skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other relevant details from http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/Proposal-2008/Voyager_SR_2008.pd...:

"Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.6 AU/year while Voyager 2 is leaving at about 3.3 AU/year. Power is the limiting lifetime consumable. The two spacecraft have power to continue returning science data beyond the year 2020. It is likely that at least one of the spacecraft could enter interstellar space while adequate power is still available. All other consumables are adequate for continued operations well past 2020."

"Electrical power is supplied by three Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs) which are performing nominally. The current power levels are about 286 watts, with power margins of about 34 watts and an average degradation rate of about 4.3 watts per year."

"Real-time telemetry data capture is accomplished using 34- and 70-meter tracking antennas of the DSN. Capture of the recorded high rate plasma wave data from Voyager 1 requires the use of an array of 70- and 34-meter antennas."

"Uplink communication is via S-band (16-bits/sec command rate) while an X-band transmitter provides downlink telemetry at 160 bits/sec normally and 1.4 kbps for playback of high-rate plasma wave data."
any remoting web development/sysadmin? I'm based in Portugal. Skype me at MatrixOwnsYou or drop a mail MatrixOwnsYou at gmail dot com
The government is made up of people. After living in China for a while, you soon find some Chinese people are friendly to your face, but are monitoring your emails thru your ISP, or tracking your movements around the city, or arranging for a breakin at your apartment. And these are young Chinese, just doing what their seniors showed them. Young Chinese don't have the concept in their minds that internet blocking harms innovation, and will do the same in government when they replace their elders.
Sent you the email.

I have no desire to argue the truth of anything. You made a blanket statement that tried to exclude a vast array of knowledge and people who attempt to learn and apply that knowledge. Defend it or not here, but I found it accidentally inaccurate or purposely misleading. It also applies directly to the point both you were making and the point the article was making.

Happy to take it offline. Write me an email and prove your case. But enough with the drive-by stereotyping.
"And just like with bridge building, the form part is optional"

Sometimes function is optional as well!:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Code...
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What makes pictures like these seem alien is the clothing. Back then, even farmers dressed better than people today.
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IMHO It is not prescient but Doc Searl recognized "the essential Steve P. Jobs". It is funny to see how most of us are blinded by noise in the echo chamber.
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I've found the downtown Boston store to be a less than great experience myself. Try the mall Apple store in Burlington, I've had very good experiences there. In fact, I've found the mid sized mall Apple stores to be much more customer centric than the big flagship stores. Maybe it's the high priced real-estate, or maybe the bigger stores just attract more "competitive" sales staff.
and if all of us accepted the stories of the corporate and government Powers then they could do whatever they like. There's an awfully big gulf between being skeptical of official stories and being so paranoid that it interferes with productivity.

I'm certainly not interested enough to test any of this stuff... but my thought was OK, could they intercept GET requests to URLs off of google.com and that gives query strings etc? Even 100 URL+GEOCODE per hour would be win.

I'd certainly be tempted to try it if they were my vans, if for no other reason than to see if it was possible.

I'm doubting that the range is 25-50mph in residential zones btw.
Hm... might work ok if the hacking on projects together aspect of it was relatively low-pressure/low-commitment stuff, pitch in if you have time and find it interesting but don't guarantee anything.

But otherwise mixing two big-ish commitments (living together stuff, work stuff) could lead to some unpleasant friction if things don't go well.

Sometimes you do want a bit of separation between 'work time' and 'home time', not to have to feel accountable to work people about the way you spend your home time and vice versa.

I did live with the freelance designer from my work for a bit though. It worked ok because work is in the office, so pretty clear separation of work time and home time. But not really the same situation as you describe.
I think this looks a lot more prescient than it really is.

Searls says that whatever Jobs created at Apple would be: original, innovative, exclusive, expensive, [beautiful], maybe influenced by other software tycoons, and minimally influenced by developers. He's right on all counts. It's a good picture of Steve Jobs.

What's missing? Searls didn't say one word about the likelihood that Steve Jobs would be successful, and that success is what makes him something other than Just Another Malignant Narcissist CEO.
Google is hiring in both Dublin and Zurich. Not exactly a startup, but still a very fun place to work.
Well, it is more nuanced than that. Everyone I think would agree that Apple managed the whole cloning thing very badly. But Ross and Fujitsu didn't hurt Sun's sales (for example).
I'll take the bait, Apple and everyone else lost a massive opportunity to dethrone the Borg, not once, but twice. First with Windows ME and then with Vista Microsoft were caught with their pants way, way down and without an actually usable consumer OS. Apple could have owned that and could have made a massive push for the mainstream.

