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Lots of factual errors here.

Solar and wind can make very large impacts on electricity generation - see the Desertec website for lots more information: http://www.desertec.org/

Research has shown that geographically distributed renewable generation can be used as reliable base-load, although I can't find the reference at the moment.

The CO2 payback times for various technologies are shown here: http://www.envirowiki.info/CO2_payback , although this does miss out other payback times that are relevant.

Winds and pressure regions around the world are primarily caused by temperature contrasts between the poles and the equator, and between land and sea (due to water having a much larger thermal inertia than land). Huge numbers of wind turbines will not effect this in any way.

Modern wind turbines kill very few birds, orders of magnitude less than cars and window collisions (http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/04/common_misconce.php). Older wind tubines have faster rotational speeds which kill more birds than modern turbines.

Bats, again, are not effected too much by modern wind turbines as the blades are are sufficiently high above the ground that bats will never come into contact with them, as bats rarely fly at high altitudes (see PDF linked from http://naturalengland.etraderstores.com/NaturalEnglandShop/T...).

Please, don't rant unless you know the facts.
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Indeed, the Daily Mail seems convinced that everything in the world will either kill you (usually by causing cancer) or will make you live forever. They seem determined to place every food item, activity or product on one of those categories.

And sometimes in both at once.
Completely unrelated, but just this made my day. After upvoting:

Pledging for unit tests (madebymonsieur.com)
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The GitHub solution seems reasonable: Use HTTPS for writes and truly sensitive stuff, and unencrypted for the rest. CDNs aren't a problem since your write-requests won't have any external resources on them (they'll just redirect back to HTTP). Then the HTTPS could even be handled on a third-party gateway provider (yes, then there's a weak spot between your servers and the third party, but that's much harder to penetrate than the wifi at Starbucks.).

Your read-only session might still be high-jacked, but that's relatively low impact, (since someone could simply sniff what you're reading anyway).
Clickable: http://hndex.imnotpete.com
No country, the US included, has free speech, because slander and threats are punishable everywhere, even though they are only speech. Countries just disagree on what constitutes slander, a threat and similar universally outlawed acts of speech.
How expensive would it be to build this - asks a non tech? 
This is fantastic - how much would you estimate it cost to build: http://www.thekillersmusic.com/html5#
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Instead of storing the data in files, this looks like a perfect use case for TokyoCabinet or similar storage engines.
That's a very fine balancing act. Everything is magnified. What if 10% unemployment in the US economy at an equivalent tech level translates to 60% in China? Perhaps the Chinese will choose to keep productivity at a controlled level to prevent social unrest.
I would walk out of this interview!
You guys can downmod this one too. When it comes to doing business, your word is your bond. This guy made an agreement with someone that he wants to break unilaterally now that he has some money and the agreement is inconvenient for him. This is a simple question of honesty and integrity.

And I would love to hear from those of you downmodding my comments on why exactly you think this guy should get a free ride on the do-unto-others principle. And please post under your real accounts so others have fair warning when they make agreements with you.
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Although I agree that nobody is going to sue anybody in this situation, I'm curious about the technical legalities.

Could the "new venture" be viewed by a U.S. court as a continuation of the old venture? Could the acceptance of the $1000 salary in the first two months be construed as a contract of some sort? Also, the OP says in a comment that he requested that a US corporation be formed, so there are probably emails to that effect. Would such a request be considered to mean there was a partnership in place already?

Again, I agree with other commenters, there will not be a lawsuit over $2000. But the 50% of the company could be enough incentive if you were successful enough, so the OP might want to get solid on where he stands. It sounds to me that there's a bit of a backstory, maybe enough to make a court look twice.
I don't know where you see 'outrage'. I only see someone investigating the security concerns of users of a Starbucks' wifi and being worried that they don't care about their privacy.
The CPUs are just a commodity. The interconnect is where it is at.
I checked the site, I checked Github, but I still have no idea what "ORM" means.

Wikipedia suggests several different meanings which seem to fit: Object-relational mapping, Object role modeling, Online Reputation Management, Online research methods, Outsourcing Relationship Management
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"That will save us ~1500+ a year assuming no growth."

