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Well, yeah, it is tautological. If there weren't a limit on the rate of information transfer, everything possible would happen instantaneously and there would be no way to really experience anything. Call it selection bias if you like. The speed of light is like the rate of time; it is because it can't not be in any meaningful way.

This isn't to say that, given the tenets of simulationism, we can't hypothesize an "external time", and describe the rate of our universe as some amount of Tx/t. But the fact that that's an amount of time per time should also demonstrate why it's a meaningless concept in-universe.
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Even a theory without any experimentally derived values is still an experimentally derived theory.
To nitpick a bit, it's 16 bytes, usually represented by 32 hexadecimal numbers.
I've been using aws for awhile so I've gotten used to the sign-in part and never have trouble getting to the console.

Where I get lost is trying to find the reference documentation as opposed to the newbie guides or the architecture overviews. Scenarios similar to: "crap it's been a year and a half since I've bundled a new AMI and I forgot the exact steps" where I need to look up some detail of the API. That's where I wind up going to google to search the amazon site for the docs I need.
Sometimes I charge my phone at night, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I charge it at work, sometimes I don't. You couldn't even infer my timezone from that data, let alone my location. And even if I did have a reliable schedule, so what? All you would conclude is that I am on GMT+1, and work 9 to 6. Shocker.
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I'm considering building a pay site that curates already existing technical info from various other websites. Are developers less likely (then regular people) to pay for stuff they could find in google if they put in the effort?
Also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4064022
While wanting a ferrari as a kid may or may not make you unhappy, I don't personally know anyone who was given a ferrari as a kid and was ultimately happy. They usually tended to end up less happy than children who weren't spoiled by their parents.
Pedantically, it's 16 random bytes. You aren't going to lose much entropy from an upper/lower/number password unless it's at least 20 characters, or even longer if it's a pass phrase.
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There are a lot of companies offering this right now. How is styckyd going to stand out?

Right now, there are services that provide meta-listings to all of the other services that how to be the core classified system of the Internet. While auto dealers have picked up technology much faster than realtors, it seems like the systems are much more fragmented than the MLS.
The hexadecimal is just UI; ignore it.
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I first heard about Hetzner when your blog post was submitted to HN. While some HN commenters claimed the title was linkbait, I think it's legitimate (though biased). Amazon can charge what they want, and you can call them out if there are significant performance/price discrepancies.
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What's your opinion on SuperGenPass and the like? I'm sure it would still get cracked, but I feel that it would take a lot of effort to crack the provider's hash, even if it were md5, and then less effort to crack the SuperGenPass hash, so hopefully nobody would recognise it or bother...
That was an absolutely amazing hack
How long until foreign businesses and governments prohibit key people from visiting or transiting the US?
Thus the "And lobbies for governments to ban Roundup because of a recently study saying it's a threat to the environment after all." part.
re: fault tolerance, it's a fair point. Although in practice I've never had this fail part-way on me, and I've used it a couple hundred times with >600GB transfers.

We usually use this to copy to 2 or 3 machines at once; it's rare that we'd need to bring up 4+ slaves simultaneously, or split a shard into 4+ pieces. Most Linux distributions already have all the software needed except pigz, which is tiny and available in several packaging systems.

I'll definitely give socat a look though, thanks for the tip.
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They misdefined "TLD" as the "Amazon" in "Amazon.com" when it actually refers to the "com".

Such a glaring ignorance makes it hard to trust the author's domain expertise. Pun intended. Reading the rest of the article proved my instincts.
Bigger vehicles such as buses often have a large flat mirror and a small half-globe shaped mirror attached to them. This provides proper distance and gives a nice wide view when you need it.

I would prefer cameras, but I am not sure if they are still not legal in the US.
They only support Windows with IE10 as he said above?
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It was called OLark if my memory hasn't failed me. From what I remember it was semi-popular for a while but ultimately died a death of user scarcity as only the most popular websites ever had >1 active user with the program installed. Let me try find the link....
[edit] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801242
If you were on MD5 your passwords all have at most 128-bit of entropy. A user with a password of say, 30 random bytes from [a-ZA-Z0-9] will be getting some entropy truncated in the hashing process. If you now move to say, bcrypt your hashes are 448-bits long. So you are throwing a way a lot of the keyspace by using a shorter hash function first. So yes, it's weaker, in one sense, it's just massively more difficult to attack already and you can still upgrade to pure bcrypt as users log-in in future.
Not necessarily true, especially if your customers are management types looking to lay on the blame as thick as possible wherever they find it, and will terminate a relationship if they believe the service-provider is incompetent.

