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Yeah, right, the definition of the database is fuzzy. As every technology, S3 has its pros and cons, and the latency is a con this time. Take a latency-intensive application (1), and it will feel miserably slow with S3. Take a storage-intensive application with not-so-frequent access requirement (2), and it will be just OK with it.

(1) any page-load that requires 3-5 sequential DB access (based on the results that are returned in the previous steps).

(2) Netflix's "let's store somewhere until we really want to use it" qualifies.
You'll find more paths to self-improvement in this blog post than in all the religious texts that ever existed:

http://artofmanliness.com/2012/09/01/heading-out-on-your-own...

FWIW I didn't read any super-mario's posts as angry. Stripping religions of their gods and seeing what is leftover is an interesting thought experiment, it works particularly well with buddhist principles, but if you still seriously cleave to some sort of faith, either in gods or the authority of institutions and mortal peoples representing gods, then I can see how his posts could be seen as dismissive and confronting.

You have to take a hardline against the religious nutters - they imbibe everything with their craziness.
Well, I think the one that's a little more detailed works better and is more "roboty" and has more charm/character etc.

The other minimal versions are nice too -- perhaps you could use a less detailed version for small 16px icon sizes etc. i.e no bolts.

But, hey as long as its one of them!

And congrats on your bold move & initial success :)
Postscript, so that HN has an accurate record: Bruce Willis Isn’t Suing Apple Over iTunes Music Ownership Rights.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/03/bruce-willis-itunes-music-l...
The link itself addresses this:

Overtightening of cable management bindings can cause conductor breakage, insulation damage, excessive chafing, and deformations between the conductive, dielectric, and shield parts of a cable, and no doubt a host of other issues. It is one of the classic problems with ratcheting plastic cable ties (i.e. "zipties") that they only have quantized adjustment steps and cannot be easily loosened. While zipties with a metal tooth insert do allow for smoother tightening, the possibility of this tiny metal part coming loose near electronics generally excludes their use. That zipties cannot easily be loosened or adjusted during tightening makes them more prone to being left in an overtightened state. Difficulty of adjustment might also be considered a possible strike against using the Constrictor Knot (and similar knots) for this application.
I was being nice. I genuinely do love them for this and I found it really interesting. I am also allowed to find it funny though. And I am sorry for stereotyping an entire group so lazily. I am sure that many of them actually have really messy sock drawers, if only in the hope of waking up to a really interesting variety of knot.
Windows and Apple due it to illegally stifle or at least lazily under-support potential competition with their apps. That is a non-issue in free software. And Windows and Apple are the talking about company-private userland APIs, not kernel-internal APIs.
Well, neither wikipedia nor the linked article say why zip ties aren't used. I don't know what material the lacing is made from, but unless it is a natural thread I'm sure zip ties can be made from that material.

It might be that tension (which is what I worry about when I zip tie delicate things like optic fibre) is better controlled in hand tied knots, but zip ties can be tied pretty precisely.
I've provided links for everything. You've provided none.

A couple more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines

Note how few of these occurred in countries with industrialized agriculture (the exceptions being cause by war devastation or the like).

https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+population+in+...

Numerous sources demonstrating that pre-industrial farming resulted in 90-odd percent of the population being peasants.
The idea is anytime someone is on to him, someone like you will counter-argue, giving him the perfect cover.
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You argue there is no demand and I say that, even if there was a demand, the PC margins woulds not support the Microsoft taxes associated with Linux. You say Microsoft would not extort PC makers like they do with Android makers but there is no evidence for that. If you have any documents suggesting otherwise, it would be nice if you could produce them.

Besides, when all PC makers depend so much on Microsoft, there are many other creative ways to punish OEMs who want to be more independent without raising too many eyebrows.
Software isn't patentable in the EU, and this is a software radio implementation...
Software isn't patentable in the EU.
Thank you for the background. Perhaps this time it is posted it will get a bit more traction/pageviews. My history was from early in the Java group trying to do security work in what was clearly going to be targeted as an exploit vector. For a variety of reasons that work didn't get out into Java 1.0 but pieces of it made it out into the crypto API and elsewhere. Folks with solutions to the 'trusted computing' problem that were both simple and wrong were a dime a dozen.

The meta issue here is that clearly the black hat work has some 'trade secret'ness too it in terms of competitors but it cries out for being published/peer reviewed post-money making opportunity or something.
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Some of the more higher resolution pictures suggest that the lacing is actually made from metal wire or synthetic fiber in a braid, which might have better environmental suitability than an injection molded solid plastic zip tie. Knots also provide endless tightening configurations, where as zip ties have quantified steps, which could simply be over tightened on an essential cable by accident providing a stress point for a small cable or wire to break at in a couple of years.

