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And this sort of crap is why I've just decided to make my most major video release in 5 years Vimeo-centric, not YouTube. *

I'm about to release a significant Machinima movie - significant in that it's doing a bunch of things that haven't been done before. (I'm the guy who came up with the term "Machinima" originally.) I've been strongly considering putting it on YT, but the extreme lack of customer support and the automated, often error-prone takedown systems mean that it really doesn't seem like a great platform for anything important.

This could actually become a serious problem for YouTube. They've got some real competitors in the video space, notably Vimeo but also Blip and others. If working with YouTube starts to become overly risky or onerous for creators, the others could start to catch up fast.

* Also, to be fair, I'm going for Vimeo because they support 2.35:1 aspect ratio video. But that's not the most major reason.
There is a point where the breakdown in social order is going to lead to a much greater problem. If the food and energy systems we rely on to supply cities break down then you'll be looking at problems other than the outbreak causing deaths.

If society breaks down then you'll suddenly be looking at countries being unable to support anything close to that number of people.
Craig,
on another note: I am based in SF, and I'd like to get in touch with someone at Coinbase (I am writing a book on Bitcoin). Can you help?
This article confuses me . . . a better title would have been, "Why we changed languages, went from PaaS to IaaS, and changed our datastore - or why we changed everything". I find it interesting that the author didn't go from AppEngine to Heroku, which has robust NodeJS support, Memcache and Mongo support as well.

I applaud the author for making changes to support their business more effectively, I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this other than someone successfully changed some stuff.
I have done this and I agree. "News" gives a single side view on the world and it is hardly an uplifting one. Personally I strongly belief that the general public opinion is negativer then needed caused by negative news-feeding.
In the periods that I decided to not follow the news (opting out :)) I felt better and more relaxed. In the mean time I did not miss any big news and what I missed turned out not to be important. Easily to do as an experiment.
I think you should direct your fingers-in-ears comment towards yourself. In any event, I can't make a further argument without being repetitive.
"I'm not sure that in all good conscience I can take on a project that is going to cost him a lot of money and not be successful."

Love this attitude. There are too many people who simply don't care.

I agree with many others on this thread, lay the cards on the table (if possible with examples of your own apps and difficulties they've faced) and let him choose. Potentially also point him in the direction of a marketing/pr firm that may be able to help (ideally someone you're friendly with and can talk to beforehand). That way you're increasing the chances for him, reducing blame for yourself and paying forward with some work for a friend.

Good luck!
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> A good engineer can PM his own work, and doesn't need someone else to tell him what color to paint the bike shed.

This highlights exactly how badly she failed at Google. Many Google products are invidiually well-designed. Google makes lots of fantastic things. But the overall product line of Google has always been an incoherent mess, and is only now in the modern era of Plus and Android getting collectively organized.

And since a solid engineer can design a solid product, where does the Product Manager come in? The larger vision. The whole interconnectedness of their entire product line.

And Google sucked at that. Atrociously.
I don't really buy that argument. Yes, central banks can print more money, but it's not like they can print 30 percent of the existing money within a year to compensate for the 30 percent rise in demand for the dollar. But again, I think huge volumes and the law of numbers play a big role here, because I don't think it's possible to see a 30 percent rise in dollar demand within a year anymore, while that's very possible with Bitcoin (for now).
Another comment mentioned the economist's weekly digest - this gives a good summary of the important world news, but won't help with your local news.

As an example, it covers the riots breaking out in Ukraine but completely skipped that Paul Walker died..
At least the DMCA requires the submitter swear under penalty of perjury that the notice is accurate. The current YouTube system has no penalty for false claims.
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Sounds like these services actually shutting down is a good thing for the end users, since they aren't actually securely designed in the first place! They even admit in the article they'd have to properly design their system to make email unreadable by their staff, and they chose to shutter their service vs trying to figure out how to make that work and still make money.
To me the engineering audience group is a big deal. Regular engineers that do no research per-se might be interested in following research related to their application field to ensure that their developments follow the state of the art. As such they would qualify as more than "casual followers of science" but ain't researchers either.

Two examples come to mind: first developers of distributed databases might want to follow the progress on distributed data-structures such as CRDTs [1]. Apparently Riak developers at Basho are fast at implementing such new theoretical results into their product [2].

