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Anybody can buy a fast car, but few can actually afford to maintain it.

A $10K fast car you buy might cost you a good bit of money per year to drive and keep in shape. Especially when it's thirty years old.

That's mostly the reason it's only $10K to begin with (and the fact that the market for impractical cars is not too large).
Plan9 grep is competitive in my simple test, often faster.
It is also immune from the pathological data that will kill GNU grep - see http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/
and the BUGS section of your local GNU grep

#!/usr/local/plan9/bin/rc

fn 9grep { /usr/local/plan9/bin/grep '2010-[0-9][0-9]-23 02:01:57' /home/maht/lighttpd.error.log > /dev/null }

fn ggrep { /usr/bin/grep '2010-[0-9][0-9]-23 02:01:57' /home/maht/lighttpd.error.log > /dev/null }

fn mgrep { /usr/bin/grep -mmap '2010-[0-9][0-9]-23 02:01:57' /home/maht/lighttpd.error.log > /dev/null }

switch($1) {
case -9
9grep
case -g
ggrep
case -m
mgrep
case *
ls -l /home/maht/lighttpd.error.log
time /tmp/gtest -9
time /tmp/gtest -g
time /tmp/gtest -m
}

/tmp/gtest
-rw-r--r-- 1 www wheel 1113325534 Aug 23 18:51 /home/maht/lighttpd.error.log
23.67 real 3.88 user 3.74 sys
24.28 real 0.63 user 3.89 sys
23.09 real 0.56 user 3.87 sys
That's just (somewhat justified) laziness on the party organizer's part since you can add people to Facebook events that aren't on Facebook by entering their email address. They get a normal invite and chance to RSVP. Facebook membership not required.
If you need incentive to come to NYC, you aren't going to make it.
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By that same logic Linux should rule the desktop and Windows would never have had 90%+ market share.
Amazon EC2 is a great place to get of load simulators.
A quick note about amend, if you git push before you amend your commit, when you try to push the amended commit, you'll get an error about non-fast-forward references. If you're sure that nobody has grabbed your commit since you've pushed it, you can just git push -f, and it'll replace your original commit with the amended one.
The chances of analyzing just one HTTP header in an application are almost nil. Use a boyer-moore skip table.
Can anyone suggest good resources for gaining a cursory understanding of statistics?
"Can X be improved?" Anyone who says no to that question is being silly. Can't damn near everything be improved in some way or another? Especially something so universally hated as airline tickets...
I'm an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) member in my second year of service in Maine. (That's why I can't afford the conference.) I'm a full-time volunteer helping an educational nonprofit organization improve its use of technology (among other things). However, if I receive this offer of a ticket for Business of Software 2010, I'll commit an additional 3 days to helping a partner organization, which does not have internal tech support or funding for consulting, with their website and related tech support.

The "business of software" is intriguing and exciting for me, and I believe that I would "pay it forward" even more in the long-term, applying what I learn there, and my programming skills, to social entrepreneurship after my national service is complete.
The only people who will ever get sick of programming are the ones who are in it for the money alone. Good riddance, should've listened to your parents and chose a career that you would've done for free.
pre-sets:

- put foot in mouth

- drunk in charge of keyboard

- 4 am

- the cat did it

- sincerely regret writing that
Apple has trash-talked Microsoft for decades now including in the run up to OS X launches.

As for wishful thinking, I may be that but it might also be history repeating itself.
I couldn't agree with you more sabat, it isn't an either or scenario. I'm hoping for my first success to just be a springboard into more money making ventures.
I prefer http://www.ninja-support.com/... On that note, does anyone know why other blogs' fixed backgrounds are choppy while that one is actually stable?
It's not incentive, it's awareness.
Facebook Deletes North Korean Account, it "violated our terms of use"
Wanted to give dododo credit for bringing up this angle immediately upon the announcement:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1617216
This line in the article makes me a little weary of Intel: "He then told an anecdote about how he was watching Intel CEO Paul Otellini being interviewed by Charlie Rose, and Otellini told Rose, "I've given our company a charter to make [security] job one." Rattner laughed and told us that this statement seemed to come from out of the blue, and it took him and other Intel execs by surprise. But from that day forward, Rattner was focused on security."

