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2010 is the Year of the Linux phone. Linux conquered supercomputers and servers years ago. Its reach greatly expanded this year. Chrome is on the way. Shortly more people will definitely use Linux on the "desktop".

Probably the wrong time to call Linux dead anywhere. Apple survived with 2% market share. Chrome or Android will get Linux there.
You can be as bummed as you want.
I don't see where you have posted a source for your claim that's more reliable than a Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or one of Glenn Beck's equally unreliable compatriots at Fox News.

ONLY thing linked NY Times article and aaronbrethorst claim share is founders name.
ok, sorry. i misinterpreted it as "who wants win7 on a tab for $800?"
Anti-math article in the new yorker
wow! what a fuss over nothing (arriving late). I hope I never work at such company (if it's in IT).
Beyond Hadoop: Next-Generation Big Data Architectures
That's New York magazine, not the New Yorker.
Another Karl Rove student with no link to any evidence whatsoever that make those claims anything but meritless rants
Now, in order for this asser tion to be true, there must be not a single web app bet ter than a sin gle native iPhone app.

Right, and men aren't physically stronger than women, the United States isn't richer than Zimbabwe, and Mensa members aren't smarter than janitors.
Although I love the idea, it would seem difficult for most of us to pry away from our family and go somewhere for a week to do this. It might be easier to send them off for a week, but with a wife who doesn't feel that she gets enough of my time, even that wouldn't be easy.
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Foursquare should not define location sharing. Foursquare is simple one example of it and probably not even the most popular one since Facebook came out with Places. Places for the most part is pretty private. I'm on Places but not on Facebook. I love sharing my location!

My 50+ Mom LOVES that she can keep tabs on where her sons and daughter are even as they are spread out across the country!

Location-based stuff is exactly why my mom got on facebook. It's actually useful to her and makes us all feel more connected.

Of course there are privacy issues when anything revolutionary comes around. Overtime they are taken care of--partly with technology and partly with best-use practices.
Yeah, well, I can't say it was any altruistic desire to help the company. Most of their fulltime employees saw us consultants as threats to their jobs, so they weren't very happy to have us around. I was more concerned with not getting blamed for missing deadlines and not letting my skills stagnate. That was the ultimate reason why I left, when it was decided that the software upgrade from VB6 to .NET 2.0 (by the time that decision was made, .NET 4 had just been released) was not going to happen. I knew I had things I wanted to accomplish, and they were standing in my way. Maybe if they had worked with me, it could have benefited them a little more, but I've since learned that companies can and will make such unproductive decisions and I need to keep my exuberant productivity for my own projects.
Does it work so well for Bill Gates? Didn't he somehow miss the Internet?
I think this story at the NYTimes corroborates what I was saying before: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html
Going4... an experiment. Feedback welcome.
The exact same thing happened about three years ago in the middle of the Golden Gate bridge (talk about dramatic!) and apparently the motorist safely guided the unconscious driver's car across two lanes of traffic to the divider.

http://goldengate.org/news/bridge/GoodSamaritan.php
Could be to provide "motivation" to not search your bag for "contraband". A bribe to prevent artificially-created slow-downs.
As interesting as hacking the body is, am I really the only one who can't seem to keep up with which of these articles to listen to? I mean, it used to be fat was bad, then it became some fat is bad, some isn't, then carbohydrates became bad (even as that is literally what we are made of) now grains (well, mashed in small pieces but still).

What the hell am I supposed to eat that doesn't take hours to prepare and doesn't cost a fortune?
Got any links to any evidence whatsoever? No? Didn't think so.
I created an account because all my friends were doing it. However, I always felt deep down that it was weird and potentially dangerous sharing your location with the rest of the world. After reading this article I asked myself, "Do I care where my friends are? Do I want to share my location with others?" I answered "NO" to both questions and deleted my account.
Daily Show has been getting more serious lately. Colbert Report seems to have taken over the funny side. But both are very very relevant still.

