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I drive a car with 200hp and when it's full it struggles on hills.

You must drive alone. But a lot of people have families, and when you fit them in, plus groceries (or luggage), you need more than 60hp.

Plus with 60hp I'd probably never be able to leave the house, since in order to merge I have to accelerate quite fast, since (during the day) it's rare to get much of a gap in the traffic. (To make it worse, due to parked cards, the other cars aren't able to see me try to merge, and I can barely see them. So when I sense a gap I hit the gas to avoid getting hit from behind.)
People normally try to site big datacenters with dual high voltage feeds from separate substations.

Taking down the entire grid causes many problems, and basically doesn't happen (it happened in the Northeast a few years ago....) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003

The problem is diesel generators basically suck, especially when left powered off. In the long run, I predict fuel cells will take over in the standby power market.
Is there an Odin particle that banishes frost giants?
Show HN: Broadband Metering Tool (Dsum)
I'm using Airtel Broadband connection of 4Mbps with 30 GB limit per month plan (Bangalore, India). Initially when I subscribed to this plan it was sufficient for us (for me & for my roomies). It is frustrating when you realize that the net speed goes down to 256 Mbps because you’ve exceeded the 30 GB limit (download/upload total).

I needed a simple & smart tool which can tell me how much I (& also my other roomies) have download so far on our wifi connection. So, I wrote this script in one night – Broadband Meter (Codename: Dsum).
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In general, this article is in defense of Perl programmers. Although I don't look forward to doing any blessing or hexing again, I'll agree that Perl has merits and can even scale with the right mindset (a masochistic one, jk).

These types of articles remind me of old martial arts films where rival schools try to prove which forms are the best. Rarely does anyone in the movie realize or mention that the road is far less important than the traveler walking upon it. (Insert actual Jeet Kwun Do / Bruce Lee quote)

Nitpicking, but does the writer change audiences two thirds of the way down? At first chromatic is addressing programmers and then apparently flips over to hiring managers or entrepreneurs. Or maybe the audience is just anyone who thinks Perl is only for quick hacks.

Finally, I checked out chromatic's projects page[1]. There are some contributions to larger projects, but I had to chuckle when I looked at the source code for Class::Roles and saw it was a few monolithic lines. Yea, Perl lets you do that, but who wants to read that, especially if you are stuck on a UNIX terminal and for some reason don't have syntax highlighting?

[1] http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/perl/index.html
This is untrue, Apple does have FRAND patents. The ZeroConf patents (4,661,902 and 4,689,786) are just two examples. However Apple has always made those patents available under FRAND terms. For instance this was its statement with regards to its intellectual property rights contained within one of the draft IETF networking standards:

In the event that the technology discussed in the Document becomes an IETF
standard (the "Standard") which is not materially different from the Document,
Apple agrees, upon written request from a Party to negotiate outside of IETF
to make available a non-exclusive license under reasonable and non-discriminatory
("RAND") terms and conditions under such claims of the Patents that are essential
to implement a product compliant with the Standard (a "Compliant Product").
These RAND terms and conditions may be conditional upon a reciprocal grant or
defense use.
[1]

While I am unimpressed by the current patent war, the unnecessary injunctions and Apple's suits, I believe that the abuse of FRAND patents by Motorola Mobility, Samsung and, by proxy, Google are threatening to undermine the entire basis of FRAND patents which could have severe consequences in future.

[1]http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/420/
If you want to write functions that are polymorphic on any monad, they'd have to take a type argument explicitly, which also reduces their cost-effectiveness.

I am not sure Monads are a cost-effective abstraction in most languages.
If they did that, they could almost cut down to 6min battery per site and skip the generators. In the event of any problem, sound the 5 minute warning, and relocate all jobs to another datacenter.

(generators and UPS might be cheaper, especially since all facilities have them, than getting all users to be good at handling failure gracefully. It's ok for an in-house datacenter doing batch processing, or with great developers, like Google, but probably not for a generalized IaaS)
They won't stop or slow down until something else makes them irrelevant.

I so hope open data combined with web-intents and a slew of standardized service-negotiation protocols comes and solves this in a final, crushing, open move.

Want event-management? Fine. That's data. Stored in your calendar. Which can be stored and managed somewhere else, just loosely connected, with OAuth to make sure nothing bad happens.

Want participant-management for those events? Fine. That's data attached to your events. Which can use your contact-data as a source. Which can be stored and managed somewhere else, just loosely connected, to one or many services, with OAuth to make sure nothing bad happens.

