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Family is a big deal but IMHO the only real commitment in life is children. If you haven't got kids follow your dream.

The harsh reality is that your current spouse isn't 'the one' because there is no such thing, we don't live in a hollywood dream and no one has friends like the friends in Friends. Don't spend your life living their life, live your own. If they are not willing to compromise why should you?

I speak as a man who has kids and a supportive partner who I have both supported and been supported by.

At some point you'll be rotting in a hole, what mark will you leave beyond a dark patch an archaeologist may stumble upon?
What's funny is how many people in America think (large) corporations = capitalism.

But in reality what these enterprising homeowners are doing is real capitalism.

So politicians are protecting the former (corporations) and destroying the latter

- they are actually working against capitalism!
From what I remember, most problems with windmills are due to 2 factors:
Not enough wind
Too much wind

I believe the generating curve is exponential, in that it isn't worth generating below a certain wind speed, which most locations don't reach. Just a little drop in wind speed can more than halve your generating power. Added to that, turbulence makes steady wind speed attainable mainly at higher altitudes, therefore requiring elevation (high towers)

Once you do have good generating capacity, what do you do when the wind is over the maximum threshold? A lot of older / smaller windmills need to be stowed during high wind, as they just can't cope with the amount of power developed.

Putting the windmills on a kite could indeed manage these issues somewhat - I'd imagine similar to sailing - where you can generate more speed than the wind provides, and possibly free-wheeling to dissipate excess speed / power.

Indeed an interesting area to watch!
Boom, spot on. I'll go even further and say that deleting your account isn't going to be enough. In five years time, computers will recognize your image on all pictures ever taken of you and by combining the information in the pictures, the existing social graphs on facebook (even if you're not on them!) and similar sites but also your email correspondence, public information etc., hive brains in the form of huge data centers will know everything about you.

We've long gone past the point where fighting this evolution has a chance of making a difference. Better get used now to the idea of living in a much more transparent society. Legislation is too slow to catch up with the pace of technological change, and that's not even considering that for legislation you need political will.

(the above may make it sound like I'm opposed to this transparency but I'm not any more - I have a facebook profile, I give out my personal information like candy bars, I don't care any more. It hasn't been detrimental to my life quality, actually I rather like getting targeted advertisements instead of being bombarded with ads for stuff I'm not going to buy anyway. I think when I will be greeted by name by the guy at McDonalds, I'll think of it as quite cool.)
http://www.trafficspaces.com - alternative to OpenX. Bootstrapped and profitable :)
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I many ways, nagging guilt can be a strong motivator for spoiling children. Guilt for leaving behind a world that seems worse off than when you entered it. Stop doing that! The younger generation has to understand that never before humankind has had so many possibilities.
Oh but I don't think it will be from just one picture. It'll be from a list of profile pictures you had over the years, plus your own other (non-profile) pictures, plus the pictures of you that you were tagged in by your friends, plus any other pictures that can be found through google or otherwise (flickr or picasa accounts), ...

The first versions will probably be quite crappy. Give it 5 years and it will improve leaps and bounds, plus the amount of data to work from will also increase as more photos are uploaded.

Imagine this: the software will recognize that you change haircuts every couple of months. From this it can derive that you are more fashion-conscious than others and send you targeted marketing or offers. Also it can automatically set up appointments with hairdressers, complete with 3d renders of new, proposed haircuts that you can choose from. That would be awesome, this is taking personalization to a whole new level.
At work I structure my days by doing the difficult coding problems at the start of the day and then doing progressively easier things or stuff I know by rote.

Ideally I'd be updating documentation, running some tests, organizing a project at the end of the day. Although it rarely goes like this ofcourse.

If I run into a nasty problem when I'm way past my daily mental peak and there is time I'll just wait for the next morning. Experience has shown that nine times out of ten I see the solution the next morning so I won't be wasting time on it.
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There are also several other places named "Ytterby", translated the name means something like "outer village". (I happen to live in one of the other ones :))

Pointless map of Ytterbys in Sweden: http://kartor.eniro.se/m/pBGRL
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I appreciate the comments, I can see things a little differently now. In my case she has some directionless (slacker) men in her extended family and I think her perception is that you either work hard full-time in a job or you are a slacker like them.

The most important issue here I realise is stability as we have a young family, mortgage etc and the salaried job makes everything easy to manage on a monthly basis.

