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"Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Oh my god, they're COLLECTING the information that I give to them, in order to organize it and make it universally accessible and useful?!

And they're giving me options to disable collecting my information, if I don't want them to?!

And if I do choose to let Google collect my information, they're giving me tools to audit the information they have on me?!

OUTRAGE!

Google should figure out a way to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful, without first COLLECTING that information!!!

How long have they had this mission statement, anyway? Is it like a week old, or something?
To me it's about getting congress to legislate in favor of startups and young tech companies rather than big business interests. With the SOPA protests, we showed what is possible with a grassroots effort. I think a similar effort could work with startup funding.
Programmatic access is essential in such an environment.

Here's a realistic scenario just to make it clearer. An email appending company lands a big client. The client wants to obtain its customers' email addresses on an ongoing basis. They'll send customer information to the email append company who will then send them back the appended files.

Manually moving files is not an option on either side. What method other than FTP do you suggest here?
Keeping a strong core (which, at first, requires a mental focus on tightening your abs at certain points before it's built into muscle memory) is necessary for good form with a variety of the olympic lifts.
Agree that it's largely apples and oranges. I think the poster was more calling attention to the fact that SOPA showed a lot of people that their voices do matter, and can affect change in government. So in that way, at least, they're related.

Fraud is certainly a concern, and the reason that the laws were introduced in the 1930s in the first place. But the S.1791 bill has provisions for dealing with this through (relatively) strict individual investing limits and reputation via crowdfunding intermediaries. A balance needs to be struck between protecting "less sophisticated" investors and giving those of us who want the opportunity the chance to get involved, help support entrepreneurs, and create jobs (on main street and in silicon valley). There's still a lot to be hashed out of course, but this would be a step in the right direction.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the people who worked to put the petition together.
And it was like traveling to a different world the times I went to south Georgia and out of state by car.

There's a webcomic I read, and the author based in the deep south, described going to a comic convention in Portland Oregon as traveling to the future.
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This only makes sense if you look at a process that involves a computer (which is nearly everything these days) and stop looking once you reach the computer.

There are many more steps to nearly every process that involves a computer. The parts that are best performed by a computer most likely already are (at least here in the US). As computers improve, their role will continue to be expanded, but this curve will flatten out. Granted, the curve is in the early part of flattening and has decimated jobs, but I don't think that it will continue forever.
He had me until "Cameron Indoor". Come on: Dean Dome FTW, Cameron's a dumpy high school gym.

Anyway, as someone who has spent ten years on each coast, it's impossible to disagree with his overall sentiment. There's an energy and vitality in the bay area that is completely lacking in other places.

People love to talk about their local tech community, and I've found myself talking up Raleigh and Durham and the American Tobacco Campus and whatnot, but I know it's just a pale imitation.

Take some meetings with VCs in each location; the difference is eye-opening.
Suggesting that everyone needs to know how to program is indicative of tunnel vision. What do any of these educated and skilled people need with programming? (By no means a complete list)

Artists
Bakers
Brewers
Chefs
Electricians
Fashion designers
Firefighters
Fishermen (commercial boat captains in general as well)
Mechanics
Musicians
Pilots (including maritime pilots)
Plumbers
Psychiatrists
Stylists
Winemakers
Zookeepers

Even if we were to somehow automate all these jobs (which frankly I'm not sure is actually possible), someone will need to maintain the equipment. It can't be automation all the way down.

I think this attitude is dangerous, and considering these jobs "dehumanizing" is, frankly, disrespectful and betrays a lack of understanding of what non-office-workers do.

I highly recommend watching Mike Rowe's TED talk for a counterpoint: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...
So as long as enough money is spent, it doesn't matter if it's wrong ? Yay.
I meant, of course, that we'll find one.

We know the exist. We just don't have any examples to present.
A lot of these points apply to any sort of coding convention that a group agrees upon, not just unit testing.
It's always interesting to see how others experience their introversion, not least because by definition introverts do not exchange much. For me it's not about "time to recharge", i tend to think like an introvert even when being the center of attention and don't feel shy about it. As a geek, i need rules and regularities, so i 've ended up with a law that there has to be a fundamental balance between "time spent" (because time is the ultimate limited resource) vs "reward". Usually, time spent with "things" is more rewarding than time spent with people, except when the person is truly exceptional but those moments are rare. And it all depends on the definition of "reward".