Want photos tied to those events? That's data. You get the idea. There should be no need to consolidate all your stuff one place. We don't do it in real life and we shouldn't have to do it on the internet either.

I dream of an internet composed of micro-services of open data talking together, composing new wonderful things.

You use the service which you think does things best for the things it does best, and you use other services for things you think they do better. You put together your own cloud of services and data.

In this world, horrible and monolithic beasts like facebook are not only not needed. They are not wanted.

We just need to standardize. We just need to chisel out the semantics of how we hook services together in a way which normal users can handle.

This is the only true path I can see forward, which stays true to the roots of the internet. This is the one path maximizing freedom, choice and reliability through network distribution.

I so cannot wait to see it realized.
I'm usually dubious of that list.
From my experience their "gold" standard often means "basically runs but with frequent graphical glitches, 50% of the original framerate and occasional segfaults"
Does anyone have the actual information of how many standard deviations the data confirms the Higgs to? Last I heard it was four, so I assume that this "update" has more, but I can't find any actual information anywhere.

Edit: found it, physorg says that there's a reported "1 in 1.7 million chance" of them being wrong, which comes out to a z-score of around 4.86. So pretty close to 5, which is their standard, if I remember correctly.
I've seen some hyperbolic statements on Google/Motorola/Samsung vs. Apple FRAND patent litigation recently, as if such tactics were unprecedented, and the amounts asked scandalous. I would suggest every person who is getting emotional in the Apple-Android dispute to have a look at this document on 4G FRAND patents:

http://www.investorvillage.com/uploads/82827/files/LESI-Roya...

It gives some context: Audiences can expect to see the same licensing challenges that first appeared in GSM (2G) and which re-appeared in UMTS (3G) starring again in LTE (4G). The plot is essentially the same: lots of essential patents and many different patent holders.

And an interesting quote from Motorola (undated, accessed in 2009):

Motorola expects that its essential patent royalty rate for LTE systems and equipment will be approximately 2.25 percent.

I'll leave to the courts to decide if this is an appopriate royalty rate for an iPhone. Note that there is a trend of declining rates: Qualcomm used to collect between 4% and 5% of the sales price for FRAND patent royalties[1]. This has since declined to about 3% [2]. As for court actions, Nokia settled with Apple in 2011[3] over FRAND patents[4] for €800m. Apple would also pay Nokia €8 per device, equivalent to 1.75% of the sales price.

That being said, I agree that injunctions should not be granted on FRAND patents. I can't imagine a case where it makes sense.

[1] http://www.sramanamitra.com/2007/05/22/iphone-and-the-future...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/01/21/qua...

[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/14/apple-nokia...

[4] http://www.scribd.com/doc/28285432/Nokia-s-Motion-to-Dismiss...
Nokia is selling millions of Lumina phones to rave reviews by consumers and experts, but let's write them off because you have a different phone.

This stuff happens all the time, let's not forget that Google sold HTC patents strictly for the purpose of letting HTC use those patents to sue Apple.
The generator thing confused me a bit. It seems like the main issue wasn't that the generators failed, but that they took far longer to spin up than expected, so the automatic switchover failed to take, and they had to do a manual switchover at a later point (at which point the UPSes had already started failing). Or am I reading it wrong?

I wonder what the additional cost would be to leave a generator running 24/7 (at minimal load), so you never have an issue with spinning them up. Are they designed to run 24/7/365, or will they wear out too quickly?
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I have no idea why it's behaving like that, it was working before I posted it here. :S

edit: if you go to the link they posted on g+ you can read the article. I'm not sure why, maybe it's checking the referrer:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/113457471429583444041/posts/GDsk...
What will have happened is, the CIA will have said "send us the kid or you wont get a scrap of intelligence from us again." They have a track record of doing that. That's why we have secret courts now: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9...

Nice one for that lads.
Thanks for your response. As I'm a Mac user, I'd completely forgotten about the WinKey. And now that I think about it, I guess it was silly of me not to try alt,win-tab.

The jumpiness I was mentioning is hard to explain. But it's not my graphics card, I'm sure. Most animations are just fine, but when you 'snap' an app from the top and drag it to the middle, there's an odd jumpiness in the way the window scales up. In 150ms, it goes from 20% to 50%, then instantly (less than 10ms) scales to 90% and then it takes another 100ms to fill the screen. It's just not natural IMO.

But, still, I guess most (naive) Windows users aren't familiar with WinKey and alt,win-tab and must be "educated" beforehand, and that could be tough for Microsoft to do adequately, and it could lose them significant market share. Win8 on a tablet is of course completely a different situation and could be nice and pleasant.

