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First of all, I'm not an insider, I'm just a weather nerd who came across this story awhile back and was really curious about it so I did some research.

That said, my understanding is that they are basically going towards a widespread mixed-mode setup now, but they haven't yet for historical and budgetary reasons.

The system they'll be replacing is largely the result of tragedies like the Andrea Doria and countless less famous weather-related accidents that were caused by faulty communication of important weather bulletins. Because of this there was a pretty significant investment in designing and deploying a really robust system, and it was rolled out extremely widely, including far flung and remote weather stations, and was adopted elsewhere as a standard as well.

Fast forward to today and the aging system does the job but is in a rather precarious state because everyone who designed and built it is long dead, and in the face of shrinking budgets, like the NYC subway system and the national air traffic control systems, for most of its history it was maintained just enough to keep pace but rarely upgraded.

Only relatively recently has there been momentum behind modernization and the big driver behind that has been the increasingly deadly tornado seasons we've been experiencing over the past decade or so. The need to be able to push out more geographically precise bulletins as well as to make them more impactful (they recently started using phrases like "you will die if you do not seek shelter" in select tornado alley locations) in the hope of decreasing casualties has been a major driver behind this change.
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Google has power to encourage site owners to make semantic markup for their pages which could lead to higher positions in search results for them. But Google doesn't do it. Why?
I almost agree with this. Of course it's a very small percentage of US wealth that's literally sitting locked up doing nothing. Money in a bank is doing something, being lent out or invested somewhere.

There's some wealth that's genuinely locked up, sitting in items that provide no utility for example. Say fine art locked in someone's vault or basement. But it's not all that much as a percentage.

Where the bigger problem in recent years has been is all the wealth tied up in what is essentially sophisticated gambling mechanisms in the financial markets. Money tied up in ways that aren't providing any true value to the economy (mumbo jumbo justifications aside). I'd be all for rules that stopped that sort of thing with funds subject to public bailouts. Your own money, your own risk, fine go ahead. Your money but risk assumed by the government? No. No thanks.
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Does this compete with things like RedisTogo? (I understand it's just a key/value store and Redis provides a lot more, but many people use Redis for just that)
thanks Tim!
Good note! I've (for quite some time now) just given up on explaining the real meaning of open source. Hey, Stallman is crazy enough to try and fail year after year, let him keep doing that.

The main question missed in the article, IMHO, is: Is this bad for Open Source at all? In the end no. Hey, Open Source is huge! It is bigger than it was and probably it will be even bigger in the future. In the end, I think "Open Source" is just a really bad choice of words to use in a comercial strategy.
there's a good chance those are ads being run by affiliates. I've seen them a bunch, it's actually impressive how they can circumvent most popup blocking technology
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Good God man, your iPhone theme is awful! I tried to pan the screen to view all the results and it navs to the next blog post?!?
SS is funded by separate tax, but if there's a shortcoming, it is filled from the general budget, and if there's a surplus, it goes into general spending - so this distinction is an accounting fiction, both are incomes of the same government and as long as government fulfills its obligations nobody cares how the money got there. When SS starts running negative cash flow, the govt would have to refill that. Right now the promise of the govt is to refill that up to 2.7 trln - which is the size of SS Trust Fund - but nobody doubts for a second that the govt will in fact refill any sum necessary or will change SS rules (raise taxes and/or cut benefits, which are not legally guaranteed by anything) if necessary. So "lock box" here has very little meaning except taking part of the money out of circulation for no reason - it would definitely not stop the govt from borrowing money.
I don't know about 'strictly a matter of faith'. There is some pretty good evidence that 100% taxation (i.e. 100% of your earnings belong to the state and not to you) doesn't work to well.

I'm not suggesting that there aren't reasonable arguments about what the marginal tax rate curve should look like (flat, curved, etc.) to optimize various economic metrics--just that there are some configurations that we can rule out as unworkable without much real controversy.
Thanks for sharing. Awesome. Any advice for us dreamers? Can it be repeated?
I once asked a well known science writer how many times he will revise passages. He sighed and replied "sometimes, for the difficult spots, maybe fifty to a hundred."

This made me feel much better about my own writing, which often goes through many, many drafts.

