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I don't think it works like that. Put enough barriers to adoption (lack of: easy install, good documentation, friendly community, good error messages, bug free implementation, good libraries) in front of your prospective hacker audience and you'll find that adoption will suffer.

Not because they're not experienced enough or because in principle they can't make it work (I'm sure they could) but simply because there is only so much time.

If you haven't reached a certain level of confidence that a path is the right one within a given amount of time the natural thing for an experienced programmer is to abandon the path, after all, there are so many technologies to choose from that you can't afford to invest too much time into something that feels like a dead-end, even if in the longer term it might turn out to be great.
> Haskell is... mathsy. Mathsy applications already have Matlab and such

I would think Haskell is "mathsy" in a much different sense than Matlab is "mathsy"
I use Gandi.
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Space colonization is implicitly incompatible with libertarian ideology because I say so. Facts, logical thought, proof, etc not needed, it's true because I say so.
Have you ever learned something truly? That you didn't forget? If the answer is yes, try to think about the environment that helped you do it and emulate it. Unless it requires socializing with people or something that is uneasy to do on your own, it should be doable.

E.g. if you found that a particular type of class in college helped you a lot, say, a laboratory where you had to hand in code weekly, then you could "assign" yourself a task that you'd like to do, just in a laboratory fashion.

Sometimes you might think this is hard for a newbie to do, since you don't know what you don't know, etc. For some things you can look up a relevant course at a "good" university/program and see what its curriculum is, what the reading material is, what kind of tasks get assigned etc.
I don't know of any direct competition. Digital printing seems to have become cheep enough to make this feasible.

I've been thinking about the possibility of a EU clone that produces and especially ships locally, and supports other languages etc. If you want to discuss this idea, I'd be happy to hear from any HN users.
I think giving Linus Torvalds the credit for pushing C into the mainstream is a bit much.

Long before Linus came along C was the programming language of choice for anything from games to operating systems and so on.
I predict that sooner or later there will be party that goes out of their way to look for the news that will eclipse TC.

HN could almost be that (it already is for me since I stopped reading TC) if we would stop linking to TC and instead go out and find these stories ourselves. I know that isn't as easy as it sounds, but I think we are close.
$100/mo? That's $40/mo. more than I charge for 1U of real datacenter space with a 5Mbps (shared) connection. Plus, if you actually start generating a lot of traffic I'm not going to randomly cut you off or throttle your connection like Comcast might.
Yes and no. If you are experienced programmer, then you'll have no problems with "issues". On other hand, why should you waste your time with new language?

Each year there is new programming language or framework that "will change the computing". Oh come on. We all know that Windows will become lousy implementation of Unix. We also know that all programming languages eventually will have half-assed implementations of Lisp features. Why you should learn Haskell when Lisp is more superior?
Interesting article, but I didn't care for the pointless bashing in the second paragraph. The author establishes that the "space colonization supporters" are mostly Americans, then bashes them for not being supportive of the Russian and Chinese space programs by saying the Americans don't like the fact that the Russians and Chinese "don't look like them". There's no reason to assume a racist or xenophobic attitude here; American space proponents simply want their own country to recover the glory and sense of adventure it had in the 60s.

As an American, I'm perfectly happy to see other countries sending up manned missions, and I'm grateful for the continued existence of the Russian space program which we've depended upon for both active support and the long years of space station research. I just hope that the United States continues to be a participant in space exploration, rather than an observer.
One-time setup fees seem like one of the dumbest things a hosting company can do. I can think of few more effective ways to keep me from trying a service.
there is no sense to plan for scaling when you are small.

you are wasting valuable resources for things that might not happen. Just spend $10/mo on a shared host and you'll be good to go.

if your product is in such a high demand, that it crashes from the traffic...then you can quickly spend a few bucks on a dedicated server. Until then preparing for millions of users is just stupid, since chances are, you'll only get a few hundred users that first week/month
Two words for him, rest for your spam? Stay classy.
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If you buy into his "libertarianism == no dependence on social organization" and "space colonization == absolute dependence on social organization" than he's right. The latter statement seems likely to be true, but I don't think the former is. Libertarians aren't anarchists, and the beginnings of commercial space exploration that we're seeing today suggests that libertarian-friendly support for space colonies may be possible.
The real scenes in the film are made intentionally dreamlike at points to emphasise the idea that Cobb hasn't sorted his life out and hasn't "come back to reality", still obsessed with his lost wife.

