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Have you questioned yourself, why so many people try to help you to help other people? =) There is hope in humanity, aside from politics, there are human beings who all want each other to help each other. Embettering the world. I wish you best of luck. Hope to hear back from your experience in a a Blog or on HN.
Those are perfectly fine reasons, but the stated reason had been scalability.
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“After knocking on his door, FBI special agents witnessed Mr. Levison leave the rear of his apartment, get in his car, and drive away.”

What leaving the rear of the apartment is against the law after being visited by the FBI?

Anybody else think the FBI is trying to paint an image of Ladar Levison as the typical movie bad guy here?

I get where the government is coming from he went a little overboard resisting them but getting the SSL certificate for the entire website for 1 guy is unacceptable and if they don't agree they don't understand the internet.
depending on the amount HSBC/Citibank can be considered not under US influence.
That comment made HN a better place.
Interesting to see, and well presented.
I'd be more interested in profit rather than revenue.
Exactly this.

To put it bluntly after managing both for years, Postgres doesn't scare the shit out of me like MySQL does. I've had quite a few moments with MySQL doing stupid things that aren't intuitive or right, particularly in the backup/restore space. For example backup one schema and restore onto later versions doesn't always work.

Postgres has the same feel as *BSD i.e. deterministic. It is well documented and does exactly what the manual says and is devoid of surprises. It feels engineered and I can provide reliably engineered solutions because of this.

Basically I can sleep at night.

I really give less of a crap about scalability. I'd throw a bigger box at the problem or use heavy caching. I've built much larger ecommerce solutions with orders of magnitude more hits/orders than sparkfun on much smaller kit
Or you could see it entirely the other way. In fact, I'm rather surprised that you saw it as you do. I guess it takes all sorts to make a world.
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A substantials number of HN readers are under 18?

Now I really feel old.
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Also, with the assumption that the project isn't for profit (ie, everyone choosing #3) -- someone choosing to pay more (donate) -- would help the project. Even if they only did that after a year or two (when the debt would've been defaulted under "normal" circumstances).
I wouldn't say private since these are corporations usually based on shares systems. This is different from a company such as Valve, for example, which is purely private and where the revenue information is not publicly available.

Apart from this detail, your point is very interesting. I wonder, all industries considered, how much % of worldwide's revenue is earned by nationally owned companies versus the corporations counterparts.
Well, it's not like you can't buy a valid certificate for google.com from a turkish CA that is trusted by all browsers... This has happened before, the only question is how much you're willing to pay.
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To put this in another context and clarify how ridiculous it is:

Modern word processors are getting “helpful” enough that at times I feel like a word processor operator rather than a writer. They have support for spell checking. MS Word can now tell you about grammar and synonyms. The behavior all these tools encourage is not “think deeply about your report and write it carefully”, but “just write a crappy first draft of your report, and then the tools will tell you not just what’s wrong with it, but also how to make it better.”
This is a good intro for those (like me) who are unfamiliar:

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysqlinnodb/entry/innodb_compressio...

I know that a lot of work has been done on InnoDB compression, but I didn't quite grasp the extent, thinking it wasn't far different from Postgres ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast.... ).
See my reply to rpedela elsewhere in this thread.
There's also hardcoded HSTS pining for Google certificates, preventing this.
Summary (note: revenue, not profit)
Blackberry: 205
Facebook: 230
Nokia: 941
Oracle: 1068
Cisco: 1594
Intel: 1628
Dell: 1865
Google: 1873
Amazon: 1996
Microsoft: 2331
IBM: 3166
HP: 3459
Foxconn: 3815
Apple: 4540
Samsung: 6486
It seems universal to you because it is all you have ever known. If you had lived in a time before the Romans chances are you wouldn't understand money at all, let alone capitalism. If you grew up in any small community throughout most of history you wouldn't have practiced capitalism but, instead, some form of mutualism where there was a degree of shared labour and harvest (e.g. tribes hunting together, preparing food together).

Capitalism (with a capital C) is a bit more than just "property with the right to return on investment". I won't repeat it all here but Wikipedia has a detailed explanation of what it is. Be sure to click around the links at the bottom to see that there are many variants of Capitalism and Socialism that share some ideas.
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Because it is too small. Not even in the hundreds per second.

