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Don't get too literal.

Each launch is different, and the environment for each business differs.

For some prospective projects, you might well get a launch with just one (good) customer to start with.

And from your list of businesses, you're also looking back at companies that launched years or decades ago, and into vastly different environments and markets than exist now.
it is, but it has been on the market for almost 6 months. verizon is pushing out the new, heavily marketed phones right now.
I just noticed that they support wacom tablets. That's huge. Personally any illustration/painting I do really benefits from pressure sensitivity.

Has anyone tried this with a pressure sensitive tablet yet? Any thoughts?
You don't need to think about scaling, but you need to think about pivoting
Purchased on the 1st of June last year - I'll keep an eye on it in the future, thanks for the warning!
I think it depends on what level of position you're looking for. I wouldn't hire a rookie for a telecommute job. I want to be able to mentor that person in person.
1. The NSA says that RSA 2048 should only be used to protect information that need to remain secret for at most a few years. Nobody should be using RSA 2048 to protect information that could get then jailed/hurt/killed 5 or 10 years from now.

2. The main advantage of ECC is that it is generally faster than RSA, especially for security levels that would require RSA keys larger than 2048 bits.

3. It is meaningless at this time to say that ECC is unnecessarily strong compared to RSA. It is possible to match the security of ECC using RSA at every level. But, a linear increase in ECC key size requires the RSA key size to increase exponentially. For example, to match the strength of AES-128 you need a 256-bit ECC key or a 3072-bit RSA key, whereas to match the strength of AES-256 you need a 384-bit ECC key or a 15,360-bit RSA key.
I don't see anything even resembling fraud here. What do you believe constitutes fraud?
Welcome to HN, Jason!
Yeah, I was actually going to stop by later today and see for myself.
> First, it's a lot easier to quickly figure out what a function does when it has a type signature. It's strongly self-documenting.

I submit to you that I can show just as many examples where the type signature is of no help. Self-documenting functions existing in all paradigms, and it is a stylistic choice rather than one enforced by any technical considerations.

> Second, it's easier to figure out what kinds of datastructures are used in a program, because you can see the types of the variables and functions you're working with. For me understanding the underlying datatypes is a big help in getting to grips with a codebase.

Interesting point. In languages like Ruby and Clojure, you tend to use a standardized set of highly-optimized and standard structures as opposed to using generics to spin out a lot of them. They tend to conform to high level protocols (interfaces) much like statically typed languages do.

The flipside to this is that dynamic languages tend to have a lot more ease changing data structures down the road.

> Third, the compiler catches a lot of dumb mistakes early. It's no substitute for testing, but a quick compile cycle will rule out a common class of errors and helps me make changes with more confidence.

This is true, but I'd like to point out that lots of Lisp compilers already do this. They use optional static type inference for optimization and error checking but do not enforce those constraints, merely observe them and react to them.

Personally, I think that's the best of both worlds.
> Imagine yourself 30 years from now with a house you fully own, with no more payments to make. Now imagine your alternate renting self who, instead of steadily paying down the principal on the mortgage, has built up hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity in some other investment. You still have rent to pay each month but that's also about how much you're collecting in interest on your investments. So the renter now lives for free just like the home-buyer.

Actually, the renter is better off from a purely financial point of view. Even if the house is owned free and clear, property taxes and maintenance will still need to be paid. The renter's rent covers all that.
Only the obvious: Fire your team, move house, then go to every event related to the TV industry that you can find out about.

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Ask HN: Sysadmin uptime gotchas?
Would anyone like to share any semi-rare sysadmin problems they had that caused problems for a website? I had two problems recently that I didn't anticipate which caused some downtime. It's for a website with 700 req/sec, LAMP setup, 1 web server, 1 DB server on EC2.

* Sporadic mysql_connect errors at high traffic periods. Cause was some combination of hitting the limit on max open files and ip local port range on the web server (http://www.tigase.org/content/linux-settings-high-load-systems)

* All database connections from the web server were refused because the database hit the max_connect_errors setting in mysql, which is only 10. Flushed hosts and increased the setting a bit to fix.

Does anyone else have other "black swan" events that they could share to help us soon-to-be-great sysadmins? We don't have to learn everything the hard way :)
Ask HN: Retrieving and processing offsite pages on a web browser
Hello

I am wondering how, if it is possible at all, how a browser visiting one site (say a.com) could be made retrieving and processing pages from multiple websites (b.com, c.com, d.com..), sending back some strings to a.com?