[1] http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-695...
[2] http://vimeo.com/43903960

I am pretty sure that Basho as an organization is not a subscriber to any pay-walled CS journals. So having such articles as Open Access helps make it discoverable by the engineering community, just by googling, sharing links over social networks, mailing lists or news sites such as HN and reddit.

Similarly developers of (big or small) data analytics tools might want to follow the research on machine learning algorithms so as to implement the state of the art and empirically evaluate it against the previous baselines. As an engineer contributing to the scikit-learn project this is basically my job. I am no researcher myself but I (and the many other scikit-learn developers) try to help transfer the results from academic research to make it available to our users community that reaches out of the traditional academic circles.

Having researchers publish their results in Open Access venues reduces the friction to transfer new results to practical, productionalized implementations (e.g. as open source projects maintained over the years). Open Access is one of the tools to help break the traditional Researcher / Engineering boundary as agile development tools and the devops movement helped break the Developer / Sysadmin boundary. To me Open Access is a fundamental building block of "Agile Science".
What actionable information has following the minute of the NSA revelations provided me?

Encrypt your data better, perhaps. But that's kind of besides the point - are you suggesting that there is no point knowing about things you have no control over?
A good engineer can PM his own work

if you have even a small team of say 5 engineers, it makes no sense for each to be their own PM (5 PM's).

i can't imagine what you think a PM does.
"I have to invest a ton of money" did you miss the bit where this is an optional service? A service which you (and your competitors) should only use if you consider the value offered to outweigh the cost?
Right. That is something than can be built on top of bitcoin, bringing traditional banking services to it. If the problem is managing your private keys, that can be delegated to a bank that you can trust - which will recover them for you in case you lose them, paying a fee, for example. That necessarily means that the bank has access to your wallet though.

Bitcoin even offers a bit of extra support for that too, via transparency, based on the public blockchain. There is embedded protection against third parties: if a rogue employee of the bitcoin-bank transfers bitcoins out of your bank-wallet, the transaction can be followed. It might not be possible to recover the money, but at least some kind of identification can be performed - with the help of the bank and with legislative support, this can be enforced. This transparency is not there for tradicional banks: if there is a problem, you trust them to solve it, but you can not independently see what happened to your money.

This relies on the fact that anonymity is a fragile concept in the bitcoin world: an address is anonymous as long as nobody puts the effort (and has the right extra pieces of information) to correlate address to person.

At the end of the day, it will be a matter of the bank having a business interest in keeping a clean reputation. This is too early for the bitcoin economy, so I would not trust any online bitcoin bank with more than a couple of bitcoins. CitiBitcoinBank is not here yet.
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If your competitors wanted to use your images, they'd just remove the watermarks and use them anyway. Also, who cares if your competitors use them? Aim for better service.
i fully agree with your last statement and please spread this mindset far and wide. it really should be engineers making all product designs/decisions. from UI and complex business workflow coverage to all the nice roadmap conversations with customers. and all those devs complaining about "distractions" from their coding? all BS, they like spending 90% of their time fiddling with the above.

makes it easier to compete against you.
You have to be a subscriber, and then it's available on their website: http://www.economist.com/audio-edition

If you just want to read The World This Week it's available online for free: http://www.economist.com/printedition/
Convos has auto complete for commands and nicks, and the auto reconnect should work, though I think it's hard making good tests for it.
> A good engineer can PM his own work, and doesn't need someone else to tell him what color to paint the bike shed

A good product manager, having done their job, has provided the good engineer with enough information about goals, features, requirements, user profiles and so on that the good engineer can run with that information and build something kickass. In many cases, the good engineer has enough information that they can make informed decisions about things that were not covered by the PM, such as what color to paint the bike shed.
I'm on the fence about this. I've worked in an organization with product managers for nearly 8 years now. The good product managers know how to drive the product (and understand the market, something engineers may not be interested in) but allow engineers to do their thing. The not-so-good product managers get caught up in small details (like what color to paint the bike shed) and attempt to tell engineers how to implement features.

About 18 months we were acquired by a larger company which had product management in one business unit but not another. We were allowed to keep our PM structure. 18 months later, guess what units have the highest revenue? And guess what unit bled money?
If there's something one may usefully do, and which one would not have otherwise recognized, about whatever it is that's producing those emotions, then sure, you've got a point. But I don't think what's under discussion here would be such a universally recognized experience, were that the case. And if you're already doing whatever you can, or if there's nothing you can do, then why keep abusing yourself with constant exposure?
I hope karma hits them back for this.
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Thank you for your feedback.

