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After you finish that one, check out Blue Ocean Strategy. It's mostly the same theory but from some different points of view, and applied to many different industries, not just tech.

Also Chasm Companion complements these books very well (you may want to read Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado which expand on some of the concepts in Chasm Companion, too).

Does anyone else know any other books that fit well with these and have great insights as well?
> Brush while in the shower.

Not sure how that saves time, unless you're so coordinated that you can wash your body with one hand while you're brushing your teeth with the other.

Also, it would seem to waste a bit of water.
U.S. reactor sales must be approved by the NRC, which reviews the buyer's financial position. Ad, operators must pre-fund decommissioning costs over the life of the reactor. (Obviously there are issues with estimating the cost, but it's not like they can just ignore the issue.)

So, no.
Sure it is relevant. It means that the level of Plutonium could be higher in reactor 3 of plant Fukushima 1. This could have relevance in case of a full meltdown. It is said that then there is a possibility that there is a different reaction.
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He is not talking about msm but independent media.
Mentioning Lobby groups as good information source discredits in my opinion the complete write-up.
Also does the mentioning of "phd. scientist" ...

So according to your analogy: Don't listen to independent tech news, just listen to what Gruber tells you about Apple ;)
Patio11's perspective on the Japan Earthquake
How big of a tsunami was required? How big of a earthquake would be required to generate such a wave? How much water would be needed to reach the facility? How much to damage it? What about damaging backups?

Sarcasm aside, it is easy to predict that the facility would be at risk for an earthquake/tsunami combo. The hard part is to predict how much of one to prepapre for. Remember, even in this neck of the woods, the was a quake of historic proportions.
Isn't that partly why they have a secondary backup?
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I'm positive it'll just be a matter of time before "Sphere" rolls out.
The correct execution of ideas doesn't make you rich. Receiving money makes you rich.

You can execute correctly on a $100 million deal, but if you don't cash the check, you're still poor.

To be rich, cash large checks.
I'm really excited to see what they come up with. I think they have the ecosystem to make a really successful social network. Let's see if they utilize it to its full potential.

Does anyone know what time the even is meant to start?
Wow! Rounded corners!
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There's middle ground, though.
I enjoyed this, but I think the author wants Google Docs to suck more than it really does in order to fit the narrative; I love google docs, even if it wasn't the first to get real time collaborative editing to work smoothly.

The UI for sharing a document (especially with users outside @gmail.com) is too complicated for mere mortals, such as me, to make work. I'm told it can be done, but it's as good as missing.

Really? Is hitting "share" and then setting the permissions to "Anyone with the link" that baffling?
Earhquake, tsunami, nuclear leakage and volcano. It looks like someone tries to delete Japan from the map.
> the cops are worried that, if they boot up the computer, it'll have a program which notices something is wrong and wipes the hard drive

That's why you take the drive out and image it and keep it powered down and analyze just the image. You don't boot the computer you seized as evidence.
Agreed that they seem an after thought, but with the talent they are acquiring and the resources at their disposal, I can't see anyone beating Facebook on a features basis. They might on a privacy basis, but I'm not sure Google has a lot more confidence in that respect than Facebook.
> associating my Nepalese acquaintance Badu with Fred Flinstone (yabba dabba doo)

If I were to do that, I'd probably end up forever calling the guy Fred instead.

Or maybe I'd remember it wasn't Fred, but it started with a B, so it must be ... Barney.
That's true. I'd say enough for 2L per day for 3 days would be enough for a single person for your average kit. If it's taking longer than 3 days for things to get back to normal I'd suggest being out of the city where you can get easier access to wood and water.
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I did my own variant of this a few years back: http://www.neardeathexperiments.com/smf/index.php?topic=1966...
I don't own any apple products, nor am I aboard the Apple bandwagon per se, but I honestly don't think this claim is presumptuous at all. Apple currently IS the tablet market and its competitors are barely competing at all.

Motorola's Xoom has been the only real adversary that I've heard of lately (I do not profess to be an expert). The Xoom was superior in terms of all hardware, but it failed to make a dent against Apple simply because Apple executes the tablet exquisitely. Their attention to design is immaculate and in a market like the tablet market--where the entire platform is dependent on design and user interaction--that attention has set them waaaaay ahead of the pack.