The goal is to compare how fast/different are the various b.com, c.com, d.com websites based on a.com visitors connection, with the information being sent to a.com

The result would be a survey updated with data from every new visitor.

So far, the javascript options I've tried are not possible due to cross site scripting protection on the browser. a.com javascript can only be made loading a.com own pages.

Loading offsites pages requires running some kind of proxy on a.com to load them through it, which defeats the purpose - comparing the other websites from different connections.

There is no need to run scripts from the other websites - all the scripts will be provided by a.com. However, they need to have b.com (etc.) html code loaded to check how fast it does, how different it is from another visitor, etc. with chunks being sent back to a.com

hn at guylhem dot net
The way the law is enforced is not the same thing as what it says. Let's say he shipped one shoe out of a pair to the country and it's worth 10c. Then he ships the second shoe in the set and it's now worth 10$ because the first one is already in the country.
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> The perks were no more coercieve than having health surance tied to the job + mortgage paymentd in America.

We're in agreement there.

> They are still fighting wars in the Middle East and "brave" drone pilots in Langley, VA are risking their lives daily driving to work so they can play video-games and with a push of a joystick putton assasinate individual we'll never know or hear about in a country we are not even at war with...

And that's a huge problem, and a very bad step to take. The bigger the distance between the opponents the bigger the chance of both fuck-ups and a de-humanizing effect.

> So yes, I am for critisizing imperialism and oppression, but I am for doing so for all the imperialism and oppression not just the ones that the popular propaganda machine wants to critisize.

Trying to get people to open their eyes to the faults of the country that they dearly love is a very uphill battle.
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Whats more unscientific; genetics are scary and we should never intentionally modify genes for our benefit, or lets investigate what can be done with this new tool? I'd say that investigation and experimentation would be the scientific thing to do.
We are having reports of man-in-the-middle attacks on gmail on some ISP's. However, main focus of goverment is not spying on people and decrypting stuff, but to censor opposition websites.

Now, this is much more simple to do. They use l7 to drop https connections.
Some of us who are lucky to have a vps and the simple knowledge of ssh stuff are able to use simple ssh tunnels.

However, the days in which we had protest, they simply dropped all encrypted connections, which included ssh tunnels.

I hope that little information gives you a little insight about whats going on here.
Walking or standing. I also find whiteboards helpful. What I want now is giant glass whiteboard: http://www.glasswhiteboard.com/
If they want the tax revenue to be more consistent, perhaps they should write the tax laws more carefully.

And high import tariffs are much more likely to be protectionist than to be legitimate revenue sources - raising the tax rates wouldn't be a sensible response for a protection tariff.
An extra $30K is not going to make much of a difference if he's got 83 people and he wants to hire more.
How many examples of successful startups can you name that fit that description? I think there are very, very few successful tech companies that had no analogue and couldn't have been explained in 1 or 2 sentences. Apple, Google, Dell, Facebook, Twitter, Github, Reddit, Zynga, etc, etc. They were all either a twist or improvement on an existing idea, or a combination of several ideas.

If you can't explain your idea in 10 seconds now, you probably won't be able to later. If people have to really play with it to understand what it is and how it'll be useful, you're doomed. See Google Wave.
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There us one similar program in Chile, from the Chilean Gov't. It's called Start-Up Chile, which give $40k for no equity!!!
They are currently recruiting at www.startupchile.org
Sydney - Santiago = 16 hrs flight, less than to Silicon Valley :)
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Almost everybody I know of that is doing real-world cryptography is using or preparing to use ECC. In one or two years I think the typical computer user will be using ECC very frequently. The ECC patents are pretty easy to work around. One very conservative approach is: don't use ECMQV, don't use point compression, only use the Suite B curves, and use Sun's ECC contribution to OpenSSL (as it was created with the benefit of Sun's legal department and probably also reviewed by several other companies), and review the math algorithms used to make sure they were all published before 1994.
I made a couple on twitter... based on a hacked up AIML engine. This one is the best of the bunch though. http://twitter.com/coolestalison

@coolestalison

It was especially entertaining to see people trying to carry conversations with her, some even flirting. It wasn't perfect, but managed to fool quite a bit of people. I hadn't been running her for a while, maybe I should bring her back to life again.
Apple wasn't fat. They got money up front to build the first machines, and the parts on credit. No initial order -> no machines.
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> No but you have to look at the entire value chain.

