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"Google’s Maps Engine, its enterprise-focused service for developers who need to be able to create their own maps based on custom data, launched about two years ago and has been available commercially since last year."

"You may be thinking that Google already has a Maps API, but as Dylan Lorimer, Google’s product manager for the Maps Engine API, told me, the regular Maps API mostly focuses on giving developers access to Google’s own mapping content. The Maps Engine API is meant to handle developers’ own data."
"Yes its is it makes for a stronger government and reduces the influenced of extremists holding the country to ransom."

The problem is that there is no real choice here; you have a right-wing party and a slightly more right-wing party, and then a bunch of powerless minor parties. Nobody is holding the country ransom because there is no real disagreement. Occasionally the parties clash over the budget (as they did recently), but on the whole the country has generally followed the same path for decades now.
Hetzner is very open, transparent, and exact in their communication about this. I'm not a customer but I really like that they didn't try to dress anything up and were forthcoming with information.
Slings? Wristrockets(tm), slingshots, rock?
Maybe, I haven't used one. I was thinking of favourites of mine. Instapaper and Dropbox were at the front of my mind.
Bill Gates, VCs Invest $35M In ResearchGate To 'Open Source' Science
I'm sure a lot of Bill Gates' projects might seem equally meaningless, but he's still on track to completely wipe out Polio and has donated $28 billion to charity.

Besides that, not all of us are qualified to tackle those sorts of problems, or are even interested in them.
Sometimes opinions are just opinions, sometimes anecdotes are enlightening, and sometimes generalizations, metaphors, analogies and other abstractions come into play.

Opinions are opinions. They should be stated and treated as such. If your "opinion" is stated in the form "x is y," then maybe you are the one who should be more conscious of the way people communicate. Sure, it's just an opinion; that's fine. Just don't expect anyone else to take it as a fact or agree that it's at all meaningful outside of your own head.

I don't agree with this assessment of the problem. Some people want to participate in discussions about how things are or how things work or why things were done or what actually happened -- discussions of fact and logic -- yet they want to inject anecdotes, generalizations, metaphors, analogies, and other abstractions.

It's irritating and intellectually backwards. But it's not going to stop, because most people less interested in what a discussion is about than they are about making sure people pay attention to their contribution, whether it's valuable, on topic, or other.
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I think that the biggest point of my position is education. There should be an on-going dialogue between parents and children.

I wouldn't be so concerned with children stumbling across certain types of porn if the realities around the porn were explained to them via their parents and/or sex education classes. To use the anal sex example, if the sex ed classes addressed not just the 'pros and cons' of anal sex, but explained that the anal sex they might encounter in porn excludes a lot of things that happen off-screen (lest teens hear something in sex ed, but see something different in a porn, and think that sex ed class is just a 'bunch of bull' or fearmongering).

Note: When I say children I'm talking maybe 12+ or 13+ here, though I would probably prefer that they didn't get into porn until they were at least 15 or 16.
>"He's lasted as long as he has because he's focused and he's persistent. I've never heard him yell,"

I beg to differ, it is like J. Edgar Hover, who could not be removed from his post as FBI director simply because he had files on everyone who might attempt such an ill fated move, including Presidents - especially Presidents. Only imagine if J. Edgar Hover also had every electronic communication ever sent or received...scary stuff.
Is it just the customer account details that apparently make hosting companies attractive targets. If that's the case, I'm wondering why we're not seeing more breaches from all over the e-commerce world. Why just hosting companies?
It all depends on the quality of your dictator.
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No, but what matters to the photographer (our stand-in for software developer) is that there are many people willing to pay them several thousand dollars for those kinds of photos :)
not true for all customers - I needed to send them nothing of the kind (in the US)
It's a lot like Andrew Jackson's "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_v._Georgia
I agree re: encryption.

It wouldn't be incoherent at all for a 28th amendment to address various strands of privacy concerns that have arisen over the years. But there needs to be some thought into the design of such an amendment, because it wouldn't be an easy set of analogies from existing protections.
> If the app would be able to synchronize with these online repos tracking systems, then I could see myself using this app.

Thank you. I will consider this feature.

However, what about Dropbox integration? If the app synchronized to Dropbox so that you could access your bug list on all your machines, would that work for you?
Features: I'm all for simplicity, in the right circumstances. I use Clear from Realmac Software because when I'm creating to-do lists, speed is the most important thing to me. However, when I'm writing notes, accessibility is probably the most important thing for me and that means sync, I'd also bet this is the case for many people, hence the popularity of things like Evernote and Google Keep. The absence of sync from Vesper seems like a massive oversight, and makes me wonder if it's on the cards for a future version, or perhaps for a working iCloud? In addition to sync, I would have thought it would have Markdown support, even if it was transparent to the user in some way and

Price: The price doesn't hugely concern me here. If I find an app truly useful, then $5 is a small price to pay, and I support developers making a bit of a stand on this and charging premium prices for premium products. The feature set isn't one that interests me because of the lack of sync, so whether it was $5 or $1 wouldn't really make a difference for me.