It also helped me appreciate Thomas Mann's maxim that a writer is someone who finds writing harder than other people.
It's the "wild goose chase" business model. You tie up a bunch of capable guys/gals with some money and prevent them from working on something that might harm some of your other investments and/or prevent them from getting into the hands of other angels/vc's. If the idea fails you then pivot the team into one of your other investments. If the idea succeeds you make a profit off of that. So in essence tie up the team. Companies have been doing this for years, tying up the best legal minds so their competitors don't get to use them.

After all, YC will invest even if you don't have an idea. So what's the big leap if you have a mediocre idea and they manage to tie you up and then steer you to another idea with a little investment?
I haven't spent any money and barely any time on marketing. Development I did all the coding myself and eventually hired a graphic designer part time. The thing is I'm not usually on the Top 100 list (or even Top 300 for that matter), I just charge more for my apps (my price points are $3, $5, $8). That's the best kept secret of the app store. Sure the Top 100 apps make a ton of money, but there is a growing class of niche apps that can make just as much money by charging more and catering to a smaller niche audience.

My advice is to not create the next Angry Birds, but try and find a niche that is underserved and create a great app and charge as much as you can get away with. And get a great designer too, that's the best ROI I can think of.
We should just start looking at DNA collection as piracy (since you aren't really losing your DNA... the law men are just sharing a copy of it). And don't we all love piracy around here? :)
You can, but this is server dependent and not possible with the GIF format. If you were to construct a format where this is possible, this would mean a minimum of two HTTP requests and quite possible three since the header would have to be of variable length.

Additionally, trying to get browsers to consistently implement something of this level of complexity sounds dangerous.
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One of my all time favorite pieces on writing is Orwell's "Politics and the English Language."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...
Perhaps you watch too few?
I think any person who can write an application in Node could also do it in Go, plus if your having trouble attracting good developers, [edit] Go, not node [/edit] should make the position more attractive.
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"We were living far from our families and needed an easy way to send and receive large batches of original quality photos, videos and other files."

Although many good ideas start this way obviously you have to take into account how many others are in the same situation.

By "original quality" I'm assuming they mean the full, say, 3 to 8mb file not some 60k jpg. While there are certainly people in the printing and graphic design industry (and others) who might need this even keeping in mind that the service is free I don't see a large user base developing. And the relatively small user base won't even be paying for the service.
You're most likely mistaken. Netflix probably has no idea about the popunders, as it's most likely a third-party affiliate site doing something against the TOS.

If you report them to Netflix I'm sure they'll be glad to shut down that affiliate's account.

Either that or you got malware.
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> but it's because they are breaking the law.

No, it's because fining them is a deterrent to other would-be speeders. What Saverin is doing is not completely legal. It's technically legal. And the reason for that technicality is that the US can't really impose criminal penalties against non-citizens. But that doesn't mean they can't create a deterrent by denying those non-citizens visas in the future.

I would argue that it is quite worthwhile for the US to send the message that there are consequences for coming into our country, taking advantage of our corporate ecosystem to become immensely wealthy, and then skipping out before tax day (which is an exaggeration, I know, but you get the point). I don't see anything remotely petty about that.
> Is it ok for the president to murder someone but not for a distraught spouse?

It's not OK for the President to murder someone, but it may be OK to kill someone if it's within President's powers as chief executive and commander in chief. These powers are vast, that's the reason people carefully examine candidate's abilities, experience, moral standing, ability to take right decisions, etc. and do not base their choice on catchy bumper stickers and amount of money the candidate promises to extract from other people and give to them. Or at least they should be doing this if they don't want surprises later...
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You leave your DNA so many places anyway... I figure if the gov. wanted it, they'd have it. Enjoying a discounted price makes sense though, and a lot of the genetics things don't become something to worry about until later in life.

I didn't mean to be pompous, I just wanted to counter the absurdity of the article.
Did Go ever get it's GC problems fixed?
> I think I'll have a bit of a lie-down now...

Maybe in your lean-to? (Only other example I can think of quickly.)

More seriously, thanks to the grand-parent for squelching the preposition nonsense so soundly.
Is "engineering rigor of statements" always a big part of your criteria for using products?
Appreciate the feedback (librato co-founder here), we should definitely make that clearer on the pricing page and elsewhere. We're in the process of adding some content around that now.

