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CentOS is a good choice if you want to run a server for commercial purposes. I use Fedora (its almost the same as centOS) for my development desktop as it mimicks my server setup. I tried Ubuntu for my server and it didn't work out to be that stable. However a couple of my friends in other startups found Ubuntu to be working fine for them on their production servers. Another distro I use a lot is Backtrack ;)
Exactly. Unless the hardware of an iPhone costs significantly less than, say, an Evo 4g or Touch Pro 2, there's no reason their profit margin would be any better. Of course, the whole pricing model is very obfuscated at least with US carriers due to contracts, required internet plans, etc.
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It really is a "classic clunker". The thing barely runs. We had to replace the battery on our way up to AT&T Park, the front seat is broken, the turn signals don't work, when we opened the engine the cap on the radiator coolant container was gone and it was bone dry. We filled it up with some water and after our first stop, we noticed a giant puddle of water on the ground. Cracked radiator was our guess. Originally we were just going to drive the car all the way to Texas, but after a few break downs we decided if we wanted to get the car to Texas, we'd better pull it. It does drive, but I wouldn't bet an 1800 mile road trip on it.
I don't think you can. PHP doesn't really run in a server like Java and .NET do. Zend does have a Server product (http://www.zend.com/en/products/server), I never tried it but it might offer background processes. I normally just use cron to trigger a url.
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Not quite:

5060 is an exception to your rule.

As described before, if (even digit sum) - (odd digit sum) is divisible by 11, then the number is divisible by 11.
visual c++ debugging ? it has this?
Good point. Wikipedia suggests that there are battery powered locomotives - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_locomotive#Electric_lo...

Charging such a massive ammount of batteries quickly could potentially be problematic.
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maps.google.com would just work except that their imagery for the location I am interested in is about 5 years old. Is there any paid/ free web service that offers latest satellite imagery (this is for a real estate app I want to build).
But do android device makers get the same cut from the carrier as Apple? Notice an unlocked iPhone 4 is ~$750, and Apple probably gets a little more out of it when they sell with a contract (otherwise wouldn't they just sell unlocked phones with no particular carrier association?)
> I confronted one German man about this, asking him who the Prime Minister of Japan was. He had no clue.

That's a slightly unfair question, because they've been getting a new one roughly once a year for the past several years due to scandals and such. They only seem to make the news when appointed and stepping down due to scandal, unless they visit that shrine for Japanese war dead or something that triggers protests.
Do you need outside investment to continue development and launch your app or can you bootstrap the launch?

Create a list of wants/needs for your app. The wants is all the features and functionality of the app that you envision. The needs are the ones that get you to a MVP.

What is it going to take to launch this app? Does it require outside sales, an infrastructure build-out (servers, storage, offices), major marketing effort?

Assuming you have a MVP, I would start marketing the app to your target market. Get some traction and even some paying customers under your belt. Get feedback from these customers, reassess your wants/needs list based on that feedback. At the same time, begin working on a presentation for potential investors. You should treat your friends/family investment the same as you treat any angel investor. Make sure all the documents are in place, whether the investment is via convertible or straight out equity. Having your friends/family invested, a MVP, and some traction will make getting angel investment a lot easier. It proves you can execute on your idea and that there is a market for your product.
I see no reason you can't build tunnels 100-200 feet underneath people's homes to avoid kicking people out, but that has the problem that you need broad public support for spending that money. Then again, if we redirected 10% of our military spending to high speed rail, that would probably address the funding issues adequately.

The other thing is that greater superelevation would increase speeds possible through the existing curves. But as you increase superelevation, you potentially increase the minimum safe speed through that segment of track, and having 0 MPH be a safe speed is desireable. There may be some maglev derivative that could help with that problem. Rubber tires on concrete also have greater friction, which may allow them to tolerate a greater amount of unbalanced superelevation.
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Interesting. I never encountered it in my years of closer relationship with Microsoft. Must have happened after 2000/2001.
Apple's profitability with its iPhone business is partly a function of its vertical integration and its industry power. Consider that Apple controls the key inputs for the iPhone (e.g., the A4 system on a chip and iOS), owns important distribution channels (e.g., the Apple Stores), and exercises substantial power over complements (e.g., AT&T and apps via the App Store). In short, Apple creates substantial customer value with the iPhone, and due to its vertical integration and industry power is able to appropriate much of the value that is created (in the form of profits).

A second key reason for its profitability is Apple's low cost structure. With economies of scale and scope (consider that many components are shared across the iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc), learning curve advantages, relationships with key suppliers (Samsung) and contractors (Foxconn), and so on, Apple is able to drive down the unit costs of the iPhone and thus drive up its margins.
> relatively prime

Do primes come in degrees these days?
Interesting story, but I doubt that the "!!!!1!!11one!!" part is to make fun of leet.

