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This is actually a great idea. The last company I worked for ran into several issues with load balancing servers. Two out of the three major releases I was around for were an unmitigated disasters.

The first was because of old load balancing servers getting bogged down with traffic. CIO got pissed, dropped three million on brand new spanking SSD drives and new "state-of-the-art" servers. Cue to the next release.

Pretty much the same issue. It was two lines in a program that was calling a file from Sharepoint - thousands of times a second to the server and bogged down all three of the load balancer servers with traffic within minutes of the release. Took the back-end developers a week and some help from Microsoft to fix the bug. I just sat back and giggled since the CIO spent two hours in a meeting with the whole IT department lecturing them on the importance of load testing immediately after the first releases failure.

Needless to say, they didn't do any load testing for the applications either time which contributed to the issue. Of course, it just goes to show even with the bestest, newest hardware, you can still bring your site/applications to its knees.
> The DOJ went after Apple over ebooks, but the reasoning for that was sort of the opposite of this situation.

Both collusion between players in a market (the publishers in the Apple case, Apple's role was as a deliberate collaborator in that illegal collusion) and unilateral action by one player with market power are prohibited by antitrust rules.

So, yes, while they are in a sense "opposite", both collusion of the Apple/Publishers sort and unilateral action by a dominant player (as in, e.g., the big Microsoft antitrust case, and arguable Amazon in this case) can violate antitrust law.
Well, the option is actually to turn in on. By default, Ghostery does not collect anything.
I think you could get PHP to connect using Websockets.
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You can kickstart a product like the Veronica Mars movie or Bee and Puppycat show. This looks like a product to me, a web serial. It just has ancillary aids for classroom presentation.
Not surprising to hear that about Book-It specifically. Book-It hasn't been shown to be effective, and may have made kids less likely to read[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Hut#Book_It.21
A while ago, I daydreamed the possibility that some government could, by way of international competitive advantage, establish by law a favorable tax situation for corporations that had a "Gov Class" stock. This would represent no less than 10% of the total ownership interest, and would be proxyless and nonvoting, but would have preferred treatment for dividends. Any distributions to Gov Class shareholder would be deductable from any taxes otherwise owed to it, but would not be refundable.

That would allow the government, or anyone in its federation or confederation or otherwise under it in the hierarchy, to invest in startup businesses in such a way that favors local development and limits tax jurisdiction shopping.

If Chicago bought 15% of a new local company as Gov Class shares, it retains 15% of the value of the company and 15% of the profits, at the expense of tax revenues, even if the company moves to San Francisco. In that case, taxes would ordinarily drop to nothing, but as a stockholder, the municipal government retains its investment. But perhaps the State of California buys out City of Chicago to sweeten the deal. Chicago now has that money back to reinvest, instead of pissing away tax dollars to develop companies that just leave when they get big enough.

Of course, that assumes governments could be responsible investors, which is a proposition very difficult to prove. As it is, straight subsidies seem like a far stupider and more bureaucratic way to just waste tax money and enrich business owners without producing the intended effects. If the government is enriching the business owners anyway, wouldn't it be more cost effective to actually be one of the owners?
> the Rust crew has decided that they need to aggressively attack Go

FWIW, most Rust people don't even see Rust and Go as competing, but everyone keeps comparing the two, and at some point, repeating a falsehood enough time makes it truth.
Edit: I see you can introduce a full overwrite of the classname.

Beyond that I'd say that Bootstrap includes a lot of what some might call "fluff," but take the CSS alone and I'm struggling to see the "less intrusive" part.
congrats... looks neat!
There are hundreds of these mini-computers and they always have poor support because the community is small and the makers just abandon the product. They're like Nokia phones back in the day, you get what you buy and that's it.

The Raspberry Pi has a great community around it that's doing all sorts of things. Multiple independent distros exist and it's a well understood system. This alone makes it superior for many uses than any of these alternatives.
When I'm attempting to create no footprint (which is impossible I know), making any footprint period is annoying. And knowing a tool that is implemented and advertised to prevent making said footprint is just making one somewhere else is misleading.
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> "Meyer also says that Ghostery users are presented with clear disclosures about how the company uses their data if they opt in."

Really? Here's the text you see by default:

>"Help support Ghostery by sending anonymous statistical data back to Ghostery HQ.