I wonder how many other projects at Intel got started this way.
I don't even need knowledge, just basic reasoning skills--I would prefer to have anybody who can answer a question about, say, the base rate fallacy[1] voting, even if they don't know the constitution. Hell, even if they're illiterate.

[1] http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12
Did you forget to give Apple a demo account for the reviewer to use?
Which sums up approximately 5 consecutive years of Black Hat Vegas and DC presentations on rootkits.
HAHAHA. Are you a startup founder? Have you ever tried to recruit a web hacker for an early stage startup in NYC? Early stage companies are desperate for talent.
As others have pointed out, with the buyout presented in the article, you can live forever spending low six figures (like $120k, with inflation adjustments.) That's not "rich young playboy" territory, but it's not "miser" territory either. At that level, you can raise a family in a comfortable house in a nice neighborhood, drive a nice car, have an RV or a boat or a cabin in the woods, have a country club membership and season tickets for your favorite sports team.

Or you can live a little bit cheaper, still doing most of that stuff but maybe skipping out on the country club membership or something, and become a rich old guy who can leave a huge estate to his kids... and still not be a miser.

The key is to position yourself in that middle ground.
Oldskool: Google Directory: the web organized in categories
Sure but given the choice of buying let's say a acer tablet or the rumored 7" iPad for a little more (guessing the price is going to be 200ish less than the current iPad).

Apple has a good knack for keeping ahead of the market and their competitors.
I learned Prolog having signed up for an AI minor at University.

It takes a bit of learning, but you quickly get used to it, with the right tutor and sample problems to solve.

Basically, my Prolog code worked out a route through a London Tube map, and the feeling I got when it worked was great.

It even influenced the way I write Lisp code.
Which reminds me, what's up with dmoz.org lately? Still going strong? Seeing any usage at all?
I was on a trip for college, and I actually went into that mine - crazy to see that it's collapsed. The river leading away from it runs light copper oxide green - not sure if that's run off or if there's just copper everywhere.

They actually partially refine the ore inside - pretty cool place to be honest. Wouldn't want to be in there for months, but I'm glad they're okay.
Your numbers make sense to me.

An interesting follow-up might be how they're planning to attract new communities moving forward.

Freemium to is all about lead gen, they just got their revenue bump from freemium despite cutting it out of the equation - eg those 35,000 came from free accounts right?

12% is a huge closing ratio, forget for freemium.

I imagine a big part of those huge conversion numbers is because the communities had ample time to gain traction, some financial incentive tied to that traction that validates the cost, etc.

Let's say they convert their next 300,000 leads at the same impressive 12% ratio to paid - where do those leads come from?

I applaud the move to "paid" at some levels, but I question that they're going to be able to pull it off without a solid free option - their 30 day free trial isn't going to suffice.
I'm an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) member in my second year of service in Maine. (That's why I can't afford the conference.) I'm a full-time volunteer helping an educational nonprofit organization improve its use of technology (among other things). However, if I receive this offer of a ticket for Business of Software 2010, I'll commit an additional 3 days to helping a partner organization, which does not have internal tech support or funding for consulting, with their website and related tech support.

The "business of software" is a central question for me, and I believe that I could "pay it forward" even more in the long-term, applying what I learn there, and my programming skills, to social entrepreneurship after my national service is complete.
AV hypervisors are no harder or easier to inspect than any other piece of closed-source software. The world runs on closed-source, from Cisco and Juniper routers to NetApp storage appliances to WinAPI OS's. This is no more (or less) sinister than any of that.

