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Do they tell jokes during the safety demonstration too? If not, do you think they'll start?

I usually fly Delta, and ALL of their servie is a joke, not just the safety demonstrations. :P
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I think I learned more about playing RTS's than I did start ups, but I can see the (stretched) analogies. Basically: Move fast, get good intel, always be thinking ahead.
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Aves game engine previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293816
What is your concern with TurnItIn using your paper? Is it just some arbitrary thing you have against the service or were you caught cheating with it in the past or something else? Just seems random to me.
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What ownership claims does the service take over your work? Is it simply to hold a copy to check for future plagiarism, or is it some larger copyright claim?

My wife employs some rudimentary checks for cheating in her classes (accounting). Simply checking the author field in excel documents turns up a cheating rate in the 15% range. I'm actually rather shocked (and alarmed) that so few professors apparently choose to use these services. They absolutely should. As a student, I'd demand that they do. After all, kids coasting through college only serve to damage your degree.
Nope. In a word. There are completely different production values between the two media.

Video can be very informative when it is instructional, and of course when it's entertaining.

Video is dull as dish water when it's talking heads, unless the talking heads are exceptionally interesting, informative, or entertaining. Talk show host s earn their crust. It's not as easy as it looks.

Producing good video is just as hard as producing good text. But you can scan less than stellar text to find the good stuff. It's hard to scan video for the good stuff.

So, on the whole, text beats video unless you _really_ know what you are doing and are critiquing hard.
I cant wait to see it in 3D. But thinking that they are just trying to follow the trend of 3Ding everything..???
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Building codes are reactionary, not proactive. Almost every code is there because at some point there was a problem in the past, usually something involving one or more deaths due to a fire or collapse that could have been prevented. Someone's drink cup melting is not really a concern for the permit authorities.
I appreciate the number of people that want to believe we're in a vagina here.
As someone who is quietly lurking on HN, and working on my own product nights and w/e, this gives me hope. I think the ISV model just feels right...at least for me. I've been wavering on quitting the day job. Kudos to this chap. Long live the ISV success stories.
If it was the offer I think it was, it was significantly higher than 2x, because it was before the Series B (so roughly 5 million invested thus far).
That's a great point. It's very sensitive data, so I'm not quite sure if anyone will want to participate. I'm currently building a chrome extension that will store all of my mouse movements and keystrokes to a database. After a while, I'll see if I can create some useful suggestions and if so, allow other people try it out.
At what valuation were these VC's putting $40M into Digg? If it was around $100M, then they would only have 40% of the company and 40% of an $80M buyout is $32M. And I can surely see why they wouldn't want to do that.
So if we had pointed Voyager at it back in the 1970s, we would only have 19.997 lightyears left to travel!

Space is big. We are slow. Everything cool about scifi is fiction. None of this will change in our lifetimes.
That is illogical. The purpose of laws is not to fit your ideas of propriety — their purpose is to either prevent bad things from happening or mitigate the damage when bad things do happen. A law that does not do this is a failed law — at best an embarrassment to our legal system, at worst a cause of unintended harm.

And yes, I'll go that far: If outlawing murder were ineffective at curbing murder, it would be incumbent on us to come up with a better solution. Standing on principle while people die is neither moral nor practical.
We played with something like this at the company I work for - but it was the logo composited with a geotagged image that was closest to the requestors ip. All the images were composited with Imagemagick and cached and the ip lookup and distance calculation is pretty fast using the MaxMind ip database. In the end we ended up just picking the nicest looking image and turning that off.
He said before he's got a generic domain as well, and would be interested in porting it to other languages, or helping others to do so.
If there is a non zero chance of a higher exit, no matter how small the odds, the VCs will take it. Thus 80 million is not the home run exit.
Not in my experience. I'm quite sure my wifes PhD thesis belongs, for all intents and purposes, to her granting University. I believe that is standard at least at the Doctoral level.

By the same token my honors college undergrad thesis also granted publishing rights to my University (which is comical given the quality).
> On a serious note, how is it that the planet has 4 times the mass of Earth but the surface gravity is "the same or slightly higher" than Earth's?

It could be bigger than Earth: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=surface+gravity+of+4+ea...
This is interesting stuff. I jumped into node.js programming a while ago and will like to run similar tests on node.js. Can anyone tell me how client side load of 500K long lived connections achieved ? Is there a standard set of programs to achieve this or some custom scripts.
I've run a small web-dev business for 12 years and regret every time I've dropped my price to lock in a job.
Over half of that $40 million is Series C. I'm pretty sure the offer he is talking about actually came before the series B, so there was around $5 million invested.
Theoretically, a nuclear pulse rocket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...) could achieve 0.1c, which would make the trip attainable in 200 years. You would need a lot of nuclear bombs though.
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I don't think it is wrong. The engineers have even been clearer and more useful when they're talking about policy.