Design: 'flat design' is nice when done well, but detracts from usability when done badly in my opinion. If you have a non-flat design, unless it's hugely over-the-top, I don't think it detracts from the usability. (sidenote, what's the correct terminology for the opposite of 'flat design'? It's certainly not skeumorphic) Lots of Microsoft's 'metro' styling does flat design well, using varying font sizes and typographic and visual hints to provide context to controls, whereas Visual Studio has gone too far and removed far to many visual cues which results in a less usable interface in my experience.

I feel that Vesper goes to far. As there is so little to the app it's hard to justify it being 'less usable', but I do think the interface to be a long way from correctly executed flat design. I think other apps and designs are far closer to how flat design should be.

Another interesting thing to note is the animation on transitioning to a new note. Federico Vittici made a GIF of it (http://bit.ly/15EEKkP) for his review (http://bit.ly/11Hkz16). Federico points out that it makes the interface feel a lot faster to the user, but I don't think it's the right thing to do. Firstly, as I said above, I don't think speed should be a priority for things like this, after all, the amount of time for a 0.5s transition is minuscule to the amount of time spent composing the note. But also it breaks the well known metaphor of the UI stack in iOS. The back button still indicates that it will move to the screen on the left, however the screen hasn't really moved in the user's mind. It's not a crucial point, but it's one of those 'papercuts' (http://askubuntu.com/questions/1006/what-is-a-paper-cut) that I would expect a team such as the one behind this app to have addressed.

I wrote more than I planned to, so I might turn this into a blog post. Would be interested to know peoples thoughts on it first though.
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While I didn't work directly on this project, I do work at Grameen Foundation on the open source maternal health system mentioned at the end of the article. (https://code.google.com/p/motech/ and http://www.motechsuite.org/)

I think it is an interesting story about unintended outcomes, the need to experiment, measure and stop when things aren't proceeding as expected. I'd also personally like to see and hear more on hacker news about the use of technology and open source in the non-profit sector so I figured I'd post an article.
Like the article points out, the inefficiencies of the market are being removed exactly because of these so called "vampire squid". Maybe we should call them "cleaner shrimp" instead, since they're performing a useful function?

Don't get me wrong, I tried my hand at some day trading a couple of years back and the HFTs helped to make it hard going. That was the problem with the business model I wanted to pursue at the time, though, not with the market itself.
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NetSpend is free and it doesn't cost to generate a Vitual Card. BTW, it works great for netflix....every month ;)
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Channel Partners: Don't count them out
That was my thought. Really it's the actions or desires of a small number of VCs with copycat investment strategies hoping to outperform VC as an asset class by backing a slightly different set of San Francisco startups working on a slightly different spin on social sharing that drives demand for developers in that particular corner of the world into the stratosphere.
(The market for Rails developers in many other parts of the world is not that different from the market for other locally-based professionals with a skillset that can solve defined business problems, which is probably what their code is actually doing)

That said, the billion plus people that joined Facebook and click on Google ads have had a bit of an influence on why LPs from all over continue to pump money into Sand Hill Road VC funds...
Hetzner, which was hacked today, did so. They got a unique id back from their payment provider which they stored in their database in order to bill.

Depending on your payment provider, you will be however locked in and can't change anymore.
The app is sold by Q Branch LLC
No, it's never too late. If you are motivated and hungry for knowledge, that is. I started my undergrad comp-sci degree at 26 and it changed my life completely. If you don't do it, assuming you wanted it forever, you will be regretting it forever.
Glad you brought him up. I learned about him reading his book about solo sailing around the world in a 31 foot boat. Good read even if you aren't interested in sailing. Free ebook here: http://www.arachnoid.com/sailbook/
That's the reason Adobe, Microsoft, Novell, eBay, Overstock.com, Goldman Sachs etc. have all started to put up shop in Utah

Off topic, but one of those things is not like the others... Novell was founded in Utah more than 30 years ago.
Sorry, I wish I had time to watch an hour-long YouTube video :( I was hoping that, if this claim were true, it would be easy to demonstrate with a graph or some numbers.
There is no authentication. Message is uploaded to server and then the sender's phone sends an SMS message with a query string authenticated URL to the recipient.

That way the system never knows the sender's identity or to whom the message was sent.
This is why I love Gail Goodman's "The Long Slow SAAS Ramp of Death" talk.
http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/gail-goodman-constant-...