Intel seems almost fastidious about not imposing this stuff on Linux; from what I can tell, almost all of this stuff is open to Linux kernel developers to take advantage of.

So mostly I think you're just FUD'ing for karma.
Maybe it should shrink as you realize better and more concise ways to say the same thing ;-)
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It looks like it could be providing a false sense of security for people at work, despite the warning that Firefox gives the user about the employer and ISP still being able to track what he's doing. Are people really reading that warning and understanding what it means?
Why not BA? Curious why you say that.
Your problem must have been that you had no money.
It's no problem hiring hackers in NYC if you can pay what all the heavy hitters are paying. And by heavy hitters I mean the other funded startups, not wall street. Nobody in NYC is going to work here for 65K and options like they do in SF. You can make more money teaching public high school.
I think that the point is that you want open for the user but closed for the mobile providers.

Apple is closer than Android for sure, but it's also off-limits from the providers (well, mostly: they can still veto some apps). Android is open, but since before reaching the user it goes through the providers, the users get a much closed system.
In order to maintain the usability of the URL in a heavily AJAX application.

For example, with movielandmarks I designed it so that you don't use back/forward at all. But I wanted to provide a useful URL for bookmarking and sharing with friends. So I used the hash for this because changing the actual URL of the page forces a refresh.
It's not a terrible thing to do though, because it also reflects uncertainty in your income, albeit in a way that people aren't used to seeing. There is a non-zero chance that 10 million dollars today will end up being 3 million dollars next year, and I don't mean "next year" metaphorically, and I'm not even talking about the nastiness of the current economy, either; that's always true, regardless of the state of the economy, just the odds change.
To save some state of your JS application which can be saved to bookmarks (or copy-pasted to someone else). For example, Gmail adds "#sent/12aa04feebaac50e" when I open an e-mail I just sent. Also, to get the "back" button to work properly in JS applications.
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From a very low base, I'd imagine, compared to the big corporate & government seller's, like Dell, Microsoft, etc... Apple have traditionally fared very badly in this space and the article is all relative sales percentages - anyone have any marketshare/absolute numbers for enterprise/gov mac sales?
Recruiting is a hard problem for early stage startups everywhere, not just in NYC. By definition, you're competing for talent against much more well-known companies with much deeper pockets.
I wasn't replying to your post.

My post summarized the post I was replying to (by dogas), highlighting the apparent contradiction contained therein: Philly's taxes are "exorbitantly high" yet dogas would be _happy_ to pay them _if only_ ...

And I added the absurd/tongue-in-cheek suggestion that maybe dogas would be interested in trying to see if _higher_ taxes would achieve dogas' ideal. I think I would have avoided the downmodding by annotating with <tic> to make this clear.
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Ok. And what happens if they then want them again? Stuff from the store can be re-downloaded. Hence why I either Apple will change them into store app (in the way I described, for example), or they won't remove them.

I am not saying I agree with them... just a polite guess from their history.

(Edit: grammar and the last paragraph)
What does a product manager do?
A lot of founders don't understand what a product manager does and when to bring one in. This is an attempt at an explanation.
Yep. Especially when using GitHub regularly, I'd argue that the README is the most important documentation file of the entire repository.
The Open Voting Consortium is working on an open-source solution that uses everyday PCs and printers instead of these ridiculously expensive voting machines. Their solution[1] is actually paper-based, allowing for increased accountability and transparency. The source is available here[2] although the project hasn't seen activity in quite some time, so I am not sure of the status of the code base.

[1]: http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/our_solution
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/evm2003/
In my experience, early (and later) stage startups in the valley are also desperate to find good hackers.
Ask HN: Anyone know of a real-time message board or one in development?
It'd be nice to just leave a message board thread open and watch as the replies are posted. Or similarly watch as comments are posted on HN and elsewhere.

The refresh is slowly being eliminated.

Thoughts?
If the price is comparable I think Apple will maintain leadership, regardless of platform openness (at least in the short term).