I would readily give up the startup idea for my family, so in this equation, the lowest priority is the startup - but it still burns a hole in me night and day thinking about it and the potential.

I guess the easiest way to eliminate most of the unanswered questions is to chip away to a level of profit somewhere close to my salary in my spare time and only if that happens, revisit the idea of going full-time. Fortunately, it might prevent me from chasing a bad idea before its proven.

On a side note, I was not expecting such insightful feedback on a "software" issue like this - but its very much appreciated.
I honestly didn't get what favstar is trying to do. What's your site?
This has been brought up since the first wind/solar/tidal energy plants were being brought in production. I don't have any links at hand but this has been studied; watch the comments under stories like this one, they come up often.

Basically as far as I understand the general consensus, even when evaluating worst case scenarios, is that the amount of power that is taken away is negligible, even compared to the total power consumption on earth (i.e. even if all power on earth would come from e.g. wind power, that would still be only a minuscule part of the total power that is in winds blowing all day, or sunshine that is emitted by the sun each day.)
Ask HN: how can i re-ignite interest in my website?
Hiya HN how's tricks? we made a movie voting site - http://www.greatmovieexperiment.com which had some small initial success in terms of blog posts and tweets but soon died down in traffic. On the plus side I'm quite pleased with how the site has worked: after 229k votes it has produced a quite interesting top 1000 list. Any tips for re-sparking interest and attracting the next few hundred thousand votes would be much appreciated.
Hmmm. I'm probably in the minority here, but I'm a subscribed member. I've been reading the Times for a while, and I really enjoy their writing, so I decided to sign up.

The one thing I noticed is that
a) most articles don't have comments any more. 3-4 comments is the norm. On one hand, it's a bit sad...but..

b) the comments that are there tend to be far more worth reading. The old Times site had a big problem with trolls and flamers, and somewhat unsurprisingly, this problem is greatly diminished. It would be nice to see more comments though.

For me, it's almost like a very quiet HN at times. I haven't regretted signing up yet, though I've never used any of the Times+ stuff that's 'supposed' to be the benefit. Cutting out the trolls in the comments is worth the money to me.
I agree with your position, but I beg to suggest that it doesn't fit in this discussion. Promising you'll have much fun isn't likely to quell your SO's doubts.
OMG that was hilarious and I don't even have/care about iphone.

The subtle things like AT&T shackles and the lightsabre cutting off fingers is surreal.
> From what I remember, most problems with windmills are due to 2 factors: Not enough wind Too much wind

That's very apt :)

> I believe the generating curve is exponential

It goes up with the cube of the windspeed

Most windmills nowadays (the grid connected ones anyways) are of the variable pitch type, which means they can run constant RPM up to a maximum windspeed at which they are shut down to avoid damage. Such high winds occur relatively infrequently though.

Freewheeling in a storm is not an option, a windmill that runs unloaded will quickly overspeed and fly apart.
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You read newspaper for comments?
No it doesn't. That effectively ignores the green and blue channels.
It is there but quite far down, below the pictures.

"In addition to iPad availability, the print on demand part of MagCloud is growing more sophisticated as well. Publishers can now choose to put a spine on their magazines (which should be a big improvement), the page limit has been raised to 384 pages and, perhaps most importantly, HP will now ship printed magazines anywhere in the world."
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In 2008 there was a great discussion ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=250704 ) and a list of startup ideas that YCombinator would like to fund ( http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html ).

Do you think that it can be updated today? There are a lot more YC funded companies today.. maybe some of the problems are gone?
I've tried it. It's a really cool application for messaging and collaboration.
Well, the customers should be the ones who regulate industry. In some markets (medicine, food, financial advice, etc), it's very hard for customers to make informed decisions. In other markets, negative externalities are an issue.

I think I can spot if a hotel room is clean or not. I doubt I could tell if the bedsheets had been properly sterilized, or if the shower was cleaned with bleach, but I can carry a sleeping bag and a pair of rubber slippers.

Neighbors will complain about tourists partying till 3am every night, but that could be handled by the cops. They could raise some revenue by fining noise polluters, just like they fine people who break the speed limit.
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It looks like GuruPlug is closer to 15W (3A @ 5V).
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Yeah. I wrote the long one of those. What you should use for best results is something like CIELAB lightness. Basically the steps are:

1. Take "gamma-compressed" RGB and scale to the range [0, 1] (if it's an 8-bit integer representation, divide by 255), and convert to linear RGB: undo the sRGB nonlinearity or for the lazy, take each component to the 2.2 power.

