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Perhaps not the main market, but prisons.

Since March 2013, inmates of the Bellevue prison in Gorgier, Switzerland can request access to an uncensored offline copy of the French Wikipedia, based on the Kiwix software. Internet access is severely restricted for the prisoners, most of whom serve long-term sentences [1]

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_June_20...
It's $1350/server per year to pay for the feature. You mention in your post: "Our noble HTTP server". Wait. Not plural? I know that a that is a fair bit of money for a bootstrapped startup, but if you are anticipating enough traffic that the syslog feature is an issue, AND you have at least three floors of offices (as mentioned in your blog post), then maybe your OPEX prioritization is a bit off, and you should just pony up.

Nginx is a great piece of software for $no dollars, maybe it would be good karma to pay for the extras you need?
Some geologists are starting to talk about the "Anthropocene", a new geological epoch characterized by the influence of humanity on the planet. The idea being that humans are having such a huge effect on the environment that it is the beginning of a new epoch.
Way cool! The handwriting feature is very well done, and seems like a decent barrier to entry for copycats.

One critique - when I was trying to write letters that required multiple strokes, such as 'i' or 't', oftentimes the screen would scroll away from me as I was trying to do the second stroke, and I would make a mess. Maybe it should disable writing while the text is scrolling? Maybe a sine-interp on the movement to make it a little more predictable?

Once I figured out to pause as I wrote to let it finish scrolling, I was confused that sometimes my last letter was still visible, but other times I had to scroll backwards to dot my 'i' or cross my 't'. The undo and scroll commands are very good, but ideally I wouldn't have to use them them unless I made a mistake.
No.

You'd need ~ $500 in upfront costs (12*~$40 + $20 USB hub, plus cooling - unless someone knows where to get USB ASICs cheaper - if so, I want to know!), and you're probably not going to make that back in any reasonable amount of time.

There are online calculators to tell you what the time to get a return on your investment is, but ballpark, you'd be looking at 30-50 weeks minimum to get back your money. And that's factoring in running the system for 24 hours, which would put extra wear and tear on your MBP. And by that time, your effective rewards would be less for mining... etc...
Don't worry! Patented, genetically-modified agribusiness will save us by giving us all the food for free!!!
"Satire" doesn't mean "false" or "fake".
Yeah that would truly be great. As stated in Norvig's essay, each new language should open up your perspective. it should teach you a new a way to think. But all i ever achieve is learning a new syntax. Because not only does it take a considering programming effort effort in that language but also feedback from seniors to actually know what you did wrong and who to improve it. That's why i love having code reviews! Sure, they can be embarrassing, but at least it improves my programming.
FDA as always sticking their nose into something they shouldn't. Let the people decide whether they want to use this particular service or not. People ought to be free to choose. Otherwise it's not consumer protection, it's consumer dictatorship.
This part of FOSS culture I really dislike as a developer.

Many people seem to consider an offence that other developers need to make a living, instead of being grateful of being able to sell stuff using software they haven't paid a dime for.

Then become outraged when the developers come to the conclusion that the baker won't sell bread for pull requests.

This is what moved me into the direction of suggesting dual license for open source projects, every time someone consults me on it.
> tptacek, you and I have exchanged comments before when it comes to copyright. What's the real issue here?

From reading many of tptacek's comments over the years on HN, I think he sometimes plays devil's advocate to encourage discussion.
You didn't really answer my question. Assume you're in some position of authority. With the knowledge that bitcoin wallets can be generated out of thin air, how do you prove that a given transaction chain was the product of a mixing operation and not the product of normal transactional flow?
Designing user interfaces with animation (video by Pasquale D'Silva of Elepath)
I do find it a little amusing that the author doesn't want to pay and doesn't want to do it himself.

FOSS is two sided, this is the perfect opportunity to contribute.

FWIW, It's really not that hard to build your own RPM/DEB
+1 on that eventual blog post.
So either we start practicing eugenics (bad), or we change insurance to serve as a collective safety net for societal benefit rather than simple risk mitigation for individual benefit.
This is what I don't get. It's not like this is hidden. The site is completely upfront about what they are and what they do, what studies and results have more confidence and which less.

Maybe I'm just a little cynical here, but it seems the FDA would have better things to do with their time. That in mind, I wonder what spurred this...
He's talking about MPM Event¹. It's different from worker and probably not as light as nginx but for most stuff it should compare well.

