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Google has an immense amount of Java code, in addition to all the Java programmers it took to write them, a good number of whom are programmers that have written Java for their entire professional careers.

If the bar for getting away from it is rewriting millions of lines of code and retraining 1/3 - 1/2 of their engineers, it seems credible to me.
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Knuth has a large range of problems in his text. He scales them all by difficulty on a log scale from 0 to 50. Things rated 00-05 might be a basic facts or arithmetic (What is 6! ?).

A set of problems in the 20s would be a good chunk of work, each taking about 20-30 minutes. By the time you get to 40's, you're dealing with problems that you could write a paper on. In the introduction, he demands proof of Fermat's Last Theorem as an example for 50.
Seems like it. Maybe they are specifically trying to connect with the younger crowd. As a VC, they're naturally going to skew toward the 30s and up crowd and this could be a counter measure.
Werner Herzog was apparently not impressed

http://www.dgaquarterly.org/BACKISSUES/Winter2010/DGAIntervi...

Q: What about shooting digitally?

A: We used the RED camera for My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. It's an immature camera created by computer people who do not have a sensibility or understanding for the value of high-precision mechanics, which has a 200-year history. It's terrible: Whenever you have to reboot the camera, it takes 4½ minutes or so. It drove me insane, because sometimes something is happening and you can't just push the button and record it. An assistant cameraman said this camera would be ideal if we were filming the National Library in Paris, which has been sitting there for centuries. But everything that moves faster than a library is a problem for the RED. Super 35 mm celluloid is still better
I think more specifically, the battery is cheap. It's the size of a refrigerator and provides very little power (a few AA batteries?) but it uses water instead of lithium.

All that said, if they can find a comercial use for it in it's current form, they may be able to improve the standard of living for a lot of people while funding the research needed to bring it to the developed world.
CS250 ?
I should be in jakarta at that time. My email toumhi at yahoo dot fr
So you're saying that social networking is really hot right now? Thanks for the tip! ;-)
InternMatch did a great job at the Innovate 100 Pitch Slam in Seattle (where they finished second). From my writeup at the time: "The crowd went wild after InternMatch’s dramatic reveal at the end of their minute: the person giving the presentation was actually an intern! Gotta love that."
You obviously didn't get the sarcasm. Having said that, $40m is a lot of money, especially considering it shouldn't have required any extra hardware or even a complete platform change (with expensive licensing).

Even at $200k/year that's 100 developers for 2 years to implement what is essentially a subscription-based service. Even if you take into account the requirement to offer some level of free access for search engines and the like it still doesn't account for why this project cost this much money.
It's not a pleasant thought, but the military applications for this are many and will be very lucrative.
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Yep. I take it you did as well :)
Only problem working from is the damn cat.
>Most mainstream web users can remember 7 +-2 web services

I seriously doubt this. AFAIK most people have 7+-2 "registers" of short term memory, which has strong implications for stuff like the maximal # of digits in a phone number - but it doesn't affect the number of phone numbers you can remember, or names of people, or ball players etc.

As for "real company name": Google, Yahoo, eBay, Skype, Paypal, Wikipedia, MySpace, Hotmail, Amazon, Apple, Dell, Starbucks... Company names can become meaningful without starting this way.
Vulnerabilities in *McAfee.com
The iTunes Advantage: Not What You Think
Thanks for the reinforcement - it is a little daunting to wonder how far you should go down a given path w/out knowing much about the other options... this is a great way to sort some of that out. Thanks again!
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China 'to overtake US on science' in two years
Designing 10ft User Interfaces
> And I'm a person who agrees with Gates' larger position on the wealthy benefiting more from society and thus owing more. I just think that the extent to which society can ever expect people to contribute back, is the extent to which we set via tax rates [1].