Case in point:

The question comes up: "Why aren't you bringing IE9 to Windows XP?"

Answer from marketing guys: "XP isn't compatible." At best, the answer was "XP doesn't support hardware acceleration" from them.

Followup question: "How do you run IE9 in a VM?"

Answer from marketing: "Turn off hardware acceleration."

Response: "WTF?"

Engineer comes in: "Okay, let me clear this up... IE9 runs on top of D2D, which Windows XP hasn't got. D2D supports hardware or software acceleration, therefore you can turn it off for VMs. But the bottom line is that if we were to port IE9 to Windows XP, we'd have to write the lower levels from scratch, and it would become IE8 with a fresh GUI."

Response: "Okay. That, I understand."

Here's where the marketing guy either a) doesn't defer to the tech guy when it's appropriate or b) underestimates/misunderstands his audience and gives a flawed, unsatisfactory answer.
Yes,I was going to make this point - if you write a bad review and the owners decide to pursue legal action, there is clearly a trail back to you because the reviewer must be one of the previous tenants.
Managers are one thing, getting everyone in the company is the next step, and a lot larger number of orders.
Headed south and got an,

"Ooops. Did you do this?
The mother-frog is unable to deliver you to the primordial
pond. Please try later to play with other Rumpertrolls."

I wonder if I hit an integer overflow...
That was my first thought. Sounds close but is unimaginably far away. I keep flipping back to the difficulties for stone-age man to cross the english channel, and the exponential speed of technological progress, and yet I still can't see it happening for a long, long time. But 100 years ago we couldn't fly the length of a football field, now we do it as a matter of routine.

Thus my mind is a flip-flopping mess of 'can't be done', 'you never know', 'can't be done'... you ge the picture.

Then I start worrying about technological progress being lost through war/politics/religion and having a library of Alexandria moment and having to start all over again.
Forgot to mention, awesome little demo!
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Wow, yes. I was on a new computer where I work, and a friend had installed that extension. I didn't know until I read your post, and just figured it was a new feature of HN!
Im moving to nyc in 2-3 weeks as well. Maybe we can join forces and push down the broker fees. 4 can be stronger than 1.
Very cool! I'd love to do something similar to this, something simple, like a remake of Atari Tank. Just drop in and start playing, instantly. Great demo.
Anyway to get to the point, I don't think there where too many people that thought Google was going to be anything short of "the" search engine. At lest those at the grassroot level.

If that was the case, someone would have snatched them up, especially given the ridiculous valuations companies were getting in 1999.
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When i noticed it, I was freaked out for a while. I thought that is the same with the case of facebook videos but turned out it said,"This video either had been removed from Facebook or is not visible due to privacy settings."
I Guess they should do the same with the photos too.
Really, there's no way he's going to accept a job offer in the month where he makes $100+K a day. All Valve has to do is sit around and wait three months or six months or a year or however long it takes for the revenue stream to dry up, and then say "So, how about that job, then?"

Of course he'll probably be rich enough to never have to work again by then, but an offer of his own uber-well-funded development team working on whatever the hell he feels like might well be tempting if he's the kind of guy I think he is.

Then again maybe he'll take the money and retire to bonk supermodels in Tahiti. Who knows?
It's not really like Sun. Sun couldn't accept that it had lost the hardware game a decade before its demise. It had great kit, it was just the market was so vanishingly small that it was never going to support the mothership. It had also lost the will to give "mavericks" the freedom to do their thing. It was firing them a decade out.

"Management" at Sun was pretty tight. It's just that it didn't require that sort of management.
I remember one particular take home test, 25 questions and the prof handed it to us and said "if any question takes you more than 5 hours you should probably move on and come back to it later." She full expected us to spend 80-100 hours on the thing (the week before finals too, oh we hated her). I don't actually know any college student who doesn't cringe at the thought of take home tests.

EDIT: just to be clear this is meant as commiseration not as a misery dick waving contest. It was the largest time requirement of any undergrad class I took in the 5 years I was there.
I hope you let us know how that turns out. If its anything like my patterns, it will include opening Gmail, HN, and Weather.gov in the morning. As an example, Chrome should figure that out and open them when I start Chrome at 6am every morning.
According to http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100929/sc_afp/usastronomyplane... , surface gravity might only be slightly higher than earth's.
Just to get this out of the way: I would rather fail a class than cheat. We don't know each other, so you might not believe me. But, thats my personal belief.

