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>It has little interest in your personal data, but it will hold on to it if you want a backup.

I find that statement to be incredibly naive. Personal data has immense value to companies and Apple already has experience in advertising.

There's also a big difference between Apple and Mozilla. Apple clearly wants all your data in their iCloud and the new version of OS X will seemingly push that aggressively. Mozilla on the otherhand uses client side encryption for Sync and you can run your own Sync server. [1]

[1] http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html
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>they are infusing Oracle with humanity that it does not in fact have.

Corporations are people too, you insensitive clod!
It's an uneven playing field. In order to play on their pitch (i.e. show TV ads, billboards, magazine ads, etc.) you need to have a lot of money. If you don't have money, you can't get your message across. It's lobsided and unbalanced.

It's about as honest a debate as a soviet election where all other political parties are banned.
It's been a long time since I've been on shared hosting, but I thought they usually offered some kind of anonymous upload-only FTP directory. Couldn't your users upload to that and then your application can read from that directory?
But the shiny object that has my attention at present consists of low-voltage ARM-type chips running on tiny inexpensive systems that can be stacked together to do all kinds of interesting things for a fraction of the power my Intel Xeon uses

This sentiment is repeated very often, but has someone actually done the math (in the case you do temporarily need a lot of processing power)? E.g., the following post estimates the power use of a Raspberry Pi around 2W:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=60...

A recent Xeon or Core i7 is many times faster, and has the advantage of providing shared-memory parallelism (as opposed to a cluster of Pi's, where you have to distribute work over a 100MBit network).

Also, when he wants to save power, he shouldn't use a Xeon. Intel Core mobile CPUs, draw a relatively small amount of power as well. E.g. last time I measured my Mac Mini, it used 12W during normal use. And it's actually a usable desktop machine, in contrast to the Raspberry Pi.
Simple: I'd stop paying for dropbox. And not only if they did this to me, but if I found out from a reliable source that they were doing this to anyone.

I figure that's a good enough incentive for them to not try to monitor their files.

But yeah, I pretty much agree with your basic point to not solely rely on cloud services. Always have a physical backup of stuff you actually want/need.
And don't forget the Hudson fiasco! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software))
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Well publish is a totally different thing, i have no problem with that as long private shares are excluded. I am not thrilled to publish my Porn Folder to the public anyway (and yeah, i admit i have one).

Interesting would be if they scan anything unpublished.
http://orange.biolab.si/ is also good. It has a nice GUI.
Yes, in theory this is against the law and Shell could sue them. However, that might not be a good PR move. Greenpeace might fight back, they could go to trial, try to get documents, make claims about "Shell trying to censor talk about their artic drilling" etc.

Shell hope this will all just blow over. Litagation will not help it blow over.
No. Those are pretty orthogonal notions (if you're talking about the idea that you excerpt existing pages that's not really what semantic web means nowadays), and the semantic web remains a terrible idea.

What we need is a more efficient legal process for online statements that cross the line into defamation, and better collaborative filtering (the whole point of sites like reddit is that the truth should out).
We've been over this so many times... Backup != Dropbox and the like.

Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946416

See this thread from a week ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4224518

In short:

If you are a hacker or care about security and have money: SpiderOak or Tarsnap

Source code: Git

If you are poor and care about security: Dropbox with TrueCrypt (be careful that you don't mount simultaneously)

None of the above and lazy: Dropbox vanilla (better terms, non-evil non-giant company)
Look towards your grandfather's daily activities and not just his diet. My grandparents too lived to a ripe old age eating foods that make so called experts cringe. The real difference between them and our generation was that they never led a sedentary lifestyle.

Sometimes I believe the office style of work that many celebrate; because it freed them from the fields and such; probably is the least beneficial change we have made.

We are not designed to be idle.
In theory, yes, Shell could sue. But it'd generate more PR and more negative attention. Shell want it to blow over. Litagation will not make it blow over.
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Looking at how much they raised until now, I'd say that if they don't have some powerful communication relays planned for the next 2 weeks they won't make it to $500k.

I don't know whether this is due to the fact that they're not on Kickstarter or that the project is just not viral/exciting/relevant enough.
>Show me a non Apple laptop...blah blah blah

I have a Sony Vaio VGN FZ-21S. Its almost three and a half years old. When I bought it, it was the price of a Mac book pro. It had more performance, speed, features than a Mac book pro back then, including a Blu-Ray drive. It has survived huge amounts of mis-handling. I've dropped it into places where no one would even imagine - Sea (saline water), Rain water puddles, etc. and it still works fine.

I'm a film maker. I use it for heavy rendering, sometimes it is turned on without even a restart for several weeks or even months. It came with a defective GPU chipset and the entire motherboard was replaced free of cost even after its warranty period.

My friend has an Apple Mac book pro. I borrowed it once to do some comparisons. I will put up a blog post on this soon, but here's what you need to know:

1) ALL 2011 Apple Mac's have a shitty display contrast, compared to what this particular Sony Vaio gives you. The color and the contrast is beautiful on a Sony. Period. FYI - I'm a graphic/Web designer too, and this is really important for my work.

