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How does hand shuffling six decks in the shoe give the player an edge compared to the normal machine shuffling of the same six decks ?
I didnt't downvote, but you might be drawing a too rosy picture of the software industry. There are a fleet of travelling salesman paying for dinners and giving away luxury goods . You'll see microsoft throwing big monney around to have it's products adopted. You'll see big industry contractors playing all the dirty games to get to sit at the same table as a big potential client.

It's plenty corrupt when you look at the big fishes, just not as much as the pharmatical industry (yet).
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Honest question: Which law or code does it violate?

It's not like he's refusing to hire people of color or Vietnam veterans or even transsexuals. (Edit: I realize it might sound strange, but there's a legal basis behind that ordering it's not just my preferences :-)

He's refusing to hire certain resume' histories arguing that it is professionally relevant.
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Paid online "fan clubs" + Sexy Lady + Playboy quote = self-serve porn hosting.

If that's your plan you will probably have to rely on bootstrapping or non-startup investors. VCs don't invest in porn or largely porn-related businesses generally.

And if that's not your plan I would generally think the idea is unlikely to work. Paid non-porn fan clubs seems like an exceedingly small niche (in the US). I doubt I know anyone who has a paid subscription to anything like this.
This release brings some really great features to the table. Here are some things that affect me directly:

- Lots and lots of improvements to the admin app. Also, dropped support for IE6 in the admin ;)
- Better password hashing.
- A cookie-based session backend that uses cryptographic signing to store session data in the browser.
- A new form wizard. This is a big one for me since I needed something like this for one of my side projects.
- Improved WSGI support.
- Custom project and app templates.
- OMG OMG OMG timezone support. "When it's enabled, Django stores date and time information in UTC in the database, uses time-zone-aware datetime objects internally and translates them to the end user's time zone in templates and forms." You could always do this manually, but it's one of those things that should be handled by the framework.

Pretty nice stuff. Best part is, since I'm in very early stages of building a personal website using Django, I can start using this release right now.

PS: does anyone else think activity around Django has increased ever since Adrian started spending more time on it? (see http://www.holovaty.com/writing/back-to-django/)
In the interest of adding context, a "Smudge Attack" paper was presented at USENIX 2010 (Aviv et al. 2010), linking it for those interested. I only read security papers as a layman but I did enjoy this one.

Paper link:

http://static.usenix.org/event/woot10/tech/full_papers/Aviv....
> things break more frequently

Yes it might be more frequent, yet each time it is of a more limited scope since it concerns a single, maybe two packages. Following the news and maybe the forums helps a lot. Example regarding the scope: I upgraded some machines Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, and so much breakage occurred that the machines required such an extend of work that they simply were declared unrecoverable and reinstalled from scratch.

> use Debian Testing

In the months following a release, Debian testing essentially == Sid, and breakage is infamous.
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Yes, considering the size of their operation, the length of time they’ve been running, and the variety of instance types they offer, it would be really surprising to me if they didn’t have multiple generations.

Also, they don’t offer {4,8}XL cluster {compute,GPU} instances in Oregon. If their infrastructure were homogeneous, there would be no reason not to. (Well, other than that those instance types are probably likely to have less latency-sensitive applications.)

Clearly they run a pretty tight ship, but it doesn’t follow that something on the order of half a million machines all have exactly the same mount. And they could be 90% 1U-based (justifying the public statement) but, going by these figures, still have 45,000 non-1U servers.
I'd prefer to talk here, merely because I remember to check this, but I posted over there too.

The key to this experiment is not that it will be perfect, but that it will be more stable and more reliable overall -- there will still be problems, nothing is perfect -- all we want is better.

As for lynchings and other mob behavior, that can happen with police too. For example, see the rise of the Black Panthers in response to oakland california police abuse. And the subsequent introduction of gun legislation to strip the citizens of their defense against abusive police. Or, to godwin myself, look at the nazis. When it comes to mob violence the governments of the world surely outnumber private instances.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party#Origins

As for the philosophical underpinnings, there are quite a few good books:
Nozick's Anarchy State and Utopia lays out a framework, he makes some deductions that result in a monarchist state -- but that is in no way guaranteed from his premises.