> When you enable Ghostrank™, Ghostery collects anonymous data about the trackers you've encountered and the sites on which they were placed. This data is about tracking elements and the webpages on which they are found, not you or your browsing habits.
>...See more"

From this explanation it's unclear what Ghostery is doing. It makes it sound like there's no data being collected from you, only from the sites. Even the "see more" text only hints at the data's use, and you have to click through from that to get the full story. The FAQ is very carefully worded in terms of what they do/don't say and how it's phrased to sound as non-threatening as possible, and you have to read between the lines:

https://www.ghostery.com/en/faq

It seems to me that Evidon is intentionally obscuring their use of the data, and users who opt in probably don't know what their data is being used for.
Here's a recent 14 minute interview she did. As ever, she speaks beautifully and is engaging to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1T9CEjjRzE

In the video she mentions having "already been paid for" (paraphrasing - don't have time to rewatch video at the moment). She uses a similar phrase in her Clinton poem and other interviews.

As I understand it, it's her concept that all the people who went before you to make your life better (moving countries to seek a better life, fighting slavery, fighting wars, getting the right to vote or whatever) paid a price long ago to make your life better. The only way to pay that debt back is to make life better for those yet to come.
Just in case you didn't notice: "June 17, 2013"
yes, We know he is doing that. But unable to do anything
Wow, this brings back some memories! I worked with Jim at Kodak on the later DCS cameras; I was part of the team that wrote the Photoshop plugin, Camera Manager and Photo Desk.

Most fun job I've ever had.
It is kind of amusing how similar this is to the network neutrality debate -- i.e. comcast's dispute with netflix affecting comcast/netflix customer content delivery -- yet with decidedly old-fashioned media.
I'm sure he will land on his feet quite well with his connections (and equity no doubt). Everybody goofs and the permanent and public nature of the internet can be very unforgiving. I wish him nothing but the best in the future with his health and career.
I agree that they should do this, but I don't think SAT scores would be a good measure.

And I don't think they could find a large enough sample of the population that wouldn't be biased in some other way.

Why? Because the only reason a smart and motivated person doesn't go to college is because they either have a great opportunity that would delay it (like a highly ranked chess player) or they some other outlying condition.

This would really be biased because it would show how highly talented people really don't need college at all.

I just don't see how you can get around this problem because it is so heavily ingrained in our culture that you have to go to college, so almost everyone that can, does.
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Congrats Guillermo and gang!
When custom TLDs were announced I was kinda skeptical about the whole thing, thought it was just an ICANN money-grab... and that it was a bad idea from a technical perspective because it broke the nice hierarchical organization we had before.

Now that quite a few of those TLDs are launched or ready to launch they really grew on me, and I feel like they allow for some really interesting looking names. Also, the hierarchy was never consistent or used properly in the first place, so it's good that we're honest about it and just make a "flat" organization.
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Agreed, for all i can see Xamarin is perfect, but as i can't really play around with it and as it's quite expensive if you just want to publish a hobby app, i can't see myself using it yet.
Here was the event page. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Data-Science/events/183290442/

No video up yet. I think it should be up soon. If I see it come up I will link it as a new post.
Even I dont see any harm in this. As developers it gives us few advantages
BGP has a timeout. If the peer goes down the route will be withdrawn automatically.
Or, if he's been doing a good job at it, make it official.
"This will meet its goal today which is good because I've had the theme song of the show in my head since reading this article."

I haven't been keeping close track of the exact times but I think it's $150,000 in the last hour or so (about $12K just in the time I took to write this!), and the word has probably only just begun to spread (HN is reasonably leading edge for this stuff). I think this is a serious candidate for biggest Kickstarter ever... this is exactly the sort of thing where Kickstarter allows you to convert your highly-diffuse "good reputation" into cash for a cause, and whereas some of the previous people who did that were still pretty niche video game creators who still raked in single-digit millions, well... how many people know Reading Rainbow as compared to "The guy who did Wasteland"? (No offense intended, Brian Fargo, sir. I bet you'd know what I mean.) This could easily go double-digit millions, IMHO. Especially if this hits as a human interest story on national news, which were I them I'd be looking to shoot for.

They better get those stretch goals they say they have ready for posting...

Edit: Kept track for ten minutes, from $286,533 to $330,317. That comes out to ~$4,000 per minute. At that rate it's 3 hours to one million, and I'd bet on acceleration rather than deceleration....

Further edit: Larger baseline of 48 minutes, about $2.5K/minute. Funding is four hours away at that rate, but I still bet there's another wave of people who haven't heard.
I'm not sure how TR got "GhostRank" enabled without the user seeing the prompt, because every time I've installed Ghostery, it's been an opt-in checkbox right at the beginning of setup.
Very poor usability on chrome osx. Clicking next takes 2-3 seconds before the next slide shows...
Have you guys dealt with the 3-year clustering bug? https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/issues/438

Would be pretty hesitant to use it until there's some sort of closure on this.
It's fun seeing what people are starting to build with them. Just stumbled on http://emoji.zone/ this morning.
If these small businesses could get a loan from a typical loan organization, Square wouldn't have a market

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-22/wall-street-finds-n...
Google says:

> Using client-side Maps API services (JavaScript and Flash) in the browser is rate limited per map session. That means that requests are distributed across all your users and scale as the number of users grows. Therefore, client-side APIs should be always preferred and used whenever possible.