Another great political production is Chaser's in Australia. Absolutely love these guys.

I hope there will be more of such shows on a global scale. Countries in Asia, Africa and Europe surely have their own versions, but something that can speak to the whole continent or world would be awesome.
I don't see how it's anti-math.
Garry Tan from Posterous made this a while back:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0...
But Foy Allen Edelman, a cookbook author from Raleigh, N.C., had another suggestion: how about installing reclining chairs that have a compartment underneath where you can stash a small carry-on bag?

This would probably triple the number of lost bags at the airport, all of which currently generate security events.
Thought of this:

http://www.oregonhumanities.org/magazine/section/writing/bri...
Tell me about it, sometimes I think that it'd just be better to stop eating altogether. It seems that, for each and every food, someone will tell you it's terribly harmful and you shouldn't be eating it.

In the end, I've decided to follow some dietician's advice: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
I work on software that improves the efficiency of manufacturing, any manufacturing.

It's an interesting problem space, and with many challenges.

Yes, Boeing, Northrop Grumman & Lockheed Martin number among our customers, and our software is used in these programs.

So do NASA and various other companies putting things up into space, things orthogonal to defense.

By your logic, because our software makes it simpler and cheaper to manufacture F-22s and F-35s, I am in some small way culpable as well.

It's the use to which a tool is put.
Just curious, how often do you interview a founder that has both characteristics? I've met a few people like that, but it's definitely a rarity.
Check it out for yourself on the awesome padmapper: http://www.padmapper.com/?lat=37.69897768523249&lng=-122...
Map of deaths in Iraq according to wikileaks
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Maybe try http://cloudsilverlining.org (http://cloudsilverlining.org/django-quickstart.html)

Anyway, Apache/mod_wsgi is perfectly fine and I wouldn't bother tweaking out that part unless you have an issue with it.

I'd strongly recommend using a cloud provider so you can test your deployment process. You can do it without a cloud provider, but you probably won't because it won't be trivially easy to create new servers.
Orion was great, but not quite that great. Alpha Centauri would have taken around 45 years one-way for an advanced ablation-cooled one-megaton pulse drive. Since it wouldn't get any faster than 10% light speed, time dilation would be negligible (I assume you were thinking about time dilation, though the distance to AC doesn't really permit the kind of difference you describe).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...
Yes it is the same project, I just looked it up. I was curious about this myself because I remembered being excited before the debug issue came up. Looking back at the thread, he owned up to it and assured that the actual project doesn't make such mistakes. The site does look a lot nicer than I recall, so I'm going to check it out.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1616704
"Underground: Tales of hacking, madness..." by S. Dreyfus with Julian Assange
> I knew from reading articles on HN regularly that PHP is terrible, but I build the app in PHP anyways along with the 1 second callback

You always have to use the right tool for the job. It requires a deep understanding of what is actually going on inside the server when you write a line of code. PHP doesn't magically absolve you of that.

It really has nothing to do with PHP, C, Ruby or [insert your most reviled/loved technology here]. Calling a complex runtime for hundreds of near-contentless requests per second on a single machine is a really bad idea, no matter what environment you use.

Also, I'm sorry if I snipe from the cheap seat here, but 1 request per second per user doesn't seem like a great solution to your problem either. It might be more appropriate to just leave the HTTP connection open and push new data out through that when it becomes available, e.g. when something about the bidding process changes.
I'm working on a social caption application which creates the captions dynamically. There's no image manipulation, everything happens on the fly.
I am half way through it and couldn't wait to confirm this.

Damian Katz is a fine human being, and an artist. Never knew much about him before, but as of now, I consider him a role model.
Why are you surprised by this?

AWS was grown out of Amazon's internal systems. They productized what they used everyday because they thought it would probably be useful to others.