Keeping in mind that the Smart cover is probably the most innovative difference between generations 1 and 2 and that Apple are marketing gods, making every buyer want one, I think a billion dollar valuation is easily attainable.
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project
This strikes me as very similar to how DropBox has gained so much traction in a crowded space. They give you a folder. That syncs. Simply and seamlessly. Sometimes success comes as much from what's missing as what's included. EhterPad is as close to a real whiteboard for remote collaborators as I've ever seen.
Lesson: Don't build systems whose steady state is a catastrophe.
Social is to Google what search is to Microsoft.
I've used this before as an offline app http://www.manictime.com/ (win)
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I usually don't like how every google product is just a subdomain or a folder of the google.com domain. Products with runaway success need to have their own domain. Can you imagine if Facebook was at microsoft.com/facebook? Or Twitter was at google.com/twitter? That would seriously slow down adoption.
There are 2-3 designers working on Gnome Shell, but describing it as 'design by committee' is neither fair nor accurate.

It's also worth noting that Gnome and Canonical have completely different and separate collaboration systems, Gnome uses their mailing lists and git, Canonical uses Launchpad and bazaar.

Between the technical barriers, development priorities, and needless missteps (Canonical requires copyright assignment for /all projects under their umbrella/), the two communities are pretty well alienated.
Nearly 2 years or more.
9 androids.

0 software updates.
That's a very interesting question.

I think there are only really two options:

- Ship what you can
- Learn to ship what you can't

Perhaps a third - find someone to help you ship what you can't.
>The IndexOf algorithm is also O(n)

The author doesn't seem to understand big O. His indexOf approach is a linear algorithm in the average case, but not in the worst case - the author himself demonstrates this.

I suspect that you have the surprisingly common misconception that Big-O is about worst case scenarios. This is absolutely not true. Big-O is a notation to describe the growth of functions. The functions themselves can describe anything you want, including either the average OR the worst case. The usage you complain about is therefore correct.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation for verification.

>Computer Science (always suspect any discipline which feels the need to add the word 'science' to its name) is often an exercise in compromises.

This kind of pissed me off, which was probably the intent. CS is about math, not implementation.

It is actually a very unoriginal quip. I've been repeating it for years. Furthermore it is a quip with a lot of truth. Sciences are fields of study that use experiments to test hypotheses and refine theories. As you point out, CS is a lot like math, and unlike science, in that it is a field of knowledge which is in a large part based on our ability to construct ideas on top of each other and prove things about them rather than being built on experiment.

In short "not science" is descriptive, not pejorative.
> So... who would really need etherpad? What situation would they be in?

Pirate Parties use etherpad (piratepad, to be precise) to collaboratively write press releases. When you have a team of people who need to collaborate to write a document quickly, it's by far the best solution.
I think you are misinterpreting "lean" with "bootstrapping". Being lean is a mindset that you don't put 100% of your resources and thought into believing that your first attempt will be successful (but it certainly can be the case). Just because a start-up gets it right the first time doesn't mean they aren't being lean. Lean is about developing the product/market fit during the development of the product/service.

Maybe it would be better discussion to talk about companies who aren't lean?
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I've been looking for a big improvement to Lists for a while now. The way it works now makes it almost useless. I want to be able to easily post a message or comment without hundreds of people seeing it. I want to post a message in context and only the people who would be interested in it would see it.
I see "connections of connections" and I'm wondering if they somehow consented or approved being shown in results to complete strangers?
His implementation of the KMP algorithm starts by constructing a table for the whole of one string, to use in matching the other. But the full table is seldom needed. I wonder how much of the performance is taken in that construction, and how much of a difference only constructing part of that would make.
This is so awesome and inspiring, congrats!
Incidentally, I have recently (re)discovered fluxbox. It's a breath of fresh air compared to how bloated both Gnome and KDE have become.
I think you're misunderstanding what a lean startup is.

Google: They built the product first and scaled massively before they had a business plan. Not a lean process.

Facebook: Product first and scaled massively before they had a business plan. Not a lean process.

Dropbox, Mint, Heroku, I can't comment but I suspect you're massively misunderstanding what a lean startup is.

A lean startup is not starting in a garage on a shoestring, it is poorly named. The point of a lean startup is to identify a profitable product using a very low burn rate. Google and Facebook's burn rate was massive. It is a methodology, finding a winning product by using an iterative feedback loop of customer, prototype, adoption. Only once you have a profitable product that provably sells do you scale. That is definitely not Google or Facebook.

This diagram illustrates the concept:

http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/lean-startup-2...

Again, that does not at all describe the process that Google or Facebook went through. I'm not spending time researching the other companies you mentioned but for example I'm pretty certain Dropbox was written without the first three stages, so again can't be classifed as a lean startup.
That's difficult to tell from flipping through those different services. You have a number of different language specific services and I thought it would be useful for people to know about Google's web based service.
Weren't some engineers already killed during the explosion?
Would you provide more detail on #4? I'm curious but not quite getting what the consequences of this are.
I spent all of yesterday attending the Lean Startup track at SXSW. It was great, I felt awesome after it and ready to go back to new york and change things around...

