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Exactly. Closed source binaries are protected by "copyright" the way written works are. But written works are useful in and of themselves, whereas closed source binaries really aren't. It's the useful part -- the source code and algorithms -- that we want to become a public good, not the incomprehensible black box.

To get copyright protection you should be forced, eventually, to give away the good stuff.

Interestingly, in the early days of software development a lot of programmers didn't quite know what they needed to do to protect their software under copyright, and some I know personally went so far as to print out their code as books and deposit them with national libraries.
This is a fair point but an API is -always- going to be running in an ecosystem. If it's the Java ecosystem, not using a namespace flies in the face of tens or hundreds of thousands of people's conception of common convention. Which is most definitely not wise, even if src/main/java/reverse/dns/namespace is aesthetically unpleasing to some.

Things like the Play! Framework can get away with it because the framework is basically an exoskeleton around the Java code rather than a traditional container.
No problem! Have fun in Japan, I can't wait to return for at least a couple years. I spent a few months there and enjoyed every moment of it. It's not exactly easy for engineers to get jobs there though, and I have no interest in teaching English :/
I don't see the issue with businesses having a list of people who should not be admitted to a building no matter who guests them in. Certainly, fires were on a list of "do not enter" in a call center I worked at years ago, to avoid reprisal. My local Yelp seems to attract a different sort of troll considering the large amount of in-person interactions of its members and the psychopathic small-business owners who can't tolerate a bad review, or a series of bad reviews that reflect their attitude. This situation seems to have worked out poorly for all involved, but the policy of exclusion isn't necessarily the problem.

I don't understand why they couldn't have the desk find someone in HR or other related department (whoever issues the order) to confer with regarding this particular guest.
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Not if you exclude Motorola which wasn't part of Google 1 year ago.
No matter how promising you think any particular stock or investment is, there's always a chance that you're wrong. Are you willing to play russian roulette with your entire net worth?
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I'd love to, but it would take about an hour to run through everything.

Here's a short version:
There's a collective ecosystem problem of fragmented applications, not-quite-right command line utilities, web interfaces that look like they were designed in 1995, noisy log files people actually have to read constantly, and cross coupling of dependencies that make keeping a cluster live for production use a full time job.

There's the programming problem of nobody actually writing hadoop mapreduce code because it's impossibly complicated. Everybody uses hive and pig and half a dozen other tools to compile to pre-templated java classes (this knocks off 5% to 30% of your performance if you could do it by hand).

It hasn't grown because it's so amazing, performant, and company saving. It grows because people jumped on a fad wagon then got stuck with having a few hundred TB in HDFS. The lack of a competing project with equal mindshare and battle-testedness doesn't foster any competition. It's the mysql of distributed processing systems. It works (mostly), but it breaks (in a few dozen known ways), so people keep adding features and building on top of it.
It was Japanese - it was the Kanji for sakura (桜) - hence the cherry trees in the background.
Indeed. It's not hard to see how they could be producing value: if nothing else, they could be working on Wikipedia which always has an infinite number of tasks to do (such as copyediting, to tie into the OP, although a bachelor's or master's holder could be doing much more valuable in-depth research for an article), and that would produce a lot of value for all the hundreds of millions of Wikipedia users. The problem is capturing some of that value and returning it to them as a living wage.
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The idea is that TV is "obsolete" because of the Internet (see Hulu, Netflix, etc).
Can you horizontaly scale the redis backend or it supports only one instance?

Why restrain to sequential reducers when you can parallelize with partitions and sorting?
Betable has been banging their drum for ages now, but unless they change their strategy I doubt they are going to get anywhere.

There are simply no examples of a games using their platform, or at least I was unable to find one, and as a developer, why would I risk developing one in that situation?
I get the same impression about Florida (I've friends there). Lots of Microsoft. Even the Java apps run on Windows servers. I'd love to see more Python there.
> Not until we can push data across distances faster than the speed of light.

Ok, how is that possible? I genuinely am curious about the science. Feel free to provide links.
Ah yes. Didn't know about that.
Especially since if they were kids "Direct her to the BART" might not be an appropriate response
I don't know. Obviously this matters in determining how much FB is worth. It probably isn't much right now but, I see the potential for huge future earnings, they haven't found their adwords yet, I'm confident they will.
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Tell me about it. I went and bought a reprap. I now have a 3d printer on my desk that's priced well under a grand, that is cheap as hell to run and that is designed from the outset for making replacement and upgraded components for itself. - http://www.reprap.org

Why more people haven't bought one already is more of a mystery to me.
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Congrats guys. This is a great outcome for a solid company.
Have you ever tried to actually get gigabit speeds from the crap hardware installed in most PCs? Most companies use low end realtek or marvell controllers which may, if your lucky, have a good switch and have jumbo frames enabled get you to ~650-700 Mbps on a single large continuous stream. Performance only goes down from there are multiple connections are dealt with. If you want to take a look for yourself download iperf and see what you can actually put through standard consumer NICs and switches. The only NIC controllers I've seen actually get to true gigabit speeds are from Intel, and you still need a decent switch.
> bit wrong with a world in which SpaceX (a startup FWIW) can bootstrap a space programme from scratch for less money[2] than a photo uploader is apparently worth[3].

