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They have Azure to compete with AWS, and now they want to make a run at the Kindle. Investing in B&N right now actually seems pretty smart. B&N is in need of help, and for MSFT to start an eBook business from scratch would be very expensive. Microsoft offers more than just software. Just like Amazon sells the unused capacity of the servers running their own stores, Microsoft can do the reverse, using the unused capacity sold on Azure to host their own products. $300 million doesn't seem unreasonable for a company like Microsoft to become a major player in the eBook market. I'm actually very happy to see this. I don't want to see Amazon hold a monopoly on the eBook market.
What hubris: to caption Ben's aphorisms with lame approximations!
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Other recent guests have included Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen, whose recent movie focuses on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in Spain, and Jason Russell, creator of "Kony 2012," a viral video about the brutal Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony.

"I'm not sure any of these things would have occurred without a class of 3,000 people," says Mr. Boyer, a senior instructor. "I totally can now foresee that this time next year we're going to get Barack Obama in the classroom, if not live, via Skype.

It is a bit surpising that it has taken this long for such ideas about scaling in the classroom to really get mainstream attention. Population growth is an exponential function, so the sooner we can figure out how to efficiently adapt to the needs of large classes, the better.
Extremely easy to get around and doesn't accomplish anything.
I actually had Boyer for Geography of Wine - another popular class of his (never won the lottery to get into World Regions when I was there). He was definitely one of the few professors I had that through his personality and unique style was able to make learning something dry like memorizing different regions, styles, and attributes of wine an absolute blast. It is great to see him start to get a lot of recognition, I just wish I could be there in World Regions now.
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Okey, so let's just say that I'm testing in a way I haven't seen mentioned by anyone with regards to Backbone.js. The point is the execution, not the naming.

Btw, if anyone has been talking about / doing similar testing of Backbone.js, I would love to share some insights and ideas.
I see a google trend coming in the form of 'How to access piratebay in the UK?'
About half of these look to me as if they date from well after Franklin's lifetime.
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This is good news, I've been waiting for the MS supported version of Redis so I can play with it on a Windows box.

I wonder why they hosted on Github vs Codeplex. Codeplex supports Mercurial, Team Foundation Server or Subversion and Git.

Microsoft recently posted the source for _parts_ of ASP.NET (minus web forms) on codeplex.

(just curious, not trying to troll.)
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Great idea. FTIW I'm also writing a book on Rails Internals.
small correction:

bill.sound = function(noise) {
console.log( sound ); // should be console.log(noise)
}
Or VPN through a server located outside the UK.

As far as I know this is dealt with on a case-by-case basis (i.e. just these ISPs and just TPB) because it's a civil matter - the govt would need to make a new law to force all ISPs to block The Pirate Bay and similar websites.
This is the point I was getting at. Not that this style is bad or good (I think it is good) but that these aren't tests that span modules.

It is common practice (and a good one) to mock the server from the JS perspective as to isolate it, but I dont think this in itself gives it integration test status.
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I don't know if you have used Backbone.js, but these tests ensure that models, collection, views, templates, events and our business logic work properly together. It was difficult to show all that in a few small examples.
No, I like it as it is. Why would I neuter my language for your sake?
Sitting inside a research facility is not the same as exploration though.
It doesn't particularly concern me that this particular website is being blocked, as it's purpose is pretty obvious. Blocking it is laughably futile but it does send a clear message out.

What does concern me though is that this is a foot in the door for the government to block other websites they object to in the future.
The UK has also censored Wikipedia in the past.
http://blog.involver.com/2012/01/26/testing-backbone-js-best...
Every part of the music collection to be posted... except for the music. Oh, and the art.

{facepalm}

You know, if this record collection were to be shipped to a sane-copyright country, it could be digitized and posted online for the world to interact with. But the most likely trajectory of law in the UK is that it will never, ever, become legal to post this content online in the UK.
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Just an addendum to the Github numbers, I hadn't realized Adrian Holovaty had renamed the previous Github repository to django-old, replacing it with the brand new repository (with the SVN history, etc).

So if you look at django-old's numbers: https://github.com/django/django-old

Watchers: 4,030

Forks: 753

compared to Bitbucket's:

Followers: 266

Forks: 39

So the raw numbers are dramatically in Github's favour.
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Well what do we have here? A <sarcasm> tag. :)
Probably not, but it will make it more difficult for users that aren't tech-savy.