It remains to see if Apple would be interested at all in competing at the low range. They mostly avoid it in the desktops/laptops market, but do compete with iPods, so who knows.
Isn't that what he said eight years ago about the iPod? Apple will be lucky to get 20-30% marketshare max. Didn't turn out that way did it?
(1) McAfee is a cash register that can be valued at some multiple of the next N years earnings.

(2) Intel has a huge and underutilized repertoire of security infrastructure technology that it can't, as a hardware vendor, fully exploit right now.

(3) McAfee has a huge installed base across the Fortune 1000.

(4) McAfee and Intel were already collaborating on integrating AV with hypervisors and remote management.

From a strategy perspective, this seems pretty straightforward. Intel is vertically integrating. ISVs weren't taking advantage of Intel's existing security investment, probably in part because the industry was structurally resistant to that happening. Rather than waiting and hoping for the stars to align, Intel is taking control of its own destiny.
thanks for the info - I somehow missed that when I installed win7 on my machine
I seriously don't mean this in an insulting/trollish way but I think you are either lacking imagination or underestimating how quickly you can adapt to a richer lifestyle. Given you are even here and thinking about entrepreneurial rewards I'd guess the latter. On the other hand perhaps I underestimate how... modest you like to live?

Whilst I also raised my eyebrows at "upper middle class", I know people in that range who have spent rather too much and fallen (not totally) in only a handful of years. They never seemed stupid or excessive. It's probably partly to do with expectations: exactly the bias this article tries to correct.
next to a README there should be at least one line of documentation for every function longer then three lines of code.

I like documentation-driven design - when I'm to write a long and complex routine I always write in pseudo-code-comments what I am to do.

This pseudo code usually ends up as the documentation of the routine (little grammar/language update might be needed)
I am more surprised that you have been upvoted this much. Sure you may disagree but this is the point of a voting system like HN: it's a collective opinion.

Some people will like it, some people won't. You don't get to call everyone stupid or astroturfer just because they disagree with you!
Yeah sure, but what you fail to mention is that google.fr is #1 in france, with 5 times more visits, which means that there is a big subset of fr users that doesn't use google.com. Which was the original point.
How were they correct ?

iPhone market share has not "dropped". It has been constantly increasing.
Windows is a remarkably open operating system for users and integrators. While Microsoft doesn't give out the source, they don't have to -- you can dramatically customize virtually every part of it, install whatever you'd like, do whatever you'd like, etc.

I don't think the Windows analogy flies at all, except perhaps to support Android.
Also, perhaps you are young and naive like me and don't think about the real cost of kids ;)
The vPro marketing is unbelievably bad.

The vPro idea is very concrete. It is:

* Crypto-signed control of executable memory and execution environment.

* Hardware-assisted hypervisors that use that crypto security to protect their boot.

* An off-core management processor (like the Sun lights-out-manager) with a secure channel to the hypervisor and a PKI-based system for secure remote communication.

You can think of a lot of cool things to build for an enterprise IT shop with those particular lego blocks.
Happiness is the sensation of gradient ascent.
"Living frugally" isn't what it used to be in the pain department. I have a Netflix subscription for one DVD and unlimited streaming instead of a $70 cable subscription (or an expensive antenna for my area), and while I made this choice to be "frugal" in the end I've actually been happier than I was with the cable. Do you need a smartphone with unlimited Internet? I can't speak for you, but I'm almost always within range of a computer and Wifi, and when I'm not I don't really need it. Does a new car bring you proportionate joy to the cost? It doesn't me, so mine are chosen to be relatively cheap to buy and operate, and I don't miss out on much I care about. (And I'm examining doing without my car; without going into my personal analysis it isn't a drop-dead win for my real numbers, but I'm looking at it. Note: I do not live in an area where I can trivially use public transportation.)