In short a measurement is a single datapoint i.e. <key, value, timestamp>. So if you have a sense of how many metrics you want to track and at what frequency, it's relatively straight-forward to calculate the list price. There's an estimator on the pricing page to help you do that once you understand what constitutes a "measurement".
I don't completely understand that either. This comment from the ticket that originated the behavior ( http://bugs.python.org/issue1567 ) comes with the following explanation:

It fixes several issues related to dead locks when a thread uses a
function that imports a module but another thread holds the lock. It
doesn't require static caching of modules.

The idea that deadlocks were a problem makes me think that this import lock isn't exactly 'global', per-se.
Or use a plug-in in the browser that speaks your language of choice.
Does that belong in the database?
How have you found the browsing experience on Hulu? I tried it recently and was shocked at how difficult it was to look through the different titles.

One advantage of Netflix is that they give you a really dense page full of easy to read selections when you're hunting for something to watch.
And that trigger can probably happen any time something new attracts a critical mass of early adopters; then the network effect of the walled garden actually become a detriment to the old network as it enables rapid defection to a competitor.

People have been dismissing geek-centric alternativesl like Diaspora for having a built-in limitation on growth, but most communities on the internet - and the internet itself - grew out of geeks gradually building up enough of a user base to pull in everyone else. Maybe it just takes time.

BTW, I received my first Diaspora invite this week.
"This is the kind of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

-- Winston Churchill, on not ending sentences with prepositions
"The "marketshare" that is referenced by Kantar is new sales marketshare, not overall marketshare."

The point is that the number of users of WP is increasing at a fairly decent pace. The most important thing is that people are using the phone.

"All WP is currently doing is taking a small piece of the symbian/BB pie"

That seems very difficult to prove and I don't believe there is anything out there that states this. I know several people who switched from Android to Nokia WP phones, and several more that are intending to make the change. This isn't proof necessarily but I could see it happening.

Concerning #3: It's hard to say what the first version should have been. The iPhone didn't have many of the "standard" features either in version 1. The main question is whether the pre-mango version hurt or has helped Microsoft's cause. The fact that they've had the phone out there for a larger period of time I would think would be a positive thing, being that they've had so much more feedback as a result.

"Overall, I believe WP will not go away, but will stabilize at around 5-6% overall marketshare. "

That's reasonable, however I'm curious why you believe this? You don't believe many Android or iPhone users would be interested in switching?
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Because government "investments" are not for-profit investments in excludable (private/club) goods. They're non-profit "investments" in protecting commons goods and providing public goods.
Cool. Really like how the form filling flows.

Will wait to see how you monetise this. I suspect there are some serious writers/bloggers out there looking for inspiration and willing to pay?
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On the other hand, I never recompress/resize my pictures because it's too much work, and the cameras are geting ever higher resolution.
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I would really _like_ to believe that this is true, however I have never found this in practice. MS and Apple only ever participate in open source software _begrudgingly_. It might be true in some specific sectors (web frameworks, databases maybe), but I don't think it applies across the board, especially not at the business level.

Do you have any examples for what you're saying?
Isn't the hardest aspect always going to be getting browser support for NAT PMP?
Weren't a lot of Web sites written in Perl in 1998? And there was the AOLServer/Tcl crowd, but we won't speak of that.
It will be visible as a partial solar eclipse from SoCal.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/qa-wheres-the-...
I read somewhere that you can petition to have it removed once charges are dropped. Not ideal since that sounds like a hassle. But it is an option nonetheless.
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Problem is, a strong middle class usually rests on the strong provision and spread of certain goods. Some of these are private goods, like owning one's own house, but many of them are public goods: liveable environment, public transit, public schools, public universities, public health and health-care, etc.
Neat, I used Flotr for a personal project a long time ago and really liked it. The author also helped me with a problem and implemented a feature I needed. I'll keep this around for any future uses.
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Does it mean I have the right to take a car and a cellphone from any nearby person that looks rich enough to afford another one? After all, I need it clearly more than he does, so forcefully taking it from him is completely justified. In fact, if he objects, I'm completely justified to call him a greedy pig - I gave him an opportunity to do a good deed, and he dares to object? Despicable.
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the book. I wanted to point out that Colin Evans and Jamie Taylor were also authors (and still work on the Knowledge Team at Google) and should get some credit.
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I notice this is a heroku app. Do you mind sharing what heroku plan you are using, and how well your setup is handling today's traffic? Have you had to do anything significant to handle a spike in traffic today?
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Lots of the top hedge funds also have total crap or almost non-existent websites -- but this is venture capital for tech startups. Rather than looking at what some top VC firms' websites are like, a more telling question is, what does a website look like for a VC firm that has made the most rapid recent gains? More like this: http://a16z.com . And, is there a relevant link?
I don't think using Red Hat as an example offers that much sway. Red Hat has been trying to go "pay" for over 10 years.
Well, there are a lot of folks from companies like Ericsson and Cisco working on IETF's RTCWeb¹, so I guess they'll figure it out. And BitTorrent clients manage to do it, too.

