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Barry Abrahamson actually responded to a similar critique in the comments:

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Hi,

Barry Abrahamson here. A bit of context to my comment about the stability of Apache. We started WordPress.com using the Litespeed web server, but decided that we wanted to maintain as much of an open source stack as possible. We looked at lighttpd but had lots of issues with memory usage (leaks?) so we naturally turned to Apache. It worked mostly as expected performance and functionality wise. Keep in mind this was back in the Apache 2.0 days. Our problem was that deploying configuration changes which required a graceful restart under production traffic levels didn't work very well. About 10% of the time it either failed to reload the configuration, Apache stopped responding completely, or connections were dropped. Keep in mind that we were reloading ~1000 machines at once, but 10% is a pretty high failure rate. Yes, I know we could have removed machines from production, reloaded the configuration, and then put them back, but it's slow and error-prone, even if automated.

This is when we started looking at nginx. The nginx configuration reload works as expected all of the time, so that was enough to make us invest more time in the software. The transition was non-trivial since we had thousands of lines of .htaccess files which had to be translated to nginx configs, but it was worth it. Today, nginx is the "Swiss Army Knife" of our software stack. We use it for everything we can. I joke that we would use it as a database server if we could :)

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As a side note, this may be the first useful comment on a Wired article I've ever seen.
If I'm under criminal suspicion for a crime committed in the U.S., the FBI or local law enforcement agencies need to get a warrant to intercept my communications.

There is evidence that the FBI also engages in warrantless wiretapping. See http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/privacy-line
That's great, but it's got nothing to do with Apache. If you choose a shitty language, and PHP is shitty no matter how popular it gets, you're limited in choices elsewhere. There's clearly a market for Nginx, low memory virtual servers running PHP. Remove PHP and use a better language and Apache scale just fine even in low memory conditions because without PHP, you don't have to use the old fashioned process model. Apache can work with PHP-FPM just like Nginx using the new evented worker mpm, but as PHP devs clearly find Apache confusing there's no reason to bother.
The WhatsApp system of $0.99 for each year after the first would be one option.

One thing I'd really like is the ability to buy photo books, journal, those sorts of things, made from the photos I take, and information I provide in checkins and updates throughout a journey, holiday, etc. It would be great to get home from a trip having checked in to everywhere, taken photos, posted thoughts and feelings, etc, and get the whole thing in a nice big physical book similar to the ones iPhoto in iLife can produce.
I had similar problems and switched hands, and most importantly, use a trackball. For me, the act of gripping the mouse seriously exacerbated the problem.
It is right that the cache is not done in a per-user basis - still, it is an option. The downside is that you have to associate to which user the data belongs by yourself. Its an extra effort, so its better be worth that effort - in my case the page is the same for all users, so this is not a problem.

Also, this is not an _Scala_ characteristic - it is the way Play Framework works. Other Scala frameworks might (and most do) things differently.
>teams that charge $20,000 per day.

Holy fucking shit what? Could you expand on that? What did they do? How many team members? Man..
That's probably because its settings are so unique and different from other browsers. And since not many people check that site, you could be the first one.
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It could be Redis, but Play Framework has a Caching mechanism built in already :)
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That is exactly the message! =D
The game has been developed by volunteers for years. It sounds like they want to pay some of the devs so they can be devoted to it full-time.
Please, no labels. Or if there are visible labels (beyond something small, tasteful, and discreet) have an option to remove them. I'd even pay a little extra for that option.
So you admit not even having read the ToS, but now you're ready to believe that it happens, despite the fact that (for example) Google has a fairly straightforward privacy policy that enumerates what they use data for: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

As the person who originally replied to you mentioned: it'd be political suicide for Google to provide the information they use for their own ad targeting to others, even for a fee, beyond users' explicit consent. It'd also be business suicide, given that it would allow people to cut Google out of the loop, rather than using Google as the advertising platform.
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As usual, xkcd did it first: http://xkcd.com/376/
Linguists tend toward using mutual intelligibility as the difference between a language and a dialect, but it's fuzzy. Beijing and Shanghai dialect are almost totally mutually unintelligible, but if you walked from Beijing down to Shanghai, each village, town, or city you pass will speak a dialect that's still mutually intelligible with the immediately neighboring village/town/city's.

So, its a "ring language" (by analogy to a "ring species" [1] in biology.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
They could also loose revenue from competition because their prices suck. Companies are not entitled to being profitable, they have to compete.