This being said, had they actually taken on the Borg at their own game they would be a very different company than they are today, and not necessarily a better one.
I like this little bit about how the first self-hosting lisp compiler was created:

"The first self-hosting compiler (excluding assemblers) was written for Lisp by Hart and Levin at MIT in 1962. They wrote a Lisp compiler in Lisp, testing it inside an existing Lisp interpreter. Once they had improved the compiler to the point where it could compile its own source code, it was self-hosting.[4]

The compiler as it exists on the standard compiler tape is a machine language program that was obtained by having the S-expression definition of the compiler work on itself through the interpreter. (AI Memo 39)" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28compilers%29#H...
Well, if there is a perfect operating system out there and some inefficiency in the market is preventing it from being widely adopted, then yeah it's hard to argue against distorting the market to make it successful. The market is a tool, after all, not an end in itself.
That's an interesting example. I wonder how much of the software stack is profitable in this way? I'm willing to guess very little because most software isn't so horridly complex.

If you need to pay for support services to use a web browser, a text editor, or some other completely normal piece of consumer level software for example, that would be the software's problem and only exemplifies the areas where open source doesn't work as well as proprietary.

Companies make money from software because they devote lots of resources into making software easy to use. Relying on support services to float every random xyz piece of software will make for a very dead industry.

The funny thing is that I've never actually seen any viable business models from the open source community about how to build a business around free software (as in beer and freedom) that wasn't entirely couched in "support services". This creates the unfortunate situation that if a company were to create a consumer level piece of software that was easy to use (say, anything by Apple), they would put themselves out of business. Their incentive then is to simply make the software terrible to use so they can sell support services.

On top of this, the price of support services is often quite a bit higher than the alternative of just buying software. A thousand dollars of custom consulting will get you about a day's worth of labor hours. If I need to bring in a guy for a week to setup some software, or purchase the $3000 easier to use proprietary software, I'll go with the cheaper option. Even replacing that software at some point in the future, due to lock-in or what have you, is cheaper.

Paying a bunch of money so I can figure out how to use an OS to connect to the internet so I can send an email or make a home movie is a waste of my time and money. Ergo, support services only work when the cost of buying a proprietary solution that works out of the box (or with minimal support) is greater than the cost of the free software plus support services.

And yes, I recognize that I'm talking about beer here, but for end-users of software, that tends to be the principle consideration. The truth is, most people and companies that use software care very little if their freedoms are being impinged by using MS-Office.
I think unpleasant friction can occur whether or not your living and working together.

Anyway - enough speculation. I'll let you know how it goes :)
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Heh. Yep true, although stuff like this can make it more or less likely!

In the end it'll depend entirely on the people I guess. Let us know how it turns out :)
Please enlighten us how to get porn malware while using a browser that has a porn/privacy mode. Better yet, on OS X. I haven't been able to do that so far and I use big bad Windows.
I have great respect for how Gates is spending his money now.

Indeed. http://www.ndtv.com/news/india/bill-gates-tours-bihar-by-boa.... Its heartening to see him taking great measures to see his wealth is well spent.
I wanted to post the same thing. The quality of those pictures is incredible.

You can find all reconstructed images here: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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He's kind of a one-trick pony though. Every single rapid-fire exchange of dialogue in every show (always while walking) can be summed up thusly:

Guy A: I don't want to talk about x.

Guy B: I wasn't going to mention x.

Guy A: Seriously, I'm not in the mood for x today.

Guy B: That's fine, that's not what I came here for.

Guy A: Good because if you even bring up x I'm going to stab you in the nether-regions.

Guy B: Fine no x.

Guy A: So what did you want to talk about?

Guy B: I had a question for you about x.

There you go, just repeat that 15 times per show between different combinations of 2 characters who are walking and you too can be Aaron Sorkin.
People are individuals.

Just because two people have 3 or 4 of the same things in common: Text Editor, Programming Language or whatever doesn't make them the same person.

Please look at other replies I have made where I explain that I'm lackadaisical on the requirements.

Also, thanks for your criticism.
I just tried it. On first start up (when the 13MB pypy executable has to be loaded into memory), it's slightly slower. About 0.5 to 1.0 seconds, I'd guess.

My highly scientific benchmarks (time python -c "pass") give no noticeable difference, with pypy starting in between 0.015s and 0.020s and Python 2.6 starting in 0.022s to 0.028s.

