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Your arrogance is astounding. This is why people hate Americans.

An English person, writing English in an English way, and you say you're not going to continue reading. Do you require him to write like an American? Why should an English person, writing their own language, have to follow your conventions?

"I didn't know"

Well then don't start shouting your mouth off! If you don't know, keep quiet.
As air traffic controller furloughs begin, LAX worries about delays
That's a poor analogy. We implement trading systems without fundamental trust all the time. Letters of credit, escrow, etc. enable us to engage in commerce without forming trust relationships. Why should a legal system ask for, or deserve, more trust than a trade counterparty?

More concretely, why shouldn't judges, prosecutors, and police be bonded?
I try to avoid these sorts of submissions, mainly because of their non-content and the subsequent familiar discussion, but somehow they keep reaching the front page.

It’s certainly your prerogative to use whatever you like but the incorrect assertions bother me, especially the prevalent one: “It's because I think that Google is now working against the potential of the open web”.

Here’s a rebuttal in the form of a partial list of links to Google initiatives that exist primarily to advance the “open web”:

http://www.webrtc.org

http://www.chromium.org

And their various web speed efforts:

https://developers.google.com/speed/spdy

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed

And of course:

https://fiber.google.com

I don't think the closure of Google Reader was any indication to the contrary, and all of these are certainly much more important to the web than yet another centralized RSS reader.

Other errors in that post: Chrome never ‘dropped decent RSS support’ as it never supported it to begin with, it was actually Firefox that dropped their support. Also there is no evidence that Reader was closed to “drive users to Google+”, there is no proof nor common sense explanation to support that assertion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5587667
> having int be variable-sized allows you to easily have maps or other int-indexed structures that naturally grow in capacity with the current architecture ... Go programming that targets 32-bit ARM CPUs and the performance would be shit if the Go runtime just assumed a 64-bit baseline.

That's why you have a -fint-is-32-bit flag or some way to bend the standard to make it run faster on those system when needed. There's no way Go with it's shared memory between threads is going to survive any future shift to 128-bit computing anyway, so just making int always 64-bit is the best choice; if your maps or indexed structures are so vast then you'll need better abstractions than coroutines.

> [better C than K&R is] basically what Go was meant to be and I suspect the Go team would consider your description of Go to be more flattering than you perhaps meant it to be.

Well it certainly was not intended to be flattering, but I suspect you are correct.
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Are VMs ever really performant?
Have there been any improvements since then?
Writing C at all is kind of a pain in the ass, now that it comes up...
I believe it is not even legal. Whilst I am sure some could correct me, PIC regulations for credit card storeage expects you to have your own boxen. There must be others.

On top of that, it is highly highly unlikely that the range of software a bank uses will install cleanly on say Ubuntu 12.04.

And the reason mobile sucks for almost all banks is

A) their back end software is twenty years old and was written before the Internet was even considered - the APIs are mostly screenscrapers

B) mobile security is hard
Almost all major datacenters have pretty high security. Your main concern should probably be securing the software, not the physical servers.
I'm in the energy industry, rather than in software directly. (I'm a geophysist, rather than in CS.) I'm at one of the majors, but it's probably best if I don't say which one.

There are certainly "academically inclined" groups where I work. I just need to work towards one of them.

I've enjoyed all of your posts, by the way!
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Is there a cloud provider that doesn't (yet) have these issues?

Is it possible to run any cloud service at Amazon's scale without these issues?

(genuine questions speaking from a point of ignorance)
#haskell #dart #go-nuts #phabricator #redis #postgresql #grails #clojure #rust

Pretty much a good chunk of open-source and language channels. always something to learn there. Especially the Functional programming channels like Haskell and Clojure

I use ot idle in #nodejs and #javascript, but that got septic pretty fast.