There are no quick wins, it's a grind.
You must be kidding. This is encryption 101. The private key is supposed to be moved to a secure location after key generation.
"The cypherpunks credo is 'privacy through technology,
not legislation.' The law of the land can be changed by
the next administration. The Laws of mathematics are more
rigid."
There seems to be three things they are doing to reach their higher performance:

1. Multi-threaded synchronized write ordering. I'm interested in the internal synchronization mechanism...

"LevelDB uses very coarse-grained synchronization which forces all writes to proceed in an ordered, first-come-first-served fashion, effectively reducing throughput to that of a single thread. HyperLevelDB increases concurrency by allowing multiple threads to agree on the order of their respective writes, and then independently apply the writes in a manner consistent with the agreed-upon order."

2. Tuned write delay on compaction. What external instrumentation/markers are they passing into hyperleveldb to tune write delay?

"HyperLevelDB removes this artificial delay, allowing the application (in our case, HyperDex) to independently decide to delay writes, using information available outside the scope of LevelDB."

3. Tuned intra-level re-writes.

"LevelDB's compaction algorithm is not efficient, and in the "fillrand" benchmark will, on average, rewrite 3MB of data in the upper level for every 1MB of data in the lower level. HyperLevelDB avoids this waste by selecting the compaction with the smallest overhead."
> Actually, in a good debate, the fallacies are taken as (Bayesian) evidence, even if obviously imperfect.

I don't believe there is any reasonable definition of "good" where this is true. I think this characterization must rest on a misunderstanding of what the fallacies actually are.

> Appeal to authority/experts: The fact that experts believe something is evidence in favor of it (albeit imperfect and overridable).

Yes, but where that's true its not the fallacy of appeal to authority; the fallacy of appeal to authority is making an appeal to an authority where:

1. The cited authority is not actually an authority in the appropriate domain, or

2. The cited position is not the consensus of experts in the appropriate domain, or

3. In the context of deductive, rather than inductive, argument.

(Similar problems exist with your other arguments about fallacies as evidence).

Finally, your description of the "fallacy fallacy" is incorrect; it is not the (non-)fallacy of rejecting an argument because it is fallacious, it is the formal fallacy of affirming the negation of a claim because an argument containing a fallacy is offered in support of the claim.
I'm eerily reminded of Deus Ex and the Aquinas Router. The main difference is that it was located in Nevada, not Utah... And that the NSA probably does not have a human-level general artificial intelligence developet yet. Although one never knows.
I find the choice of name interesting. I realise it's a Bond reference, but the first impression I got was of an unreliable old moped, not the image I think the developers would want to associate with.
"...sidenote, what's the correct terminology for the opposite
of 'flat design'? It's certainly not skeumorphic..."

Well, we're talking about GUI design, and beveled buttons/menus etc. have pretty much been the norm for the GUI's entire history. So how about just using "traditional"?
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Your balance is irrelevant - your available credit line is debt, as at any moment you can be liable for up to that amount.
How much and why are you selling it?
If you want to buy 1000 bitcoins then cross the spread, take out the best offer, and buy 1000 bitcoins. If, on the other hand, you want to stick a bid into the market in the hope that someone else will cross and take your (lower) price instead... then yes, other participants will react to that.
A confederacy of dunces, amazing book! tragedy, comedy, insane characters, really good book!
Really? Because you perceive "our" culture and society to be "riddled with pervasive sexism," it follows that we all "exhibit sexist behavior at baseline?" And if the GP believes contrary to your claim, it'll "require extraordinary evidence to demonstrate?"

Ridiculous. Call yourself sexist if you'd like. And if the day comes when the Singularity puts us all closely in touch with each other's psyches, then you're free to tell us how sexist we've all been and we'll cry about it over a collective mug of chai.

Until then, perhaps you should go apologize to some women on behalf of the detriment all of us that have had on their lives today. I'll go let my girlfriend know what a pig I am (after I'm done cooking her dinner).
> web crawlers only [supposed to] access items which are public [whether or not their author realized it]

Fixed that for you.
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I have seen a $780 purchase in one of my card (which is only used online in App Store, PayPal, Amazon and Linode) on April 27th. I dispute the purchase and request reissue of the card immediately. Since I also use this card physically few times (all before Linode incident) I wouldn't say for sure that Linode was responsible. (I'm not located in US but the purchase was from online store in US, I suspect it might be compromised online by some means.)
Thanks all, finally got my mail. I was worried my account was hijacked! Panic over
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Particularly interesting because this was written ten years ago!

The transparency of the web makes it easy to fall into the trap of believing that many of the recent successes of businesses was "overnight," but that's hardly ever the case. Tumblr was founded in 2007, started before that, and only sold recently. But who was fully aware of those years of work?
Gotta be honest, I don't see the point of this app. As it is right now, it's useless to me. What benefit is it to me to see that someone "blacklisted" UPS? Guess what, I still have to ship packages occasionally, I'm still going to use them.

