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Yes, I haven't read the other comments but that is a terrible terrible explanation. OP had a genuine question about the nature of things and the person answered bringing up paper and arrows. This is the stuff that made Feynmann mad when they asked him about magnets.

Have you ever read the book QED? It's Feynman's best effort to explain Quantum Electrodynamics to a layman. In the book, he takes a genuine question about the nature of things (how does light work?) and answers it by "bringing up paper and arrows!" (I encourage you to read the book to see what I mean). Feynman disliked "explaining" nature with inaccurate and irresponsible metaphors. But arrows are the way it really is!
That might be a deeper question about the nature of the Universe.

Newton's first law (inertia): an object in motion tends to stay in motion. This gives rise to the idea of an "inertial reference frame" which is the idealized reference of a hypothetical object in motion. In simplistic terms, if you pretend that the Universe is merely Newtonian in nature and contains a preferred reference frame then you could imagine that an inertial reference frame can be described by a velocity vector (a speed and a direction). If an object has zero speed relative to the inertial reference frame that will tend to continue to be true so long as no forces intervene.

If you induce an acceleration on an object you will change it's velocity. In it's initial inertial reference frame it will appear to be accelerating. In any other inertial reference frame it will also appear to be accelerating.

There is no such thing as an accelerating inertial reference frame precisely because such a frame is not inertial, it would imply that forces are being applied to the objects involved. The laws of physics make sense if you apply them within any inertial reference frame, but they don't make sense in accelerating reference frames (mass, energy, and forces become inconsistent and confused).

Does that make sense?
People have been saying this about Apple products for years.

iPhone? "Nobody really wants it they just like Apple because it's trendy"

Mac mini? (Back when it first came out and was under $500 even though the 'experts' all agreed that Apple was institutionally incapable of producing a computer for under $1000) "Nobody really wants it they just like Apple because it's trendy"

iPod? "Nobody really wants it they just like Apple because it's trendy"

iMac? "Nobody really wants it they just like Apple because it's trendy"

iBook? "Nobody really wants it they just like Apple because it's trendy"

Mac Pro? (back when it first came out with the Xeons and was massively cheaper than the Dell equivalent) "Nobody really wants it they just like Apple because it's trendy"

Mac Cube? "Nobody really wants it..."

Well, I'll give you that last one. :D
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If you are within the event horizon of a black hole then you cannot escape.

Elsewise, from a greater distance you will be able (assuming you have the means) to escape the gravitational pull of the black hole as you would any other object of equivalent mass.
node.js is asynchronous from the ground up, Tornado is generally synchronous with the exception of http client and server. So, Tornado is less pure, but you can use any of the Python libraries as they are. Node.js is pure, even disk i/o is asynchronous, but there are much fewer libraries.

Tornado also wraps Facebook API and has authentication with Facebook, Google, Twitter and everyone else.
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Judging from the commit history, It seems to be pretty active:
http://bugs.call-cc.org/timeline
God bless the manhole cover problem. That's been making the rounds for over a decade.
link to The Century Of The Self - Adam Curtis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/century_...
I think this is the point where pg would jump in and remind everyone that YC is NOT a incubator and thus comparing these two programs would be like apples and oranges...

That being said, YC seems to be in a league of it's own. I bet that they could change their terms ("we'll give you 0 money, for 10% of your company") and the quality and quantity of the applicants and selections wouldn't drop.

It seems to come with the best advice, the most successful alumni, some amount of built in press coverage, a big foot in the door w/ the VC community, and what seems to be an intangible "boost" that really changes your company's chances for success (..assuming you work hard, etc. etc.). Oh, that and--atleast for this current crop--acceptance to YC literally guarantees you (some) financing.

At this point, pg is damn right for favoring people to products. With the benefits above, YC could take a good team with no real idea, hash out a decent one in the first week, crank out an MVP in 3 months, and with their 150K in the bank have the time to make it to a 10-20 million exit. Like My Fair Lady or something.

I'll be glad to play the part of Eliza Doolittle.
I don't think anyone could claim she's "masquerading" as knowledgeable, regardless of what (if any) formal education she's had.
I think it's hard to downplay protests when there are thousands on streets rioting.
It's worth noting that Python has just one linear structure - lists* (Ruby avoids lists and just has arrays). Now, they're actually much fancier under the hood, which is why you can get away with not having a bunch of choices, but it's the approach of "Oh hey, I want to store a bunch of stuff in a sequence of some sort - why should it matter how that's implemented?".