For those kinds of customers, they may understand what Heroku is and why their vendor is using it and will definitely make at least some distinction about outage fault.
The very definition of discontinued is no new versions. Bug fixes and support don't change that.

As the majority of mobile devices in users' hands today do not support Flash, it is indeed fair to say "mobile in general doesn't support Flash". Again, that's the definition of "in general".
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I think I'm saying something more fundamental than "the number isn't important", though it's true I was a bit terse. The thing a layman needs to know about c in order to understand this is that it isn't a measurement of speed as we're used to thinking about it, but a fundamental relationship between time and space in our universe.

It does measure something we can quantify in units that make intuitive sense: it is the smallest possible distance per the smallest possible time. c is not arbitrarily that; it is the fact that ties those two dimensions into a single universe, without which they would not have anything to do with each other, and without which the concepts of time and distance individually wouldn't mean anything to us.

Is that a little clearer? I'll agree it's not possible to really grok this stuff without at least doing a bunch of reading on Wikipedia.
That's because automated law enforcement is an Orwellian idea.
I don't actually see anyone offering what we are, can you point out a few?

Here's the key things that make us different than other marketplaces:

- We control the flow of funds. When a buyer purchases a part we place it in a holding account until the package has arrived successfully. This is designed to eliminate a lot of the seller fraud that occurs.

- We handle the shipping. Sellers need only identify the box they're going to place the part in. We then calculate the shipping costs, collect those funds from the buyer, and send shipping labels to the seller. At the moment, all they need to do is drop it off at the drop-off location. In the future we'll send the carrier to their house to pick up the package.

- We integrate with message boards, and provide them with a new revenue stream.

There are a number of other things that are unique to our segment and revolve around product categorization but other marketplaces do indeed do those things for their markets. The above three things I believe are unique to Styckyd.
If sortfolio.com was just a domain, you might be justified in asking 37Signals to donate it ... but it's an application and the domain is one small but integral part. The application's branding is built around the domain name and I'm sure they've trademarked the name "Sortfolio".

Would you really ask Kelloggs to give you Tony the Tiger while stating they could market Frosted Flakes in generic black and white packaging?
I heard about this a looooong time ago from Scott Jehl at jQuery con in San Fran. jQuery mobile has known about this for a while. I am glad to see everybody seems to know about it cause I could definitely see devs getting frustrated over this.
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Depends on the IDE. I use Python with Eclipse. Auto-completion works quite perfectly. Refactoring too.
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Shuttleworth founded Thawte in 1995 and then sold it to VeriSign in December 1999, earning about US$ 575 million. Does this sound like a man whose stance needs to "shift towards capitalism"?
Yeah, that would be the difficulty.

If I get time (have to concentrate mostly on job-hunting for now) I was thinking of doing a "auto-post-to-twitter" to try and pull people outside the conversation in.
If I were asked to make such a device, I would build a flexible mirror whose curve could be adjusted by an array of attached screws. I'd fix said mirror to a car, and adjust the screws until the desired curve was reached. I'd then measure the curve and duplicate it in a rigid finished product.

It's actually amazing that it took a physicist/mathematician to think of this thing. I doubt I would have come up with the idea. It goes to show how domain knowledge shapes your perception of the world.
It's an interactive Voronoi Diagram: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi_diagram
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A full second? Facebook has 900,000,000 active users. They would need over 10,000 CPUs running for 24 hours just to log them in.
I'm biting my tongue but everyone here knows there are only 10 kind of people in the world.
Interesting, I didn't realize he had been detained so much. It does make one wonder how much detaining "activist" types actually helps anything though.