Google doesn't offer anything like a virtual server internally. Everything is built on their various abstraction layers. They are productizing what they used everyday because they thought it would probably be useful to others.
Pretty cheap in mountain view. I pay around $600 for rent (2 bedroom with roommate). Food prices are actually comparable/cheaper than other places in the US. If you shop at those asian grocery stores, you can get similar produce at about half the cost that Safeway/Kroger would normally sell at. Price for a normal cheap dinner on Castro St is around $8-12.

If you're renting, Silicon Valley is actually comparable to the rest of the USA. When I lived in Atlanta, I paid around $500 for rent, but I had to drive a lot further to access public transportation.
Damn... awesome is right. I'd be curious how they crawl all this data (especially the craigslist listings).
The logic here is simple. If you write an app with Objective-​​C/​CocoaTouch (does the same logic hold for JavaME (Android), C++ (various other platforms) and so on?) the user experience created is by that very fact better.

I believe that is the premise to his whole argument, and I find it disingenuous. That is, it's clear to me Gruber meant that a native app with an interface specialized for the particular device is more likely to be better than a web application because the web application cannot have a specialized interface for the device. He is not claiming that making an app native automatically makes it better.
Good point, but we need to find a better solution than having everybody putting bags on empty seats.
Let's see: false dichotomy - check. Overly argumentative - check. Strawman argument - check. Yup, I'm on the internet...
Food is also a lot more expensive. You can mitigate this a lot by cooking all your own food and not eating out. Shopping from low cost markets like The Milk Pail http://www.milkpail.com/ will help a lot.

My recommendation for eating cheaply is to make sure to have good collection of spices. It costs a lot upfront (~$40-60) but it will allow you to subsist on really cheap food without going crazy. Living off rice and beans is a lot more fun and tasty when you can make masala rice.
A major problem with it for me is the high complexity to low pay for most of the projects I see.
I agree. The author misses the fact that writing a native app for the iPhone (usually) means taking advantage of the well-designed UIKit. If developers all had to develop their own GUI, we'd see way more crappy native apps. It has nothing to do with language and everything to do with the tools Apple has provided to create beautiful apps.
The best airport amenity I've seen is the shower rooms at Tokyo Narita. Remember to pack some clean clothes in your carryon!
The site looked pretty pathetic when they first had it up. It's beautiful now and this sounds like it's going to be pretty legit. I'm very excited.
The force that your car is capable of exerting on your tires is far less than the engine is capable of producing.

s/less/greater/

I guess people got the gist anyway.
Toward the end of my senior year of college, the Dean of the College solicited nominations for senior orator.

This year was different than years past because the school's computer systems had recently been integrated with one another in a $26 million boondoggle (a story for another time). The office sent out a link to a webapp where each student could submit two nominations. The webapp was a form containing the first and last names of each student and (dramatic pause) it was keyed on student id. I phoned up a friend and confirmed his id number.

[Is disseminating a list of the student body a FERPA violation?]

The wheels in my head started turning a bit. The university obliges each student to carry health insurance. If you can't prove you have insurance, you have to eat the school's program. Opt-out was done through a web form where you entered your name, DOB, and student id number. I went back to that form, plugged in my info and BAM, it presented me with the old opt-out page pre-populated with all of the health insurance information I had previously submitted. With the aforementioned friend's permission, we verified that it worked on his account too. Ugh.

I walked to the IT Helpdesk and informed them of the problem and the page was promptly killed. It took them 21 days to fix.
You may want a different title, "social engineering" usually refers to running a con.
Quoting a bunch of course titles and brief descriptions, many of which anyone who knows anything about mathematics could readily tell are perfectly reasonable, and then saying "This is why Asia is winning, by the way." -- yeah, I can see how you might call that "anti-math".

The last one sounds pretty hokey. All the others, without exception, sound to me like they're probably worth while, or at least courses matching those descriptions could well be.

