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Honestly, it is a personal choice to feel burned. People have different perception of different brands and when the essence changes people sometimes do feel cheated or burned.

Not that I am comparing (or know the technicalities), but hypothetically if tomorrow Ubuntu decide to charge for their linux distro - a lot of people will feel burned. And we can equally argue that they were building a fan base all along.

Such things work best if it is clear from the start that going forward you may seriously look into monetization. Kind of beta phases for most software, Mixergy could also have had some kind of beta phase.
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Could definitely be useful for hiding email addresses while leaving it completely readable.
That story was complete and total horseshit.

I've listened to the full 911 tape recording, and none of it adds up... he doesn't sound scared, he doesn't try to put it into neutral, he doesn't try to turn it off (he claims he was afraid the car might flip), but he does claim he tried to pry up the gas pedal (which is an essentially impossible physical move, to do with your hand while driving).

Not to mention that he has a ridiculously shady past (bankruptcy, $700k of debt, runs an adult website, entire kitchen of his house was stolen during foreclosure, former business partner accuses him of theft)

Honestly... if you're going to cite him as an example of anything, he seems like proof that a lot of these incidents are pretty obviously frauds.
Me too, I read /. religiously from about `97 onwards. Once I found HN I pretty much stopped visiting it, though. The SNR is just so much higher here. One thing I do sometimes miss about Slashdot is its slightly more technical focus. I am completely uninterested in all the startup stuff, and find myself wading through more of it here. (Maybe I'm just in the wrong place, but I stick around because the quality of discussion on the things I do care about is high.)
What was the intended purpose of devvit? Social aggregator for developers?
For those of us without ADD, the editorial control over story selection is actually rather nice. (The user commentary, however...)
The "continued appeal" of Cameron's last blockbuster (Titanic) lasted about a year longer than this one and then everyone forgot about it. Avatar's gonna go in the history of film for popularizing 3-D, but it's remaining to see whether there's any continued appeal in it.
I'll concede that my brain went "NPR, corroborated by highway patrol", and got on with my life. If I didn't prefer German cars, I'd buy a Toyota.
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You can't get much more direct access to human motivation than with child safety issues. A reasonable argument can be made that child health and safety is pretty much the point of human civilization in the first place.
When I was in college, I once had the accelerator stick on my 1979 Toyota Celica GT. I punched it in order to merge onto a 4 lane highway, and it stuck down. I braked a bit which was not very useful, and ended up putting it into neutral and then killing the engine. Scared the crap outta me. To this day I'm not sure why it stuck, I thought it could have been the floor mats at the time.
Thanks for stating the obvious. Now, do you have anything remotely insightful to add?
"thi sis" is clearly a typo.
"you're/your" may mean that the person wasn't smart enough to figure out what to use
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It's an admittedly cool idea, but it's also very blatantly set up as if it isn't technology at all, just so he can paint technology as evil.

James Cameron is a white man using technology and corporations to make movies about how white men, technology, and corporations are evil. I lasted about an hour and a half through the movie before the preachiness outweighed the special effects for me. District 9 was better told and even had a more exciting mecha battle.
They really are quite different. Here's one example: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3851#comment-57751
Here's a link to the transcript. https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATkBKEXbo6n8ZGdrNzhoM2dfN...
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Bogus site and bogus submitter who only submits links to one site.

The article appears to be from an anonymous Slashdot post from 2002. It's too full of trollish comments to bother discussing.
The american military generally does not follow this stereotype to the least, but there is a long-standing conception of armed forces using somewhat dated, simple technology. The reason of course being reliability and serviceability. Never dated to the point of being useless, but behind the cutting edge.

Frankly if I was on some mission light years from civilization, I'd like to have something dead-reliable and easy to fix if it breaks.
> I have read that Cassandra needs good IO performance to do well

If you're writing to disk, _anything_ will need good i/o performance to do well. That's sort of the name of the game.

EBS is kind of ass for i/o, not so much for average but because you get huge latency spikes for no reason. Most cassandra installs "in the cloud" are on rackspace cloud servers instead (where you get persistent, raided local disk) for this reason.

But, you do see people like reddit and simplegeo and openx running it on ec2 and it seems to work well enough.
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We're talking about technology and life forms that don't exist, but imho:

The rhinoceros was huge. A couple bullets, even from the robots, will not stop something that size in it's tracks.

The robots are smaller, flimsier, and seemed to posses lesser firepower than tanks.

