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4) so we can build a defence system against incoming asteroids
5) to provide a hedge against a planet-wide disaster (aforementioned incoming asteroids, global nuclear war, massive pandemic, runaway greenhouse, take your choice)
6) to get at the massive resources available in space - this one needs expanding. Yes, with current technology those resources simply aren't cost effective compared to what is available on Earth. But imagine a world where space-gun launches or a space elevator reduce launch costs down to tens of dollars per kilogram in orbit. That changes everything in the cost benefit analysis of space resources.
7) Science. We'll discover things that we never even imagined could exist. Who knows how those discoveries will aid humankind in the future?

Those are just some reasons that I could come up with quickly, but I'm sure there are others
I immediately thought of the Sieve of Eratosthenes.

Starting at the left of the image, you will see what is most likely to kill your startup. Go to each item in turn, and check to see if you are handling the situation correctly. If you get yourself a clean bill of health then your startup is "Prime" and likely to succeed.

If you run afoul of one or more of these items, then you need to work on some things...

I don't really want to talk in depth about how many items I feel I need to work on, but it makes me think about factorials instead of primes.
Love the product, have been testing it, but the idea of paying hundreds of dollars a month for the services that there are APIs for, and then another $9 a month doesn't appeal to my bootstrapped startup at this moment in time. And there's no free plan...
I agree with what you are saying here and I believe there are similar regulations in the UK for loan applications. But remember: I am _renting_ a room in a house, not buying anything or borrowing any money. You also put down a 1 1/2 months of rent as a safety deposit.
Try refreshing the page a few times. It worked for me (Chrome on Mac) the first time I tried it, but after clicking on it again it looks messed up.

Edit: My mistake. I was testing it out on a different browser first time around. I tried a few times with Chrome 10.* and it doesn't work.
I consider it natural to the way of the coverage in German speaking countries. Don't forget that it was "old news" for Europe since iPhones 4 were first available in the U.S. I own the iPhone 4 and I can easily repeat the "death grip" whenever I want. However I also almost never see anybody using the 4 without the bumper case.
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> To reiterate what I mean here: you should not be running vim on the box hosting www.videolan.org. I watched you do it earlier today.

Very unlikely. The Website is open source, and the www.v.o pulls the svn every few minutes and recompiles it.

You'll see the website change quite a lot in the next days, because of that...

But the main thing is that you don't like the way we see the website, ever-evolving and not 100%-tested before. I agree, but we don't have the teams to do that.
http://svn.videolan.org/filedetails.php?repname=VideoLAN+Web...
Totally agree. I did this about a year or so ago and it's great. For me I was always looking at the clock in work, how long before lunch, how long before home time, etc. It was quite distracting.
There's no good reason to follow any of these, and as Trimble argues, good reason to break each of them if you care more about effective writing than wagging fingers.
I think you would be very surprised as to what does and doesn't sell on CafePress. Are they doing as well as you are, I doubt they are, but are they doing anywhere near the work you are, no way in hell. They are likely targeting an entirely different market than you are. You're going with viral marketing centered around Facebook. CafePress is largely populated by middle aged women. I would guess the cross over for those two groups isn't that large.
And ClearCase and Visual Source Safe.

File locking is typically popular in version control systems that have limited merge abilities. Perforce is a little better at resolving merge conflicts than the others mentioned here; locking tends to be limited to files that can't be merged, such as binaries.
Chromium has a "Network" Tab in its development tools. In Chrome I cannot find it. Is there a way to bring it up? Why was it even removed (hidden) like that?
This reminds me of what beebole.com wanted to do. They seem to have pivoted from that idea.
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There is a lot in this article that shows the author has very little RDBMS knowledge. For instance:

"What is slow are the arbitrarily complex index interactions that come with the relational world. "

Index's are arbitrary if arbitrary created. It has no bearing on the relational world, no more than a bad driver makes all cars bad.

"Given the example above I think SQLite could be a great implementation leveraging the power of stored procedures to implement atomic datasets."

1, SQLite doesn't support SPs (You can use C to write extensions however) and 2, I've got over 10 years experience in RDBMS and I've never heard of an atomic dataset. Has anyone else? I struggle to understand how a set can be atomic.

"Using BerkleyDB or Innostore could remove the slowness and pain of interacting with the data through SQL."

This kind of comment needs to be addressed. There is NO pain in using SQL, the pain that is perceived is the lack of understanding and skill to use it on the part of the user. Don't call something painful simply because you haven't taken the time to understand it.
Complaints about the iPhone (all iPhones, not just 4) in the US went way beyond the death grip, real or imagined.
When in 2011? Q2, Q3, Q4?

Is this just a one-page MVP to see if it's viable?

