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Seems to me that the advice in the OP is intended primarily for someone doing a startup (or planning to). In that circumstance, you're probably not going to stick with such a high risk, even for high potential reward, unless you yourself fit into the group that would use it.

That is to say, you yourself are the client (sort of), meaning there's not so much need to make any effort understand the client, because you already know what you know/how you feel about $THING(/etc.).
There's no blanket prohibition on offering things for free that cost money to develop. There are free French search engines and newspapers with free websites, for example, as well as French companies that develop open-source software. A court would have to find that the free service is being cross-subsidized and offered at a loss for the purpose of driving competitors out of business, to later profit from (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing). That's also illegal in the U.S., but U.S. courts tend to require a higher bar to demonstrate it.
I love it when things like this appear on HN - some insight into the politics of a project that we'd normally never see.

Sure does make a change from the kind of crap that keeps hitting the front page nowadays.
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No? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
I cannot stand reading anything on Phoronix. The person who writes those articles really, really grates me. It seems all finger pointy and blamey all the time. I've not seen too much constructive or useful information come out of that site in a long, long time.

And as for Wayland. I keep coming back to one thing for it...input. I don't know if anyone is going to pick that up. Seems like the weakest bit of X and someone will need to redo quite a bit of that work for Wayland and I remember when X was struggling to get people to work on that...can Wayland get someone to work on some of the most boring bits ever?
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Thats happened in the UK before, for my home town anyway. They just added an extra digit to the number after the area code.
... is as incomplete as most lists are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drug-related_deaths is missing, for instance.
Call me paranoid but I would rather not see this being utilized to much. Personally I block Google Analytics (along other tracking scripts) and many people use Adblock. If you start moving your important scripts and stylesheets to Google they will still be able to track you throughout the web.
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At this stage nothing is leaking "accidentally". Facebook has gone through enough press cycles, feature releases, competitive responses, etc., that anything you are seeing is carefully crafted. Even if it has the look of an ad-hoc casual internal-only just-for-my-friends feel.

The userspace reactions to even minor changes and features are predictable.
Apparently indirect democracy isn't working as well, as we would like it to work. Anyone knows somebody that would vote directly for such paranoic measures (what happens on airports, SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, all that propaganda for restricting freedom)?

This security and copyright madness reminds me of middle ages witch hunts, and fighting heretic. Most people didn't cared about witches, nor heretics, as long as nobody said them they should.

Governments and religions created that paranoia, and then it just lived on.

I like this http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/261344/Henrician-A... solution to the problem of government instilled paranoia.

It was possible in 1573 to demand of king, that he would keep the promises, he made before people elected him. People just made him sign a treaty, that if he started religious persecution, he will not be a king anymore accordingto law.

Why now, in the age of democracy, we can't hold our representatives responsible, and can't demand that they will keep their promises? I would gladly vote for someone, that signed such documents before elections, that says he won't be fighting terrorists by restricting freedom. But in our system such contracts are void, if I understand correctly.
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How is this different from simply creating a sub-domain on your server for CDN-like functions?

For example, Google's "Page Speed, Performance Best Practices" recommends setting up your own sub-domain(s) to serve static content[1]. Yahoo! recommends using a CDN service provider[2], but the general idea of using other domains to serve static content is the same.

Also, some static content can be referenced from third-party hosts, such as jQuery on Google Code or Twitter's Bootstrap CSS on GitHub.

As an aside, I'm surprised that, seemingly, a large number of web developers have never heard of - or read - the performance best practices from Google or Yahoo!.

1. http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#Parall...

2. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cdn
"That is great. except when all other competition dies (because who can compete with a better, freer version of your product?) google starts charging pretty rediculous rates."

This is what happened with big malls in Europe, small retailers could not compete in price so they got out of business. Now some of the malls have bigger prices that what small retailers had, as they have way less competition. E.g Carrefour bought all the malls here so all them are Carrefour now.
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Yeap, that would definitely be interesting. You're suggestion of meeting one on one and at small events makes a lot of sense, thanks!
I think you're right, but at the same time, Google or even Microsoft are in no position to do the reverse -- compete with IBM in the corporate world where big customers run their own clouds and define a lot of the rules and bureaucratic processes.

Google's paid cloud app stuff didn't even have urgent telephone support until recently, and there's still not (and not going to be, I think) any way to get your google rep to explain stuff to you over the course of a few months (and fancy dinners out), before finally tailoring you a customized (and pricy) contract.