I also idle in #litecoin because I actively mine litecoins and feathercoins.
Just so I can find the thread again ...
Stop whining and build something better. Reader was never a very good RSS reader anyway. You can do better.
I don't have any inside information, but I would guess it's because their san is so sketchy everyone rolls their own DFS and uses other chatty replication strategies, leaving the network running data and disk on the same topology. These days a lot of that traffic will take 4 hops within an AZ.
Amazon EC2 Latency: The Pretty Graphs
I wouldn't use it for anything that can't break.
This could be the worst UX that was thought to be cool by management I've seen
Three things that have always been in Intel's favor have been their truly massive and always cutting edge fab capability (which no other cpu manufacturer has been able to even come close to), their extremely well-funded R&D teams, and their industry relationships (largely due to those other two factors).

Intel is able to field several different processor lines and architectures simultaneously, and also develop multiple new architectures at the same time. That's not something that most other companies can do. They've also been reasonably good at recovering from mistakes quickly (something that Microsoft has also been fairly good at).

That said, it'll be interesting to see how things pan out with the changes to the computing landscape that are in the works now.
owncloud was an interesting item on his replacement list. Has anyone else used owncloud and can vouch for it? If so, are you self-hosting it or using a commercial host? If the latter, which one?
> I'm guessing Intel offered some sweet sweet long term deals to keep AMD out of the picture.

I don't know whether Intel under bid AMD's pricing or not.

What we know Intel did do, though, is that they ran a marketing blitz of Intel Inside ads so that when consumers went to buy a computer and saw "AMD" instead of "Intel" they reacted negatively. Based purely on the marketing, customers would view the computer sporting the "Intel Inside" logo as the premium product.
This is why kernel hackers tend to say "Use the Source, Luke!" instead of pointing you at documentation. The one exception is documentation that talks about the high-level design of a feature (e.g. Documentation/pi-futex.txt), which is usually updated whenever there's a complete rewrite or major design change.
Your misunderstanding and dramatic response is astounding. It's ignorance, not arrogance. Say what you want about his reaction to the perceived poor grammar but it's nothing more than that.
"IPv6 support is pretty much standard in routers, applications, libraries, etc. these days, so we're not "going to forklift a whole new collection of libraries and programs onto everyone's computer" - all these libraries have been quietly ported over the last decade or so..."

So what? DJB's linked criticism correctly predicted that would happen, and also correctly predicted that would not cause any significant uptake in ipv6.

The issue is that 98% of the ISPs customers will be happier with CG-NAT than with an ipv6 address, so the ISPs are going to spend money on the former and not the latter. This will be true as long as a majority of their customers connect to even one server without deployed ipv6.

The vast majority of people connected to the internet consider themselves a client, not a peer. CG-NAT is better for you than ipv6 if you are a client that wants to talk to even a single ipv4-only server.
My feedback is similar to what others have said - this is a great idea, but the ranking system seems a bit skewed towards sites that are fundamentally sound in SEO over anything else.
If he didn't understand why it was written like that, how about trying to find out why, before posting a snarky message?
Serious question not intended to be snarky at all, but shouldn't you be busy pivoting?

I've always been in awe of founders who can manage to find the time to write articles, blog posts, do speaking engagements, and be "thought leaders", and somehow still find the time to rapidly grow a company. To me, it seems like an either/or proposition, especially when you hear someone like PG describe what an all-consuming effort starting Viaweb was.

I guess I'm just genuinely curious what your thinking is on the value of all this blogging in the midst of a pivot, which must be an extremely busy and stressful time. It seems like every other day you've got another post at the top of HN. Does it help generate buzz for and drive visitors to Referly, or is blogging just your version of unwinding after a hectic day?

Obviously your situation is a bit unique in that your startup (or at least the first incarnation of it) was user-generated content based, so maybe it makes sense in your case.

Anyway, please don't take this the wrong way, I'm just genuinely interested in your thinking on this. Best of luck with Referly.
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I tried to get in the game about a week ago, while the money was pending transfer into my account BitFloor closed it's doors, who knows where my money is.