All of this is on a 1.6GHz C2D, 1GB RAM, Arch Linux 32 bit.
It's unfortunate that this conversation wasn't initiated by someone more mature and articulate than Ryan Tate. There is a strong case to be made against Apple's current approach but Ryan didn't make it.
There may be auxiliary benefits from the freedom that are granted to others. But we're not talking about those benefits, we're talking about the freedoms _you_ have. I'm not arguing that there aren't other benefits, I'm arguing that pratically speaking in both situations your freedom is primarily limited by your lack of knowledge of the situaiton, not by whether the software is proprietary or not.
That would have entailed finding a way through the fabled 500 orifices into a low-margin market. Good thing they dodged that bullet.
The open web is a network of information while facebook is a network of people. Social is about interaction between people so I disagree that the open web is more social. The open web may be more connected but facebook is more social because the connections are mainly between people. And while facebook is in many ways a closed system it is weaving itself seamlessly into the fabric of the web with the open graph initiative. Search engines may not be able to crawl facebook directly but through it's graph api website developers can access that information.
If you're a dog person perhaps you could walk dogs? Exercise, canine love and money all in one.
If you know how to play a musical instrument you could try teaching that.
All the best!
Maro,

What startups have you helped to be successful?
I know it's a little scanty. Would you like to give me suggestions?

But please stay away from negative comments. I wrote the spec, how can I not have read it?
Right. Seriously -- what did you mean by "authoritas"? Normally, employees, including engineers, do what you tell them to do. Knowing what is possible and borderline possible and when is also an important part of Jobs's skill set, but still is nowhere near actually doing it in my eyes.
When ME came out, Apple was busy clawing its way out of the grave, and since Vista, Apple has been killing MS in consumer mindshare, revenue and profit growth, and new sector growth. MS is dead in the water in mobile and appliance computing - where do you think the growth over the next 3 years is?
Perhaps the open web is more social in the same way going to a party where you meet new people is more social than just hanging out with the same people all the time.
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Think in terms of "what's in it for me" from the major bloggers' POV. Email your pitch, written with flair and passion.

Going for the big catch is good. But if you get cold, try the smaller fish instead (medium-size bloggers who writes about conversion/ab testing).
Your missives on the value of the conference would carry more weight had you actually attended it. The majority of the presentations were from people actually running startups -- exactly what you recommend.

Conferences like this will help bring structure to a concept that continues to be quite amorphous. Scammy consultants have a greater ability to flourish when there isn't someone or something guiding what the term means. You may quibble with the marginal value of Eric's insights, or disagree with his fees, but I would hope you'd agree that his is trying to bring people to together to consolidate these ideas and concepts in a wholly transparent way. Kudos for that.
is it too n00b/out-of-place of me to ask what went in to tuning memcached to do that? i'd love to pick your brain (and possibly eat them... creepy, right?)
Anyone on how creating screencasts for new languages/tools would pay?

I'm looking at creating 1hr screencasts.
"Morris walked up to the ATM, he pressed the ENTER CLEAR CANCEL 1 2 3 which resulted in Morris accessing the Enter Password screen. Morris made at least three attempts to enter the default password of 555555 to gain unauthorized administrator access, or complete access to all ATM functions."
Yes we tried that, it was called the Unix Wars.
We're talking about the same conference that was broadcast live for free on justin.tv right?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but pre-OS 4.0 the agreement did not say anything about which languages you should be using. Xcode might have been the only officially supported IDE, but that's about it. You could say one shouldn't have trusted Apple not to screw others over, but that doesn't really help the ethics argument at hand here.

Take out the job offer from bigcorp from my example. You're still going to have to invest in hardware and probably ramp-up.
Agreed. I've removed it from the requirements. Thanks for the good suggestions! Please keep more coming.
This is exactly what I don't understand about the existence of this program. I don't know much about compression algorithms, but this is definitely lossy compression. I don't know why somebody would want to use it on their lossless PNGs when JPG already exists.
A good optimizing compiler almost always beats hand coded assembly language. It is difficult for a programmer to keep track of what is going on in his code: instruction timing, register allocation and locking, pipelined multiple instruction execution, instruction optimization, global optimization, on and on. JIT can do even better.

I've done hand optimization of RISC assembly. It's fun, but nowhere near as productive as productive as coding in Python, or C for that matter.
I am a dimmed witted 19 years old compared to this guy. :(

I wish I spend my childhood learning programming and all sort of cool stuff.
To add my 2 cents here: I've been using both memcached and redis in various projects and for me they serve slightly different purposes.

For plain old caching I haven't (yet) had a need to use redis, which is younger and by nature more complex. RAM is so cheap nowadays, we just tend to stuff two memcached machines with 64G, which goes a ridiculously long way.

On the other hand, as antirez pointed out, redis shines when you need "a little more than caching". We have rolled a few custom queueing solutions on top of redis (similar to resque) and working with lists and the SUBSTR operation is an extremely pleasant experience.

