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I was waiting for this retarded piece of legislation to rear its head again.

Those who wish to circumvent it will do, easily & by far more insidious means, meanwhile the rest of us who just want google analytics have tough choices to make.

Hopefully x-do-not-track will gain momentum instead, that will at least save the honest website owners some work & leave the nefarious ones to do whatever they wish like present.
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From a commercial/competitive point of view, wouldn't an incumbent like SpaceX be better off building an exclusive launch site? Use it as a barrier to entry for competitors.

I agree with both your points though.
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Because obeying the (spirit of) the law is so incredibly onerous?
Facebook have given back plenty of open source to the dev community. Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others.
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While a neat solution, I feel this is going the wrong way with things. One of the primary reasons to use the cloud is to get away from SPoF. This solution is simply putting lots of sites on a single instance, which is fine, but how does the port translation work across multiple instances? We ran into this problem recently while architecting a solution for our customers and we ended up using multiple ELB's to point to multiple EC2 instances. Sure at $20/mo its probably a slightly more expensive route, but it solved all the benefits of what is being promoted here. For those that don't realize ELB's can act as SSL endpoints. I believe RackSpace allows a similar such thing. It also means that no complex port/ssl configuration occurs on the web servers, they are actually much easier to deal.
Discussion from yesterday's submimssion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850935

tptacek's detailed summary:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3856526
"All the reviewers point out a key question mark hanging over Windows 8: Developer support."

Of all the things Microsoft does, the one it clearly does better than Apple or Google is support developers. And all that support helps facilitate what is almost certainly the largest development community among them.

Metro turns every corporate developer into a potential mobile developer. I doubt adoption by developers will be the issue.
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Ah, found the difference. That 150 liters/day for Boston is classified as 'residential use', whereas the Melbourne figure is for all uses. The Boston figure doesn't include industrial use.
Anyone seen any router speed metrics for this? They are absent in the article, and I can't tell if that's just Wired or whether OpenFlow is still not fast enough.
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Also if was genetics that explains how "men are smarter than women and hence that's why men earn more than women", then you'd have to explain why there has not been a lot of genetic change in the last 100 years, but women are now earning much much more than they were 100 years now. (One of the answers is because of institutional misogyny which artificially kept women earning less than their ability. Since that has reduced in scope, women are earning more. So how do you know it's not institutional misogyny now?)
What data are you basing this off of? Have you ever tried selling products at significantly different prices and measuring revenue/profit? I have-as one example, I've sold the same PDFs at $.99, $9.99, and $49.99. The $.99 and $9.99 price points got about the same revenue, with $9.99 getting much higher profit due to transaction costs. But $49.99 got much, much more revenue and profit than either of the lower-priced options. And I've seen this over and over again, with a variety of products.
The two do overlap though - some large hedge funds do become market makers in the legal sense on particular exchanges.
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Unlike Elastic IPs, Brightbox Cloud IPs can be mapped directly to load balancers, so you can avoid the SPoF that way (load balancers are highly-available, across zones): http://brightbox.com/#load_balancers

But we also have some other upcoming features for Cloud IPs that address this in another way :)
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As soon as anyone says "Ceefax" or "Teletext" I think of Bamboozle. I'm glad to see I'm not alone and there's even a wikipedia page about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboozle

Not mentioned there, but there was one geek aspect of Bamboozle that I remember. Given that a wrong answer would (at the time I played) send you back to the beginning, it was tempting to try and note down the three-digit page number of the question, to cheat and skip back to the latest question. But the use of the 4 coloured buttons meant that the questions could use page numbers with hex letters in them - e.g. 34F - rendering them impossible to type in with a remote control. Sneaky, but it was a source of pride when I had figured out not only that they used letters, but why they used only A-F.

Also, Bamboozle inspired me to waste many hours making drawings on my (even by then) old BBC Model B's Mode 7 graphics.
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Right, but you're making a completely false dichotomy ...

Actually, the problem you described as nothing to do with what the OP mentions. You might even have a bigger chance to attract those profiles with an ad that specifically targets a language than by being broader.

So, yes, of course, if you call yourself a senior programmer in something, you should actually know the technology, but once again, it's not the point of the OP
It's not just IE/XP which is the problem, library support for SNI is still pretty poor, which is an issue if you're running REST services.
The cult of Jobs lives on. Ffs let the poor man rot in his grave already.
What's stopping you doing that now in your free time?
> As part of the program NASA has invested $381 million in SpaceX. Musk didn’t give a specific number, but he estimated the SpaceX program has cost around $1 billion in total to date.

