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Anonymous channels existed in IRC servers around the globe, on million-user-plus networks and tiny networks alike. It's chilling to think whole networks of people completely unrelated to Anonymous could get taken down just because a few morons were using a channel to organize attacks.

(Also, am I missing something, or did they completely miss an opportunity to collect intel by taking them offline and making them move to more private channels?)
Product development process flaws, from a designers perspective.
It seems like the author was influenced by Scott Adams, he talks about a lot of this stuff in his book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big". If this article intrigued you, I recommend the book. It's a very down to earth and practical look at how to be successful.
>> I guess we're really talking about two different arguments

Right, and while I completely agree with your logical reason, my fear is that the emotional one is more prevalent and thus, the only one that will really determine future behavior.

I haven't considered "market segmentation" as a purpose of DRM - that's certainly interesting. I think the concept of market segmentation is unfair and manipulative, so I think this lends more weight to the commenter who suggested they feel a moral obligation to violate what copyright has become. Personally, I still prefer to pay for what I'm getting, and I just avoid products from companies who make that more difficult then it needs to be. But I see the viewpoint better now.
When the hell is Adobe going to include a way to manually check for updates and then automatically install the update within their control panel applet?
> - "Apple Computers will be known from now on as iPod Ltd"

"It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977, and was renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007 to reflect its shifted focus towards consumer electronics."

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.
That may be the headline but there's a lot more nuance. One of the stronger points made is that no Indian-born Nobel laureate is an Indian citizen.
Yikes! That's a horrible thing for a library to do to its users. This definitely should be changed in the library.

I noticed that no such Issue exists, so I opened one. https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/2078
I feel the opposite way. I love my mother because she's objectively ranks as nearly the best mother I could have had, and I love my siblings and aunts, grandparents and great-grandparents because they are objectively the best looking, most intelligent, and most dependable people I could have had in my life. It's the same way I feel about my friends, who frequently remind me that I'm one of the luckiest people in the world.

I've see what other people have to work with, and there have been many exceptions amongst my own family and friends, but as individuals, they are simply better than most other people.

I couldn't care less about blood or soil.
If that's 100% of the people trying, then it should certainly strike fear in the hearts of those who might try. If it's 0.000001% of the people trying, then it shouldn't phase anyone. I have no idea what the statistics are, though given that there are only 300 million Americans we can put some extremely loose bounds on it (won't be less than one in 200 thousand, about, if my napkin tells the truth). I don't think those bounds are enough to do anything useful, though.
I agree on all this :)
I want to express my gratitude for your thoughtful and more effective approach. The aha! nature of this article and the sensationalistic title lead me to believe that it's a knee jerk reaction.
Salaries are higher in SV, but you'll have more disposable income in Nashville, and probably a more comfortable home. Also, the local politics and culture are different. As much as it may surprise the people who do like it, some people don't like the way California operates.
Use of peep is based on a chain of trust. How do you trust your source code in the first place? That's how you trust your requirements file.

As for how you arrange that trust, comparison of git hashes with a test-passing build on your CI server is one candidate. Your CI server fetches the code over HTTPS, which can be trusted to the degree you trust your key management and the network between your CI and the repo. If you don't trust certificate authorities, pin your certs. You might also factor in a comparison with a hash from a developer's machine, submitted separately to the CI server, perhaps even signed with a personal key.

If git hashes are part of your chain of trust, don't forget to have your deployment script run "git fsck" after checkout—git doesn't verify hashes on checkout by default. You can demonstrate this to yourself by editing the contents of one of the files in .git and then checking it out.
I wrote a comment about a paper I read that ditched tcp and had the application handle it to get some performance gains earlier, so you might want to page up to see it if you haven't already (Network Specialization for Performance).

How is it that you intend to do an OS startup? That's a pretty tough nut to crack.
True. But many become parents through bad decisions. Should we celebrate those decisions?
Her talent (accident of birth) and choice / opportunity to practice that talent for an exceptionally long time (part worthy of pride, part privilege)
The most amazing thing about this essay is that even the smartest people amongst us (Paul Graham) can be bigoted and see things as black and white when they are grey.

Microsoft has done some well documented evil things but imagine if IBM had won the OS wars? Talk about locked down and monopolistic! And has the ascendance of Apple and Google been uniformly good? I think not - we are in less control over our software and our data than when Microsoft was in charge.

It kinda seems crazy stupid to not invite a company that makes $24B in income a year to your demo day. But then again, Microsoft has never been a company that is bamboozled by Nest Labs-style startup overvaluation bullshit, and maybe you knew that.
If what?? in the Racket's bytecode
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It's pretty safe to assume that an incredibly busy wireless network in Sochi (or really anywhere) is about as safe as the Black Hat conference wifi.
Sure. But that assumes you don't have space to go. If SF is too crowded, people will move out until it's not that much.