Microsoft, I think, knows how to do those things much better than Google, but are instead hampered by the relatively pukey quality of their cloudy offerings so far -- they're playing catch up, years behind Google, and internally conflicted by the still-huge revenues of their legacy cash cows.

I'm not saying IBM can win in this market, just saying that Google Docs, Dropbox, Evernote, and all these cloudtastic superheroes of the consumer market have yet to achieve significance in the weird altiverse of Big Corporate.
Phoronix's analysis for power degradation on the linux 2.6 kernel was a brilliant[1] resulting in a patch [2].

language, on the other hand is another story.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux...
[2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/10/467
This works surprisingly well! It even made my crappy writing into the correct markup. Great for when you have a big equation to "translate" to LaTeX quickly or to just look up a character you don't know the name of.

I wish there was a function to upload an image or to capture an image via webcam or something like that. Then I could write it on paper and show it to the webcam and get the markup, or upload scans of notes to have them translated.
Whenever I try and view a document in Chrome (OSX) I get a net::ERR_RESPONSE_HEADERS_MULTIPLE_CONTENT_DISPOSITION :(
By sending Word/Excel/etc documents around in email, turning on revisions, and having endless discussions on which version is current.

We still do that now.
Most of this stuff applies to the Military and FBI. Guess they're all terrorists.

Or maybe you're only supposed to care about encryption and privacy when you work for the government?
I was just at Startup Weekend St. Louis and basically did a few of what he mentioned. We were in a room full of 100 people and I nearly shat myself when I went in. That's too many people for me to interact with. (click my username and go to my about page on my blog if you're interested in the journey of an extreme recluse)

What made the meetup work for me was avoiding talking to people unless we were in a hallway or in a room away from the noise. I don't think it's necessarily just "large groups of people" that annoy introverts. It's the noise and the energy. It's too distracting. When I'm in an area I soak up all the noises and colors, I walk around and explore and think about things. Every little object and sound in the room stimulates my brain. It makes me think of new ideas and new possibilities relating to the space. It's why I love being alone, I can enjoy the space much better because I can listen to it, and at the same time still think to myself.

But when there's lots of people in a bar, or at a beach, or a park, I find the people and the noises and colors distracting. I can't hear myself think. They interrupt my thoughts and that just pisses me off. I can't express myself because my mind is preoccupied listening to them. It's like trying to pass your drivers test in a war zone vs an abandoned part of town.
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Glad you enjoyed the post! Is there anything particular areas where you'd want advice? I'd like to write one about introverts and traveling (though probably not a HN topic).
I don't find #1 very good advice. The "celebrities" are the ones who you most need in your network, and you need to bite the bullet, navigate the crowd, and get at least a few minutes of facetime with them so they know who you are. Sending a cold email without having introduced yourself is going to get near-zero responses. Working a huge room may be overwhelming the first few times, but it gets much easier the more events you go to. Also disagree on #3 - sending very similar follow-up emails to a bunch of people is not too much effort and you need to do it within 24 hours so they don't forget you.

Agree on preferring 1-on-1s as opposed to group events, but most conferences / networking events offer exactly this kind of setting.
This has nothing to do with the free Google Maps but instead the use in Enterprise which normally carries a hefty price tag. Software products do promotions all the time - it's still up to the user to decide whether the future costs of the software/updates are worth it.

Maybe it's a little unfair to the smaller players but illegal? I see it as a promotion to get the Enterprise version some extra users and increase publicity. It's competition. Google can afford to lower their price or give it away free to gain customers, this is bad? What if their promotion didn't give it away but went half price? 1/5th price? Who decides what level Google can cut their price as a temporary promotion?
Do you think that in a market for a service which is very expensive to provide, one participant offering that service for free will encourage competition, or will it drive the others out of business? If you agree that it will drive them out of business, then you agree that offering the service for free is anticompetitive.

The situation here is more complicated than that, and not all anticompetitive action is not illegal, but I don't think you actually believe that offering a free service can't be anticompetitive.
That's not a list of lists though. So it shouldn't be included in a list of lists of lists.
I really like the fullscreen editor, but ideone.com is actually more handsome imho. Editor? great ; now I want to execute it.

If I really could compile my code and execute it on my machine, I would not be using that website in the first place.
Awesome! I really hope, someone comes up with a pdf2tex tool, that handles formulas well.

Edit: is even more fun on a tablet.
> Access to free copies of things someone else created and sells is not a physical law either.

Well, this is the thing, it is pretty much a physical law. Information is nonrival: it is infinitely copyable and anyone can use it without reducing access to anyone else. The effort and work to produce information is a scarcity, but once the information is expressed and public it is an abundance.

