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Though it's not like photos of the MMRTG don't exist (e.g., http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/111117mmrtg/)
> Why would in-browser conferencing, which will almost certainly be a worse experience than Skype

What would give you that impression?

A site that lets you automatically join a conference call just by visiting a page seems far more usable than Skype.
"I am the Lorax, and I speak for the creeps"
It'd be nifty if I could have the power of Emacs available to me on a tablet. Since I don't imagine anyone's going to port it soon, being able to use it in a browser seems like the only way that's going to happen.
What does N,S,E and W mean ?
Does CloudFlare have experience identifying the source of attacks like this? Because that could be quite interesting.
That just seems silly. However, a Stripe equivalent for the whole of Europe would be great. Clone or not.
"there are other regions in the world that define borders differently than the western world and we must present them maps based on how their governments portray the world."

I've never heard of this to be honest. How can we in the west tell a country "This is what your border is" and have it be something different to what they claim is their land?
What are you talking about? Ryanair is great, it's pretty much always on time, you get what you pay for (which is little, it's a knife that cuts both ways) and because there are only a few people operating each flight (from checkin to trollying around peanuts, which you pay for, so that you don't pay for you neighbour's peanuts if you don't want any) so it's always clear who to ask when you have something to ask.
That's probably exactly it - ATI has usually used Sapphire to make their reference cards and ATI-manufactured cards. Many vendors make specific changes to the bios, use out-of-spec or pre-overclocked parts, etc.

To put this situation in better perspective: If Intel made bioses in addition to their current products, and they released a bios update for their motherboards (with Intel bios and Intel parts). Here, he's mad because he has an Asus motherboard with an Intel bios, and since Asus isn't releasing this bios update, he won't benefit.
Does that number include all the mirrors that are also down?
"According to one committee, if we release these maps that use detailed country borders, we could get sued for millions of dollars and people could potentially be thrown in jail."

And if this were true, every single developer here who uses Google Maps in their app and releases that app worldwide, will be subject to prosecution.
It sounds like bull to me!
We live in amazing times.
Dell CEO's daughter uses social media to undermine security family
Extremetech has really gone down hill since laying off all of the good people in 2009. They've adopted a more tabloid journalism style, with provocative headlines and overheated articles. I miss Lloyd Case.
North, South, East, and West?
Thats a dangerous strategy for such an early stage startup. They need to validate their business THEN expand. Which is what they are doing now... Stripe just started beta testing internationally.
For my part, I used to be an active member of a political party that while completely legal and not advocating anything illegal, due to its position on the far left meant that a lot of people I associated with used to be under surveillance by the Norwegian security services, and many of them were denied entry into the US for years and years.

At the time I was involved, it was less controversial, and so I might have "escaped" surveillance, but I regularly met people who were more than once taunted on open streets by high level people in the security service who'd joke about personal details of their life that they had obtained through surveillance that in no way were relevant to the security services (e.g. asking about the fight some guy had with his wife the previous night).

There are plenty of people today that are in close enough proximity to the types of people and groups who are the subject of security services interests these days that would have every reason to assume that their conversations with their mothers would be monitored just because of either who they are, or who their friends are, or even because of the groups their friend peripherially belongs to.

It's not a situation that is particularly fun to be in, and I understand very well why third parties in situations like that would prefer not to have to think about whether or not someone is listening in for their own gratification.
I wrote up a little about our DDoS statistics here: http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-wednesday-witching-hour-cloud...

One important conclusion is that it's very hard to identify the source for most DDoS attacks because the IP address is either forged, or innocent. Identifying the true source would mean getting into the CnC of the botnet being used. Our business isn't about tracking down who, but simply stopping attacks.
Yeah, it's one way to interpret things - not necessarily right or wrong.

In a sense, we, ourselves, are the biggest targets of our selling efforts - for example, taking certain actions that are consistent with our self-image while avoiding actions that contradict it - in an effort to maintain a perception of our "self" as a consistent entity with consistent values over time.
Absolutely great stuff. I wonder if images were processed in any way (besides stitching) or is Martian landscape/atmosphere really so bright-yellowish.

I found it much easier to use navigation keys instead of click+drag (which web page suggests).
And when you screw off the wheel it can double as a mop!

What exactly does it help to have your video-feed drive around on a broomstick?

I can see the entertainment value for a couple days. But when it's time to get work done again I sure as hell don't see people preferring a video broomstick next to their desk over a plain old skype-window...
"I don't think weather forecasting is currently good enough for a farmer to plan which crops to plant based on rainfall predictions."