$100 per second equals $3.15 billion in yearly revenue and Twitter has roughly a tenth of that ...
Through a shell company?
depends how far you go back on gold prices, 50 years ago buying into gold was a great idea. 10 years ago, maybe not so much, bitcoin is currently at the very early stages so buying in now could be considered cheap in 10 years time.
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I remember when LIFX launched on KickStarter last year, there was a storm of comment on HN, basically saying that it was a scam and shouldn't be allowed anymore. It did seem to kick off changes to KickStarter's policies which were probably well overdue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4537340

Anyway, I defended them at the time (disclaimer, I know two of the founders), it's great to see them do what everyone thought they couldn't and bring a product to launch within all the relevant legislation.

Congrats!
Everything that uses the SWIFT banking system is under the US control. So that's basically everything and everybody. That's wht some of the BRIC's are setting up their own SWIFT payment system...
Thanks, this is why I read all the bad comments on HN: in hopes of seeing a very informative one like this :)

I'll just point out that this:

> The Graph Stores do seem to play better with Java.

was likely a dealbreaker for Diaspora, since they were a small team without, I'd assume, Java experience. Also the nature of the project virtually requires an open-source database so Stardog would've been out. With SQL you have not one but several free and open-source implementations that are battle-tested and work well with just about any programming language out there. That makes SQL a better choice for many projects even if a graph store would map more neatly onto their problem domain.
ReactPHP is "stock PHP".
It just uses PHP differently to how you normally use it on the web (e.g. it provides a webserver etc.)
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So what about firing process for the printer? The video don't show the finishing process. Is this heating table?
It's a bit too bad they compare revenue of resellers like Amazon with editors like Microsoft, the gross margin is really different. Resellers have to punch over their weight to get some money home where Microsoft brings almost everything to the bank.
which parts of the above code/api allow access outside of the sandbox?
As long as you don't use MtGox. It has problems with withdrawals of USD, and hence has an inflated bitcoin price compared to others.
Thanks for the correction, my wording was a bad translation from my native language.
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The canonical PHP implementation is a simple interpreter that cannot even dream of such optimizations. Hell, it uses unions to handle dynamic typing and hash tables to represent objects.

The implementation by facebook (HipHop) might have such an optimization though.
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Not reactive at all, well put response to mostly confused posts (including my own). I think there was mis-understanding on what was meant by scaling -- web community took it to mean something very different from what you meant. Honestly this befuddled me as well me as well, so I suspected as much -- I didn't think Sparkfun would need to go to horizontal scaling which I am quite confident you'll likely never need (unless you're doing something very wrong).

One way someone else put it, MySQL is great if you're using it as a datastore to build an API layer on top (with relational features being a huge plus as opposed to a K/V store). Postgres, on the other hand, effectively does what an RDBMS was originally meant to do -- it itself acts as that data access API.

Also SparkFun is an awesome company -- the SparkFun Arduino kits on my desk do a lot more than blink lights (though they do that too). Please continue to use run-times may be less trendy but which return responses quickly and using physical hardware too.
> To start off, the definition of capitalism is simply private ownership of goods, and the ability to trade those goods. A society in which even ONE good was tradable would be considered somewhat capitalistic.

Which definition of capitalism is this? I believe the core of capitalism is private ownership of means of production, not merely ownership of goods? Communism doesn't eschew all private ownership (this is a common misconception). Communal/worker ownership of factories, farms and housing are core tenets -- but not necessarily communal ownership of all goods (eg: clothing, computers, tvs and radios etc).
I wonder what's their source for this infographic (or how old it is).

$1 per second equals $31.536.000 per year. That's only 204.5 billion for Samsung which had 268.8 billion in 2012 and - so far - only record breaking quarters in 2013. Same for Apple (143.2 billion vs. 171 billion.
There would be a price hike for all companies, but it would be much, much smaller than the increase in wages - the price of a burger (unlike, say, price of a haircut) is mostly independent of the cook's wage, and to the extent that it matters, there are valid avenues for automation that put a cap on it.
Default register initialization values and functions to encode/decode and transmit/receive packets of data do not equal an operating system in my book. Maybe you draw the line at a different level of the stack than I do.

I'm totally willing to be admit that I might be wrong about this, but I wasn't under the impression that Broadcom and Atheros and Intel were using ARM CPUs in their wifi/bluetooth/GPS chipsets.
All the objects in the video look very... rough.. so i don't think i'd buy that (and to actually print metal instead of plastic would be the only reason for me to buy a 3d printer).
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I think the one you want is a few lines down :-)
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I would also suggest watching Karsten Nohl/SRLabs security research into JavaCard and the "state of the SIM" from the Observe Make Hack 2013 camping conference, which is available at: https://archive.org/details/D4T204201301031400SimCardExploit... and his article at https://srlabs.de/rooting-sim-cards/
If it becomes the official policy in U.S. that companies must provide the government with keys, passwords, and broad proprietary information related to system design, this will have an effect on the IT industry. Its the key escrow thing all over again.

