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How well it worked for Dustin Curtis? He got a guy fired http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html for his post.
Plausible but the timetable is too soon, maybe 2050.

I mean it's possible by then the USA still doesn't have healthcare as a right, but the top 2% will always be able to do such trips as a lark (and write it off on their taxes?) however there will have to be a revolutionary leap in a powersource.

Personally I think the idea of hobbyists having their own bots on the moon by 2025 is more realistic and interesting.
My theory is that by the time iGoogle goes away for good (November 1 of next year), there will be a way to customize the right side of your Google+ page with widgets.

It won't be as flexible as iGoogle or support the same old widgets, but the "social widgets" will be something they can push iGoogle users over to, as well as a platform to help advance Google+.

In my experience, Google Now is a surprisingly clever way at providing relevant widgets with zero customization, so it seems like a great onramp to that experience.
They don't have $270 million on hand. They are looking for financing.
piercings and body-mods... incisive piece... slouching towards immortality?
My exact thoughts. There has been more than one occasion that I have found good resources on about.com. However, I don't think I can say the same for answers.com. Half the time I run across a page on it, there is no answer just the question. I got so tired of it I blocked it from all my Google search results. It's also filled with so many ads you can hardly find any information on it.
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> Your guesses as to my personality type and employment situation are just as wrong as your speculation about the nature of HFT.

That's easy for you to say. We're both human though. Humans are above all selfish, and have a hard time letting go of easy money.

So who knows, if I were some kind of math wizard living in the US, I might have ended up working for a bunch of sociopaths too. It's possible I'd be here on HN, rationalizing and defending HFT and blowing smoke up people's asses with cutesy link-bait-titled posts about it.

I didn't actually say anything about your personality type though.

We shouldn't even bother, but perhaps you'd care to point ouf my mistakes in describing "the nature" of HFT?
Like I said, it doesn't provide nice simple API calls for collecting usage information. You have to collect it yourself (from the queue, using PSHB or something.) Then you have to then make your own interface for your billing system to then request records it is interested in from this collection.

CloudStack providing simple API calls that allow you to request usage for any time period is much nicer. It can interface more directly with a billing system.

It's just one of the examples of OpenStack seeming to be kind of "halfway there", whereas CloudStack is much closer to being ready to go.
Since iGoogle is slated to be sunset (in late 2013), maybe Google Now is it's logical successor?
You could always take the Newtonian approach and just sit under an Apple tree ...
True enough. I can see this becoming something to do at college / teenager parties. Create a temp number and start crank calling. If you had to take an entire group of people out to a payphone to do the same thing, it's a bit of a barrier to doing it.
I would like some up to date tutorials on PlayN.
I've tried using that in the past. It didn't work very well.
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I own two startups, I'm a self confessed geek and I've never run further than 10k in my life before.

9 months ago all that changed.

9 months ago I found out that a boy aged 11 had just weeks to live because he had terminal brain cancer.

So 9 months ago, I decided to run - run quite far, without any training, no equipment and a pretty pathetic excuse for a body.

I ran the entire London Underground, 450 miles, 273 stops, 40 runs, 30 half marathons, and after fracturing my feet twice I've just finished.

Why am I telling you this?

Because more people need to know about brain cancer. More work needs doing to understand it. More money is needed to help find a cure.

I wrote a blog, made a video, opened up a charity JustGiving page, used Google Maps to navigate the underground, used a GPS app so my dad could stay in touch with me. The Internet allowed me to complete this run and raise the sum that I did. I don't know if any of the startups you own have a pot for charity but if they do - I'm asking for this one to be considered.

Please watch the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_mb6pXyrfA&feature=player_embedded) - or read the blog www.harrystuberunners.blogspot.com

Thanks

Steve
most points are valid (but known).

... but some are strange. why should a filesystem implement a cifs export? ok, zfs does it. but why should it?
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>it's far less intuitive, it's build quality is crap

Sorry that you feel that way. Really, I do.
Honestly it's been ~6 months since I was messing with OpenStack so the other issues I ran into are not on the forefront of my mind right now.

But all of them, from my perspective, were a result of OpenStack just not being fully baked and ready to deploy in a production environment. It needed more development on our part in order to get it to where we'd need it to be compared to CloudStack.

It was always a case of missing features / functionality rather than something being broken / crappy, at least.
When would you use a CyclicBarrier in preference to (for example) splitting tasks into before-barrier and after-barrier FutureTasks and submitting to a ThreadPoolExecutor?
No, something approaching 100% of users will still say yes, adding that robust economic foundation is the content providers' problem, not the users'.