Now, I happen to agree with you that it's important to know how a basic linked list works. Beyond that, though, is far less important to some people than others.

* Okay, I lied. Halfway through writing this I remembered tuples (duh!), and I'm sure someone is going to point out several other things I've missed.
I was at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week. Believe me, tablets are taking off big time. Not least because while lots of people like Apple products, no-one but Apple likes Apple to lead. Apple's already lost leadership in smartphone, and it's hard to see how they won't be outpaced by the end of the year in tablets too.

Smartphone shipments outran PCs (all kinds) last quarter, tablets are going to head that way too. Nobody loves tablets yet, but a heavy dose of competition and high volume will create the pressure to innovate and create something new and compelling.
So how bad of a publicity hit has HBGary taken with the Anonymous-breach? Am I paranoid for not immediately wanting to download and open PDFs from their site?
Oh, finally we got here cool discussion. Here is how I explain that one "could" travel faster then the speed of light! HOWEVER, and this is VERY IMPORTANT, this depends on your definition of the speed. So imagine following experiment:

There are two space ships which are built like these russian matroshkas. One smaller space ship is in the hangar of a bigger one. The bigger one starts from the earth and accelerates to the speed of light (or just until 0.999c). Now, the smaller ship starts and can again accelerate from the bigger ship point of view until 0.999c. So, if there is just a simple velocity measure instrument, which is measuring acceleration by F = m*a, and we know the relative space ship mass "m" as it was relative to the earth, then knowing how much force our engine produces we can compute the acceleration. And hence our velocity measurement device will add small "a" to the current velocity by every thrust of the engine.

So given that type of measurement, our smaller space ship can accelerate to the speed of 2c relative to the earth. HOWEVER, due to the relativistic effects the people living on the earth would never ever realize that this ship was moving with 2c, since they are measuring speed by looking how far the ship went in the certain amount of time. And due to the time dilation they will never realize that this ship was actually much farther away then it looks like.

So, regarding to this experiment, we can travel faster then the light. However, this is only due to the definition of the speed.

A counter argument would be that the mass "m" is also changing. However, one could argue that the mass is represented by the amount of particles per volume unit and hence remain constant if volume remain constant. Ok, another guy could argue again that the size of the volume shrinks, but I could then argue that if size of the volume shrinks, then the density of the particles per volume unit from the earth point of view would increase and could end up in a singularity or just black hole, so big bang ?:confused:

This kind of experiment fits well into my experience of the world, where I just cannot accept some of the constraints we get from the nature :) Yes, you cannot travel faster then the speed of light, BUT this is only because I stay at the earth and measure your speed by looking how fast you come back. But this pure guy who is traveling could measure the speed as I've proposed and would then realize that, in deed he was faster then the "earth's speed of light" :)
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The short summary of CurveCP is that it's essentially an encrypted and authenticated TCP[1] (tunneled over UDP). The main selling point is that it's fast, partly by clever protocol design and mostly by use of highly-efficient elliptic curve cryptography.

It's really cool, but sadly probably doomed to obscurity - unencrypted TCP/SSL/IPSec are "good enough".

[1] Actually, Dan Kaminsky stated that it's perfectly usable as a UDP replacement.
Have you ever worked for a non-IT company? If so, how was the HR department better?
In the long term I think domain names are going to become less important and will gradually fall in value.

People will start to use a portal like Google or Bing to access the web. Rather than typing a domain name, many non-tech people I know just search for the company name.

Coupled with ICANNs plans to open gTLD registration up I think we will eventually see the focus move away from .com domains and the prices will start to fall. As the .com space becomes increasingly crowded and a wider range of gTLDs become available it will become more and more acceptable to exist in other TLDs so there will be less competition for .com domains.
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Modern banking is festooned with an array of regulations and legal restrictions, not all of which are helpful in the modern age.
I went through 8 interviews (over the course of 8 months) before I got an offer from Google. By the time Google gave me the offer, I already accepted an offer from the other company. I told the HR of Google that their process sucks (of course, I said it indirectly) and she agreed with me. I'm glad to hear that Google is finally making changes here.
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Huh? There's several hundred people on that list for me. It took 5 minutes to scroll through and decide which ones to click. It could have taken 2.5 minutes. Clearly this is desirable? If not, please explain.
The Blackberry Playbook has some interesting ideas, like using the touch-screen real estate outside of the viewing area for 'meta-gestures' (my made up word sorry, some nitpicker will no doubt jump in and correct me, and then get 10x the karma for it but whatever).

