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The Cloud API is Pseudo-Consolidation of Infrastructure
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There's far more to running a business than "building something". In fact, the reason that most entrepreneurs get buried is because they are good at building something, but can't run a business.

They're both important skills, and neither has to be learned in school.
Hmm.

"""What binds us all together is a strong belief that what we do is good."""

What is 'good' about the pirate bay? A site which is 95% dedicated to sharing copyrighted content?

The Pirate Bay exists to make money for its founders. This is why it has so many intrusive ad's constantly popping up. They aren't on any mission. They are just raking in money at other people's expense.

"""Our 3 friends and blood brothers have been sentenced to prison. This might sound worse than it is. Since no one of them no longer lives in Sweden, they won't go to jail. They are as free today as they were yesterday."""

Does this mean they are on the run? As they have been sentenced to 4-10 month's I would just serve the time and be done with it. Surely this is better than constantly watching your back and avoiding being extradited back to Sweden.

"""But what enrages us to our inner core is that the system, the empire, the governments, are still allowed to try to boss you and us around with one law crazier than the other"""

Yes.. the system.. the empire.. surprised they didn't mention the people in black suits? The pirate bay is such a target because the people who run it humiliate and insult people with very deep pockets. They aren't victims, they enjoy the attention.
No, but I've been using an LZMA library [1] to compress data sent over binary WebSockets.

LZMA is nice for streaming data to many clients (i.e. compress once, decompress many times), because although compression time/CPU is high (LZMA > BZIP2 > GZIP), compression ratio is very good (LZMA > BZIP2 > GZIP) and decompression not too bad (BZIP2 > LZMA > GZIP) [2].

[1] http://code.google.com/p/js-lzma/

[2] Disclaimer: I should check, but haven't yet, whether these inequalities hold for this JS LZMA implementation relative to the available GZIP and BZIP2 ones.
The job market has been exerting a lot of downward pressure on MBA salaries in recent years, especially in the wake of the financial crisis. While it's still possible for a newly minted MBA grad to make somewhere close to $140k at McKinsey, or more at an investment bank, most MBA grads are falling moderately to significantly south of that figure.

And, as others have noted, the starting salaries are highly variable -- by school, by industry, and especially by job function. When people speak of "average" MBA salaries, they're usually speaking of a mean figure and not a median -- which is a bit silly, because the mean has traditionally been skewed very heavily by investment bankers.

At the end of the day, it's somewhat intellectually lazy to compare "MBAs" to "Engineers," as if both sets are relatively homogenous, or even normally distributed. The fact is, the designation "MBA" could mean so many different things. It could mean a nonprofit manager earning $65k, a brand manager earning $80k, a consultant earning $120k, or a private equity associate earning $200k+. To a certain extent, the same can be said of the broad category "Engineer" -- although there are so many subspecies of "Engineering" masters degrees, that selecting any one of them can yield a more homogenous set to work with.

In the long run, one thing seems abundantly clear: there are perhaps more MBAs entering the job market each year than the job market will actually bear. Conversely, there is a dearth of engineering talent, and a consequent seller's market in most engineering fields. That means engineering salaries will likely trend higher, while MBA salaries trend lower.
The title and the article do not match. The study looks at 'Founder/CEO' and the title says 'Build & Run'.

Being a founder is very different than coming into a company several years later and being a CEO. They are different phases in the businesses life.

I'm an engineer. I plan on getting an MBA someday. My dad is not an engineer, but does have an MBA. He has been the CEO of 3 companies in his career. The first company was 100+ years old. The 2nd company was 200 years old. The 3rd (and current) company is 2 years old and he just joined it as CEO this week. In the first two cases he grew the business substantially. But he will never put 'founder' on his resume because that would make no sense. So by this study he wouldn't count on the MBA tally.

In the beginning, a startup is mostly about making a product and finding product/market fit. But later on once you have an established product it comes down a whole lot more to sales, marketing, operations, partnerships, etc. My dad has a psych/business undergrad & a marketing MBA. All of his work is on improving the sales force, making new ad campaigns, opening new distribution channels, etc etc etc. Things that as engineers we probably don't really want to deal with, but are the difference between being #3 in an established market and #1 in an established market. And that's ultimately what an MBA is aimed at helping you do - growing larger businesses.

So this data doesn't really suprise me.

As an interesting data point - my dad largely runs company in the 100-150 person range and has been in the chemical industry for a while. He noted that almost all of those kind of companies would prefer someone with an engineering undergrad and an MBA because ultimately you oversee sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, finance, etc. So if you are blind to the factory you will not be an effective CEO.
As long as the price > operating cost, they'll eventually make money on it. You could say that they take a different approach to say Rackspace or Softlayer which try to recoup the initial investment during the first month.
"In fact, I'd be hard pressed to think of a single moment in my life where "meet a random stranger based on an algorithm" is a substantially more attractive option than what I'm doing at that moment."