2) Apple charges you for anything that is not under warranty. But in my case (and millions of other Sony owners') Sony didn't charge us a single penny.

3) I compose music too. My Sony has an inbuilt ASIO chipset. The sound quality from this chipset is nothing like what you've heard before (assuming you've owned only Apple products). Its amazing. I compared it with the MB pro. Shit it was. Just like their iPods (If you argue the iPod has a better sound quality, then please stop reading right here. I don't want to argue with you anymore)

4) The MB pro heats like hell. I can't render something for more than 6-7 hours. BS. I might as well use it to fry an omlet.

Its ok to like Apple and its not my problem if you like Apple or not. But don't manipulate facts to suit your argument.

Because, this statement:

>Show me a non Apple laptop that I can pick up and will feel as solid and sleek as my 2011 MacBook Pro

is not accurate, heavily manipulated and is utter bullshit. It clearly indicates how biased you are and how ignorant you are about the pace at which the rest of the non-apple gadgets improve, day-by-day, which is atleast thrice as fast as how Apple's gadgets improve.

To answer your original question -
>Show me a non Apple laptop that I can pick up and will feel as solid and sleek as my 2011 MacBook Pro

Please check out the Laptop sections of Sony, Toshiba, Dell, Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo and HP from their corresponding websites.

Have a nice day.
What is the big problem with Porn anyway, especially the US where almost all Internet Porn comes from. Studies have found nearly every man consumes it, how can there be a stigma to it?

Well of course we have to protect the children and they shouldn't find it accidentally, then publishing should be the only issue here.
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This assumes Amazon is using SLC and not MLC drives, which are considerably cheaper. Also, the quote above is from SoftLayer I believe, which is not the cheapest provider for high end hardware.
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I am really happy that Firefox 15 stops most of the leaks caused by firebug. Competition is good.
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The Nazi party had some good people trying to do good things too. Just sayin'.
Some notes:

1. You can't order from OVH if you're from outside their list of approved countries.
2. You're not using any RAID and those are desktop grade SSD drives, and they tend to die out, sometimes without a clear warning, as they're not really intended for 24/7 server use.
I don't see a problem in using PHP. Consider how you break down your infrastructure. Don't build monolithic code-bases which you cannot maintain. Make small compact services (SOA) which you know you can build out quickly. RoR is for people who want to spend a lot of time learning the framework. At this point, it's so large you will probably never even feel like you can encompass it's full size. Kinda like django. Don't ditch php because people say it doesn't scale. YouPorn.com thought it scaled quite well. They get a crap load of traffic to boot.
The hell it is!

I'm 29, father of a 2.5 months boy. I work at a start up that is doing quite ok.

I took 20 days paternity leave when my kid was born plus a week paid vacation. I'm taking an extra month paternity leave as well in a month. Another colleague (male) is having a baby on the 27th this month, he'll do exactly the same.

I hardly work more than 40 hours a week (sometimes I get a call on Sunday to fix an important issue or something, but not regularly). I don't trade work hours (even if it includes pay) for time spent with my kid. I just don't. And you know what? I'm not shunned for it by my boss. Hell, during my wife's pregnancy, I had to take a lot of time off and work a part of it from home and he was actually proud I was putting my family first.
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No, Chrome is owned by an internet monopolist. But hey, that's better than a small OS vendor, right?
>And surprised that you think defending patents is evil because almost every major IT company right now is doing that.

If all the sheep walk off the cliff then it's the right thing to do!
This is why I prefer services to be with different providers. Having storage with dropbox, mail with gmail, phone with Apple etc. etc. means one service dying won't kill your entire online persona. While if you use G-drive, gmail, android phone, Google everything like they want you're basically screwed if you violate the TOS of any service.
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Thank you for pointing that out. Didn't notice that. Time to move away from gmail. It's not longer a FUD highlighting some clause saying "they can close your account". Because now they are actively closing user accounts.
[edit - one additional point which is probably more important than the rest. if you've already done one rewrite and you're thinking of another, your problem is you probably don't know how to move the ball down the field in a business sense so you're picking up the only hammer you have - technology choice, and repeatedly swinging it. Take a step back, ask yourself if the problem is fear of the unknown, and attack the true problem - how do you get users to USE your product. If truly the answer is "my users don't want me to use Rails", I'd be shocked.]

First, I'd say I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Second, don't go replacing MySQL because you're worried about scale. I have yet to find a database that really easily scales better. You can trade a whole lot of development time to use something like Cassandra or Riak, (which are both great for particular applications). Then you spend a huge, huge amount of time building queries that were easy in Rails and you actually didn't solve any end-user facing problems. You just made it where only one of your developers actually can create queries and nobody can maintain the code.

Third, don't go replacing Rails because you're worried about scale. It's not the fastest thing but it's just not worth losing sleep over.

Just add the appropriate technology where you need it - I probably wouldn't build a recommendation engine in Ruby; perhaps that is the only piece that you build using something else.

Here's what we often do @ Inaka - web and admin in Rails, business "logic" and stuff that needs to scale (either because we have tons of socket connections or because we have a lot of data to crunch) in Erlang. (Insert Java or Python or whatever you need for the backend piece in place of Erlang.)