The ability to function well socially is something introverts don't work on, but they should, not in order to become extroverts but because most (of those i know) are quite more interesting to talk to than the average Joe.
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Doesn't seem particularly game-changing.

I do like the haml style templating though, anything like this exist standalone with coffeescipt not js syntax?

We currently use eco (https://github.com/sstephenson/eco), but that's standard html.
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Facebook has released a bunch of distributed computing stuff, including a database (Hive), distributed logging and monitoring system. And that's just the part that's been open sourced.
This is a presentation at a TED conference by Carolyn Porco about Cassini-Huygens and Saturn: http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn.ht...

It has stuck with me for years. She is so inspiring, so passionate about her work. She is doing work of the highest order--long projects of amazing complexity that take many years to reach fruition.
Given that there are literally dozens of sites out there doing what MegaUpload does you suspect that it may have been picked precisely because of that.

One possible silver lining is that people like that rarely go down without a fight and it sounds like this is a case that can be fought. While his net worth will always be the subject of some uncertainty (to put it mildly), if he chooses he almost certainly has the resources to mount a defence.
Also, if you're handling user uploaded content you shouldn't just be writing it to local disk. You're going to have to figure out how to do off-instance blob storage at some point if you scale beyond a single server or want any redundancy. S3 is just about as good as it gets for blob storage today.
The implication is that on a bell curve, you're worse off on one side... that's all I'm "implying".
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The meat of my post was a factual counterpoint to Tichy's, and it amused me to make a stylistic counterpoint as well (namely mocking his Gaia-worshipping tone, which anthropomorphizes a random process).

So yes, I did mean to make it sound somewhat mysogynistic.
If Costa Rica doesn't scream "freedom" and "welcoming to foreigners" to you, you haven't been paying attention to your continental neighbors. Mexico is great on most counts outside the border region, too. Even Guatemala and Nicaragua and Panama are quite welcoming.
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-- stackoverflow, facebook, twitter
I'm excited to see them used as neural networks http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4088605/Memristor-em...
Part of why this can be so cheap is density.

This is also the reason why performance is usually beyond terrible. Most of the cheap VPS hosts are extremely overprovisioned and not very well maintained. There may be the odd gem (I haven't tried alien), but $130 buys you a rackspace VM for a year nowadays, so I don't see the point of even bothering anymore.
For fun, if you are running OS X 10.7:

codesign -d -v /usr/bin/true
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This is super important. Everyday Americans should have the right to invest in businesses. Think of the jobs we could create? Government shouldn't be telling me I dont know what Im doing if I want to help a friend start a company that I think can succeed. I get that unsophisticated investors need some protection, but $1000 seems like a reasonable risk to allow folks to take on something they believe in.
Limiting an individual's investment to a maximum of $1000 goes a long way to making sure Grandma doesn't lose her life's savings. As does the requirement for companies to use an Internet intermediary that performs background checks, verifies identity, holds funds in escrow, etc. The world is different from the 1930's.
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> the rest on your list don't scream "freedom" or "welcoming to foreigners" to me.

I'm guessing that's because of your own ignorance, not because of the places. Costa Rica is superb in terms of freedom, and almost all of those places are more welcoming to foreigners than the US. If you want luxury, México has first-class resorts.
I left in 2008, and I visit a few times a year because your last assertion is dead wrong.

It sucks, very very badly. I wish I could stop going back. But all of my people are there, almost without exception.
I think you might be making a mistake taking the service offline and waiting until you re-launch it. Every day it's offline you're going to be bleeding users and by the time you relaunch you'll be starting from ground zero.

Why don't you do something like reach out to hacker news users. I'm sure there's some aspiring biz dev types with a little bit of capital (sounds like you only need a couple hundred dollars a month to keep it operating) to invest some time and money into your business. Then you have a little time to pivot into a money-making version of your site... fremium of whatever model makes sense.

But right now you have one of the toughest things to get... a bunch of users. (myself included) Don't squander them!
Careful of the small-print: "The traffic is unlimited. If you exceed 5TB/month for the Kimsufi 2G, 10TB/month for the Kimsufi 16G or 15TB/month for the 24G Kimsufi the connection will be limited to 10 Mbps." My understanding is that if you do get restricted, the restriction isn't automatically lifted the next month. You might want to check with pre-sales to find out exactly what the process is.

I have had a box with them on and off (more on than off) for the last couple of years. I'm not doing anything critical there, but have also had no issues. Everything seems rock solid (which it should be -- Wikipedia says that "The company has six datacentres housing more than 100,000 machines.") You can reinstall from the web control panel, they rent KVMs, not sure what else to add.