Except in this case there are constraints that prevent full competition. There are only a handful of mobile phone companies that operate their own infrastructure. They constitute a oligopoly and a form of natural monopoly that can more or less dictate prices. The point of regulating utilities is to prevent this.
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"The government does seem to be saying that if you're only
concerned about the government possibly seeing your stuff,
that you don't have anything to worry about (as long as
you're not recruiting for AQ or something) as the NSA
doesn't have time to care about you anyways, but that's
not quite the same concept.

The problem with that statement is that it is patently untrue. Both Laura Poitras and Jacob Appelbaum are shining examples of people who don't fit the description of those they are authorized to target that have been targeted anyway.

In fact, I would love to see how the NSA has been using the tools at their disposal since this story broke over two months ago. It would shock me if resources had not already been diverted from "find the terrorists" to "monitor and control American public discontent with our surveillance practices because the attitude of the American people present an existential threat to us."

IMHO not one penny of tax payer money should ever be spent on any public relations activity at any level of government. I pay taxes for the government to provide me with services which I deem valuable. I do not pay taxes to pay for the labor that will defend how they spend my tax dollars. The problem with permitting any government agency to spend our tax dollars on such activities was succinctly summarized by Clay Shirky, "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."
Um. "Paying less taxes" is unlikely to be a motivator here, because you still end up with more money if you don't give it away at all :)
The NSA is but one of several massive spy operations under the Pentagon. It's not even the best funded. Several of them are ones most people have never even heard of. I'd say that qualifies as 'faceless'.
I don't have a gate count (yet). You're right that the 4-bit ALU doesn't save a lot of space overall. The Z-80 designer talks a bit about the 4-bit ALU [1] but doesn't really explain the motivation. My guess was he was able to use two cycles for the ALU without increasing the overall cycle count because memory cycles were the bottleneck. If you can cut the ALU in half "for free", why not? Hopefully as I continue analyzing the chip this will become clearer.

[1] See page 10 in
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/Ora...

Note: if you're interested in Z-80 architecture, you seriously should read that link.
First, I'm diversified and I'm fundamentally seeking to beat the savings & CD account rate. The ETFs I generally buy are holding around the DJIA, occasionally beating it. Woo.

Second, I don't care if it's just a large number of random numbers or an actual performance: if I can draw out lots of money (lots more than I put in) when I am ready to, I win. :-) Angsting hard about this doesn't gain me much.
Agreed, They might as well close the company when a disaster happens. I wouldn't risk my life for 3 minutes of weightlessness. A week or two in space is another story.
It's safer to play chicken with a car than with a train, but that doesn't make it a good idea to do either. Keep your eyes on the road, not your phone. The person was right to honk at you.
Stallman (still?) uses wget over email: http://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
Nitroglycerin can be used to make things blow up. It can also be used to help prevent heart attacks. Should we completely ban nitroglycerin simply because it can be used to blow things up? I mean, we're basically trusting people to not use it to blow things up.
Except 150k in Bay Area is nothing and you won't even make it into the middle class (i.e. buy a house).
Very interesting article. But then, frankly, if you're ever in the need for that kind of things, why don't you make yourself a favor and stop using javascript (especially on the server, where there are plenty other alternatives) ?

I mean, if someone comes to me with some server code running a "trampoline" library so that he can perform tail-call optimization in javascript on node.js , he really better have some extremely good justification.
Yes, minimization was one of his good points.

But the architecture of the Internet also seems to make it very difficult to determine conclusively that a given communication has nothing whatsoever to do with someone outside the U.S.

Consider a VPN/proxies for instance, or even an email from an American to AQ_Recruiter at gmail (where the owner of AQ_Recruiter logs in from Yemen via a series of proxies, the endpoint of which is wholly-domestic).

I guarantee you that NSA wishes that problem was easy... they could pawn off the mere "domestic" stuff wholly on the FBI and focus on the "interesting" work of international spying and counter-terrorism (because again, in bizarro-world they aren't simply spying on people just because, but because they have a specific mission to attend to as directed by Congress and the DoD, which having to filter USPERS detracts from).
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Except that the Chinese writing system is basically the same across all dialects. This is one of the most remarkable oddities of the Chinese language. This isn't true of the various Romance languages, which will cheerfully include random additional letters all over the place.

And nevermind that Swedish is descended from Germanic whereas Portuguese is descended from Latin, so your comparison is closer to Cantonese with Hindu.
I think we are too, but I think that saying that funnels are evil, bad, stupid, whatever is foolish. The funnel is still the funnel, but how you treat it makes a difference. Of course, that kind of nuance doesn't get you on the front page of HN either.
Totally. No-one (including me) would have blinked an eye if it turned out the NSA was snooping on anything and everything...with a warrant. Heck, I would have probably been moderately pleased. But snooping on anything, in secret, without judicial oversight, without public consent...that is all very wrong, and Sheier is right: it's a total betrayal of the internet.