Who do you think "users" are? HN denizens?

Users -- most especially those using Internet Explorer -- are average people who are entirely unconcerned about tracking cookies. They really aren't. They don't care whether you know that they visit Facebook and TMZ. They care that they can access those sites for free, and anything that threatened that would be a threat to them.

There is a serious detachment from reality that occurs in discussions like this.
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That's why I'm not relying on any single metric, as well as framing it in the context of time. If Justin Beiber asks his fans to vote yea or nay on something, it might mess up the yea:yeah metric, but it should eventually normalize, and while it isn't normalized, the anyways:anyway metric should still be fine (Unless JBeibs is asking his fans to vote yea or nay on naming his new album "Anyways").
Really wonderful job on this app. Just tested it out (ios6b4 on a 4s) and all worked really well and very fast. Would love to see some usage data as you grow. Congrats on shipping!
You can't suggest that Israel is well on it's way towards complete theocracy and deeper and deeper levels of state-protected misogyny while it's also losing any semblance of functional democracy and effective long term strategies without it being suggested.

Oh, wait, you can only say that about countries like Saudi Arabia. Silly me. Because the difference between flogging women and spitting on little girls is, you know, just so insurmountably vast.

And I'm not even touching the surface of valid criticisms that people just keep quiet about rather than utter, at least in America.

The worst part of it is that these criticisms generally have nothing to do with some sort of broad notion of Judaism as a religion or as a whole, but more particularly to Israel and its domination by short-sighted zealots.
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hopefully getting rid of needless costs too. I don't know anyone who uses this
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> ... perhaps he shouldn't be a leading contributor to one-sided news coverage ...

> ... Or is hype in news coverage only a problem when ...

In fact it is only a problem when it's from the other side; and that's an understanding that separates the people who know what they're talking about here from the people who don't.

One flaw suffices to break security. Any number of paranoid suspicions can be held without harm (...to the security).

That's why you don't cheerlead for new systems. Maybe she should've asked, oh, I don't know, any security researcher at all, besides apparently Patterson?

I don't know what Patterson said. If Patterson didn't warn her then Patterson deserves a drubbing, too.
Sorry, should have clarified. I meant the transaction fees that Square pays.
I had no idea that this was a new feature of the newer Ubuntu releases and I was pretty excited to stumble across this. It's pretty darn cool.
I don't know who at MS thinks this is a smart idea. If DNT gains widespread use, it will pretty much hand the entire US display ad market over to Google.

In terms of revenue per impression, revenue/behavioral tends to beat out contextual. After contextual you've got site targeting and run of network, in that order. Google is the only one that does a really good job on contextual, that I've seen.

As of last month IE market share is now down to 16.4% (w3schools.) What IE does won't be so important because soon no one will be using it anyways.
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The foundation to this is there is more profit to be made selling something magical with a big marketing budget, and therefore it's what gets mass exposure.
Claiming RAIDZ as an advantage is... weird. At least on a recent Solaris 10, it has absolutely terrible read/write performance.
Maybe because you want to maintain your local state or are in the middle of something that cannot simply be "continued" in another thread.
Looks like Walgreens has it also.

Will be trying this. Less for the "all-natural" aspect than the annoying masking scents they put in standard deodorants that I can smell on myself.
I installed "System Tuner" and found that my live wallpaper was chewing up CPU even when I wasn't browsing the main desktop. Once I switched to a different (non-broken) wallpaper my battery life doubled.

I've also used this tool a few times to figure out why my phone was running hot (even though I wasn't using it). For instance, last night, my Facebook app was in a bad state and was chewing up 20% CPU in the background. I killed it and everything was back to normal.

The tool isn't the easiest to use, but it might help.
Where you make factual claims, cite your sources.
I used GNOME for 10+ years and switched to the Mac a few years ago. The nail in the coffin was the Unity/Gnome Shell craziness that was so poorly executed.

Is it just me or this article outlining the most natural path for any Linux desktop? Rather then chase the general consumer, focus on your core audience who is already using your OS for the server.

Not only is it a more natural customer base, but you also have an advantage by eating your dogfood. GNOME devs would have 1st hand knowledge of what works and what doesn't for engineers and developers. And this sort of domain knowledge is gold when it comes to designing good interfaces.

I would love to see this effort happen, and might even go back to Linux if it really created something great.
How long does the initial $2 last? Where is the cost to durations credit table? Can't find this info anywhere.
Sweat doesn't inherently smell. The foods you eat affect how you smell, though not specifically because of your sweat. If you eat a lot of spicy food then your whole body will be releasing those aromas.
You want your TV ads to be more relevant, but you probably don't want someone living with you to report to the networks what interests you each day.

