skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not understanding how this works at all. Your router/switch doesn't "combine" the vips.

Ignore the running of bgpd on the webserver - that's really an extremely specific use-case that is not useful for most folks.

However, imagine your scenario where you have two routers, two switches, and two load balancers configured in failover (LVS per your example) - with webservers behind that stack.

Now you need more than a single load balancer worth of capacity? How do you scale it?

Generally, you're pretty much stuck doing DNS RR to load balance across VIPs, and you add at least one VIP per load balancer you have. Need to do maintenance? Good luck not directing traffic to the load balancer you want to take out of service :) You can wait 3 days for all the DNS caches in the world to purge, or you're going to be killing sessions when you fail that VIP over.

Now consider instead running BGPd vs. DNS RR.

You have a single VIP, and as many load balancers as you like. I enjoy HAProxy, so I'll use it here.

haproxy01 1.1.1.1
haproxy02 1.1.1.2
haproxy03 1.1.1.3

All these machines advertise the VIP to the switch they are connected to. You set up path cost on your network so all these VIPs share an equal cost at your routers, and your router will ECMP to each. Doesn't matter what switch or rack your HAProxy box is connected to in your network (I suggest paying attention for traffic management reasons) - as long as it can speak BGP to the switch/router, the traffic flows.

Need to do maint? Kill bgpd on one of the HAProxy boxes. Current sessions stay up, you go get a coffee, and when you come back you have an empty session table and are free to do whatever you like to the machine. Turn it back on by starting up bgpd, and watch your traffic instantly rebalance.

You are completely correct that if you don't need more than one (in a pair for HA) load balancer worth of capacity, this solution is likely overkill. But once you need to start scaling, you're quickly going to learn that it will either be prohibitively expensive, or come with lots of downsides. There pretty much are no downsides to this architecture, other than needing someone with a small amount of clue to operate it.
It really feels like Amazon is the bad guy in this situation though. They've demanded terms from Hachette, then lashed out by slowing, then ceasing entirely, sales of Hachette's books. That doesn't seem like a mature way of dealing with things (at least, not without a little more communication rather than just cutting them off unannounced).

Hachette's response makes sense. 'We didn't agree to the terms you tried to dictate to us, and now you're saying it's half our fault that these authors lost revenues as a result of your retaliation?'
Hello,

Ruby should be your language of choice for anything 'web', among the ones you know. Might be helpful in the future for other projects as well.

As most people said, Sinatra (+HAML or LESS), is an excellent framework to build up a simple website really fast.

However, I'd say go a step 'up' and use octopress[1]. It's a Jekyll-based blogging platform. You can set it up on Github, to avoid hosting. If you're not expecting extremely high traffic Github is fine for static content and JS. It's flexible enough to do whatever you really wanna do and there's plenty of documentation online.

You can find many of themes and howto's on how to use 'Liquid' in order to roll your own or modify one of the current themes. It shouldn't take more than 2 days to have something acceptable, a little longer if you plan to design a theme from ground-up.

Good luck :-)

[1] http://octopress.org/
Very impressive and helpful data/charts in the KPCB report. That being said, there is a saying on Wall St that if an economist (or anyone) could predict future, she wouldn't need any employment. One usually gets wiser as she ages, but I don't think predicting future is easier than 15 years ago.
I don’t think anyone is arguing Apple bought them for the revenue. Apple is making enough money, they really don’t need this tiny revenue stream.

However, if they really only want part of Beats, they still have to buy the whole company, revenue and all. They have to pay for it.

This is less of a problem than it seems, though. One plausible scenario is that Apple just keeps the hardware part of Beats separate and making money, while getting all the rest of the people working for Beats on board.

This is a large acquisition, but it’s not super huge and mostly so big because Beats successfully makes and sells hardware. If they keep that part separate and independent of Apple in the future this might actually turn out to be a tiny acquisition, more in line with Apple’s past music acquisitions. Think Lala: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lala_(website)
Interestingly enough, they also changed the TrueCrypt license.