It's good enough to offer insurance to farmers for when harvests will fail. This exists, I know because I (even if only at arms length) work in this field.
But this clone is in Germany. The fact that some countries are difficult to do business in doesn't mean that all countries outside the USA are difficult to do business in.
I think the author is upset because some of the new cards will only be upgradeable to 110 mega-breathless-hyperbolens/second.
Yes, but they're each just trying to do it in a single country. It's a PITA to set up a payment gateway _anywhere_, but when you try to do it in multiple locations simultaneously it just becomes exponentially harder.
"I used color filter to make it more representable,” Bodrov wrote to TPM via email. “Color photos of Mars look different, but NASA still has not published enough source materials to assemble a complete panorama. I am just waiting for new photos." (http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mars-curiosity-...)
The author sounds like a videocard fanboy who's throwing a tantrum. He didn't get the bios update from his favorite video card company that the reference cards got, so now he's calling them dirty names on the internet.
Gruber's full of shit. I had a 1600x1200 17" monitor in the 90s. LCDs were a step back in pixel density, and retina means they're JUST NOW catching up to where I was 15 years ago.
I was just looking at the Retina display vs. regular display at the Apple store. I've also compared an iPad v3 next to a v1. An iPhone 4 next to a 3G. My eyesight is better than 20/20 (yay laser surgery!). I honestly can't see an appreciable difference. Pictures do look better, sure. My current screen has a 140DPI. Text and windows for reading and development are fine, and I often use tiny fonts. I don't see the hype.
My wife and I once flew the length of the UK return for under £4 on one of their sales deals.

No typo there, under £4.

And I used to commute Glasgow to London once a week and would regularly pay for for the train from the airport to the centre of town than for the flight.
Ah, well I retract my statement, but only because of the SMD parts.
> if you travel via air around the globe, nearly all of the airlines are absolutely terrible, not just the subsidized ones in the US.

And where are your sources and analysis to back this up?

The original commenter at least linked to a few interesting articles to support his argument.
> I'm pleased to say that I have no idea how fast my CPU or GPU are. They work. I'll buy a new one in a few years. Relax and do something useful with your computer.

Then you're entirely missing the point of this article and of the product it writes about.

This class of video card (Radeon 7970, or Geforce GTX 680) cost $500-$600 each. They cater to those who want the absolute best GPU performance they can get -- and are willing to pay heavily for it.

Your quoted comment characterizes how you don't at all understand the target market of these cards. "I'm pleased to say that I have no idea how fast my CPU or GPU are" is the last thing you'd ever hear from an owner of this class of video card.
This is extremely childish. About 90% of all startups already believe, honestly, that they're already doing something altruistic and profitable. The only reason why posts like these happen is because you and the Startup founder disagree about the size of their impact. As a recent example, Dalton firmly believes that app.net is could have a huge positive impact in the world. While many critics think a paid twitter is the polar opposite of it. Who is right is irrelevant here, what matters is that Startups are trying and telling them to try to come up with something altruistic is meaningless.
The child was 9, not 12.
http://www.creators.com/opinion/lenore-skenazy/why-i-let-my-...

Futhermore "attachment parenting" is not the antecedent to "helicopter parenting" and certainly does not require constant contact past 1 year of age much less fife.
You need to have found a viable business model, AND convince someone to partner with you, instead of cloning you - though it sounds reasonable that they would if you already have the infrastructure set up.

That said, it is an interesting idea, I know of at least one startup founder that's trying to do just that.
There is readable [1]. It gives you a bookmarklet with your personal preferences.

[1]: http://readable.tastefulwords.com/
Not that it equals this tragedy, but I had Progressive last month during which they covered someone having hit my car in a parking lot. They agreed to fix it without a problem, however when I was reviewing the progressive adjuster's notes (which detail what's to be repaired and with what parts) I noticed that they opted to choose aftermarket parts to fix the car because they were "cheaper and just as good". I had all original parts on my car, and being a bit of a car guy, I was furious that they would try to force my body shop to put crap parts on my car. I need up in a heated battle with the adjuster until he revised the work order. Most people aren't going to look at a part list and know which parts are good or bad for their car, and Progressive counts on that so they can save money.

After hearing this story, I'm glad I switched to Liberty Mutual. Companies like this make me sick and it upsets me knowing that my dollars went to fuel this sort of behavior. Best of luck to you and your family in the future.
I would love a Stripe Clone in Brazil. It's really annoying and expensive to set up payment in web apps here in brazil.

Somebody knows what would take to clone a startup like these? Besides money?
I'm not clear on how this works... Doesn't cloudflare just replace the domain's DNS record to point to their own servers? So an attack on the original wikileaks IPs would still be fairly effective. Maybe less effective because CF delivers cached content to normal users, but it would keep WL from delivering large files to the CF servers to begin with.
I'm currently reading The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing by Nagle et al. And something similar is jumping out at me -- in terms of going deep into the customer's world and finding out how your product adds value.