But the overall execution is going to suck really really badly. Also, RIM are busy peeing in their developers porridge... kinda like Nokia and the QT debacle.

I think the problem is that Apple has been working on this thing for years and years and years. Rumours of a tablet have been much exaggerated since before the iPhone came along.

Now the other guys are scrambling to catch up. And they're finding that in order to poop something out in six months, you have to cut corners, and if you cut corners, then quality suffers etc. Not to mention that things move slowly at most large corporations (Apple included - heck, they might even be worse than all the others, but because they fail in secret everybody thinks they magically just coughed hard one day and the iPad sprang forth from Steve Job's brow fully formed)
Awesome idea!

Do this please: look at my "Interested in" info and only show me people of that gender.
I don't understand the purpose of this report, it's just Process Monitor dumps and log files of rootkits being executed directly. No analysis is done, save a bit of ranting on the readme files provided by these rootkits. Is this information actually useful to anyone? It's trivial to recollect it yourself with Process Monitor
No offense intended, but I think that using `2to3` at release time is exactly the wrong way around. I'd rather like to have something like `3to2`.

The idea is to use `2to3` only initially to move your code to Python3. From then on, develop your code in Python3 – that's what "we all" want, don't we? At release time, use `3to2` to also provide a Python2 version.
"The new approach includes a new “rule of five” that limits the number of interviews a candidate can attend to no more than that number, said Laszlo Bock, head of human resources. In the past, would-be Googlers were often subjected to 12-14 interviews, he added."

Wow, they actually consider 5 interviews to be a lean approach to interviewing; no wonder their process is convoluted. Methinks Google seriously needs to rethink their org structure.
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A merchant account is the power to make any credit/debit card charge given the card details.

This is an incredible power. The power to effectively drain the bank account of every customer who has ever done business with you.

For credit card transactions the basic mechanism for making a payment is fundamentally equivalent to handing over a signed stack of blank checks to the merchant and having them fill in all the details.

Yes, this highlights how massively broken the system is. However, it also highlights why it's necessary to avoid every Joe on the street having a merchant account.
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See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242931
what I don't understand is why the light is the point of reference. Just because it's the fastest "thing" we know ? Or is there some other reason ?
Following your argument to its logical conclusion, HN should stop linking to external sites because if people are in a site X mood, they will go to site X, for any value X.

For myself, I don't visit Reddit unless there's something interesting linked to from elsewhere, such as HN. Thus, I appreciate this being posted to HN.
It's possible to absolutely measure the change in a quantity without knowing the absolute value of the quantity itself. Think of a hole in the ground of unknown depth but known radius, filled with water. If the water level changes you can calculate the absolute change in water volume without knowing the total volume of water in the hole. Similarly, you can measure an absolute value for acceleration (change in velocity) even though an absolute value of velocity doesn't exist.
On the web, they seem to work pretty well for image galleries. Although I think it's important that you can dismiss the lightbox by simply clicking anywhere outside the image.

In general, modal dialogs are suitable for operations where it helps to have contextual information in the background, but you don't need to interact with it. A 'Save' dialog is a common example.

This thread on UX exchange has some more thoughts and examples:

http://uxexchange.com/questions/1153/when-should-you-use-a-m...
Github (and similar evidence of actual abilities) are already making questions like these extinct, thank god. Reading through a single project an applicant has written themselves is immensely more informative than these silly CS brain teasers: actual solutions to actual problems, style & documentation habits, testing practices, evidence of being able to code & ship, being a self starter, etc... Classic example of actions speak louder than words. Thankfully the technology is now in place so that resumes can be replaced with coding community profiles, and interviews can focus on filling in the blanks and assessing the compatibility of the applicant as a person.
If all browsers adopt Chrome-style address bar, the net worth of these guys should drop a lot and it will be a good thing for the Internet.

Obviously, the fortune will be partly transferred to search engines but they provide real values to the world, unlike the guys covered in the article. Search engines could use the money to better fight spam and research for more advanced technology (like IBM Watson) as well.
Have you read PEP 3003? Python 3 is hardly moving forward.

