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I actually like this refreshing new approach to writing open source software: keep it closed for several months & code like madmen. If they can get UX people involved in the closed stage we might even see an open source product with an elegant ui for once!
Apple: it just works
cool, it doesn't care........... wait... on second thought the only time I've hit the problem this solves is when a device has poorly labeled the contacts.

Pretty sure this is more expensive/waste of components versus a big clear [+] icon on one side.

Guess it could help devices for the blind?

Or devices where you have to _throw_ the batteries in from a distance :)
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Why is it that you believe NA will regress to an early industrial economy as opposed to a future which parallels th equality demonstrated in the Europe-N.A. relationship.
I have a feeling there is no closed-form equasion for a variable number of "levels" of such for loops. There should definitely be a recursive one, however. Would be interesting to define a new notation for such recursive forms.
The answer given in the mailing list is correct: ...1549598368.

The last 100 digits are:
7378277516597614839875462720152687058107692252615041788608016076116764404775402901225862901549498368
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Glad to see an update from them—sounds like they're doing work. They've got a lot more to do in the months ahead, and I'm looking forward to following along.

As an aside, it's interesting to see how similar their message passing protocol is to one I'm beginning to plan out, though for a completely different application. Kinda like a "push to origin; fetch from origin" (from git).

EDIT: And hmm, every time Diaspora comes up, people start to say something about a "hype cycle" or something. I don't really know what that is, but it's rather obnoxious.

How about we don't take every mention of Diaspora as an invitation to count the ways they're sure to fail; because of the hypecycle or motorhyper or the gnarly-toothed funderrazer…etc.

To me, this is an interesting update about a curious project. Keep it going!
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Despite these guys' good intentions, I'd actually place my bet on an unfunded startup in this space over these guys who have been put through the hype cycle before they were ready.
Totally agree.

I think the "release often" philosophy is a good one, but too often and you just open yourself up to "this doesn't work, that's wrong, this is broken etc"

I think knuckle down, code a bunch of good stuff then show it off. Of course you'll still get the complaints, but it'll be a lot clearer to a lot more people how it works and the potential it has.

All that said, all they've shown us here is a very simple demo, we have no understanding of the underlying message passing protocol and its robustness. It does look promising, but looks of course...
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get a second job.. i know its hard.. but sometimes you have to suck it up, and even mcdonalds, or some other part time job can help
What is the nature of their relationship with Pivotal? Anyone know?
Blu-ray apparently isn't coming to Macs
You're right. There are different kinds of private equity. And some aren't nearly as bad as some of the others.

If you want to know more about the author of this article, look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziad_K_Abdelnour. His career has focused on investment banking, high yield bonds (nice name for junk bonds), and distressed debt (buying up the debt of failing companies, taking them over for not paying, restructuring them, then relaunching). He learned the private equity business in the 80s, which he finished at Drexel. That was the heart of the junk bond disaster, it was the company that made Michael Milken famous. At Blackhawk Partners he has been focusing on distressed debt.

In short, he doesn't look like the nice kind of private equity.
I've been building a web backend for an iPhone app with it in the past two months. It's ideal for serving simple JSON requests that depend on other I/O stuff (like, contacting Facebook) - but it's got plenty of problems:

1. The callback architecture. I simply freakin' hate the IOLoop. If you have just one asynchronous I/O operation, it's nice and easy. If you have one that depends on another, you have to wrap and curry a callback inside another one. Three? More wrapping and currying. I understand it's pretty much the same in many other platforms like client side AJAX these days. But man, this is Python and we DO have far better alternatives like gevent! You want the epoll() and kqueue() for performance? Fine. But it's Python and you can do it with coroutines without all that asynchronous event handling mess. And minus all those function wrapping and curry, I'm sure it can be much faster, all the while being easier to program with.

2. The Facebook API in auth.py sucks. Just read its source code - it performs all requests by GET - WTF?! It can't even upload files unless you hack it (I've got a branch at http://github.com/martinkou/tornado-upload for that). And look at that _signature function under the FacebookMixin class - it doesn't even use session secrets? I'm not sure if I'm doing anything wrong, and Facebook API's docs don't mention that.. but in my testing, if I just use the application secret key all the way for the signature, Facebook gives me 104 errors. I had to hack it again to make it use session secrets in signing requests.