Is your analogy perhaps a bit ridiculous?

Tell most people that their PVR is going to report usage data and most would click yes in an instant. Most don't care if some faceless corporation knows how much American Chopper they watch. Many applications (including Apple and Microsoft products) start their journey with a user with the notification that usage data is going to be reported. I am just guessing, but I would wager that 99%+ click okay to that.
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Label yo axis son.

Expanding on this could lead to some interesting insights. How about "could of" and "could have"? and the old "could care less"...
It's great to see how far Thetaboard has come since we met them on nReduce. Next stage for us is to see an integration with edocr.com - something to discuss when we welcome them to sunny Manchester, UK on Monday. More info www.techcelerate.org/aug2012
Not to be a stickler, just trying to help, but persistant is misspelled (persistent).
It always has been. Exploit human weaknesses = $profits
My guess is that anyone who is literate has read Shakespeare at least once.

That is one hell of an assumption. For one thing, most people who are literate, are not literate in English.
Buy another battery and swap them when you are low. Fred Wilson is doing this in the plane, I think he has three batteries.
For computing being 'engineering', that is an old sore point with me. I believe that computing should be engineering but so far really misses some key points.

Here, close to the article, is an example of some of what is missing:

In engineering for, say, a bridge, the design engineer can get quite comprehensive data on the 'engineering properties' of the materials, components, and processes he is intending to use. E.g., he knows the stiffness of steel beams, the tensile strength of steel cables. and how much weight a reinforced concrete column can carry.

Now in computing, for an algorithm, what do I know about the resources it requires? E.g., I just wrote a Web site session state store using TCP/IP for communications, my own code to convert the TCP/IP streams to the 'messages' I needed, and Microsoft's .NET collection class SortedDictionary to store the pairs of session keys and session values. So, how do I know fast my code will be and how much storage it will need? That is, could I get data on TCP/IP and SortedDictionary so that I could tell before writing and running the code?

That is, do I have solid engineering information about the components I used that will let me know, before writing and running the code, the final performance of my software?

NO!!!

Instead, about all I can do is run the code and measure the execution time. For the storage needed, I don't have a good solution even given the running code.

So, by analogy, if bridge building was like software writing, then a bridge engineer would not know how strong his bridge was until he built it and tested it with loads.

So, net, the bridge designer can 'engineer' his bridge just on paper before any construction has started, but I can't do the same for my session state store.

Again, a big difference is that the bridge engineer has detailed engineering information on his components and I do not.
Well, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. I don't think we benefit much from reductive analyses on this issue. Israelis are certainly not politically homogenous. Some people call themselves Zionist meaning they support the settlers; others support Israel but want all of the settlers pulled out, etc. You can be Zionist and not be for any particular decision of the current Israeli government, and you can be fervently religious and not a Zionist. But let's not be dense; some anti-Zionism is exactly an expression of antisemitism. It's such a polarizing issue that both sides of the debate are inclined to overreact and overreach and wind up riding roughshod over each other's perspectives, which generates more bad feelings and makes everybody more extreme.
>iPhone, iPad, and Android devices

Hate the double "and", listing should be alphabetical always!
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Jeff Bonwick [1] the lead of ZFS development [2] seem to have disappeared after leaving Oracle in late 2010. I wonder what he is doing nowadays.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bonwick

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs
I think it might be more sane to run GNU user space on Solaris (e.g. Nexenta, OpenIndiana) if you want ZFS that badly.
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I think it shows an interesting trend in our society, maybe something that will become more and more common.

We now value money immensely, and have a lot of laws in place to protect not only the money we have, but the money we're trying to earn (see Apple v Samsung).

Sooner or later, it could plausibly be a more serious offense to steal money, or the means of making money, than murder or child abuse.
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RingCentral, a more established player in this space, has been providing a similar service since last year

http://mashable.com/2011/09/12/ringcentral-new-numbers/
That whole Apple thing was staged. It started as a thought experiment over beers and was carried to its natural conclusion in the name of page views and awareness.

Wired has oscillated between relevant and annoying for many, many years now.

The type of attack they 'documented' is well-known and has been discussed in many circles. This is part of the reason they've had so many quotes from 'the hacker'. It's all about pushing the right buttons. Apple stuff is news.