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/
For credit card transactions the basic mechanism for making a payment is fundamentally equivalent to handing over a signed stack of blank checks to the merchant and having them fill in all the details.

For check transactions, receipt of one check -- signed or otherwise -- is exactly the same. The information printed on the check is sufficient to print a "demand draft" -- a financial instrument which functions exactly as a check except it is printed by a third party and hence looks different and bears no signature.

Yes, this really does mean that anyone who has ever glanced at one of your checks can knock up a demand draft on any computer with a printer attached, for any amount they desire.
I think Facebook and other social networks will have a better chance of creating flourishing portals than Google or Bing because they already have a working combo of people+data+interaction. The Google approach to portals would just be very AOL-ish.

You are 100% right about people googling services and companies, though. Hell, we know for a fact that people google Google or Yahoo or even Bing... As long as you don't pick a offensive name, most people don't seem to mind about the domain name or tld.
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> but they have the right if they choose to do so

I don't mind their business model, but I can't understand why they appear near the top of so many search results.

Either they are very good at (mis-)using SEO techniques, or there are really many websites linking to them. However, I personally find it hard to believe that any author of a blog article or forum entry links to an EE answer voluntarily.
"I think it's important to separate the advent of the touch screen interface from the form factor of a tablet."

I think you're kind of missing the point then. Apple didn't invent touch screens, touch screens have been around for a loooong time.

You need to borrow an iPad and a 2 year old, and then watch the 2 year old interact with the iPad. Heck, I've seen 1 year olds playing with them. Now I'm not suggesting that a 1 year old is doing anything more than going "look at the pretty stars"†

Now imagine that you're using a touchscreen on your desktop Minority Report style. It's alright if you pretend to be Tom Cruise, I'll wait. Okay, now hold your arms out at maximum extension and move them around in little circles for a while. Now back and forth. Now up and down. Now go back to circles. Have you done 15 minutes yet? Liar! Do 15 minutes of that. Okay, now that your arms are on fire with pain, imagine doing that all day long. Yeah. Now you know why we're not gonna see touch-screens as a practical input method on a desktop for a while.

Conclusion: don't make the mistake of under-rating the form factor as part of the experience.

†Free upvote if you get the reference. :D
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>The business environment is good.

What do you mean by this?

>* legitimate expenses made to foreign companies are not subject to the fees you describe

If legitimate means there is some bureaucratic mechanism behind to justify those expenses, it would be a problem if the red tape is too much to bear.

>* income earned abroad by new residents to Chile is not taxed for three years (!!!)

This is nice.

>Practically, start a foreign-incorporated business to collect payments internationally and start a Chilean company to hire local staff and cover development costs in country.

This might be subject to some transfer pricing reviews.

>If your Chilean business makes such an embarrassing amount of money that you cannot spend it, then congratulations! You can spend some of your profit to restructure.... :)

I might be old-fashion, but I believe a company is supposed to pay dividends (hence my concern about taxation). But I guess that if you are running a startup, paying dividends is the least of your problems, staying liquid is the name of the game.
If I'm perfectly honest, the reason I haven't applied to companies like Google is because their process scares me. I studied at a modest university and achieved a good degree, but the kind of horror stories I hear make me firmly believe that I received a terrible education, because the level of employees they seem to attract (Jon Skeet, anyone?) are a class apart from myself. It didn't help that the university next door, a top ten institution, was regularly visited by the likes of Google.
It can't be any harder than selecting your card type on the checkout page of every online store on the web.
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I've down-voted - which some people think is a little harsh - but I thought I'd explain why. I hope this doesn't come off as high-handed, I really just want to be helpful.

Your comment adds nothing of significant value. It's basically a "Me Too!" without offering evidence, extrapolation, enhancement or enlightenment.

I've looked at your profile to see if I could provide this feedback in person, without down-voting you, but there are no contact details. That's fine, but it's why I've left you this comment so you understand my reasoning. I often wish people would explain their down-votes on my comments, so I've done so here.

I've also noticed that you're new here. This is a somewhat harsh welcome, but I do look forward to seeing your viewpoints and ideas. I hope you've read the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

and I would also point you here:

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

and to its discussion here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991634
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I think we could all speculate for ages about what the biggest factors would be, but it would be just that -speculation.