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Fast, cheap, scalable: pick two.

The fastest, easiest, arguably most reliable way to scale is throwing money at it. And apparently it's easier to hire good people who know 20-year old tech rather than 3-year old.
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Patents are like the toxic waste of innovation. You promise yourself to keep them safely contained, but its hard to do in the real world and once they spill, they contaminate everything around them, making the ground uninhabitable for 20 odd years.
Canadian here -- a non-American perspective: your President has no cojones. If he had a pair, the TSA is one of the things he could have easily remedied, or better controlled.
On this topic, an interesting paper from 1994 on adding randomization to network trafﬁc sources:

http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/sync_94.pdf
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tmux is something that I've been meaning to take a look at. It's hard once something gets muscle-memoried in though, you know what I mean?
> I think I need to read a bit about economics in general.

Be careful: a lot of purveyors of "economics knowledge" on the web are trying to sell you an ideology along with it.

This is fairly neutral: http://www.introecon.com/

A good author is Tim Harford, who has some "popularized" economics books that are, once again, reasonably neutral.

In particular "The Undercover Economist" and "The Logic of Life".
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Mseebach was insulting your words, based on their content.

You were insulting people, based on their jobs.

And now you're attacking mseebach. In truth you don't sound very repentant.
Complicated code that isn't easy to maintain isn't smart, it's just complicated. One thing people screw up a lot is implementing some design pattern in a way that ends up shotgunning configuration or business logic over a wide area instead of keeping it in one location and using DRY.
This is similar in spirit to the Google APIs Discovery Service, an API to describe recent Google APIs. http://code.google.com/apis/discovery/v1/using.html

This is used to power the APIs Explorer, and code/documentation generation for client libraries:

* APIs Explorer: https://code.google.com/apis/explorer

* JavaDoc for the generated Java library for Calendar API: http://javadoc.google-api-java-client.googlecode.com/hg/apis...

* PyDoc for the Python library: http://api-python-client-doc.appspot.com/calendar/v3
I spoke with some people at ning early on (2006? 2007?) and had suggested that they offer a version catering to families. That was met with some lukewarm reception, but I'd thought 'social networks for families going to be big!'.

And people keep trying. One aspect that seems to never get brought up is divorced families. Many may not want people on one side of the family or the other to be seeing certain pics or talking to others. Having statuses read by person X mentioning person Y may not be the best thing to do.

So... introduce privacy controls? It's confusing enough for most people just to enforce a couple of rules. Trying to codify the weird world of divorce families' feelings in to a web interface will be problematic. Sure, people can just 'get over it' and 'grow up', or they can be told to, but it's not always so easy.
First, I would note that they upped that limit when asked to. Second, you don't think they get totally careless when they have no limits on direct deletion? I have seen that carelessness. But I've also actually read through many of the mass DMCA notices that have been made public. For example, that one where someone took down the TD article on SOPA. It wasn't even hard for me to find the links that didn't belong just by skimming through the notice[1]. Or some in the Viacom v. YouTube case, where Viacom found out several times that it was taking down files it had, itself, put up. And this after Viacom's expensive lawyers were supposedly finished going over everything with a fine-toothed comb.

Lastly, you might want to reread Sony Betamax, particularly the part about how a service capable of substantial non-infringing uses can be legal even when they know it is often used for infringement. Sure, you're probably not aware of those non-infringing uses because those people kept their files relatively private, rather than distributing them to all and sundry, but ignorance cannot be made into much of an argument. You seem to think of it as a "pirate site" and I doubt I can change your mind, no matter how many non-infringing users I could find. It's a hard point to make when the infringing uses were necessarily public and the non-infringing uses were almost all private.

Yes, I am aware that you could come back with better arguments than the statements you've made upthread that argue directly against Betamax, but I'll let you make your own. You're also entitled to think that Betamax was a bad ruling, if you like, but if that's the case I'll simply have to disagree. After the long history of hyperbolic comments from industry leaders about how every new mass-distribution technology would kill the industry, I would not like to see a future without the Betamax ruling.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120223/15102217856/key-te...
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Your debconf-show just proves my point.

The most common use is "debconf-show packagename", which displays all items in
the debconf database owned by a given package, and their current values.
Questions that have been asked already are prefixed with an '*'.

True means link /bin/sh to dash.

Its awesome to get downvoted for being correct...
From internal emails within the Mega group, regarding rewards paid under their "Upload Rewards" program:

100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] 10+ Full popular DVD rips (split files), a few small porn movies, some software with keygenerators (warez)
...
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] Popular DVD rips
100 USD [USERNAME DELETED] Some older DVD rips + unknown (Italian series?) rar files
...