At the moment, the offering doesn't exactly look compelling... I'd like to know more, but it's pretty sparse on info.
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i wish i wouldve seen the face the sys admin made when they told him to restore pictures of some whiny bitch who even, and thats why i think the whole story is so retarted, has backups of everything, could just upload them again and is at the end only concerned to lose his online reputation through dead links and lost followers.
I think it might be the vague sense of uneasiness generated not by the fact that his books don't work, but by the fact that his books don't work as well as he does promoting them.

Salesman first, maker second. That's backwards in these here parts.
Did we read the same article? I like Google and crew more than Microsoft, but this was pretty clear to me:

> Google engaged in a “honeypot” attack to trick Bing. In simple terms, Google’s “experiment” was rigged to manipulate Bing search results through a type of attack also known as “click fraud.” That’s right, the same type of attack employed by spammers on the web to trick consumers and produce bogus search results. What does all this cloak and dagger click fraud prove? Nothing anyone in the industry doesn’t already know. As we have said before and again in this post, we use click stream optionally provided by consumers in an anonymous fashion as one of 1,000 signals to try and determine whether a site might make sense to be in our index.

Beyond that, it's kind of crazy to think they'd open up on nitty-gritty details about their algorithm - nobody does that.

Anyways, I'm still with Google. I hope Google wins. But attacking Bing here was probably a tactical mistake - pretty much all marketing thought ever says "Don't attack-market against upstarts if you're the market leader!" You can't win if you're #1 and you do that. Google's #1. Attacking Bing was a really bad tactical move, though I'm still casually rooting for Google to win.
The point of books like this is always the same: Where your focus is will become more.

When you focus on problems becoming an entrepreneur you won't become an entrepreneur. When you focus on health you will get healthier. Nothing new here. So I don't think parent missed the point.
But maybe for some Tim Ferriss books are reminders to focus.
That is the secret to successful Redditing; use subreddits.

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The mix is the message here, if you don't know what it does for you, you don't need it.
I love that the Eastern European looking bloke is the one that blankly stares ahead.

Took a screenshot as proof:

http://i.imgur.com/8HnUB.png
A great many people also think that what the lawyer does is exploitative. It has just become an accepted social fiction that law is an exploitative profession and its to be expected of them.

"Well sure lawyers do it, but engineers?! Come on, they're supposed to be the good guys!"
I never said it was bad, I just said I didn't like it. Given that i'm used to building up my views myself, doing it through a gui perplexes me.

You'll note I said it's a great tool in my first post.
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As for further info on Venturocket, there isn't anything to read about us yet as we've been keeping totally silent until recently. But here's the "10-second teaser" version of Venturocket:

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[MYSQL] SPs are a pain to implement, encapsulate and maintain. Looking at other RDBMS, SPs don't appear to be very portable and doesn't seem to offer speed advantages unless you only use simple queries.

It seems better to write SQL and make use of the DB drivers for me. Why would you consider SPs?
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the part that really threw me off was the IBOutlet syntax. Relating the gui tool to the code itself seems bizarre, but I understand I'm in the minority. I just happened to have learned objective C under somewhat less common circumstances.

The tool exists though, so that Apple can bring more developers on board. Providing usable tools is not something I intend to complain about with respect to Apple.

People whine and moan about Xcode, but some of us started out writing this code in cygwin with an arm cross-compiler and deployed binaries via ssh... debugging tools included printf or forcing crashes. Fun times trying to guess at data structures and naked pointers, but I'm quite content with Xcode and gdb and graphical debuggers and whatever else Apple wants to provide for me :)
Out of curiousity, if we shouldn't correct the language of those we believe are using it poorly, how would one justify the correction of subtle hate speech, which is about stopping language from being used to form a base opinion about a class of people?

Is this not interfering with the way individuals choose to use language, molding language into what we want it to be rather than letting it be what it naturally falls to?
Good to know. I'm giving this a shot. (I already tried removing it entirely for a few weeks and found that it was too much for me.)
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Thanks Lachy! As for how I got coverage on Techcrunch, I got an intro. Given that our initial target market (tech startups) are their core audience, I thought it would be a great place to announce the launch.
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Nice post, but if you just applied yourself more and not be in a rush it would have been better C+
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Perhaps I misread the tone of "I'm sure it's a great tool though". Apologies, in that case.
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This makes sense if you want to design UIView based list cells (i.e. UITableView Cells) that have to be high performant because you can do some - (id) init magic that is slower in awakeFromNib and you save some allocation calls.
I had to do something similar for a Mac app where i effectively rewrote a finished NSView completely in code and gained at least a 30% speed gain afterwards.
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By going dark many VCs assume that they preserve their options for getting into the game at a later point. Most VCs don't want to give you a clear "no" because they know pretty well that you might change your business model, technology or even team very quickly especially when you are in the early stages (ie pivoting). And by telling you what exactly they are not liking about your startup, VCs are afraid that you might take it personal as well (just as some people take a "no" personal). And then there are VCs who want to get some more insights into a specific market or technology to use that for one of their portfolios.
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Maybe jpwagner was just joking from the very beginning and we didn't get it?
Search engine keyword are meant for exactly that. For queries to work though you need to configure the search URL: double-click on the DDG entry for the engine in the Manage Search Engine dialog and make sure its URL is set to http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
Redis by itself is an in-memory database. The author is writing about Redis-vm, which supports paging to disk for datasets larger than ram. Basically all he's doing is recommending some alternatives to the current approach, other than writing your own btree implementation.
Thanks! The quality of feedback I got from my Ask HN post back in July was pretty incredible.