(I know that was sarcasm btw)
Five ISPs - Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media.

Sixth ISP, British Telecom, has requested a few more weeks to further consider its position and the claimant, BPI has agreed.

However, since these ISP, in particular Virgin Media, cover by far the largest broadband users in the UK, for most intents and purposes this affects the whole UK.
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My point isn't that there's something intrinsic to Java that leads to nightmarish codebases, but there must be something associated with the Java brand name that leads to it. I haven't seen such a large percentage of this lack of skill affiliated with any other language (granted, I haven't spent much time working with, e.g., VB or PHP codebases).

I don't know what it is about Java that seems to encourage the mess, but there is something.
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Isn't Raspberry Pi also pretty much a proprietary design? Certainly the Broadcom chipset they use isn't available to the general public, nor is information about the chipset available without an NDA.
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I don't believe so. Most people I know use Google for their torrent searches.

Googling "britney spears torrent" is just going to bring up a different torrent site than tpb.

The clear solution is for UK ISPs to ban Google.
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Or even better: use both unit/integration tests of the code itself and browser-based tests like selenium/capybara.
Within minutes of any major ISP implementing a "block" a few thousand people will post on facebook/twitter/blogs and websites links to the plethora of proxies/TOR tunnels/Open DNS settings and VPN's that will instantly negate any ISP level "block" (sarcastic quotes intentional).

This will cost british ISP's hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds to implement and manage, and will at best only delay any would-be knock-off-nigel 30 seconds or so while he learns about proxies et. al. and configures a browser.

Security theatre at its worst...THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!
Canada has a similar request for information provision in its Act. (1) Though its an outdated process that requires the submitter to print and mail by post, it may produce the same results.

NB: A 2011 study of like countries placed Canada "dead last" in terms of freedom-of-information laws. (2)

(1) http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbsf-fsct/350-57-eng.asp

(2) http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/918732--study-ran...
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One can argue that The Pirate Bay just facilitates copyright violation, It never violates any one's copyright. In fact lot of artist's are publishing content through The Pirate Bay.
That is for what is essentially a 2D chip surface. Certainly layering chips has not been a viable option so far but look at the various "nano" machines that have been in science news, today a micron-sized modle truck, perhaps the next/next gen chips will have fractal surfaces that extend/configure/grow dynamically.
> latency after connection, presumably to load table definitions and other data for display

You are correct. Particularly to have auto-completion on table names in the SQL editor, highlighting primary key columns, etc.

(1) I understand that psql can be quicker in experienced hands. For me, particularly having to type out chinese characters for table names (I am not a native speaker of the language) is really difficult. pgXplorer eases some of that pain by auto-completing. So, in this specific case of mine, it is a bit quicker.

> Another thing which I would find enticing would be special attention to displaying query plans.

I presume you know about http://explain.depesz.com/? Very useful and open source too. I will be trying to add something similar in pgXplorer as well.

Thanks a lot for the helpful offer. I will certainly connect by email to discuss some related things to the project.

Edits: (1)
Array is good enough data structure for most uses, and

Yeah, but in C you end up creating your own data structures from scratch every time.

is not true.
Do away with your heat dissipation problem by going to reversible computing, and you aren't restricted to surface atoms anymore.

The black hole argument goes way beyond that, though. It's the ultimate physical limit of the universe, rather than what's potentially practical or imaginable. Even a computer built of neutronium might not reach that limit.
Beware of articles about articles, you mean.
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Really? Link?
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The ruling is mostly full of shit:

Sites like The Pirate Bay destroy jobs in the UK and undermine investment in new British artists

I'd like to see evidence to back this up, innocent until proven guilty and all.

The Pirate Bay infringes copyright on a massive scale

No, it doesn't. TPB doesn't provide any content at all. Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.

Its operators line their pockets by commercially exploiting music and other creative works

According to wikipedia, TPB earnings in 2006 were $102,035.05 US, and expenses in 2009 were $112,590.40 US (couldn't find data for the same year) but they can't be making a huge amount of profit on those margins.