Also arm chair guessing.
and you're not answering my questions.

what are we debating? i'm happy to debate.

here's my guess: we're debating whether mdonahue's statement "people like you are not a large market, unfortunately" is true.

however as i pointed out, we haven't agreed on what "people like me" means. we cannot debate this statement until we have agreed on a definition for that. then we have to consider what is meant by a "large market". what is a "large market"? then we have to decide whether this what is assrted in his statement, if true, is "unfortunate" or not. or maybe we can skip that since it seems like just a mdonahue opinion.

is this explanation still too vague for you? i'm not sure how much more specific i can get.
The article says "a year later, there are still no PopSockets." But the PopSockets Kick Starter page says it was launched Jan 8, 2012 and funded on Feb. 12, 2012. Am I crazy or was something not researched properly?

That being said, I am personally surprised that most people are willing to fund many of the things that get funded and assume that people are treating it as a purchase rather than funding.

It will be interesting to see how all the parties handle the first time something goes horribly wrong.
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Actually, eventual consistency for their messaging product makes a ton of sense, because any changes to states are a "push", so any "eventual consistency" is just messaging latency/propagation delay.

That aside, you don't appear to be familiar with how messaging got built.

It was built by a large team of Hadoop people, HBase was simply what they knew, there was no conscious decision to snub Cassandra beyond the fact that it wouldn't have leveraged their extensive HDFS experience.

Furthermore, it's trivial to tune the consistency levels in Cassandra to your needs, so there's no real reason to not use Cassandra just because of a "lack of consistency". Just use ALL or QUORUM, jesus.
I'm not convinced by this explanation. A skilled person will do fine with a zip tie. Knots once tied should not be easy to untie in such applications - you don't want possibility of failure.

An over tightened zip tie can be quickly cut away.

The thing that seems reasonable to me is lacing works for thin cabling, but if you have a fat bundle of cables (say 5mm or more in diameter) I can't really see a big problem for zip ties.
Hmmm, I'm guessing no and no. Which is to say that if it fails to reach its funding goal then there is 'money' transferred so you don't get back what you didn't pay out. And no, since there isn't any contract involved with a Kickstarter there is not compelling reason for the person who tried and failed to return any money. Besides if they really did try they probably spent all the money in the attempt anyway.

As for Oouya, if you know anything about the tech buisiness this should tell you everything you need to know about this 'investment':

"I visit Uhrman in San Francisco, where she's meeting with a dozen designers to hash out Ouya's boomerang-shaped controller."
It has been my experience graphic designers use Apple's OS du jour and hackers are split between Linux and OS X.
I think part of the issue might be that HBase is designed for lots of data. The architecture overview says that if you only have a few thousand or million rows, then a relational database may be a better choice:

http://hbase.apache.org/book/architecture.html#arch.overview...

Even if you plan on scaling to billions of rows of data, it may be easier to start with something else that works well for smaller data sets.
My company does this currently. The upside is that the HTML is very configurable. (we have a rake task that generates a tumblr template from our rails app layout) The downside is that tumblr is down a lot more often that I'd like, and their API is down even more. Rather than using json-p to embed posts on our homepage we have an hourly job that tries to pull posts from the API; it only works about 90% of the time.

Also, when you set up your company blog, make sure you set it up as a secondary group blog so that you can have multiple authors. If you start it off as a primary blog you can't change to a multi-author blog later.
Lacing is lighter, and mass matters.
We've been using Beanstalk (http://www.beanstalkapp.com) for a few months now to collaborate more effectively, and thus far pretty impressed. Great system, and they've consistently added new features often.
Here's the worst part -- as far as the IRS is concerned, that money is considered income and anything you don't spend in the same calendar year is considered profit and is taxed as such.

So after a year, assuming you spend no money at all, you'd still be in the hole to pay back your backers.

I personally only use Kickstarter to play "patron of the arts". I fund art projects with the assumption that I will get nothing in return. If I'm lucky, I get some nice art to enjoy (so far one of the projects has come to fruition, where I backed the recording and distribution of an a cappella album, and recently got my CD).
As I said, I looked up the speech (again - just to make sure - as I had already looked it up before), and taken in full context, I think me means that if you have a business, you didn't build that business.

