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The power of TV is at its lowest point in recent history. Any candidate could have a fulltime youtube channel where they are gathering supporters everyday.
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>it's called Trademark Law!

The international nature of app stores makes one nation's trademark law increasingly irrelevant.

Also, because most of these app shops are barely making any money, the court of popular opinion is the only one they can afford.
I'd never have given it a first look otherwise.
This was already the bottleneck for all of the top solutions. Reducing the start up time was the primary goal and the top solutions were heavily optimizing for it, including compiler configurations. One of the primary reason to compile in a bloom filter instead of a hash set was that it made your binary ~2 MB smaller which was a significant advantage in start up time.
Better watch out.. King.com already owns that.
No. This is where Facebook gets in. We use it to filter your friends so no pictures get outside your circle.

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Not necessarily - some policeman or policewoman doing this or seeing her peers do that can one day wake up and say - I had enough with violating rights of Americans, I'm just going to document everything we're doing that is wrong and then publish it, and be whatever it will be. Fat chance, I know, but who thought it could happen in NSA before it did? You never know. And after that happens, of course higher-ups will deny that happened, but once the cat is out of the bag and the attention of the society has been captured that would be a different story altogether than now. It would move from "those crazy libertarians are breaking out their tinfoil hats again" to "omg omg police is really doing it right under our noses! It could even happen to me!"

For once, somebody could get and publish all those training manuals - unredacted, with all the juicy details. With it being this entrenched, something must be written down - you can't rule system this vast on lore alone.
Frsnkly, I'm sick of companies -- software companies in particular -- trying to own plain English words. I was sick of it when Microsoft registered "Windows" as a trademark (they actually had the trademark challenged and lost it in Australia -- as a common use term in computing), and "Word" and "Excel" and "Access" and "Money" and on and on. If Microsoft wants to sell "Microsoft Word" then good luck, but I should be able to sell "BillyBob Word" or whatever. (Yes, I guess this means I kind of don't like "Apple" as a registered trademark either. I have no problem with the Apple logo (now they've bought it from the Beatles) or "Apple Inc." or "Apple Computer".)

Imagine if Boeing owned the trademark "Airplane" or if Southwest owned "Ticket" (but only in the domain of air travel...). People would think that was ridiculous.

MiSoft is angry because they tried to squat on the name "paper" and failed and now "paper" is "owned" by someone else. The sensible option is to allow anyone to call their app "paper" (but underneath it's com.foo.paper or com.bar.paper) and users will be annoyed if your name or icon are utterly indistinct. OTOH if you somehow actually own the name Papr or whatever then good luck to you.

Incidentally, "Paper" by 53 is the most annoying iPad application I use. It works well -- I like it a lot -- but its tools are all in-app purchases, and if you accidentally touch a tool you don't own (because they're all there, dimmed out) you get an ad for the tool. After I first got the app I decided I liked it enough to pay for "all" the tools. Then they added a new (expensive) tool I didn't want. So I have this annoying tool I can't remove and don't want to pay for out of principle, but every time I touch it, the frickin' ad appears.
This would be more aptly titled: "Urs Hölzle on Google's first data center"
...yes. They are mostly startup veterans with 7+ years experience hiring and managing engineering teams. And very good programmers themselves.
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>There are some benefits to living in a rural Indian village- you get more exercise then I do in my natural habitat.

Speak for yourself. My natural habitat has great public transit, so I get my exercise built into my commute.
Your analysis would be stronger if you differentiated between "police state" and "police services"
The issue with CloudFront is the tremendous cost of $600/mo for custom domain SSL certificate. You also need to apply and get approved. There many not-so-obvious limits and blocks and unless you pay for support (which is pretty cheap, by the way), it may take you a week to lift those - you need to request them one by one and various teams approve/disapprove the requests. It's totally ridiculous.
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I find the compare option for different instance types especially useful.
Global inequality is nonsense. People only care about poverty and local inequality. Nobody in Africa worries about how rich Bill Gates is. Global inequality is a fake issue created by fake intellectuals.
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That's actually awesome to know. I've lost an amazing name because of this - and wish I still had it.
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Hypothetical: If AWS was available at the time Google was just starting, would it have made sense for them to go with AWS?
I'm trying to follow your logic trail, but why should they support a product that undermines their own?
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> What do you use to build your parsers?

