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> There will still be novel and annoying attempts at DRM, but essentially, this battle has been won.

The battle may have been won for music, but movies already come DRM-enabled, and ebook publishers are pushing DRM like crazy.

This is far from over, since the replication and distribution of digital media costs zero, and this effectively invalidates old business models.

Hard-copy books are still selling (I for one think it's easier on the eyes than glaring in a laptop's screen), but throw in a comfortable ebook reader and ebooks that can be shared with friends, and you've got yourself a business-model killer.

I think this is inevitable, but more time has to pass before newer business models will emerge, and until then they'll keep circumventing the natural evolution of technology.

I don't know how to feel about this ... for one my rights are violated (you end up not owning your copy) and sharing with friends / making a backup are prohibited actions that turn you into a thief. On the other hand I feel bad about content creators (having negative feelings about publishers though because of their policies).
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Precisely. I have no idea why we can't do this - Twitter already supports # and @, there's no reason they can't support URLs in the same manner.
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Certainly there's a reason, but that's not it. The reason is generally that they were doing what was most convenient at the moment. There are occasional cases where someone was actually thinking about some requirement that conflicted with the REST architectural style, or had an application where the benefits of REST didn't matter. But the much more common case is that someone just wasn't thinking about REST, usually because they don't know REST.
It's an interesting artefact of the libraries we use that digest authentication is difficult, but you can "just use" SSL.
I have to agree with the "equally shitty to use" statement. One of the other problems is that it is hard to get the features you want in a phone that you want. It's along the lines of "GPS, Bluetooth and good Camera: pick any 2." Yu do, however, get a bunch of features that you never need. That, and they seem to have used their mailroom staff to design the UI. People always think they are so advanced. Maybe they were ten years ago, but now not so much.
Sounds very interesting, is the documentation available online ? Do you have a link ?
Most libraries I've used have the option to respond to 401s automatically, and a lot of them have HTML parsing, too.

There are some added benefits. The load-balancing example he gives in the article is one; a second one is that there's less stuff to get wrong in the client code, generally. Instead of working from some informal equivalent of WSDL, you're writing code that interrogates the service at run-time to find the current definition of the interface.
Sounds like Alison Gopnik's 'What I believe but cannot prove' contribution: http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_9.html#gopnik
It's more like using tables instead of CSS -- the only real compliance with web standards here is valid vs. invalid use of HTTP; everything layered on top of that is mostly subjective in the case of REST dogma. In fact, some of the things in this article directly contradict recommendations in O'Reilly's RESTful Web Services.
You're blowing this so far out of proportion that I'm not sure it's possible to have a reasonable discussion with you.
War in no way creates wealth

I'm not sure that's actually true. How much wealth was created via the development of jet engines, radar, satellite communications, antibiotics, computers? The unprecedented economic growth of the latter half of the 20th century was driven by civilian applications of technologies developed for the purpose of fighting WW2.
"And: what good is a shortened link to a dead site?"

About as much good as an un-shortened link to a dead site, which is what it turns into after the redirect.

I guess my problem here is I still haven't seen an actual argument to back up the sorts of "behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Digg, and Twitter followed with him" hysteria that's been going around. Yeah, sometimes links die of old age; we've been dealing with that for years and it's not a new or unique problem. And yeah, sometimes people hide nasty things behind redirects; again, we've been dealing with that for years and it's not a new or unique problem.

So what's with the gloom and doom?
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Internet Explorer 66.21%
Firefox 24.90%
Safari 5.76%
Chrome 2.25%

The IE breakdown is
7.0 51.99%
6.0 27.02%
8.0 20.99%
Not new (as claimed by title, and therefor flagging), but it is a useful collection of docs for people learning advanced CSS, so upmoding.
http://www.cmcpr.co.uk/main/news.php?content=news_article...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology in the UK did a survey recently but they seemingly haven't published the full results though they do mention they might provide them on request.

Some of the stats are a little discouraging though
I don't think it will happen, though; the ratio of people who care about the elegance of their processor's assembly language to people who buy computers is just too low.