But the thing that really gets me is our government giving itself power to censor the internet.
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Censorship is a bit like taxation: knowledgeable people will tend to find ways around it, but they are not the majority. As long as the majority complies, the politicians won't be too bothered. Similar with the BPI (and vested interests in the US). All they want to do is weaken file-sharing networks by stopping PCs becoming nodes on them, to remove their critical mass.
Presumably this is the English & Welsh High Court - not sure if this would apply in Scotland and Northern Ireland?
Bitcasa says they have a patented algorithm with both client side encryption and de-duplication. Here's related Quora: http://www.quora.com/Bitcasa/How-can-Bitcasa-possibly-achiev...
Really enjoyed this video, one tip I could offer though is to setup snippets for HTML when creating divs. Speeds up development time a lot when you just have to write div+tab and then add your class/id.
Educated/uneducated may not be the right terms, but it is possible to have hindsight just by understanding the landscape.

Privacy is becoming a large problem in the internet and encryption will likely be part of the solution. Without encryption, the ownership of data is on the service provider instead of the person.

Privacy is a feature just like free storage. One day, privacy can be available to the masses just like storage is today. (also think back how many people actually wanted or needed multiple gb of free storage for their emails until one was provided by a service like gmail)
They are trying to garner good will from the community, it's only logical that they choose whatever is most popular right now.
Nice! I always prefer the written word. When is this being released?
Cookie law renders 95% of EU websites illegal [video]
Personally, I'm actually more excited about this than the Raspberry Pi. Yes it consumes more power and is basically just a small PC, but that's actually what I'm more interested in for pc-tv development. The fact that it could run Windows too is actually a plus.
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You jest, but there are a lot of similarities

Of course, YC doesn't profit from very bad contestants, so there's one difference

But if you see the progression of the candidates through the competition you can certainly draw several parallels.

YC doesn't have a 'clear cut' winner as AI, still you know that there is a slight mismatch between 'winning the competition' and be 'market successful'. One rarely matches the other.

And of course, the issues of focus, strategy, pressure are very similar among AI and YC. Some contestants start shining early on in the competition, some have perfect technique, but in the end, it only goes so far if it isn't a balance of competences.
Agreed - I usually hit SO in the morning to keep fresh on problems and solutions. It's part of my daily reading.
Next up: ban Google (including its torrentable Custom Search Engine), Bing and all other search engines listing torrents? Or just ban all search engines except those sanctioned by BPI/MPAA etc.?

The irony is that at this point The Pirate Bay is just a collection of merely 90MB of magnet links which can be downloaded anywhere on the Internet in the blink of an eye.
Not to mention, when will those trickle down to the Windows Phone version of IE?
Most top results for "britney spears torrent" are pretty cryptic for a normal user, the actual torrent download button is often obscured by other garbage, if there is one at all.

TPB would know how big the effect will be, I'm curious if they publish data on that.
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I'd imagine that Microsoft doesn't really care what the device runs. The money's in the content, not the hardware.
There was some previous discussion on HN about this individual:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3604623

This comment in particular was very relevant:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3605343
* developing for the NUC will be as easy as developing for a standard, Windows-based x86 PC*

Conversely, it will be as hard as developing for a standard, Windows-based x86 PC.
I don't. When I google for torrents I usually get a bunch of garbage / ad spam sites which don't actually have the content... so I don't google for torrents.

Besides, if they block pirate bay, it's only a matter of time before most other popular torrent sites are also blocked. Sure mirrors will pop up, but they won't show up on the first page of a google search's results, at least for a while.

VPN is the way to go.
And just like most bands, the vast majority of startups fail.

And just like most musicians, people who found startups have delusions of grandeur.

And just like most bands, even the ones that succeed are screwed by early-round investors (record companies/VC).
Nothing seemed missing to me.

I think he thought that Zuckerberg/Facebook would emphasize with what it's like to be a white hat hacker, be very curious, challenge yourself and then let him off the hook. Other companies have been known to hire hackers after getting caught.

One thing that didn't really add up is he never turned himself in after committing the crime. He waited 3 weeks? That places doubt on his intentions. Maybe he just freaked out.
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That was the BPI spokesman (the UK equivalent of the RIAA).

Those quotes were not part of the judgement. The judge merely applied the Digital Britain Act, an act rushed through at the end of the last Parliament (in 2010) in the run-up to the general election. It got a lot less scrutiny than bills of this nature usually get.
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I'm pretty sure it's a case of Codeplex is going through a massive overhaul[1]. The addition of git support seems to be the first step.