2. Take a weighted sum of R, G, B components. The weights for an sRGB/HDTV image are .2126, .7152, and .0722 for R, G, and B respectively. This gives you the luminance, Y.

3. Apply some non-linearity to the luminance to get a decent correlate of human-perceived lightness. A gamma curve w/ 2.2 gamma (that is, raise your value of Y to the (1/2.2) power) actually is an okay function to use. If you want a better one, feel free to use the CIELAB definition: L = 116 Y^(1/3) - 16, where L ranges from 0 to 100.

4. Anything with L >= 50, use black, anything with L < 50, use white.

(properly L*, but hacker news will think I'm using the asterisk to indicate emphasis if there is more than one of them)

Since this is likely only being calculated for a few colors (even up to dozens or hundreds), there's really not enough overhead in doing this math to worry about the speed.
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I have some problems with the logic here.

First, the author draws on past examples of folks complaining about the new generation as a way to discount any current complaining. Let's get this straight: no matter how many x examples you can show me of other people complaining about something, it doesn't discount my complaining or the thing I am complaining about at all. People complain about sickness -- been doing it for generations. Does that mean that my complaining about the effects of getting sick has no validity. Indeed, it may just show the reverse: that things are reliably getting worse. Or it may show nothing. You don't know. Oddly enough, he makes the point that anecdotes aren't data -- then uses anecdotes of past complainers to make a point. ouch.

This discussion has all the earmarks of being about definitions and semantics. For instance, perhaps I would argue that a) the current parenting generation grew up in an environment so technologically different as to be inept at raising their own kids, b) basic survival skills, such as regular exercise and being able to live outdoors without technology, are a critical and overlooked skill, and c) we are not providing our children with the solid liberal arts education they need to be able to manage the new world that is evolving. All of this leads to a sort of passive, drifting view of life as being one form of entertainment after another, all while waiting to strike it rich and famous. These are specific criticisms that we can talk about, and they have nothing to do with kids being lazy and narcissistic. Yet hell if I'm going to write an essay every time I want to talk about the current generation. I'll just say "Kids today! I have no idea how we're going to make it" and shake my head. Yes -- that general kind of complaining thing has been happening for thousands of years, and no, that doesn't mean that current criticisms are natural and worthless. It just means that if you broaden out your terms, you can lose critical details that are required for analysis. You end up with a kind of "well, everything is sort of like everything else" measly-mouthed conclusion, which, honestly, wastes my time as a reader.
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Yes, you're right, I assume the max draw is 15W, probably 5W at idle and perhaps an average of 10W?

Anyway it's much less than 175W-185W I'm using now with a Core i7 as a 24x7 server...
> young family

That might be worth thinking about. I think things might get easier to manage when the kids leave for school, but I don't know, because we're not there yet. Our 2 year old is a lot of work, and I've more or less put things on the back burner for the time being.
It's basically 3 new features from MagCloud:

- iPad availability

- Shipping to anywhere

- New option to add perfect binding
In that case, it sounds like charging for commenting could be a better model.
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There is an easy way to see why this would not happen. A mountain range is a pretty sizable obstacle to the progress of airflow. It affects the weather directly around the mountain, and as much as 50 miles before the mountain and after it. But that's as far as the influence extends, and you'd need some pretty good data gathering and analysis to prove that. The effects that you can actually feel with your senses usually don't extend more than 10 miles or so beyond the mountain in the leeward direction, upwind you'd be hard pressed to notice any change at all.

There will never be a windfarm that has a cross section comparable to a mountain range.
This isn't a particularly surprising outcome.

I think the problem they're facing is twofold:

1) There's lots of news content available for free.

2) Very few people actually need the news. I can think of maybe two situations in my entire life when I gained information that was personally relevant from following the news (and this is despite being somewhat of a news junkie). What people need is entertainment, and the internet provides almost unlimited amounts of that for free.

It's an interesting experiment (and I salute Rupert for trying it) but I really don't see what the value proposition is for subscribers to a mainstream newspaper.
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I definitely got the vibe of this being handled a bit amateurishly.
It sends Base64 encoded passwords. So if you use http it is basically cleartext. You still don't need to store the passwords in cleartext, as you can use the same hashing mechanisms you would with other login methods.
Oh god the turquoise-ish hue of the tiles is so ugly. Overall the UI experience seems neat but this color...
Well we had the baby...
Design is the most important "feature" of your start-up
For about a year I really wanted to spend more time on my startup, but my wife pointed out that we needed a steady income to support our family. Naturally, she was right - I wrote about it here : http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2010/02/part-time-entrepreneur.htm...