Whatever short-sighted jerk-offs came up with this grand plan ought to be put in prison for harming US interests. To say that Snowden is the one who harmed US interests for revealing these activities is an intolerable act of a government that values only one thing, loyalty. Principles? Nah. Principles are soooo pre-Industrial revolution. And let's face it: with all the thousands of people working on these projects, someone was bound to blow the whistle sooner or later, because no matter how far down the rabbit hole an agency like the NSA goes when it comes to defining new norms, there are always some awesome weirdos who don't buy it, no matter how normal everyone around them treats it. (Hat tip to you, Snowden, for not drinking the Kool-Aid).

Guess what bozos (yes, NSA, I'm talking to you): national security is affected by abrogation of trust and betrayal of people like you. Our position as an exemplar of personal freedom, and self-restrained government, has been badly damaged by you. Going after Snowden, doubling down on internal security...these damage you, and us, further. Maybe Congress is confused on this issue, but I (and most everyone I've talked to) am not: you need to stop collecting data without warrants immediately. You need to dismantle your capacity to do so. You need to delete all information that you've gathered under those conditions.

And this should be the last act of the NSA's senior leadership before resigning.
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I have taken to always keeping my GPS down in the tray below my radio. The further away from where I should be looking, the less distracting it is and the less I look at it.

TTS is getting good enough that I think GPS units without displays at all may be perfectly serviceable. As it is, I almost entirely go by sound with mine already.
Perhaps. I'm quite green when it comes to investing, so I probably haven't paid as much attention to expense ratio as I should have, but I have tried to minimize investments in high expense ratio accounts. The big one for me that I get commish free is IVV, which, if I buy in small chunks monthly isn't too bad at a .07% ratio, no?
> Don't you see all the people going "Yeah, it was faster to do this with nginx than it was with Apache"?

Configuring Apache is easy as there are tens of thousands of tutorials showing you exactly how to add those two little lines of code to enable proxy and/or a cert. Both Apache and Nginx are easy to configure, Nginx is easier, that doesn't make Apache hard.

> Are you the sort of person that's surprised PHP got so popular?

Nope, I've worked with tons of PHP developers and I know exactly why it's popular. Wide support, easy copy to server deployment, and in large part, dumber programmers who want you to give them the codes because it's a copy and paste community in large part. All languages have a wide variety of users, but I've found the worst of the worst go to PHP like a month to a flame exactly because it's so simple to get started and despite how terrible a language it is.
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It was certainly common in the east. The Battle of Carrhae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae) was at 56 B.C. and is one of the most famous examples of an engagement with horse archers who could fire while moving from that era.

Even well before then the Scythians were known for their horse archer armies and were tricky to defeat.

I know it doesn't seem like a big thing, but if Romans can form testudos while moving, then it seems only fair to have true horse archers. Both so that players can accurately recreate the tactics (horse archers + heavy cavalry were the mainstay of several eastern factions which people might want to mod in) and just because they're more interesting that way. Otherwise the game's horse archers are little more than fast moving foot archers, which doesn't allow for much more creativity.
That a bug. Probably an architecture dependant one or some package maintainer who messed up. Your experience with Apache httpd on your little homebrew computer gadget doesn't say anything about Apache httpd and how it is usually deployed.

Apache httpd is still bloody awesome.
I am a non-native speaker myself. That's why I didn't go this sentence is wrong and use < > and used more grammatical jargon, so that it may be looked up.(someone once did it for me, correcting my sentences part by part, with all grammatical terms, which I looked up later.)

Honestly I don't understand the upvotes. It's pedantry at its worst. I was satisfied with the changed title.
I don't see how branch prediction and caches could dominate performance of logically concatenating a huge amount of text instead of doing it physically.
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A browser cookie isn't a replacement for server-side sessions. You cannot store sensitive data (e.g. safety related information) in a browser cookie.
I've got a vertical mouse. The basic gist is that you move the mouse with your large arm and shoulder muscles and move your whole arm rather than your weak wrist
In larger companies, people work these kinds of extra "vanity hours" to make themselves look like a hard worker and win their large bonus at the end of the year - as in, tens of thousands of dollars. Not for some petty cash worth one day of salary.