Anyways, there's definitely a demand here. And given the current exchanges the bar is relatively low in this space. Good luck!
I had a hard time reading that phrase, and I thought it was because he didn't spend enough time editing the article. I like to think I am a cultured person, but I truly didn't know it was grammatically correct in British English. Don't judge all Americans just because I am naive.
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048694
Would the other guy agree that you do more?

If so, be direct. Say, "I feel like I'm doing the work, I would like the title."

If not, there is a communication gap. Address that. (The communication gap is a prior as likely to be that you do not see/recognize/appreciate what your partner is doing as vice versa. In fact start with the assumption that that that is the case, because it is easier for you to fix yourself than to change someone else.)
how else would we say "roflcopter"?

I never say AFAIK aloud, but I do always pronounce it "a fake" in my head when typing.
google.org might be, if there's a humanitarian spin on it.
STOP CALLING WINDOW MANAGERS DESKTOP ENVIRONMENTS.
This varying a lot by field is a good point. It also depends on what you mean by academically inclined: are you interested in doing research, in publishing the results of your research, or both? In chemical engineering, for example (not my own area, but some of my family are in the field), it's much easier to find a research-oriented industry job than to find a research-oriented industry job that will let you publish openly.
#elementary-dev, #vala
I've barely used it, but http://librelist.com seems like a potential Google Groups replacement.
Apparently he felt the same way, just didn't want to bring it up. I said "you know, I think we're going to need one CEO instead of a two person system" and he flat out said "You're CEO". Cool.
A book recommendation relevant here: Inside Intel is a great book about the founding and early-days sparring with AMD - it's old - I bought my copy in the late nineties en route to Silicon Valley from London. But it's a great scene setter and backgrounder for these sorts of stories. Great read.
Initially I wasn't a huge fan of the 'seen' status in Facebook messenger, but it's actually really useful when speaking with my good friends (who I know won't reply, but knowing they've seen it is all that's necessary).

I just wish it was optional so that certain contacts won't necessarily know that I've seen their message.
Assessing Kiva loan applications Facemash-style
Prime for disruption - The Boy Scouts
What you refer to as "Jesus-Spam" is the tragic rambling (and randomly generated "messages from God") of a talented software developer with schizophrenia.

http://qaa.ath.cx/LoseThos.html

https://www.hnsearch.com/search?q=losethos

https://www.hnsearch.com/search?q=sparrowos
I'd like to give credit to Google where it is due. With takeout, it is very easy to get quite a bit of your information. You already could get your emails by IMAP or POP but still Google set a standard with Takeout :)

This makes it possible for someone to just pack his bags and leave. This is also the reason why I am staying.
I've had these issues with the micro instances before. One deployment will be so sluggish it's almost unusable, but starting up another one results in one that is just fine (micro wise).
I'm on their side, for impracticality reasons.

But one note: TechAmerica, who are very vocal on this bill, were also strong supporters of the CISPA bill... which seems a bit inconsistent.

http://www.techamerica.org/house-passage-of-cispa-major-step...
Good luck from a fellow Adelaidean. Have tweeted (@isaacforman) to plug the game and will buy it when I get home to the iPad tonight. Looks like a decent partner game to Ridiculous Fishing, which is my current time-waster.

Well done on the launch.
> Are you really that damn busy that you can't spend a minute or less writing a more natural and conversational reply

It's not that simple.

If I'm in the middle of a coding binge I can switch over and fire off a 'VSRE' without losing place. Converting that into a 'sociable' reply requires a mental context switch out of coding land and into human land. That doesn't cost me 2 minutes, It costs me half an hour [0]. So either the e-mail gets a terse response, or the sender waits a couple hours till I hit a mental break point in what I'm doing.