Saving $1500 is no joke for sure but how much time do you think it cost you? I'm always trying to balance that "Is it worth it to spend my time saving money or to spend my time creating money?" I'm not trying to be critical of you - I hope it doesn't come across the wrong way here - but I'm genuinely interested.
True but, as you said, that's "most companies" and not "all companies"
Clickable: http://www.thekillersmusic.com/html5#

FWIW, my browser isn't supported, I get an image, no links, no interaction, no hint of what to do.
If using FF, check out: HTTPS Everywhere ( https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere )
or Force TLS ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12714/ )

For Chrome, note that EFF says: "...There is a Chrome extension called KB SSL Enforcer which attempts to take that approach, but it does not appear to be implemented securely; when we tested it, it seemed to always use http before https, which means that your surfing habits and authentication cookies are not protected (this may be a limitation of the Chrome Extensions framework)."

If using OS X, check out: http://github.com/nicksieger/sheepsafe

Could also try using Comodo TrustConnect: http://www.comodo.com/trustconnect/

But note for the latter that they keep logs of traffic:

"Q: I'm a cyber criminal myself and I'd like to use this service to do all of my dirty work: breaking into others' personal information, stealing credit cards, sending SPAM and breaking other laws. Will you tell?

A: Yes we will. We have logs of all system connections and will provide them to the proper authorities upon request. We're trying to eliminate the web of people like you, not help you do your dirty work."
The article is wrong on " The fastest supercomputer has, since 1994, resided in the United States at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where it is used for scientific computing, among other purposes."

I present to the thee, the Japanese Earth Simulator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Simulator
It's not a one-time-pad, it's a one-time-password system.

(Just like the SAS codes that are used by STRATCOM to authenticate nuclear launches! ;)
Making people aware of what they fear (and what they should fear) is exactly something that education does. People aren't wearing seatbelts, because they aren't afraid enough of what may happen in case of an accident. Proper education on the consequences would instill fear. People only take precautions to prevent against harm based on their fear of being harmed. There is no other motivator for such behavior.
Is there also no difference between somebody entering your house without your permission to warn you about something, because they fear for your safety, and somebody entering your house to burgle it?

You should probably replace "harass" with "inform" in your comment. It would be more accurate, and less emotive.
And because food is what makes your body work, you better decide it is worth its money.
I'm not a fan of "meme" in the name - does the average person on Facebook in OP's target audience (a) know what it means/is, and (b) can pronounce it ('Is is meem or mem?')?

I like something with Finish in it though
I'm surprised Carmack doesn't address the obvious response to his position, which is "You're a millionaire, of course you think people should pay less taxes". Libertarianism contains the wealthiest demographic -- it is an entirely unsurprising position for Carmack to be taking.

I expect that simple self-interest tends to determine most of our political positions; which suggests that if we want to rationally determine what our society's obligation to poor people is, asking rich people for their opinion is the last thing we should do.
> in a house in Melbourne's outer east suburb.

Like Melbourne has only one, outer East suburb ...
It's difficult to sue in another country. I don't think he can stop you entering the US or dealing with US companies. Just don't respond to him and don't give him any money. Assume the company is over. Disclaimer: ianal.
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I don't think Redis cluster quite works like that - it's a gossip system, so each Node only needs to talk to a few other nodes directly to get information about a much larger number of Nodes.
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Not worth it now but what happens in the future if his company does well and the cofounder comes looking?
Maybe you'll find stratified js -- http://stratifiedjs.org/ -- interesting. I haven't tried it myself, but it seems to fit the bill. As a side note: IMHO C#'s use of only 2 keywords and method combinators is cleaner than stratified js' approach.
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Having an agreement is one thing. Threatening to sue and blackmailing with invalid immigration-related claims is quite another. I don't believe the former partner has a case for anything, but if there is any claim, it would be for breach of contract, not theft. Certainly nothing that would land either a conviction or a permanent visa denial. This is a scare tactic, not a pursuit of a claim. It sounds like the two had both committed to work on the company, but only one really did and he now feels used. Obviously we only have one side of the story, but from the available data it seems it was not the OP who broke the original commitment to the company.

Also, how the hell is he screwing his countrymen, as you claim? Are you saying that because someone got screwed by someone in country X, noone will want to do business with other people from country X anymore? That makes no sense.
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Over the past few weeks I've been having this sort of burn out in motivation for work. I'm a web developer, and I like creating web apps that people will find some use for. I am overwhelmed by the ideas that pop into my head, but I can't seem to be motivated enough to actually work on something. I write some code, but when I discuss these ideas with friends and family they are all like "hmmm, yeah that's nice...", totally killing my initial enthusiasm.