Since then I've spoken to a number of regular HNers who continue to use the product and provide feedback and again, been bowled over by just how helpful people are.
Too long, HN limits title length to 80 characters.
Dude likes not having a clock, writes a TL;DR longer than article explaining the same.

TL;DR It was an interesting exposition on the modern Man's relationship to time an the surprising effect of detachment that results a Vegas-like visual detemporalization of the visual environment, followed by further clarification that exhibited a clear lack of understanding of proper summarization techniques appropriate for an Internet audience.
"Microsoft pays into MPEG-LA about twice as much as it receives back for rights to H.264."
Are you talking about Chromium OS / Chrome OS? Yes, it is slightly different than Chromium/Chrome. I have both Chromium/Chome installed and I don't and haven't ever seen Network. It is present on my CR-48 though.
My only disappointment is that I was hoping to get in on the software market that would have been required to track all of this nonsense. It was a gift in that regard.

I've talked about this quite a bit in the tax industry, and there are a few popular opinions. My favorite so far is that this was designed to fail to show just how bad our tax code can get, which would then be used to usher in simplification/reform, i.e., VAT.
For those that have a hard time keeping commitments like yours: "You can't look at HN until 4pm"

StayFocusd for Chrome is incredible.

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Let me guess: you don't own iPhone 4 and even haven't tried to borrow one and try it in common urban circumstances?

Why don't you believe the guy who reports his own Eropean experiences? I just claim that the "death grip" is simply not the AT&T issue but the real iPhone 4 issue.
Please don't shout in uppercase in the titles. The guidelines are here:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I realise the original article uses this title, but a little more peaceful when posted to HN would be nice.
Difference between HN and reddit, beautifully illustrated.
Nice concluding sentence: "The report suggests North American operators are most vulnerable to the increase in mobile data use, plunging them into profitability by 2013...."
Which will be tiny.

Videos, audio and photos and game media will take the bulk of the space. Of those - only photos and a proportion of the videos are likely to be totally unique to a user.
That sort of thing is very handy when testing workflows between users on a system that uses cookies for session state, though is actually handled better by IE of all things.

Using "new session" from the file menu in IE8 (or just running a new instance of iexplore.exe (instead of just creating a new window) under IE6/7 if you have the "reuse windows" option turned off) you can create several independent sessions. There are not many cases when you need a lot of concurrent sessions, but there are a few I hit occasionally where four is useful (for instance a workflow where a file quality reviewer, adviser, adviser's supervisor, and a compliance officer all interact with the process at some stage).

You can do the same in Firefox but in a slightly more long-winded way: you need to setup independent profiles which is a little more faf initially. Each profile gets its own firefox.exe process and addin-ins, which can be handy: I keep a clean profile (no addins at all) for some testing (for instance to rule out an oddity being due to interaction with a particular plugin) without having to disable all the add-ins on my main profile.
Yes, I see that he has made edits. great.
As much as I'd like to see Digg find relevance again, I just don't see it happening without some kind of pivot. The people who were there for the community mostly left after v4, and they haven't made any indication of coming back. I'm sure they can continue to break even and maintain their current membership, but that's as good as dying. They need to figure out what vertical they're really after and go for it.
No. There's a difference between having the toolbar installed but typing something into the google.com directly (which actually occurred) and typing something into the Bing toolbar.
cool code, some perspective top to bottom might give it some additional "3d pop"
expression() gives you a functional method for defining animations; CSS transforms are declarative. They’re a different thing entirely.

Besides, expression evaluates on mousemove which is horrible for performance: http://blog.dynatrace.com/2010/02/16/the-real-performance-ov...
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This happens all the time. I wouldn't worry about it. Somebody has to notice and the send you a notice first. They could take you to court right away (anyone can sue for pretty much anything in the U.S.) but they likely wouldn't want to waste the time and money to go through the process. That assumes that what you are doing would even be winnable in court. You could use the excuse that you through the windows of the cars if that would make any difference (viewing prices in the store rather than scraping from their site.)
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That doesn't invalidate my metaphor.

If an advertiser is willing to pay you $x then you can be guaranteed they're earning $x * 2 -- or more. If you had the product instead, and were the advertiser, you could be the one making a lot more money.

Advertising expenditure is always a sliver of total expected revenue, except in two rare cases: when a company bets the farm on an ad campaign, and when the advertiser is a startup running on VC.

Therefore, the amount of money the ad generates will almost always be more than it costs. That is indisputable.

Ergo, making products is a better way to capture more money.