-TrueCrypt License Version 3.0
+TrueCrypt License Version 3.1

This lead me to think about the legal implications of changing a software license using stolen signing keys, when signing keys are all that you have to verify that the software is official (such is the case with TrueCrypt and its anonymous authors). If the license is changed, and the package is signed with the same signing keys, can I legally use the new license in derivative software?

The new license removes the following restrictions regarding attribution:

- c. Phrase "Based on TrueCrypt, freely available at
- http://www.truecrypt.org/" must be displayed by Your Product
- (if technically feasible) and contained in its
- documentation. Alternatively, if This Product or its portion
- You included in Your Product constitutes only a minor
- portion of Your Product, phrase "Portions of this product
- are based in part on TrueCrypt, freely available at
- http://www.truecrypt.org/" may be displayed instead. In each
- of the cases mentioned above in this paragraph,
- "http://www.truecrypt.org/" must be a hyperlink (if
- technically feasible) pointing to http://www.truecrypt.org/
- and You may freely choose the location within the user
- interface (if there is any) of Your Product (e.g., an
- "About" window, etc.) and the way in which Your Product will
- display the respective phrase.
This article seems to appeal to the emotions of the reader. It's nice to hear that Harvard grads aren't all they're cracked up to me... but I'd like more examples/proof
If this was the very stupidest thing Apple has ever done--a massive colossal waste of money that needed to be written off--they would still have $183+ billion cash on hand that they could cry into.
year over year comparison
Mindblowing Zach King work
It seems a bit absurd to pay $3 Billion for an acquihire/component deal, but Apple has $145 Billion in the bank and just bought the most popular non-Apple name in music.
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It might be hard for someone with an autism-spectrum order to understand, but normals really love music. It's part of being a human being.

So yes, Music is extremely important. For anyone.
#5 is likely the FT independent analysis here, which found math errors, cherry-picking of data (to meet manufactured-in-advance conclusions), etc.: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1f343ca-e281-11e3-89fd-00144feabd...

Though over at MR, they noted there "were already several major problems" with Piketty even before the FT debunking, including that if you adjust for the housing bubble a few years ago, his results disappear:
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2014/05/wha...
Also comprehensive damages - hail, tornado, vandalism, or vehicular burglary.
Aramis (personal rapid transit)
it's not worth that price
There are people in this world that do not trust big corporations with their data. Truecrypt is (was ?) a welcome alternative to Bitlocker and Filevault.
If the medium is the message, Andreessen can't quite get his thoughts together without the help of others.
For me it's the curated playlists that make it great. IMO opinion they do a fantastic job. I've been getting more and more into Neil Young recently. I just opened Beats and they are showing me a Neil Young album I might like on the main page. I've also started listening to Albert King and they have an 'Intro to Albert King' playlist there too. It's a bit hit and miss but about 75% accurate. When I use Spotify I typically have to think of something I'd like to hear. I find their discovery page awful. When I open Beats I have an album or playlist that I like selected in a few seconds. It seems to be pretty good at learning my tastes and I'm also pretty happy that it's not just recommending similar stuff but a broad enough range of music that I'm expanding my horizons a bit.
"Unique" is one way of putting it. Another is "messy."

If they wanted the headphones or the talent or the streaming service, they could have bought any one individually, or purchased a number of competing services that are better in each of those spaces.

The fact that everyone is so confounded by this acquisition makes me think that Apple purchased something non-public.
Any idea why the Cubie* boards are listed as not open on this page?
https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware
Why didn't Apple just buy MOG when it was a separate thing? Or, why not just buy rdio now?

This is more than an acquihire or however you want to spin it. I'm sure right now Beats headphones are printing money and the people at beats are good at marketing youth culture.

