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc for about 10. You can also check out this super light weight html5 agile micro buzzword buzzword buzzword browser todo-list app here: http://www.webdevout.net/test?0n&raw ;) (tip o' the hat to https://github.com/aphelionz for this one, I bit the idea from him).
Next to use a good caching plugin like W3 Total Cache, you can try CloudFlare. This really reduces your server load, speeds up your website and lowers spam comments on your blog.
Did the font used on the blog look weird to anyone else? Slightly pixelated?
I thought this was about an Iron Maiden song.
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Imho ML class was the best of the three. I am more interested in the application side of CS and Andrew Ng really nailed that aspect in my opinion.
Language matters. So maybe we should start to call such services "intranet services", to reflect what it is. It's ok, if companies decide to target specific countries, but they really shouldn't call it "internet" then, since this is technically wrong.
That makes sense, but unless bandwidth is the limiting factor, it sounds like there is a potential optimization where the I/O is only performed once for both secondaries.
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Sounds like a spin on the Spotify/Grooveshark model, who give the music away (maybe with some ads in between) and sell the geodemographic information of who's listening back to the music labels. The difference is this guy IS the label.
Let's see it! I'd love to use a lean version in bash/sqlite. Now just put your modules where your mouth is :)
I'm sure there is plenty of room for optimizing many things in Mongo. I don't know if secondaries can replicate from each other (if one is behind the other), but that would make sense. Mongo is a great product, but there is room for improvement of course.
>If you're writing for your own edification as much as for others

Agreed. I know a few people who do this but the article focused on professionals. There's little point spending time writing stuff which doesn't get attention if your sole motivation is professional advancement.
The last sentence ("When you eat your own dog food and some poison gets in, you die and can't fix it.") made me wonder…
It appears that this failure was not due to bandwidth itself, but to a burst in the sheer number of app-level phone-homes. NTT employs pretty sophisticated traffic classification and routing and my guess is that the actual number of "control channel" connections burst to a level that the hardware they'd allotted to handle these sorts of connections couldn't deal with, resulting in some cascading failures. And for some reason, they don't want to (or can't) go all elastic for this type of traffic.

Here's some background:

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20120127/379582/

It's in Japanese, but the Google Translation gives way more info than the TNW and Reuters articles: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js...)

It also sounds like what they want Google to do is to have app developers route through so that connections pool into a single thread? They don't mention c2dm at all, but seems like forcing c2dm would help (though it would leave Android =<2.1 users in the cold)?
Doing nothing is not an option. I don't even know why that was mentioned. You can't sit on money like that. However, they probably will let the dust settle for a few weeks or few months before spending their cash. At least I hope so.

They aren't going to pull a Microsoft and purchase a search company. Google is not as much of a threat really. Search isn't Facebook's expertise and it isn't their market. They would be happy letting Google continue to drive people around for answers on the web, while Facebook will continue to entertain and be friendship/family/work/etc. communication/community focused.

So what should they do with it? Focus on communication, community/community needs, and gaming. They need to ensure that they keep the attention of their existing community.

As for what to do with the cash:

1. Hire some awesome user experience/interface people. And those people need to work on timeline/profile view. The only reason people aren't complaining more about it is that FB like Google does not really provide a customer support experience that makes you feel like they actually care about your opinion individually. If you've ever submitted a bug to FB, you know what I mean. As for the interface, alternating left and right updates on the timeline makes it tougher to read and find things. And the whole feed thing on the right needs to go away. There should be a single feed page and a single profile page with controls to change filtering on posts. That is so obvious and ubiquitous elsewhere, so failing to provide a good interface for status updates when that is basically the point is ridiculous.

2. Hire some better folks to lead up API development. It is a huge mess right now. Too many APIs that don't all do the same thing, and breaking Javascript API with changes. Not cool.

3. For M&A, focus on bringing resources onboard for community, ratings and reviews, e-commerce focus. They could easily compete with Amazon and/or eBay within the existing social/community framework and it is a better idea for business than simply referrals, advertising, and selling imaginary sheep for people's imaginary farms.
Any plans for multiple lists and/or remote syncing (or just a file that could be dropboxed/version tracked)? With those two features I'm ready to say goodbye to Wunderlist, which is nice but absolute shit for keyboard navigation.
I wonder: the equivalent to the small corner bookshop has not yet emerged on the internet, or has it? I had expected to see more web sites offering a choice selection of books through the Amazon affiliate program (or something similar). But I rarely ever stumble across them. Perhaps because there are no corners on the internet.
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I'm still confused. Why does replication hit the disk on the primary? If the secondaries aren't already way behind, shouldn't the data be going straight from RAM out the network interface?
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Also, if you're curious about bandwidth limitations in this particular cloud, take a look at these benchmarks:
http://viktorpetersson.com/2012/01/23/benchmarking-virtual-n...
http://viktorpetersson.com/2012/01/24/benchmarking-and-tunin...
(Using CloudSigma as the cloud-vendor and FreeBSD 9 as the host)
Thanks. Those are pretty cool ideas. I'll open issues for them in github.
Ugh, I feel bad for them. That is the wrong way to try to drum up interest in music. It is already free. What they need to provide is something else that hasn't already been done. Like support online communities for bands that could write the bands' lyrics and music, if those user had a subscription.
That's Museo. Not good for text. Georgia is better I guess.
I'm not familiar with the area but aren't anti-satellite weapons forbidden under certain treaties, similar to how nuclear weapons in space are banned? The US spun their test as preventing damage from a bad satellite and the Chinese said something similar.
>This is just sad, I get the impression from the comments and up votes that tech does not get Hollywood. Hollywood business only work because only Hollywood is willing to give Christopher Nolan 200+ million dollars to make Dark Knight, ditto with James Cameron's Avatar.

Your comment is somewhat ridiculous because these examples are not risks. Christopher Nolan was well known before Batman Begins in writing Memento. James Cameron wrote the script for the original Terminator and directed Aliens, T2 and the highest grossing film of all time in Titanic. Anyone would've bet on these two individuals.
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it." - Mark Twain
Though one could say "Another Nature vs Nurture"-er, this article is interesting to me from a "responsibility" point of view.

Our children are our responsibility. As tempting as it is to put the child in front of a TV, or pop it a pill, or (in the future I am involved in a small way in building) stimulate neurons in the brain to get some effect, there is a huge component of taking responsibility for actually nurturing a child: being near him/her, empathizing and simply supporting.

This article reminds us, we are responsible for the kids, by leading through example and by trying to understand and taking up the challenge of correcting wrong behaviors and supporting correct ones.
You don't infringe on a trademark by using the same name -- you infringe if you use the same name (or confusingly similar name) in the the same type of business. Or, if you use a similar name to intentionally confuse.

In addition, UDRP is separate from trademarks (mostly), and is just useful when someone is abusing a domain name to confuse your customers.