You're comparing apples and oranges:

1) what X is WORTH
2) what Y took as cash infusions

If you said "there's something wrong when a photo uploader is worth more than an orbital company", you'd be comparing apples to apples.

The mark of genius is that some people can take just a few apples and CREATE a stunning...uh...orange. OK, the analogy breaks down, but the point is: creating value is the POINT of a startup (or of any business, really), so we shouldn't be surprised that Elon Musk achieved a ton without that much cash input.
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And what technology stack you use.
M&A is the most common exit (other than failure). Even if a company like woot continues basically unaltered after amazon buys them, it is an exit from the perspective of venture investors.
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The search was actually in kanji, not hiragana. And the first result (a Wikipedia page), had sakura in katakana.

Sakura in kanji: 桜

Sakura in hiragana: さくら

Sakura in katakana: サクラ
Zencoder is acquired by BrightCove, a publicly traded company (NASDAQ:BCOV), no doubt for stock and cash. (I've not seen specific terms of the deal). Given they are publicly traded their stock can be converted into cash.

When my startup was acquired by a publicly traded company it was great for the employees because their vested stock turned into publicly tradeable shares overnight. Sort of like an IPO if you squint :-)
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We have (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thousandme...). We're considering open sourcing this as well in the coming weeks.
Heh. To the contrary, I was betting that if my simple-old self saw what was up, then so would everyone.

Thanks for the head's up though. I'm still all for the careful crafting of landing pages, but at least I know I wouldn't be wasting my time to script out a bunch to at least put up until / unless they can be replaced or upgraded.
I looked at their Term
* Resale and Redistribution

The Fiber Services are intended for the personal use of you and others with whom you share your residence (including, within reason, guests who are visiting you). You agree not to resell or repackage the Services for use by people other than those with whom you share your residence. If you wish to use the Google Fiber Services to provide Internet service to others, you must enter a separate agreement with Google Fiber that specifically authorizes you to do so. *

I do have some questions though. I get that a Fiber user cannot resell the bandwidth like a VPS provider. But how about hosting his own web server running a HN clone site?
I really tried to like it, but seeing lots of .exe files on my Unix machine is somewhat distressing. C#, even under Mono, is very Windows-like.
Amazing Aaron Levie parody Twitter account
Thanks for sharing the etherpad doc.
The biggest problem I had with OAuth 1 was that if you messed up anything chances are all you got back from the server was "Signature Invalid".

You're then stuck trying to find out where you had gone wrong with no guidance. The last time was due to an incorrect content type on the post. A coworker accidentally had the key and secret the wrong way around.

Both scenarios has the same error and you're often stuck groping around for a solution.
Their Non-GAAP numbers exclude the share based compensation. Taking that into account, growth appears to be slowing drastically.

Net Income, first half
2011: $531
2012: $582
I use an 8 year old laptop. Quite capable for wasting time on HN and reddit. Oh, and pretty much every web app out there...
Been using crossrider for the last couple of months. They've been doing a pretty good job as well(yup, not having to write the IE plugin is an absolute godsend!). Good to have an alternative though, I'll definitely be taking a look at trigger.io
I get my internet for under $10 a month for 14Mb (in UK). Paying that little I dont mind providing my own ipv6 tunnel and using google name servers. I used to pay for service instead, but cheap works too.

I might switch back to service if it cost less than $50 per month, but I dont really need support for adsl.
but no holocaust and Mussolini/stalin were fuck ups, stalin only got power because of sheer population and being on the winning side.

EXACTLY we would of had a shitty inefficient grid because edison had a stranglehold at the time, this would of pushed back everything.

when einstein came up with special reliativity it was dubbed only 3 other people could understand it and no one else could of came up wit hit, he sped up the field by who knows ho many years.

so many of the world events were based on little things, and if we kept using electrical trolleys are knowledge of systems like that would of been much better.
I'm surprised nobody so far has noticed that HBO and Cinemax are missing from the list, but Starz and Encore are not.
I like the TV analogy, it's perhaps more apt. Surely the point of any TV network is to show ads based on their viewers interests? Just FB is able to be much more targeted (at the same time they also have to compete with the huge over-supply of online display-ads, are my eyeballs worth more on facebook.com vs. joes-blog.com? I don't think so, which is the major issue with their current monetization strategy (EDIT: and they haven't shown that their targeting is significantly better than Google Adwords as of yet)).