I don't really care about databases. But last time I checked, psycopg2 has a page telling you how to do async requests with gevent or libevent style coroutines. Tornado? Good luck integrating that with IOLoop and currying your callbacks. Sure you can still make it work, but it's unnecessarily complicated.
Privacy isn't an issue of either having it or not. For most of us there is a line (that moves depending on who is on the receiving end of the information) that we don't want crossed. It's far from dead.
Things Wimbledon Teaches About Business
i must say this is option i consider , but im sure as we developers can use our skills to generate more revenue then working in MacDonald ,but again i don't disqualify any thing and im open minded
Mocksup: Web app for building clickable site and app prototypes
To address one of your points, just because the crop is inside a greenhouse (or even indoors!) does not mean you won't get pests. Anyone who has had fungus gnats or spider mites even in their far-spaced house plants can attest it happens :(
You actually did development? In my current IT job, 90% of it is installing/upgrading vendorware (closed or open, as long as it's Java-based). The other 10% is writing the pieces of glue code needed to incorporate the new vendorware with the existing vendorware. That's not what I call development. It's closer to a web-centric, glorified sysadmin job.

Now that I think of it, the real problem with enterprise software and the IT departments that rely on them is more about the fact that IT departments don't seem to actually create much software, thus they're not that good at it.

This means that when talented people start working there with the hopes that they'll get to create something interesting (or at least in an interesting way) and they find out that the organization won't allow them to do anything novel, they leave.
With this paragraph alone, he has doomed his project to failure:

"Right now, Hoff sells the boxes for $275 for 10, manufactured in his native Holland, but he envisions local production wherever the box is sold. "I think it's a disaster that the only people who know how to weave clothing are in China," he said. Gardening and home-improvement stores could sell them for about $15, he said."

The problem is that local production costs more. If it costs more it will be used less. It's as simple as that.

He should pick his battles. Conserving water, and growing trees is awesome. Let others worry about China, focus on your mission.

My prediction: Unless he gives up this ideal you will never hear about these boxes again.
Title is a reference to NIN's Hurt, (beautifully) covered by Johnny Cash:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go&feature=relat...
Ask HN: How to build a business that generates 10k/month in 10 months or more?
I'd like to know how to build a business(I'd prefer SaaS) online with the skillet of Design+Dev.

I've tried it a few times and haven't succeeded. I know money shouldn't be my goal but I'd like to get your opinion on how to create a business that generates 10k/month in 10-12 months.

Feedback greatly appreciated.
patience. realistic expectations. encouragement.
The art most people can produce is worth exactly zero.
If you live in the US, yes, kindle redefines reading.

If you live in Europe, the device, due to whisper-net limitations is crippled: no images in subscriptions, no simple web browsing, no blogs and the books are often more expensive than the paperback editions (!)
TV business kisses HDMI goodbye
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btw, even with these limitations (I live in Europe), I love my Kindle.
You can determine the spherical nature of the Earth using your own observations -- but you do have to be perceptive.

The way the stars and shadows change with even a small shift in latitude was a dead giveaway to men ~2500 years ago. Even if you never left home, you might notice that the masts of ships on the horizon come into view before the hulls. And on second thought, why would a horizon exist on a flat world anyway?

For this example at least, you certainly could rely on first-hand evidence. You might need people to put the pieces together for you, but you can make the raw observations yourself fairly easily.
I don't particularly mind having poorly performing companies which are worth less than their book value be broken up and sold off for a profit. What I have a lot more trouble with is a stable company being bought in a transaction designed to load it with debt for the tax benefit, deliberately run into the ground, and then flipped around for profit.

To name a random example, Sealy and Serta used to make good mattresses before they got bought and destroyed by private equity. And a lot of people's local community hospitals used to be decent and are now crap because private equity saw a profit opportunity.
What I'd really like to know is: what are these guys doing with the 200 grand people pledged? Is it just paying their rent in SF or what?
To the contrary, I think that distressed debt is a great part of the private equity business. The process you describe as "buying up the debt of failing companies, taking them over for not paying, restructuring them, then relaunching" is ridiculously valuable and necessary for a functioning economy. What's your preferred alternative to the problem of failing companies?
> Is it really healthy for Silicon Valley if Apple has a factory cranking out iPhones in Cupertino

You're begging the question; there is a country beyond Silicon Valley, and Grove's argument is that what is best for Silicon Valley (meaning, the bottom lines of a few tech firms which together only employ a small percentage of the U.S. population) isn't necessarily what is best for the country as a whole.