Companies has a few option: Implement perfect forward security and see government create laws to counter it. They can also move the data centers to countries without key escrow laws.
Eh, using structs for namespacing in C. I hadn't seen that in a while.
I doubt it. I seriously cannot fathom his skill. I mean that, I truly cannot comprehend being that good.
I have to say, my experience with Postgres is the opposite. Sometimes the query planner will suddenly decide to pick a bad execution plan.

I have been woken up in the night multiple times and found that the problem is that Postgres has arbitrarily decided to stop using an index and changed to do a full table scan and the database has ground to a halt under the load.

Doing an ANALYZE sometimes fixes it. Increasing the statistics target for the table in addition sometimes fixes it. One time we had to add an extra column to an index to make it decide to use it even though it shouldn't have needed it (and didn't a few hours before!).

The developers seem dead set against allowing you to override the query planner to add determinism.

I'm not saying MySQL is any better, as I have not used that in production before.
> while the other is a bunch of hacks knit together to make it work asap and its wtf/mn is skyscraping.

You mean hacks like these?

http://docs.python.org/2/library/abc.html

I agree.
How many times does this have to happen before we realize passwords are a terrible authentication method? It is ridiculous.
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I always wanted to play with Nucleos! What's it like?

I'm a fan of QNX personally though I only got to play with it a tiny bit. Some awesome ideas in it.
Well, they've played their cards, let's see which way the judge comes down.
If a program that process songs and returns lyrics are an copyright infringement, is a program that process songs and return song titles an equal copyright infringement?
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Carbon tet isn't that bad. For generations, it was in everything from refrigerators to cleaning supplies, and we all came out OK.

The big risks come when you huff it, which people used to do because it gives you a high. It just also happens to melt your liver.

But if your standard for danger is "unsafe when huffed", then most things in this set are pretty nasty. It's all a matter of perspective.
> it's a great thing that go gives us a good build system, a good test system, a good dependency system, etc. But if we end up using another build system, another test system, another dependency system, because the stock ones aren't powerful enough, it kind of ruins it :-)

That's the thing, godep isn't another build system. It's built on _top_ of the existing Go build system. It augments it, doesn't replace it or replicate what's already there.

Go has tools for building at master; godep adds a file that keeps track of explicit commits and creates a sandbox GOPATH with those revisions checked out. Nothing you couldn't do by hand; godep simply automates the task, making it reproducible.

The reason Go doesn't have everything is because the developers haven't found a very good solution for everything. So instead of providing something crappy, they just don't include it... Until a later time. This gives the community time to experiment and find a good solution in the meantime.

Honestly, I'm very glad they're taking this approach.
The alternative you'd put forward is?
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DMA has security modes, implemented by pretty much every standard baseband chip in use today (Qualcomm, Infineon, you name it). In the oldern days baseband exploits were used to crack iPhones. As far as I'm aware of, this hasn't happened in the last two generations of iPhones. So no, you do not have unfettered access to all the data, only the "baseband" segment, unless you manage to hack your security setting for the baseband. For which you first have to hack the Primary OS. I hope you get the theme..
You are making the mistake of equating 'visible source code' with 'Open Source', which has a fairly precise meaning, which explicitly allows copying:

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

Making the source code visible would probably be sensible in this case though, so I think the idea is a good one even if you need to be careful with the terminology.
I went through exactly the same process about 15 months ago but I'm glad I did. I understand Android specifically and phone operating systems in general more now than I did before.
Thanks for the reply - & I'm glad it's working out :)
Interesting, but I didn't care much for the visualizations shown - they took up way too much space on the page for the bigger companies.
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Not quite for everyone - if you already had a first degree you had to pay your own fees if you did a second first degree. My wife did a law degree as a second first degree and we had to pay her fees - what was interesting was that the fees varied a lot from university to university. What was really odd was that the best universities were also the cheapest (by a factor of about 10 - from about £400 to £4000 a year).

Also, if you are Scottish and attending a Scottish university tuition fees are still paid by the taxpayer as they did in the old days. (NB I am a Scot and I've never understood how this can be justified).
Possibly; there are already standards in certain areas. But it can greatly increase cost and time-to-market, so even when there are codes corners will be cut. See the Toyota lawsuit at the moment.