Yes, currently we only display commit diff. We are planning to add context view, e.g. ability to see the whole file.

From our research an ideal solution would be to perform review in an IDE, where you have the context available. However that would require supporting multiple IDEs in multiple programming languages.
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So? It's a summary article with the high level points easy digestible by current news addicts. It's A lot easier to get someone to read this article than Fooled by Randomness.
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And yet whether Derek is right or not is unrelated to whether people should have a right to keep things private - of course they should. This is why grellas is misinterpreting the post, and this is also why your last paragraph is also a misinterpretation of the post.

As to the content of the post itself - there are obvious edge cases where releasing private information is harmful. I don't think Derek is claiming that they don't exists, or that total transparency is the best way to go. Let each of us think for ourselves what kind of information we should keep private because of real, rational and justified reasons, and what is based on irrational fears of exposing something that nobody cares about in the first place. I think you will find that often the majority of what people consider worth hiding is of the second kind.

People don't keep private diaries because they believe that "a growing lack of privacy is a serious problem in our society", they keep private diaries because they feel psychologically inclined to do so.
Nice! I had been thinking about making something similar. There are very few quality web IRC clients out there. I had a chromebook for a while, and I was stuck using Mibbit which is pretty terrible.
In other words, you'll only sell through venues which allow you to use DRM? That's your right, of course, but I don't know that you'll get much sympathy.
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Dunno, there's lots of potholes and worse issues in poor corrupt countries the world over. I can foresee a huge wave of next-gen Western "voluntourists" (on Basic Income or mum's allowance or whatever other scheme) coming over here to Cambodia for example fixing up the roads and installing solar panels, while at the same time admiring the locals' relaxed hammocky approach to life :D
> I'm not sure that in all good conscience I can take on a project that is going to cost him a lot of money and not be successful.

Mind your own business. Literally. Every startup is a bad idea until it makes money. Then, magically, it becomes an amazing idea.

That said, yes, it will likely fail.

I have been in similar situations many times. An experienced client means very little, I assure you. They engage in similar stupidity, the only difference being that they will couch their nonsense as an "exploration" or "learning experience".

It's their money and they can spend it however they wish. My job is to deliver a product according to spec.

Now, I will politely inform them that based on my business acumen, understanding of the market, etc. that the success of their venture is extremely low. But that's as far as I go.

How do these projects end? Usually quite abruptly, when they run out of money. There is no hope of turning a client like this into a long-term client, because quite simply, they don't have any cash flow. They have cash, but it's a one time thing unless their business takes off, which it won't. But isn't that the definition of a startup?
Got any killer features that we should add to Convos?
The Guardian is the dynamic. Either it's working out well enough to suit them, or the institution has grown too sclerotic with age to behave other than how it does.
We see a world where many jobs will not exist anymore. Taken out by technology.

This has all happened before, and it will all happen again. Jobs taken out by technology are balanced by jobs created, directly and indirectly, by the same technology. There is always a need for mundane labor. The shift may be painful, but stagnating innovation is not preferable.

Be thankful that, on the whole, technology makes sustenance cheaper so more people can live better on less (not nothing, but costs of basics are dropping). The shifting baseline confuses many.
I don't know about the other two but I updated a tracking number in my store for a customer just this morning.
One could argue that it's not news, so it's not ironic.
He mentions Taleb in the article, and is it Taleb who came up with the idea that news is bad?
The patent examiner looks like he specializes in highly technical video compression, image stabilizing and the like.

This particular patent looks completely out of his usual field of expertise.

See for yourself http://patents.justia.com/examiner/nhon-diep
I'm willing to wager many people who do consume news don't know about the NSA revelations, or don't care, because they're too busy reading about the tragic vehicular manslaughter of an attractive teenage white girl who lives 1000 miles away, or about this one weird old trick for increasing productivity at the office, or about the 10 new indie releases you should be listening to right now.

Junk news can cause as much ignorance as no-news. And we have to concede that most of the news we read is junk, especially what you find on Hacker News.