If someone is a billionaire and they do not voluntarily give away any money, they are a despicable person plain and simple. Not because they don't meet my qualifications for how much to give, but because their reaction to having enough wealth to last a thousand lifetimes is to do nothing positive for the lives of others, That just makes you a disgusting person in my mind.
Maybe have WWDC twice a year, and maybe hold that event outside California — the east coast, europe or asia to let others join the party!
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Although this RC plane can't hover, it seems to have potentially useful range and flight time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPL16L7pjA
To be fair, that was the RED One, the Epic's predecessor. Startup time on the Epic is about 10 seconds.

I've shot with the red one, and yes, a few quirks were frustrating. But they're definitely improving.
Why Experts Get the Future Wrong
I am curious here. Does a UI Designer fall in the category of a Non technical co-founder? If so how do the dynamics change when a designer approaches a developer to co-found a team for an idea that the designer came up with?
Could you please clarify that a bit? That would imply that either everybody knows C++ or that I don't. Thanks!
I am a little surprised that digital filming isn't hitting it's stride when photographers have taken to the digital transition. Not sure if the celluloid comment is only in reference RED or in reference to digital film in general.

I see parallels to audiophile type comments regarding analog v digital.
you can't upvote only parts of a comment

Well, that's an interesting UI idea...
I was disappointed that re-checking the falling boxes did nothing to change their ability. Nonetheless, this was a really cool misuse of DOM elements.
Mono directly benefits their biggest competitor.

Mono directly benefits Oracle?
Every time I have to deal with the health care system, I feel like I'm going back in time. Doctors that can't even communicate by email. Redundant record keeping. So much lost information. So much lost data. So much waste. Every time I have a problem with my insurance, I have to call a 800 number and sort things out with a human being paid money to do what software could do.
After reading R.U.R., it's amazing how many themes of the subsequent 90 years' worth of dystopic literature it predicts! Robot rebellion, androids, human fertility crisis - it's all there, and more.

It's also kind of ironic that the same piece of literature that introduced the concept of the robot also introduced the perennial concept of the coming robot rebellion.
Thanks for a great tip. I was waiting on wife approval, because I need to make sure it didn't conflict with our planned vacation. I might be unstuck now.
Target issues with information flow. Paper patient records, for instance: everything should be computerized, with symptoms sorted by severity and time. The computer should highlight historical symptoms and diagnoses - perhaps a timeline of medical events. Make allergies and existing conditions extremely obvious; avoid having to ask patients about the past. If possible identify possibly illnesses based on symptoms, though that would almost certainly have very high rates false positive and false negatives.

Hell, you could even go so far as integrating a patient-side application for logging health state: a simple webapp where a patient can go in and report symptoms or general feeling each day. That would make it easier to identify the beginning of symptoms, as well as other illnesses. You should never have to ask the patient how they're feeling at a check-up, because they're likely to forget a lot of things since their last check-up.

Disclaimer: I'm tired, this is just stuff off the top of my head, I'm not involved with health care and have no idea whether these ideas would be useful to doctors and nurses.
Perhaps it will harvest stylus from the nearest human.
Fly a swarm of them around military ships. "Living" armor as missile defense.
Put me in the "no" camp. All due respect to the HN front page, but how does that speak to their ability to becoming either a high traffic site or their ability to monetize the traffic they have?
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Do you know if you actually have a merchant account somewhere (created by stripe)? Or does everything go through stripe?
Dwelling too much on the past is more often than not a waste of time.
#import "disclosure.h" I help run SecondConf, feel free to ask if you have any questions.

But, we're on the opposite end of the spectrum. We intentionally keep it small, so everyone can have a chance to talk with everyone else. We just announced our date for this year (9/23-25) and more details will be coming soon: http://www.secondconf.com/ if you're interested, you should follow @secondconf on twitter.

(minor edit to fix typo and add twitter info)
Oh for the love of..

It's not a story about the military until The Rolling Stone gets involved. I'm not diminishing how horrible this situation is, I've just NEVER been a fan of their military coverage.
Best of luck! I took a look at your profile - great work.
bubbles shake out all the weak hands so when it is over everyone left standing hits it big. We barely made it through 2009, but we have more in sales in 3 months than all of last year.