Oh, and applying pretty much any "software building codes" to the web app industry would probably kill startup culture entirely.
That goes even further, a nail gun can be much faster than a drill when doing large construction, but is more dangerous and easier to hurt yourself or mess up with.

Ie. MySQL is easier to get started with (well, was, nowadays it's much of a muchness), and is easier to scale in some situations but you trade for some other features and useful things.

Screws and nails are both useful, but I wouldn't just rely on one for every project :)
There also might be a 4th running on the application CPU: a TEE OS.
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So all that, and you think the US intelligence community don't actually know exactly where he is?

Also, interviews can and do frequently happen without disclosing the exact location of the subject.
"When you have limited developer resources modular balls of mud (AKA big glob of Buckyballs - like the magnetic desk toy) with single login identity and shared well structured DB are far better and easier to maintain than a half dozen+ separate applications with differing architectural choices, languages, and abilities to integrate with each other."

Says you. My experience has been that a sensibly separated range of simple, single-purpose applications with intuitive APIs is actually far easier to work with, especially given limited resources.
I genuinely haven't had this problem and we have a fairly large instance. I'll keep my eyes peeled though. Thanks for the heads up.
Yeah except that's not how it works. The police/law enforcement/courts can simply get a warrant which says they're allowed to look at exactly 1 guys email, and you are to provide decryption keys.

You don't get to play "well I don't trust the government so I'm not going to let you" against the courts if the relevant parties promise they're not going to look at anything else - since amongst other things that would actually be breaking the law, and whatever they get would be inadmissible under various umbrellas - they certainly couldn't build a case off of it.
> What a p-value means is, if the hypothesis in question is false, then we have an x% chance of seeing the observed data.

The hypothesis in question is the null hypothesis which must be assumed true not false for the p-value to mean a 100*p% chance of seeing the observed data.

I can see why elementary mistakes are so pervasive.
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that the financial dealings of Top Secret personnel is under some level of surveillance.

It's not about where to move it to, but moving it in the first place.
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Sure it does. Just ask NSA/CIA. They betray their country and ideals it was founded on, on a millisecond basis.

But you need to be on the right side to get all the fat loot.
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MySQL is much, much worse. It barely even has a query planner in the first place and it will often ignore perfectly good indexes.

Query planner changing its mind can be a problem for most DBs, Postgres is not special in this regard.
CyanogenMod dramatically improved the experience on my first droid (which was a very cheap one, to see what all the fuss was about.) It couldn't solve the hardware issues (crappy resistive touch screen) but it sure made the device more responsive and usable, in spite of that.

I'm pleased to see them making the install process easier. I wasn't quite heart-in-mouth since it was a £50 second hand and spare phone, but it was still pretty long winded and there were too many opportunities to brick the thing.
Your request has not been forgotten :-)

But it might be really helpful if you were to explain a specific customer scenario where the security would be meaningfully increased by adding support for this particular cipher suite. I might be able to come up with something, but it would mean more coming from a customer.
Im not sure how this distinction applies in this case since in each iteration the government was trying to obtain their legally subpoenaed data in the most specific way possible.
Again, which other western country (e.g. France, Germany) has been spying on top US officials? No weasel words please.

It is perfectly well known that the US are the only such country to break the trust of their "friends".
The keyword is "starts". RapGenius has millions of page views, and musiXmatch's API pricing is "variable and based on volume and needs".
It's interesting that many of the higher donations are from Germany.
Very droll to throw Russia in with western countries.
You'd be forgetting about the college kid with a laptop segment.
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IBM and HP are absolutely huge B2B service providers. HP has over 300,000 employees; IBM has over 400,000. By comparison, Google is an order of magnitude less, at about 35,000 excluding Motorola.
Agreed. I know it's trendy to show data in this method, but it's impossible to compare like-for-like. One ends up just looking at the numerical value.

A simple bar graph would have been much better.
"since the purchaser needs to have a license for exchange and a license to hold USD"

What do you mean? Residents don't need anything to buy or hold USD, not sure about businesses.
You mean, they weren't insured?
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Yeah, I noticed that as well. Anyone willing to speculate?
Currently, we are with a C# application and in the process to migrate to Node.js. I wan't to prove that Node.js can handle huge concurrency, so I wan't to benchmark the highest possible numbers I can. We are currently usign AWS to load balace.

And it's being a great exercise anyway.

We are using Redis for session store. Do you thing raising this parameter can influence on Redis performance? Because in the Redis server, the service is only using 5% in process, when Node.js is 99%.