So in an attempt to get my enthusiasm back and kill my burn out, I ask you, what simple yet cool webapp that doesn't yet exist (or isn't good enough) do you want me to create, that you'll find some use for? It can be anything really. Advice is welcome also.
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Indeed!

Anyone with insights into Backflip Studios? Number of people working full time, how much money spent building this range of games?
I really agree with this. The main guideline I keep in mind when I write code is the old adage from Abelson & Sussman: "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute". Readability is the main reason I get code that is very maintainable and with very few bugs. For those that still get into the code (they always do), it's very easy to find them thanks to the good structure and readability of the code.

Unit testable code becomes ugly and unreadable very fast. The main goal becomes to make it testable instead of making it readable. It pained me every time I had to do this in the past, and I did it because some company wanted it no matter what. I don't do this in my personal projects and they are almost bug free anyway (no unit testing does not mean no testing at all).

In TDD you spend time making your code ugly and you probably introduce bugs in doing this, and then you spend other time to find and fix those bugs. And when you need to go through that code again for fixing or refactoring it's harder to understand because of all those unit testing hooks.

For very big systems or for applications with a certain structure it probably makes sense to have unit tests. In functional languages they are a lot better because you usually don't have to change the code to adapt to it. But for a lot of applications they make no sense at all.

So please, stop selling them like a panacea for everything. Even better, please stop selling anything like it is a magic medicine for every illness.
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He could still sue but :
- Does a US court have jurisdiction on a foreign company operating from a foreign country and that has no legal entity in the US ?
- Even if they could, what can they do other than prevent that company to make any business in the US ?
- And then, can't the OP just make another company in his country that would buy the assets from the previous one ?

(I don't know the answers to those questions)
Source on the "immigrants in cages"? Tai Kok Tsui seems fairly pleasant and somewhat up-and-coming with new development in west Kowloon.

Edit:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917897,00.htm...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/KI03Cb02.html

Basically just bunks with wire mesh to protect belongings. You'd not guess from walking around the streets.
It certainly doesn't help that there is no solution to the problem of viewing Facebook on a public wifi. If there is no SSL solution, what solution can these users take?

Seems like the ones who read the message must have made a quick cost-benefit analysis in their head of viewing facebook insecurely right now versus not accessing facebook at all - and viewing it right this minute no matter how insecure still won!
Comes looking with no contract and none of his own commitment to show? At least the Facebook case had a signed contract that could be dug out, and proofs of payment.
in this context 'Object-relational mapping' is the most likely meaning.
From what I've read of FireShepard, it's a really bad countermeasure. Basically as described it's doing a DoS attack on people using FireSheep, probably triggered by a coding error that could be fixed.

Two big problems

1) What if the DoS affects other parts of the infrastructure like the Wireless Access Point. Can't imagine hotspot owners will be too happy if people start doing this all the time.

2) False sense of security. Using FireShepard is unlikely to stop other means of getting access to the data (eg, kismet), it only stops FireSheep (for now).
In the UK, waiters bring over a portable card reader to your table, you stick your card in and enter your pin. No need to physically hand over your card to them.
I share the GP's feeling, although not his short-sightedness. I would have made the same comment in a different way, namely:

I have no use for this and can't imagine where I would, so I can't give you any feedback. However, I'm sure that some people will find it useful and dream up new things to do with it, so good job!

EDIT: Actually! I think that this would be a great way to persist data in static, local html documents. You can probably create a full-blown web app with this in just HTML which someone can unzip and run in their browser.
There's a bit of a solution to this out there: if you are a developer who really cares about unit tests, make sure to ask any prospective employers how they feel about them during the interview process.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
Well, there's two sides to every story. He fronted you cash on a project with some risk of it going nowhere, and he did contribute time as well. He's got some legitimate ownership claims.

Now, you feel like he's not worth what he's getting, and this happens. Actually, one of the most common reasons partnerships break down is because of perception of the other guy's work rate.

I'd look to negotiate a buyout for him. He does own some of the company. On your side of the story, it looks horribly unjust. But you know, there's his side of the story where he spends time thinking about the company, consulting with you, risks his money, etc. He's probably feeling like you're trying to screw him and that you're being terribly unfair as well.