It is difficult to internalize how hard you need to work to hoard cash before a recession, especially when times seem great and money is easy. Even after surviving the 2001 and 2009 recessions it is easy to get sloppy when you have a lot of money in the bank account. We knew the 2009 recession was coming in 2007 and it was still dicey.

Also I dont think we are near another recession, this bubble will have some time to play out.
Here's the progress blog - http://www.proudn00b.com/ (mentioned in a similar thread today).
If that logo in the TC article is accurate, you may be getting a call from Deutsche Bank http://www.db.com/en/img/logo.gif
Also, no mention of how much it sucks to do the canister-in-a-bag thing, or telecine-ing the film so it can be edited. Or the free cost of bits.

(ok I'll stop.)
Following the recent earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand this is a subject of interest.

With the central business district closed for 5 weeks and counting, many people who were formerly office-bound are now working from their home or offices being set up in suburban housing.

It will be interesting to see how much of this change will be permanent.

In my experience the social aspect is the hardest part of remote/home working to get right.
How valuable is Ask Metafilter by this rubric?
Claims of elaborate cheating; codes and choreography, at chess competition
Send two or three missiles in a row.
I get the feeling that Werner enjoys taking this rebellious attitude towards a technology that so many of his art-film peers have been lauding since the release of the One. Soderberg has been shooting Red for years now. The Social Network was shot on a Red One.

The Epic is taking the technology mainstream. Peter Jackson bought 30 Epics to shoot The Hobbit with.
It seems to be down for me.

Here's the Google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
Im probably older than most of you at 40 and so far there isnt anything that I havent been able to fix (so nothing is "way too late"). The only thing might be have kids when you are young because the probabilities drop a lot as you get older.
Grr. Argh.
I don't know what the market outside of the US but since there's basically no one serving us in this space you would think it would be a huge opportunity if anyone figures out how to crack it.
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Donating app revenue to Japan's victims
IBM is doing some things with watson around expert systems for disease diagnosis that are pretty interesting. Basically doctors are not very good expert systems as they dont know the real probabilities and can't factor in all the variables (or forget to ask).

Surgeons given software that forms a presurgery checklist have a significant improvement in not screwing things up

Same with pharmacies and detecting side effects between drugs people are taking. etc

I would be interested in hearing what you want to do
ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft
+ .Net support please. Not that it matters being US only.
TMI: Fear, Fukushima and Facts
I watched two videos and didn't see anyone innocent getting killed. I imagine to many of the guys it's like a real life video game, right up until they almost get killed. "Kids" get sent to war so you're going to get a certain amount of this. Not sure how to make them look at it differently. A certain amount of respect is missing. Of course if I saw someone burying an IED, I'm not sure I'd be too sensitive either.
Me and a buddy wrote something like that app at TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year. We didn't get photos in place before the deadline, so nobody batted an eyelash. We looked at around.me but ended up buying stached.in (don't ask).

And now Color has $41m. Looks like we were on to something.
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2008 marked the first year that WWDC ever sold out (they capped tickets at 5000).

2009 sold out in two months

2010 sold out in one week

2011 sold out in half a day.
Meh. The pricetag on this makes it really unappealing to anyone except multimillionaires and professional cinematographers. When Red can produce a 4K camera for under $1,000 I'll be the first in line to get one. Until then it's little more than a curiosity. An awesome curiosity but a curiosity nonetheless.
Also people have been trying to do electronic medical records for ages. I worked on an electronic patient system in high school in the mid 80's (on macs!)