Yes but there was more equality than it is now in the west among the richest and the poor. Healthcare, education (all, even higher!), and apartments were provided by the state. Think how much you make vs how much you spend for you house ($500K / 30 years?). What about about your healthcare over you lifetime $5M? Or college education $100K? If you didn't have those expenses, you might get by with just $15K/yearsin some parts of the US. Yes all those things were of the lowest quality but they were _there_. The oppression and gulags were there too, I am not excusing them at all.
Myself and our team are here if anyone has any feedback. Thanks.
I'm always wary of posts like this. It's tagged as book review but there isn't much detail about the book in question. It is effusive in it's praise of the book but gives very little detail of why the book is good. And it contains two affiliate links to the book that it mentions. On second reading, it looks like a post that just exists to try to generate affiliate clicks for the book in question.
Updated iPad in Q1 2011?
The interesting bit AFAIK is the ARM chip.
Out of curiosity, another industry where this (the small change accelerating an open standard such that there are more winners [a higher tide overall]) is what happened? I'm not saying there aren't any--honest question.
Health insurance is a fairly competitive market - narrow profit margins, commodity good, many competitors (in most states, including NJ). If a health insurance company can raise prices, it's probably because costs are going up or are likely to do so in the near future. The calculus is fairly simple:

If I raise prices, my competitors don't, and costs don't go up, I lose customers.

If I raise prices, my competitors don't, and costs go up, I lose competitors.

Insurance companies all seem to be placing their bets on the latter case. If you feel they are wrong, feel free to bet against them.
As roel_v 3 said no other country in Europe can stop you trading in another country. You must pay tax on where the business is located. Where Irish companies are often used is to hold IP, a trading company then pays a royalty to the IP company. Where the business is located, for tax reasons is independent of registration. You need to get some professional advice on domicile of the business.

Irish companies are also useful in that they are quite easy to set up and maintain. The usefulness of them compared to the UK is that Ireland is within the Euro.
> I mean, if that's really the experience you want, I'll
> write you a "challenging" RPG where you die in three turns
> no matter what you do.

I guess you've never played nethack? ;-)
Some did:

Sony: started in 1945 as an electronics repair shop. Built-in audience
Microsoft: in 1975, MITS requested Bill Gates and Paul Allen sell their BASIC interpreter for the Altair before it was even written
Amazon: started in 1994. Everyone buys books, they just needed people to do it online

Intel, Apple, and Google were much riskier. Google wanted to sell its search technology to giants like Yahoo, but Yahoo refused. Apple built products no one knew they needed, but now we can't live without (hackable PC). They continue this today (iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc.).
Probably not; the complexity would be pretty enormous.
Revenue of $400m in the first half of 2010, that's a huge difference. Their net income was $13m.
Funny you mention XMPP in light of how many times people call [it] "Google Talk" (this seems to draw the ire the folks that know about the real 'recognizable open protocol' underneath).
It's worse then outlined in the article. Sally also pays other taxes with her "net" income. If she rents, her rent is certainly higher because of the landlords property taxes. If not, she pays it herself. Then there is sales taxes and excise taxes to may. Truth be told, of the money that the employer pays to keep her employed, only a little more then half of it ends up in her pocket.

Here is a huge opinion that could be incorrect. Most people work for what they need to live. If it becomes more expensive to live, Sally will want a raise. If it's cheaper to live, she won't be so pissed when she doesn't get a raise. The bottom line is all that matters to most people. Therefore, no matter what taxes are created, purported to be income tax and what not, are paid by businesses.

What does this mean in practice? It means that by having incoming taxes at all, we are encouraging business to hire people outside of the US. The only way to level the playing fields, as far as I can see, would be to shift the taxes from income to sales. I don't know if that is plausible or not, but it's the only way I can see the US government really encouraging job growth here in the US. It would mean that no matter where your company does it's business, if it uses the US market, it has to pay the piper, and would give a real shot to US workers at competing with other world-wide workers.
Look - I think that my sparse history of commenting on HN says more than I can express here about my stance on flame wars. I don't want to start one.

But this whole food issue is something that I feel quite strongly about. My surprise is hardly rhetorical, and while I may have treated you as a straw man for a moment, I think that the larger point is still valid. The attempt to get scientific about eating strikes me as the problem, and I think that my post was a response in line with the OP in that sense. What I am trying to tell you is that I have been in your shoes; I have read all the books about diet; and I think that asking for more books is not going to give you the answers that you need.