Not in form of a clean cut, at least: x86-64 brought us eight additional registers and removed the silly BCD-instructions.
First author of HTTP 1.1 is Roy Fielding, same guy who defined REST. In fact, http 1.1 was designed largely to make HTTP restful. As such, you'd be surprise how far HTTP goes towards RESTfulness. For instance the spec defines idempotency and satfety of methods. Ergo, servers may produce valid requests and responses but still fail when it comes to being valid http if their internal operation does not conform to the operation semantics. Look up the google web accelerator fiasco to see how things can go terribly wrong.
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OK, so being perfectly RESTful is a pain. Just be RESTful enough.
Looks like Augmented Reality = your inner self projected online.

Or, your many inner selves living an online, second life.

I was thinking many times What Is The Best Personal Business Model? I've realized alone I can't compete with one or more people grouped in a team having the same goals.

Then I've learned a cornerstone of competitiveness is having (more and more) people working for you, or at least not working for your competitors.

I've also learned managing more and more people is not fun so I was starting to build a team of online applications working for me which is easier and more fun to manage.

But the future is to project your inner selves into the digital reality, make them living and working on their own, and meet them frequently to re-live their experiences. (and cash their revenues of course :-)

It's something like cloning yourself not biologically but digitally. Perfect.
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The way I read it, it can also contribute to improving neutrality: you can now try to commission the same amount of bandwidth to each user. Whereas with individual package-handling a user could impact other users by sending lots of packages, now these would be treated as a group belonging to one ID. It's also less murky then deep packet-inspection...
WAFL, VxFS, ZFS...
From an aesthetic perspective, here are some router designs done recently by Goldsmiths students in London - http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/the-humbl...

I like the idea of a router that shows you average signal strength throughout the day.
that's because of gravity and economics.
Ask HN: Was your first crazy startup idea anything like your current one?
Background: I'm only six weeks away from the last day at my "day" job and we're only about one customer shy of making my full time salary on September 1st. I'm really optimistic about our future, and thinking a little bit about how we got here.

We offer a couple services to newspapers -- especially small, weekly newspapers -- to help them get their advertisement management out of a filing cabinet on onto the computer. Our first effort seems like it was pretty far removed; we wanted to build a community for artists to share and trade supplies and materials on a super-local scale. It probably would've been a lot of fun to make, but a lot of trouble to drum up interest and make money off of.

However, as we dig deeper into the newspaper industry, it seems like we have to answer a lot of the same questions, especially regarding the nature of local advertising and the incentive for small, local businesses to advertise on the web.

Are you, as an entrepreneur, attracted to the same problems over and over again? Was your first idea anything like your most recent on the surface or deeper down?
Because our lives tend to become less interesting (as in: new experiences) over time.
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Being a pretty rational person, for me it always helps to focus on emotions and understand what the source of this emotion is, Why do I feel this? What is the reason? Does it make sense? Once you grok why your soul tells you things, you can react to them in appropiate ways, because you know the deep reason behind it.

This has helped me a lot with the fear of doing mistakes during development, because I understood that I hesitate to develop things, because often, I just lost interest. Since I understood this, I looked around for lightweight direction management and found something and use it. And even more, whenever this fear of mistakes crops up again, I usually can recognize the pattern (simply stopping to program, not beginning to type with some vi open, getting tired) and re-reason why this is not entirely true.

This has helped me to overcome some long growing dislike of completely dark areas, as there was always the fear of some danger jumping at one from the darkness. Understanding that usually nothing will be there and furthermore, beginning to train martial arts has helped with this (training MA does help a lot with respect to confidence)

This has and is helping me a lot understanding why I have problems at interacting with groups of people. It appears that I fear rejection very much, and thus, I usually want to see a persons reaction precisely whenever I interact with them. In a group of people with more then 3 persons, this just does not work, as it is just too much information to cope. I am working on this, though.

So, overall, I would say that meditating about ones feelings and the reasons why those feelings occur is good way to understand the feelings and the underlying problem, and given that, one will find how to handle this feeling and how to get this feeling out of the way for your daily work (or, you will understand that it is impossible to get out of the way. Talk with your boss then, and hope he will understand your reasoning).
This comments seems a little bit shortsighted. Where do you stop? Is it okay if you write your own interface to the hardware drivers, bypassing DirectX/OpenGL? Or do you also have to write your own drivers to the graphics and sound? Your own operating system? Design your own hardware? There's no such thing as an "all-in" app.