I didn't realize NASA had so much stake in SpaceX. Musk started it with ~$100M IIRC, though I thought he contributed much more since. A quick search didn't turn up the number I was looking for so I'll just monitor the posts here...
AFAIK, mod_php has been compatible with mpm_worker for many years now... it is only that there are a few PHP extensions that are incompatible, and people don't want to spend the time documenting which ones those are, so their default recommendation has always been "use mpm_prefork": if you actually care about your deployment you can just figure out whether your extensions are compatible.
Increase security/authentication as the risk factor increases based on context awareness. A number of vendors (notably CA), have been working hard to get this right. Essentially it requires a classification service that can derive context out of the content, and rate the level of risk and present the user with an additional authentication prompt (e.g.: 2-factor for exactly the scenarios you describe).
We need more information before we can give you a straight answer. For example, if the reason they're costing you more than you make is because they're using some resource you offered them, and you cut them, you're going to have a social problem on your hands. On the other hand, if it's because you offer a service for like 15 minutes a month and they're leaving it on 24/7, you can probably get away with metering.

Tell us more.
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There's a pretty important distinction between a government-provided service and the government's infringement of a (negative) right, especially when it comes to who gets to complain based on the amount of taxes they pay. The government doesn't pay money to not censor the internet.
> wonder how that would work

one possibility might be to have multiple students grade a students work, and final score then weighted by the 'judging-student's' score on the same topic ?
You could remote control a 737 with an iPad. This is just to make a flight simulator more engaging.
I don't understand what's the need to constraint these courses in X weeks duration when one of the advantages of this presentation is to allow self paced study. I started the PGM course and found it interesting but cannot spend +10 hours per week on it just to get an email certificate in the end. I can do Kahn academy classes anytime I want right? why in coursera do I have to pretend I'm taking a college class?
It's very hard for me not to read this as thrashing in a tar-pit. Even if everything he says is spot-on, I don't see a positive call-to-action here. If all this is supposed to be is someone in the know saying "don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining," that's one thing, and I can get behind that, in a way. What I can't get behind is the implicit call for technology not to be developed, or for new business models not to be tried.

The 20th century was a complete historical outlier in the support given to professional musicians, brought on by a confluence of technology that had a high barrier to entry but low barriers to distribution. That situation has now changed, and it's inevitable that there's going to be a squeeze.

One specific issue I do take with what he's saying comes here:

But what many of you forget is that IT IS MY CHOICE whether I choose
to give away my songs or sell them. IT IS MY CHOICE how and where to
distribute my songs. IT IS MY CHOICE to decide which websites get to
exploit my songs. Like it or not, the right to control one’s
intellectual property (like songs) is a constitutional right.

The first of those choices I have no disagreement with. That's just the nature of how he chooses to distribute his work in the first place. However, from then on, while he does have rights in the work, those rights are limited. I wonder what he'd say the proper length for a copyright term should be? As much as he conflates free software fans with software patent owners, I could easily conflate this part of his talk with the actions of the copyright lobby to extend copyright in perpetuity.
I've also done something similar on EC2, with two different load balancers both forwarding to the same instance, but to different ports. Of course then you could also just handle the SSL on the ELB level, but sometimes it's handy to pass it all the way to your web servers.
Depressingly, I've been told of this being used in production.
>I don't see a reason that "normal" investors would be at an arbitrage disadvantage if trading on an exchange that was discretized to, say, 100ms. Arbitrageurs would still have an incentive to keep the prices on the "slower" exchange in line with the "continuous" exchange's prices, trading at the discrete ticks to exploit price differences. So, price differences past an epsilon shouldn't persist for more than a few ticks, which is more than fast enough for most non-HFT investors, who don't typically make trading decisions with anything close to sub-second precision anyway.

Sure, but what you're missing is that the slow exchange's prices are always going to be worse. Not a lot worse - probably only a penny either way on some ticks, and zero on other ticks - but a little. So why would any investor with the choice ever choose to trade on the slow exchange rather than the continuous one?
Sometimes I get very unpopular for this, but I can't stop myself from saying "Java is the COBOL of the 21st century".
Just to chime in, I've been reading drafts of this steadily (I think I've seen one or more forms of nearly all of it by now), and it's outstanding. I think it should be especially good for intermediate Vim users, but even newer ones could get a lot out of it.
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> Few investors were interested in betting on a hardware startup, or dealing with the headaches that often come with manufacturing goods.