Your anxiety is not caused by a lack of data - it is caused by an unhealthy reliance on outside opinion for your mental stability. Nobody who is writing the books knows enough to give you the answers that you want. Don't rely too much on scientists and experts. The scientists invented the HFCS that is giving us all diabetes and lay people in the 1400's didn't think that the earth was flat - the "experts" did. I am not asking you to rely on common themes or popular opinion - I am asking you to do some experiments and gather data - try eating different foods and see what makes you feel best. Don't ask a scientist what to do - become one.
It is the same in the US: http://www.google.com/search?q=irs+independent+contractor+te...
even for simple webpages? how does google cache pull it off?
What templating library do you recommend?
Wow, usually the title of articles like this turns me off. It's not yet another "can my town be the valley!" posts. It's a good in-depth look at SV itself and an analytical insight into why SV is what it is/where the next one might pop up for the same reasons.
How is Skype related to this?
Somewhat off point, but the site cube20.org kills Firefox but views OK in Chrome. Firefox reports a seg-fault somewhere.
Sorry, my reading was that he ordered something he didn't pay for. Looks like the alternative (and presumably correct) interpretation is that he ordered something that he did pay for, and used a clever trick to avoid taxes. Still, I'm more interested in the spirit of the question the blog title made us all think we were getting an answer to!
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Well, he also states that he hasn't really spent any time analyzing the proof, so it's not like he knows that it's deeply flawed. Isn't Aaronson maintaining a bit of a bad-boy online persona? Could just be his way of saying what Bill Gasarch just wrote on his blog:

"So what are my uninformed views? If I was a betting man I would bet that it won't pan out. I would bet that he proved something very interesting, but not P ≠ NP. Why do I think this? This is NOT based on the author who seems to be a person to be taken seriously. Its just that the problem is so hard and we've made no progress on it since... . Hmmm, when is the last time we made progress on it?"
Microsoft and Apple did, at the very least. Apple started out with a bunch of people trying to buy more of Steve Wozniak's hand built computers than he could keep up with, and Bill Gates sold IBM an operating system well before he had an actual product to show them.
Do customs duties ever apply to the resale price of merchandise after it has been imported and made available on the local market? Do they apply to the market value of finished goods when importing their unfinished components?

The way the law is enforced is very much a function of what it says. I'm fairly confident in assuming that the customs authority didn't arbitrarily make up the "auction goods with duties unpaid for 30 days" rule, and that it was fully rooted in applicable law.
If my boss walks in on me watching a movie at work and asks me to get back to work. I would have no problem "coping" with that and a getting back to work . My boss doesnt send me an alter that work is coming . There is never a "conflict".
Not sure where all this advice for obsessive parenting is coming from, lets enjoy our time with our kids instead of designing alert systems or obsessing over their physcology . Kids are not small sized adults .Please...

I grew up in shut the TV and do the homework world ..yea it sucked but its not any worse than many other things that i had no control upon.
How to validate the product which does not have price tag?
We did this with flow.cloudomatic.com a few months back. We knew there was a need for affiliate software for web apps from our own problems, but that seemed like horseshit. So we did the whole MVP smoke test thing with a sign-up page before we even started developing it. Best decision I've ever made. We have a number much larger than ten and we saved ourselves the possibility of building something people didn't want.
Letting people play with it to find out what it is and how it'll be useful is exactly how Google, Facebook, Twitter, Github, Reddit, and Zynga got their start. Nobody was willing to pay for it out of the gate, and most people still aren't.
Finally, someone weighs in on this debate with a genuinely intelligent perspective grounded in history and solid critical thinking instead of bravado and linkbait. The deep roots of the entrepreneurial spirit in the Bay Area (and, really, California as a whole if you extend this argument down to Hollywood) is hugely underestimated in thinking about what has made SV, SV. It really is woven into the thread of what it means to live there, work there, and thrive there. (And this is coming from someone who's an SF transplant in NYC.)

Well done, guys. Bravo.
Great article to help me understand a bit more on how CDNs work! As others have pointed out the cost-effectiveness of deploying your own CDN is questionable in this climate, but the KNOWLEDGE of how your leased CDN works is certainly valuable!
Does it matter that I was coming in with Firefox 2.x? Never had any problems with other Twitter API services.
I think he addressed that implicitly in his emphasis on hiring the best, e.g. "Hiring someone good is important, but hiring the best you can afford isn’t."

When you hire a rookie, you're trying to create the best through mentoring, providing experience, etc. It's a great and very productive thing to do if you can afford it but it's not the sort of position he's talking about.
After having issues multiple times with my back as a result of the way I sit (and the amount of time I sit) for work, my opinion is work standing up as much as possible.

That or get one of the exercise balls to sit on when you must sit, it forces correct posture.
Everybody thinks about garbage collection the wrong way
Have a general price range in mind. Or just ask: what is this worth to you?