Also, do we know if he was detained by USCBP or CBSA (i.e. Canadian Customs)? You did mention he was detained as he was leaving the country, and unless they were running a special program that day (which happens every so often), usually the US side doesn't examine people leaving.
This is pretty handy until were all switched over to IPv6 and we'll need to "to solve the problem once and for all" again.
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Hope I'm not a customer of the commentators declaring they don't have time or resources to help all customers who ask. If you don't, you're not holding up your end of the bargain.
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It's a bad question, though. Either you know the answer, or the peephole optimizer will do a better job than you will, and therefore you should use what's most readable. I agree with GP that these kinds of questions are unfortunate noise at stackoverflow.
There has been enough criticism from scientific community at large and more importantly from within the OPERA collaboration that their spokespeople resigned from their position.

Not much of that criticism coming from respectable scientists made it to mainstream media, though. I presume that is because they did not want to show a "holier than thou" attitude openly. But internally a lot of people thought "they must have done something wrong" and after they found the error "what were they thinking?".

I think your impression is wrong, but very understandable unless you interacted with people offering criticism directly or semi-directly through one or two persons.
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Exactly. I used to get outraged/saddened/furious when i see that attitude 90% of the population, till i realized, it's inevitable in any economy, except perhaps a communist style, forced one.
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"In a dynamically typed language 201/2 will give you 100.5"

Not necessarily. Python gives 100, PHP gives 100.5, Perl gives 100.5, Ruby gives 100.

Edit: Versions are Python 2.7.3, PHP 5.3.10, Perl 5.14.2 and Ruby 1.8.7, all as shipped with Ubuntu Precise.
tl;dr: acquire data through crowdsourcing, it will create an awesome edge above and beyond making data acquisition easy

The data acquisition could be organic and crowdsourced. For instance, it is possible that some people take pride in their home cities and then would take the time create a "tour" in order to share their unique perspective with outsiders. The motivation for a person to take the time to do this might be as simple as wanting to present's one proud city in the best light. A karma feature would be solid as well. There would still be the "chicken and egg" problem to get content and users, but maybe there is a creative solution for that.

This happens on an ad hoc basis all the time. Take me for an example. I'm a long-time Philadelphia resident. When friends or family (or friends thereof) visit the City of Brotherly Love, I'll often get an email, FB message, or call asking, "What should I do when I'm in Philadelphia?" (Unfortunately, I also get "Pat's or Geno's all too often, too) I'll then take 20 minutes to type a message with my "insider" perspective on how to get the most out of a touristy trip. I could do a write-up for this particular service on Philly in 2 minutes just by searching my gmail and finding my last recommendation email.

The social/crowdsourced data acquisition could have cool implications.
- First, it would be an insider perspective and everyone loves to feel like they experienced the "real deal" instead of scratching the surface of various tourist traps.
- Second, rather than having one generic tour for each city, there would be a menu of user-created tours to choose from. I know if my mother were visiting Antwerp, she would have a much different agenda than I would. Therefore, the social aspect of this method would enable a user to filter "tours" by the demographic profile of the "tour guide." I'll look for 20-something "tour guides" who posted activities with an active tilt whereas my mom will look for recommendations on art museums and sites with historic value.

Revenue model (long-term) is obvious. Sell advertising. Local businesses can target advertising to a desirable audience: one that is captive and more likely to spend money. Think restaurants, bars, hotels, hostels, rental cars/scooters, entertainment, tourist attractions. With this app, there will be great info on where the tourist plans to go so the advertising will have exceptional value. Obviously the service can't cheapen the value of the "insider info" by drowning a user in ads, but thoughtfully placed ads would probably be tolerable (and effective).

I like this idea. I would use it all the time, personally. Let me know if you end up pursuing it and want some help!
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Whats wrong with capitalism? Anyway, unless you're some religious whack-job Microsoft hater I don't see whats wrong with this; or how it relates to Ubuntu "losing it's way". Linux is a free alternative for anyone who needs or wants it, spreading it's use is great for everyone.. I praise MS for this one too, even though it's still not enough for me to want to use azure :)
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Recently Microsoft Azure started supporting ubuntu and Mark shuttleworth praised microsoft, does Mark shuttleworth stand has shifted towards capitalism and forgot how often microsofts threatens GNU/Linux with patents.

I'm sorry to tell you that your question is at best confuse. You mix Capitalism, Microsoft Azure and patents in the same phrase while questioning the "ways" of Ubuntu - this makes no sense.