That plus reality in Hollywood films is seldom very real anyway and usually involves cuts to faraway locations.
Have you had any problems with BtrFS? I'm going to transition my workstation to the just-released OpenSUSE 11.3 in a week or so, and planning to do a fresh install rather than upgrade, so I'm wondering whether to go with ext4 or BtrFS. (my 11.2 install originally was 11.1 and has accumulated a lot of cruft)
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I should have pointed out that my code was theoretical and not actual. My example assumes a (non-tail call) merge sort.

Sort specifically was (I felt) a small part of my point but I should have known that on a "hacker" site one must be exact. :)
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I'm pretty sure most of you don't have a lynda.com subscription (I got mine through a company I did work for), but the Ze Frank interview is awesome - http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=53856.

Actually, all of their "Creative Inspirations" interviews have been great.
Err, I was only objecting to your attack on Don's on-line behaviour. Actually I'm (still) an outsider. Consider "what I ever saw" as anecdotal evidence.

Now it's a pity that companies are scared of the GPL. As far as I know, most software is custom or private, is never released[1], and thus can't possibly infringe the GPL.

I think the real problem here is corporate culture. No company would object using the glibc in a proprietary program. So why would they be scared of any other LGPL library? When they don't even release the software? That's plainly irrational.

Now our choice is hard, but simple: get rid of the "GPL == we can't use it" line of thinking, or get rid of restrictive licences.

[1]: Many custom software actually belong to the company that wrote it, rather than to the company (or government) that purchased it. In this case GPL infringement could happen. But really, I can't fathom why some customers still don't demand complete ownership (including source code) for their custom software. That strikes me as either wildly misinformed or incredibly silly.
Well, their editorial filtering is sub par for sure, but a few good items from them have been submitted to HN. Although not any recently....
Ask HN: I want to start a web company what books should I read?
What books helped you?
That is quite a literary interpretation. I think the dream expresses much deeper truths through the metaphors.

The ending ends that way because the producers clearly wanted us to question as to which is reality. Remember when he says do not create places from reality into dreams as that is the best way to lose which is reality and which is a dream. Also, when he meets his older self and tells him he has to jump. That indicates that the "reality" on which the film begins is not really reality, that his wife was probably right. But how can she be right when the spinner does stop spinning and yet in the end when we are brought to the same reality it does not stop spinning?

This contradiction is supposed to be there as it communicates this entire confusion as to which is reality and which is an illusion we have created for ourselves. Speaking of its applicability to the real world it speaks of brainwashing, propaganda, and formation of our own perceptions, how we can through them create a different reality and be lost in there, yet also struggle to find the real truth. The film, through the metaphor, communicates perfectly this entire confusion and it ends with such contradiction because ultimately we as humans and our thinking can not acquire perfection as to what is truth. We are blind in the end to inconsistencies within our illusions, hence the always spinning spinner.

Its a good film, but in the end I think it is really rubbish. The subject is awesome, but it does not go deep enough. The ending is too subtle. There probably should have been some sort of almighty intervention like in the ending of Don Juan for it to become a classic. To allure in the end that there are great forces out there which we depend on and only through taking a leap of faith in ourself can we acquire reality.
Mulholland Drive is IMHO very superior to Inception in every aspect (for the record, I really enjoyed Inception).

Mulholland Drive is also much, much darker which might not be to your taste.
Pretty much no reason. The deal breakers you mention have also been ported to FreeBSD and are said to be rather stable already.
You might want to take a look at the lift frame work - it is written in Scala, and is essentially correct most of what I hate about PHP.

The only downside is that it requires Jetty (or Tomcat) to be deployed, which means you can't use it on a shared host.
Arrow keys => move

Z key => shoot

Magnum Pistol is located upward from the starting position.
FreeBSD supports ZFS v14, which lacks some of the features of ZFS on OpenSolaris, namely data deduplication. However, it is my understanding that porting later versions of ZFS to FreeBSD would require non trivial changes to the FreeBSD kernel, making it unlikely.
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The thing PHP has going for it (other than an enormous momentum) is that

1) it is easy to get startet

2) it is supported by just about every single host ever
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I've seen the film multiple times, read the book multiple times, and now read that thread you linked. And it's still just plain wrong.