Talking. The best thing since pointy sticks.
I think this move will help establish cloudflare as a strong brand. Great marketing!
Yes, under 50k Euro and in Euro, should've said that a bit more clearer.

Those foreign currency fees can be a bit tricky, even for credit cards. I've got two MasterCards, one of them adds a 1% fee if it isn't in Euro, the other doesn't (well, I got it exactly for that reason).
Interesting. I'd suggest focusing more on benefits (get in shape, feel better, whatever) that "learn about the WOD" on your splash page.
haha....actually they DID want to buy StudiVZ :-)

But the VZ owner, Holtzbrinck, did not want to sell at this time. Obviously a huuuuge mistake in hindsight. Only after that refusal FB started to sue VZ.
Yeah, imagine if they said black men couldn't sit next to white women. There would be an outrage of the highest sort. Or single women couldn't sit next to married men lest they be temptresses. It's nuts.
Can you provide a link where there is information about the international beta testing?
How on earth did people travel some ten or twenty years ago I wonder? You know,
before cellphones were widespread or even affordable? For fuck's sake, children
aren't dumb. Always treating them as if they are results in them not growing
into independent adults.

Besides, unaccompanied flights are awesome as a child. I did that once, don't
remember how old I was. Flew with the German Lufthansa from my parents to my
grandparents. You can't imagine how adult I felt, flying (almost) all alone. I
remember the attendants were all friendly and helpful, and the gentleman next to
me even swapped his seat with me so I could look out of the window. It was a
valuable and memorable experience.
Yeah, I don't get it either (actually I get what it is, hipster/"art"/electronic kitsch, just don't get why) Reminds me of grandparents who printed out emails back in the 90's. But even they don't do that anymore.
Larry's writing always reminded me of the college guys I knew who smoked tremendous amounts of hash.
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Thanks for the clarification, I own a 7970 and the article kind of disturbed me. I hadn't thought about the fact that AMD isn't the only one to use the GPUs.

The fact of the matter is (for me at least) that I paid for the 7970 as it was on paper when I bought it. Of course I'd be mad if performance on it was artificially lowered, then members of the press were given a new BIOS to restore it to normal but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here at all.
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You could say that about a lot of languages. Though I must say, it sounds like your company had some pretty awful programmers.
Everybody is taking about Stripe. But how is Stripe different from existing/established services like Digital River or Plimus?
Exactly. Anyone that thinks farming in the US is a matter of pulling out the almanac and hoping the rain will match expectations is naive at best.

Here's the thought process a farmer goes through in deciding what to plant:

1. What's the expected market price for corn and soybean.
2. What is the cost of crop insurance?
3. What's the current rainfall estimate?
4. What's the cost of water via irrigation and the cost of the irrigation equipment.
5. What's my field rotation state?
6. How much is fertilizer?
7. What subsidies are in effect for the various crops?
8. How is my cash flow?

And so on. The stereotype of farmers either being stupid hicks or suckling at the teat of Federal subsidies is ridiculous. The technology farmers use is amazing, and the factors they have to consider are multi-variate.

Sometimes farmers get screwed, and sometimes they make a fortune. Subsidies (as well as futures and other hedges) are a means of smoothing out the market so that farmers can stay in business while also providing for steady agricultural returns. It's not a perfect system by any means, and subsidies for things like ethanol drastically distort other markets, but to try and simplify it into Farmer A works hard but dumb and Farmer B is a smart, HN guy is just too simplistic.
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Italian banks don't exactly have a stellar reputation, maybe paying the fines is cheaper than upgrading the software?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4345913
HN has the same issue as Reddit: accounts tend to get Hell-banned / Voted into obscurity for merely voicing alternative thought processes / not conforming to the 'logical-identity' construct that HN is comfortable with.

Proof?

This account is hell-banned, or at least it was.
Works exceptionally well on an iPhone (appears to use accelerometer/gyroscope).
Let us say that you knew with absolute certainty that none of them would grow up to revolutionise their society. Would you still save them, or would you let them die?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4376803
Groom them and talk them into coming with them outside the plane, for example. Having been on the receiving end of that stick (not on a plane, but still), I'd ask you reconsider how easy it is for an adult to have power over kids.
old approach of letting medical science bodge a repair

This is not even close to how medical science works. You really think surgeons, technicians, physical therapists etc. aren't scientists and engineers?
You're making the assumption that winter snowpack has a dramatic effect on farming success. Sure, it helps fill the aquifers when it melts, but farmers depend on rainfall (at least in the US) as much as they do on irrigation. Heat also makes it hard for crops to grow successfully, regardless of how much water they get through irrigation.
If Stripe were to go out of business, it wouldn't really impact your use of Spreedly. They just charge the gateway, not store information there, so it's not a big deal.
I take the point being made, and, yes, CentOS is a 15 minute install on a desktop PC. My limited experience of Arch is that you do certainly need to know more about your hardware and you really do need to read that wonderful wiki of theirs closely.