Elephants have armor and defense nowhere in their body. The rhinoceros in Avatar looked like they had a veritable carapace to me.
I'm new at AUCTeX but so far, so good. I'm using TeX Live via MacPorts but I guess AUCTeX and XeTeX would get along fine.
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The whole App Store is "Apple-approved apps," whether you like it or not, because that's how their agreement with the phone companies requires them to treat it, and that's how the most casual segment of users will think of it (i.e. "my phone [running X 3rd-party app] is broken! [because that 3rd-party app is crap.] Why did Apple screw me over like this?")
Thanks for clearing that up. We have been dealing with the weird spikes as well and so we were a little iffy about Cassandra on EC2.
Time to get a great deal on a Toyota.

I had a sudden acceleration incident when I was maybe 12 learning to drive a 80 something Chevy 1500. I was being forced to use only one foot instead of two. When I got close to the house while parking at like 2 MPH mom yelled STOP. So of course I floored it and did a little bumper adjustment and brick relocation. I want to say this was throttle body injected, so yeah 'puter did it.
Excellent advice patio11. Why you dont do a full time startup is beyond me. Let me know when you are available for consulting.
what if the rackspace employe sells password to hackers?
DOOMED!

Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one.

doom (dm)
n.

1. Inevitable destruction or ruin.
2. Fate, especially a tragic or ruinous one.
3. Judgment Day

hmmm.....

presumptuous at best...
It is perhaps easy to overlook the fact that the modern standard of "fair" is far subtler than the ancient standard of "fair". Social mobility, human rights, effective medicine, myriad technological comforts all make our lives unbelievably more "fair" than contemporaries of Seneca would have ever likely imagined.

And yet you suppose that Seneca was unaware about the "unfairness" of the universe. Ah, but you misinterpret the essay. The point is not to convince you that your life, or all human life, is unequivocally "fair" - as certified by some mystical fairy God dancing in the Cosmos - but to convince you that the only way to maximize the "fairness" of your own life is by the action of the individual, by the application of correct concepts of human morality: by proper ethics.

As pertains to the subject of this essay, this means to act as if your life is of sufficient measure for you to fulfill yourself only if you do not waste it.

Moreover, to respond to your general dismissal of the essay, Seneca is writing on a particular instance of "unfairness" - the shortness of life, not all "unfairness" (e.g. being born with a genetic disorder). Of course, the Stoics were keenly aware of this type of "unfairness" as a defining characteristic of the human condition. Indeed, much of their philosophy is devoted to it. But a discussion of this would take us much too far afield and I'm afraid you would not be interested ...
We may be stuck with "NoSQL" for a while
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James Cameron does not paint technology as evil. It is very clear that he thinks the greatest technology of all is the Avatar itself; the Avatar is humanity's achievement in science and technology that allowed us to communicate with aliens in a familiar way.

The dull grey ships and weapons of the military look backwards and old compared to Avatar technology.
This happens on my Corolla, which is quite old now. If I floor the gas on the highway, it continues to accelerate for a while after letting go the gas. It freaked me out the first time. The folks in the shop told me that I have a build-up of carbon on the throttle body, which causes the throttle to be sticky. They offered to clean it off, but I couldn't be bothered to pay for it. There's definitely nothing wrong with the pedal or any electronic control systems, it's just a car that needs tuning up.
No, stoics tended to be pantheists.
For the moment, Reddit is using Cassandra just for persistent cache, which implies high read/write ratio.

Also it seems most of reads are done from the memory anyways (they mentioned 6GB RAM for 94% of their database in old memcachedb setting [1]).

So much less stress on I/O for this particular use-case.

[1] http://blog.reddit.com/2010/03/and-fun-weekend-was-had-by-al...
What we're missing here (and in all of the Toyota articles I've seen recently) is a comparison to the number of 'sudden acceleration' incidents reported in non-Toyota vehicles. If this is simply elderly-operator error, I would expect the Lincoln Town Car to have a far worse record.
Point well taken. But given most of us are here because we are involved with the start-up world, we shouldn't rail against a founder because he/she is trying to implement a revenue model. That said, if the revenue model doesn't sit right with some people, then some constructive criticism is probably in order.
Ask HN: What application do you use to take/store notes?
I had lost hope in every kind of notes-taking app until Evernote came to the scene and made me hooked to it. I loved it. I recommended everyone to use it.

The latest version of Evernote however changed it all. It sucks hairy balls as they have gone the Microsoft Office/OneNote way and made it a bloatware. I have totally stopped using it.

What do you guys use to take simple notes which can be easily synchronized with a web version and have everything that Evernote once was.
disturbing? misinformed? To a certain degree, the detractors are a positive thing. They are like the brakes on a train, preventing it from becoming a runaway train.