What I see in that forum thread is not a sound argument for this interpretation; instead, it's someone proclaiming a theory, getting it shot down and then using ad-hoc immunization and condescension ("that's just what they wanted you to think", "oh, you believe what you saw, poor thing", etc.) to try to puff it up into something respectable.

The book makes it as clear as possible that Angier's not using a double in the sense Borden is; he really is getting duplicated by that machine and having to dispose of the results. The film never prints it on screen in big block letters with a signed note from the director saying "this is how it happened, trust me", but it doesn't need to -- it's following the book and doing a good job at it. Thus, attempts to read a "ha ha he really put one over on you" secret into the film are just pointless.

(and unless you can show me you're not in the same take-your-logic-and-facts-elsewhere camp as the guy in that forum thread, I'm done here)
Ask HN: Where is the best place to find a co-founder?
I'm currently working on a startup and would like to bring in a co-founder. The general consensus seems to be the following: first find someone and then work together on a pet project for some time to find out if the vibe is good.

The problem is that most people in my social circle aren't tech savvy, let alone entrepreneur minded. Of course I could cold message everyone on HN but that would take some time and annoy a bunch of people!

So, where can I find a hacker type co-founder on the web (due to my current location, attending meetups is not an option)?
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More than calamities, I'd worry about simply going away for a week or two and having something happen. With Linode/whoever, even if I'm somewhere remote, I suppose I can at least call or write email and get some help. If everything's at my house, what would I do? Leave the keys to a friend? "Can you feed the cats and take care of the servers in case they have a problem at 3AM?"
Plus your time to spec and build the boxes and to maintain them. If your time is worth $100 an hour that is going to be a lot more per month than $135.
I'd like to add that I've not said "average Joe" in a dismissing tone. I just meant that most people are not that interested in living their lives to their fullest, and are just not interested in asking deep questions in whatever domain.

Moreover, hating to feel uncomfortable about yourself is just a human trait and most people just like following the path of least pain (another human trait, I think).
Thank. Will go with DVORAK.

My reasons:
My keyboard is qwerty, so i will quickly unlearn to look at it.

I have a feeling that it really is better designed. Home row fells so much more productive.

As i slowly type at 30 WPM in qwerty it deosnt look like a huge drop to start at 10 again.
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I expected this. Foxconn is manufacturing Apple's stuff. So China has the know-how, the workforce and resources to do this.

A friend of mine has a Meizu M8 phone which is like an iPhone without its restictions. Yes it has a SD card, full bluetooth, an exchangable battery and more.
And depending on where you live you could add until someone walks in and walks away with your server (and all of your user's data on it).
I'm not sure that the Inception on Fisher Jr. ever actually occurs, as I doubt that Cobb ever escaped Saito's dream from the beginning.
It is suggested in the movie that the subconscious attacks the architect of the dream first. In the beginning of the movie the last we see of the first architect is him being bundled away by Saito's goons.
Saito then crafts an excuse for Cobb to end up at peace, lost in his own subconscious. The Saito living in limbo could be a projection in the same way that Fisher Jr. creates a projection of the guy the forger was mimicking.
I may not care, but I end up knowing every time I see one of those PHP/MySQL error traces in a website. Apparently one of their problems isn't proper exception handling.
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* Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for storage

* MapReduce for distributed processing of large data sets on compute clusters

* HBase for fast read/write access to tabular data

* Hive for SQL-like queries on large data sets as well as a columnar storage layout using RCFile

* Flume for log file and streaming data collection, along with Sqoop for database imports

* JDBC and ODBC drivers to allow tools written for relational databases to access data stored in Hive

* Hue for user interfaces

* Pig for dataflow and parallel computations

* Oozie for workflow

* Avro for serialization

* Zookeeper for coordinated service for distributed applications
Why read fiction when we have this? I guess in fiction things have to make sense at some level.
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Ah but when Cobb tampered with the totem they were already very deep into dream state, where a change to the environment could have a profound effect. It's not a oneway camera because the subconscious constantly reacts to things that they do to the environment/projections, no matter what level they're on. Furtheremore Cobb doesn't so much change the environment (which I agree would be too easy, although he had to go to the trouble of finding the safe first), as reactivate something which Mal had chosen to bury and forget. If Mal merely had to look at the spinning top for Inception to work, then he could have just dragged her in there and made here open the safe, and when they woke up she could have seen that the top no longer spun. What he did was change a constant such that she had no idea why she now doubted reality (on every level).