A development team can't afford for a single person to take a single day off? Something may be wrong here. If you're in a constant sprint, then you may burn out everyone fast. Or, it may be a sign that you have a weak handle on prioritization and putting in maximum effort for when it counts the most.
This article is just blogspam. The original article from the NY Times that it refers to has already been posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336178
It's several things beyond just the lack of warrants. It the opportunistic monitoring as opposed to the targeted monitoring and the activities beyond their jurisdiction. Parallel construction to me suggests that they have been funded with so much cash that they now have enough money to fund scope creep beyond their jurisdiction. They should never had had more cash than they needed to do their job.

I personally would like to see the NSA organization around defense and not offense. Make better tools to protect us. Don't backdoor things since any backdoor they have can be discover and used by others. etc.

Worth a read:
"How the NSA could stop sucking and be awesome instead" by Ted Dziuba:

http://teddziuba.com/post/58735980543/how-the-nsa-could-stop...
One of the reasons I was told was that the circuit extended to 16 bits easily (and was later used in the Z8000 as I recall) and doing decimal (BCD) math was easier. DAA (decimal adjust accumulator) was driven by the half carry flag. In '85 Intel wrote a Z80 emulator in 8086 machine code to try to win some Japanese game console design win and the decimal arithmetic stuff[1] was a PITA (and as it turned out not used a lot in games :-)

[1] The 8080 also had these decimal arithmetic hacks but it didn't have an alternate set of registers to pull from.
Wordpress running on Apache with mpm-prefork - which is the default out the box - does insane bullshit that can indeed cripple the whole system. I run Wordpress via fcgid with mpm-worker by preference, because that way it's isolated in its own little sandbox to crap all over. Funnily enough, you have to run it that way in nginx too.

tl;dr the claim that Apache was the problem is Marketing Bullshit.
They can already use the e-mails. Why do they have to use the chat conversations, too?
I'd love to apply to this, but most people around me are off having stable jobs, wives, mortgages, children and other such craziness. Is there much hope for accepting a solo founder with a non-profit idea?
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I don't think it's fair to use the rPi as your case-study. You would be hard-pressed to find a complete modern computer that is more different from the typical machine that runs httpd in a commercial environment.
I haven't looked at any implementation recently, but the standard specifically leaves open that implementatioms postpone joining string buffers until c_str() or data() is called (also, the pointers returned by those calls could contain copies of the strings; that is not something I would expect, but I see nothing in the standard that precludes it)
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I am very excited for this initiative. However, I think there is a mismatch between venture-funding models and non-profit funding models.

Venture capital economics is premised on founders accepting low initial salaries based on the hope for long-term big payoffs. Which makes it OK for seed funding to be very small (on the order of tens of thousands).

However, non-profits have no hope for long-term big pay offs and therefore have no financial incentive to seek small amounts of seed funding.

In other words, it is sensible for a for-profit startup founder to accept zero salary (or close to it). However, it is nonsensical for a non-profit startup founder to accept close-to-zero salary.

I believe the YC non-profit initiative could still be beneficial to non-profits for the sake of mentorship, networking, etc. But I don't think many non-profit founders will drop their day-job salaries to launch YC non-profit startups.

Edit: s/sensical/sensible/g
"...weirdos...."

I prefer to describe them as people with a conscience, that are cognizant of the consequences of hypocrisy and danger of the actions of the organization which they serve.
Is that article actually in English? I couldn't understand a damn thing the author was trying to say.

"...like a black pearl from an oyster unfathomable by any other diver into our eternal souls."

What?
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ha! I agree.

I'm actually thinking most of the promise in getting places to go built will be a by-product of astroid mining. But we'll see.
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This is the point that I found disappointingly lacking in the article. Most Westerners have very little familiarity with China's diversity, and this article would have been a great way to introduce some of that nuance to the uninitiated. To wit, it's not just Tibet, who's conflicts with Beijing have been very well publicized, but many other parts of China that are ambivalent about integration into Beijing society. China is far from monolithic, but this article fails to dispel the common assumption that it is.
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At a worldwide market size of $1.4 trillion (http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/global/global-tourism.html), "just a tourist attraction" is not a bad place to be at all.
Logo, Bullshit & Co is quite a self-important read. Sure, Mayer's approached is unconventional for a large corporation, and it is more in line with a bootstrapping startup. Yahoo is in financial dire straights, so it is totally reasonable for Mayer to try an unconventional approach, save serious marketing dollars, and go her own way. We don't have to love the result, but at the end of the day, Mayer gave the brand a new face, and she didn't pay much for it.
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