Oh, and guess what? #7, the one that they quote as talking about "the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3", actually says this: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ...." Apparently the author of the idiotic NYMag article is unable to distinguish between "1, 2, 3, and so on" and "1, 2, 3, and no others", even in a context where it's perfectly obvious which is meant. Obviously this is someone I should trust to tell me what mathematics courses are silly and "why Asia is winning".
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It seems to me that they're also trying to manufacture something that seems to occur naturally.

I was going to make a comment that finding a co-founder is a lot like dating, and that dating web sites have improved (but not completely fixed) the dating process.

Right? Like on a co-founder site you can list you turn-ons and turn-offs, to determine compatability. "Bootstrapping is a turn on.". "Windows is a big turn off."

Then I realized that most couples who met on the internet, much like all other couples: They end up fighting about money, trust, shared responsibility, etc. And, in all likelihood, they separate. And I realized that, in company founding, the co-founder "dating phase" is something that happens WELL before you start a company together. You build trust and a relationship over time.

So perhaps starting a company with someone is more like marriage, but with alimony vesting. It seems like accelerating that process would need a very different approach than fixing the "dating" process.
The difference between "genetic accident" and "intelligence" is not big.
Thanks. I have edited the title, though I am open to other suggestions. (I have no idea what a book would be called. But this did seem to get a big response in the thread where I told the story.)
custom network management system that does icmp polling and service checks, snmp polling for bandwidth, cpu, memory, and server-specific data that is exported server-side (a lot of it is gathered from log files) and collected through snmp.

alerts through jabber, email, and sms. i setup a monitor and cheapo eeebox to watch the data in realtime for my most important stuff.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/symmetricalism/4435593589/
Nice.

The "copyright" line is really tiny. Your twitter usernames are there, and I assume you want people to see them, so I'd make it larger.
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I still have trouble believing it, and I have a pretty good understanding how it works.
We have a cluster of about 60 servers, and use Monit and Ganglia to manage it. Monit will alert you when certain problems occur -- for example, if the server load is too high, if a service stopped running, or if can't reach the database. Ganglia records data and graphs that data over time. We use it to see how busy our server are getting, or how our peak resource usage compares to off-peak. Monit is important for noticing a problem; Ganglia's useful for diagnosing that problem.

That said, I'm a huge fan of Cloudkick. Their software is ridiculously easy to install and use, and the web application makes it VERY easy to understand what's going on with your services. It's perfect if you're just monitoring one server -- it's free -- but even worth the money if you've got a whole cluster. If I could do it all over again, I'd definitely go with Cloudkick.
http://reallyslowsite.com/-1

Apparently time travel is out of the question.
Ah, yes - of course decorators do not fundamentally increase the expressive power of the language (and neither do lambdas, obviously). It's all just a matter of convenience and elegance, which are in the eye of the beholder anyway...
And I can see the value in that, but would people really trust MS and some yet-to-be-named partner with the entirety of their digital possessions?
From what you say living in Mo. View isnt' more expensive than living in Buenos Aires, Argentina where I am currently living.

Thanks
My Weekend Project: Mr. Goal -- simple goal reminders by Email and SMS.
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Ask HN: anyone using the new MacBook Air as your main development machine?
A top-of-the-line Air has a 2.13GHz Core 2 Duo and a 256GB SSD. Anyone taken the plunge and made this your primary development box?
Plan to arrive wet with a change of clothes. If you wear waterproofs you'll just drench your clothes from the inside: Gore-tex and other so-called "waterproof breathable" materials can't dissipate 3 miles of perspiration, let alone 15 miles. Instead, find something that is windproof, stays warm when wet, and dries quickly so it's ready by the time you head out again.