I am confident though that they will find a way to make FB a seriously viable business. The list of things I use FB for is just so long, I don't see how they couldn't find at least one v. profitable workflow to tap into (organising a night out, checking-in on the night out, posting photos the next day, etc.).
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Interesting that you would accuse me of putting words in somebody's mouth by putting words in my mouth. It's a flawed analogy.
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I'd also just like to say: NameNode = single point of failure.

I worked on a contract for a large, very well-known social networking company a while back who refused to consider Hadoop because of this.
Well, going faster than the speed of light isn't possible, but if compressed really well, you could theoretically send massive quantities of data really quickly.
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>Talk about guns, then talk about drugs, and each of the two major parties literally adopts the arguments of the other.

Not really. Neither party has many elected officials in favor of changing anything about drug laws. And the main argument in favor of legal gun ownership is about the right to defend yourself, which doesn't apply as well to cocaine, for example.

The debate based on personal choice and responsibility versus increased government authority shows up almost exclusively from people of a more libertarian bent, but not necessarily on one side of D/R or the other.
Hydrogen fuel cells may get a shot at batteries after all
The panel itself could be exactly the same part number that Dell and other use. This does not mean at all that it is the same quality or specification panel delivered to the large manufacturers at all. These could be substandard in a lot of ways, some obvious, some not so.

That said, they could be perfectly good too. Your guess is as good as mine.
This is the key. Facebook is still supposed to be in rapid growth mode, and they're getting beat by "old" competitors? Not a good sign.
This is just silly. Real men use the best tool for the job. Even better, real men know which tool is the best for a given task.
Just counting kernel security patches will give the wrong numbers. The "kernel" includes device drivers for every imaginable hardware component you can possibly run Linux with. In any real server, the security exposure is a fraction of that. If AMD processors require a patch, my Intel boxes will be safe. If there is an exploitable bug in my 3COM NIC, my Broadcom ones will be fine. In any running Linux machine only a tiny fraction of the kernel codebase is active and running.

It's really like adding all the vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel to the vulnerabilities of every device driver ever shipped in a box or made available on the web for every conceivable device you can buy.
It is recommended that you do apply a serial number because LEO may incorrectly conclude that the firearm is illegal if they don't see one.
At $24 FB is looking more promising. However without a real indication of how well their current strategy of monetizing will work for them it is still a little early to really jump on the stock. If Advertisers don't see a real gain from the sponsored ads then their revenue will stagnate or fall and so will their stock price.

By contract AdWords for GOOG has at this point a well proven track record of ROI making their platform much less vulnerable to advertisers jumping ship.
> I keep an eye on job postings and you sometimes get used to the same very specific job showing up week after week.

This is very good advice and I urge anyone using the resume drop type job channels.
Let me tell you what's wrong with PowerShell - I've been using it for a while (yes, it's much more useful than the regular cmd), BUT it has multiple inconsistencies with the regular windows shell, in particular when it comes to file paths and escaping white spaces & other characters. I've spent ages debugging such issues and trust me, you don't want to repeat this (also, it's slow, doesn't come with ssh or most other unix tools). Other than that, I have yet to meet anyone who knows how to script in powershell. Of course if you want to, go ahead, but from my experience I'm not going to use it for anything too serious.
They've already done that. That was the entire purpose of Google 411 (except voice instead of hand writing).
There are not enough jobs. The 'economic' model is broken, and the 'economy' is being strangled.

But its worse than that. The very concept of a job doesn't even really qualify as civilized.
I'm guessing because everything Google does is to gather data.
Why?

I suspect that you believe that the potential for violence is something that can be separated from a peaceful society, but that isn't the case. More so, I think living within such a worldview is intellectually stunting. In practice we see that private gun ownership is not uniquely dangerous. We see that automobiles are far more dangerous, for example. We see that the overwhelming majority of gun owners are peaceful people, we see that the overwhelming majority of guns are never used for violence. Consider some other statistics as well, if you were a parent would you be afraid of sending your child to a house that contains guns? What about sending your child to a house with a pool? In actuallity the 2nd is about 100 times more dangerous.

More so, taking guns out of the hands of peaceful citizens has consequences. People use guns to defend themselves against others. Indeed, such uses are far more common than gun homicides. Banning guns means allowing rapes, murders, muggings, assaults. How can you be so comfortable with that?