My suggestion of CentOS was related to my assumption about a possible audience for the rather odd original article. A person with, say, Windows admin experience might be looking at Linux to enhance a CV, and RHEL do offer certification programmes of various types.
Will the massive DDos on wikileaks affect other cloudflare users? increased latiency/server load?
"We should accept that most reasonably designed typefaces in mainstream use will be equally legible, and that it makes much more sense to argue in favour of serif or sans serif typefaces on aesthetic grounds than on the question of legibility."

Exactly. It's an aesthetic choice. Arguing for legibility or readability or any scientific purpose is a secondary argument to simple design sense.

Typographical choices involving both styles of font can work great; it's up to the designer to make the font match the target style for the correct functional and emotional impact. Simple as that.

Scientific arguments over fonts and typography have always seemed to me like analyzing the chemical composition of paint on a canvas to determine its value. Completely missing the point. Is there a certain measurable utility? Of course. But when a design works, and evokes the correct emotions for the presented work in a readable and understandable way, it just works. It's more functional for being beautiful.
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I can't reply to the child comment, but this is also relivant: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4376193

The post also mentions being a CA beta tester.
PCI [1] is actually an international industry standard that defines security practices for payment card processing. For example, it requires that your system is behind a firewall, that credit card numbers are stored securely, etc. Your system must be audited annually by a certified consultant. Stripe is -- presumably -- already compliant, since they already run a business that processes credit cards.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Secu...
Oh, sorry didn't mean to leave that out. I'm 22 years old, I recently started using glasses for myopia (it didn't affect my preference regarding text) and I don't have astigmatism.

I agree with you on the aesthetics of serifs, I prefer it when I'm admiring how beautiful a piece of paper looks but when I'm reading I find them illegible. Same goes with cursive, although I can read it just fine I hate every minute of it. I also don't have a nice handwriting (don't know if these tell you something).

It is funny how aesthetic choices differ. I unintentionally associate serif fonts with infographics, ads etc. that I find overdesigned and not my preferred ways to get information efficiently.
White iPhone 5 in hand?
All it takes is for one person getting burned to affect their entire social circle. Every person who's been shouted at for trying to help a kid has probably told everyone they know about the event; at that point, none of them are likely to help.

This is especially notable in the social media heavy environment we're in now. I personally know someone who got shouted at because he led a kid to customer service so their parent could be found; posted the event to Facebook, and now everyone he knows (who read the article) is going to be a little less likely to help.

There's a reason Good Samaritan laws had to be put in place; people have been prosecuted for attempting to help others in good faith, and that led to others not trying. Shitty situation, but that's how it goes.
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Linux servers have only "destroyed" Windows servers in... wait for it... Silicon Valley. Believe it or not, Windows still beats Linux on the worldwide server market 2 to 1, and demand is increasing. It doesn't surprise me at all that the early Twitter users are also early App.net users, because they're all in... wait for it... Silicon Valley.

I read the article (and many others), and understand the platform and what it represents. It's not a difficult concept; I've had a few non-technical friends basically pitch the same business to me. I also understand what actual users want (because I'm not in... Silicon Valley). Users want free services, unless it reduces a pain point in their lives. Social networking produces (not reduces) a pain point in people's lives, so it had best be free or ad-based to get actual traction (again, SV users do not count as traction). Twitter was only a success because it captured the celebrity crowd, and I use the term "success" loosely.

So, let's reduce the hype a bit. It's an API, just an API like any other, and it's being run by a business that claims they're going to keep it open (businesses always keep their promises). It might succeed, it might fail, who knows. But until it does either of those things, calling it the next platform of the web is a bit silly. "Ooh, but it's Dalton," you may say. Guess what: those of us not in SV do not care about SV celebrity. Neither does my grandma, or cousins, or coworkers, or anyone else that needs to be sold in order for this thing to work.
Well, it's easier to block packets coming from every IP except CloudFlare's IPs, so I guess that would be one way of doing it.
> And that doesn't even get into the fact that if you travel via air around the globe, nearly all of the airlines are absolutely terrible, not just the subsidized ones in the US.

Where does this come from? I find that most airlines around the world are absolutely brilliant.
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That's a very strong anecdote. I've never seen that quote from Wall.
Your farming example is ludicrous. We need hay as much as we need sorghum. We can't have every farmer planting only one set of crops based how they expect the weather to be. First, it would absolutely crash the market for that crop when the harvest came in, and second there would be none of the other crops that are necessary.