David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom addresses this: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Machinery_of_Freed...

More on private defense agencies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_defense_agency

Here's Rothbard on self-defense http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/twelve.asp

Rothbard on private defense agencies - http://mises.org/rothbard/mes/chap13.asp

and finally Hoppe on the same issue: http://mises.org/journals/jls/14_1/14_1_2.pdf

I'll do my best to address any questions/objections/etc you may have :) None of these works are perfect, and these ideas are relatively recent and haven't been tried so who knows what would really happen :)

This is a fair amount of reading, but it's way more thorough than anything I can quickly type up :)
Its all about prioritizing. As much as the TSA may be a now, 30 minute inconvenience, there are so many more serious problems to solve. IMO it would be irresponsible of a candidate to position their political platform around improving the TSA which affects the avg american probably once or twice a year at most.

Meanwhile you have a struggling economy, attempts to ban scientific progress, shutting down the internet, inequality for minorities, the list goes on
This is worth the $3 just for the working search functionality and the ability to view your sent messages. The awesome UI is just a bonus.
Tiny swipable page indicator in the nav bar title: awesome.

Replacing swipe-to-delete on a message with back/pop: not so good.

It's really nicely done overall. Totally rethought from their desktop app.
I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" they want to do. From what I can tell, they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty similar to what Apple does for their push notifications.

However, allowing this would be a bad move. It'd mean that rather than once centralized connection that knows about the device's network state and can (at least try to) preserver battery life, you'd then have as many as one per each app, always open. (Once Sparrow does this, then why could any other app not?)

The real issue here is that, from their responses, it seems that Google doesn't have some sort of authentication method like that could be used to get access to just enough information to pass the push data to Apple — or, at least, not one (like OAuth) that doesn't need them to remotely store a username and password. If there was a way for them to get some sort of useless "token" to get the notifications themselves and pass them to Apple, I don't think the security issues would be anywhere near as severe (especially if it was an opt-in service). But I don't know if Google does that, and their responses don't seem encouraging that something like this would be possible.
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Dear Dropbox,

How I love thee, though I have some issues I would hope you can see.

I am a paying customer. I have used dropbox for a time, though now I have been using it on a team - but not as a paid team.

We are in a grey area - between really needing to pay for a much more expensive team account and being crippled by the free account.

Here is my issue: Matrixed relationships of shared folders.

If I, a paid user, have 50GB of space, and I create several folders, 1,2 & 3 - and I share them with unpaid users A, B, C, D, E, & F -- my paid space consumes their unpaid space.

So, if I share folder 1 with users A B and C who all have 2GB of space - and I add 3GB into that folder (I have 50 remember) it breaks their account (Sync stops).

I would request the following: ONLY folders that YOU share out/create should eat your quota.

I know this is not a simple request, or easy -- but I think that when one joins a folder I share, it should not affect their quota.

If this is not feasible, we need more options.

I am willing to pay, but the current model is half-broken.

How about letting me create a paid for share that is communal, which is outside my free 2GB.

So, we pay $20/month for 100GB - It is a space that is associated with multiple users. I still have my 2GB "personal" storage, but I have one shared folder that is 100GB that we all share.

the shared folder allows all users to place stuff in there, but it does not eat away at their local quota.

Let me have ~5 users on that $20/month share. Each additional user is ~$3 per month...

The spectrum as it stands doesn't quite fit. Can we come up with other options?

Thanks
He went in with $1M, odds of 50/50 and a 20% discount once the losses are over $0.5M. Lets assume for simplicity that all hands he plays are equal ($0.1M according to the article)

Because the discount kicks in at $0.5M of losses, he should plan to lose bets for $0.5M first. This is a setup.

Now he needs play to win the bets for remaining $0.5M he has.