On the contrary, I'd say that this was to make fun of people who type in all caps (using Shift). In their hurry to write a great all-caps comment, they miss the Shift key once in a while, leaving a '1' behind instead of '!'. If anything, this would be the "elite" group making fun of noobs who can't type properly. Dusting in some "one" or "eleven" is just the next step in geeky humor.
Nooo. That's why Google became successful. They focused on providing relevant results. If they were a commercialized search engine then they'd be no better than the yellow pages.

Their ads supplement their amazing results.
Congress has

1) Only chosen to buy 20 Acela trainsets, with one first class, one cafe, and four business class cars each, and I believe four of those are always scheduled to be undergoing maintenance at any given time.

2) Told Amtrak to try to make a profit

Given the constrains of needing to somehow decide which people get to use the inadequate number of seats, and trying to make money, how do you kill two birds with one stone?
Competitors can bid, not with the intent of winning, but with the intent of driving up Google's price. This certainly happened to Cisco. The retention bonuses are a way of making a side payment to the entrepreneurs that bypasses the investors. Competitors could also offer retention bonuses.
It's an impressive effort, although it's missing the first Linux I regularly used: Tom Oehser's tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/), a single-floppy release aimed at system rescue.

Highlighting the lineage aspect, however, loses useful context information. For example, Robert Shingledecker was a significant part of the development of Damn Small Linux for five years before he started the Tiny Core Linux project. While there's no commonality in the distribution-specific code that I'm aware of, and hence no reason for a graphic connection on the chart, I think it's safe to say that Tiny Core's design is a continuation of Shingledecker's thinking on what makes a good minimal Linux.
Here's a function to create svg (default) or jpg for both sbcl and lispworks from graphviz:

(defun make-svg (file-name &key jpg)

#+lispworks (sys:call-system-showing-output
(string+ cl-user::*organontech-graphviz* (if jpg " -Tjpg " " -Tsvg ")
cl-user::*fcgaa-lean-mapping-path*
"/" file-name ".dot"
" -o "
cl-user::*fcgaa-lean-mapping-path*
"/" file-name (if jpg ".jpg" ".svg")))
#+sbcl (sb-ext:run-program cl-user::*organontech-graphviz*
(list (if jpg "-Tjpg" "-Tsvg")
(string+ cl-user::*fcgaa-lean-mapping-path* "/" file-name ".dot")
"-o"
(string+ cl-user::*fcgaa-lean-mapping-path* "/" file-name (if jpg ".jpg" ".svg")))
:output (weblog-stream)
)
)

(defun weblog-stream ()

(or (net.aserve:vhost-log-stream (net.aserve:wserver-default-vhost net.aserve:*wserver*))
t)) ;;sends output directly to html stream on portable allegroserve

(defmacro string+ (string &rest strings)
`(concatenate 'string ,string ,@strings))
I learned early on that this was a degradation of a smiley face, but what surprised me is when I'd see it in emails which had gone through only Microsoft components: from Outlook to Outlook through Exchange, the J would still sometimes show up.

One could have assumed this behavior would be consistent along the way.
If you are not careful you will learn something new. Thanks for the tip.
It seems like you're doing it backwards?

37289 - 35000 = 2289 - 2100 = 189 - 140 = 49 / 7 = 0. It's just quick and dirty long division, but easy to do quickly. I'm perplexed about what advantage you see in starting at the small end?
Maybe so but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be told "We've all been there. You will be alright. Just hang in there."
Excellent point.

The power of Apple's supply chain cannot be underestimated. They are constantly looking at new materials, locking up global supply of key components and constantly reinventing their form factors.

The problem with Android is that it isn't a brand. It's an idea. Motorola Android phones work completely differently to HTC Android phones. Google has succeeded in what they wanted to achieve: to commoditize the phone OS. Manufacturers are playing along and their phones too are, basically, commodities. There is no "Android experience" like there is an "iPhone experience" so they're all simply competing on price.

The other problem with the Android manufacturers is they make the same two mistakes pretty much everyone but Apple makes: they ask customers what they want and they use "shotgun marketing".

Asking customers what they want (eg focus groups) is a terrible idea with an horrendous track record.

Shotgun marketing is basically throwing everything at the market and hoping something sticks. That's why there are so many models and they pack in as many features as they can (marketers like bullet point lists). Apple is the only one who seems to have a coherent and consistent user experience.
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Finally. What the hell. I thought I was out on some joke, or for some reason a lot of people at my company ended their sentences with "J" like "JK" but were lazy.

I do my work on a Mac and I use the default mail client. I figure those sending me e-mails do so through outlook. I get this stray "J" all the time.