I use a text editor.

Using a coverage analyzer is adequate for evaluating the thoroughness of the tests.

Yes, it all is a trivially small amount of work compared to the rest of a language project (and even compared with the rest of the compiler). You'll spend much more time just trying to figure out how to convert floating point values to strings.
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One painful to learn issue with AWS is the limits of services, which some of them are not so obvious. Everything has a hard limit and unless you have the support plan, it can take you days and weeks to get those lifted. They are all handled by the respective departments and lifted (or rejected) one by one. Many times we've encountered a Security Group limit right before a production push or other similar things. Last, but not least, RDS and CloudFront are extremely painful to launch. I have many incidents where RDS was taking nearly 2 hours to launch - blank multi-AZ instance! CloudFront distributions take 30 minutes to complete. I hate those two taking so long as my CloudFormation templates pretty much take an excess of an hour due to the blocking RDS and CloudFront. Last, but not least - VPC is nice, I love it, but it takes time to get what's the difference between Network ACL and Security groups and especially - why the neck do you need to run NATs?! Why isn't this part of the service?! They provide some outdated "high" availability scripts, which are, in fact, buggy, and support only 2 AZs. Also, a CloudFront "flush" takes over 20 minutes - even for empty distributions! Also, you can't do a hot switch from on distribution to another as it also take 30 minutes to change a CNAME and you cannot have two distributions having the same CNAME (it's a weird edge case scenario, but anyway).
My memory is fuzzy but wasn't he winning for a while? I remember him kind of going kooky towards the end of the campaign and lost a lot of votes. Is that accurate?
TBH the only moderately safe way forward is open source firmware that is autoupdated via signed packages made by individuals with impeccable reputations and verified/audited by others with impeccable reputations.
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The founders of this site [1] are not anonymous, however, but a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a lecturer at the University of Melbourne.

Definitely a strange site containing quite crude ad hominem attacks on researchers [2].

The founders seem to be very outspoken about the benefits of genetically modified organisms, too, as Google searches indicate.

[1] http://academicsreview.org/about-academic-review/founders/
[2] http://academicsreview.org/reviewed-individuals/
What I recall hearing was that wherever the standard allowed a POSIX call to just set errno to indicate "sorry, we don't support this", MS's POSIX compatibility library did so, rendering it useless.
True! Because doing what you love to do and making others happy are ways of living life to the fullest.
Well, AWS explicitly doesn't charge for incoming bandwidth (vs. the "special" deal they got on the 15Mbps line item) which was the majority of their costs. It may have actually made sense, depending on their computing needs.
Welcome to the grand world of revolving doors and regulatory capture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#United_State...
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It didn't came directly from WoD, but WoD was the reason and the motivation for them to exist. When you're talking about catching burglars and car thieves, you don't really need this kind of powers. But when you have moral panic that enables "all means necessary" approach - "OMG, drugs, think of the children!" - and you have police that is battling this war for decades and losing it, and thus feels it must up their game because nothing they did so far is even remotely close to working - then you get a perfect conditions for this kinds of abuse. It's not about drugs specifically, it is the conditions that WoD creates in the society and law enforcement that create this mess.

And yes, some of the things alexeisadeski3 listed make no sense. But again I suspect he listed them mainly because of the abuses that were perpetrated - if FBI only ever wiretapped mobsters, I doubt anybody would be ever objecting to it. In theory, mobsters have the same rights so it doesn't matter, in practice it does - all these things are created to protect good guys from bad guys, and if instead we have bad guys fighting even worse guys, on the way trampling good guys, then good guys would end up saying "WTF? A plague on both their houses!" That's how I see what alexeisadeski3 wrote.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles come to mind. It's a British idea -- that police officers are citizens in uniform and police by consent of their fellow citizens.
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Just recalled another big annoyance! CloudFormation allows you to store JSON files in the user data, which is a bit similar to CloudInit, but... it turns your numbers into strings! So, imagine you need to put some JSON config file in there and the software expect an integer and craps out if there's a string value instead. I won't even bring how limited and behind the API CloudFormation is... Even their AWS CLI is behind and doesn't support major services like CloudFront. They even removed the nice landing page of the CLI took, which made it very obvious which services are NOT supported - I guess they just got embarrassed by having so many unsupported ones!
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"Pioneered"? Is there any advantage to random rewards, besides novelty?
I would say that this falls squarely into the consciousness of this forum. On this forum there is non-stop debate on the NSA surveillance and this, while not part of spying, demonstrates the over-reach of government law enforcement.
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Thank you for posting this, I honestly wasn't aware of this yet.
I do it both ways. Major features I pull out into a features folder, but the main skeleton of the app I keep in monolithic controller/directive/services files (or folders if necessary). It encourages me to keep my controllers skinny while providing a place for shared logic to live. It's a good compromise.
Nailed it - Angular is horrible IMO. Takes SOOO long to relearn everything then you find some of the inbuilt tags just don't work on mobile or responsively and are difficult to extend. The debugging is a joke too.
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The fact that 2 people were arrested on charges makes me think these people are playing dumb. Would they have been arrested if they knocked first. No expectation was given to way she was housing 2 criminals. Also, the whole "if they saw me with the gun they would of shot me" thing is bullshit. SWAT teams deal with armed criminals all the time and never shoot first (especially since it's a pistol and their wearing bulletproof everything).

