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It used to be the case that the police couldn't tap your land line without a warrant. How long did phones even exist before the government was already abusing this power? The government can't be trusted to have a mechanism like this and not abuse it (setting aside the fact that the existence of such back doors means once someone cracks it, anyone can tap you).
I would venture to guess that this is not true. For most start-ups, the challenge is to disrupt status quo approaches to particular problems. That said, their main competitors aren't necessarily clones, but conventional approaches to same problem. That, coupled with consumer apathy and ignorance on both sides of the pond, means that the Europe market is not inherently easier/harder than the US market.

I think the question is still what is the best allocation of resources, and sometimes it's easier to focus on doing one thing well than to have too many fingers in too many pies.
Right. Too late, I guess.

Edit: Wrong. That post is about a Tor exit node that allows to search the domain duckduckgo.com through Tor. What the Slashdot article talks about is a new .onion server for DuckDuckGo, inside Tor, without Tor network at any moment:

http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/

You can visit the link above only if you use Tor.
With Apple's developer tools installed, open the "iPhone Simulator" and choose "iPad" from the "Device" menu. Open Safari. Voila: your website the way it would (actually) look on an iPad.
Did you read it?: "(the GPL does not place restrictions on using libraries that are part of the normal operating system distribution)"

Even Debian is not jackass enough to patch SSH to link with NSS or GnuTLS instead.
Or a hedge against a replay of the Enron-era.
Here's the video: http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510

The rest of the videos from this conference are good too:
http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/videos
Well, I'd appreciate if you could elaborate on that. Ternary tables are in Conway's Best Practices, and while I certainly don't blindly follow any book, they have worked very well for many people, including myself. Compared to the if/else cascades of pre-5.10 Perl, they win hands down.
I was really intrigued by Bloom, but when I did a little digging, I realized that the only thing revolutionary about them was they hype.

At best, their tech is an evolutionary improvement over other fuel cells. Other fuel suppliers are targeting the same applications with similar efficiencies and price-points.

Furthermore, as others have pointed out, the claimed efficiencies assume full use can be made from the waste heat, and their overall efficiency is less than a gas turbine plant. Their overall capital efficiency may be lower still since.

And to those waving hands about the expense of maintaining the electrical grid, get real. Big stream power plants are much more energy (and capital) efficient than these fuel cells, or gas turbine plants. It may that the efficiency of these things go up and the costs come down enough as volumes increase that the economics shift, but for now, providing base load through the grid via high efficiency power plants is going to be cheaper than why Bloom or their less hyped competitors offer.

I think the real appeal of these things is that they give big customers a hedge against more gaming of the markets by the electrical generation and transmission companies. I doubt any of them are eager to become completely dependent the natural gas producers and pipeline companies either.
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Easy fix: submitting a duplicate URL should not cause an automatic upvote. This has always seemed a bit off to me.
This is great. We are developing a cross-device webapp and ended up using Sencha Touch (there's no choice, really). It looks great but I am definitely not convinced about it, mainly with aspects around the code that are important to me - http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?110693-misc-quest...

So, really looking forward to the possibilities the new jQuery will bring.
Have they offered to fix the underlying causes? E.g. Patch OpenSSL out for gnutls? Change the structure/metadata of gems so they are trivial to package?

These are the likely prerequisites to a slick experience for their users on any distro
It's easier to grow scale in the US because of the homogeneity of the culture and language, and the integration of the economy.

Competitors in Europe or elsewhere are relatively small potatoes in the medium to long term, because the lack of homogeneity means they won't get scale quickly enough. US companies can usually either outcompete them with better technology (cost amortized by scale), or buy them out.
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Tables for layout will do that.
The author doesn't mention anything about load e.g. queries per second. I wonder if the description is: Huge data set, low usage and very fast response time required.

There are a host of problems with low traffic stacks including:

-Persistent database connections going away and the first user who hits the system having to wait for the web server to connect to the DB.

-Cache warmup time taking a long time because it takes a long time to get enough queries for the cache to figure out what needs to be cached.

-App server warmups taking a long time. Low traffic means it takes a long time for all apache children (or ruby app server or whatever) to get a hit and compile code into mem so the next request is fast.

-And the author's [I'm assuming] problem of systems deciding that low usage means the data can be expired from cache.