Put more directly, it's not clear that there are enough IP-based jobs to keep the United States at or near full employment. To do that, which we need for social stability, because high unemployment is intensely corrosive, we need to capture some of those manufacturing jobs. And it might be worth doing things that hurt tech companies' profitability in the short term -- taxing outsourced manufacturing, for instance -- in order to achieve that.

If we don't, the "rational business climate" might drive all the manufacturing overseas, leaving the U.S. with a very small number of employed people doing the design work, and hordes of disaffected, unemployable people with nothing to do. As you point out, once you have the production line set up in China, it makes sense to just scale it out there rather than build a second one here.

The long-term social effects of such a 90/10 split would be very bad, and would in all likelihood eventually make it very hard to be very profitable at all. So it might make sense for IP-centric design companies to take a short-term hit and try to maintain something closer to full employment, lest they find themselves first up against the wall when the welfare proletariat they created revolts.
Pretty scary company name for a German business. But looks like these types of businesses are bound to be interesting with that Finland nuclear deal and all.
"It's a total absurdity, but people seem happy to learn Python and that puts a huge pressure on keeping Lisp shops alive."

I think that it's less about learning, because Python is way more similar to languages like Java or C++. Using Python, they have to learn less. Than they discover some cool new features in Python and are bought. Then they don't see any need to bother further with lisp.
Classic: "YouTube & Viacom: Time wasted, Not forgotten"
Eating local is expensive and time-consuming, which is why this consumerist movement will not easily trickle down into mass society.

And it's bad for the environment too based on the studies Superfreakonomics quoted. Why? It turns out transportation is a minor contributor to food related emissions:

Transportation represents only 11 percent of food emissions, with delivery from producer to retailer representing only 4 percent.

You need the book to go into full detail but the crux of it is that large, optimized farms are significantly less destructive to the environment on a proportional basis than small, local farms. The people behind the study said that cutting out one meal of red meat and dairy per week would have a better result than eating entirely locally produced food.

Some quotes here: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Books/superfreakonomics-read-exce...
btw, it's possible to run Tornado on $NUM_CPU forked processes, have them listen to one port and so you wouldn't need nginx load balancing. Just read httpserver.py and you'll find a fork() there. The downside? Assuming you're still running your Tornado in your console and haven't daemonized it somehow - you press Ctrl-C, it exits (the console part, I mean) - and the $NUM_CPU children are still running. It's still not fixed today, and that doesn't really speak of quality.
Ask HN: Are we not allowed to criticize YC startups here?
I can't find the posterous thread.

Sorry, fairly new here.
> All of these things are because of deliberate government policies. I'm sure you know this, but it's worth pointing out.

Sort of. If you look at history, every country that's gone through an industrializing process has had an increase in pollution followed by a decrease in pollution. Some of that is attributable to regulation, but it happens in unregulated industries too - almost everyone naturally dislikes pollution, and generally prefer to reduce it.

Saying pollution is down and infrastructure is up because if government policy is almost correct, but slightly misses the mark - pollution is down and infrastructure is up because Chinese people worked to make that happen. But this same process happens similarly in countries with less government regulation as well. Over time, people want lower pollution and waste near them and invest, manage, and produce that result, government or no.
Some may do that, but I personally have no desire to excuse human homosexual behavior. If you can't accept that people have the right to do whatever they want that hurts nobody else, then I'm not going to change you.

However I take great delight in correcting bigots who make the mistake of claiming that homosexuality is a perversion that is only found in humans. And somehow I never seem to find a shortage of those.

About giraffes, you may be right. My impression is that they spend a lot of time not high enough in the hierarchy to get females, so when their sex drive leads them to fight giraffes they can beat, the only outlet for their sex drive is the fellow they just beat.

However black swans show an example of animal homosexuality where the animal has a choice, and actively chooses homosexual behavior.
Nice, NIN fan here and I really enjoyed that cover :)
I think he meant the mindset in general, not exactly the strict meaning or interpretation of the words "below average".

I think he meant tackling each problem by assuming that you're below the average and therefore examining and solving it more thoughtfully and carefully than you would if you just knew you're so damn good you don't really have to pay much attention to it.