I can't really comment on if the force they used was too great, as they didn't say what they thought they were up against. Assuming they were justified in their force and paid all damages, I do not see an issue with this.
That's already the law in many contexts - e.g., making a knowingly false statement to the Congress is a felony AFAIK. It's just not enforced because if it were, the Attorney General would have to put himself in jail, together with a good bunch of his peers and colleagues from other departments and agencies.
I guess I have some doubt that the American economic system in particular is a local optimum. Something radically different carries risks, yes. But the American system is a bit of an extreme in its encouragement to do anything that makes a profit, even within the local space of variation of vaguely market-based mixed economies. In Denmark, we have a bit more "managed" economy, perhaps even "socialist" in a certain weak sense (there used to be more of a socialist ethos, alas). The country is a bit less focused on VC returns, big paydays, and "exits", and frowns a bit more on people doing mercenary nonsense for profit. You get paid to go to university, there is extensive arts funding, an industrial/scientific policy, etc., among other things that try to redirect energies elsewhere. And that historical "approximate equality for all, big profits for none, put your energy into something worthwhile" approach to an economy has really not been disastrous, quite the opposite.
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The point is that the guy complaining about someone much bigger trampling on his app's good name actually did more or less the same thing to someone else.
You can use Google+ services to share and manage photos. Or even Dropbox.
I'm always surprised when C# developers think VS is the best thing ever.

Having used multiple languages and technologies, I'm not even slightly impressed by VS.
It's not so much that they're valuable, it's that it's too easy for assholes to insist that the poor girls doing the washing don't need / deserve them.
Definitely not. The google product is not search or gmail or any of that stuff. The google product is dirt cheap computing. Everything else google does is just an attempt to exploit that competitive advantage. Running it on anyone else's stuff would erase the advantage.

Even in the collocation facilities google was developing this skill for example by installing their infamous corkboard servers with the drives attached by Velcro.
Is there anywhere (other than the HN front page ;-)) that offers a comprehensive list of changes as Stripe develops?

For example, this page[1] on the Stripe site suggests that UK businesses can charge in three different currencies and convert where necessary to pay them out to a UK bank account. If that can also now be done using the same Stripe account just by putting in the desired currency value for each charges/plan, that could be huge for us, and I had no idea any progress had been made in this area.

(It's also not entirely clear from the page in question whether this is in fact the case, or whether UK businesses can use any of those currencies but still have to chose which single one we're going to work with for a given Stripe account. Quick note to the Stripe folks reading this thread: clarification on that page would be welcome.)

[1] https://support.stripe.com/questions/is-stripe-available-in-...
Unequivocally no, because it would have been too expensive, probably at least 100x the cost.

AWS is an order of magnitude more expensive than owning your own hardware, and Google was leveraging economies of scale to operate much cheaper than people that owned their own hardware (e.g. fault tolerant software vs. "enterprise grade" hardware)

People didn't realize it at the time, but "search" wasn't Google's only core competency. It was also "warehouse scale computing".