What I have discovered is that you need to be clear about why and how your business is going to work. Be really honest with yourself and with her. You don't have to leap straight from full-time employment into full-time Startup, a gradual change is much better.

In my case, I soon moved from full-time into contracting, working from home. I continued to do my startup part time, by this point I had the dicipline since I had been working 60 hour weeks (40 fulltime + 20 Gridspy) for months. See my corresponding blog entry : http://blog.gridspy.co.nz/2010/06/breaking-away-from-the-man...

More recently, our business is starting to become more serious. However my wife sometimes calls it "my hobby" - her point is valid, until GridSpy is making serious money I need to keep cash coming in to support my young family.

Realise that your wife probably has a lot of valid points. She won't want to hear your argument until it is clear that you have heard hers.

Talk together with her about a plan that can bridge the gap between your current job and a startup. Begin by spending more of your free time on the startup in a regular and productive way. Then look into either spending less time at work (talk to your boss) or explore contracting opportunities. You might find that you can get a higher contracting rate than the rate you currently earn full-time.

There is a very good chance that your startup will fail or simply go nowhere. It takes a huge amount of persistance to get to success, and you will need her support. Don't throw away all you have for nothing. Communicate your goals and how you will live up to her expectations and she will probably support you.
I was at one of the early developer sessions for Windows Phone 7, and even as a professional .NET developer I wasn't convinced I wanted to develop for this phone.

I'm replacing my iPhone (3G) now and it's not for a Win7 phone, it's for an HTC Desire. Even to me, a .NET developer, Android seems like a better platform to develop for.

IMO Microsoft copied pretty much everything Apple did with iPhone,with a subtle taste of too little too late. Ofcourse I would love to be proven wrong, but for the time being I'm going for Android and Java, despite all its shortcomings compared to C#.
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basically if you are:
-Young = fire the SO
-Married / old / with childen = you can't do it if you don't have enough money

I do not suggest you try to make a compromise, people doesn't change.
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The specification is an ECMA standard, but afaik Microsoft's implementation is not open

Yes, that's true.
But I'm curious: How would open-sourcing their implementation of the language (and not just the specification) help in making its use more wide-spread?
(Especially when the compiler is already available at no-cost to those who want it, and for those interested in extending an existing compiler for their own internal use, the Mono source is available)

I guess one possible answer might be that Microsoft's specific compiler implementation may actually diverge from the standard submitted to ECMA (this is actually the case on some edge cases in the language dealing with type casting where they found that what their compiler implements doesn't follow the standard exactly)

What are the other reasons?
The UI doesn't follow a conventional way how people use UI in any form of mobile devices.

With this logic taken to the extreme, we'd all still be using phones with a typical Nokia-interface. I'm very glad we don't.

What Windows Mobile 7 is doing is a fundamentally different way of how you use a mobile device. You could argue that when IOS was first introduced it was also a different way of how people uses mobile phones. But it was different in the sense that it was not confusing, it was very intuitive.

Just noting I read this part and that I agree.

In contrast Widows7 mobile UI is a confusing mess and very bland to be honest. There no "Wow" factor.

Having used a Windows 7 phone I have to disagree. It's very simple to use. It may lack a "Wow" factor but it is sufficiently different to be interesting.

IOS with its new update introduced folder with the goal of giving you more screen real-state so that if you have a lot of apps you don't have to keep sliding and MSFT adds huge block of tiles

The Windows Phone 7 idea is that you shouldn't need as many "apps", but that apps should plug in to "hubs". I like this idea, but getting back to the actual implementation my personal complaint about this is that too few of the hubs on the phone are extensible by applications.
I've been working on this app for the last couple of weeks. This is a first actual "product" that I've launched, so I'm a bit shaken up by how people will, or will not, react to it.
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Show her how hard you can work on your startup in your current free time. If you are serious she will quickly see that you are much more committed than the most extreme workaholic.
> Allowing this to be handled by the browser would lower the learning curve for many people and allow them to use a variety of websites without difficulty.

I agree that it would make it easier to use, but so would allowing the browser to handle site search, and comment posting, and link presentation... Where do you draw the line?