The statement above doesn't capture how much of a (relatively) recent development it is that hardware is not considered worthy of funding.

For perspective: 12 years ago A rounds were running $15-20M for hardware startups. B's were $30-40M.
This reminded me of Sergey Brin's Stanford page http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/
Walmart is not a monopoly (and even more not a monopoly by design that will never be anything else).
With 300+ buttons, I don't think it's a controller like your thinking of. So much as an interface you can attach your own buttons to.
> their actions feel balanced and neutral compared to any other player.

There are distinct business models at play here and that should be noted before arriving at a conclusion that Google is a benevolent corporate actor. The fact that Google (or any company for that matter) can dominate and observe traffic patterns and content should be a matter of concern to the democratically [in the contemporary sense] minded individuals.
For most people in the world, their only computing device, if they have one, will be a mobile one. By requiring a desktop to develop apps and/or connectivity to the internet Google's and Apple's development ecosystems hit roadblocks in many parts of the world.

The vision of mobile devices as first class computers is, in my opinion, what sold Nokia on Windows Phone. Microsoft's approach scales to places with less money and infrastructure in a way in which their primary competitors are unwilling or struggling to match.

Killer apps can and will come out of less developed regions. It's just a matter of time.
Both companies have reputations to preserve. Oracle is just preserving theirs.
We reach a point of dimishing returns really quickly just talking about situations. I can share experiences and what I think I know, but at the end of the day this isn't about going off and following some author, speaker, or book. It's figuring out what works in your particular situation.

The cool part about Agile is that it's not Scrum, ie, there is no certification authority or magic recipe. It's just a bunch of schmucks sharing what worked or didn't work.

I shy away from answers like "it's all Scrum" or "It's all Kanban" for just that reason -- too facile. In a 15-project program, you usually have several groups going strictly Kanban. Enterprise architecture is one (if you have that) and program release is another. These things don't have to sync up, they just need to be ready. So even my advice about using sprints isn't absolute. Advice in this area is a lot of generalizations. You get what you pay for!

If you have any experience with these larger structures, I'd love to hear about it. I'm always collecting tidbits like that. Thanks for the chat!
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I'm not sure. My guess is that the lauch site is not biggest entry barrier, I think that's more the development and construction of the rockets and stuff. And the biggest customers in the western worlds like the NASA and the US military have there own sites, I guess they allow SpaceX competitors to use them too.

Again, I'm no expert on that, so please feel free to add some expertise!
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With insufficient trades, you cannot know if a certain price is really what the 'market' wants to pay, just what that one person at one point in time wanted to pay. Overgeneralized, the more trades, the more accurate the price gets.
Who said anything about "without board approval"?
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> don't quote me, but a nearly free Android handset in Nigeria?

It's so horrible to say it, but someone has to. Not until Android 4.1.9.
I'm not saying different rules are necessary, just that it's interesting how abstract the whole concept is. I think about stock like how it was explained to me a long time ago, in very simple terms: Bob runs a restaurant worth $9000, and he needs $1000 more to buy a new oven. 10 of his friends lend him $100 each, in exchange for 1% ownership of the restaurant. Now with the new oven, Bob can bring in more money and he shares 10% of that with his ten friends.

Now we have this gigantic hurricane of integers that we call the stock market, and people make millions by running complex programs that find numbers that are slightly bigger than other numbers, and then run some code. An electrical signal is sent across the country, and in a database somewhere, transistors that represent somebody's bank account are changed into a different configuration. Everyone is sitting behind a desk, or standing at a terminal, pushing buttons. Based on what pattern of colors the screen flashes, people's lives are ruined or made.
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Can you elaborate on a few things? You say that UUID version 1 was designed for an outdated purpose. What do you mean by that? UUID V1 does sort by time, so I'm not sure where the outdated purpose is relevant to that consideration.

You say you cannot allow the number of bits a UUID spans. Is that a hard constraint, or is that an intuitive desire? in my experience limiting the number of bits is usually to fit on a single machine or in limited memory. However designing a distributed id system is all about scale and minimizing complexity from my point of view.

When you start to scale out to dozens of machines, the weight of these complex methods really starts to become evident.