Calling this "dying" is a little too much in my opinion.
The change is the opposite of what you're implying, it adds the option to turn it off. Before this commit it was on by default. My guess is, when the option was added, it defaulted to validate=True to maintain backward compatibility.
What I meant was users have created an extensive library of re-usable chart types. :)
You're pretending that if something good happens after a government action it was all planned

I'll admit that I'm walking a dangerous line with the "no true Scotsman" fallacy. I stand by my judgment of the examples cited, but agree there is some room for debate.

I think the NASA example fails not because I'm being too narrow, but because the initial stated objectives were so fuzzy and broad. More importantly, these stated objectives were probably just secondary, a rationalization to enable the true objective - the nationalistic desire to win the "space race" against the Soviets. JFK, who initially got the whole ball rolling, actually wanted nothing to do with space exploration. His backing of it was really just a political ploy. (of course, in pointing this out, I'm making your point to a certain degree: JFK set out to score political points, and in the end he wound up bringing us velcro and ICBMs - yes, I'm being snarky there)

That said, you've also given me the best reply to my question: ARPAnet. While it wasn't large at the time, it was certainly complex (beyond my ability to understand all of its technology, anyway). And since it was developed for defense purposes, the end positive consequences are in a whole different ballpark than what was originally planned.

Anyway, what really drives my questioning here is a Megan McArdle post from yesterday [1] about a political science class at John Hopkins about policy failures. She quotes the prof. as talking about opening minds to critical thinking about the endless ways in which the best-laid plans can go awry.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/learning-from-iraq-...
Awesome guide! I agree with most points. Just a minor point is that rule number one of money is actually never use your own. The rule in the book should be more like the rule number one of managing resources of all kinds, as was also explained to skill. Put your skill into things that grow your skill. Put your time into things that get your more time. And sometimes it also means put your engergy to grow your skills, etc.
Did you do something to earn your nationality?

No, but we all contribute to our nation (taxes, labor, voting) so when our nation achieves something great, we share a small part of that success.

Think of a soccer team. Everybody on the team celebrates and feels proud when #23 scores a goal, even though they didn't score the goal themselves. They share in #23's success.
Silicon Valley economy back at dot-com era highs
Disagreements with Cogent? Well, I never....
> (Verizon and Comcast hijack domain misspellings to redirect to their search pages)

What?! Thought only OpenDNS (and similar services) did that bullshit, and in their case I can understand. In the case of an ISP... you're paying them already!
I don't understand: If under total load, with every customer pulling the maximum possible bandwidth simultaneously, Comcast could give you 250Kbps, you want them to sell a product that only gives you 250Kbps all the time just so their advertising will be accurate?

Like everything else, there's fine print: 20Mbps or whatever is described as a maximum speed, and many people actually see burst speeds that high. But as it would be unreasonable to be upset you can't get 20Mbps to Nigeria, it's also somewhat unreasonable to be completely upset at Comcast that you can't get 20Mbps to Netflix if Netflix is paying for cheap ISPs that won't fairly peer. I'm not sufficiently informed to take sides in that dispute, but I can easily imagine that Cogent (for example) is dumping way more traffic into Comcast than Comcast is dumping into it, and trying to get away without paying for that disparity.
The article's criticism of IIT and IIM (elite Indian universities) could be made of the elite U.S. schools too:

"The short point: our system is designed to keep people out, not get them in. The true value of an IIT or IIM is not the intellectual capital they produce, but their filtering expertise – which keeps all but the superlisters out of these institutions. When the people entering the institution are the best among the best, they will shine no matter what the quality of faculty or the curriculum."
" Really sucks sometimes, too, because I hear about many similar "new" problems on here that we were dealing with years ago."

Humanity is so pathetically wasteful :-/
We're seing up to 80% packet loss on our routes to Cogent (Verizon FiOS customers).
> Technologies that try to isolate the coder from the machine by creating a funnelled dumbed-down common interface are inherently flawed because the HW evolves faster than the software.

By that count, web apps would die even faster?
It's not obvious the article is supposed to be "fun?"

Man, I don't want to get old.
"One argument for better healthcare is people end up less sick."

Indeed. Unfortunately, it is entirely unproven that Obamacare, which focuses on health insurance, is going to result in better health care.

For reasons we can go into if you want, Obamacare compliant polices tend to have extremely narrow networks of doctors and hospitals. E.g. look at all the fuss the Seattle Children's Hospital is raising, and there's a lot of individual cases where people are losing their doctors who've been treating their conditions for a long time, this is just the latest report to pop up: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-obamacare-patients-201...

