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This kid's drive and ambition is impressive, but using that as an excuse to ignore honesty? Sounds like he should be working on wall street, instead.

Kudos to David Tempkin for his response -- spot on. He recognized the situation for what it was, and responded most appropriately.

But here's the thing -- suppose he was instead sponging off a smaller, non-corporate, recently-funded, bootstrapped operation. Would everyone be calling him a go-getter? I'm guessing not, as the "theft" conversation would likely take a different tone.
CloudFlare is a very nice service for that. As an example you can read that blog post: http://blog.cloudflare.com/moog-music-staying-online-when-go...
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Marginally related at best, but I only recently realized that a Quart is a quart-er of a Gallon. And a Liter is also a quarter of a Gallon (approximately). So basically a Liter is a Quart.
The pingdom tests only check the HTML delivery, don't they? So the full page does not load in 1 or 2 seconds.
Exactly. So don't let anybody know & let it decrypt to something plausible. FYI there is no way of distinguishing Rubberhose from drive with random data.
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People really need to think about this. How much would we save at the individual level with a real deal like this, and at the societal level when taxpayers no longer have to pay increased costs for all the people who waited until death's door because they couldn't see a doctor at a sensible time?
Cachefly prices at $0.20/GB at Platinum which is 2 cents more than Akamai's baseline price.

To compare Netdna pricing starts at 0.06/GB so that level and below is what I consider affordable.
I find it a better course of action to work on properly understanding your data problem and then evaluate the options available instead of just sticking with the stand-by solution ("Well, we've always done x!").

Just like with anything in technology ... there is going to be pain as you escalate the level of complexity and what you are trying to accomplish.
Probably want to avoid comparing startups in Silicon Valley will starving serfs in feudal Europe. One is a choice, the other not so much.
Simply put, back then there weren't enough eye balls looking at websites. Now, more than 10 years later, you see people use the web nearly nonstop. Back then they were right when they said "The Internet is going to change the world", but they got a bit too ahead of themselves. But maybe that's what it took to get to where we are today.
> they must give up trying to create artificial scarcity.

How are they trying to create this artificial scarcity? Many if not all the major labels have a lot of their artists music available via digital formats like iTunes and Amazon, etc. They just have the crazy idea that if you want to listen to their artists music whether it be via a CD, 12" or MP3 that you should pay them for it.
Don't forget to brush up on the basics (with Python!):

http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/
If you are into research you can become a professor and get a tenure. No need to live on $20k. However if you want to be/stay as an entrepreneur you better spend some cache on things you don't want to do yourself.
I don't understand the hate for this post. If you're shopping for a car, you're trying to balance factors like comfort, carrying capacity, impressing coworkers, purchase cost, resale value, maintenance costs, and of course, fuel costs.

Using a MPG measure would lead one to think that 20 mpg and 30 mpg are equidistant from 25 mpg, when in fact, going from 20 mpg to 25 mpg saves you $4,000 over 100,000 miles at $4/gal, while going from 25 mpg to 30 mpg only saves you an additional $3,667.

This has political implications as well, since CAFE standards are based on this non-linear value, a car company with a barbell of an extremely inefficient car and an extremely efficient car can have a better average than a company with a moderately efficient car even though the barbell uses more gas and pollutes more. (We'll ignore the irrational averaging by models rather than by sales -- that's another issue.)

I recently started looking at whether it would be worth it to replace my current gas guzzler and this was part of the calculation. You can see my numbers here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkSgUqAZJOp-dEJ...
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My initial impressions upon launch was that it seemed to load much faster and was more responsive than their main iOS app.
> The iPhone 4 is available with contract at $99

That's subsidized, for what it's worth.
If it encourages people to dump Microsoft and develop on other platforms, I'm all for it.
Anybody have a code for the vimeo lectures? Thanks for the post!
Any idea what CloudFlare's pricing is for high traffic?

I don't think they'd let me stay on their stated $20/month plan.

Just checking the blog post, they only pushed 182GB total.

We run 1.75TB per day!

Edit: Checked it out, they go as low as 0.03/GB which might be feasible.
They also hired a direct mail firm (VentureDirect) as their agency of record, and they were expected to spend around 10 million with them. Yet another example of the crazy and flawed approaches to start ups and online marketing back in the day. We all thought we were so smart. If only we had known better.
Yeah, great book. I've heard it mentioned that it was one of Steve Job's favorite books too.
Wouldn't be so quick to down-vote his comment. I don't think scribd is stealing code or that submissions will be directly applicable, but there's some cross-over between a game like this and searching/crawling a db/docs/network. It's a great way for them to find devs with skills they need.
25 cents might be a bit low but 99 cents is very reasonable when you're competing with free. It's not that I'm complaining about feeling ripped off when buying music(although I do) it's more about taking a look at what works, ie the low-price or in store app model, and emulating it.
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It's your employer's computer. Even in California you cannot use your employers resources for side projects and still be protected. They can't make a claim on your free time, but if you use their computer, you open yourself up to claims.