So, how I saw it, it's about emphasizing that you're not quite sure how to solve a problem and, in this, thinking everyone else does makes it easier to remember the meticulousness that you desire.
The problem is not lack of rainwater. Trees are not mysteriously vanishing, we are cutting them down.
I recently read an interesting book by the guy who runs Sherline, a U.S. manufacturer of small lathes and milling machines.

The book is sort of a meandering opus covering basic machining techniques but also talking about the history of the company and how the business was built. A lot of it involves finding ways to use technology and advanced manufacturing methods to keep U.S. manufacture competitive with Asian imports.

E.g., the Sherline mill is built on an aluminum extrusion filled with some sort of epoxy/concrete for rigidity. Most Asian lathes are built on castings which are machined to final specifications. The Sherline method is more difficult and requires more capital investment, but requires less labor.

Basically in every case he mentions, the way you keep a U.S. based company competitive with Asia is by engineering away all the labor. What you do with 15 people in an Asian factory using 100-year-old methods you do with one guy and millions of dollars worth of state-of-the-art tooling in a U.S. one. And even then it might only buy you a few years of competitiveness, until that machinery can get moved over to Asia and installed, and then they beat you based on the cost of the one guy.

Anyway, it's an interesting book if you're interested in that sort of thing but doesn't do much to restore my confidence that we're not engaged in a race to the bottom as a country.

(Link to book: http://www.sherline.com/bookplug.htm)
I think you meant mean not mode...
More likely, Chinese leadership has its own set of problems and what happens to the US is tangential, at most just another factor to consider in complex calculations. They are probably indifferent about whether some particular policy of theirs is "creating" or "destroying" jobs in the US, as long as it has its desired domestic effect. That's a completely different thing from a "war" with its focus on the other side and emphasis on "winning" against the other side. Attitudes like yours are knee-jerk, populist, and likely to make the world a worse place than it already is in the future.
You still need raw materials for those factories.

I suspect war will remain a popular pastime.
Happy to see them working with Pivotal, that gives me a lot more confidence in them. They're working with top notch mentors.
I'd be interested to know what would need to happen for us to have a system that meets your definition of "capitalism". As far as I know the purest for that was ever attempted was in Chile under Pinochet. The "Chicago Boys" were given pretty much free reign, they tried to make the system just as Milton Friedman taught them and it was failing pretty spectacularly until they "slid the scale a little more toward socialism", if you will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
Andy Grove is worrying about yesterday's jobs. He shouldn't be. No one was worrying about agricultural jobs disappearing, replaced by manufacturing jobs. As technology advanced, fewer farmers were needed to satisfy the basic needs of the consumer. As their basic needs were satisfied new needs for random widgets, plastic toys and entertainment devices appeared, creating opportunities in manufacturing. Today, service jobs has mostly replaced jobs in manufacturing in developed countries; The amount of service & creative work (e.g giving massages, selling products, and of course inventing the next digital device) output an American worker can produce makes it uneconomical to put the worker in a mundane factory making McDonald's toys instead. As technology advances and robotics replaces even factory workers in developing countries, more labor will be freed up to do other things. As had happened in the past, when the most basic consumer needs are resolved there will always be new needs arising; Where yesterday's consumer demanded shelter, food, clothing and a radio, today's consumer demands cars, houses, artwork, internet, hot water supply and monthly professional haircuts. The circle of increasing supply leading to increased demand and thus increased supply again is a virtuous one.
Now you can run iMovie on your iPhone 3G(s)
What just happened in the message passing demo?
Yes. Just think about how much more of these boxes he could sell if he produces them dirt cheap in China. This could easily offset all the negative impacts of shipping etc. He even says himself that if you plant enough trees, an increase in CO2 emissions can be offset.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
It is a fun exercise to figure out how far away the horizon is.

If the radius of the Earth is r, and you have height h, then from the top of your head to the center of the Earth to the horizon and back to the top of your head is a right angle triangle. The hypotenuse is r+h, one side is r, and the other must be sqrt(2rh + h*h). Under the assumption that r is much bigger than h, that means that the distance to the horizon varies as the square root of the height.

This assertion is surprisingly easy to check with ships. Furthermore if you pay close attention on a commercial aircraft, you can actually see that the horizon is a little bit below level!
Selenium doesn't work with Flash/Flex (don't I know it...).

You could use something like Eggplant, though. Or you could decompile the Flash file and fake the communications it sends to the server. The latter is probably the easiest and most scalable method.