1. If Ubuntu runs on an MS platform more power to Linux, this means even MS recognize the strength of Linux.

2. Capitalism - from where you think the money for developing Ubuntu and Linux in general are coming ? Do you really think Linux is developed by people in their free time ? Sorry to break it to you but today's most Linux development is made by people hired by private companies.

3. Mark Shuttleworth is a businessman, don't confuse him with a member of FSF.
… which has a clunky interface, annoying limitations and since release has been pushed forward by others (i.e. Mozilla).

Microsoft has had a few first-to-market ideas but they're horrible at continuous improvement because their core business is freezing an API and supporting it for a decade so enterprises feel comfortable using it.
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So you're planning to buy your kid a ferrari, because he wants it?

Screw that. If my kid is the kind of person who wants a ferrari, that will motivate him to get rich and buy one. But I would be really disappointed in myself as a parent if that's what my kid grows up to value.
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I experienced the strict setting of sitting in a classroom, facing forwards, listening to the teacher give demonstrations and then answering tens of questions that followed the same pattern. This was from 16-18 and was only a small change from what I had experienced previously.
Before that we had at least been allowed to talk to each other, I think because the teacher recognised how needed that is.

Once I was studying for my A-levels however I was in a group of people who wanted to learn maths, we had chosen the subject after all. But we were given a teacher who demanded that we were silent, demanded that when we had a problem we asked her and not each other. Except for some students she came to the conclusion that their not understanding was their fault and would just tell them that they should have listened originally, for others it would just take too long to get an answer because the class was overcrowded with students. Twenty-five students at that level is far too many for one teacher.

Some students fell behind, and when they decided that instead of doing the parts of the subject they had no chance of understanding they would work on things they did understand to get up to speed, they had less advanced mock papers taken from them and told to do what they were told to do.

Students dropped maths, very able students dropped the subject. A lot of people's marks were hurt drastically due to just coming to hate the subject. We knew that discussing things with each other would help us a lot, it was good that I could turn to someone and ask them to explain something right then without having to wait for the single teacher to deal with the five other people who needed help before me. Hence, we did it anyway because it worked and we weren't stupid enough to keep silent just because the teacher told us to, we had to do this to learn, and we had voluntarily chosen the subject to learn.

So yes, I completely agree with the argument that the traditional approach is broken and that nobody wins. It's the only thing at that school that I have bad memories of, every other department, even other teachers within the maths department, knew the value of group based learning.
A bad teacher using a bad method can ruin peoples view of an entire subject extremely quickly which can lead to disastrous results.
No study can control all the variables enough to convince a fanboy that his favorite language isn't the greatest ever. However, the current state of PL research is as close to astrology as you can get. Why are we working on type systems and modules and concurrency primitives et. al. without a scrap of evidence that any of it contributes to programmer productivity? There's no science there.

In fact, everyone here should flip this around and ask: can you design a practical experiment to compare productivity of dynamic vs. static languages? Will others find it convincing? Probably not. PL advocates are no different than religious missionaries. They have no objective proof of any of their claims. And both will murder the natives if they don't convert.

edit: Fowler's view here http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html
He's right in that we won't remember either solely for the money the made. But Steve Jobs will be remembered along the lines of people like Thomas Edison. And he'll probably be studied in business classes for a very long time, both for the smart and not so smart moves.
You generally calculate 2^Y because you want to work with a Y-bit quantity somehow. Like generating a mask with the Yth bit set, calculating the size of a Y-bit address space, allocating storage for a power set of Y items, ... In these cases it's OK because bits are actually the thing that matters. With division, they usually aren't.
My intent was that the server should still be responsible for scrambling the password as usual. - My question is only about changing the algorithm server-side.
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Good point. I intended from Ubuntu point of view.
I can't believe this is something that someone needed to "invent".

I bought a $5 concave mirror that I attached to the outer edge of my wife's mirrors, and they work better than this!
Looking at downvotes on the parent post. I am bothered by the fact that participants of similar security discussion so easily downvote or lash out against any questions or ideas that diverge from their favorite mainstream. Seems like a common trend even outside of HN.

It's a perfectly valid post. No one says "use this, this is awesome and secure". If you think the idea is bad, then answer with an explanation. The -1 is simply not useful here. (Neither are one-liners that boil down to -1.)