There's a reason Reagan got a lot of mileage with his joke "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
> The second we get over this concept, the world will be a better place.

Thus paving the way for our multinational corporate overlords to consolidate control. Personally I am very scared for the type of global corruption that will be possible without national boundaries.
You are seriously saying somehow that languages which abstract away hardware details are bad?

"Assembly? Bad! you should know the instructions op codes."

"C? Bad! you should know assembly! What are you trying to do? Write an operating system that is portable beyond the PDP architecture?"

"Java? Bad! You should manage your own memory! And the STL should be good enough for anyone."

Abstraction, by reducing complexity or making assumptions, allows developers to work faster or do more. Does this have negative side effects? Sure (see Joel's leaky abstractions article), but the benefits out weight the costs by several orders of magnitude. My evidence? The entire computer industry for the last 74 years.
You don't have to love your mother, if she doesn't love you. But you should still feel you owe her for your own existence. It's not that she (or country) can't do any wrongs, it's that whatever wrong they do, it has to be weighted against this ultimate gift, which few wrongs can outweigh. But, they certainly can. We are talking about outliers, though, the territory where all analogies break down :)
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No crisis. Business has never been better. The reasons are all honest and all clearly spelled out at http://37signals.com. We just don't want to hire a bunch more people and we don't want to have to spread ourselves too thin. Focus is where it's at and we want to regain it.
>Why are you comparing gaming to IT/mobile? It should be compared to other entertainment industries.

Because we're discussing a company, Microsoft, that has most of its business and revenues in the IT/mobile space and a small part of it in gaming. And I want to see if the gaming market is as large and important as the main market the company is involved in.

>Please explain what you mean..

I mean that even if Microsoft was the most succesful and relevant gaming company in the world, it would still not mean its relevant in the IT space.

And MS's relevance in the IT space (compared to the nineties) is what Paul Graham's post we're discussing is all about.
The USA is not a democracy. Stop thinking it is.

Switzerland is a democracy. India is a democracy. The USA is a representative Republic. As such, it is liable to a man-in-the-middle attack - as we have seen, time and again.
"and they are arguably much more diversified than any other the other big players"

"Diversified"...that's the keyword here and I guess the key to their continued success at putting money in the bank.
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The number of people have nothing to do with it. We won't kill it off because we made a commitment not to. We're keeping our word. Simple as that.
Detroit isn't going anywhere. The residential community may be on the decline, but the business community is thriving and private interests are investing in the infrastructure themselves. The business community doesn't need to rely on the city for infrastructure when there is plenty of capital available to invest directly versus waiting on the corrupt bureaucracy.
I don't think they are dead. Just look at design. WP7 brought forward the flat style. First everybody laughed at it. Now it's the new hip. iOS got converted into flat. Lots of websites are being redesigned for flat. How many examples of flat design would there be if MS didn't have any mindshare?
Still relevant? You've got to be kidding me. Sure node is the new cool thing, but Django is going to "relevant" for years to come. Even just looking at job openings in very tech forward places like SF the Django jobs out weigh node jobs 5 to 1.

Keep in mind not everything needs to be that "real time" and it is also a horrible business decision to rewrite your core apps in the latest framework without reason.
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The net neutrality issue is a tragedy of the commons. Say you have a common green area and everyone shares it. People come and picnic and everything's great until a family of giants moves into town and sits on the entire green.

Netflix is like that family of giants.

The solution is to build a bigger green, but how is that going to be funded. Customers don't want to pay for it and feel they're already being overcharged. Netflix doesn't want to pay for it just because they are streaming giant files. Such costs are not built into their ability to make profits.

It's a common tragedy.
> Because just giving everybody a connection which is twice as fast doesn't mean everybody is going to immediately double their usage.

My understanding is that peak load is the issue, not total data transferred in a month. If Netflix downloads/buffers video content as fast as it can, and people mostly use Netflix at the same time of day, then giving them more bandwidth is a potentially big problem
Haha, yes. Perhaps I am an accident. I do celebrate it though :)
Mind-bendingly huge like the mayor forcibly removing the elected city officials and installing emergency city managers to cut down on the corruption and bureaucracy? Mind-bendingly huge like the largest US city to ever successfully declare bankruptcy ($18.5 billion in debt)?

