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Yes, it would be nice if someone from the team behind NSQ elaborates a bit on why they didn't go with an existing protocol like MQTT.

Keeping an eye on HN all the time pays off :) I too was wondering what the hell is going on with my EC2 instances when I saw this thread.

AWS status dashboard: -1, HN: +1

Spot on :) I'm currently taking both the ML and AI classes and the difference is disturbing.

I'm sure things will improve in the next iteration, though, and after all I'm very grateful that all these courses are publicly available for free.

Well, it takes a while but it's great to see native Windows ports of more or less game changing projects like Node and Hadoop (http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/microsoft-makes...). Although I guess the fact that innovation happens ever more often in non-Microsoft land is telling enough.

While I think it's a bit extreme to say they didn't have much choice, it seems to me making data more open is becoming somewhat trendy and this sort of peer pressure may have certainly played a role in the Royal Society's decision. Anyways, the inertia of the status quo shouldn't be underestimated and although things are really not that fair, it will probably take quite a bit of time before we see widespread democratization of data.

Yes, you're right. But it's still a step in the right direction and hopefully others will follow suit. And I am really optimistic, looking at the uber-cool initiatives of the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org/), MIT's OpenCourseWare (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm), Stanford's OpenClassroom (http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/HomePage.php) and their latest online courses in Machine learning (http://ml-class.org), Artificial Intelligence (http://ai-class.com), and Databases (http://db-class.org).

It's good to see hardcore academic institutions like the Royal Society move towards opening knowledge for the public.

Although it's more substantiated than, say, Groupon's, this valuation still seems crazy to me.

Any chance for gedit and gnome terminal versions? Fantastic scheme, would donate my kidney for a gedit port