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> Here is a company with a history of making tall claims and then doing an 180. How is pointing that out a red herring?

That isn't particularly relevant to service quality and stability, is it? Maybe it's just me, but I try not to pay much attention to PR bullshit, since they have to make bold claims in order to succeed.

p.s. that their blog was down for the last three hours is somewhat ironic, though.
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Over 30 years ago? Best I can tell it was first published in 1997, which is only half that.
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Found many new books too I couldn't find elsewhere.
I always wondered why would you send a probe around a planet... It seemed dumb. But it seems that the probe would steal some energy from the planet's speed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist
The profile pic is not very flattering but there is also a better cover picture:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=439926669386178&s...

I think she's pretty typical for a 40 year old woman.
The website on topic is http://marijuanamajority.com/
Matasano sounds good to me. I want to start a business ay some point called something like Jorge's Taco Truck. The business will not be owned by Jorge, there will be no sale of tacos, and we won't have a truck. I bet the name would be just fine, perhaps even memorable.
> I have no simply no trust left that this will go well (which is why wanted to take the refund).

Hindsight is 20/20, but lifetime service claim sounds too good to be true anyway. Besides, was that 5-6 years of hosting for $500?
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It's not quite a "github clone" in the sense that it's supposed to be self-hosted. It would make it more of a trac/redmine concurrent, depending on how much work has gone into the wiki and project management part. Is anyone actually using it?

And ironically, the source code is hosted on github.
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You are correct, this could also be entirely a compositional effect. I.e., women in academia might also be be on average younger than men, and hence have fewer publications.

There are a lot of possible explanations. Ultimately we need data on the authors as well as the publications to know what's really going on.
Awesome. I hope this is fairly straightforward to roll out. I've tried out Gitorious and iirc it was pretty messy.
See also RhodeCode, which is more of a BitBucket clone (supports git & mercurial).

http://rhodecode.org/

If you are looking for something a bit different, there's also fossil.

http://www.fossil-scm.org/
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Whether you fundamentally trust your provider to try to do what they agreed 'isn't particularly relevant to service quality and stability'?

Did you really mean that?
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Did you read the first couple of links in the article? On the day the original publication from DM came, we already debunked it, pointing to the longer time period:
http://sargasso.nl/tweespalt-opwarming-plateau-of-niet/
(in Dutch sorry).

And we refer to others who did similar things.

But this specific article is about adjusting the data before presenting it. The first point (missing 8 months) is "understandable".
The second point, changing the data at the beginning and end of the graph, is lying on purpose. That's unacceptable.
Even though these are small adjustments (about 0,03 degrees), they are done in purpose and to reach a goal (make more people doubt).
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25% sounds a little high to me. The figure I normally hear is that paper is about 10-15% of the cost of a book (I'm not directly in the publishing industry, but I've been a technical reviewer on several books and have a fair number of friends who are author/editors - mostly in the non-fiction market which is a little different from the fiction world).

See http://journal.bookfinder.com/2009/03/breakdown-of-book-cost... for some vague evidence

(The slice taken by marketing in the above seems high from what others have told me. Its also a somewhat simplistic breakdown since it ignores some of the long-term costs from publishers that aren't related to "books" directly. e.g. the advances to authors who never get published, etc. - so the potential publisher profits aren't quite as large as they appear here - there's other overhead outside the printing/distributing/selling books bit)

Also see http://ireaderreview.com/2009/05/03/book-cost-analysis-cost-...

It's also something Charlie Stross has posted about a fair bit see this collection of posts http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m...

TL;DR - people think about book prices being related to cost of producing media. That's like thinking software costs are mostly about the price of printing DVDs or shifting bits. It's mostly about book development costs - not media costs.
Sorry, and I really don't mean to be a grammar nazi, but it's "if I were". It's a subjunctive.
That's naive.

a) The lawsuit was settled in 2006 (ref andyjohnson0's post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687336). The article doesn't say when it was instigated, but it was likely a couple of years prior to that. In 2006, the tech industry was still working its way out of the collapse of the tech bubble.[1][2] Workers and companies were still pretty shell-shocked.

b) A lot of people live in places where the technology sector is not that strong and thus there are not that many options. Often moving is not a viable option due to family responsibilities or other circumstances.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nasdaq2.png
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And Linux pushes itself one more step away from Unix.
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Interesting.
I think the (generous) social security provision is what's missing from the US at-will model.
> Here is a company with a history of making tall claims and then doing a 180. How is pointing that out a red herring?