With your shortcuts, I think I can manage to use Win8 (for the very limited tasks that I need it, a few times a week) after all. Thanks a lot!
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Ask HN: this is how Google could make iOS native Mail app open links in Chrome
Okay, this is just an idea, and in the end only Gmail people can implement this, but I wouldn't be surprised that some googlers are visiting HN every now and then so I thought I would give it a stab here:

So, everybody knows that Apple doesn't (and likely will never) allow to choose a default browser on iOS other than Safari.
I am somewhat a fan of some alternative browsers like iCabMobile and of course the brand new Chrome (among some others) so it is really a pain to be dragged down to Safari (which is still quite decent, don't get me wrong) every time you click on a link somewhere. This is especially true in Mail.

Of course, there are solutions when you jailbreak and I've done it before but this is not exactly mainstream, and you're back to square one whenever there's a new device that can't be jailbroken usually for months.

So I've thought about a different approach: you probably know about the bookmarklet trick that opens safari's current page in Chrome (or others) by basically replacing the 'http' prefix by 'googlechrome'.

That got me thinking: what if the mail provider (say Gmail) would apply the same trick to each link in the emails it serves to iOS devices? You could choose in your Gmail settings which default browser you want your links to be opened with and that would be it!

At the moment, iOS devices point to the 'm.google.com' server but it sounds easy enough to use instead something like 'ios.google.com' to target iOS devices only, with the modified prefixes.
And you keep the ability to easily manage your email as usual (archiving, using folders/labels, etc) the exact way you already do (which wouldn't be as easy by developing some sort of proxy server you would forward your mail to like some 3rd party notification services used to do).

I know, easier said than done, and I'm maybe overlooking some blatant issue (aside from Apple being probably pissed off by the trick) but from my point of view that would be a cool way to bring back a bit of choice here...

Your thoughts?
Is she elected? Write her an email with your opinion.

Since ACTA affair I've started to write emails to politicians every time I don't like sth, telling them why I don't like it, and that I'll persuade my friends not to vote them because of the things they did that I don't like.

I don't know if it works, but I feel much better after sending such email :) I even got a few responses (mostly stupid, but still).
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Please don't. If they really hurry up to fix things they could just create another breakage ;) Let them time to really think through it and fix the damage, instead of trying to do a "quick fix in production".
It's especially interesting to look at Amazon.com vs. AWS.

IIRC, Amazon.com doesn't use ELB, they use some proper load balancers (with DNS above) in front of several Regions of ELBs.

I wonder if there's a market for global load balancing + advanced DNS tricks as a service, even if you're using Amazon entirely. Generally extending Amazon's IaaS with features Amazon should implement hasn't been a great strategy, as Amazon eventually implements an inferior but cheaper or easier (or at least default) solution for non-core parts.

Kind of surprised to see www.amazon.com goes to DC for me (from SF), though. It's possible it's all in US-East, across all the AZ's, and just has localized sites like co.uk in other places.
"is not illegal under UK law"

I believe what he is accused of is illegal under UK law - but that the Crown Prosection Service appears to have no interest in prosecuting him.

Why we would extradite someone for a crime which nobody can be bothered prosecuting him for here seems a complete mystery to me. If he did commit a crime then then get him in a UK court to defend himself:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/24/richard-odwyer-lega...
This guy (me) is dead serious: http://youtu.be/n8ifu4718BQ
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As an Italian Apple behaviour really makes me rage. They believe to be above everyone, even governments. And this is the proof that Apple only cares about the money and not really about the customer.
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Tons of different benchmarks with source code and very comprehensive data for legacy and contemporary hardware.
They're free for personal use only. I'm sure you can contact him if you have something commercial in mind.
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It seems to me that almost all of the issues revolved around the complicated EC2/EBS control systems. Time and time again, we hear about an AWS failure which resulted in brief instance outages. If it was just a dumb datacentre, the affected servers would just boot up, run an fsck on the disks, and return to service. But because of the huge complexity added by the AWS stack, the control systems inevitably start failing, preventing everything from starting up normally.

I can't help but get the feeling that, if it weren't for the fancy "elastic" API stuff, these outages would remain nothing more than just minor glitches. At this point, I don't see how you could possibly justify running on AWS. Far better to just fire up a few dedicated servers at a dumb host and let them do their job.
I sympathise with Daniel Hunt in my heart though I rationally see where you're coming from. If I were to give a nice blank canvas as a gift to a child and they were to smear excrement all over it, in my gut I'd be annoyed but I could probably be talked around to the idea that it's a valid form of self-expression, even if it's not my cup of tea.