(pretend the document wasn't written for like 2007) https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ar...

Their API limits are pretty amazing for free, if you're able to distribute the load across all your clients, which on iOS is the name of the game.
>>> "Amazon indicates that it considers books to be like any other consumer good. They are not."

Unfortunately, from everything I've seen of people's book buying habits, especially online, books are consumer goods.
Isn't that just what the article says they use it for? What part of your browsing habits to they sell?
Average Karma is based on a window of comments. Something like the last 60 IIRC, so if you have highly rated comments that are moving out of the window because you are posting new comments it will decrease your score. I also suspect it is weighted towards comments (perhaps even 0 weight on posts) as my own 60some point submission had almost no impact on my average.
His last point about windows that it seems like he just glosses over is the main reason I prefer tools like grunt/gulp.

It is very easy to get a cross-OS JS build working with grunt/gulp - not so sure using the `npm run` method.
Yeah. I have purchased, then given away both my PandaBoard ES and Intel Galileo.

because, compared to teh Pi, they just aren't well-integrated and the lack of support is a barrier to getting things done.

I used to think the Pi was pretty underpowered, but for most purposes, it's a practical device. I can even code with a full screen editor, and push code to an arduino (a bit slowly). I'll take a slow, but well supported system over a fast unsupported one any day.
This is a surprisingly in-depth article. Lots of detail about the sky-survey systems that spotted it, the quick-response slewing space telescope that swivels to look at discovered events, an untimely thunderstorm that interrupted alerting functions at just the wrong moment, and the Twitter messages in real-time of astronomers around the world. Bravo!
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Storing searches in a log to prevent spam sounds pretty disingenuous.

So, how about an unambiguous (as in, without weaselwords such as 'may') update to the privacy policy detailing exactly what google stores in a user profile and what it does not, and that what a user sees in the interface mirrors exactly what google sees in its systems minus some small delta for propagation across google's servers?

Because what you write above is technically quite possibly true as far as the viewpoint of a user is concerned but leaves open a ton of possibilities for clever/creative interpretation on what 'improve our services' means.
Please read the "Scalability" section on the blog post! This very demo is fully clustered.
Some interesting history here in a discussion of 3DFX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MghYhf-GhU
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The assumption is the risk is high enough that firms will not infringe.

You're assuming that current overly crippled evaluation model is good enough to show off your product -- I think the overwhelming consensus is that it is not.
Every month or so I have a need for something like this. I like that it's simple, has a long limit on length (45 mins is plenty), and uploads instantly with--I assume--no watermarks.

Looking forward to trying this out when the Windows version is released!
I checked the page about an hour ago, and it was at about $180k, I just went back now to watch the video and it's now $250k and actively rising as I watch the video! I'm going to say this will definitely destroy its goals. :)
I wonder if they'll ever get the vehicle below $200k with the 64-beam 360-degree FOV LIDAR.
Yeah, in retrospect, the publishers would have been much better controlling the DRM themselves.
This is a cool setup, but with the caveat that Allan stated, it forces you to think a little more about a layer that most systems people are less experienced in. The software approach is particularly useful because one could take the "healthcheck" setup and have it keep your alerting/dashboards in sync with reality (e.g. do healthcheck, fork: return exit code; POST {$hostname: 'ok'} to metric collector).

I also see that Shutterstock is actively hiring. For anyone looking, Shutterstock is a great place to work and employs some really brilliant people.

Disclaimer: Ex-Shutterstock employee
I've since switched to SockJS for all of my projects (after struggling with memory issues in Socket.io 0.9.*). Any compelling reasons to give Socket.io another try?
This is exactly how I've always wanted the web to work. i've spent some time with socket.io working through "nodejs in action" and I can't wait to use it for new apps.
Because once you add a case, sd card and wifi adapter to the r-pi the costs are about the same.
Thanks! I (think i) fixed the mailchimp issue.

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And while they're busy stopping that one enterprise from using their software without paying (which probably wouldn't have happened anyway) they're going to lose 100 potential customers. Not the best strategy.
I've never bought a book online from Amazon, interestingly enough. I HAVE bought books online from indigo.ca (more often than not I just go into the local store if it's a more popular book, as it is almost certainly in stock).

Certainly there are other online book vendors around? Maybe I'm living in another world ...
C#. Seriously Microsoft is not completely without merit - there's a lot to like about Entity Framework and C#.