>> That isn't particularly relevant to service quality and stability, is it?

The claim being made is unlike Amazon, they won't let reddit down. It's relevant to point out these guys have made tall claims in the past and failed to deliver. I won't do business with someone who let's sales swindle customers. Even if the engineering is awesome, there is no guarantee sales didn't sell you something they couldn't deliver.

As far as service quality and stability goes, the only way to evaluate it is to actually switch.

> Maybe it's just me, but I try not to pay much attention to PR bullshit, since they have to make bold claims in order to succeed.

It's possible to do PR without bullshitting. You can always publish your actual numbers viz. number of customers, downtime history, avg issue resolution time. If you are resorting to bullshit, that means you don't have actual goodies.
I have started going back to real books for any book I might want to keep, loan, or give to a friend when I'm finished. It would be nice not to be screwed over by DRM yet again. I like my Kindle, but it doesn't help me read. It helps Amazon make money. The only thing it does is for me is to help me carry lots of books around easily.
Sadly, I would be glad to pay a reasonable price for books without DRM, but my options are still quite limited. I've been waiting patiently for Tor's ebook store to open (promised "by the end of summer 2012"). Baen is fine for a couple genres, but I don't trust Smashwords because of sockpuppet reviews. I don't want to pirate, I am glad to give authors their fair share.
Uh, you also missed:

> If you've read the above preferences and feel you match at least 28/30 of them (30/34 for software engineers), please contact me.
Since I disapprove of Amazon's DRM policy, the only books on my kindle are tech books from O'Reilly (DRM-free) and fiction from Project Gutenburg (DRM-free)

I know I could download ebooks from Amazon and just remove their DRM, but I think it's better to vote with my wallet.

After all, they sell the Kindle at cost and rely on you buying books from them to make any profit. So don't buy their books and maybe they'll learn..
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People have tried.

Even before DeBeers no one was actively against diamonds. Convincing someone to be positive towards something they from the outset where ignorant of or indifferent to is quite easy, especially if that things is harmless, pretty and shiny. Convincing someone to be positive towards something they've spent their entire life being warned against is Hard, especially if there is plenty of indisputable scientific evidence that that thing can in fact be very dangerous in many scenarios.
You are asking about a top-level comment that many users will not see (because it is autokilled on submission, presumably because the author has been hellbanned for previous off-topic comments like that). Usually, I read HN with "showdead" turned off in my user profile. Once in a while, I turn showdead back on, only to be reminded why many comments and stories are killed on submission.
There was some previous discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1802293 -- when, however, the URLs were quite different -- including links to a few articles HN readers found particularly interesting. Here are the corresponding URLs in the new archive:

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-iss... (issue about Unix)

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj2... (Shannon invents information theory, part 1) and http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/bstj-vol27-iss... (part 2); also http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol28-1949/articles/bstj2... (another article by Shannon, on "two-terminal switching circuits"; quite a lot of combinatorics).

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol39-1960/articles/bstj3... (about how two-tone dialling works; useful for making "blue boxes" to hack the phone system) and an earlier one http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol33-1954/articles/bstj3... about DTMF.

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol43-1964/bstj-vol43-iss... (special edition about 1ESS electronic switch).
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$300 to rent a decent sports car for half a day seems like a pretty fair deal. But I agree it would be better if they where up front about it (and then perhaps waiving it for 'good' potential customers)
Also , even though I share you sentiments on Windows, adding: "Gitlab does not run on Windows and we have no plans of making Gitlab compatible."

AFAICS Gitlab is server software. You can run whatever you want on your dev machine.

I assume you didn't mean you want to run your own GitLab server on each dev machine, I don't see how that would make sense.
This fellow was in the top quartile of his former economy--let us bring him into the United States so he may be worth more as a member of our top quartile!". That's rubbish.

How so? The reasoning seems quite clear. A skilled developer currently working at some shitty Indian company might be allowed to create value for millions of people at Google.

It's not labor shortages that are causing all the runaway costs in healthcare, and to pretend that bringing over physicians will somehow improve our situation (without explicitly saying how) is just wishful thinking.

Higher supply -> lower price. Less scarcity. Simple enough. Why do you feel this wouldn't help?

You seem to feel that there will be no gains from trade due to immigration. Can you explain this claim?

As for your concern about poor people voting, I share this concern. These are issues to work out. I generally favor excluding immigrants and their children from the welfare state and voting, and taking immigration from a diverse set of countries with high assimilatability. But these are implementation details, not a reason to scrap the whole idea.