When I saw the title of this link it elated me because I was finally going to figure out what the hell was going on.
I think the right strategy for charging a locomotive battery pack would be to install a short section of 25kV catenary at the station/layover facility at the end of the route. Amtrak has some HHP-8 locomotives which are 8000 horsepower, about 5 megawatts, which demonstrate that carrying about 5 megawatts through a catenary system to a locomotive is not terribly difficult.

Recharging will take longer than refuelling a diesel, but if the recharging can be done in under an hour, that's probably tolerable.
I use this. This makes the "shell" command work in SBCL, and does nothing in CLISP or any other implementation.

#+sbcl
(defun shell (x)
(run-program "/bin/sh" (list "-c" x) :output t))

Tell me if you want it to work in an implementation other than CLISP or SBCL, and if I can install it on my computer, then I'll figure it out.
I'm not sure if this is humour or not, but "relatively prime" or "coprime" means that the two numbers have GCD 1.
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It's not about embarrassment. It's about my right to be in control of my person, and to not be bombarded with unnecessary radiation (of any amount). And it's about power and control.
I thought the OP's point was that phrases like "taking control over our stewardship of the planet" was a religious statement in that the only reason the concepts in it have any grounding is through the faith of the person saying them. That's not religion-specific.
> A big proportion of the Google Wave complaints surrounded the UX, both for end-users and devs.

I disagree. In fact I think worrying about that is a bit like polishing the brass on the Titanic.

The biggest problem Wave had (and has) is "what problem does it solve?" What I heard time and time again could be summarized as "This is neat but what do we use it for?"

The problem with Wave is it's what can happen when engineers are in charge of product development. I look at Wave and see something that could be used as a building block for many other communication platforms (email, IM and so on) so they're solving a technical "problem" without solving any user problems.
After taking a few Amtrak trips that were less than ideal, I think the government should:

1) Dismantle Amtrak as a carrier

AND

2) Put a shit-ton of money into rail infrastructure (on par with air or highway) and let private carriers on.
I upvoted this because I agree with the concept, but I don't believe such things are necessary. General rule of life: assholes will be assholes. This isn't going to make anyone more polite. Most of us are already polite, and quite content to simply downvote people who aren't.
I am totally against this increase in security because it's unnecessary and gives a security agency the idea that it has undue power over the people. However, I honestly don't understand why so many people are so pissed off at getting touched or seen. I feel like I'm comfortable with my sexuality and the nature of the invasiveness is a nonissue, it's merely the fact that it's escalated _again_.
I was planning to mention arch/keystone before, but decided against it. One of the neat things about a DOME is, you can get the keystone effect without, y'know, a keystone. That ring of stone(s?) around the oculus fills the same compressive role, and lights the place up a bit in the bargain!

There is one issue that's NOT clearly answered just looking at the building or its design (not to me, anyway): an arch/dome pushes outward on its supports, not just downward, and requires some inward force/resistance to counter it. This is what the flying buttresses on many medieval cathedrals are for. I don't really see such a structure on the Pantheon, but I notice the walls are a bit thicker at the base. Whether that's enough to counter the expansive force, I can't say.

Clearly, something has kept it up there for two millennia.
If mean-spirited comments are down-voted, then it's not much of an issue. The problem is that I've started seeing mean-spirited comments receiving up-votes, and rising to the top of discussions. How do we solve this as a community?
Rebar generally reduces the life of concrete - almost all concrete failure is due to water getting into the rebar, creating rust which expands and cracks the concrete.

A lot of the ruins of Greece were damaged by Victorian engineers securing the stones with iron bars to strengthen them
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Provided that the next increment is within grasp of the current increment for all increments, it will likely come very, very quickly.

Remember, even logarithms hit infinity as x -> inf. I agree that the base intelligence of the AI would have to be at least within the realm of a very intelligent human to begin the cycle, but once begun, I'm unsure.

As for asymptotes, if there are hard limits and structural changes that need to take place in order to break an IQ of, say, 220 then it stands to reason that we will never break it (or near-never, IQ as a system has no max or min, so if 10 trillion humans are eventually born then by definition we should have some way ahead of that measure). The reason we could never break that limit is that if we could break it the AI already would have, but since it is more intelligent than we are and can think orders of magnitudes faster than we can, it is unlikely that we would do so.

Assuming that an AI has near instant thought processing time, it will either make the next level soon, or we never will.
The clever part is that the dome is incredibly light.
It thins toward the top, where it is taking less load, and uses empty jars in the concrete to lighten parts.
The relatively thick heavy walls are enough to hold it.
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There are tons of great writers who get away with things which writers aren't supposed to do. You see this with athletes, too--arguably, the difference between greatness and competence is the ability to get away with things you shouldn't be doing.
I don't consider this a serious objection. One could just as easily argue that symbolic text "keeps out" the blind programmers. The obvious solution is to provide an alternate representation.
This will lead to the development of the testicular explosive, which goes off once the device is manhandled.
Can someone explain this statement: "remember that there's no point using AES-256 with a 1024-bit public key"

Why not?
Yeah. That's how it's been done for ages, at least as far back as Tucows.