It's fast, expressive, and the modern Mono+ASP.Net web-stack is open-source (older stuff is still proprietary).
I'm happily using the ZeroMQ bindings to serve an HTTP and WebSocket service w/ Mongrel2 servicing requests and Rust providing the handlers. Not a pure Rust stack, but it does a very admirable job serving responses for such a young language.

(I also love have fallen in love w/ how mongrel2 handles websockets. I find it fits very well w/ Rust's message passing between tasks.)

So it's not like writing a webservice in Rust is completely impossible. I will admit that "we aren't web yet," but I'm glad to see the community working on it.
> Discovery of Rust projects is super hard right now.

Good point! But I'm not sure of any other way to get projects noticed besides word of mouth and posting about them on sites like Hacker news and such. In fact that is where I first heard about rustful.

> didn't know about your framework

My framework is actually at https://github.com/jroweboy/oxidize/tree/incoming (master branch is sorely out of date) and I feel I still have a long way to go before I get that finished :)
Looks great. As a Chromebook user, I'm really looking forward to a Chrome app or browser extension that does video screencapture.
As stated in Rob's article, which I agree 100%, there is no point to 'improve' it, as it's something on the wrong track for me.
IMHO, it's a disaster.
>>I've flagged your post for your last sentence before your parentheses.

Which were that you made wild claims about stuff you obviously know nothing.

>>I actually haven't made a single claim about Perl

:-)

In the same comment you make explicit claims about what is part of "real" Perl and what is not:

>>My main point is that you could brand anything you want as Perl. It doesn't have to still be Perl to be called Perl.

(Quite fun, considering that programmable language extensions have been on CPAN (/in the Perl binary) for lots of years!)

Originally, I reacted to this claim about what is "real" Perl:

>>even though the modern language has [..] standard computer science constructs like OOP and Unicode etc that require coding against a different abstraction than Perl.

That is not [ignorant] claims about Perl?! (There are more examples.)

Again:

The Perl Unicode support is one of the best of the scripting languages -- and todays std OO (Moo[se]) is arguably better than the other scripting languages.

And OO has been in Perl 5 since the start (1990s).

TL;DR: 1. TRIVIALLY bad claims. 2. Long messages without touching the bad claims. 3. "I never made any claims at all".
It was unviewable due to the slowness. Just linking to the PDF on a static webserver somewhere would have been far superior.
I had more at that age, but now have less. I probably would have been better off marrying a startup instead of a spouse. Either one alone can drain away all the time and money you have, and then some, but only one is likely to make your bank account any larger later on.

Now they say that money can't buy happiness, but not having enough of it is a great way to get miserable. Think about that before you choose.
The point is, you can’t really substitute one book for a similar one in quite the same way you can substitute for a roll of toilet paper or a dinner plate or an umbrella or whatever.
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After 3 projects in a row on Bootstrap I started using Pure about a month ago, and like the clean, un-opinionated approach. It's been especially useful for learning more about SASS and responsive layout without having to override a bunch of Bootstrap's defaults.
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A consumption tax is a wealth tax.

Imagine I make $100 in two possible worlds:

In one, you tax my income at 10%, leaving me with $90. I save this remainder for one year, earning 8% interest, and end up with $97.20 to spend.

In the other, you don't tax my income at all. I save my entire income, $100, for one year, earning 8% interest, and end up with $108 to spend. However, there is a consumption tax of 10%. This means that I can only buy $97.20 worth of stuff.

The objection here might be: a consumption tax might have an equal effect on the spending power of the rich, but it means that we might never gather any taxes from huge funds that are never completely consumed. Here's the problem with that logic: it is fundamentally impossible to tax someone on money they do not intend to spend. For example, I could take $1,000 from Bill Gates, but if he didn't intend to spend that money (or the interest on it), the incidence of the tax can not actually fall on Bill Gates, because it does not affect his life in any way. It must fall on someone else--for example, the business he would have invested in or the charity he would have given to.

On the other hand, if Bill was planning to spend that money (or its interest), then I can rest assured that my consumption tax will collect my 10%.
what a nice coincidence to meet again, here! Thanks buddy.
"... the only reason a smart and motivated person doesn't go to college ..."

You seem to think being smart and motivated is binary, which of course they aren't. They are continuous. You compare people who are barely smart enough and barely motivated enough to go to college, against people who are barely not smart enough and barely not motivated enough to go to college, to reduce bias.

On the other hand, this does raise an interesting issue of inhomogeneous return to education. It is possible (even probable) that return to education is not same for groups with different abilities. It may be the case going to college is a very good deal if you are not very smart, but not a good deal if you are very smart. I think economists are actively researching this area.
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The underlying NOTIFY_SOCKET implementation is defined as a supported interface (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceSt...), and is documented (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.ht..., see the Notes section).
Fully agree here