I'm not a lawyer either, but that was always the advice I've been given.

Now this kid was just dumb. By using AOL resources without permission he now has all sorts of potential issues. Probably the only thing that kept him out of jail was the good will of AOL.
I think someone (...) just punched in a template meta-program to calculate a large prime number to see what would happen. Looks like it's down now?
I wasn't sure it if it was reliable. I remember during the last "ca leaks root cert" fiasco there was talk about how browsers don't implement this securely.
Actually .hn already exists as the TLD for honduras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn
To be fair only some of the founders were wrong about slavery.

Even back then slavery was contentious, just as patents were.

In either case it doesn't really matter what the founders thought as ideas should be tried on their merits, rather than who thought of them.
That neither proves that unethical behavior was required for Apple's success, nor that said bond could only be created through unethical behavior. If you want a recrimination of that behavior, I'd be happy to give it. It was immature and wrong.
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We use Cotendo and CDNetworks. Both work, and your 140Mbps is /nothing/ to either. Can't share pricing, I'm afraid. Non-JIT contracts are probably your enemy here, though - there'll be minimum term lengths for most CDNs.
Underscore is not a kitchen-sink library. In order to keep it a terse library, Jeremy will need to constantly decide what goes in and what does not. I don't always agree with his choices, but I'm glad he's willing to be aggressive about what he believes is good. That's what makes for good libraries.

Also, I must say this is a poor choice of title for a HN post. It's emotive, a generalisation and doesn't actually reflect the actual content of the link.

You obviously disagree with Jeremy. Fine. But posts like this are weak.
You make a great ideological point sir. But let me make a pragmatic one.

The new gTLD's are coming whether we like it or not, so why not take advantage of it?
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MPG is actually much better for humans to use, as the end result is "bigger is better", which is how humans naturally think. It is unnatural to think "the smaller numbers are better". If you want it metric, it should be kilometers per liter.
I'm genuinely curious, what would you do with the data?

Please do not read this the wrong way. I am not questioning what you're doing as improper. I am just curious.

Isn't most of the data in PACER just procedural (cf. substantive)? If yes, wouldn't it have only limited value in illuminating to the public "what the law is"? Would it have some other value? Maybe it might allow generation of some interesting statistics on outcomes, etc.? Maybe you are planning to "disrupt" the jury research industry?

Pardon my ignorance.

(Personally, I think you should also support freeing up access to academic research. Public access to research publications is equally as important as access to the total corpus of US Court dockets. I'm not sure anyone could learn that much just by reading court dockets. But I can assure you that by reading the scientific literature in a given field of science, one can learn a great deal.)
Note being an electronic music isn't just as simple as owning a Macbook. When artist BT had his house broken into and equipment stolen a few years ago he said he was out about $100k.
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They might need to support recent versions of IE.
You could pirate Angry Birds too if you really wanted to but they found a price point that defeats that and made $100 million.
This is a great example; it almost works like UNIX pipes except that each application has to take an explicit action to share its result with the next application in the pipeline. But like UNIX apps that do something anti-social like rewrite the input file (hello, GNU Recode), that can be worked around.

For those of you that don't use Android, the process works like this. You take a picture. The camera app provides a "share" button. You click "share". Then you're presented with a list of all applications that handle photos. So you can share to G+, or email a photo, or run it through filters, or whatever. The camera application never needs to know about the filter application (the reverse is also true). This makes it very easy to reuse code and for users to design their own workflows. Platforms don't really like this, since they don't have total control over the user experience, but for us users, it's pretty darn nice.

(You can also register URL handlers, so that something like clicking a link to Google Maps in your email automatically opens up the Google Maps app to the same state. Again, pretty useful.)
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The big risk in any kind of investment like that is you can be burnt on small variations in the exchange rate.

Australian banks pay 5.5% PA. The exchange rate can vary 1-2% per day, and trying to predict long term trends is difficult at best.

(I'm Australian if it matters)
Somebody call up JWZ and tell him that someone found a way to make decals opaque enough for a macbook. He's been trying to crack that puzzle for years.
Those Linux steps are too complicated even for software developers...

RVM uses curl piped to bash in its installation instructions (https://rvm.io/rvm/install/)

$ curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Viruses need only do the same thing.
I'm surprised they are treating it the way they are other than the obvious negative publicity that would ensue.