[1] here's a preview of the new look they are moving to: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/codeplex/archive/2012/03/30/new-code...
I know next to nothing about backbone.js :-) I guess I could only go by the examples that were shown. If you are testing how your different software components interact, then you are obviously doing integration testing... Perhaps a better example would have been to take two modules and show how you test that they work together.
I wonder if you could set up a "key server". It would be like an online safety deposit box for your key. That way, no matter what computer you're on, you can access the keyserver and authenticate yourself, and it would recover your key.
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Besides the price of Windows would be too high for it.
I'm the creator of the video. Just to clarify a few things:

1. I'm not against better privacy. Just a poorly written law.

2. The law doesn't just cover cookies - it also applies to HTML5 Local Storage, Flash objects etc. "Cookie Law" is a popular abbreviation.

3. It may not be realistic to challenge the law, but I believe we should try.

For those doubting the veracity of these claims, here are some references:

KPMG: 95% of UK websites not compliant with law
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3350059/95-p...

TechCrunch: Stupid EU cookie law will kill our startups stone dead
http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/stupid-eu-cookie-law-will-h...

Wired: The EU's legal war on cookies is barking mad
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/11/cookies-regul...

BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13541250

The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/13/new-law-coo...

Plus of course the site mentioned by the video (my site): http://nocookielaw.com/
Bands change genres all the time in order to make it big. Most of the time to a more mainstream and marketable genre and style to get more listeners and make more money.

That fits pretty well to me. The problem everyone seems to be having, author of the piece included, is to spin this analogy so that commercial music sellouts == bad, commercial hacker sellouts == good.

Accept the fact that an investor funded startup trying to get a big exit by getting a huge number of users and pivoting as necessary isn't were people with "passion" or who would object to having to change the "soul of the[ir] art" would end up and it's a great analogy. As they are both hit based businesses where the market is heavily influenced by hype from big market makers and there's a lot of money to be made it's not surprising that similar patterns emerge.
I can't believe it took them 11+ years. It felt like a recent startup.
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I'm very skeptical of this. Sure the guy draws very nice fractals but have any of his claims been investigated by mathematicians? How exactly are his drawings representations of math? How is his pi drawing a representation of pi?
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So, B&N licensed Microsoft's patents for minus US$300M and a WP7 app... That's probably the correct valuation for them.
Didn't they try to block porn sites last year? David Cameron ostensibly proclaimed that 'porn sites corrupt the British nation' or something in that vein. The UK is beginning to get a tad too draconian for the 21st century.
The government and the judiciary are independent.
There should be non hackfest events that you should be going to if you are interested in startups (i.e. networking events, tweetups, etc).

I don't have much free time on my hands either, but I am still actively going to these events because its how you meet people interested in startups.
> Not only that, but it also provides links to non-copyright infringing material. Eg: Some of Nine Inch Nails recent releases have been legally made available over bittorrent in 24/96 high quality.

I don't understand that argument - who ever claimed that TPB only has infringing material?

> According to wikipedia, TPB earnings in 2006 were $102,035.05 US, and expenses in 2009 were $112,590.40 US (couldn't find data for the same year) but they can't be making a huge amount of profit on those margins.

Weird that they don't publish the numbers themselves. I wonder what the reason might be...
Having an idea for a startup for 8 years != working on a startup for 8 years.
This may be what he is referring to:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081207/1805293043.shtml
> From this viewpoint an iPad app makes sense

Why is the browser insufficient?
The Era of Warring States...covers the Iron Age period from about 475 BC to the reunification of China under the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC. [1]

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century [2]

The Age of Discovery...was a period in history starting in the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century [3]

The examples you've provided are all compressed due to our lense being distant on a time scale. The information age, by comparison, is ~30 years old, and has led to the ability of half of the world to access knowledge that before now was hardly available to world leaders. The sheer scale of the population that the information age has impacted and will impact makes it much more exciting than the examples you cite. The fact that people of most social classes are taking part in the changes we're seeing makes it truly revolutionary.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warring_States_Period
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Exploration
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Keep in mind that when Alan Kay says "object" he means something different from programmers-at-large. To the general population of programmers, an object is just a data structure that's been bundled with some behavior. To Kay, an object is a computational entity that can only send/receive messages (what Carl Hewitt called an actor even before Smalltalk was on the scene). In Kay's mind, objects do not expose state the way they commonly do in the mainstream.
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