+1 on the importance of fenders and mudflap. Road water is nasty.
Nielsen sent out the wrong numbers in its initial release. I wrote about it for GigaOM and updated the post with the real figures here: http://gigaom.com/2010/10/21/books-and-video-win-on-the-ipad...
A suggestion for FedEx.
It's easier to give a long speech. In Toastmasters contests, the time limit is 7 minutes and 30 seconds. I used to own a couple DVDs of the World Champion of Public Speaking competition. At that highest level, the content, delivery, timing, story, presentation are all super polished and honed to a sharp edge. Yes, they all tend to be a tad too motivational but that's what the best speeches tend to be (and the best speakers aspire to be...).

Here are a couple examples (from the same guy - most of the winning public speakers seem to now professionally coach speakers for a living and don't share their speech videos online):

http://darrenlacroix.com/2010/06/darren-lacroixs-winning-toa...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qovsP1aaEQY
I'm a L.A. native, and I had no clue about this. Great story! I found a video detailing the events from your links: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1442683884005576315...
I pay $800 for rent a month, have two roommates. But our apt complex is pretty good, with pool and BBQ area.

Food is not bad at all, esp if you stay away from frozen/processed foods and cook yourself. If you eat out, there's a couple cheap places on Castro that are about $8-15. However, that adds up quickly.

I've gotten by without a car, but it's a pain. What you save in money, you lose in time, so I just end up not going anywhere. When the caltrain is running, it's not too bad for getting up and down the peninsula, and having a bike helps.
This article is a solid block of FUD. It reminds me of the arguments made by IT industry types against Windows 3.1, fancy fonts and graphical user interfaces in the early 1990s.

For me desktop Linux happened about five years ago. The main reason why it doesn't have much market share is simple: Windows is still shipped by default on nearly all new PCs. However, if Canonical does a decent job with its software store I think things could change quite rapidly and they could be in a similar position to do deals with box shifters as Microsoft has traditionally been.
In the spirit of openness...

Rent: I live on Nob Hill in SF. I pay $1950 for a big, nice one bedroom with a little office and a small private yard. (100sq feet.) When I signed the lease I was making good money so it didn't seem expensive. Since then I've decided to focus on my start-up full time, so now it does seem slightly pricey. (I only pay 50% though -- I'm coupled.) I've lived in New York and Seattle, and SF is nowhere near as expensive as New York and nowhere near as affordable as Seattle (in terms of renting, not buying).

Beyond rent, things are very affordable.

Transportation: cheap, cars are optional (I don't need one; I hate mechanics and oil changes and parking...). I get my groceries delivered and use ZipCar when I have to drive. This is a huge savings and a good reason to live in the heart of the city. Instead of a gym, I just walk up the hill everyday.

Healthcare: I'm on Cobra right now, but will qualify for SF City HealthCare for free soon, as I'll be making little money. This is a big reason to live in SF and not the peninsula. http://www.healthysanfrancisco.org

Entertainment: The most expensive thing I do is eat out with friends semi-regularly. However, I've found that for geeks, there are a ton of meet ups and other social events that are 100% free -- and they're usually the best way to have fun.

Other threads are noting the cost of rent in SF, but for me, the city health care coverage and not needing a car (or insurance, or gas, or parking) more than makes up for it.
You can also check : http://www.mapskrieg.com/view/sfbay/rooms-and-shares

I guess that the database is the same (ie CraigsList)...
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=182352
The Milk Pail is fantastic. Their produce is very inexpensive and because of the rapid turnover, the quality tends to be really good too. You can usually get great deals on cheese as well if you look for the sale items.

Also, there is Ditmars Gourmet Meats and Wurst-Haus around the corner and up San Antonio. While prices on their other items can be high, their sausages are cheap, made in house, and excellent.
Actually I had dinner with Graham Dumpleton (mod_wsgi author) recently when he was in the San Francisco and he was speculating about the benefits of having nginx handle all the requests and proxy the django requests to Apache. In this case instead of a memory expensive thread/process under Apache being open while input and output streams to the server, a relatively less expensive nginx thread handles the request or response, basically buffering it and passing it on to the server or client only when data transfer is complete.