Of course Inktomi under Eric Brewer was another search company that realized that search is a perfect application for clusters of commodity x86 hardware, or networks of workstations (which AFAIK came from academic projects like http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/ )

(Don't outsource core functions: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html )
Brilliant point; it's not just that the docs are poor, inherently the framework is so obscure that you need to either be an Angular savant or constantly Googling only to find half the inbuilt functionality cannot be made responsive!
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Dead at 92. The NSA sure got him good. I'm not sure why it took them 40 years though. Probably to deflect suspicion.
Personal anecdote: riding as passenger in friend's vehicle, LEO pulls over, friend says 'oh, not again.' LEO advises '... license plate lamp out ...' Friend says, 'no it isn't,' exits vehicle, examines lamp -- in good working order. LEO says, 'must have made a mistake'. Friend says, 'no, I have a name similar to someone with an active warrant', cop says 'uh, huh'. Runs license. Free to go.

Lawful stop? No. Remedy? No.

The core issue is that the judiciary's (and your) presumption of reliable and trustworthy law enforcement behavior is not valid. This is a LEO 'company culture' problem which has always existed (formerly a racial problem, but now everyone's problem now that we're not doing that any more).

I'm not sure what the answer is, other than people need to learn what has happened in the ghetto for the last 200 years, then accept that they're next.
Wow, this looks really cool! I wouldn't have signed up for it just now if it hadn't been for your comment. Maybe you just need to advertise more.
Boarding first or near the first is much better when you end up with a seat near the back, since it means you can just walk all the way through a mostly empty plane, put your stuff in the empty overhead compartments, and get seated without having to make your way through a narrow corridor filled with other people fiddling with their stuff. If your seat is near the door, then the opposite of this advice holds: be one of the last to enter the plane, and you won't have to get jostled around by everyone else behind you walking by. I think if everyone queued up in this order (furthest from door enter first, closest to door enter last) it would make boarding a lot more efficient.
I would suggest that if a coin can be destroyed by a multipool it's probably not a viable coin and deserves to be destroyed.
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If you want a diagram you can embed in text and check into source control, take a look at GraphViz. http://www.graphviz.org/

You can even embed it in other things, like Wikis. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GraphViz
At a 'town hall' in Golden about 10 years ago, someone from Tom Tancredo's office indicated that was willing to accept lethal collateral damage in the regular course of law enforcement, including mistakes leading to application of the death penalty.

His reasoning was that people who find themselves faced with no-knock warrants, or falsely implicated in capital crimes, are probably guilty of something even if they are innocent of the matter of present concern.

I find that sentiment difficult to comprehend, but I imagine that citizens who only experience the 'services' of police tend to forget that people living a few blocks away may have a very different relationship with law enforcement.
I started running a business in Japan in 2002-2003. After around 2 years when the company had grown a lot, we started having all sorts of problems trying to manage quotes and invoices.

Unfortunately there was no shrink-wrapped solution that could fix our specific problem that supported both Japanese and English, so I ended up designing and having built some software that generated our invoices automatically.

I spent more and more time working on this, until I realised there was a lot of demand for this product, and a real market need.

I met my co-founder (through Hacker News actually), and we decided to build out a multi-tenant solution for the Japanese mass-market.
Relies on browser's random number generator to choose from word list. A browser's RNG is of dubious quality at best; you're not likely to really get 44 bits of entropy from it.
Given the timeframe I'd call it the video game equivalent of Jay Electronica's album Act II.
I didn't actually mean the American system specifically. (I'm in the UK, for what it's worth.) My own preferences are quite leftish and I would prefer the UK to be more like Denmark than it is. But, still, the US seems to be quite effective in producing new technological things, and maybe that's partly the entrepreneurial mercenary culture as well as the mere fact of being a rich country.

Anyway, the "system" I had in mind was the (not necessarily well defined) global one of which the US, the UK and Denmark are all parts.
You're right. It applies to regular jobs too. If you want to climb the corporate ladder, you'd better have spouse and kids. Also, based on my experience, having children give you a career boost, even though quality of work and motivation level take a dip. (understandably so in many cases)

These days, it's trendy do the "I am... x3" tagline on your blog. Many of us will write something along the line of, "I'm a father of 3. I'm a technologist. And I'm an avid surfer".
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I'm finding more long, well written, and significant comments in this submission than most others on HN. As a bonus, the top post isn't someone saying "Yeah that's great but here is my controversial opinion about this one minor part of your blog post" that derails the discussion. =)
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