This dislike isn't arbitrary. My problem is that I wrote the paper. I don't want a third party to be able to use it to their own monetary gain without my permission. Being forced to do so left a bad taste in my mouth. When I tried to get in touch with TurnItIn to express my concerns, I didn't receive any response.

I can see the counterargument in your head already -- "But you use Google, don't you? How about Amazon and hundreds of other services that keep information about you." To which, I respond that I'm not signed into Google (prefer Bing or Duck Duck Go, at that) do not use Facebook and find Amazon's recommendations useful enough that it doesn't bother me. And I chose to use the rest of the services.

These companies also make their privacy policy and what they do with the information clear. With TurnItIn, the privacy issue wasn't clear when I looked. Would they ever sell the database? If they did, would they make a reasonable effort to protect my information? I was turning in a paper with my name and email address on it, after all. Tied directly to my college information, at that.
Nooo! That would imply you following the same (long bomb) path. A nice 2-3x would be just fine.
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This happens all the time in enterprise security.
Could 'Goldilocks' planet be just right for life?
yep. Death due to non low-flush toilets installed.
I have different experience (lived in Germany for 10 months), JavaScript/Ruby/Python developers make roundabout 35-55 euros per hour.

Additionally, this article rings true for my experience both living in Germany & working with Germans in the US (especially here); They bust ass & are amazingly productive.
You need a couple of developers, a sysadmin, a designer, some sales guys. Am I missing any other roles?

Don't get sucked into the fallacy of thinking something has little value just because the core idea is very simple.
> The cool thing is, technology innovations are accelerating as well, so we will develop better engines faster than the old ones will arrive to the destination.

So all we have to do is wait long enough, and at some point we will have already gotten there.
We just need to wait out a bit for YC to fund Zephram Cochrane's warp drive startup.
haha. "Video is dull as dish water when it's talking heads".

Works better for categories like eSports, Cooking, How To.
and (literally) have sex like a porn star

In an alternately freezing and boiling sound stage with a dozen people watching, no real passion and stopping every 40 seconds to move the cameras or do another take?

I'll pass.
here, have the first step:

curl -s http://www.crunchbase.com/search/advanced/people/1250638 | grep advanced_search_query | cut -d\" -f12
We'd consider startups using any technology, so long as it's the right way to deliver something people want.
Fire a mirror off ahead of you?
The sad thing is that because of the conditions they have grown up in, scamming is one of the only ways for them to improve their lives. Now this man has actually produced some very good works of art, and instead of receiving the recognition and compensation he deserves, he is being ridiculed. This would have been a great opportunity to pull someone out of his current condition and encourage him to make and sell art, improving his life and the lives of others. Instead, he's pretty much guaranteed to continue scamming.
Hmm, I love watching videos on iPad
My counter argument:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...

USA GDP - 14.2 T
Germany GDP - 3.3 T
about the voodoo, i only started using google years after googling became synonym for searching the web. i kept using yahoo because yahoo was good!

and when gmail first came and was invite only, it made me resent google even more, they felt snobish!

a long time later i started to like them and ironically, its gmail quality that made me a believer in google

google make most of their money from ads, only time will show how long will they go, not that it matters much, because i believe you dont have to be successful for ever, becoming no 10 after you were no 1 for 20 or so years is ....

well, we can talk about it, but they lived it!
It's not stuck in some opaque iphoto library directory blob, and is significantly more portable (like the plain text of photography). Tagging and all the can be done with a separate library information file, and to be honest, I only organize by import events separated by dates. I don't do much else.
if you are younger than 23, you can book a one-way ticket on airtran for like $69 on the day of the flight. you have to fly standby, and you can't take any luggage, but it's an awesome program that i had taken advantage of.
It wouldn't work in this case. Digg did a Round C in 2008 of $28.7m. That's when they were over funded.

Reddit was founded in 2005. Digg was founded in 2004 and did a Round A at a reasonable $2.8m in late 2005.
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/digg
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/reddit

The only way your plan would work in this case is if you have a crystal ball in 2005.

Basically, your competitor bets after the flop and you're planning on playing the hand while short stacked.

And on the flip side you may end up being the Jaiku or Pownce to someone else's Twitter.
Talking about warp factors and talking about time dilation don't go well together, unfortunately. The Star Trek universe is, as best I can figure out, nonrelativistic.
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yeah, but Nimitz class carriers. Who wouldn't want some of those?!
Please do, thanks for sharing.
Not true. Income in the bottom 3 quartiles has remained constant or fallen slightly (adjusted for inflation) since the 1970s. We have better tech, but we have also had the rich getting much much richer.
As to what the service does, please see my response to kenjackson for a bit more on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1741731

I dislike the accusation and assumption that I'm going to cheat. I resent the fact that by voicing an opinion on the matter, I was accused of having a desire to cheat. I loathe being accused of lying because of someone else's actions. Especially when I've never met, encountered or so much as heard of this person before. And in my experience, using TurnItIn implies all of the above.