Because the odds are 50/50, after a few rounds of playing with the $0.5M he has, he's going to have lost half the hands, and won half of them. While he gets 2x for his wins, he gives up only 0.8x for his losses.

Net = 2x - 0.8x = 1.2x. He just had to rinse and repeat with the $0.5M he was left with. Though I'm sure he brought in a lot more money once the $0.5M loss kicked in the discount.

Just note that this explanation is a simplification. 50/50 odds (technically 49.75/50.25 according to Johnson) have to be accompanied by an even performance on double-downs and splits.
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I posted yesterday but fell soon out of scope:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703456

I think it would be interesting to know if they are planning to design and make their own servers like Facebook: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/facebook_data_center...
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Copied from another thread where I talked about this issue:

I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" that Sparrow wants to do. From what I can tell, what they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty similar to what Apple does for their push notifications (including for Exchange).

However, Apple allowing this would be a bad move for the platform. It'd mean that rather than once centralized connection that knows about the device's network state and can (at least try to) preserve battery life or consolidate network usage, you'd then have as many as one per app, each always open, running code, and listening. (Once Sparrow does this, then why wouldn't any other app? It is much simpler to implement if allowed.)

The real issue here is that, from their responses, it seems that Google doesn't have some sort of authentication method like that could be used to get access to just enough information to pass the push data to Apple — or, at least, not one (like OAuth) that doesn't need them to remotely store a username and password. If there was a way for them to get some sort of useless "token" to get the notifications themselves and pass them to Apple, I don't think the security issues would be anywhere near as severe (especially if it was an opt-in service). But I don't know if Google does that, and their responses don't seem encouraging that something like this would be possible.
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1) DEC also had bumper years just before they failed. That's a common pattern, according to Christensen (and his empirical data), caused by the incumbents' retreat upmarket (away from the new threat) - where the margins are higher.

For Google, this is optimizing its advertising reach and effectiveness. I haven't checked trends, but I'm sure that over time higher margin goods have began advertising online, and the competition for ad ranking has increased, bidding up google's price (they worked that system out well).

Overturning everything, in order to match a competitor, is a sign of something. As facebook figures out how to use its data to sell to people, it can target advertising more effectively than google's approach can.

I think facebook is a threat because you can advertise better the more you know about your audience - google's been gathering personal data, but they aren't in the same league as facebook (and I get the impression they haven't exploited it as effectively as they could). i.e. it's not really a contest between two companies so much as between the approaches they champion. Of course, Google is trying to become a champion of social; so the second issue is whether google can beat facebook at its own game.

Christensen found that incumbents practically never win this. It's because they are not incumbents in this new approach - here, facebook has had years of experience in social, of the technology, of the needs of people, how to address them, what works, what doesn't, and an organizational structure with values shaped over time around improving those issues, and synchronized to the rhythms of that business - and of course, astonishing marketshare and mindshare. Google beating them is like some other company beating Google at search. It's really hard to do, because there are so many advantages that an incumbent can build up over time.

It's different for "sustaining" technologies (which support the same way of doing business, same market, same values) - incumbents almost always win those. For example, if a new way of doing search came along, totally different from PageRank, google would likely still win that: they have habits of customers and advertisers; they have engineers that are great at doing it; and their whole organization is naturally galvanised around any such technology. Everyone involved would be excited about this new technology, because that's what they were hired for. They would probably also try to buy the competitor, paying whatever it took (which wouldn't be that high, since they'd be on the lookout and would catch them early).

2) Thanks for your insight on costing those innovations. Unwillingness to adapt is bad sign (i.e. change infrastructure). It makes sense: google's infrastructure is great. Excellent technically, and a world-beater when applied to Google's way of making money. It might not be valuable for other approaches, other ways to make money in other markets, based on other values.
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Wow, this looks like a really good IMAP client for the phone. A major limitation of the built-in iOS Mail app is that it has no facility to combine sent/received mail into one conversation view (unlike Mail on the Mac).