As someone who hops around the country a fair bit, I can definitely think of one place where this would be an appealing option: airports. I am sometimes able to find a random stranger to engage in conversation, but it's often a crapshoot trying to find someone who's both willing to engage in conversation and interested in the same subjects; I usually settle for just the former. This actually doesn't work too poorly (I've found that on the whole, people who fly tend to be more interesting than a typical cross-section of the population), but I'd be more than willing to spend my hour-long layover with an algorithmically-selected stranger. If I'm also able to find activity partners, all the better; I'd be happy to start packing my portable chess set and Magic the Gathering deck in my carry-on luggage.
You are using circular logic here: "They were convicted and that's proof that what they did is illegal."

You are saying that never ever innocent people are convicted. We all know this is not true, not by a long shot and in no country.
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Is there any way to make a website that has no central location, that lives on hard drives and internet connections of citizens and self replicates and adapts when the government wants it to just disappear?

A free internet is going to need a "deploy website to the hive" tool. Something that would force the FBI to have to raid computers in 50 different nations.

I'd like to see a message: "this site has been DNS blocked in your region, please download this program to seed this website for others over an encrypted subnet".
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The PUSCII collective has set up a proxy especially for The Pirate Bay at: http://www.br3in.nl/
If Dodd was investigated for this, the MPAA bribery faucet would be turned off.
Steve Jobs imitation with angel wings promotes a tablet in Taiwanese ad
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Unicode 6.1.0 released today
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Do people outside EU get 19% off from VAT?
> Of course the US pressured Sweden to prosecute a group harming its economy/trade interests.

Except that Hollywood is making more money than ever.

This is about cultural hegemony and economic gatekeepers. Please don't be deluded into thinking it's about law.
Having worked there, I can see that this is a very powerful move towards solidifying marketshare for then. They were drowning in complexity. Opening the API will allow them to acquire any small innovating startup at a fraction of the cost it would have taken them to develop inhouse.
Uh, what? Chrome has had this option for years and it's been in chrome://flags for far before that.
Most people outside these small confines aren't.

Not yet. That will change as soon as they deem it necessary. A lot of technical people are willing to explain to less technical people, and there are suddenly a lot of easy tutorials on how to circumvent the blocks.

Just like previous tries by Brein, the effectiveness of this won't last a day.
Do we own our Steam games?
From the initial post: "I'm hoping he will be soon"

A five year old can help by sitting on your lap and telling you about dinosaurs...but you will have to ignore the computer and pay attention to him.

The best parenting advice I ever got was, "You will never regret taking your child fishing."

Good luck.
I agree, in every calculation I make, cloud seems to be too expensive for me.
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I'm not into all that panic about leaving Flickr, but for some other reason I've recently made http://zalew.net/2012/01/11/django-flickr/ to sync Flickr into a Django app. It doesn't download the actual files yet so I was going to somehow implement parts of the Python script you mention to let it work as a backup tool too (unless somebody forks me and does it earlier <wink wink>).
It's a promo offer, they will only offer a limited number of them, and in few months introduce a better one.

Also I've been given faulty hardware at Hetzner and the support was quite ass-hatty. I said fuck it, replace the drive and reflash the OS, but they no, the RAID must rebuild. At the end of day, MySQL was still crashing under a heavy load, but that could have been software problem, not sure if I can blame Hetzner. What I didn't like, if you open the contract eg on 15th, then cancel a month ahead, eg on 10th, they will still bill you till the end of the month, 15 more days. They're still one of the best non cloud hosts though.

edit: now I remember - they actually insisted on the faulty drive (that I reported based on mdstat logs) to be hardware-checked in the machine while the machine is offline. Mind you, this drive was faulty from the get go.
The email goes to that address at that other domain
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That might work for established artists like Pearl Jam, but consider Pearl Jam in the early 90s.

They made enough money to retire off their first album. Under the kickstarter model, they wouldn't have been able to earn anywhere near that much money as no one had heard of them outside of Seattle before their first album release.
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Yeah, it's been in there since at least Chome 12. I've been using Click to Play for as long as I can remember.
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Yes. Some domains have DNS records. That is correct.
Microsoft Dogfooding Skype Beta For Windows Phone
Everyone could be making use of a full-fledged Skype app for Windows Phone sooner than expected; because we’ve just been tipped off that Microsoft is planning to release a Skype Beta app sometime soon.