Again, under the DMCA, it is not enough to simply respond to takedown notices. To qualify for safe harbor immunity to copyright liability, you have to not be aware of any infringement on your site, and if you become aware of it, you must expediently remove that content from your site.

These clowns became aware of copyright infringement and then paid people for it. They're fucked. I have no idea why you think this linking issue matters.

You should read the indictment.
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I also tend to fear that my ideas might be stolen, but the truth is that anyone who is good enough to make something work generally has too many ideas on their plate to steal someone else's.

Brewster Kahle once told me his theory on stealth. He said there are two approaches:

1. Keep everything secret, and

2. Tell everyone, loudly.

He prefers the latter approach because it's more likely to scare off potential competitors, and you get the added bonus of learning faster from more feedback. As an introvert, I have to admit that left to my own inclinations I would take approach #1.

But all of my experience as an entrepreneur tells me that Brewster is entirely right, approach #2 is better

This quote always helps me remember this:

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
-Howard Aiken
I love that image. It's very hard for me to begin to comprehend the numbers involved.

See also "animated scale of the Universe" from NASA.

(http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html)
You're right, I was in a grouchy mood this morning.
I should have been nicer.

Sorry about that.
The relationship between Apple and Twitter seems very good to me, so I think the reason Apple doesn't use pull-to-refresh is that they want to be conservative in their UI rather than they are afraid of a patent lawsuit from Twitter.
Thank you for the encouragement. :) I'll remember what you said.
Ask YC: why does the application ask for Facebook id?
"For each founder, please list: ..personal url, github url, facebook id, twitter id;.."

How important is providing the facebook/twitter id? Is it ok if the facebook profile is mostly private/empty?
Fixed: Earth is the only known planet to have life.
The correct way to do that would have been to just release it without patenting it, no? He was the first one to do it, so his prior art would invalidate any future patents, and we'd all be free to use it without any fear.
Hey - thanks for the feedback. I think that you'd only need to take a look at something like LinkedIn to see that when a website taps into a different set of purpose and emotions, there's clearly a need for separation from other networks.

It's pretty clear (ask anyone <25) that Facebook doesn't work for families. And as loved ones move away and get on with the rest of their busy lives (catalogued with products like FB, LI, and now Path/Tumblr/etc), their family is left in the dust. They try to call and email, but it's not meaningful. Older relatives keep scraps of paper or address books with everyone's information - crossed-out phone numbers, outdated addresses to send christmas cards.

We noticed this huge gap in our personal lives after leaving for college a year or two ago. And we hope that FamilyLeaf will find the solution. Family is paramount.
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Cyberlocker services yes, but megaupload specically? When I've seen stuff like that used in actual communities it's been either stuff like dropbox links, MSN's one (SkyDrive, or LiveDrive, something like that?)

Never MegaUpload specifically.
He also had a much simpler take on it...

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

- Richard Feynman
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Same; my 6 mo quote was almost $1000 off. Even when I was a new customer under 25 with more traffic citations on record, its still 800+ off.
Just had the same idea. Downloading the full image now.
"The average ARPU for smartphones on AT&T's network is 1.9 times that of the company’s non-smartphone devices."

For an iPhone, the subsidy comes to less than $20/month in exchange for significantly more revenue per user. The carriers are making out like bandits and then claiming they are the victims.

I dislike[1] the US carriers and their absurd data plans as much as the next guy, but the above logic has always baffled me.

Everyone seems to confuse revenues and earnings when talking about smartphone subsidies.

The subsidy of $20/mo (as quoted above) is paid out of carrier earnings, while the phone ARPU gets added to their revenues. Assuming a generous profit margin of 40%, unless the additional ARPU, compared to non-smartphone devices, is greater than $50/mo (2.5x the subsidy), the carriers are not exactly making out. This is the case more so for iPhones, where I understand the subsidies are higher than other smartphones, but the ARPUs are equivalent.

[1] I'd prefer the model where the customer brings in an un-subsidized (smart)phone and pays lower on monthly plans.
It's kind of a weird way to describe it. The better way is that you want your caching to be probabilistic rather than deterministic. In general, you want to avoid anything that would get the nodes in a distributed system to harmonize.