For example, Skynet... imho, that will NEVER happen, cause everybody is so fscking scared of it. We'll get to the point where it could have happened, but fear will probably ensure we have safeguards and such.
org-mode. Nothing else even comes close.
>> we are talking about the equivalent of the bank publishing the customer's driver's license information in a newspaper with their name obscured.

Its more like the DMV publishing driving record history with any identifying info removed, and then these people putting up some info on their driving record (along with identifying info) on a second website/db. Then someone can uses this second website (and the cross correlation algorithm) to id their record in the DMV publication and get more info on their driving record. Had those people not put any info on the second website their record could not be identified in the DMV publication.

Im not saying Netflix is innocent if they knew that such a cross-correlation algorithm existed. Im just saying that I dont want to live in society where a company can be sued for
everything that can go wrong, atleast when that company is taking every precaution using state of the art knowledge. If netflix failed to hire db security experts to notify them on this possibility, then yes sue them. I dont know enough about db security to say if this hole was known when netflix launched the contest.

>>The bank reimbursed me in full.
Nice.
Where does your friend get all his products? Are they from the same supplier? Is drop-shipping something suppliers normally engage in?
They should and mactex should basically be the same as texlive as I believe that is what it is created from, if someone wants a gui for the mac I believe http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/ is popular
The Googleplex is fun to visit, if you know (or meet) someone who works there.
four eyes might actually benefit the owner. with 2 eyes, you can cover 360 degrees without stereo vision, or half that with stereo vision.

two pairs of eyes should give the owner superior awareness of its surroundings.

six legs... the na'vi didn't have 6 limbs. they're an exception. that should have been continued, to maybe 4 arms, like the tree monkeys did.

showing the use of 6 legs isn't a problem. enough things on earth already do that.

humanoids with 4 legs might have worked... they'd have looked less human though. also, i can't imagine why a 4-legged humanoid would ride a 6-legged horse. Kurzweil pointed out that this film is meant to make money, so 4 legs wouldn't have worked so well.

humanoids with 4 arms, that's already difficult from a practical standpoint. what does a 4-armed humanoid use its arms for? the bow and arrow for a 4-armed creature might just be too hard to extrapolate.
My first car was American, the second Japanese, now I have a German car. Is Italian next? ;)
I'm not saying that elephants have armor; I made the analogy of elephants covered with armor.

The rhinoceros was about 2 times the mass of the robots (even they seem light, in realty they shouldn't, different composition, eg. man and a humanoid). The gun was at least a .50 cal. With all this advancement in technology, AI should guide the gun to Aim at the knees (technology that exists today, evaluation of damage trough pre-imposted data).

And yes, you're right, it's just a movie.
Very good points, thanks!
Its kinda cool how David mentioned they use Google Spreadsheets for their team task list (if I understood correctly). We do the exact same thing at our startup. Two founders, on one spreadsheet with 3 columns, date---founder---founder and we keep adding these sections of rows for each day. Its great to keep track of what each of us is working on and its fun when we need to answer questions like "where did the week go??"

So yay for ghetto project management.
Looks like an awesome hacker app, will have to try it out. Thanks.
Although note that MacPorts currently has TexLive 2007, which is a few years old. Packaging TexLive 2009 is in the works, but will take some doing.
Thats a good point. My understanding is that Cassandra is ideal for write heavy scenarios. So it is interesting to see a slightly different use case.
I don't think the movie has anything positive to say about humanity's achievements. The avatar's only there so a white guy whom the audience identifies with can be on the "right" side of the fight, i.e. against the other humans.
Agreed. PG's encouragement of civil tone and discouragement of Slashdot's oh so tired in-jokes ("In Soviet Russia" et al) brought me here long ago.
3 of the guests to a small dinner party are vegetarians. So his entree is lamb. sigh. Vegetarianism is frustrating.
From Chapter VII:

"Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow."

This is the gist of the essay. I don't know, I find it terribly vague and subjective. Seneca defines 'waste' as not living in the present and doing things for others as opposed to, for yourself. Is there a right or wrong way to live? I'm not so sure. I think you should live the way you want, complain about the shortness of life, be idle, do nothing, if that's what you really want to do. The only restriction is not to impose on anyone else's quality of life or right to live the way they want. I would argue Seneca is trying to impose, as am I.
I totally agree with you peter. Although, I feel it supplements Hacker news quite well. At least every post there tends to be interesting..

Reddit on the other hand I feel degenerated into Reddit-Chan (well,actually worse) after Digg added their diggbar. Reddit USED to be about honest debate. These days though, your karma revolves around how mainstream you are. Posting pedobears and other overused jokes gets you guaranteed karma.. It shouldn't. And thats why I joined Hacker news. Its good technical news, and every comment (besides mine I suppose), is generally worth reading.
This is a pretty common reaction you get whenever you first try to monetize anything on the net. People feel entitled to whatever you do at no cost to yourself. They always say "you could make money in other ways" but never suggest any specifically or show any evidence they would actually gain traction.