Sparrow also features a nice polished UI, and is responsive.

3-minutes-of-use verdict: GOOD
If there was a way for them to get some sort of useless "token" to get the notifications themselves and pass them to Apple, I don't think the security issues would be anywhere near as severe (especially if it was an opt-in service).

Good point, that would be a much better solution. All they'd need is a web hook to let them know when there is new email for an account. They could use that to send a push notification with the correct badge count for unread messages.

That's what we should really be petitioning for.
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Bought it as soon as it was available. Their OSX app was one of the first I bought when switching to Mac.
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While your eyes may have found themselves eyeing the model and Playboy quote, that is by no means "our plan."

Anyone can have fans, as is represented by the 38,000,000 active fan pages on Facebook (34 million of which aren't businesses or brands). Unless there are 34 million porn stars looking for fan clubs, clearly our business wouldn't be solely based on sex.

Then again, I'm sure Tumblr thought the same thing... they're majority porn.

Thank you for your feedback though.
"is Udacity concentrating on short, relatively easy classes for mass appeal and Coursera concentrating on more difficult and rigorous classes?"

Absolutely, your inference hit the nail on the head. Coursera is trying to fill a gap. Very few people across the globe have access to high quality higher education.

Udacity on the other hand, though noble in in their cause, have considerably watered down lectures/assignments for greater accessibility. I can understand the watered down programming class for greater accessibility, since even limited knowledge of programming is something which can greatly empower people who had no knowledge of it before. But advanced classes like robotics are pointless if they don't go into depth of the topic.
I truly appreciate their caution in storing my personal information on their servers, but unfortunately it's just not practical to use until there is proper push. Hopefully Apple hears their pleas and allow it. This app looks gorgeous.
Maybe because many Americans understand that in this changed security environment, such kinds of check are necessary. America has been very successful in preventing a repeat of 9/11. Surely TSA deserves some credit for that?
I may be the only one thinking like this, but as an Indian, we live in constant fear of attacks. And I find these checks a necessity. Inconvenient, yes. Humiliating, perhaps. But surely necessary?
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google has an OAuth extension to IMAP for gmail https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/oauth_overvi...
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Correct, I'm talking about total reach because as adityar said, people have multiple subscriptions (as demonstrated by Facebook Pages with an average of 624 fans per page)
These guys are trying to be funny, but in fact they probably are just limiting their available pool of talent. It's not a big deal - they probably need just one person, so they'd find that person anyway. But it does look somewhat childish.
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ISTR Microsoft making satellite imagery available on the web long before Google did.

Can't remember the name of it now though. It seemed mostly like an embarrassingly parallel benchmark designed to make a success story for SQL server.

Here we go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research_Maps Microsoft Terraserver since June 1998.
> ...corporations try to make the most money, for their stakeholders, staying within those laws.

This is a pet peeve of mine. There's no fiduciary responsibility to make the most money in shortest period of time without regard for the future. In fact I would argue it's exactly the opposite.

Even if Yahoo wins $4 billion dollars they might lose more than that in harm to their reputation, boycotts, hiring problems, counter-suits, etc.

A reasonable person in their position might have reasoned that this lawsuit was a bad idea. Yes: it might make them some cash (which isn't their problem), but it also might hurt them in much more fundamental ways (which they can't afford).
Copied my response =)

If there was a way for them to get some sort of useless "token" to get the notifications themselves and pass them to Apple, I don't think the security issues would be anywhere near as severe (especially if it was an opt-in service).

Good point, that would be a much better solution. All they'd need is a web hook to let them know when there is new email for an account. They could use that to send a push notification with the correct badge count for unread messages.

That's what we should really be petitioning for.
math background and then studying robotics for a bit, where all we have are models of the reality, I now laugh at such comparisons.

Both Tau and Pi are models for mathematics that work- to argue which is true is nonsense. They are both correct but neither is true, or god-chosen. We made them up, folks!