[0] http://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/
I'm a late stage phd student contracting in industry and finishing my theiss part time. I was chatting with a prof the other day, saying how I was pretty happy with my work situation. He said "so they pay you well, give you interesting work, and leave you alone to get on with it. Sounds pretty sweet to me". So it depends on the gig. I am particularly lucky, not due to good skill as a programmer, but due to good, relevant, people and project management skills.
I've asked multiple times about adding subdomains to distinguish repos from blogs, but it appears that this is a workaround that no subdomain reporting would detect
Some of the OpenStack providers run their own storage networks using conventional SAN tech. Super expensive but more consistently performant.
>because it is quite expensive to collect and organize

Right so why aren't you working on pivoting Referly instead?

I do enjoy hearing from members of the community but I'm reaching the point where I feel like you need to have a blogging intervention or something.

Do you need one?
I use all the products you listed.
And I will not attack a company just because of a product.
If you just want to be popular? you did it. Kid.
For the same reason you didn't bother to figure out whether it was ignorance or malice on his part before jumping to your own convenient conclusion, I would imagine.
http://flattr.com
For maps you may want to try here.com
It's not bad - faster than gmaps too
Rofl I've always pronounced (on the rare occasions that I do), as rhyming approximately with 'waffle".
Try PDFZen from the web store
Why wouldn't you wait until you take a break to reply to emails? You're choosing to switch over during a "coding binge" when you don't need to.
Maybe start a bitcoin bank? No regulation. A bitcoin loan shark.
It's not necessarily a waste to assign globally unique addresses to internal networks that will never see the unfirewalled Internet, because the uniqueness means that when that company is merged with some other company and you want to route between their internal networks, you can do it without renumbering or NAT.
> de-factory monopoly

Not really:

- Video: Till Oct '12, youtube's market share peaked at ~52%. [1]

- Email: Gmail surpassed Outlook in market share only in Oct '12. [2]

- Search: Google Search 67.5% as of March 15, 2013. [3]

> many of these services have stagnated

And when they attempt to get out of markets so that other new companies can perform better, we get Reader like response.

> Google does not seem to care much about Internet standards

And how are you sure that FastMail and Vimeo (Alternatives suggested in the OP) are any better?

[1] http://videonuze.com/article/youtube-s-market-share-nudges-u...

[2] http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/gmail-finally-beats-hotmail-acc...

[3] http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2255183/Google-Grabs-Mo...
1) Google - when Google came into existence in late 90's there were no dominant search engines. The orthodoxy at that time was that there was no money in search. Accordingly nobody wanted to be a search engine and everyone tried to be a portal. The dominant player back then - Yahoo - emphasized its use of human editors and partnered with AltaVista and Inktomi for search.

So Google never really defeated a dominant search engine - it merely took advantage of a giant vacuum in the market.

2)Apple - Apple never defeated Microsoft in the PC game. Instead it focused on emerging markets: ipod, iphone, ipad. Eventually these new products (smartphones & tablets) became powerful enough to erode the PC market. Even now Microsoft is still dominant in the PC market. It's just that PC is no longer where the action is at.

3)Facebook - there were no dominant players in social networking when facebook was founded. Myspace was the biggest player, but "big" was a relative term back then. Even at the height of its popularity the vast majority of the population was not Myspace users. Sure if you were 16 year old in 2004 then you were probably on Myspace. but outside of that demo Myspace was far from dominant. Most people were not on any social networks. In short it was a wide open market.

I'm sure there are examples where a challenger took on a dominant incumbent head on and won. But those are the edge cases. You pretty much need all the stars to align perfectly to have a chance. It's not a strategy I'd bet on.
Fair. I totally understand that. It's a habit I share myself, although having been stung by it as well I now try to be as assertive as possible about my needs.
How much are you doing more than the other guy? Can you have a co-CEO?
See how that entry says "usu. with negative or in questions"? The usage in this case is neither negative nor a question, and so many, like the gp and myself, found it confusing.
There are state run medical colleges, but by no means there are a 'lot'.