1: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/event.html
The FDA doesn't appear to be trying to shut down 23andMe, just trying to force them to file the appropriate documentation and follow the same rules as everyone else regarding how they advertise their services.
I'd rather see them shut down the FDA than 23andMe
They might be able to take it directly from your bank account, especially since it seems like your bank partners with them.
I sounded a bit harsh earlier but the upload without warning caught me by surprise. Good to see you're responsive to issues and good luck with the project.
The Kiwix Android app is great. Unfortunately (for me), it requires Android 3.0+. I spent some time trying to port it to 2.1 for an old large format device I have, but could only get it working on 2.2.
Thanks! 80% on the last step could be better, the rest of it performs amazingly well in my opinion. I didn't A/B test this, its was mostly put together from first principles I learned elsewhere. I would contend that this would be very very hard to beat from a conversion rate optimization perspective though without a lot of additional traffic to enable extensive A/B testing.
Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
Exactly. IMO its not just the exercises that help you write great code (though they MIGHT help in competitive coding like for ACM). Truly beautiful code comes from experience and working with those who have spent years getting that experience. In my current company there is a huge focus on the re-usability and extensibility of the code. We are forced to think of future changes and make sure the code allows changing things in the most easy way possible.

One simplest example: All queries to a single DB table have to be done through a single "Data Class". The class will have functions that will allow other classes to use that table. this ensures that if tmrw, we make changes to that table, there is only one place in the code we have to make the changes. Instead of running around in the massive code base, looking for the queries to that table.
Nginx can log to stdout (access_log /dev/stdout) and be piped to a program that reads from stdin and forwards to rsyslog.

Technical workarounds aside, the blog author should get approval from his manager/ceo to purchase commercial nginx. I don't see what's unreasonable about a profitable business paying for a useful commercial feature.
> In defense of High School football and younger, most of the players aren't physically developed enough to cause and long term damage to themselves or anyone else (in terms of head related injuries).

That's yet unclear, see research by Dr. McKee: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sports/league-of-den...
I think humanity is more important than a planet. As far as we know we are unique and planets are plenty. Exploit this one and move on I say.
"NGINX Plus Standard" costs $1,350 annual subscription per server. It sounds like this company has a pretty strange setup, running "hundreds of VMs", presumably all running nginx, and it's the combined impact of those VM logging writes that are so burdening the NetApp devices.

In this case, if they kept the same setup, I can see that it would be prohibitively expensive to pay for nginx plus on every single one of those VMs. I'm not sure of the nginx's license terms but if they count VMs as a separate server - probably a no go.

A better solution might be to turn all those VMs into application servers and put a big meaty nginx reverse proxy in front of them; that sounds like it would reduce the nginx bill but could be an awful lot of work. Then again, I presume they have automation, you'd hope so with hundreds of VMs...

My point is that it's likely not quite as simple as a grand a year, which would likely be a no-brainer if it was a site license.
If you don't need the "with images" option, have a look at Aard Dictionary [1], the precompiled english Wikipedia has around 8GB at the moment. It has an app for android also.

[1]: http://aarddict.org
I can sympathize with this:

>Yep, they took a feature that Apache httpd has had literally forever and put it behind a pay wall.

Charging for support is one thing, but this seems like it should be a basic feature.

And if I were running a server farm on FOSS software and then realized I'd need to cough up ($1350 * ~100) around $135k for the ability to disable obnoxious behavior, because the corporation arbitrarily decided that this particular feature (that most every other HTTP daemon worth a crap has had for ages) was the one that they're going to require you to pay for, I'd be a bit scandalized too, probably enough to write a blog post about how much it annoyed me.
This is super awesome feedback. Definitely been thinking a lot about how to improve handwriting input and your thoughts are spot on.
There's a fork of nginx, called tengine, maintained by the people at Alibaba.

http://tengine.taobao.org/

Conveniently this would support the authors requirements of syslog feature.
Another Android option is Fastwiki [1]. No images, but provides a conversion tool to convert native Wikimedia dumps. Also works with older Android versions.

[1] http://fastwiki.qwrite.info/en/index.html
And the reason for looking at the completion rate I'd that neither does a headline saying "1 MILLION STUDENTS ENROLLED"
I for one would prefer apartments to provide enough isolation that one could practice their electric bass at 3AM without bothering the neighbors. Society is prejudiced against night owls enough already ;-).
He's calling for action from others, which opens him to criticism from other people about his motives, his reasoning and his tone. Remove the entire last paragraph and closing sentence (another call to action!) and you will probably agree that the tone of the post changes completely.
Apologies everyone for the somewhat o/t question here but, what do you guys do with your 50Gb of logs every second? Where do they go after they leave nginx?
Many years ago my audiophile friend said amplifier should not have remote for volume control, it reduced the sound quality. So I asked him 50-100 years down the road, does human being still need to manually walk to their amp to adjust the volume.