I resisted UUID's for a long time, but I finally gave in, and you know what? It's one of the best decisions I've ever made. The design simplicity with v1UUID's is amazing. With the simple_uuid ruby gem I can generate 40kish UUID's per machine on a modest ec2 instance. Using NTP our clock drift is in the 10s of microseconds range IIRC. Using Cassandra and Hadoop we don't have to worry as much about fitting into a single machine. The overall improvements have been staggering though. The simplest and most important benefit is none of the services have to read or request information before generating an ID. Now it's generate an id, send the event on it's way, next. I'll leave it as an exercise for the interested reader to map out the synchronization process for generating unique id's without locking across multiple threads and multiple machines.

tl;dr Just use version 1 UUID's and NTP.
Edit: I was wrong here, see the reply below.

No, the inventors don't have the right to license the patents to whomever is being sued. The twitter agreement gives all rights in the patent to the assignee, just like any other assignment, but it adds on the clause that the assignee agrees to get permission from the inventor if they want to sue offensively with the patent. In the future, if the assignee (whoever it is at that time) decides to sue offensively without the permission of the inventor, the assignee can (and indeed they have the right to). The inventor would then have a cause of action for breach of contract against the assignee, but who knows what that would amount to.
I don't think NASA holds shares in SpaceX - the word "invested" is wrong here.

I think what the article meant to say is NASA has awarded SpaceX $381m in contracts and development awards (through the COTS and CCDev programs).
Reading Fred's story, maybe we should re-examine whether patents are transferable like other assets. Maybe some modification that says the original inventor gets a 20-year monopoly, but any assigned parties only get a 5-year monopoly from file date. That would greatly reduce the incentive to buy other companies' patents, and thereby reduce the overall value of a company's patent "portfolio, while at the same time protecting the original inventor's rights.
I don't agree.

If you build a really great web based product you don't need to do any single SEO activity to get strong traffic. No white or black hat or anything needed. People will come anyway.

It's all about the product. If it's good people will tell and Google will notice. And Google is so smart that every crappy site powered by 100,000 system generated backlinks blasts will stay inferior.
Looks like semicolons had their run and it's time for something else.
There are a lot of Kickstarter clones (or re-spins) starting up, as it is often said, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery :)
It's interesting that the "hacker" send out a mugged in Madrid email. A friend in Nepal had his Yahoo account hacked last week with the same email sent out. I wonder how they targeted people or gained access since his wife was using Gmail and is (most likely?) in a western country and my friend is from Nepal. It doesn't seem like they would be using any of the same websites.
You've actually made my point for me. "Redirecting traffic and subtly punishing users" is far from a walled garden, and would lead to an instant backlash if detected.

As I said, they don't have the power to close the internet that you attribute to them. This has nothing to do with their culture, however great you might think it is.
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This is just rationalizing. The system as it exists today provides him with virtually no rights over his work. Also, what right is more reasonable for a creator to claim than the right to price and market their work on their terms? This whole message board is full of people who post "Show HN" stories about their random weekend projects priced at $9.99/mo.
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I really wonder if there's any favor factor in this deal. The deal is too good to be true.
Are you in the UK?

There are significant financial implications to dropping out; especially if you might ever want to go to university again.

You'll also need to explain the gap to potential employers, but I guess some solid freelancing would be okay on your CV.

I suggest you start talking to people at your University and explain the problems you're having. They should be able to provide some help.

There's not much you can do about hating it. But there are things you can do about revision. There are many different systems for revision and note-taking.

Cornell Notes: (http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html)

Study Skills: (http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/study.html)

Doing something you don't enjoy shows employers that you have the ability to grind through unpleasant experiences. It prepares you for work - sometimes jobs are great, but often there are irritants.

How many hours are you doing at Uni? Now include the extra hours you spend at home / library. Now include some free time for social activity. Now include some time for paid work. Do you have 15 - 30 minutes left per day? That's time that can be used for learning Javascript, PHP, and Ruby.

In my opinion discipline is a learned skill. It's a good idea to learn it early, if at all possible.

Having said all this, if university is actively making you miserable, and you think you're at risk of depression, then you need to get better advice. You could defer, or you could drop out.

And please, don't think that dropping out is bad. It's certainly a valid choice.

Good Luck!
I follow your logic. I agree.

What concrete action would you suggest to make the internet more democratic?