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Youtube certainly became less attractive for me after the content ID system was put in place. Studying Russian, I liked watching Soviet era films on YouTube. These films cannot be copyrighted by definition, since they were made in USSR. I needed to watch each movie several times. I discovered that often, after going back to a movie that I watched, the ENTIRE channel (account) of a user who uploaded it would be deleted for a copyright violation, together with my NON-COPYRIGHTABLE movie.
Ask HN: Review my startup idea (credit card management)
A webapp that helps you pay off credit cards before incurring interest by providing configurable reminders. I find credit card reminders and statements can often be difficult to interpret, and if you have multiple cards you will likely receive notifications in multiple ways. This webapp will aim to provide you with a snapshot of what you will have to pay and when, and provide clear, configurable payment notifications.
If this was a real money gambling app, then either (a) the odds were stacked against the player by 1-2%, or (b) there was rake (for non house games like poker), so there was no need to charge for the client.

If you think about it, that's how FTP or Poker Stars works. Download a free client, even play for free for play money, earn money on rake once they convert to 'real money' players.
I like the simple implementation. One small UI complaint: the text on the button is hard to read because of low contrast.
Looks great, but why is it an iphone app? Seems like managing and configuring a bunch of numbers would be easier in a web interface.
Did the founders watch The Wire - love the name!
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I waded through the patent (morning coffee reading).

After all of that, I am unable to discern the novelty, having designed and implemented quite a few distributed database systems. The patent describes boringly standard internals that can be found in many existing distributed databases. In fact, I stood up a system on an EC2 cluster a couple years ago that had remarkably similar internals to what is described in the patent. Maybe I am missing something but I am skeptical.

The design described in the patent still has the same problems and limitations that have plagued distributed OLTP systems for years. The patent appears to be a minor rearrangement of standard architectural elements common to a lot of distributed systems. What is described will work but I could buy equivalent functionality from other vendors.

I was hoping for an interesting computer science-y technology but that patent doesn't contain one. It appears to be a description of a particular implementation of a conventional distributed transaction processing system. What am I missing?
Ask HN: Should I go for higher pay, older technology job offer?
Current job - latest technology (.NET 4.0), lower pay, long commute, nice team.
New job offer - short term project .NET 2.0, higher pay, short commute, team lead seemed to be nice.
Any thoughts?
I'm not sure I consider publishing a first person narrative reporting. If Mat had gone back to Gawker, would we be praising Gawker?
Exactly, you don't need to do this with iPhone, this just illustrates the point of unpolished software. Why should I waste my day looking at battery usage for apps. Maybe I should also look at the CPU monitor for half an hour to get an overall understanding of what is happening on the phone, so that I can make a correct decision in turning some apps off in the morning and turn some apps off at lunch etc...
It's ammonium alum or potassium alum. Sometimes derisively called "hippie deodorant." It is not an antiperspirant. There are all sorts of alternatives that people use as deodorants, including lemon juice, baking soda, and tea oils.
I eventually found it by searching "burner phone". Fyi, your iTunes link on the site is broken for me, giving a generic "can't connect to iTunes Store". Thanks :)
Lockers for packages is certainly not a novel idea: various postal services and companies have been running similar schemes for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation#Similar_systems
I've got pretty sensitive skin and anti-persperant caused it to crack and even bleed. So I tried the rock salt/crystal kind of deodorant. My local supermarket carries it, should I ever run out, but I've had the same one for seven or eight years now. It works pretty well for me.

I also shave my underarms, which probably helps -- less surface area for bacteria to grow and sweat dries faster. If I'm wearing a tight shirt, I'll sometimes use baby powder in case I sweat, but in general it hasn't been a problem.

I bike to work occasionally, but usually change my shirt and wipe the sweat off with an alcohol wet-wipe. That helps as well.

Also, natural fibers are your friend! I will get stinky if I wear a polyester or rayon shirt all day, but that happens even if I wear normal deodorant.
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It's not about who implements an SMB server (it's a separate layered filesystem, smbfs, on Solaris, not ZFS itself) but about the convenience of doing only:

# zfs set sharesmb=on export/home

and configuring access just by setting (with chmod) the Windows compatible ACLs on the ZFS filesystem itself. Authentication can also work as expected in a Windows shop. Doing all this in Samba is a PITA.
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In my experience, the conditions are pretty much as described.

If Google knows you have an account because of tracking devices, they require you to log in because you are more salable.

If you're anonymous, you're more salable if they just show you the content.

In so far as I recall, originally G+ wouldn't show content without javascript turned on - i.e. the price of content was to allow Google to track you more closely.
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