It's true that most people can not tell the difference between a 320bps mp3 vs 24bit lossless audio. But 50-100 years later, will we still be listening to 320bps lossy quality audio? That will sound really silly.
Schools aren't just going to disappear. It's natural for technology to take over a sizable chunk of the teaching process, handling inefficiencies as technology has always done best. It's probable that most of the world's population won't need to interact with professors, but a select few will always have the privilege of face to face learning. I believe there are too many niche studies for professors to be entirely replaceable. Not to mention the indirect benefits of attending a school campus.
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Indeed, but he likely receives an 'automated' monthly top-up of USD through his salary which compensates for decline in his USB holdings.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is a limited supply and has a cost of acquisition.
It becomes prohibitively expensive to own cars for a long time here in Japan because the government mandates regular inspections, which can cost up to $1000 USD. The period of validity for the inspection depends on the type of vehicle, but in general an inspection on a new car is valid for two to three years and must be done every year or two after that.
RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo" (2001) (ietf.org)

The 2001 in the title really should be 1 April 2001, lest someone thinks this RFC is otherwise notable in some way.
Oh. Crap.
To put it bluntly, that fucking sucks.
Microsoft Azure is signing up 1000 customers daily
Disgusting. This is one of the reasons Texas has such a bad reputation: Ignorant juries and judges in the pocket of patent trolls.
"and decided when he was 30 that he wanted to do something new."
I am not a big fan of possible snake oil even if it comes in hipster startup form.
I think a split would motivate speculators currently mentally deterred from the idea that this virtual thing is "so expensive". They'd rather own 60 coins than 0.6 of a coin.

Here's this virtual coin that a low level speculator can't even buy a full instance of. That has to put off a few people.
> I'm not sure what sort of context can explain away this real-life Randian superman. (and it's interesting that you mention Rand and crime and the Fountainhead, given that Howard Roark blew up Courtlandt Homes with dynamite)

Well, if you want to be sure, read The Fountainhead and Atlash Shrugged.

The Fountainhead is actually an explicit repudiation of Neitzche (though it is more than that).

There is a Nietzschean hero in the book---and he is driven almost to suicide, and is completely destroyed.

Rand greatly admired one aspect of Hickman: that he wasn't influenced by other people; he was fully himself. The actual hero of The Fountainhead is like that, but rather than being a destructive parasite (of self and others), he uses his independence to achieve real goals and values in life in a way that does not vicitimize anyone.

He did blow up Cortlandt Homes; importantly, nobody was in the building and nobody was harmed, and he did it because the plans for the building were essentially stolen from him. He does it to make a point, which he does make.
what a disgrace
The patent involved basic traffic encryption (SSL or TLS combined with the RC4 cipher), and the company already has made $45 million off it.

Here's some more info on the company they lost to:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121109/02321120982/meet-p...

TL;DR: They're patent trolls.
Does the jury give a detailed explanation beyond the judgement? Also how come all these patent trolls are incorporated in Texas?
Because they shouldn't. If you want to speculate on BTC, just buy it. If the cost to mine each BTC today is higher than the cost to buy it today then mining doesn't make sense regardless of future price.
Hehe. Get them while they're young.

I'll have to take a look see through this and write out the analogous code with my Numerical Haskell libs after the holiday season to compare.
> Tests like 23andme aren't something your local doctor does every checkup.

Fair enough. So why not let FDA go through their process, do their investigation, and once approved people could safely rely on 23andme.
That's terrible but I feel like they will win once they appeal the decision.
The point is to make the financial system more fragile?
Bullcrap.
No, like (I think) most people who don't spend a lot of time on nerd message boards, I think pirating content (of all stripes) is deeply unethical and harmful.
Upworthy is the worst. "Murder is bad! # Agree # Disagree" And where do they post the results of all these hard-hitting surveys they do?
We'll have to hope it goes better on appeal. I would be very interested to hear the jurors reasoning.
I think we're a lot farther away from being able to exploit another planet than we are from the point where the only one we can exploit now can no longer meaningfully carry us.

That is to say, if we don't check our approach to resource exploitation now, I don't think we'll be in a position to exploit another planet, ever.
I've bought a few different domains on Namecheap using BTC, the first time just after they started supporting it. Back then their implementation (or their provider's) was a bit broken, I had to wait a few hours for enough confirmations before I could spend the money.

They have since changed that so payment is instant (the effort required to double spend a $15 domain would be far more expensive than the benefit). The experience is awesome I must say. I just love being able to whip out my phone, scan a QR code on the screen and confirm the purchase and have it instantly go through.

Much, much better than having to pull out my credit card, type in 16 numbers, make sure I use the right zip, then remember what crazy authorized by mastercard password I used. Especially for digital goods, not having to do all the address verification etc.., sure makes the transaction nicer.

I doubt they gain a whole lot from using BTC (though I think there is real potential in developing countries), but hats off to them for supporting it anyways. They were my registrar of choice before and this only strengthened that.
Yeah, sign up thru random dude's referral link and enter my credit card info? No thanks.