All of those things have certainly been done on the demoscene. In the demoscene, size-limited competitions have implicit convections, unwritten rules if you will, to ensure that everybody competes on fair terms. For 4kb intros it is currently accepted (if not encouraged) to use the DirectX/OpenGL APIs. It is also considered acceptable to use the font-writing API's, and some groups exploit this to generate vector graphics out of obscure font symbols.

For sound, it's expected that you either write your own software synthesizer (or collaborate with somebody who has written one), or use the MIDI APIs. For 1kb intros, MIDI API sounds are expected. There was a big controversy in 2008, when the 4kb intro Texas (http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=51448) won the 4kb competition at NVScene. Many people considered its use of samples from mp3s included with the Windows operating system cheating, since it went outside the bounds of what is considered acceptable use of the OS resources.

So there are some implicit conventions about what you can and cannot do, and if you want to compete fairly and impress your fellow sceners, you should follow them.

Of course, most demoscene parties feature the wild demo competitions, where pretty much anything goes. Demosceners always reward hard work and clever hacks, so if you want to impress, create a demo on your self-built hardware and enter into this competition. You will have a fair chance at one of the prizes.
Does information overload drown us then? :P
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If I haven't seen it before, it's new to me.
If the problem is software related, it could be a good opportunity for android.
No more so than the Pilgrims agonizing over whether they ought to have kids after landing in New England.

Really, in all scientific fields, those with the "profound ethical questions" are contributing nothing, they do no science themselves, they just feel entitled to pontificate. I say that the price of sitting at the table is to actually be a practitioner.
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So Zen and Yoda are right again :)

"Do not think anything. Just do."
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I think engineering in other fields works with blueprints, because there are so many clear-cut expectations/requirements. No matter how fancy the design, the over-all purpose of a building is to shield one area (the "inside") from another (the "outside"). Doors and windows open and close, optionally locks. Heating and cooling must be scaled the to size of the area covered.. etc.etc.

Designing a building is much more akin to configuring a server (which anyone here is perfectly comfortable doing by blueprint) than developing an application.

The level of detail usually required in a software-blueprint would amount to including the placement of pencils on every desk in the building-blueprint.
Is this article's title misleading or am I missing something? Shouldn't it be that "same neurons signal thirst for water, knowledge about water", as in "same neurons signal 'thirst' for A, knowledge about A"? I think this is implied from the article but not from the title.
You'll want to leave the grass-clippings in the lawn for fertilisation. Sure, you could add fertilizers, but then why not just give the lawn bot a place to plug-in (like a Roomba) instead? It's easier and I'm pretty sure it's cheaper, also.

Also, I'm not sure the world is ready for autonomous robots with blades. Imagine it foraging onto the neighbouring lawn, prompting the interest of a 4-year old... ugh.
And so your current users are:

- hipsters

- web celebs

- real celebs

- alpha geeks

- wow fanboys

instead of:

- freedom fighters

- kids & puppies

- slum dogs

- old people

Sounds funny ... until you'll watch Mike Wesch's latest presentation at Democracy Forum about the users of the web2 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709900)

I think this change of the user base is backing up ideas and trends like the freemium business model.
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Very cool - good luck with the site. I had a recent situation in which internally we bickered quite a bit about a contract that a client proposed. The situation revolved around a proposed indemnity clause. My colleagues felt that this was a major opportunity that could really grow our business yet I was unhappy with the wording. The wording of the clause was:

"Vendor shall indemnify and hold Distributor harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, suits, proceedings, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable outside attorneys’ fees) brought by a third party, arising out of or related to any of the Materials, information, data, materials or instructions provided by Vendor to Distributor pursuant to this Agreement. This Section shall survive the expiration or termination of this Agreement."

My objections were confirmed with our attorney: this clause is one way, it protects them only, it never expires, it does not allow us to choose counsel, and it does not require them to notify us if a suit had been brought. Our attorney brought up the point that we could receive a $5,000,000 bill in the mail 20 years from now and, because of these terms, we would have to pay it.

I sent back our rewrites and haven't heard back from them in over a month. I'm not willing to sign their suggested contract and my colleagues are a bit upset. Can you talk about the David v Goliath situations in which large companies try to impose very expansive terms like this on small vendors?
Ship with a spare battery?! That's a great idea - I wonder why Apple doesn't do the same with the iPhones...

;-)
It's like trying to apply metrics to writing a novel.

Oh, that's not hard to do.