As far as the lethality of mundane objects and activities. Consider how many people can be killed by cars by driving them into a crowd. Consider how many people can, and are, killed by arson. Consider how many people are raped by a perpetrator who has no weapon other than their physical strength. Violence and the potential for violence is part of society. Personally I think society is better served by peaceful individuals growing in maturity and responsibility and learning how to wield firearms in a way that supports a peaceful society by defending it against would be murderers, rapists, and thieves.
Fair. What resources did the average Republican take advantage of that s/he now wants to kibosh? Axing roads and bridges is nowhere present in the public discussion.

Of Warren's cited examples, schools are the only plausible answer. To say that school is valuable isn't an insight, and to say that school can only be government-funded and -run is baseless.

An argument can be made that government does it the best, but it's disingenuous to say that because Republicans (along with everyone else, and forcibly) had public schooling, they give up their right to upgrade what they got, for the next generation.
Congrats Jon and Co. A phenomenal team, with a phenomenal product, and humility and focus to boot.
> "usually people hold onto things they think are valuable and sell those they don't."

Usually, investment strategies are more complex than this, involving risk management of various sorts.

You've no doubt heard the phrase "don't put all your eggs in one basket"; or, as the Bible says, "Divide your merchandise among seven or even eight investments, for you do not know what calamity may happen on earth" (Ecc 11:2, NET). The naive investment strategy of simply buying whatever you think is the "best deal" or "most valuable" carries with it considerable risk -- if your whole net worth is in widgets and the market shifts to sprockets, all of a sudden you're stuck with a bunch of widgets nobody wants. Or if your whole net worth is in crops and then there's a storm that wipes them out, now all you've got is dirt. The naive investor thinks that because they work for a profitable company, they should invest everything in their company -- but if their company suffers (whether due to fraud like Enron or a simple market shift like many real estate companies in 2008) they lose their job and their investments all at the same time.

The idea behind diversification is to target things that are valuable and which are not strongly correlated to each other, such that even if you're wrong or conditions change in some areas, your losses can be offset by gains elsewhere. Diversification is not a "weasel word" (though some may occasionally misuse it); it's a widely understood concept that's described by pretty much every personal finance writer out there.

(Note that I'm not specifically saying Pincus is a good guy. Just that it makes a lot of sense for CEOs and others to swap some of their equity for equity in non-correlated assets.)
I've played with gltail (can be found at http://www.fudgie.org/) since yesterday. It should do what you want to achieve and run under Windows as well, though it's written in openGL and Ruby.
And note that it will make your code more compatible with other, POSIX-compliant, versions of grep.
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economies of scale vastly outweigh short term demand fluctuations in determining technology prices.
Last month I bought a 24" 1920x1200 display (Dell UltraSharp U2412M) for the same price as he's talking about paying for a 27" 2560x1440.
Isn't the AIX behavior the one POSIX specifies?
So when you said "Windows isn't quite ready for that kind of scaling" you meant "some windows apps" or "most windows apps"?
Trending topics are this decade's flagpole sitting

I don't think that's true. Identifying trending topics can be hugely important. I forget where I saw it, but someone did an analysis of tweets about "earthquake", when one occurred on the east coast of the US some months ago. It followed the path of the quake almost exactly. When people are posting about events before the news does, it's great to be able to detect it.
This is awesome, they were a hackathon project. Congrats guys! http://blog.railsrumble.com/blog/2010/11/01/zencoder-winner
To be honest, I think both paradigms are good for music. You can have a Note as an object with attributes such as pitch, octave, name, etc. Maybe musicians like FP at first because it's somewhat simpler (I'm not talking about Monads here ;-). They already know about functions from high school and function composition translates directly to how they may think about music operations:

retrogradation(transposition(inversion([0, 4, 7])))
Once the fiber is there, google can actively offer free demos of cool bandwidth hungry tech , for people, in their homes. what better way to sell more bandwidth and services ?
Interestingly, it seems that they did change it to go to the homepage.
seiji pretty much nails it. Hadoop seems to have come out of a weird culture. It is a distributed system with a single point of failure (name node) because its designers insisted on avoiding Paxos (distributed systems are too hard so we'll just make a broken-by-design protocol instead). Another example is that a lot of the database code built on top of Hadoop is designed around one Java hashmap per row which really limits performance.

There are all sorts of oddities and you can mostly work around them but it is...exhausting, and I spend a lot of time thinking "surely there must be a better way".
I understand why you disagree, but I don't think there's an obvious right answer here, it sucks either way. I don't think you're in a position to pass judgement unless you were actually there and knew the students personally. What if this would have made the rest of the class resent the one student? That would be a far more damaging outcome in my mind.