The major things people tend to bring up in forum postings are:

Kimsufi is the "non-professional" brand, and hardware support is slower than the OVH parent. Nothing ridiculous, but you aren't going to get a bad drive replaced within a couple of hours either.

OVH has "low quality bandwidth". Of course, people making this complaint never quantify exactly what they mean by this. I just tested on my "24G" box, and see 30-40MB/s to cachefly, 90MB/s to Leaseweb in Amsterdam, 75MB/s to Linode in London, 3-4MB/s to Linode in Newark and Atlanta, 12MB/s to SoftLayer in Dallas, 10MB/s to SingleHop in Chicago, 11MB/s to Joe's Data Centre. (Of course these are large test files.)

If you're interested, there's no setup fee and no minimum contract length (check this for yourself, obviously), so I'd say go for it.
Programming seems so easy compared to some other jobs. You can pick it up in a couple of weeks by reading a book. If you want to program something more complex, give it another two weeks and another book or online tutorial.

I can't help thinking about medicine instead. Admittedly I haven't tried, but it seems unlikely that the same thing would work for medicine (studying books for a couple of weeks). Even learning medicine in isolation (as is common for programmers) seems like madness.

I will now go looking for tutorials on removing an appendix on YouTube, but I kind of hope that I won't find much...
That is definitely true. A one mile radius around Union Square probably hits a substantial fraction of the tech in NYC.
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The biggest threat to Android security is the inability of normal users to control their firewall.

What? Android has a firewall?

No, of course not. But Linux has a firewall, and it's installed by default on every Android phone. If you don't have root privilege, it's useless to you -- everything is open. But if you do have root, the DroidWall app is a simple way to manipulate it.

You see, every Android app has its own UNIX userid. That's how cross-app permissions are enforced. And iptables can associate packets with the userids of the processes sending or receiving them. So DroidWall offers you a simple list of all of your apps, with checkboxes for allowing packets through via cellradio or WiFi (or both or neither).

Frankly, Android ought to ship with something like this.

(Not the author, just a happy user.)
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I think GP is arguing over the meaning (and etymology) of the term, not how introverts (which I would define as people would prefer their own company) behave. Definition debates over the meaning of 'introversion' are common, because the term is often used very badly.

The most annoying definition is "good with people". There's no such thing - the star quarterback, class president, class drug dealer, guy who's dated every second girl in class, the couple who have been together for 3 years, the president of the math club, and the class comedian are all "good with people" in very different ways.

People like to think there's a general skill of "being good with people", because they think that if they acquire it they'll be good with people. It's a combination of the "grass is greener" and "silver bullet" fantasies.
What's the difference between being able to invest $1000 and $0? That's not helpful to anybody. If I want to invest $30,000, I have to go find 30 startups? That doesn't make any sense.
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You shall use a foreach every time you need to perform a loop.

Works pretty well in Python.

Though it doesn't invalidate the point the author tries to make.
I think that the author of this post might be missing that he could be a bit biased because generally people surround themselves with others that share the same hobbies and opinions. I still find many of the people I meet daily are completely computer illiterate.
/speculation
I love to travel and visit the US frequently but it's not the end of the world if they don't get to come back to the US. There is a whole lot more of the world than America.
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If you want to know how they work, here is the website.
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People who are serious about having an encrypted system should have absolutely none of the bootstrap process residing unencrypted on the disks of that system because somebody could take out the drive, look through the boot process, and log your passphrase.

I have an encrypted laptop that boots from a read-only USB key that is attached to my keyring. It will only boot from this keyring (and a backup CD-R that I have), and the system and the boot media are never stored together. Before USB keyrings became common, I would have the boot media be a CD-R.
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So what are you doing about it?
No, I think he meant not internalising the proper use of vi's composed count-movement-edit commands and ex commands.
Karl, I read this twice over the weekend and it very much changed how I was thinking about Redis. Thanks for making it understandable and for having such a clear writing style.
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I fully support this! To someone's point, we have an outdated system of balances that are based on 400 year old common law, and put in place as a consequence of the great depressions. S.1791 is a good bill, that puts the proper protections, capping investments at $1k. Not riskless, but appropriate amount of risk for investing. A fairer shake than the individual investor gets in the days of algorithmic, fraud ridden Wall street, or for that matter, the keno tickets the govt is happy to let them purchase.
What kind of DMCA system did Megaupload provide? And what kind of DMCA system is required by law?
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If you are an accredited investor (i.e., make over $200,000), current law allows you to invest any amount you like. If you are not an accredited investor, you likely can't afford to invest $30,000... so the thinking goes in Congress.
It's great to have you posting, or rather anyone who has actually spent more than a year in both (East and West). It's better than the shameless plugs for local communities that abound of the web.