The only one that matters in the marketplace for software is the same one that matters to most novel publishers - does it make money. That's a simple metric to measure and it's one that corporations instinctively understand, both in software and in novel publishing. Monetarily successful software publishers, just like novel publishers, know very well what the quality sensitivity of their customer is, and produce accordingly.

The metric (and the audience quality sensitivity) is obviously quite different when you are talking about niche product, be it aircraft control software or a mathematics textbook.
I can see how you would read the article that way, but no, I don't think it's implied by the article.

However, it's a very subtle point, and a good one. Because if those "water wanting" neurons triggered only because the knowledge was about the thing they wanted: "water", then this research is (at least partially) invalid.

I highly suggest you contact the authors of the study and ask them.

However the point that monkeys do want the fore-knowledge still stands. (And since the fore-knowledge doesn't help the monkey, and monkeys are assumed to not do things for no reason, it's assumed that there is a part of the brain that wants knowledge.)
Using custom XML is also not very REST. I would write an API in a way that uses the Accept header to demand either a HTML microformat or JSON, with the former laid out for web browser use.
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This is exactly what I needed at the right time.

In particular, I've only recently realized that working in blocks makes the design process go much more smoothly.
Sure, so I have no problem having it posted.

But don't call it new just because it's new to someone - everything is new to someone. Call it new only if it's new to just about everyone.
I don't understand this at all. Your first sentence is bold yet your second is hesitant. Make up your mind, my friend! :-)
> hich raises some pretty profound ethical questions for children born and raised into these missions.

Perhaps. Though how much more so than a couple who decide to emigrate from the UK to New Zealand (which is quite common).

Yes it's slightly more of a trip: but I think the ethical questions are ones you will find some people unworried by (enough to populate such a ship). At the end of the day that's all that's needed.
In what way is that chart useful?
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My advice to you is to find a really good book and go with the book program. I passed many college classes just by studying hard with a good book.
they have an annoying tendancy to destroy/tear up the grass though.
I'm afraid of flying. Every single time I have flown, I've had severe tremors to the point that I couldn't even hold a beverage. With that said, if I was offered the chance to do something like this, I don't think I could turn it down.
Indeed. I always respect them for that - yes they understood the importance of the occasion. But the Apollo 11 'nauts were chosen for something more important than heroism - dependability. The guts to do the job and come home (the last one arguably being the crucial bit).
My bad. I wrote the title in haste. Sorry about that. The image also leaves out Latin America/Spanish Internet users.
See http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/mind-the-flo... for some skeptical comments on this.
Agreed. THe real forgotten Astronaut of Apollo 11 would be Charles Moss Duke - the CapCom that was on duty when Eagle landed (and surely must be considered lynch pin to the whole landing)
Tiered access requires particular connections to be statically limited. That is already easy to do. This device applies limits dynamically based on throughput and duration, which seems pretty fair and neutral to me.

What I don't understand is how it distinguishes between audio/video streams and P2P traffic. I would think them pretty similar without inspecting packets.
But the point was that once the trail was blazed, everyone else could follow, like pioneers going to California in the early 20th century.

California had been explored by Europeans early by the 1500's, and you are talking about settlers in a period 400 years later. It's insane to expect that the process of settling a different celestial body would take a mere fifty years from first setting foot there. And that's just the moon - we haven't even set foot on Mars yet.

When it comes to space travel you can't think in terms of things happening during your lifetime, which I suspect is really why the public has lost interest. People don't seem to care in the least about anything they won't live to see happen, be it environmental destruction, the results of reckless economic policy, or long-distance space travel.
I doubt a contest like this is really about the prize for many people. It's an opportunity for people to play around with code and learn.
in the "Other" category: ZFS and NFS

HFS+ and ext3 otherwise
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> something we can not hold, something that can vanish just as easily as it can be created out of thin air.

Physical things can vanish in any number of ways (e.g. fire) and restoring from a backup is non-trivial.
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I and a million others admire many of the people that you do. You might be lucky and reach the same level or not. Like the lottery you might not win, at least not yet.

When I was presented with the same opportunity, I dated the girl, proposed to her 5 months later. We have been married for over three years and I haven't regretted it.

In fact, she had many very successful people in her circle of friends who have since given me great advice and support that I would have missed out on if I had gone for what appeared (at the time) the fast track.

As Vaksel points out "Life is what happens while you are busy with other things". Just go with whatever is the strongest pull at each decision point. Good Luck !