The whole of the ethics and economics hinges upon this basic physical/logical structure. This is the fundamental fact of the matter, and if it is followed through rationally, all of the normally assumed ethics of copyright unravels.

Paying people for work done to create makes sense. It makes an 'economic' structure that mirrors the basic physical constraints. And it is justified according to its 'economic' effects. You give something up, you get something in return. The individual transaction is fair and square, and the global outcome is a gain from being able to 'move' things around.

None of that much holds for paying for copies. The transaction is not fair and square, it is an unwarranted and unjust restriction of personal freedom of those using the information. And as for the global gain, it seems rather lacking grounds of actual evidence.

> The same holds true for everything, even for murder.

No, there is something of a difference. Murder is outlawed not arbitrarily, but because it is something we do not, in a very basic way, want. It has a grounding in the physical facts of what the act does, and in the physical facts of our reaction to it (as a victim). That physicality gives it an unparalleled strength as something we all agree on.

Copyright has no such physical grounding. Would murder be just as wrong if it could be done without actually killing anyone? You do the same things, but the actual effect is not there? -- perhaps imagine it as a video-game. It is a very different thing. And this is like copying: on the fundamental level it is 'stealing' without the stealing (i.e. not really stealing at all) -- because the basic relation involved is abstract.

Etc.
In the book Susan Cain talks about introverts being especially sensitive to external stimulus. This is generally an inherited trait and is detectable as a baby. Introverts are generally worse at introverts at simultaneously talking to people and being in a "stimulating" environment.
I am with you, it's a shame.

The next time they'll sue Linux or the free press.
> Europe has loads of nice things. You should visit sometime.

HN is not a place for flame wars about countries (or continents). He had a valid point, as he was referencing the hostile legal climate for doing (some kinds of) business in several European countries (and in some cases the EU).
The law says it's forbidden to sell something at a loss. While it's straightforward to evaluate when you resell a physical good as-is, it's quite more shady when you do some transformation (maybe at least the sum of its components?) and outright undefinable for intangible goods, let alone a service. That's the letter of the law, but the spirit of the law is to prevent undercutting your competitors to death.

I bet all of this is tied to IGN (France's national mapping agency) offering GéoPortail, a free but absolutely crappy service and a paid yet just as crappy service and dying a horrible, deserved death. They should have kept doing what they do right: providing map data and securing a deal with Google or Nokia for the aerial and street shots, and the maps.
Symphony was based on an old OpenOffice code base and is now dead. IBM is joining the Apache OpenOffice project and will be releasing their own IBM branded OpenOffice in the future.

http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/ibm-lotus-symph...
Last startup:

zendesk (customer support),
github (private repo),
campfire (team communication),
google apps (email, docs),
odesk (extra hands),
highrise (potential-investor relations),
clicky (real time web analytics),
dropbox (file sharing),
wordy (proof-reading),
mygengo (translations),
new relic (monitor rails apps),
zerigo (dns),
sendgrid (sending mails),
hoptoad (app logging),
transloadit (image uploading, processing),
heroku (app hosting)

Edit: learned HN formatting
While you can use the Google Maps API for free, it has actually some pretty limiting restrictions:

Google Maps/Google Earth APIs Terms of Service, 9.1.1 General Rules, (a):
"(a) Free Access (No Fees). Your Maps API Implementation must be generally accessible to users without charge and must not require a fee-based subscription or other fee-based restricted access. This rule applies to Your Content and any other content in your Maps API Implementation, whether Your Content or the other content is in existence now or is added later."

See: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html#section_9_1_1

I am not a lawyer, but I think that would limit solutions where you use the Google Maps API within any Log In based, payed service.

There seems to be an exception for mobile applications though, see "9.1.2 Exceptions (b)", and if you have certain agreements with or permissions from Google, "9.1.2 Exceptions (a)":
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html#section_9_1_2

If you do not comply with the Free Access (No Fees) requirements, you have to use the "Google Maps API for Business", and the price starts (currently) at $10.000,
see:
"What is the cost of Google Maps API for Business?"
http://www.google.com/enterprise/earthmaps/maps-faq.html
I certainly would be. Reading all these how-to-articles by successful extroverts can be frustrating, since many tips simply would not work for introverts. It's refreshing to see an introvert's take on this.
Its different, because it seems you're confusing CDNs with Parallelizing Downloads. These are not one and the same.

They're different because the recommendation to create one or more subdomains for static content has two purposes:

1. So that you can exclude some overhead from things like cookies being passed on each request, as its a separate hostname from where the dynamic content loads.