I find the innodb buffer pool cache to be the best in the business on high traffic sites using the author's configuration. [Random aside: I also use Redis and Memcached in production extensively.]
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Actually most XP users would still fit this description. Windows 7 is great, but so many people that won't upgrade from XP try to argue that it has the same features, performance, etc., and don't get what makes 7 better.

But you could argue this over many different levels. Hey, some would say that the BMW driver doesn't really know how great it could be until they drive a Rolls Royce or, perhaps, own a private aircraft, etc. Some of it still is perception...
> Does anyone know what sort of data the business gets from Groupon?

The only customer data Groupon shares with the merchant is first and last name.

> Have any businesses offered repeat Groupons that aren't available to people who bought the first one?

Highly unlikely. Imposing a conditional like that would complicate Groupon's process and confuse many users.

You mentioned identification by credit card number... Problems I see in that scenario: PCI compliance, UX, lower revenue per deal. And since many people have more than one credit card there is a loophole.
You know, that's a good point, but probably not in the direction you intended. The competitiveness of the market breeds better organizations. Businesses in uncompetitive backwaters get wiped out sooner or later when competitors brought up in a tougher environment come along.

In a market with more competition, you should either fail sooner (and that's a good thing), or end up with something approaching best globally, rather than locally.
One and only reason I started using Dropbox was because of their desktop app. It was there, available for Linux, simple and easy to install. One click to create an account and I'am a happy user since then, since the beginning.
Dropbox is great.
Why do people keep representing this as bizarre when C libraries parallel install just fine and you probably all have multiple versions of the same library installed right now?
Accept it's a legitimate situation please. What it needs is radical change in languages like ruby/python/etc to resolve dependencies explicitly at runtime. Currently they hide the problem with import path priorities.
Only problem is, when it comes to blogging, I thought Tumblr was the one focused totally on experience and ease of use. Posterous still feels more like it's trying to give you every feature available and then some...
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Red Hat backports new drivers and features to ancient kernels because their customers use binary drivers, and Linux does not maintain a stable ABI. It's a shitty but completely respectable position to be in.

Canonical forks Gnome because Novell and a cadre of adolescents in western europe still technically control the project. Ubuntu will win eventually and this will stop being an issue.

Sane distros patch upstream just enough to make the software build and work. Debian does it to fulfill their ideological goals.
I apologize in advance since I don't know the current state of things on this in the US, but is it different than the EU? As far as I know, lawful interception systems are widely in use here (EU) even today (in ISPs, banks, major mobile telephony providers, etc).
Agreed, if anything I think submitting a pre-existing story should actually be worth more score than upvoting it. The problem lies if people give out submit links pre-loaded with the submission URL/title (if that's possible?).
Lexus may outsell BMW, but that doesn't make it a better car

While the definition of "better" varies from person to person,

They just pump out what people will buy

the definition of a successful business is rather less subjective. Pumping out what people will buy is pretty much what makes a business successful. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about the success of a product? Isn't a successful product the one with the most users?
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Anything from mises.org is pretty much going to be a partisan piece trying to sell you on their point of view. That doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong, just not a place that's ever going to contradict itself or point to evidence that they don't hold all the answers.
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...didn't think so.
Old Thinkpads used to be awful as well though. Changing the keyboard on a 380D required burrowing in from the back :(
http://codebasehq.com also offers unlimited private repos (hg, git, and svn), but not for free. They have total size restrictions as well.
I will keep my private account at github. Its my way of saying thanks for their free open source hosting.
It wasn't even possible until very recently

That might be true for the US, but it’s basically untrue for the rest of the world.
Simply amazing.

I really can't imagine how he wants to implement the compiler he speaks about :)
I hope you are able to finish your consulting when you expect, but it's my experience that it almost always takes longer.
Awesome. Good work!
The problem is that DE Shaw Research made a loosing bet recently when they decided to design custom silicon to solve the protein folding problem while everyone else kept using commodity hardware and worked on improving the software.
Why would I not use IRC for IRC style chat? :-)
Yes. Does anyone else automatically hit the back button when you see a video and not a nice, concise, article?
That's so sad...does this mean they are not BFF's anymore?
Does it work ok in IE (all the way back to 6). I cant find any 'browser compatibility' list on the site.
It's an operating system issue - specifically how Linux handling of NUMA is generally broken.
No, the "very stupid criminal" comment was just an attempt at humour. If you get stopped by two cars and one of them is a marked police car then it is obvious that the other car is also a police car.
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It sounds like you're being hired as the CTO/VP of Engineering. Maybe 1-4% equity (with 4 year vesting) and a salary that lets you live comfortably. Something like $70k-$100k in SV to start.