When it came to talking about the paper and research, every professor started off by talking about academic trust, don't plagiarize and so on. It seems hollow to follow that with "Okay. Now that thats said, I don't personally believe any of it. I think that you're all liars and cheats. So, you have to use this service."
I'm not a CPA or lawyer, but am almost absolutely positive that these taxes are applied based on your residential address. Attempting to cheat (get around, avoid, evade, what have you) taxes is almost universally a Bad Idea (speaking as someone who's been audited - though came out owing nothing).

Regardless of whether they seem onerously high, communities pass payroll taxes to generate essential revenue, and people vote on / for them. In that sense, these taxes can be understood as something a community has proposed and agreed to pay. Attempting to circumvent this agreement (the law) by setting up a sham address that's nothing more than a PO box isn't just shady - it's unethical and deprives the city of revenue its residents have agreed to pay and deemed essential for municipal operations.

If I'm mistaken, feel free to correct me, but legal or not, I would still not attempt this.
The great thing about blogging is anyone can write and even if they don't write well they can probably convey the idea they're trying to get across. So it's a lowest common denominator communication media.

Video is a skill in itself. Put your average blogger in front of a camera and it will more than likely turn out badly because most people aren't skilled orators with the ability to manipulate their own body language.
As I tried to explain in the paper, this started as an experiment, and not "let's write this in Haskell and use it in production".

But aside from that, the cluster balancer runs in just 5MB of RAM (RSS). I'm not familiar with Scala, but I doubt any JVM can run in just that; and the way we deploy this software, we like it to use as few memory as possible.
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Liquidity preferences give investors first dig at any cash with a multiple (ie. we get 2 or 3x what we put in before you get your first dollar).

Digg had raised a little over $10M at the time of the acquisition offer - which would have been a decent return. The $30M round was raised in lieu of the acquisition.

They placated Kevin by partly cashing him out as part of the $30M round.

With that additional investment, the de facto decision by the board and management was that Digg is a billion dollar business, not a hundred-million dollar business.
A thesis is quite different from a random two page paper on a few chapters reading from last week.
I'm surprised, but I guess you have to feed the franchise.

I'm just waiting for them to fully animate Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford exactly the way they would have looked if they would have played the part in the early 80s. If the wierd looking Jeff Bridges from Tron Legacy is the best they can do now, they have a long way to go. A study was done some years ago that showed that the closer something got to looking human that wasn't, the less we liked it, so they'll basically have to be spot on. Then they can create the next 3 in the saga (and Lucas claimed he would never make them, but I know they will be made).
cough Worlds Chat cough

Seriously, we had that exact idea implemented around 1997 -- and it even supported multiple authentications (anonymous worlds, versus worlds with user accounts) all transparently. And it could even do VRML, crowd control, dynamic downloads (so you could link to new worlds), and a built-in world builder.

It seemed that we had thought of everything... And then management took over.
Ask HN: What do you do to relax?
One thing I do is work out.

But I'm trying to find something I can do every night to wind down and have a bit of fun.

I'm thinking I might watch a movie (or part of one) a few nights a week. Maybe a tv show. Maybe read.

What else? What do you do?
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Apple's Enterprise Management tools are headed into this space.

RIM + Microsoft should be very concerned about Apple as much as Android based devices.
Sure, but nonetheless submissions containing "java" in the title will get less upvotes then many other submissions with language names in the title, i think.
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In the book Rocheworld, they do just that. The light sail splits in two, with the outer portion curving to reflect light from the propulsion laser back onto the inner portion to slow down the ship.
I think that at some point your pricing will just seem completely erratic and would perhaps scare people off who don't even care about IE6.
What's complicated about moving priests around? It seems to be entirely cynical and self-serving. Had they handled the issues differently, you wouldn't see the vitriol.

I'm sorry, but you can't claim to be a member and defender of an organization that has institutionalized child rape and yet take umbrage at those who suggest your membership in said organization offers monetary and moral support to those practices. If the practice of shuffling priests and shielding them from the law is a complex one, then by all means describe how that's so. It certainly doesn't look complex to the rest of us. It looks evil.
Dwarf Fortress simulates a 3D environment just like Minecraft, though it has much more advanced fluid flows, amongst other things. Most of the CPU use appears to be down to pathfinding, which ends up recalculating a lot when the environment changes.
the server is overloaded. we were not expecting this kind of traffic.. we are working on it now (we should be sleeping, midnight in scandinavia! :)

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