Negative publicity can be a very strong motivator.

It feels like not a week goes by that 'the internet' learns about some yahoo suing some other guy for shaky reasons, and becoming infamous as a result.

Soon after that the yahoo has to change his name and move to Tijuana.
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I've built class libraries just fine with Express. Personally, what is a problem for me is that it can't handle multi-language projects.
Not to disagree with you, but most all sea creature populations need protection these days, not just the large species…
Because after talks between Steve Jobs and Zuck (last year, presumably about Facebook integration in Mac OS), Apple decided to go with Twitter integration.
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The worst case is that they argue that the company wouldn't exist without his misappropriation of AOLs resources and should be awarded X% of the company as compensation, where X is equal to the percentage of the company that equals the amount of money that he cost AOL in food, supplies, network access, etc... at the time of the misappropriation. They could argue that they were de-facto investors because of the material support they "offered".

Or they could keep him tied up in court trying to argue his way out of it.

The only reason why he is going to make it out of this okay is the bad press that AOL would get for going after him.
Apple's triennial opposition to the jailbreaking DMCA exception makes it clear that they want jailbreaking (and Cydia with it) to be illegal. They kick companies do anything with Cydia out of their app store (IIRC, Toyota ran into this). They are harsh with jailbreaking and warranties and have released at least one update that bricked jailbroken phones, possibly intentionally. Apple's behavior doesn't say they're allowing Cydia to exist, it says there are limits to the tools they can use to shut it down.
I was disappointed that there was no mention of side channel attacks and countermeasures.

http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/thwarting-eavesdropping-data.h...

Edit: added link
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I like the idea too

there are too often terms in contracts which can cause you big problems but which you don't notice before they actually cause you problems, when everything has already been signed.

good luck with that
...except they misspelled "Flickr" on the second slide. But I guess only nitpickers like me would mind. :-)
I don't think you get it. IntelliJ can afford to release open source software to acquire enterprise customers later on because those customers pay. If IntelliJ saw the same attrition rate at BigCorps as musicians saw with their albums, they wouldn't have a business. So we're lucky to have deep pockets paying for software for us... you can't really have that with a lot of other industries, or even with a lot of categories of software. Where's the World of Warcraft Open Source Edition?
>from point A to point B

So you know exactly how far you need to go, now calculate how much fuel you need. You can always buy extra fuel and refill on the way on very long travels where "how far it goes" would matter. Unless you're driving an electric car, for those autonomy is important, but it depends on battery size, not just efficiency.
Correct? When did comparisons of interpersonal utility schedules become a factual matter?

I agree that the article is poorly reasoned. I think part of it is the writing style. The first two sentences make no sense to me. I still cannot figure out what the "related measures" are related to and I have never understood why people type the contraction "we're." It makes me wish I could place a thousand upvotes on the recent "please learn to communicate" article.
CloudFlare you get what you pay for. You'll see a pretty high rate of origin pull, which is a metric most people don't look at when comparing CDNs. (i.e. out of every 1000 requests do they refetch from you 1 time or 600 times?)

It might even be disingenuous to call CloudFlare a CDN at all. They are really a web application firewall and app delivery service.
The hate comes from OP's description of MPGs as clearly inferior to L/100km when in reality he's just engaging in a Holy War between two things that are nearly equivalent.

The non-linearity argument is not as strong and you and OP think, because many people naturally think in ratios. In fact, in some anthropological studies hunter gatherers that don't know arithmetic mostly said that the value halfway between one and nine is three.
Is it what the populace wants?

Well, given that there's been little to no innovation in native Windows applications in the past five years, I think it's fair to say the populace doesn't want the status quo.

Microsoft has to do something. I don't like what they chose to do (I worked on Win8 for a while before quitting, in part because of their direction), but it's clear to me that they had to take some risks or be faced with an inevitable slow obsolescence.
WebVan was great too. Some pretty impressive hubris.
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"As a percentage of site's URLs" is a disingenuous statistic. Google has a notion of which URLs on a site are germane; for instance, how likely they are to come up in searches. Reported URLs on TORRENTZ.EU as a percentage of germane URLs will probably tell a different tale than "<0.1%".

Put differently: you'd have to be made of stupid to have a ratio of infringing URLs to overall URLs that looked unfavorable; all you have to do to minimize that metric is to spray crap all over some portion of your site that nobody but Googlebot cares about.
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Found out about pv ~year ago when working with large log files. Very useful. I also like it for testing how quickly a script can consume data.
The very same folks did write about their MongoDB experience: http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with...
How long will this contest be up? Or will this be ongoing?
Just because his security badge kept working doesn't mean that he had the right to be there. He knew he wasn't supposed to be there (he made plans for what to do when he got kicked out). So, the law would be trespassing. There would probably also be some computer crime laws triggered for inappropriate use of resources.