1) List everything you can find.

2) Rate and show the ones you have reviewed first.
> We may not start out by fetching coffee for Paul Graham's 3nd assistant (I doubt he has one), but we do all have to start from somewhere and make whatever moves we have to in order to move up. That may involve toiling at night, moving to SF or elsewhere, or whatever. But it still just needs to get done. Enough said, I've got some coding to do this Saturday night.

I know what you mean. I spent part of my free time this weekend teaching myself how LadderLogic works so that I will be more helpful in debugging a certain faulty machine next Monday because I'm not sure we can rely on the folks they're going to call in to give us any kind of fix.
Just a thought. You might want to consider one of the BSD variants, just to explore a somewhat different system architecture.

For everyday use, I find Ubuntu good enough, although I do wish they'd break fewer things every six months. I suspect I'll eventually migrate my Arch usage from "tinkering" to everyday usage.

Another thought: Tiny Core Linux - a minimalist distribution that runs out of RAM. The ISO image is only 10 MB, and the design is based on only loading those applications you need when you're using them. There are tons of applications already packaged online, so many people find it sufficient as their everyday OS. Personally, I put it in the tinkering category like Arch because the design is based on a specific design attitude that's different from the mainline distributions.
From my offers, the benefit package of apple is much better than amazon. The salaries are about the same (amazon bonus is better). But apple has imo better health etc, stock purchase plan (which I don't believe amazon has), bigger discounts for apple products, better pay raise (I need to ask HR if amazon has yearly bonuses), amazons 401k matching is pitiful.
The deadline for this has already passed.
>Creative thoughts don't come to you any more.

I've taken more than my share of modafinil and I've never experienced this.
> Is this the equivalent of athletes taking steroids?

Yes, they are equivalent, and both should be legal.
Some of the difference – not sure how much exactly – can certainly be explained with the fact that Apple is only selling smart phones. That’s why RIM (4% vs 14%) and and HTC (2% vs 5%) also have less market share than profit share.

Nokia sells massive amounts of cheap dumb phones and has correspondingly less profit than market share (15% vs 32%). (To make the same profit Apple makes with a $750 iPhone – assuming a 30 percent margin in both cases – Nokia has to sell ten $75 phones. If that were the only thing they are selling Nokia would need ten times the market share of Apple to have the same profit share.)
Not trying to be passive aggressive here, at all; I agree with you here. The reason I didn't post anything was that HN has gotten pretty damn meta recently too. I'm not sure posts like this will help anything, much; probably something needs to come from the top, or the community needs to focus on enforcing the behavioral norm by down-voting (even if they normally wouldn't put in the effort) comments that are of an assholish nature.

As an aside: http://twitter.com/#!/ihodes/status/29059931658
The ridiculous thing about the Acela is that it's significantly more expensive than the "normal" train, but only cuts about 40 minutes from the trip. (Checking Amtrak.com showed me ~4:15 for the normal train, 3:36 for the Acela.) When I was commuting twice a week NYC-BOS, I couldn't possibly justify the price difference, especially if you compare it to the $20 Bolt Bus or Greyhound tickets.

Point being: the Acela (IMHO) doesn't qualify as a high-speed train if only because it doesn't "feel" high-speed compared to the other options. Commuting in 3.5 or 4 hours is emotionally irrelevant. Commuting in 1.5 hours would feel remarkably different.
You're certainly correct.
Where have you seen that? I have seen most of them getting downvoted and some getting 1 or 2 upvotes
You're right and I'm not an experienced chess player, thanks for the pointer. What I was getting at though was how it's not a game of incomplete info, as say in poker/bridge where intuition plays a far bigger role.
"what if we gave teachers a fraction of a percentage of her pupils' future earnings?"

Interesting, but how would this work for students who had an awful teacher? I would feel angry knowing that substandard teachers were earning the same amount as one who were positively influential?

I suppose you could have a rating system whereby the student could rate the teacher and a higher rating would correspond to a fairer percentage.

But then this might backfire on good teachers who have to deal with problematic students. Maybe the teacher is doing a good job in this case but will get a bad rating for nothing of their doing.
We could all benefit from an explanation of these terms. Why not explain it to us instead of insulting the guy?
People focus on Steve Jobs and Apple's design and marketing prowess. However, Tim Cook and Apple's supply chain management and operating excellence is just as important a part of their success.
Do they burn...?
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