Some guys I know sold a startup for around 10M that did analytics for hospitals on metrics around physician effectiveness. I think they had only worked on it for a year or two.
P2P collaborative consumption
Just checked it out! How great - loved your "about" ... "to take control of my destiny"... are you by yourself in SF?
When I have had more money than time, I put multiple developers on the same task and use the best solution. The fastest way to get a good developer is to ask everyone you know.
Not true at all. I was an intern with Indinero when they went through this program and its purpose is for Lightspeed to get to know young entrepreneurs and improve university relations.
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Wait, it's creating a separate public key in your home directory on every device listed, all with the same (plaintext!) passphrase, then sets up every device to SSH to any other one? Smells like bad practice!
That would January ... 2010.

This article is from June 2010.
Ok, now I feel like I missed out on something.
How many upvotes before you can post your site?
It's not actually that ironic. Robots tend to be symbols for an oppressed underclass - their masters have (or think they have) a high degree of control over their every thought and action, they're often tasked with menial or dangerous labor, and frequently considered 'other' and 'less' than their squishy human overlords. And what's every slave driver's worst fear?

As literary devices, robots don't have much to do besides rebel. If they just did what we told them to do, there wouldn't be much story to tell. (Note that that's part of why _I, Robot_ was so mind blowing - a lot of it was about things going wrong when the robots did exactly what we told them.)
Stack Overflow actually solves my real world problems.

Quora only entertains me.

In my view, it's some sort of wikipedia Q&A. I don't value it really highly.
Missiles move very fast.
They went through YCombinator for Auctomatic, but not to for this company it appears. I wonder what what led them to that decision.
Where do you get your energy news from?
Elephant Poo Paper - Haathi Chaap
These types of blogs - where there are a list of 5, 7, 10 or 11 ways to achieve anything in bold print - still exist and are trafficked?
Thanks for clarifying this. I'm sure it sounds oversimplified to non-beginners but I didn't fully get the difference until I tried out Code School's Rails for Zombies and they directed me to "Tryruby.org" 1st.
"was there really a point to the illusion of wrapping the entrypoint main() function in a class (I am looking at you, Java)?"

Far be it for me to defend Java (I hate the damn thing), but: main is just a function in a class. The class is the entry point, as specified in the command line; main is just what the OS looks for, by convention. You could have a "main" in each class, but only the one in the specified class will be the entry point.
It's cool because it's about as good as ping pong as me. Even more if I had to fly.
Everything goes through Stripe.

There is no way that any merchant account provider would allow you to sign up and start charging customers in 5 minutes like Stripe lets you.
yes, if the plant sucks up too much power it might get too hot and lose too much of the often more scarce water.

or something like that anyways..
Robots can - be like us; be unlike us in unexpected ways; be indifferent; leverage our skills and advance our goals; worship us and so on.

Lots of interesting robot stories without "doing just what we told them to do"
Looking forward to seeing what the next Canon 5D will do.

Could very well have 2k resolution and do 120+ fps at lower resolutions with it's big full frame sensor.
For your comment that was edited stating: "the script was storing passwords in plain-text in the user home folder", There is no plaintext passphrases stored anywhere... and you can use different passwords per each device per the config file. This script follows the exact procedure for ssh-keys defined by OpenSSHD in general, ssh-keys are more secure than logging in using a password in general. As for the reverse connections, I have a version that utilizes the reverse key in the config array that keeps them from distributing across server, only to and from the localhost. I took it out to roll this version out as I still haven't tested it fully.
MediaTemple VPS... Time to migrate to my rackspace server.
Google picks its employees the same way good VCs pick founders: candidates are selected based on what they are capable of, without focusing too much on the idea they are going to work on in the immediate future.
Yes. People often make the mistake of thinking that if you aren't storing credit cards then you don't have to deal with PCI compliance. While it does remove a few requirements, if you accept/transmit the credit card through any of your systems (web server -> web-app -> 3rd party API) for instance, you're still on the hook for PCI compliance. Which is a huge pain.
You can buy a MiG right now from a variety of sellers in the US. It's legal. As for noise and safety regulations, I cracked open my copy of FAR-AIM (Federal Aviation Regulations) for 2009, and here's what it has to say about speed limits:

(a) Unless otherwise authorized by the Administrator, no person may operate an aircraft below 10,000 MSL at an indicated airspeed of more than 250 knots (288 m.p.h.)