The other way to solve the problem though would be to handle that circumstance cleanly. There are ways to resolve a thundering herd without creating a scalability problem.
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How about this: you operate a file locker service, and in an effort to encourage people to upload files that will be popular and serve as a magnet for ad revenue, you offer to pay people $1/1000 downloads if they join an affiliate program. Later, when reviewing affiliate payouts, you send an email to a coworker breaking down some of your top payouts, noting that you've paid (say) $100 to someone who uploaded "several popular DVD rips".

How do you think that one's going to play out in court?

Or, how about, you want to watch The Sopranos, or Seinfeld, so you send your team a blast email asking for links to those series on your locker site, since it surely must be there. Maybe you complain when the first links you find are in the wrong language. French, say.

How do you think that's going to go?

It is a mystery to me why copyfighters think that MegaUpload is a good case to make a stand on.
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When dash was installed debconf asked if you wanted to link /bin/dash to /bin/sh. You said no, others said yes...
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tmux keys all remap pretty nicely. The recent tmux book to come out is pretty decent as an intro primer to tmux, getting you going pretty quick
The thing that stands out in many of these stories are these three points:

* Accessible price point,
* Instantly usable to write code,
* a place to go when the capabilities ran out.

It is very challenging to reliably buy this today. When my daughter wanted a computer a gave her a VAX 4000/VLC, it had BASIC, C, FORTRAN, and COBOL installed and could run adventure. I got it for free from a junk pile.

I'm going to try and fix that.
[edited for formatting]
NO!

Edit: F--- NO!
That's ONC RPC. Not the only implementation. XDR is still used in places, though you're right that it isn't widely used.
I use Slimv with Clojure, and love it! You get most of the slime commands, like macroexpand and a REPL in a vim buffer, with doc lookup etc. It even comes packaged with paredit for Vim.

After the most recent bug fixes it has gotten a lot faster, so make sure you get the latest version from https://bitbucket.org/kovisoft/slimv/ - version 0.9.5 on vim.org still has a bug that causes it too slow down.
No, I think the problem here is that you haven't read the indictment. That automated process was the primary (and, according to emails subpoenaed in the investigation, apparently the only) means of issuing notices and takedowns. Schmitz at one point instructed an employee specifically not to honor takedown requests made outside that process.

"We have a funny business... modern days pirates", said one Mega- employee to another. "We're not pirates", he responded. "We're just providing shipping services to pirates."
cool. Clean design. Thanks for the share.
I spent a few years working for a P&C insurance company. The most valuable variable for determining the expected value of future claims (and therefore one which significantly impacts price) is one's credit score. That Leaky is quoting without knowing my credit score means that the rates provided can't be terribly accurate.
I wonder if there will be a "classic view" button like in the control panel on windows 7? Except instead of the ctrl panel view showing icons, it will make the start menu re appear like in windows XP for a random number of days, maybe a few weeks before switching itself back inexplicably to the hippie magic wand view.

Im seriously considering a Mac laptop as my next computer. If I'm going to have to completely relearn how to do absolutely everything in an operating system on every new release, it might as well be on a competing os.
Hey - cofounder here :)

So, my parents are divorced. And both re-married. I totally agree that it's weird to share photos of me and my half-brother from my mom's side with the entire family on my dad's side.

And right now, it's really easy to separate them on FamilyLeaf. You just create "a new family" for your distinct branches. I have my mom's, dad's, and stepdad's families all actively sharing - but most importantly, they're separate.

Divorced and fragmented families are deep in our DNA. Our solution right now is to have separate family groups that can share members, but we're open to thinking about different ways to fix this. It's something that's very important to me.

But it sounds like you've thought about this a bit. Please drop me a line at ajay[at]familyleaf[dot]com if you get a chance. Would love to discuss it!
Don't you have a keychain? There are some really small but sturdy flash drives that are 1/4th the area of the average key, of comparable depth.

And while you're at it, add a smartcard or yubikey to your keychain, and improve your security by not typing passwords....
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Apple does give away their products - they give them to production studios for TV shows and movies.

Why do you think almost every movie and show made over the last few years features a laptop with a glowing Apple on the back whenever a shot calls for someone to be using a computer?
We must eat really different pancakes cause I don't get it...
A nice extension of this is to use exponentially distributed delays. Then reoccurring events form poisson processes which are really easy to reason about when composed eg if you have N servers firing off events at the same exponentially distributed rate the times are distributed the same as if you had one server firing events at N x the rate and distributing jobs uniformly at random to the other servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_process
I really wish patents worked that way. Unfortunately, they don't.