And so on. You don't really have to eschew the pleasures of the flesh entirely to be a "miser" nowadays; you can eat well (cooking yourself), drive adequately, be entertained for a reasonable price, etc, and still save enough money to retire comfortably. You do have to avoid credit card debt, not overcommit on your housing, and there's some tricks and issues (can you psychologically deal with having $10K+ in the bank without spending it, without relenting on the discipline?), but the days of actually facing the choice you outline are gone for most of the people who would be on HN in the first place.

Oh, recently internalized "trick": Take all "monthly fees" and mentally multiply by 12 to get the yearly cost, then treat that as the real cost. $24.95 a month for a service may sound reasonable; does $300 a year sound just as reasonable? I've been using this as part of my cell-phone upgrade resistance; there's a lot of ways I'd personally rather spend $300 than on a cell plan upgrade, up to and including not spending it at all. My Netflix savings is ($70 - $9) x 12 yearly, or $732/yr. My only regret is that I didn't do it about a year earlier!
I got the joke.

It would have been enough for us.
What technologies would be needed to make this happen? There was a Websockets demo yesterday, which I guess is one way..that hardly seems to be supported by any browsers in use. What else.. is Ajax polling the only other method used now?
What about those ads they ran with the Mac vs PC guy? Apple just trash talks in a more endearing way.
There was a period where they did. Where one of the reasons people buy a certain brand of PC (like Packard-Bell) was that it came with a unique UI experience.

But then that got to be seen as a negative, the market reacted, and those custom skins disappeared. I don't want Sony's Rachael interface so I don't buy an X10, and if enough people feel that way Sony will either improve it or dump it. That's how a normal market works.
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Right and doesn't roooting your phone void the warranty? If so, I have to root my HTC Evo, voiding its warranty to get rid of a NASCAR app I will never in my life use.
Uhh, the article states it's only a username and password required. That's not really personal information, and it's for a valid reason. I say, outrage session approved. Especially for an app already in the store, whose explicit purpose is account specific!
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> There are too many mechanics out there to make sure that the folks taking the real risks (investors and founders) make the real money.

If a founder invests little to no money in the startup, what is the founder risking that someone working under her isn't? One could argue that employees are risking more - in hard times they are more likely to be out of a job.
Levenshtein, DCTs, Wavelets, Phong shading, flood fill and so on. There are so many really insightful algorithms.

But BM stands out for me because it is taking the opposite approach where that was entirely non-obvious in spite of lots of people having looked at that problem for a very long time (and plenty of those people were anything but stupid).
This is a great point, and one we should have addressed in the post.

That said, there is not generally a spike in usage at lunch for anything else. For many other metrics of interest we see a familiar sinusoidal wave of usage, with the low point at around 3 or 4am, and a high point at approximately 6-7pm.

Thus the spike in usage at lunch turns out to be quite unexpected.
> But... that is what happens today.

Not quite. At least with Dell, you can still upgrade Windows via Microsoft Update at will. No waiting around 3 months while Dell integrates MS's updates into Dell Windows, then pushes those updates via Dell Windows Update. But that's what is happening in the Android market.

I vaguely recall something about Microsoft including a clause in the Windows OEM license outlining what ways OEMs could and couldn't modify Windows, with ultimate objective being to ensure both uniformity of the Desktop and user experience, and control of it.

Seems Google forgot that part. Going to be difficult to add it after the fact.
Many years ago, at the first company I worked for that IPO'd, I think I was something like employee number 30. Employee number 1 was a good friend of mine, and after the event we and a few others decided "I'll show you mine if you show me yours". Jewel was big at the time, total honesty was all the rage. Now I had made "a bit" of money on my stock options, not an amount to be sniffed at, but far from a life-changing amount. Think on the order of, a car, or a year's tuition, or an amazing vacation. What was shocking tho' is that we'd all made that much. We all had exactly the same options package.

Executives hired well after me, mere months before the IPO, were buying racehorses. Go figure.
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Sorry. If you've never heard of NYC, you're not going to make it :)
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