However, saying "I could care less" when you mean "I could not care less". There is no justification for such a heinous crime. Murderers can be rehabilitated, electro-convulsive therapy can take care of all manor of criminal perversions, so save your death penalty for when it is really in the public interest. For the unconvinced, the Guardian newspaper made a little video:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2010/may/20/la...
>I don't know if it works, but I feel much better after sending such email

Congratulations, you now understand democracy.
To steal a user's comment, finally an article that doesn't include "God particle" in the headline. I was rather disappointed in the CBC.
If it only had generics... that would make it a really viable option.
Is she elected? Yes. Was she elected for that role? No, she was picked out for it.

And despite people saying "this is stupid" she's got a track record for taking a standpoint and refusing to move even when it's one that causes people to actually get motivated in saying "We think this is wrong".
Diablo 2 actually had all business logic in the client itself because it needed to support single player and LAN play. They were able to just use the BNetD project to run Diablo 2 compatible battle.net servers with very little D2 specific logic.

A better comparison is probably WoW. Like Diablo 3, all of the business logic is server side and it did take awhile for emulators to pop up.
Good for him that he is able to play a WSOP-event, but many many poker players tweet during live tournaments. So from a poker players' perspective this is not all that interesting.

Good luck to him though, ship it :)
I just hope we don't have double standards and start extraditing people to Saudi Arabia for adultery - even if they committed the "crime" in the UK.

While we are on the subject shouldn't the UK attempt to extradite US "hate" organisations like the KKK who run a web-site clearly in violation of the UK's Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006.

Seriously, why shouldn't we? It is exactly the same thing, they said something online which is illegal to say in the UK - therefore we should extradite them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
Nobody asked for or authorized "their way." Their way aucks, as does their entire communication system. Even their intra-Facebook messages are a disgraceful mess. Messages are simply tacked onto threads that are months old. Different types of communications are scattered all over the place. Friend requests, direct messages... it's pathetic.

Facebook is not that complicated a concept, yet they manage to screw it up royally and never fix it.
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Let's hope they learned the "Faster than light neutrino" lesson...

EDIT: In reply to comments:

1. The speed of the neutrino had already been measure experimentally before. It was unlikely that a new experiment would produce different results.

2. Requests for help from the scientific community are not delivered via press releases. Specially in an area as relatively small as high energy physics where everyone knows everyone.

3. If you look at the slides used to announce the "result" http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?resId=0&material... nowhere does it mention that they are not sure of the results and are asking for help finding the error.

4. The actual article, that was directed at the scientific community, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1109.4897v2.pdf makes no mention of asking for help to understand where the problem is. It simply announces a new result and the checks that were made to "ensure" that it was correct (as is common in any other scientific publication announcing a new result).

5. Immediate reactions from several leading minds in high energy physics were against the validity of the result. Perhaps these people should have been contacted before if they weren't sure of the result?

6. Shortly after the announcement was made, dozens of papers popped up "explaining" the result from every possible angle and receiving varying degrees of media coverage, further giving the impression to the general public that scientists don't know what they are talking about.

Based on all of this, my conclusion can be just one. This was a publicity stunt that backfired. As a result, people lost their jobs and science was shamed in the public eyes. Nothing more than disservice to science in exchange for 15m of fame...
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The headline is misleading editorial which doesn't seem to have any sources to back up anything... Fox News worthy.

Is there a reliable source to say that the government will ignore this petition? Has Theresa May given a direct response?

This 'article' seems to have no actual new verified news in it from what I can see.

Personally I'm hopeful either the petition will have an effect, or he'll be able to drag things out indefinitely like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McKinnon (US have been trying to get him for 10 years for "unauthorised computer access").

Probably the best thing he could do is to get married and have some children...
Off-topic - but doesn't that confuse you? I gave up on desktop linux - partly because I don't like Gnome 3 or Unity (Gnome 2 was good though) but also because my fingers are so used to Cmd-S, Cmd-T etc. I tried mapping Ctrl to the Cmd key but that breaks other stuff (like the Unity launcher).
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Connecting site recommendations to user profiles has the potential to produce better, unspammable Google search results.

Google cannot allow other companies to get ahead of them on social search and remain competitive in their most important vertical.
> The headline is misleading editorial which doesn't seem to have any sources to back up anything... Fox News worthy.

Boing Boing worthy, really.
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