His actual, broader point is that you can't take credit for building a business or claim to own it or deserve its profits, because you built upon a foundation of capital, infrastructure, and knowledge that was there before you.

This is a common viewpoint on the egalitarian Left, where Obama has his roots, and which he clearly still represents.

To interpret his comment any other way than I did, is to ignore the broader ideological context.

But even not ignoring that ideological context, it's a huge stretch to claim that he meant "those" when he said "that," or to claim that he meant something else, other than what he said.

Lots of people in the media have been outright dishonest about this (John Stewart comes to mind - he had a pretty ridiculous segment on this).
Thanks for linking to the previous discussions. It would have ben better if you hadn't tried to derail this discussion with the prediction of how the post would fare and "cult of mac" comment.
The new UI sounded interesting. But after running it the UI felt like it was for a touch tablet and I have a K/M.
Is there a reason one must update to the latest editor or the latest version of the editor. I have been using Textmate for the past 5 years. It has served me really well. If it continues to work as it always does, upgrading is for better productivity?
If you invest in a company that has nothing more than a rough sketch of a product on their roadmap, and the company folds 6 months later with no actual product, do you get a refund for your worthless stock?

Usually not.

Investing is a risky business. Crowdsourced investing only distributes that risk over a much larger group of investors.

An honest founder might do his best to return the remaining funds, and Kickstarter might even decree (as the article suggests) that a refund be made, but there's no guarantee that any funds will remain by the time the project is declared a failure.

So the real question is: When you fund a project on Kickstarter, are you making an investment with a certain amount of risk associated with it, or are you simply pre-ordering a shiny new gadget? If any failed Kickstarter project actually went to court, this might be the single most important question to be raised.
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Zip ties are certainly quicker, but when everything is vibrating they concentrate the cable flexing stress at the edges of the zip tie. I've seen wires crack in my own robots from cable ties.
I've written a number of filesystem-based databases, and the problem that always comes up is keeping the entries consistent. You don't want a password database where the master password is different between entries, but with this system, you can't enforce that invariant until it's too late.

A better idea might be a system where the canonical source of truth is an application-controlled database, but where you can export entries to a directory tree and import entries from a directory tree. This makes syncing more difficult (export to directory tree on both sides, rsync, import on both sides), but it ensures that invariants are checked at sync time rather than use time.

I suppose you can write a validation command that you always run after sync, but how many people are going to run that? You don't realized you've been burned by having an extra password for an obscure site until that happens.
I am reminded strongly of ... "What have the Romans ever done for us?" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExWfh6sGyso
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Making your Mom deal with permissions? Yikes.

I think reasoning, in addition to basic instructions, is important even though some people might not care about it.
By leaving it out you deny those who do care an opportunity to learn.

And to me it just seems more respectable when someone asks you to do something and tells you why you are doing it then if they just give you bare instructions. (That said, the bare instructions should be able tostand on their own. They had better work, every time.)

Moreover, providing reasoning forces you to demonstrate you know the subject matter well enough to be able to explain it.
We should all do our part by refusing to purchase any UEFI hardware. I also won't be purchasing any new Mac hardware due to their policies. I don't buy music from the major labels and I don't see many movies anymore. I've never paid a journal for access to an article, especially since Google usually has indexed a copy. I've never paid for a Kindle book, I'd only ever pay for a portable PDF.

Shamefully my day job is producing apps for OS X and iPhone, so that's depressing and hypocritical I guess. Maybe I can switch up to web apps next year.
Don't like how Kickstarter basically lies:

> So I call Kickstarter founder Yancey Strickler, and ask: What if Uhrman isn't able to deliver the consoles? Would Kickstarter get involved?

> "You know, that would be new ground," he says. "I don't know. I mean, no, I don't think that we would. But certainly, the kind of thing you're talking about is not a bridge that has been crossed yet. Someday it will. And you know, I think if something did go awry, it would be — it wouldn't be my favorite day."

And yet as far as I know there are a number of projects that have failed. Can't find any names via casual googling, but I remember last time Kickstarter came up on HN a few people were citing projects they had backed that had given up. I'm a PopSockets backer, and even though he still says he'll deliver, I have some serious doubts.

Coupled with this: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/16/allegation-kickstarter-is-s... I'm really starting to think Kickstarter, the company, is acting shady. Still believe in the idea of crowdfunding, but my trust in Kickstarter is waining hard.

edit: here is the thread I was thinking of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473360
w00t a simple password manager that isn't totally bloated that I can use from the commandline. gpg is awesome too
It all comes down to people's perceptions. When they hear that something is organic or natural, many people assume it must be better for us, and if it is better, it must contain more nutrients.