Apple needs the ability to sell expensive tech to teens to be cool. Beats manages to sell overpriced headphones to teenagers all the time in huge numbers, even if it doesn't make financial sense. It's like designer jeans or Oakley sunglasses or... the iPod.
To make a basic income work you need to change what you are taxing. If the premise is that work is no longer necessary, it no longer makes sense to have a tax system that taxes primarily labor income (both as "income tax" and then again to provide benefits in the form of "payroll tax") most heavily and gives preferential lower rates (as "income tax", and excludes entirely from taxation to support major benefit programs) to capital income. You have to shift your revenue base to focus on taxes on capital income as the primary source of revenue (especially if, in addition to funding basic income, you also want to slow the transition away from employment-as-a-norm -- heavily taxing employment encourages that transition by making employing people expensive for what the employee receives.)

The current tax system is based on the premise of employment-as-a-near-universal norm as much as any other feature of society is.
In the 2013 stats there isn't one area that has a large concentration. It looks like 27% finance, 22% consulting, 18% tech, and nothing else with more than a 10% share. So finance is still hot but under their 30% waterline.
For those of us not familiar with Beats, what is so special about the music service compared to (for argument sake) Spotify?
So... the best course is likely a bit of patience. However, is there any way to establish some trustworthy mirrors of 7.1a for those who need it while this is still in the course of blowing over?

(I'm just bringing up some new machines, myself -- I'll have to hunt a bit for local copies from the last time I downloaded (legitimate copies of) the 7.1a version.)

--

P.S. For two recognizable names/sites (to me, at least) near the top of a Google search, FileHippo and CNET are hosting Windows .exe intallers for 7.1a . No signature files, though. And with CNET (download.com), as I seem to recall and last I heard, they practice wrapping the actual product installers inside their own crapware installer.
Dr. Dre's version was a lot more entraining than this release, but this is definitely more informative.
Exactly! You will probably enjoy learning a few things by building a simple site from scratch and you will have a better feel for selecting any frameworks after. I would recommend getting this beautiful book by Jon Duckett that covers both the design and development basics for a website: http://www.amazon.com/HTML-CSS-Design-Build-Websites/dp/1118...
You really, truly think Jobs didn't know where his company was going to go in the next 5 or 10 years? Seriously?
>I'm willing to bet anything this is going to be seen as where Apple's golden age began to wane.

I would argue that they've already been left behind on the music front. iPods are dead, no one wants to buy tracks on iTunes for $1.29, iTunes Radio was too little, too late. A lot of Apple fans are proudly using Spotify or other services on their iPhones. Heck, even the musicians associated with Apple are getting uncool.

So, at least a Beats acquisition is something.
Music is probably one of the top 3 things people do on their Apple devices so it's important for Apple to control that experience in some way. If people are leaving behind purchasing in favour of streaming they have to download an app on their new iOS device before they can listen to music. Apple would rather the music experience be built-in.
How's the autism spectrum treating you?

"CDS ARE DIGITAL MUSIC!!!"
Some alternative input systems can be useful for this type of maneuver, such as a gamepad or smartphone via app. Perhaps this is done from inside the vehicle, but in the case of attaching a trailer, this could be done from outside the rear of the vehicle to guide it precisely.
As someone stuck with CScope on Linux, I really really wish there were better alternatives for the wider world. (required features: works with C, query from terminal as well as from IDE (inc. Vim/Emacs), possibility to jump to func/type definition as well as callers/users)

Codesearch is probably the largest reason I am jealous of my friends at Google.
I am elated. Rubymotion is awesome. It has the ease of PhoneGap with the speed of native Obj-C.
The interesting thing about this is how everyone is going on about there being no cross-platform alternative. Really, is Truecrypt the only available option? Because that's a pretty sad state of affairs then; there needs to be only one unnoticed bug and pretty much all full disk encryption is broken. Unless you want to chain your data to Microsoft, that is.
Surely this could be said about many other high-end fashion type brands. Expensive Nike trainers aren't worth what they sell for, most designer handbags are worth a fraction of what they sell for. These items also don't have any real technical merit to justify the price.
Not true; it's perfectly reasonable to think of an OS which executes programs downloaded from a remote system which never touch a file.
Did the manager reply, "Does not compute." to the last question?
Then again, what did we see before the iPhone launch? Not much more than incremental improvements to Macs and iPods.