In the other dreams the safes contained pieces of information, but Mal's safe was different as the contents were something with mechanical/programmatic agency, a moving part if you will.
The email was sent to a colleague, who was told to pursue it (and who published the article). Maybe if it was all fluff, then it wouldn't have gotten published.
I'm still holding out for that open source phone

I too hope Openmoko will make it.

http://www.openmoko.org
Articles like this are completely useless. It's about a lawsuit that hasn't got a snowballs chance in hell of succeeding and what would happen if that lawsuit would succeed and the parties involved would not be at each others throats in a countersuit.

It's worse than speculative.

It there is one thing you should take home from this then it is that you should make sure that the origins of your start-up should be impeccable on the off-chance that one day you might be successful. For sure there will be a whole pile of bottom feeders coming after you anyway but if you make their lives easier by doing shady stuff you will have more trouble to contend with.
While I think his attitude is authentic to his younger years, it is still somewhat amusing to hear a billionaire talk about not being into something for the money...
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Ideally they would be interested in whatever area your startup is in. You meet them while interacting in the community around that interest. If your startup is something that doesn't necessarily have a community around it(say bingo cards) then I would try to draw on a community, like HN, where people are more likely to be business minded.
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Do checkout Thrust for the 2600: http://www.atarihq.com/reviews/2600/thrust.html

It's the only 2600 game that I know that has physics and that's why I think it's the best.
All he had to reply back with was "Yeah, and I killed Kennedy. Get real dude".
That sounds backwards to me. Young broke people worry a hell of a lot more about money than billionaires.
I've looked at their phone and the hardware platform is too anaemic to be able to compete in todays market.

At a minimum they should add a camera and a GPS module, the openmoko phone would have been fantastic somewhere in the mid 90's.
I don't think so. Branson now has more money than he could spend - if he was just in it for the money he could have stopped a long time ago.
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"thinking about money" isn't necessarily the same as "worrying about money"
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Perhaps theres a sizeable body of customers who have apps written and deployed for solaris. The cost of moving and certifying existing apps is often something enterprises like to avoid. Furthermore Oracle is expected to push to make the individual bits of Sun more profitable which means existing customers might feel squeezed in various ways. Combined both of the above facts mean that there is a sizeable body of customers willing to pay for solaris based support / products and who might be open to an alternative to the Oracle solaris distribution and support.
One last point - some companies with established products find linux to be a fast moving target and the relative stability of the solaris kernel interfaces is considered a good thing.
Pi doesn't contain all the information in the world. It doesn't have the digits of the square root of 2, or the value of e, for example.
Did I miss an event in this saga? I thought that Zuckerberg was actually under contract to this guy to build a college social networking site called The Face Book. I'm not a lawyer, but it seemed as though that could be severely problematic for Zuckerberg.

Despite widespread opinion of Zuckerberg, I think he is one of the great visionaries of our time and I definitely don't want some Brylcreem "entrepreneur" to steal his company from him.
Yahoo once wanted to be "Mobile Advertising Leader" (2007)
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The spinning top at the end is not meant to make you question the reality, it's meant to question your reasons for believing he's in reality and find a more satisfying/compelling reason. Whether a top spins or not is an unsatisfying answer to any deep question - the reunion with his children is more meaningful. I think we all know we are not dreaming at this moment for a myriad of reasons, but the strongest is probably that other people seem real to an extent that you'd never get in dreams.

I'm starting to repeat myself now in this thread so I better check out (...before I become an old man, filled with regret...).
> The ending is too subtle.

I found the ending to be quite anvilicous. They should have shown the spinning totem for a much shorter time, to make it ambiguous whether it keeps on spinning. (Also you can save it by pretending the protagonist's father spun it again off-camera.)
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