This morning I found myself wondering if the job of the talking head, is to inspire people to take action and feel empowered? Or to execute and prove the methods they preach?

How different is Lean from Tim Ferriss, or "The Game"? Or any other self-help religions? And when does it become dangerous to believe what they say?
I'm a member of a few private Google Groups, and I hope this works out as a viable replacement. It would be nice to expand private groups beyond just discussion and have the ability to share photos, documents, and other media.
In my daydream this is identi.ca compatible. And that again would mean OStatus "protocol" combatible.

What ever it is, competition is always good.
That is exactly what I needed in my life...another social network! I had a feeling something was missing and now it's obvious that it's the lack of enough online 'social networks'..
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I believe I just ask for email, wall posting, and access to streams. I'll take a look at my config file.
We're certain the product, which RWW discovered the name for, will be launching at Google i/o: http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/03/11/google-reportedly-to...
There is a bit of overlap here with my comments on HN the last couple of days. I've had to explain it to 100+ friends, family, customers, clients, etc, so I figured I might as well polish it and put it somewhere public.

At the risk of stating the obvious: I am not "HN's Japan Guy." There are many, many HNers in Japan. A few dozen of them make it out to the Tokyo meetups. There are many, many perspectives on this disaster -- this is just my wee little contribution from a place well removed from most of the worst scenes.
In my experience, proper execution is second to marketing and distribution. You can have the best product out there, but if no-one knows it exists you'll have a hard time selling anything.

If you're looking to enter the same market as another product you know there is a market for it. So the problem isn't whether the idea is fundamentally good or bad -- it's whether you'll be doing something special enough to attract attention in a market where other people have already been working for quite some time to dominate distribution channels and get visibility.
Since they asked the prime minister for permission to pump sea water, I'm guessing that it was an option all along i.e. they have the facilities to do just a thing. The whole defence in depth concept relies on having a bazilion emergency options.
Okay, I'll bite.

Tell me why I should use appleseed instead of using facebook.
Can I use that? Seriously though, I'm trying to figure out what to call it.

I'm adding twitter to the mix in the next releas...maybe that will help it live up to the name.
Thank. Fucking. God.

I am getting increasingly tired of explaining these points to everyone who asks me (currently in Tokyo). A well worded piece that I can just link to, very nice to see at the moment.
I think the only thing we need is a kind of Github to create, maintain and follow the information (links, texts, docs, etc) we are interested at. Similar to wikipedia, without formatting boundaries. We need both chaotic and programmable collobration platform to access and eleminate information.
Yup, and there's a dozen hungry startups who are ready to eat their lunch.
I think you're underestimating the potential in building a new social network with the concept of firewalling groups of contacts at the foundation of the infrastructure.

For example, if friendships in this new system cannot exist in the data schema without being part of a group/circle, this would have profound effects on any ecosystem built on top of it, extending right up to the broader U[I|X] level.

You could compare this to how facebook built their whole success on the concept of activity feeds, which was arguably their killer feature over myspace. Myspace did have similar functionality, but it was tacked on in the way that groups are tacked on to facebook.

Hopefully google can kill facebook by building their offering with privacy groups right at the core, and layering everything else on top of that.

EDIT: I think what I'm trying to say is that privacy has massive potential to be a core feature/selling point in and of itself. It could also potentially form the foundation of a more successful social networking platform/ecosystem full stop.
As he is already dead, it won't be radiation that killed him. Radiation poisoning needs days to do its ugly work. For the person to die within hours, the containment must have failed to allow sufficient radiation out. Since this has not happened, the person in question hasn't died from radiation.
Perhaps someone can tell about about the perception of nuclear reactors in Japan after the earthquake. Is there any knee-jerk reaction calling for the demolition of all existing reactors and stopping of all plans, or do most people have the same reaction Patrick has, seeing this as somewhat of a success? Is there any hysteria about the current problems with some of the reactors?
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List view - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/1...
Take it in-cabin if you can -- call the airline to make sure you can do this. And even if they say you can, be sure to take the strings off the guitar and ship them separately. Some security people consider them weapons so if you're transferring and need to go through security at a different airport that can cause problems.
Excellent move. It worked very well for you mostly because you were not approved by YC. If you were, you'd spent several months with paperwork and empty conversations and could miss the moment.
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This is hilarious. I love it.
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Tritium is a beta emitter. Wherever it ends up when it decays, the radiation won't get very far.
This page is part of the Google Social Search feature. The purpose of the page is to show the circle of people used in the feature and why you are connected to them.
Sweet write-up, I've used Etherpad way more than I've used Google Docs/Google Wave, it's so quick and simple. Not having to sign in is one of the best features. My team of 4 people use it as a huge to-do list and basically it's evolved into our personal knowledgebase. I love it, I can't imagine working without it now.
> - dramatically reduce the noise associated with the fleet of password guessing bots that hit open SSH server daily.