If you like what the guy does enough to shell out some $, fine. If you don't, also fine. But the guy has a right to try to make money from his work. It's not a "bait and switch" to add in a business model.

It's also sad when just charging for stuff is seen as "easy and lame".
Further to what cperciva and jfager said, this bit stands out: At some point those homes will be taken over and sold for a loss. Every time that happens, the bond shrinks. Eventually, our part of the bond will disappear entirely. Until then, we get a little money every month from people paying off their mortgages. We just got a check for $141.

It sounds like the guy knows he won't get any money if the underlying assets are sold, so their value doesn't really matter. He only gets paid when people pay their mortgages.
Dark City (February 98) -> The Matrix (March 99) -> Existenz (April 99).
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Oh, I meant #2, inconclusive results. I believe that this research is extremely valuable. Scientific contribution occurs not just by finding a story and some supporting data - another source of great contribution could be saving time of many researchers by saying "this is exactly what i did. this is why i did it. and look, nothing came up." another researcher can look at it and think about improving the methodology. if published, this search to get it right becomes a-lot-of-people mission instead of a one-phd-student venture to do all the mistakes that everyone else did, and then start doing things right.

and to echo the above comments - arxiv is not prestigious. you wouldn't write a job market paper or pride yourself in terms of 10 publications in arxiv rather than 2 publications in Nature. i havent thought about the 'how', but i am convinced that the prejudice against negative data has to disappear for this whole thing to work.
nope, it definitely hasn't.
Hrmm....each game has the publisher's URL at the beginning of the game.

The truth is, I found these games some time ago in 2003/2004 and just put them up on my site and left them.

I can't remember the exact sites right now.

What sort of affiliate links are you thinking?
An alternative theory is that Toyota, in its hubris-driven quest to surpass GM for automotive production, broke a lot of its own rules regarding quality control and long-term relationships when it comes to part sourcing. A lot of this seems to be driven by the fact that the car maker that has a problem is Toyota; not because they are a Japanese car company, but because they are a car company who have spent decades building a (justified) reputation for high-quality automobiles with a very low defect rate and over the past few months all of that work disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Andrew-- a heartfelt thank you for being the most compelling conduit for entrepreneurial information on the web. I love the show and truly savor the times I can I can sneak away and watch a few episodes. I'm interested to see how your business model evolves.
This may or may not be from a way a long time ago.

BTW... on a netbook and playing qIIIa right now. Solo bitches. It's fun.

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This is something I spend a lot of time thinking about. Law and computer code are quite similar in many ways, yet innovations in software architecture and tools barely affect the way laws are written. No matter how much "transparency" we have, legal text itself remains incomprehensible. And though online distribution has managed to catch on, lawmakers don't take advantage of any of the affordances of the medium--diff being a prime example.

If only law could be written in Python...
Is there a reason you picked Python? Python seems like a bad language for comparison since so much of it is checked at runtime. It seems like Coq or Agda would be a superior choice for writing laws in.
Republican congressman can't get enough Coq.
I liked the "Math calculation" :0
Raise of hands of those who like handwriting and drawing notes... with their finger. Yeah, thought so. :-)

Now, that said, people do sell styluses for the iPhone, but good luck writing without touching the rest of your hand to the device.

Now, that said, the author of said note taking app could be smart about detecting pointing vs side-of-hand, but we'll see....
1password uses 128-bit AES, based on your master password. Intelligently, they didn't write their own encryption.

Of course, we wanted to avoid writing this code in the Agile Keychain and elected to use the OpenSSL function PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 to generate the keys. Key generation is simply too important a step to not rely directly on the experts. In order to thwart would-be attackers and strengthen the key, we elected to use 1000 iterations in the PBKDF2 algorithm.

http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/agile_keychain_design.html
Ask HN: Best way to find sales/biz dev people?
We are about to launch a product that is sort similar to crazyegg.com but we believe will deliver much more value to ecommerce stores in helping them increase their sales.

We believe we can charge decent monthly fees for our product - and we believe almost every large ecommerce store should use our software (many are already using a competitor, which believe is inferiour)

how would you go about finding sales and/or biz dev people that could help us accelerate getting new customers as fast as possible?
ideally they'd be willing to work for commission only or equity+commission.

has anyone ever found people like this outside of their personal network? how did you do it?

If you're interested in hearing more about what we do (and maybe you're on of these 10'000 business people looking for technical cofounders :) please contact me at salestool2010 ( a t ) gmail.com
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