¹ http://tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/
Compared to most specifications, RFCs are incredibly clear. While quality varies, they're remarkably approachable documents.

Of all the things to dislike, I find your dislike of SHOULD/MUST/MAY to be incredibly bizarre. The definitions of the words are intuitive, they place the definitions at the top of the document, and they use the words to eliminate all ambiguity when reading the document.

If you don't like RFCs, I'd be very curious to know what specification documents you do like.
You could build your own GUI on top of Linux.. really doesn't have to be so from-scratch, and I am also interested in pursuing that idea if I ever have the time or resources, but doing everything sort of from scratch is just a more seductive fantasy for me I guess, because it would be fun to see how much I could optimize things and fun to get down to the lowest level.

The other reason is just to get rid of the legacy complexity.. true that a lot of stuff that is in Unix you really do have to have for an operating system, but there are also a number of different varying approaches to problems that have been duplicated over the years so that there is extra complexity that really isn't necessary. Also doing things from scratch would allow me to take exactly the approach that I wanted to every major decision, which in some cases really might be better served by taking a different approach from linux. Also I could just say "well, not going to support any of this other Linux stuff, you have to use a remote desktop for that" which would eliminate a huge amount of code.

There is actually some stuff for Compiz loading models in the middle of the cube, I could just start messing with that, would be the most straightforward.
I don't think I've seen a crime drama series yet that didn't, at some point, pull the old "here... have this soda while we wait" trick and then harvested the DNA from it after the perp was released. Those sneaky law men.
"Easy to build, fast, scalable."

So which part of the test demonstrated that it was hard to build, slow, and/or not scalable?

If you're not impressed that JavaScript reached 80% parity with a statically typed, compiled language – well, sorry dude.

Anyway, nobody is begging you to be impressed. 99.999% of successful projects are built with technology that is completely unimpressive.
if the repository owners tags a commit with the tag Go1, it is used by Go. If there is no tag to specify which commit, the tip of master is used. In practice, most maintainers just keep master clean and do all development in a dev branch.
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Yes, I figured. And a lunar eclipse will follow about two weeks later, on June 4th I think. They always come in pairs. Not only do I dabble in astrology, my ex was an astronomy buff. We did a pre-homeschooling field trip to the Goldendale Observatory in Washington state when we lived in Richland.

It's all good. :-)
Let me put it this way. It sounds like you don't want the entire government budget to rest on taxing one class and one class alone, the upper-class. That's a pretty virtuous and equitable thought to have, very fair to people who probably have much more than you.

Problem is, if income/wealth inequality is too severe, those guys are the only ones with money to contribute. So on some level, you need a certain level of income/wealth equality just to have multiple classes/brackets with enough excess income to contribute to the national welfare.
>> "Taxing rich people means punishing someone for his success."

That is a false conclusion. In particular, inheritances. Certainly you don't consider being born to rich parents a form of success?
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Your statement that the US cannot impose criminal penalties against non-citizens is very wrong. There are a bunch of non-citizens in the USA who are arrested and penalized if they commit a crime. there are countless extraditions that happen for foreigners who commit crimes against US interests while being outside of this country. and of course there is Guantanamo.

No one is unreachable from the US, American citizen or not.

And what Saverin did is _legal_. You cannot have something be partially legal, or technically legal but somehow still illegal; it's the same with being pregnant. You either are, or are not. There is no middle ground.

And if we were smart, we would grant Saverin a visa right away. Anyone in the USA would prefer that money is invested in the USA than anywhere else. Or do we not want outside investment? "We don't want your money, go create jobs somewhere else!"
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Is this really tech news? I'm exposed to this argument daily on Reddit, and it hasn't changed how I feel about anything, except I'm more tired of hearing it. What else do people intend to accomplish? I already treat my fellow humans as equals. Do they want me to pity them?
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Esperanto has a huge bias towards latin-based languages. It's FAR from being universal.
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