More important is whether you think your equity will ever be worth much. If not you should get a market rate salary or work somewhere else.
My problem is not so much whether everyone is in fact also signalling status all of the time. That may well be the case, but my point is that that assertion doesn't add anything to an analysis, unless you can convincingly argue it is a decisive factor.
I'm in the same boat as you but instead I am using JQTouch which works well enough...but I find myself writing workarounds to get stuff working the same in desktop and touch enviros. If they can really pull off the "write once" model between enviros I will jump for joy!
I entirely agree with you. Going to school is far from the only way to learn about a subject, especially if you're just doing it because you feel that it's what you should be doing. If you're just putting in the hours because you think you need it to get a job, you're probably not going to get much benefit. Ideally this would result in you not getting the degree... but that's apparently an unpopular position.

Ultimately it comes down to practice. A humanities degree at a decent-ish college should force you to get that practice at communicating in English in order to graduate. Conversely, a science degree should force you to learn a lot about how to communicate in the specialist terminology of your discipline. But going out and spending four years starting a business would probably be at least as good as both of these, if you're motivated.
That's 19 hours 'today', not necessarily each day. I've had days where I've arrived at work at 6am and then not stopped (save for short breaks) for 40 hours. Or worked 15ish hours at the office, driven home in 15 minutes, and then worked another 5-6 hours.

19 hours/day on average over an extended period might be a different story!
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I don't think that's necessarily a red flag. It's a bad ratio to maintain if software is important to your business, but not so bad that it started out like that.

How long was it before Apple hired more people like Woz?
"I was surprised that Lulu wasn't set up for it (they shipped from Spain, slowly and expensively) and there was no local equivalent in sight."

There are loads of Dutch POD publishers. Check out Pumbo.nl, Boekscout.nl or Freemusketeers.nl.

"I can't find a Wufoo-like thing that'll speak Dutch to me. At all."

Wufoo supports dozens of languages, including Dutch.

"What do people in The Netherlands, to come back to my small but fairly internet-savvy home country, tend to use for small-time blogging? Blogger? Wordpress? Nope. Something called web-log.nl"

Blogger and WordPress are both available in Dutch and have been for years. Most of the Dutch bloggers I know use WordPress.

But even though the examples were less than stellar, I agree with your observation: American web startups often take too long before they expand into other markets like Canada and Western Europe. However, the US is a huge market. Most American businesses will never have to expand abroad, there's simply no necessity. The same cannot be said about Dutch web startups.
pg: what about allowing people to spend down their own karma to get an important post onto the front page? Sort of like Stackoverflow's bounty system. You could start with a 1:1 exchange rate and tweak it over time.
hmm, I thought the marked car was behind him. I didn't see it the very end.
I wouldn't be disregarding 20% of my users in a hurry.

I design more than I do backend stuff these days, and I don't think I'd even want to be designing much wider than 950px. More space can quickly mean more info and thus a more confused message for visitors.
I'm not sure I agree; the application can be written with an understanding of how best to utilise the memory architecture, but the OS must manage memory for the common case unless instructed otherwise. I'm not commenting on Linux's handling of NUMA - rather that applications shouldn't assume that a generic OS can provide an optimal hardware abstraction. All memory is equal - but some memory is more equal than others.
So who else is out there doing the work of enforcing American software patents on the users of the world? Even the BSA doesn't do that! Apple isn't out there enforcing their patent on the truetype hinting bytecode interpreter, but Debian refuses to ship a full version of freetype. The DVD-CCA gave up years ago, but Debian still won't ship a DeCSS implementation. Fraunhofer/Thomson/MPEG-LA only really care about companies shipping hardware, but Debian cares more about FUD and promoting OGG than actual use.

None of this shit matters at all when shipping source code, and binaries only matter if both parties are in the US. But the Debian project is out there with jackboots on, doing what they can to take useful freely-licensed software out of distribution. What other organization is doing anything like that?