Incidentally, the only reason I favor deporting our current illegals is an instrumental reason. We need more immigration, but we also need to control it carefully (as you note, it can be dangerous). If we fail to enforce our existing laws, we create incentives for breaking our current (and future) laws.
> There exist plenty of genuine windows devs out there that use git, or devs that switch between OS'es for different tasks (myself included, I'd boot up windows to work on graphics/games)

Yes, but you probably shouldn't be running a code hosting platform on one of your developer workstations.
I'm pretty sure it would work from a client point of view (it's still git after all), just that they won't support you running their web app on windows.
> The USPTO does not receive any funding from general taxation sources. Rather, the agency is fully funded by the fees paid by patent applicants and patent owners.

This is probably a big part of why the USPTO sucks. If they had the resources to hire dozens and dozens of industry experts, and pay them aggressively competitive wages, they could probably fix most of the problems most of us have with the system as a whole.
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I now understand why GitHub took a $100m investment from VC, they intend to turn it into a dating site.

More seriously, there is a trend here, where GitHub is not about sharing software only. It has become a blog, a wiki, a social network, etc.

And that's cool.
The whole lifetime plan debacle was a really big blunder from PR standpoint, but I wouldn't go as far as to call it a rip-off. Deal that started in 2004-2006 and lasted through to 2012 is 6 to 8 years worth of hosting. As far as I understand, they also offer one more year of free hosting as a compensation, which makes it 7 to 9 years. 7 to 9 years of hosting for $500 is okay in my books.

Of course, that doesn't make their PR blunder look any better, they should've just swallowed the costs, but I don't 'fundamentally distrust' them based solely on this case.
Now I'm curious, does Twitter use the British spelling of the word over there?
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Can you e-mail me where you work - I'd just be interested to see what you're doing...
That's exactly what 'ssh -X' is for.
You're right. It DL .chm files that are complete. However, it is a pirate website. If you really like the authors you shouldn't mind paying for it. If they don't offer a DRM-free book, well you can buy the DRM book and get your backup right here it seems.
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They do not. There's only one "English" language option.
You are reading it wrong. "Gitlab does not run on Windows" means that you should deploy this on a linux _server_. You can still use windows on your local machine, and push your changes to a linux box. It's true that you will have to have another machine, or a virtual box to use gitlab, but I believe that's how small/medium companies work.
Multiple local backups?
Makes no difference in the EU.
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Things move fast... I was reading an article about how they just acquired Archives.com from the Monahan brothers for $100m in August.
Of course one can pay, build a large collection and have it all yanked away at a whim > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682392

Pirates on the other hand offer a much nicer service that works and doesnt treat customers like crap, maybe the publishing industry can learn from them

Anyways this site and many others are busy stripping DRM of ebooks and making it free to download for all!
I'd argue that Apple is the one needing to do its own thing now. Their patent is being invalidated, that means that what they though it was original is not.
The glass tilt I'm referring to is distinctive from the iOS bounce, yet it seems they're still erring on the side of caution.
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For those interested, this was a great service too. Early days of investing and retriving historical data on companies via 4tel's Shares 3000 pages was the only way for private investors to get data freely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjKAM1NVWE
I love this guy's balanced approach to steering the kernel. Somebody asked whether a bunch of security-related patches would be getting into Linus' tree, and his response was great.

Basically, he spent a few minutes explaining how security people tend to think that problems are either security problems or not worth thinking about. They see things in black and white and only care about increasing security at any cost. He said performance fanatics can be the same in their approach to improving performance, and he tries not to treat security or performance patches as being too massively different from any other types of patches such as ones for correctness.

Also, a big fuck-you to this trend for shoehorning mindless Reddit memes into everything. Who the fuck wastes a question to Linus Torvalds on "Do you like cats?".
No

What's naive is subjecting yourself to a company with known practices of this magnitude.

What's the saying again? "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me?!"

Of course some people's options are limited, but most aren't.
This is why I like the idea (from someone around here I think) that patent owners should state a value of the patent when filing, and fees should be a percent of that value. Then value of patent limits maximum damage for infringement. So the amount of damages that can be sued for depends on the amount of funded attention at USPTO on checking the patent is valid (and patent owners could have the option of increasing stated value later, in which case extra fees would be used to revalidate patent).
But I guess the whole culture that the number of patents = amount of innovation in economy = success of USPTO would have to be battled.
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Totally Agree. A lot of people don't know this, or substitute alternatives which are not necessarily viable. Among the tenants of reliability is isolation. The nature of Amazon's services is that it isolates at the datacenter level. One should isolate at the level in which they are comfortable taking on failures. Once there is an active dependency, a la EBS, the number of subsystems increase multi-fold and the likelihood of failure & cascading failure dramatically increases.