Redis seems to be the optimal "roll-your-own-queue" toolkit at this point. We had some strong delivery- and persistence-guarantee requirements in our project but those were not a problem to meet with a simple WAL on the clients and a redis-pair. So far our solution wins over the previous rabbitmq setup big time in all areas (performance, reliability, complexity, transparency). It could have been done with memcached, but less efficiently due to the lack of the aforementioned list-operations.
I love the idea and think you are on the right track with easy setup and SMS integration. Try and look at it more from the customer's point of view; they are basically signing up to be spammed, correct? A small business may want all those features you listed (remember that features don't sell, benefits do), but they aren't going to buy if you don't show how customers will also benefit and opt-in in droves. SMS is simple for a lot of people to use, but it might be helpful to explain how people actually opt-in.

The website is too word heavy; try asking a few friends to read a paragraph you have written, then summarize it back to you. Usually you'll get a more concise answer that could be used instead.

Like everybody else, I recommend you re-evaluate your pricing. The mailchimp example somebody mentioned is perfect. The paragraph you have between Indicative Pricing and Pricing is completely unnecessary.

The How It Works page also needs to be pared down. The goal should be to get small businesses to sign up, then have it be so simple to use that the operation acts as a guide. I would change Sign Up to be a link, then have Register Customers (signs up telling them to use mobile phones, register on the site, NO manual input from the business owner), Tailor Marketing Offers, Reap the Benefits. Or something similar, it just needs to be simplified, a lot!

Again, I love the concept and hope you have the drive to see it through!
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AFAIK, the Visa agreement says that you can't charge more for using Visa. "3% discount for cash" is very common still, common enough that Visa would be able to find out about it and stop it if their agreement permitted it.
Thanks! I was looking for a Gmail backup - backupify.com for quite a while. Now however, thinking hard whether the risk of adding 3rd party backup service is higher than just relying solely on Gmail :)
It would be great if you could write a blog post on your views/experiences with respect to startup scene in India. It would be insightful, especially for people like me just starting out here.
Thanks very much Nicholas. Really apprecaite the comments there.

Maybe ping me a mail if you are interested - happy to keep you in the loop and may be able to repay the favour next time you need feedback.
LRU isn't a panacea. Maintaining a real LRU can involve non-trivial overhead. It also can have trouble predicting some access patterns. Random replacement can definitely out perform LRU, particularly for tree structures.
Fellow Canadian here.

Incorporating a federal corporation is easy and can be done online. If you want to have a named corporation you need to do a NUANS search first. As far as I'm aware, the cheapest NUANS searches are from here:

http://www.corporationcentre.ca/docen/pns/home.asp

No affiliation, just a satisfied customer. Note that even if it finds a 'hit', it doesn't mean that your choice of name will be disallowed.

Online incorporation is cheaper than filling out paper forms, and the online wizard includes a bunch of boilerplate options that make life super-simple. If you live in certain jurisdictions, the wizard will even do the provincial registration for you.

As for collecting payments, this is a "problem". If you have good credit, you may be able to use Beanstream to provide merchant services (they provide merchant accounts through TD). If you don't have good credit, then PayPal is probably the option to go for. Depending on what you're doing, this may or may not be a positioning issue. If you're doing merchant stuff, you definitely want to have some kind of corporation in place. BTW Beanstream is one of the few Canadian merchant service providers supported by ActiveMerchant (if you're doing the Rails thing).

I have no experience with Moneris. My experience with Global Payments is that you can't just talk to a person - they have a (probably commission-based) outside salesforce. If you don't have an existing business, they want to see personal asset and liability information. All seems far too annoying.

Finally, regarding data security: if you do anything with credit cards, outsource that liability by using tokenization or PayPal. You don't want to have to deal with PCI compliance directly. I recently completed a project for a very large electricity retailer who needed to get to PCI compliance and took the outsource option, so it's not like that's just a choice for "the little guys".

Yes, you'll probably want to collect GST or HST, and remitting that back to the government is pretty simple; make sure you don't spend "their" money! The mechanics are: take customers' money, keep track of the amount that belongs to the CRA, give them that money according to a schedule you must meet. As a startup, you can remit GST annually (the mandated minimum frequency is based on your sales, if you expect to have very low sales, you can choose annual - but you can even file monthly if you like paperwork).

Hope that helps a bit!
No shared context. You cannot say "Did you read the article in the NY Times about XXXX" and expect that your friend, who you know reads the NY Time (online of course) may have done so.
And to counter with a Donald Knuth quote, "We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art."