I'm sorry that you find yourself so wrapped up in such an organization, I did not mean to insult you directly, but rather the ideology y'all are applying to make my world a worse place to live. And I would be far more acerbic in a face-to-face conversation.

You didn't understand my line of argument centering around idiocy (should have used fewer anaphora) — my point was that the Debian people know that they're being idiots, and that it's the purpose of their actions in this squabble. We all know that software patents are stupid, but Debian's approach is to show the world just how stupid software patents are by fully respecting them, implementing the letter of the law until it is repealed. I think that's a useless and infuriating course of action.
I'm curious why you didn't include this tactic in your "BAD" list. There's really no difference between creating a bunch of accounts on your own to upvote a story and getting a bunch of other people to do it for you. You're still artificially generating a bunch of votes for a story right at the moment of submission, therefore gaming the system.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303
The article states that the default NUMA policy is to allocate memory in the same node the thread is going to run on. Which is logical considering non-local memory access is more costly than local memory access. The problem appears when one process requests more memory than a single node can provide. Can the Linux kernel detect this usage and adjust accordingly?
If one has a low cost back end that can do the translations, do the legal matching work, set up the conditions tables for these things to work seamlessly for different regions while reflecting the options, choices and legalities of the different region, you got a pan-nation service.

Its not impossible, its a matter of matching the possible returns with the costs of carrying out all the customization. Simple terms - ROI - Return on Investment.

Usually for the startups, it could result in better ROI if they invest available funds to increase capabilities and increase survivability in the home market (especially when it is as large as the US and a field as dynamic as the net/IT) than to spend that money on customization of the same services/capabilities in foreign/small markets. Otherwise, one risks losing the home market itself. There's is something from Sun Tzu on that I guess, about securing your home first.

Of course, once the size, sustainability and cash flows grow, then the picture and priorities can change.
I think people need to be rewarded somehow for reading and voting on stories on the new page.

If everyone has to develop a cabal to get to the front page, then over time the size of the cabals will have to grow because of the increased competition - eventually squeezing out the little guy, no matter how good his content is.

With an active userbase on the new page cabals would be less likely to form.
The decided lack of an apology on their part leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

To be fair, the apology might just be waiting until they've finished investigating and know exactly what they're apologizing for.
Who is the design/UI/UX guy at Heroku? His design sense is incredible.
You could look at the referrer for "Vote this up/submit this" URLs. If they didn't come from the story itself or from within ycombinator.com, you can simply ignore them for voting purposes and route the traffic to the comment page or to the story itself.

Let the user actually read the story, then come back to vote on it if they like.

It's probably also worth making a note when a user clicks through to a story so that later on you can verify that he's read it before counting his vote for it. (Naturally, you'd also need to note referrals from the story itself to make this work.)
I learned about Dropbox exactly the way slide 28 shows - heard about it from random source, tested, felt happy and started forcing my friends to use it (ie. to coordinate work for university projects). And the funny thing about those "Dozens and dozens of cloud storage companies" that existed prior to Dropbox (as slides 6 and 7 tell)... personally I don't know anyone who knew about any of those companies. I didn't know any of them untill today and for years I was pretty sure that Dropbox guys were the first ones to get that idea (or at least to get it working). And they did a great job with it.
What? People get stabbed on public (videoed!) buses for asking someone to stop throwing trash at them.
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Hi,

Just wondering if anybody else thought about it already. We all know how hard it is to build a team until you're financed enough to be able to pay wages; even if you get a person on board, it is hard to estimate their actual commitment vs. what they promised and what their stake should be. Then, if that person quits for any reason before their stock is fully vested, it is another legal burden to manage.

What if instead of offering a stock compensation off the bat the company would issue convertible notes in a lieu of wages, with the cash value equal to the what that person would have been paid if there was cash in the company? Then, if that person quits before funding, the company still owes that person so if the company is getting liquidated or financed (or sold) the person would either get paid (w/ interest on top of it) or he would get a good discount for the dollar amount of services that he provided to date?

What do you think about this? Does it make any sense? Any caveats? Any legal reasons to avoid this scenario?
Why would somebody whose success depends on safe guarding their IP and developing their IP, share it, especially when they are still small and can't hire an army of lawyers to make sure that their IP is protected even if its shared?

why would white labeling work in an industry, where physical goods have next to no value and the whole value is in a company's IP? isn't white labeling used more in low-IP industries/products?
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