Then build an internal HTTP API that Rails can talk to. Abstract that in a model class. Have Rails call into it as needed. RecommendationEngine.recommend(...) returns JSON with the magical results for your Rails app to render appropriately.

Typically we give our Rails users an "api key" (that they don't know about) that is used to authenticate calls to the backend service, so we don't even have to share user authentication schemes between the systems. Then you can use devise or whatever you want for Rails but don't have to re-implement the same password hashing algorithms - authenticating those users is just a quick lookup in the user table.

Sometimes that service API may even be part of a publicly available HTTP API. For instance, imagine the backend piece exposes part of its API to mobile devices. Then, some of the methods may be authenticated and some are open to the world.
Thanks for the reply and sorry for not checking the history. This is my first visit to HN.
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Thanks for the link. It may not be a cash cow in comparison to the rest of Apple's business, but a 44% gross profit margin sounds pretty substantial to me.
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This is especially bad when you lose money. As stated in the article, he lost apps that he had bought and paid for! This is a very gray area, and the fact that a software company can put arbitrary rules for one of its services that affect your assets in another domain, assets you paid for, is possible illegal.

Think about what happened if you went to Wal-Mart and purchased clothes and other items there. Then, two years later, you cause an incident at Wal-Mart and you are banned from their store. Does that give Wal-Mart the right to come to your house and burn everything you previously bought at their store???
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Just... no. You're presenting "anecdotal" as if to contrast it with something like "established pattern." But "anecdotal" just means that something is a remembered story, nothing else.

So, there is something which we do called "observation." This is when we want to know the truth of something, so we set up some sort of meaningful experiment which we can do in the world, and find out. We go out and observe.

The reason that an anecdote is not an observation is because it comes to you first. That is, you already know the result of the anecdote before you select the data; it is something you "remember" when you hear about a new situation. This invokes all kinds of biases about how you remember, because you tend to remember anomalies -- and you tend to misremember their content. In anecdotes there is no "control group" and there isn't even a hope for a control; it's all been selected out anyway.

In this respect a single observation is not anecdotal, because they come from separate places. If a doctor puts a flow-meter in an artery after a bypass surgery to see if there is blood flowing at a normal cardiac rate, that is not an "anecdote", that is an "observation." It is not based on some sort of human reckoning; "I've done many bypass surgeries and I once saw an artery which looked just like that and was not, in fact, obstructed," but rather it's something reliable: at this time, a normal amount of blood was flowing through this artery.
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Unfortunately skinny does not imply healthy. I am also skinny with high metabolism, but that doesn't mean it's okay to eat whatever you want and forego exercise as your internals could be like those of a much older individual (heart, lungs, etc).
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I firmly recommend Tarsnap. Even though it's paid, it's fairly cheap (at least by European/US standards) since you only pay exactly what you use, the client application is open source and it's a one-man-show by Dr. Colin Percival, cperciva here on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva

It's not for everyone, though:

At the present time, Tarsnap does not support Windows
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People don't have that much difference in metabolisms (unless we are talking about actual health problems or differences between severe overweight and athletes). What happens is most people don't know what they are eating.

BBC did a documentary where two friends, one skinny and one fat, swore the difference was due to metabolism, that the skinny one ate a lot and the fat one didn't. They tested it and found out that the fat one used more calories than the thin one, but also took a lot more calories per day.

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I think there is a problem with these accounts that encapsulate a lot of different services that need to be addressed.

I had my Youtube account suspended and that subsequently banned me from my Gmail, Docs etc. You feel vulnerable.

Maybe some kind of policy that forced the provider to at least block you only for a specific service ?
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This article is about Microsoft, I don't think there are examples of Google doing this. (Although there have been similar things in the past).

If you want to move away from gmail, who would you move to? I suspect that almost all services will have similar terms, so the only option would be to host your mail yourself. Even then, you probably can't use most hosting services to run the server.
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I think you misread that article. In the most basic sense, it isn't possible for Apple to get 44% profit margin when developers get 70%.

Here's how I understand the argument in the article (but keep in mind the numbers are as of 2010 so they aren't current.)

Basically, the article is saying that Apple claimed that developers earned $1 billion through 2010. Since developers earn 70%, the total revenue coming into Apple would be a billion / .7 = 1.428 billion giving them a profit of $428 million (matching the figure in the article). Then the article does some estimations about how much of that $428 million goes to the credit card company and is used for processing instead of being Apple's profit and calculates that Apple only gets 44% of their 30% as profit. (Although comments on the article suggest that Apple might be able to get more favorable deals with the credit card company than what was used in the estimations.)

So if you trust the article's credit processing fee assumptions, then Apple gets $189 million of the $1.428 billion which is about 13%. And if you factor in their costs for free apps ($81 million is cited in the article), the effective percentage becomes ((189-81)/189) * 13% = 7%.

Edit: I'm pretty sure these numbers are the right interpretation of the article. Somebody in the comments mentioned that the 44% should be 14% net profit since it matches some graph that I haven't seen and that seems similar to the 13% I got in the above calculations.
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