It's not a grey area - he's just lucky people like him.
wesm, do you cover using cloud-based computing resources for tackling computationally intensive data analysis problems? I use Python and PiCloud to turn what is an hours-long data analysis problem on my Mac into a minutes-long job on Amazon's hardware.

I don't know MATLAB, R, etc. well enough to say whether they can use the cloud as easily as Python, but it sure was easy with Python.
Google used their might to convince companies that they would be better off not using Shyhook. It is a hardball tactic, but it isn't comparable to Apple just yanking an app. Motorola could have told Google to eff off and used Shyhook. But as Motorola said, they can't afford to risk their relationship with Google. Subtle but important distinction.
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I don't see the big deal.

If I know my car gets 40 miles per gallons and I need to go 120 miles, I can quickly figure out that I'll need 3 gallons of fuel.

I can't imagine either measurement being hard to use for anybody who's made it to high school.

They're two ways of measuring the exact same thing and neither one has an advantage over the other. Although it would be nice if we used kilometers per liters instead.
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Where did he work during the day as to not be noticed by hundreds of employees?
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Sorry to be specific is the sandbox chrome or just a js engine? If it is chrome I could compile and run a nacl module to improve speed.
CloudFlare doesn't charge for bandwidth. Your bandwidth levels not an issue. Check out their network graph to see current stats: http://www.cloudflare.com/network-map
Your analogies are highly broken.

You can mix packaged food with whatever you want. You can choose to eat only the left half of your TV dinner. In short, once it's yours, you can do what you like.

You can take a song and remix it to your heart's content. That is, unless the song contains DRM which prevents you from extracting the raw audio data. This is something most people around here frown upon rather strongly.

Nothing prevents me from taking pre-made clothing and using it in ways the manufacturer didn't envision and doesn't desire. I can use store-bought pants to make rope or filter water or anything I wish.

As for putting any engine you like in a car, I don't know where that came from. Of course you can put any engine you like in a car, as long as you have the resources and the skills.

Nobody is saying Apple must explicitly support third-party stuff like this. They shouldn't go out of their way for it. All we want is for them to stop going out of their way to prevent it.

It's not just a matter of Apple not inviting third-party OSes and bootloaders. The problem is that Apple locks down the platform using digital signatures so that the only way to use anything but an Apple OS or bootloader is to find and exploit a bug in Apple's lockdown code. There is no similar situation in the world of packaged food, music (except for DRM, which is generally considered bad), clothing, or cars.
I want to know why we are celebrating blatant unethical behavior as entrepreneurial spirit. Moxie is one thing, this is just dumb and reckless.
>Could you please reference the law that prohibits people sleeping on AOL's couches?

Entering into a search engine the phrases "California penal code" and "illegal lodging" should allow you to find the text of the law.

I learned about this law when someone I knew was charged with illegal lodging for sleeping in one of the building at Stanford long ago. (He pled no lo contendere, had no priors, and was fined $100.)

No offense, but I do not want to discuss it with you anymore.
I sincerely hope I'm not going to pay $35,000/year to learn facts I could just as easily look up.

Instant access from memory versus from anywhere from several seconds to several minute latency. Clearly, memorization is useful, especially for certain classes of fact that you need to use on a daily basis.
You can set up custom caching rules with longer cache TTLs if you want to minimize origin pulls. Use Page Rules or the Cache TTL from the CloudFlare settings page.
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It's not a matter of playing dumb. It would be foolish to simply assume that the rejection is due to a particular thing when Apple doesn't say what it is. They haven't been told, that's the truth, and why would they say anything else?
"(Exhbit A: Apple pricing trends)"

Apple's prices have been pretty steady, and are frequently decried as being too high.
We're planning to keep this running indefinitely.

We may also add additional languages in the future, like Haskell and Lua, and possibly some advanced playing modes.
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What Gruber actually said about this is, "I can’t imagine what Apple would object to with this app, or why they wouldn’t provide Rogue Amoeba with a precise explanation before removing the app."

Although I imagine if it was some company he didn't see favorably, he would probably go for your explanation rather than the one he actually posted for this.
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Most of my changes would be unacceptable to Satyr, the maintainer of Coco. For instance, I posted an issue about creating proper list comprehensions in both CoffeeScript and Coco, and both times was shut down. That's why I decided to create my own project, and make the changes I want without being shut down all the time. I don't expect any of my changes to be merged into Coco or CoffeeScript, but if they want to then I would encourage them to do so.