Try to negotiate a buyout that includes him relinquishing all ownership of the company. He did put time and money into this and backed you with no guarantee of return - he's entitled to something. The court thing is a non-issue at this stage unless he's really vindictive, but it'll be like an ax hanging over your head forever if your project is successful, or you want to hire, or raise money, or anything else. Try to buy him out and go on your own way. When you negotiate, don't tell him how unfair it is, etc, etc. This just ticks people off without accomplishing anything. Just focus on how you don't think this is a good partnership any more, and you're sorry it didn't work out, and after thinking about it you'd like to buy him out, and then make a low offer and come up a bit.
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I used screen for a while and then switched to tmux for the same reason (region splitting). These days, I am not even using tmux anymore and just using emacs with new buffers running eshell. Serves me well.
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Yeah, definitely illegal in the UK. I'd be surprised if it wasn't illegal in the US too.

So he's basically just blogged about committing a crime. I wonder what would happen if one if his "victims" read this and then contacted the police. I bet Facebook has enough information logged about which accounts were accessing Facebook from that IP at the time, and which of them received his messages.
> Each user is tied to their HN login

How does that work, then?

Edit: not sure why this seems so controversial. Making this happen is a hack. This is Hacker News. I was interested in the details.
Despite today's news about Google's expectation-beating Q3 revenue, I'm concerned about the company's long-term prospects in computing.

Looking at Google's recent annual report, filed on October 28, 2010, Google generated 96% of its revenues and 99% of its profits from the following one division: advertising. While this divisions includes a collection of products and services (e.g., mobile), it appears that most of the revenues and almost all the profits of these divisions is driven by AdWords.
Even better:

1. During the HTTPS part of the communication, the server generates a single
random key and sends it to the client.
2. The client stores this string in local storage.
3. For every request, the client generates a HMAC over the request parameters
(including a monotonic sequence number) using the key.

Both of these schemes are still susceptible to a MITM, who can just insert a bit of javascript in any page received over HTTP, that reveals the temporary secret in local storage to anyone listening.
What was the 'agreements' you guys made? Was he to have 50% for his advice and money? Or was he meant to contribute as much time as you did? Any tips for us on how to avoid a situation like this would be great
Perhaps you wouldn't mind sharing your own personal testing methodology then?
Until the interconnect is a commodity, and at any point the advances they've made there can be as easily utilized in building new US supercomputers.

I don't really see the point of this chest thumping, whoever does it, it just seems like so much posturing. It's fast. Great, but get back to actual science please.
Github has logs of who downloaded Firesheep.

Github doesn't have logs of who downloaded Firesheep and used it to sniff somebodys traffic without their permission.
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I created this account after a couple of years. My main account is 1000+ days old.

Seriously. This summer has been depressing to watch HN go down the pan.
Considering how little recourse he has to actually get money from you without spending far more in lawyer's fees than you're actually earning, I suspect he might be convinced to sign a document relinquishing any ownership stake in the company if he is offered that $1000 back...
Thanks for taking the time to reply. You may believe that my post is far from reality but surely that doesn't mean you should down-vote me for it. Debate me by all means, don't silence me. I tried to be honest and keep an even town. I was on topic. Just because you believe that my opinion is wrong doesn't mean that you have to down-vote me for it.

You make it seem like open source has had its day. It appears to me from looking at the software landscape that open source is becoming more and more pervasive all the time. If you are a software developer I would imagine that it is nigh on impossible to do your work by only using proprietary tools. This was always the case. Everyone agrees that the mobile market is the growth sector and the operating systems that are starting to dominate the sector are open source ones and the tools used to create the apps that go to the application stores you talk about are open source tools such as Eclipse and large parts of Xcode and the Symbian QT dev tools.

I did say I was biased. Granted. But it is not blind faith. That's unfair and unkind on your part to equate what I feel as pretty rational beliefs with religious thinking. Look at the valuation* of Redhat (the champion free software company) vs Microsoft (the champion proprietary company over the last two years for instance ... What does that stock movement tell you? You can't say that Redhat are making a better fist of the console market or a better cloud play or thin client play because Redhat outcompetes Microsoft on their own turf (server software and support) and this is all due to open source software.

I have no problem if you make your living selling closed source apps and for some verticals (games is an oft-cited instance) it might even make sense but I think in the long run everybody wins through the benefit of network effects and the reduced potential of lock-in when the free and open source software methodology is used. It seems to me that all the big IT companies get this - HP gets it, IBM get it, Oracle now get it through SUN, Yahoo gets it, Google definitely get it ... Microsoft are conspicuous by their absence to the party. And it is my thesis that this is going to begin hurting their bottom line despite the good results posted here.

* http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RHT+Interactive#chart1:sy...
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