We'll see next week what they'll have to announce.
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that most youth weren't begging their parents for $300 headphones before Beats came along.
Sure, but it seems pretty irrational to suddenly say 'Hey guys, we've been working on this code without telling anyone, so this community project that people have been working on for months should be abandoned'.

They could have been integrating the changes in their code as they went, and then launched with 'Hey, we have this cool new project, including the optimization work that people have been doing'. Instead, they kept their work secret, knowing that their work was incompatible with another large refactor that people were contributing to, and then said 'hey, abandon all the work you were doing because who cares'.
More detailed discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812677
I think you may be discounting non-linearities in the progress of automation due to machine learning and AI; assuming AI makes massive strides in 100 years (which seems almost certain), there may be very very little (if anything) that humans can do better (or more cost effectively) than intelligent machines.
Only if the derivative software is based on this 7.2 release, which, given its authenticity is in question, is in violation of the prior license version.
I used my trial of Beats Music for awhile -- I will admit, it had the BEST discovery and automatic playlist creation of any service I've ever used (Rdio, Spotify, Pandora, iTunes Radio) -- you really could be confident when you suggested a song it would build a list of songs that you weren't skipping.

It also had a unique UI.
I use an HTC 1, Android phone (T-Mobile). It comes with "Beats Audio". It was one of the differentiators HTC was using to pitch this phone. (And the sound quality - at least in headphones - is really pretty good.)

What happens to the Beats licensing on Android devices? Will Apple try to strangle HTC, simply yank it (somehow), or let HTC continue to sell phones that compete with iPhone using technology that Apple now owns?
Yeh I get that, but it's a music genre. It's like a web developer winning the lottery and being called the first Javascript millionaire. :) /s Sorry I totally get what you mean it just irks me for some reason and I can't help but comment regardless of the down votes.
If he didn't spend too much he should be a billionaire right now, see [1]. Money quote: "Forbes estimated his net worth at US$270 million in 2012."

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Dre#Income
Interesting, especially since the author(s) are anonymous and not working off public repositories, it will be very hard, if not impossible, for them to prove that they did not release this software.
Their largest acquisition so far.

(Was Apple's purchase of NeXT bigger than this deal relative to their value at the time?)
Curation and discovery-- they have celebrity and music curator created playlists. They also have an interesting Pandora-like radio where you can essentially select a mood and it'll build a playlist for you.
Actually, FWIW I think lala's technology (matching songs based on the audio waveform instead of the file's metadata) was used to underpin iTunes Match. It is the component where you match your local library to Apple's library in the cloud, and then only upload anything that Apple doesn't already have.
This solution works, but as you point out balancing over your load balancers is a huge hack and relies basically on DNS.

If you replaced wackamole/DNS RR with BGPd on your varnish/pound boxes, you would achieve the same goals but be able to fully direct your traffic flows yourself vs. a random RFC-busting DNS cache somewhere.

The other big downside to this solution is being forced to run a l2 broadcast domain for failover to work. Fine at your scale here, but when you get into dozens or hundreds of switches and larger scale I firmly believe (if at all possible) dropping L3 down to the access port is the way to go. Debugging STP issues on such networks is about the last thing in the world I'd like to be doing on a friday night.
If the buying company is using debt to make the purchase, then you have a point. However if they are using their own profits, then I think it is okay.
>> No business person wants to spend money to hire someone they don't have to

This.