Microsoft employees have just been notified that a Beta version of the app for Windows Phone will be landing shortly and in the coming weeks invitations will be passed on for testing purposes; Microsoft effectively starting dogfooding Skype Beta for Windows Phone.
Isn't that pretty much what Tor is?
I don't think it's possible to file for personal bankruptcy in Sweden, or at least I think that doing this doesn't cause the debt to disappear. (Norwegian here). Are there any Swedes who can clarify this?
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There is the freenet project (https://freenetproject.org/) which is a distributed data store.
We have been transitioning from the "big Rails app" model to "many small [whatever] apps". Usually, "whatever" is Sinatra.

A new project, instead of being one monolithic Rails app, is a small frontend communicating with 20-odd small micro-services, each service with its own data backend tailored to its use case.

What I like about the Sinatra model is that creating an app feels less like a "Sinatra app" than a "Ruby app" which happens to use a bunch of libraries that together make up a web stack. With Rails it feels like you live inside a big, elusive container that is in control at all times. In other words, you are in control; you mount your Rack classes and build your stack from scratch.

Doing it this way doesn't mean we don't reap the benefits of the Rails universe. We use ActiveRecord, ActiveSupport, HAML, SASS, Sprockets, Compass, Unicorn, etc. -- pretty much the same range of technologies we would use with Rails. But we are less constrained about what we choose (or reject), and we don't have to be compatible with whatever convention Rails imposes at the moment.
You might like to check out my Labradoc site which is designed to make it easier to create project/dev logs: http://labradoc.com/

Here's an example of a project log for a current project I'm working on: http://www.labradoc.com/i/follower/p/notes-qualcomm-apq8060-...

My style is more verbose than Carmack's but Labradoc can be used with either approach.
Tor does not distribute sites. You can have hidden services, but they're still hosted at one server (or, at most the sites that have the private key), which are hard to trace but can be taken down when found.

I think gp is talking about something more like a content-addressable distributed filesystem. TAHOE/LAFS (https://tahoe-lafs.org/) comes to mind.
They do not give away content, from their press release:
"* Bloomberg is offering its programming interface (BLPAPI) under a free-use agreement. This does not apply to any content."
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Supposing one law or another was passed giving the US govt the power to block offending domains, if push came to shove couldn't the US government ultimately block any domain anywhere via control over the .NET TLD of ROOT-SERVERS.NET and GTLD-SERVERS.NET? e.g. punish/block any nameserver allowing thepiratebay.se to resolve to it's real IP
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Also check out: http://jszip.stuartk.co.uk/

I used it a week ago for a simple project (a kinda secure file system - with PHP and MongoDB for backend). I would encrypt a file on my server (AES) and then send the encrypted data to user's browser. Then I could decrypt the data with JavaScript and used JSZip to make user's browser download the decrypted files.
Hate to say it, but that WH petition site is just bread and circuses.

Has any petition there led to an actionable response from the WH? Curious.
As far as I understand it, Freenet is exactly that. Participants offer a part of their harddrive as storage for the network, and content is distributed in an encrypted manner. Websites and other services can be (and are) build on top of this network.
I just saw one of these threads with 10+ comments. Where did it go?
I did yes... and even without asking them... it was like SOP
Copied from Noah's comment on the post (I asked him first):

"We do track open rates for emails that are already HTML formatted and making remote requests for images, but you’ll never get 100% accuracy with that metric because many people use plain text emails or don’t load images. Our experience is that the best you’ll ever see is between 60-70% “open” rate because of this. Some of our applications in some contexts only send plain text emails as well, so we don’t track open rate there at all.

Why is remote server acceptance rate important anyway? Some thoughts:

1) First, because hard bounces really do happen a lot, and at our scale, a 1% difference in hard bounce rate means 160k messages per week that aren’t making it to users, which means a poor experience for many and many support requests coming in to us. Based on all the information we’ve been able to find, we’re pretty sure a 0.7% hard bounce rate at our scale is pretty good.

2) Second, because it is a relative metric of overall deliverability. Our experience has been that when we do get on a blacklist, servers start hard bouncing our mail until we get off of it. As we’ve improved our SpamAssassin type scores over the last few years, we’ve seen an improvement in hard bounce rate. We also see a strong correlation between hard bounce rate and the number of email delivery related support requests we get. While it’s not the perfect measure, it’s the best measure we have available that we can reliably monitor.

Again, there’s no perfect way that I know of to reliably tell whether an email is getting to a user, since read status isn’t particularly accurate. We use whatever we can (hard bounce rate, open rate, number of support requests relating to email) to get as close to that as we can."
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How is this better than standard architectural programming techniques?
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The cost of what, IQFeed? For IQFeed it's a fixed amount per month. I have no idea on Bloomberg.
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