While I'm sure if you put your mind to it you may be able to make a small profit mining coins in VMs like this, I don't really think it's a great long term strategy and I wouldn't be surprised in the least if it didn't really pencil out.
I am not disagreeing that in this specific case that the licence structure might lead to unhappy arithmetic. I do however stand by my original point that syslog support is an excellent cleavage point to segment the customer base.
I know you're probably getting at the point that people infringe copyright mainly for the purposes of "entertainment", but entertainment, education and inspiration aren't mutually exclusive.

Most scientists and artists have probably been inspired and educated by something that also entertained them.
its just a matter of knowing the game. big farma kills millions, nothing happens. small company still not pleasing the right people, huge fine/closed/etc

yes, i am implying the gov is corrupt. it is.

and this the reason everyone pays hundreds of dollars for catheters and such, and any company that tries to improve the design and price of those items are all in legislation or royalties limbo.
Optimism please, they've beaten patents on appeal before:

> "We're certainly very disappointed," said Cheng. "We respectfully disagree with the verdict that the jury reached tonight. We fully intend, as we did in the Soverain case, to take this case up on appeal and vindicate our rights."

> Soverain was the "shopping cart" patent that Newegg was ordered to pay $2.5 million for, but the company then knocked it out on appeal. Soverain's damage request was huge for Newegg: $34 million.
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OSS has nothing to do with it.

Some people are just jerks. They're the same people who are problem customers for products they pay for too, and probably the same people cutting you off in traffic and not tipping their waiter when they go out to dinner.
It's unfair to criticize Coursera for having survey courses if they also have deep courses, which they do. It would be nice if they had more, but that's not really a criticism.
I doubt it was an arbitrary decision. I think it was probably made carefully.
If the glove don't fit, you must acquit.
There is some speculation that the recent ruling regarding taxation of FDA-approved medical devices has something to do with this.

But the cagey behavior from 23AM has been going on for longer.
I would guess that nearly all code, period, is vulnerable to integer overflow issues. I don't think it makes sense to worry about this except in very special cases.
I'm not sure why one should be optimistic. Even if they win, they've lost; the legal costs alone are silly and aren't paid for by the loser.
Diversity and Contention Online: Talks by Anselm Spoerri and Jisun An
Steve Wozniak on Piers Morgan (June 2013)
Cowardly attack on Salesforce CEO's philanthropy
I was ready to suggest just this if I understand you correctly.

You mean creating a http://linux.die.net/man/7/pipe and configure syslog-ng to read from it?

A very comparable configuration for apache https://peter.blogs.balabit.com/2010/02/how-to-collect-apach...
Drive your team with goals, not perks: Andrew Dumont, Director at Moz
For that $50 they could have just given you one of those little RSA key fobs (or equivalent). Assuming their goal is increased security, that is.

OTOH, if it's just "offers from our partners" spam, I'd ditch them immediately. That's the kind of crap I expect from free file sharing sites or something, not the entity that holds my money.
It feels a little lightweight for the cost. I am not a hardware geek, but I struggle to see what this gets me over a mini ITX board running an Dual Core atom w/ a dual port Gigabit NIC running pfSense besides (what I assume is) a lower power draw.

I also worry with all the packets going through the core processor and it only being an 800mhz PPC. Is this going to be able to handle the traffic from a 100mbit connection w/ a protocol like bit torrent creating 100s of connections and it having to NAT that traffic.

The major issues I see with Home routers is either complexity or performance. Even here in Australia there exist a reasonable number of people who are able to get 100mbits services on HFC / Fibre. If you were able to include an FGPA that you could offload packet routing to you might have something interesting (can affordable FPGAs do gigabit packet rates?). Obviously an ASIC requires a fairly high production rate to be economical. Maybe a dual processor configuration with a dedicated packet passing processor and an "Application Processor".

I want to like this being its from my home city (Brisbane, Australia), but I really can't see the value in it over other devices.
Makes me wonder why we allow juries to hear patent disputes. Do they really understand patents and their terse wording? I would rather have a jury of individuals that would be able to read, code and test the same concepts that they are deciding on.
Modern war is more destructive than previous ones. Even fifty years ago genocide was a laborious task, now it is done with a press of button. There is nothing more deadly than total war.
definitely interested in this. Where do you send this for analysis? Elastic search? Can that keep up?
The online problem sets for the Caltech course aren't what you get in real life when the course is being actively offered, and also it was a pretty basic/easy course. That's not to say there aren't other hard classes online or that Yaser isn't great at teaching, but yeah...
first, that price is almost certainly negotiable, particularly if you call and say "i'm running a ton of light vms for some strange reason"

second, I think, at least for me, what bugs me is the massive entitlement on display. God forbid devs who built an awesome piece of software get paid; instead, dude whinges on the internet that he might have to gasp patch and compile an rpm or fork out some money. The horrors!