Because that's what happened. Now we wait to see if it works.
Exactly. Perl 5 exists since 1994, so it's probably Perl 5 code there which needs probably little to no changes to run even today on the latest 5.x interpreter. I don't understand what were the issues that 72deluxe faced.
This is one of the reasons I test all the sites I work on with links - I want to get a clue as to how it will work for someone blind. If were using a javascript menuing system we add a bottom nav that has discrete links for every page on the website.
Anything is possible with software - especially horrible complexity. Rolling more things into something isn't the way forward. We're committed to getting simpler over time, not harder. Not more stuff, but the right stuff.
There is a reason the internet was designed with end to end connectivity in mind. If my ISP randomly start filtering packets, like AWS traffic or incoming TCP SYN packets, net neutrality is broken and I will break the contract with that ISP right away. Contract or not, they won't get another penny.

It's a different matter if I consume 5TB of data per month and it's costing them a lot of money on bandwidth to upstream providers. But filtering servers altogether is plain old evil. It doesn't cost them anything and they don't have to decide what's right for me.
What a content-less piece of link-bait fluff!

To me, the article boils down to..

1. Find a large system (India)

2. Find "issues" within the system (Brain drain in a densely populated country with limited resources, caste system, not being able to compete with first world countries in cutting edge research/capitalistic economy, people's deeply routed perspective etc.), all of which are non-trivial to fix.

Such non-trivial will exist in any "real" (not theoretical) large system. Wishing them away magically is kidding oneself.

3. Rant about them.

4. Do not provide either insights on why the issues exists OR the way forward to tackle them.

Pretty mediocre article, IMHO, which does what arm-chair critiques do best — criticism.
One can use Oracle "external tables" with delimited files; they are only so flexible, though, and you want to think hard about security.
> I'm born blind and build software and do some accessibility consulting for a living.

I have little to add here beyond the fact that this is one of the coolest comments I've seen in a long time. :) Whilst I've long known theoretically about the use of screenreaders and such technology, I've never had the chance to see someone using it in action.

It's good to see that it works and is at least somewhat practical.
Think you're over egging the pudding there. Was simply responding to the question "Ireland won anything lately?"
> Doctors don't have a use for statistics in their daily professional lives

I really think that depends on what they are doing. My girlfriend is a neurologist investigating new treatments from MS. She uses statistics packages daily. Her colleague has gone of to London for a year to study a statistics masters. Sure your average GP probably doesn't have much need for stats, but there are a lot of fields within medicine.
Actually, yes. Everybody makes mistakes, but this one is so common that it has started to bother me. It immediately distracted me from the article and therefore his message.
First, that was said "in other comments" by people other than me. I, for one, think bottom line is part of what matters (just not the most important metric).

Second, no I say Xbox does not matter because not only it produces only marginal income, it belongs to a marginal industry itself.
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FWIW, I meet people all the time who don't know "37signals". They're in the tech world too.

But when I mention Basecamp, they say "Oh Basecamp!! Of course! We love Basecamp!"

World-wide, Basecamp is much bigger brand than 37signals.
Sorry, I couldn't find the alternative in your approach. Please reformulate for me what approach to life do you actually suggest. I'm really interested to see another point of view. My last years were mainly spent from switching to just living life to the style mentioned in the article and just everything feels so much better since. I am happy to go to work in the morning. I am happy to write my thesis. I am sometimes even happy to be critized by other people. And my social life also increased drastically since, containing more meaningful relationships to other people on all levels. And heck, I'm even doing sport because I know it ups my motivation, health and happiness.

I was used to being one of the least positive people about life prospects, now at least in my circles I am one of the most positive people and others are actually spending time with me just to grab some of the positive energy.

If you have a life style to offer that makes me and the people around me even more happy I would be really happy to learn more about it!
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British singer/songwriter George Pelham based his original song for the final of the UK's toughest singing competition, Open Mic UK, on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. The nineteen year old even added a rap to his performance on the 18th January, 2014.
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No it's not, those two things are completely independent. I know this because I was a web designer at the time and I remember. CSS 1.0 was largely pushed forward by Internet Explorer which I believe had cursory support in v3 and support dwarfing what Netscape was feebly able to role out in v4 browsers.
Thank you. I'm glad to see that hn still knows what exponential growth is. It really bugs me when people abuse the term.
I don't mean to sound flippant but is there any city of greater than, let's say, 100,000 people that's located in the United States that people would not say has "a booming tech culture?" Numerous posts on HN talk up, in alphabetical order: Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit (yes, really), Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, Seattle, and I'm sure I missed a few.

Simply put, I'd like to know the inverse, if nothing but sheer inquisitiveness: Let's say you either hate technology startups and want nothing to do with them, or you love them and want to make the biggest career mistake ever. What city do you choose?
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And Newton believed in alchemy. Doesn't mean we should disregard his entire body of work.