But if you're already using fail2ban or denyhosts (as suggested in the trifecta) then you won't get that much noise anyway, and if you're only using public key auth then the noise from password guessing bots doesn't matter anyway.

> - make it reasonable to assume that a password guess attempt is specifically targeting your serve, and therefor consideration for escalation and follow up.

Unfortunately a failed authentication attempt regardless of port isn't enough to conclude that it's a targeted attack. Plenty of bots port scan common ports before running the tools to make sure they're attacking the right service. In fact some bots can do full portscans of hosts (although this is rare as it's quicker to scan for the attacks you have built in, thus you get more attack attempts in less time) - usually this is done to build a database of services, so that they can be exploited later when a new vulnerability comes out.

Regardless, as you say it doesn't improve security, there's no reason for it to be in any security-related trifecta.
It appears that there is some disagreement in the comments section as to the veracity of the posters claims.

Particularly as to whether Fukushima 1 is actually built to the standards the doctor is claiming it is, i.e. whether it actually has a core-catcher or not.

The wikipedia entry for Fukushima 1 is pretty sparse. Does anyone have any information they can weigh in with on this?
I left my job after 3.5 years back in December. Leading up to giving my notice was the most stressful time in my career. Then, after 15 minutes of a professional conversation (and then 3 hours of friendly chit chat about starting my own company) the stress was gone. It's not a big deal. Two weeks later, I was free. I'm still on great terms with them, and even get jokes from my old boss about coming back some day and ending my 'poverty strike.' :)

It's really not a big deal to anyone but that fearful little voice in your head.
This comment is to parent what Social is to Microsoft ;)

Seriously talking, it seems like you are underestimating the value of search to Microsoft.
iPod Touch and iPhone, share some components, securing supply of these products, manufacturing and cutting supplies to competitors made apple a formidable competitor.

if android tablets need to compete on cost to apple iPad wifi, then they should target 200-250$, millions of possible iPod Touch users would migrate easily
While Monday's better than, say, "250k slowly over the course of a year" (looks like it's only at 5500, could be more than a year...), can someone explain to me why one should wait? Maybe letting the Japan news die down a little bit or something?
> ...nuclear power is the only viable option that is available today...

Nuclear power in itself is unlikely to solve our energy problems. It is only a part of the solution. We will not be able to supply the world with enough energy using nuclear power alone given the length of time it takes to design, approve, build, and certify a nuclear power station.

The Sun is by far our greatest source of energy.

Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_cons...
All the information is publicly avalible on the internet. They are simply organizing things you could find by other means.
Sounded like he was describing Vegas
Interest in the nuclear question is running very high. Japan historically has a complicated relationship with nuclear power, for all the obvious reasons. (Heck, I got freaked out when I saw the word "hibakusha" used in print today in a context not related to WWII.)

I would characterize the tenor of reports I saw on NHK earlier as "visible concern" on the part of the anchor and "restrained professionalism" on the part of their expert guests

I've said this before, though: Japan is a big country and it's diversity is often underappreciated. There is largely not a monolithic Japanese viewpoint on this. The same goes for just about everything. (See also: the United States.)
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I would be interested in how tidal generators can cause >100.000 deaths.
If you wonder whether the FDA is in bed with Big Tobacco or not look no further than the landmark, but largely ignored, FDA Tobacco Bill passed in June 2009.

This bill was reported in the media as an anti-smoking bill, but believe it or not, it is a pro-Big Tobacco bill. What this bill does is grandfather in the major cigarette manufacturers and protect them from all future lawsuits, since their cigarettes are now "approved by the FDA." Meanwhile, it puts up huge barriers to entry for any other competing companies, thereby guaranteeing government-supported oligopolistic profits for 100 years to come - the alternative of course is to not pass this bill, and instead watch the tobacco companies slowly die into oblivion, as they have been for the past twenty years. Instead, we are propping them up.

This bill is unnecessary, does not punish tobacco companies, and gives the FDA powers that it should never have. This bill has been a long time coming, though, and had a lot of support in both houses of Congress before passage.

Read this editorial, it is short and very informative if you really want to know what this bill is all about.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120882121714933013.html
Don't trust Google Circles with your social sharing data, either