2. So that there are multiple hostnames to download static content from, so web browsers can take advantage of their maximum connections per host setting, to download your static content in parallel.

Neither of those points included CDN:
Geographically disperse high speed network serving content to your viewers from the nearest CDN server to them.

The proposal from the linked article is that they are able to take advantage of a CDN service for free, without having to pay the likes of Amazon Cloudfront.
(deleted my OP due to people using the down arrow for "disagree")

>Do you think that in a market for a service which is very expensive to provide, one participant offering that service for free will encourage competition, or will it drive the others out of business?

I'm sorry but I'm finding it very hard to justify the government stepping in and saying "Nuh-uh, you're not charging enough". If this was a case of predatory pricing, whereby they're trying to just drive everyone else out before jacking the price up, that's one thing, but having a free service? My mind is boggling.

They are being forced to set a price higher than they want (or need) at gunpoint. So what is the price they should set? Who decides that, and what legal precedent is there for it?
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Anyone know if wayland will support remote "clients" and local "servers" the way X does today? What about xdmcp? Losing either would be quite disruptive for me....
Add it! That's how these lists of lists get updated.
IIRC the point of using a subdomain is to get rid of cookies so that the server can cache the static content efficiently.

This is entirely different. Looks like the trick described in this article lets you "host" your static content on Google's CDN.
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This isn't a free service, though; this is a temporarily-free version of their Enterprise API, which they plan to charge (a lot) for later. I.e. they precisely are trying to drive everyone out of business before jacking the price up.
Great work - this is really useful. How often does it update?

(I just posted in one of the threads)
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Some people should actually read the court arguments before post,

the French court didn't just applied the fine, it was based on Google acts: when all other competitors dies google will start charging... with low price rates.
is it fair?

I don't think so.
Do you work from some sort of syllabus? Or is it more free form? Also, what sort of age-range are your students?
Tracking available via Google Analytics != the tracking Google could achieve by having your site use their CDN.

Google Analytics is a browser-side javascript code.

Static content loaded through them would not send cookies^, there would be no dynamic URLs with session IDs. The best they could do is track by IP, which they also probably wouldn't bother with across the globally dispersed CDN network.

^ Should not
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why? just why?
It just works. I've thought it will sometimes work. And it just works.

Brilliant.
That's only the allegation by the cartographer company, it's not proven, and it really reeks of thought crime. (How can you be sued for something you "plan" to do with no proof of such a plan?)

And as the article says, that is NOT like Google at all.

And another thing, is that the service who is doing the whining here is quite objectively crap, compared to google maps.
If most casual users see something isn't immediately available, then it is not there. For example, there is almost nothing on the MS Office Ribbon.
> I sometimes keep track of hackers and learn of vulnerable websites and infrastructures

You're on a website called "Hacker News", for starters. Am I the only one who's had to deal with related idiocy when on a public computer? (Also, using PuTTY with the default black screen can get you kicked out of places for "hacking".)
using their official docs

http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.html#9

(I haven't tried this:

erts_debug:flat_size(dict:new()).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1964015/erlang-what-is-mo...
The way I read it is that they want other operating systems to adopt the same infrastructure, e.g. kernel mode setting, instead of implementing an abstraction layer in Wayland itself.
So what if he isn't? He still gets the props for writing so clearly about his preference for that approach to product development.

I suspect it's also a shout out to future potential employees that he doesn't intend FB to change focus or style as a consequence of going public.
Initially free services that later have the prices jacked up seems to be pretty in character for Google. See, e.g., App Engine and the translation API.
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What logic? What are you talking about? The US is above Israel on every sub-index. Besides it is obvious that it is relative to population because in absolute terms the US would far outstrip any competitors.
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App engine is still free (though with lower limits), and the translation API is $20 per million characters.

That's hardly predatory pricing, and doesn't have anything to due with the fact that they were just sanctioned for something they hadn't done yet.
Really, why? My experience is the exact opposite. I run two startups in Toronto, both use Moneris, no problems. I had cards processing within a day or two.
Here in France it's often hard to pay for anything under 15 or sometimes 30 € with a payment card. Big chains and supermarkets often have a very low minimum (think 0.50 €) but smaller shops have no problem indicating you the closest ATM. To the point where the second phrase you say in a shop is often "C'est quoi le minimum pour la carte ?".

And yes for Internet cafés.
Absurdity.
Yep. I'm commenting on and liking all sorts of things I'd never have seen before the mini-feed in the top-right corner was introduced.