The other parts all relate to how you must fly even slower when you're in class C, D, or B airspace. Unless your minimum safe airspeed is greater than the maximum, in which case you may fly your minimum safe airspeed.

91.807 of the FAR-AIM prohibits civilian craft from passing Mach 1, but apparently it is legal to own such a plane.
Imagine Cup 2011 and Windows Phone 7 Competition
Imagine Cup 2011 and Windows Phone 7 Competition
Initiative isn't given, you take it
Is Google I/O broken for selling out in hours?
Well, in reality this price is fantastic for a cinematography camera. When you consider the prices for everything else on a shoot, and how a camera is typically rented instead of bought for a feature film, this camera (and the RED ONE) is revolutionary.

Sony's recent release of the F3 has them playing catchup, and they've announced plans for a 4K cinematography camera, but this camera is ahead of its time, and a huge step forward over the RED ONE.

And this camera isn't for anyone who doesn't know their way around a video camera in full manual mode (shutter speed, iris, focus, zoom, white balance, gamma, knee, etc...). This is not a camera for anyone except for filmmakers.
PHP => Pretty Huge Problem
Nope. It's still missing.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?53549-ALERT!-Please-...
A 5 million dollar exit and previous YCombinator experience (and the network that comes with that) would by my guess.
Firefox 4 stats, learn how many downloads are happening around world.
I was going to build a bot in Python. (Javascript is also a possiblity) Care to team up?
As long as we are seriously having this debate, we are not in the middle of a bubble. It might be an overvaluation, fine, but that's not a bubble.

A bubble occurs when the overvaluation crosses an unsustainable threshold. It's when the values are rising faster than people can properly evaluate the risk.

We are definitely getting closer to a bubble. The euphoria associated with a Facebook IPO might get us there.
For those who want the info from the source:

http://www.red.com/products/epic

Check out the features tab for HD comparison, and tech specs for the details.
The language doesn't really matter, especially considering its a single use app. It can be done via any LibSSH2 binding, or even with a more complex expect binding.

The reason for php is simple, I had already wrote the libssh2 code for what I needed. I submitted it, in hopes it saves someone else the time.
"I watched two videos and didn't see anyone innocent getting killed."

What are you implying?

"Of course if I saw someone burying an IED, I'm not sure I'd be too sensitive either."

This article describes several unprovoked attacks by US infantry, the soldiers' total disregard for human life, and the investigation afterward which often led to inadequate punishment of the guilty parties.

Careful, planned murder of an unarmed 15-year old farmer by grenade and gunfire.

Severed human fingers as trophies.

Superiors who conveniently ignored this behavior.

The guilty soldiers' downfall after they beat a fellow soldier for snitching, then threatened to kill him, because "it's too easy."
I just name mine after motorcycles I've owned. Crazily enough, I go through motorcycles faster than I go through computers, so it works.
Comment by a French computer scientist: "Well, of course it will work in practice, but will it work in theory?"
Ask HN: Payment systems that don't suck?
It has been a long while since I've played in the arena requiring interactions with payment systems. There is a lot of buzz around iTunes for in-app payments, FB credits get mentioned as well. However, for your general web app, have things gotten more graceful than the good ol' days of multiple paypal screens / etc?

What are the credit card transaction systems that provide for the most seamless site interactions?
It's always been a lifelong ambition of mine to own and fly a fighter jet. I was expecting to have to fork out at least $20 million for the plane and an arm and a leg for maintenance but it seems all I need is $10..?

Donated $10 in the off chance that you actually do end up purchasing the plane.

It's probably going to cost you $10 per person to get the keys cut and posted.

Good luck.
I would have thought that film cameras would have pretty slow and tedious start up and maintenance times too. Is that not the case?

Either way, documentary work is a lot different than scripted film making. It sounds like the RED camera would have obviously been a poor choice for his documentary.