If something is patented, then no one else can patent it -- that's pretty clear and the patent office enforces it fairly well. If something is "obvious" (to one of ordinary skill) or if something has already been done, then it SHOULD not be patentable... but it is quite common for such things to be patented anyway. To be fair, it is unreasonable for the patent office to know about every thing which has ever been done, but still these things get patented.

Once a patent is issued, there is a presumption by the courts that it is valid. You can contest this, and use prior art to invalidate the patent but it will require litigation and will be VERY EXPENSIVE. You can "use it without fear" as long as you don't mind paying a trivial $100,000 or more in litigation costs.

I would be very pleased if someone knowledgeable about the practice of patent law would write in to correct me -- I really wish it didn't work like this -- but from what I have seen I believe that there IS a real danger that things which have been "released" wind up patented later.
GCC represents a lot of technology for parsing/compiler/optimizing/handling platform differences/generating executable formats, and it does so in a fairly traditional fashion. Generally with software patents, what really exposes you is doing things more like everyone else does. Counter intuitive, but true.
What did the author mean by "Perhaps?"
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Unemployment is bad for your health, even if you have enough to eat.

Quality of life surveys in Germany, where the government-provided social net is rather tightly knitted compared to American standards, shows unemployed to have about as much joy as cancer patients.
Embedding this information into a physical card is the simplest way to guarantee uniqueness to control use.
Minecraft has redstone. It might not make much sense if you haven't played the game, but you can at least read about the parts here:

http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Redstone_Circuits

You can build any logic gate you want, with layout being the hard part (just like IRL...). You can build a computer in Minecraft if you want to. I believe that several people have [1].

To be honest, I think it's a great way to learn about electronics. I know what all the gates do from having taken EE classes, but Minecraft has made some of them a bit more intuitive. Maybe it's just because you can see the things being energized/de-energized, but it does help me think about the different gates/latches/etc. and their interactions.

[1] This is but a small sample of things that might be called computers that have been built in Minecraft:

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/30/working-16-bit-computer-bu...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB684ym3QY4

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/02/15/10-incredible-minecraft-cr...
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
A related technique is to use distinct prime numbers for periodicities in the first place:

http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/11/26/period-pain-3/

(http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/27/period-pain-part-...
http://www.stdlib.net/~colmmacc/2009/09/14/period-pain/ for the background material).

The reasons primes are optimal should be obvious :)
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One of the additional benefits of RDB is the fact for a given database size, the number of I/Os on the system is bound, whatever the activity on the database is. This is a property that most traditional database systems (and the Redis other persistence, the AOF) do not have.

Can you expand on this? Specifically:

-Do you mean 'bound' as in 'limited by' or 'known'?

-Why are RDB snapshots I/O bound when other systems are not?

-Why is this an advantage?
He probably either used Creative Mode (unlimited stuff), peaceful difficulty (no enemies) + a superflat world (don't have to mine things out of your way) or mcedit, which lets you edit map files out-of-game and place whole sections of stuff based on schematics.
And the alternative winner take all the small party has 0 say. Or I should say, the people have no say. No matter which party we vote for, they are all just different sides of the same coin.
I try as hard as I can to turn even aspiring compiler writers away from the Dragon Book. You don't need a the theoretic underpinnings of 5 types of parsing to write a compiler, and I doubt anyone could use the Dragon Book to actually write a compiler.

I give an emphatic thumbs up to "Engineering a Compiler" (Cooper/Torczon) and also to the Appel books. They are fantastic, readable and digestable, and actually help get a compiler written.
Thinking more generally than just insurance, there are a lot of things I buy on a recurring basis which, if I just allow my current providers to have their way with me, tend to get more and more expensive over time. Lawn weed control/fertilizing is the example which comes immediately to mind. I'd love to set-up a profile of my lawn with a site which would then allow providers to quote me prices for services semi-continuously. This would keep my current provider in check.
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You could probably easily buy a computer with Linux on it today from Ebay for around $100. Installing Linux means you have a wealth of ways to instantly write code (gcc, g++, ruby, python, php, perl, and a browser where you can write Javascript) and there are plenty of places to go when it's capabilities run out.

I think it's even easier to buy all of this today.

Or, have I totally misunderstood what you've said?
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Every comment ought to be a file in a git repo, so that we can send pull requests.
Sucks. I wonder if AMD wrote that later, after Microsoft had made up their own and were dependent on it. Dave Cutler was involved in amd64 really early in the process of Clawhammer (mainly because he hates Intel with a passion!)