Yes the fees is less, but its not (almost)free.

And there are many doctors who move out of India, because the money is good outside.
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I'm not sure whether it was intended or not, regardless, one can take "game" to mean much more than merely "market".

If you play by the same rules, same norms, same fundamentals, etc. as hugely entrenched businesses then you'll often fail. But that's not what google, apple, or facebook did, they changed the game when they came on the field.

Google is an excellent example because the market was saturated with search engines at the time. But at that time search worked very poorly and the dominant strategy of search engines was to become "portal" sites. Google made several "game changing" moves. They created pagerank, which led to better search results. And they used a combination of cutting-edge software techniques (map-reduce, sharded databases) along with cutting-edge datacenter techniques (consumer hardware, massive parallelism, heavy automation). This combination made it possible for google to create a product which was better and superior (more accurate, faster) and cheaper to operate. Which then made it possible for them to monetize their product differently (adwords, etc.) in ways that wouldn't have been possible or profitable for others. The rest is history. Similarly Apple changed the game when it came into competing in the laptop, music player, and phone markets.
Check out MapBox and http://ideditor.com.
You go out of business because your margin was razor thin. Obviously.
It's not really a case against IPv6 that existing websites don't need it since that's a privileged position that makes IPv4 seem fine. IPv4 exhaustion is only a problem for individuals at the edge who want incoming calls (to act as servers). Fortunately, today, new edge-homed servers can already use IPv6 through a tunnel, with the immediate advantage that they have a "real" globally-routable address that they can be reached at. In that sense, IPv6 has already arrived. It would just be nice if I didn't have to set up that extra tunnel to connect to something that only I and my clients connect to.

The people at the edge who don't care are, sadly, the one's who would most benefit. I agree that that is a problem. These social problems (the consumer apathy and the willingness of ISPs to exploit that to make a peer network a broadcast tree) are admittedly overwhelming but, as you also note, the costs to ISPs are minor: IPv6 can be provided to the edge, even if it's ultimately tunneled over IPv4-only hardware.

This is more a matter of technology-leaders, IMHO, pushing/expecting ISPs to do the right thing for once (if we can spare a few minutes from selling censorship to dictators). History has shown they aren't going to do it without public pressure. Their preferred distribution medium (cable TV) already existed: it was people who understood that it was a peer network that drove the adoption of the Internet. If IPv6 spends the first 10 years or more being used exclusively by that group of people, fine, but it's still worth promoting. ISPs only started taking it seriously in the last few years, so there's a long way to go, but I think it's a reasonable goal to get an upstream IPv6 router advertisement, eliminating the need for tunnels, to every IPv4-connected home in the next 5 years (it is really just a matter of installing Linux, or your preferred OS, on a spare box until the load dictates an upgrade; there is no chicken-or-egg problem).
>but you won't get much use out of her/him.

Wrong. Getting paid less doesn't mean the quality is always going to be bad.

In this case getting paid less means, people don't have opportunities to begin with and are ready to do compromise with anything just to get the opportunity.

When I started out here in India, I was paid 10,000 Rs per month at a call center. And I considered my self fortunate for even having a job. My programming job salary started at 14,000 Rs per month. Back then 16 hours at office used be my regular working hours, and I didn't even complain. Heck I considered myself extremely fortunate to even get that opportunity.

>>Decent grads from a good school regularly get Rs 100K/month offers,

You are talking of an extremely minute minority, who often don't work at their first company for more than an year. And generally go the US to their MS or MBA. In short they are not even relevant to the grand scheme of things.
I've actually thought of this too but I have a (weird?) issue with maintenance--our country's near the equator, and on really bad summers (which is almost half a year long), it's almost 100 degrees Fahrenheit everyday. I'm not so sure it's a great idea to have our own data center here. Also I'm asking this because I know Facebook got their own near the North Pole to keep maintenance costs low.