Complaints about airlines... I'm guessing all airlines will be "blacklisted" eventually because guess what, delays are part of flying.

It just looks like a slightly more organized version of what Twitter and the Internet already largely is: people complaining. There already exist the BBB, ripoffreport, yelp.

So... what value does your app provide? How will you make money?
Yahoo bidding for ex YC company Xobni.
Yahoo is trying to buy ex YC company Xobni.
Hetzner probably has many customers who pay with debit card/recurring direct debit instead of credit card. It's quite common in Germany.
If you do it under a business entity and for profit, you don't goto jail. Just get a fine. Good example was the sony rootkit or all toolbars/spyware that use browser exploits to install their software. Even though these are clearly a violation of unauthorized access laws.
"as soon as you start forcing things to disk LevelDB's performance dropped to levels that were beatable by any number of alternatives with fewer dependencies"

What alternatives did you test that performed better than LevelDB?
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Er, what? I thought the keypair was supposed to be generated in a secure location (such as your 0700 mode ~/.ssh directory), and then only the public half ever leaves.
> consider how deeply dysfunctional it is that webmasters are so afraid of Google and Matt Cutts that they are begging each other to take down links they paid for in the first place

Wait, how is that dysfunctional? "should have been more thoughtful about their SEO efforts in the first place" implies at least a likelihood that they would want to rescind their earlier actions, which is what they're doing. That seems...functional.

I mean, living in fear of only somewhat specified rules likely has other consequences that discourage good behavior in other ways, but the specifics you describe seems like what you'd want to happen[1].

[1] http://xkcd.com/810/
Did someone purchase it already?
Mostly political power. Terrorism/military/police arguments is the short term answer, but the reason so much effort is put in is because politically, surveillance is a very valuable. The two primary uses of raw surveillance data (to my knowledge) is to trade it with other nations, and to give political leaders information about their citizens in order to stay in power.

For trading, he who has most data can get most in exchange for it. Sometimes, it's details about on-going deals between companies, where trading information might mean receiving information so one's national companies get a edge over foreign ones. Diplomats, airplane manufacturers, car manufacturers, oil companies are historical beneficiaries of information acquired by the NSA.

But leaders of nations also want information about their citizens. They need to identify other politically important people, influential groups, or where campaign money should (or not) be invested so that they get elected next election. With surveillance data, you can direct police forces to crack down on people or groups who would otherwise have an effect on election day.
Explain in discrete steps how you imagine this works. What was the prevailing offer at the time you placed your order? How many coins did you buy before exhausting displayed liquidity at 121.46? How do you imaging HTFs front-ran your purchase? how would things look differently in the absence of HFT?
I've written a CLI (ruby gem: tmux-connector) that uses tmux to help you handle connections to multiple servers with ease. I use it on a daily basis to manage ec2 instances. https://github.com/ikusalic/tmux-connector
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He used to post here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lutusp

It's been a while, but perhaps he's on his boat.
Given the use case for Docker and the existing support for using Linux Containers as a Nova hypervisor, it seems likely that the Docker hypervisor could tie in very nicely with the existing OpenStack Heat project: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat
Yes, which is the company Gruber started with his friends. The kid in all the app’s screenshots is Jonas Gruber, John’s son.

Like Vesper, the name ‘Q Branch’ also refers to the James Bond franchise (Q is the mastermind who provides James Bond with all of his clever gadgets).

http://www.macworld.com/article/2040883/meet-vesper-a-notes-...
Reminds me of the chapter in Good to Great regarding the pushing of the flywheel:

"Good-to-great transformations look dramatic and revolutionary on the outside but actually are organic, cumulative processes on the inside. There is no single defining action, no grand program, no one lucky break or miracle moment. Sustainable transformations follow a predictable pattern of build up and breakthrough – like pushing on a giant, heavy flywheel. Average organizations follow the “doom loop” pattern. They try to skip buildup and jump immediately to breakthrough. Then, with disappointing results, they lurch back and forth, failing to maintain a consistent direction."
Yeah, grc is not for ad hoc utilities. It's meant to work with tools you use frequently, like make, diff, gcc, ping etc. where the syntax is known.
There's a big difference between acknowledging the sexist baseline that exists in society, something which we should all strive to improve, and saying a certain subset is fundamentally (more) sexist, which is quite discriminatory and unfair towards that subset.

> And if you'll forgive me for saying so -- that's not about to come from someone who says things like "I just knew this was going to be about sexism."

No, I don't forgive you. This is a completely uncalled for.
Or the software improvements will cross a boundary where we'll be able to mass-produce better thinkers than humans.