Food company's like to use this to their advantage, and the terms have lost a lot of their meaning unless you know how the food is produced. I think this is a key point. An organic farm using improperly composted manure for fertilizer or contaminated water for irrigation may end up poisoning people with e-coli. On the other hand, grass fed, free range chickens produce the best eggs I've ever tasted. If the farmer happened to also give the chickens antibiotics, I don't know if that's really a bad thing.

The other big issue of course is cost. Food labeled organic is much more expensive. Many people just cannot justify the extra cost. When our son was small, we looked at giving him organic milk versus regular milk (http://foodconstrued.com/2010/09/got-milk/). We started with organic but eventually switched to regular.
It was funded -- which means that the project owner received the money -- but the actual product wasn't created and delivered to the users who funded it. So, it failed. The NPR article is telling you that things are going horribly wrong sometimes, and PopSockets is an example of that.
I was seduced by OS X for awhile at work. But getting all the GNU stuff running is not easy or complete. I'm sure if you are writing ios apps it is smooth.

I did like being able to open a shell and kill -9 a hung app.

But in the end it just felt slow.
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One issue I have with the Play Store is that AFAIK there is no way to make your Play Store .apk downloadable directly from the Play Store website without an android device. If I could download and inspect one at my leisure I might find it more comforting.

I suppose this could be fixed without Google's help, if someone made a third-party site with a list of vetted open source android apps with an email warning mechanism in case an open source app becomes closed in a future update.

I did think about it as I went about my day and I don't disagree with you about the potential for Android-based PCs that even a longtime Linux weenie could love. The OEMs tried hard to make Android NetBooks and tablets long before the platform was ready. I discounted them for reasons that were beyond their control. Now that the platform is getting ready I can see potential for that to happen.

I'm doubtful as to whether it's going to happen, but I've bet against Android and been wrong before.
This seems really complicated. The whole point is to keep things simple and easy and not bloated with lots of applications and database formats and whatnot.

In any case, the GPG files have the ID of the key needed to decrypt them, so you can encrypt files with different keys, and so long as you have that key in your keychain still, you're good.

I guess I could add a simple convenience command "pass normalize" that decrypts everything and re-encrypts it using a single key. This would be a pretty simple way of doing it.
> no, since there isn't any contract involved with a Kickstarter there is not compelling reason for the person who tried and failed to return any money

The article says

> [Kickstarter]'s policy says creators have to give refunds on failed projects
I'm simply waiting - with baited breath - for one thing: split views.

This is all I need, but I need it _badly_ as it is one features that I use constantly. I've been tempted to try and code it myself, but I think I'm not really going to be able to do it nearly as well as other more experienced devs.
Asp.net webforms, I ought to have clarified that. The REST API i'll create with javascript, perhaps using this c# to javascript compiler: http://www.erik-kallen.se/blog/saltarelle-open-source-c-to-j... to reuse some of the c# once I decouple the objects from the user interface/data. The problem with the code right now is application logic is mixed with the data and display logic. I feel like I can add more value by removing dependencies for asp.net/mssql and trading them for free/open source software.
My concerns are:
Build it to scale as cheaply as possible.
Make it so I can add functionality to the web/native apps by adding new services to the api, to stay dry.
Stay flexible for future iterations/pivots.
At some point windows/ios versions will come up, so I'm just trying to excersize some economy of motion here.
If I create wcf services, we will have to purchase visual studio licenses when we start hiring developers to maintain them.
Yep. Undiscoverable crap that's less efficient and effective than the "regular" way.

One of the very few exceptions is two-fingered scrolling on trackpads. This is the first genuinely valuable use of multitouch I've seen.

The use of the term "jetpack design" is hypocritical when talking about this topic, however, since it's as meaningless and obscure as the designs we're complaining about.
That was definitely the shocking part of the story. Kickstarter seriously has no idea what it would do in the case of a project failing..? Even if it hasn't happened yet (and I don't believe that), they didn't think a little ahead?
WIP at https://github.com/tianshuo/mobile-2d-barcode-login Note that this kind of login is already live and default for Chinese popular online chat - wechat(微信). The working url is wx.qq.com and you will need to login using the Wechat mobile client. The feature is to bind a computer keyboard with the mobile phone so typing is a whole lot easier. The strength of this idea is not logging in, but online payment, remote controlling of TVs, interaction using mobile phone with outdoor ads, binding keyboards to mobile phones, etc.