But I agree that a self-imposed news fast is silly. If we didn't get news, we'd be blind to the NSA's betrayal, among other things. So lets keep consuming news. But we need to consume far less news. Far better news. A small amount of high-quality reporting, as opposed to the usual firehose of bullshit.
Ask HN: Suggested reading for basic statistical analysis of web analytics
I was hoping to get some suggested sites or books I could use to do more with our Analytics. I do not have a statistics background, but I work in an area where ideas backed up by data get a lot further than just an idea. I've been doing the best I can with excel's basic formulas to try and gain better insights from our Analytics, but I feel like I could do more than just averages and such, when we have a huge range of data. I know there are ways to remove/exclude outliers or compartmentalize our analytic data, but I'm not sure where I should start.

I would appreciate any suggested reading for someone (novice) who is trying to improve their data analysis skills, specifically as they pertain to the basic web analytics data set.
So return to that period by giving up the tv again.
Wouldn't that depend on the cumulative hashing rate rather than number of nodes? I.e. I don't think it matters if 1k new nodes join if they're not doing any hashing.
Also, one can argue that it's a good thing in general that our intelligence and security services' activities are regulated by laws like this (instead of operating in grey areas beyond the law).

And, by the way, activities carried out by the UK's intelligence and security services OUTSIDE the UK are also subject to RIPA.
Our software is used from portable devices (usually usb) as users move between computers (PortableApps.com). As such, using bittorrent would be a technical option within our platform's app store/updater. It would, however, get our platform banned/blocked at many companies and universities that have policies forbidding bittorrent use. (And we can say all day long that it's a legit protocol with lots of legit uses like downloading linux ISOs, it doesn't change the facts and policies on the ground.) Additionally, most users will be behind NATs that they can't poke a hole through to be able to properly share.

As for images, the bittorrent protocol would just be way too slow even with some changes when compared to HTTP with SPDY and all the internal tweaks done at the geographically close CDN edge nodes to make them as fast as possible. 150ms before adding a new peer is an eternity in an age when 47% of people expect a web page to load in 2 seconds or less and the abandon rate increases with each second that passes with 40% abandoning at a little after the 3 second mark.
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Well, no. The evidence you present is of civilizations that disappeared or were destroyed and were excavated later on. These do not tie to the age of Hinduism or the age of the culture, but only represent a few dots on its timeline.

Ayodhya, for example, the city of Ram exists even today [1]. You're an Indian, you'd know it of course. The modern version of this city is considered more than 9000 years old, that's roughly about 7000 BC on wards. Buy a plot of land in Ayodhya, start digging and you'll hit structures and temple tops of another buried city underneath as you go deeper.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayodhya

This cave for example Bhimbetka [2], is between 50,000-200,000 years old. It is mentioned in epic Ramayana which has yet to be dated. Bhimbetka is declared a world heritage site, and gives a proof of homo erectus with skills in the Deccan area that early in time.

Some crazy estimates suggest approximately 100,000 to 900,000 years ago for Ramayana, but then it is a crazy estimate [3] indeed. There are pearls of available proof, mythology and craziness all over the place. Someone needs to connect them together so that we might get a better picture of it. Obviously I don't wish to over state the age of Hinduism, but it is mystic by virtue of its age for sure. It makes me lose my calm, ironically.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimbetka_rock_shelters

[3] http://www.rense.com/general30/nasa.htm
Yeah what you're describing is a well known phenomenon in financial markets called counterparty risk[1]. Those betting against the subprime mortgage bubble prior to 2007 for example feared that those institutions accepting their exotic CDS bets would actually go out of business when the subprime bubble popped[2], and the bets wouldn't be realised.

It's a sign of immaturity of the bitcoin economy that there's no trustworthy effective bitcoin shorting options- even if you don't wish to speculate, but because you wish to hedge your exposure to bitcoin volatility (say you're a large ecommerce player, with significant bitcoin holdings- you're effectively long bitcoin - and you don't want those holdings to halve in value overnight).

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/counterpartyrisk.asp

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Big-Short-Doomsday-Machine/dp/0393...
Curious what sort of database or routing issues did you run into?
Agreed. Not only more R&D in Ottawa but the fact that a a tech company's HQ is here is a positive. So many tech in Ottawa for R&D, but with their leadership silo'd in Toronto or another hub. Kudos to Shopify on this.
Your post reminds me of "The Truth" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_(novel)) by Terry Pratchett, in which the characters invent newspapers and deal with these issues. Hilarity ensues.
Very cool. Does something like this exist for other databases too?
AGPL license makes this a complete non-starter for any commercial project.
No wonder he doesn't want you to read news :)