That's helpful...thanks for the comparison!
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My French is not so good, but my translation is:

"With two lines written by a man, one can arrest the most innocent."
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Reminds me of Simon Tatham's Catan dice: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/dice/
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I could be wrong, but I've come to believe that grit (http://bradt.ca/grit-scale.html) is everything. Because if you don't have revenues or momentum to start, it is grit that will get you there. Those without high grit will quit prematurely.
I know this might sound like a conspiracy theory, but why did kim dotcom host servers in the U.S., clearly he knew about the issues that would present, so maybe he wanted to test the system legally and get a bit of spotlight for himself, the scapegoat turned avenger?
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We are getting the news too late. Did you know that there are 7 bills that might change how startups operate?

H.R.3427 - Startup Technical Assistance for Reemployment
Training and Unemployment Prevention Act
H.R.3571 - Entrepreneur Startup Growth Act of 2011
S.1965 - Startup Act of 2011
S.1826 - Startup Technical Assistance for Reemployment
Training and Unemployment Prevention Act
H.R.2941 - Startup Expansion and Investment Act
H.R.1114 - StartUp Visa Act of 2011
S.565 - StartUp Visa Act of 2011

We need a web service that is more robust than http://www.opencongress.org/ . We need a web service that has proper data mining, visualization, and notification system. The big guys have their lawyers - we need a proper web service. Who can help to build that?
I think you are going a bit too far there with the "screwed".

There are quite a few billions of people who never went or will go to the US - with little effect on their life.

"Welcome to America, home of the corrupt and the beuracrats"
unfortunately i cant read this title as my Block Murdoch extension wont allow it :-) But free speech is dead along with the right to protest and next will be political freedom
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I agree! There is a point of critical mass where apps are loaded everywhere.

It would be interesting to know more specifics.
I wonder how many false positives happen with these match ups. Or if the people in question could have just denied that they made the tweets.

This also makes me super freaked out about Google+'s real names policy, since it will literally be providing the United States Government with a massive surveillance network.
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> "First, entrepreneurship is not riskier than working at a big bank or law firm, a fact vividly underscored by the de facto nationalization of the banking sector..."

We might have to rewind the tape here - I think I must have slept through this part.
I've got a how-to for relaying SMTP mail thru google apps on a CentOS server using postfix here:

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If I where to do it again, I would have went to a school that focuses on creativity like MIT or Stanford and not on one of the schools that focus on a degree for a degrees sake. I started at a state school and left school for a long time then wound up finishing my degree years later at a private school that is focused on getting students to their degree. As such my educational path felt very industrial. I learned a lot of things about different subject but it was all raw education and not experiences which I think the latter are more valuable. This was mainly due to the environment, had I been in an environment like MIT I probably would not have had the gap. What really burns my ass now is that I have a lot of peers from MIT and I get so aggravated when they say, man you would have had so much fun at MIT you would have fit right in. It bothers me because I know I missed a lot of great opportunities and experiences. On the converse side of it is though, at the time I first went to school, I went to LSU because it was a party school. Which is what made it attractive to me, at the time. If I would have went to MIT at that point in my life I don't know that I would have been able to exploit the benefit of being their. Point being make sure you are going to school for the right reasons or your are just wasting time.

That being said, I did not grow up in an environment that promoted entrepreneurship. My family was farmers, commercial fishermen, and mechanics. In this environment there is not a lot of encouragement for starting a business. So the idea never dawned on me until I was well into my 20's and had some experience in the world. I had to learn that other people just like me where doing it, before I ever got the idea that I could do it too. It should stupid, but when you grow up in an environment like that, it is true that it never dawns on you. Not to say that it was a bad environment, in many ways it was awesome growing up on a farm. Anyways, the point being, if I would have had a venture that I wanted to do back in those days, I would have forgone college and used the money to start a venture. Because it could have provided other valuable experiences that cannot be purchased at college.
It's just a space that contains names. The result is actually pretty similar to C++'s anonymous namespaces, which is why I guess I didn't blink at the name.