Where getting a bit from disk to memory used to be: platter -> diskcontroller -> cpu -> memory,

now with SANs & NFS & virtualized block storage, it's:
platter -> diskcontroller -> cpu -> memory -> nic -> wire -> switch(es)/router(s)/network configs(human config item) -> wire -> nic -> cpu -> memory.

Not to say that centralized storage doesn't have its benefits, but now the scope of isolation has drastically increased, which when considering the combinatorial possibilities of failure in the prior scenario vs the latter, the latter has a significantly larger chance and mode of failure that is significantly more difficult to programmatically automate failover.

TLDR: With amazon, the scope is isolation is the datacenter. To be on amazon, one must architect and design at the scope of handling failure at the datacenter level, rather than at the host or cluster level.
I'd love to see some sort of punitive damages if a patent you sued over gets invalidated. At a minimum, Apple should need to compensate a portion of Samsung's legal fees.
No. They use 'favorite' consistently throughout the website.
For those interested, Prestel was a great service too. Early days of investing and retriving historical data on companies via 4tel's Shares 3000 pages was the only way for private investors to get data freely. Investing could be done by dial-up using the prestel platform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjKAM1NVWE
Unfortunately I just don't see the motivation for them to not issue patents... maybe Samsung should sue them for essentially giving Apple the ammunition to put them through the year or so.

I presume that that's not possible, but still, maybe it would give their collective heads a shake.
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It's not that everybody almost never wants it, it's that almost nobody ever wants it.
We've been using Gitblit (http://gitblit.com/) in the office for new projects and are quite happy with it. It all comes together when you hook up Groovy push scripts which we use to notify our Jenkins instance to test and build which in turn pushes it to our dev server for deploy.
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We're currently running Gitorious and it's definitely incredibly messy. I'm tempted to try and "migrate" to Gitlab.
Baen also has a problem with OCR'd text. I downloaded a Greg Bear book from them a few weeks ago and it was clearly OCR'd without a second look towards quality. It had so many typos and spelling errors that it was practically unreadable. I returned it for a refund.

To be fair Amazon also has this problem. It's hard being an ebook consumer when 90% of books either have DRM or are unreadably OCR'd.
Fonts look really horrible in Chrome on Windows. That has been a problem for a long time and they've still not done anything about it. I know that Google doesn't let any employees use Windows so that explains why they overlook stuff like this. But it's a big deal, so I'm uninstalling Chrome from all of my Windows computers now.
I actually prefer Android's current overscroll effect.
Does anyone have any idea how the Facebook accounts were taken from the owners? Scary.
They should invalidate all patents which are "obvious", let everybody move on to making great products and not waste all those resources in the courtrooms.
I personally find vnc or NoMachine NX better than X sharing. The main reason for this is that my programs don't quit if my connection goes down. While I do hope for a good remoting system, I'm not sure that 'ssh -Y' is the best way to do it any more.
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I'm sorry but your API is not what I would call RESTful nor a step in the right direction. I have spotted 3 issues after only 30 seconds on your doc:

1) HTTP features the "Accept" header which allows the user-agent to specify the format of the response. The "*.json" thing is not standard and breaks HTTP.

2) "tickets/search" endpoint is not a resource. It's a different projection of the "tickets" collection. It's basic filtering. Rule of thumb is whenever you're about to use a verb to name an API endpoint, you can guess you're probably about to do something wrong.

3) A RESTful API needs hyperlinks. Resources must point to each other to help the developer navigate the API tree and access every single point it contains. The API origin (company.supportbee.com) should be the only information I need to discover the structure of your API.

The WWW is an example to follow. It's the most RESTful "service" out there.
The Wired link adds nothing. They link to (http://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/ebooks-formats...)
It could use a couple of commas, but it's hardly an abomination.
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And my application will certainly have its single points of failure. But they will be things that I could not architect around with new software.
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This does not work out of the box on current Firefox nightly (19).
What do you mean by "taken"? I guess the Facebook application just used the privileges the users provided to it to compile this list.
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If nothing else, delay all court proceedings until any contested patents have been reviewed.