Every time I hear an organization brag about how many jobs they "create" I can't help but think about how much of an oxymoron that is. Any half-decent business owner wants to get a specific job done at the lowest cost possible -- if it can be done equally well themselves without paying anybody for anything, thats the best possible scenario. Bragging about creating jobs is basically bragging that your costs of production have gotten higher.
OTOH, the iPod Hi-Fi.
I might lose all my karma points for posting this but: LeVar Burton was on Star Trek? I guess I am not much of a geek. :)
Perhaps the TC devs were ticked off that this audit kickstarter/indiegogo has netted so much money none of which goes to the devs. And this is their way of not playing along with the whole shenanigan.
A lot of people I know who work with PHP on a daily basis agree that PHP is making significant progress despite the PHP internals culture, and not because of it.
"Still, I stay close to the heat
And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet
My life's like a soundtrack
I wrote to the beat"

- Dr. Dre, http://rapgenius.com/412394
Something that confuses me: What is "consulting" as opposed to "finance" or "tech"? There are consultants in finance, tech and most other fields. Do they all just get lumped together there?
It's not that absurd when you factor in the profitability of the headphones business. It's interesting, not because Apple would overpay for what they wanted (they didn't), but because they looked past the most obvious aspect of Beats from a market valuation perspective to the relatively more startup-y aspects of it.
this the beginning of the end.
High-end is a sonic category, not a price category. There are extremely expensive audio systems that are targeted towards concerts, etc..
Anyone think Rdio would be a much better fit for streaming?
Back and forth speculation is great and all, but does anyone know of a solid alternative to TrueCrypt? Perferably open-source but at the very least not a potential government lap-dog like Microsoft?
HTC sold its share of Beats last year:

https://gigaom.com/2013/09/27/htc-is-selling-back-its-shares...
"RubyMotion for Android features a completely new Ruby runtime specifically designed and implemented for Android development."

That is huge, very excited to check this out!

I would love being able to write ruby instead of java (whereas objc doesn't bother me that much).
Lexus cars have more differences from the similar Toyota model than just a new badge. Beats are pretty much just a badge.
They could always just spinoff the headphones side of the business at a later date if they choose to. The revenues there were close to $1 billion last year, so it isn't unlikely. After all, Google kinda did that with Motorola Mobility, right?
If we can transmit information through space instantaneously, our physical location becomes almost meaningless.

Who cares where your brain is if you can send and receive data somewhere 2000 lightyears in the same time it would take to send and receive data from somewhere 40cm away?

Sadly, even the theory behind such a concept is still in its infancy - and of course it may eventually be proven to be absolutely impossible with the same great certainty with which we've defined the mass of an electron.
At the moment yes. But mainly because of our limited network.
I think the 3B would have been put to better use by buying HBO.
They can always sell/spin out the headphones business once the acquisition stabilizes a little. See also: Google/Motorola.
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(Common) Lisp fits your bill. It's threadable, cross-platform, compiles to machine code, well supported, stable, and able to be molded to any domain (such as web development). In fact, there are already some great web/app servers and frameworks for it already.

It's not "highly popular" compared to something like Python, but has growing usage and attention. The implementations are converging on a standard set of modern features that are cross-platform. I routinely write code in one implementation/OS and run it on different implementations/OSes without a hitch.
Yeah, this is old 'news'.

You can do this yourself if you already have Tasker installed on your Android phone

I take a snapshot from the forward camera every time my screen is activated and save it to a local directory. But you could easily email the photos somewhere along with GPS coordinates.
Wild hypothesis. Amazon started as a book distributor. Now it is fighting to become a publisher. iTunes + iPod started as a music distributor. What if it now has ambitions as a label? How would one build that out of Cupertino?

One would start with a fringe, fragmented genre, to serve as a beachhead. Fragmented by not flat - there should be a node near the top of a hierarchy which can be acquired and leveraged.

$1.3 billion in 2013 headphone sales justifies a $3 billion valuation neatly by itself. But this acquisition certainly comes with interesting optionality.