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The two hardware startups on here that I can think of are the WakeMate people and the InPulse watch team. Hit them up, I imagine they'll have some thoughts for you.
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I do that (searching from the address bar) a lot, especially with non-US sites (like Ryanair) where you're not sure if it's .com or .co.uk or what.
Hey, I am an authorised Arduino reseller and have also been toying with the idea of a marketplace for Arduino projects. I'm based in London too. Drop me an email (in profile) if you are up for a chat.
I'm reminded of the Ali G "Ice Cream Glove" routine, in which he markets an idea to a number of investors (including Donald Trump). It's a great parody of VC pitches, particularly the "market sizing" (I use that term loosely) - "I googled 'ice cream' and I googled 'gloves'..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-nnvtHvd0
At least make sure you have a fairly modern machine (dedicated, not shared) of round 2GHz, a 100MHz link to the net instead of 10MHz and have Nginx/php-fpm instead of Apache webserver installed. This should take you a long way to your minimum requirements. If this does not do the trick you probably have to cluster or cloud several machines. Clustering is more barebones to the machine but harder to install and finetune/maintain. Clouding is to install virtual machine software which is easier but somewhat costlier with resources.

Also check your SQL, often a lot of cpu cycles are wasted on shoddy database interaction.
To that same note, I think there's probably quite a few developers (like myself) that were quite used to session videos from Microsoft conferences, that the lack of them when switching to Apple dev seemed like a big loss.
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I wouldn't lose hope just yet. In my experience it takes on average 6 months to find a qualified full stack java developer, or just any qualified developer. Just by luck of the draw, you're going to run into 9-5 ers more than anyone else. For most people, a job is a job.
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Amazon seems to be quietly sniping markets from what are largely considered Apple/Google territory.

I've been very happy with buying TV episodes and renting movies on Amazon for a while now and it didn't strike me as odd until I read this post that Amazon might be emerge as the big media vendor as well, without trumpets of techcrunch posts to announce it.
Reminds me of this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2349378/new-programming-j...

It was on HN a while back.
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Shame to have to mislead the users by saying the app is expired.
Should be, but you can check in Firefox in about:support . Look at the bottom - if it says 0/1 windows accelerated then it‘s not enabled. Try updating your drivers.
How does any of that relate to the link that was posted?
It reminds me "investing gurus" selling books about how to hack the stock market to become billionaires. The only guys, however who become billionaires are those selling the books.
At least this story is for free...
I tried to leave this comment on that post, but Chrome crashed the first time I tried, and the next time I got a 'duplicate comment' message. Perhaps it's waiting in a moderation queue. Reproduced:

You mentioned that "(Opera and Webkit are similar, except for the stretch, which Chrome and Safari currently don’t support.)" - but Chrome does support stretch, as far as I can tell (I'm viewing this page in Chrome 12.0.712.0 and the stretch example looks identical to your Firefox screenshot. However, as you mention later, Chrome doesn't support the rounded method.

Regardless, thanks for explaining all of this and taking the time to show the various implementations.
A lot of key-value stores use hashing at the distributive layer but not within individual nodes. Since kivaloo is currently single-node-only there's not much point using a hash.
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Agreed. There should be a term for "takes problem from one place and puts it in another place yielding no net advantage."
Does anyone have an idea of how difficult this will be? Is this going to be another Unladen Swallow project, where the research is really cool, but it never can get to be production ready, or should I be getting excited for being able to write production code against this toolchain in a few years?
This is a well known tactic, and it works. When discussing a list of points in a meeting, the secret is to have a big controversial question come up first (that you don't actually care about): dealing with this first question eats up time, but what's better, it exhausts everyone. Then all the following points are much easier to sell.
Not necessarily. Graduate programs, especially PhD programs, generally have many "older" students. I've seen PhD students in their 40s with several kids.

But I'll agree that the requirement seems arbitrary without an explanation.
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kvlds is single-connection. Using mux you can have as many connections as you want, and they can send whatever requests they want -- mux doesn't care what the requests are, and as far as kvlds is concerned, all the requests are coming from the same place.
I figured robots haven't gained momentum at anywhere the same rate as personal or distributed computing since robust sensing and interaction of the physical world is still mostly an unsolved problem. Robots are useful in carefully physically constrained areas like industrial assembly lines and can be finicky toys that are too limited to do much anything useful, and there are things like Roombas that are somewhere in between the two.

A solution to the robust physical interaction thing sounds like something that would be pretty much AI-complete and would imply a lot bigger changes than housecleaning robots. This would just get you the science fiction humanoid robot that can walk into a house and start cleaning up and renovating the walls, but given the amount of flexible smarts and learning ability a general solution for being able to pull that off involves, it could probably start doing your job for you as well.

I'd guess there is also a less scary technology branch, where the current limited scope robots become somewhat more feasible with better manufacturing, materials, computing and communication technology, taking use of things like human telepresence and heavy duty data mining that have become easier due to just plain Moore's Law instead of groundbreaking AI research. These kind of robots are going to require environments tailored to their limitations, like the existing assembly line robots, as well as doing the R&D on figuring out just what kind of robot and environment combinations are going to do useful stuff, so it's not going to be the sort of lightning-fast development we saw with personal computers. More like the gradual development from 19th century homes to late 20th century homes full of electrical household appliances.

In fact, electrical household appliance probably is the metaphor for thinking about these sorts of robots, not a metal man walking about and enslaving humankind. That might explain why people aren't vastly enthused about them, even though there's probably a market for them.
I see so many pull requests that get no feedback and being totally ignored, it gets me wondering about this whole forking fanzy...

For major projects it may work, but sometimes you're updating an old library to work with a newer version of a platform and get dead silence. It doesn't do anyone any good.
I guess if it's Engadget it's not blogspam?

http://www.youtube.com/user/ETHZurichIDSC
Kudos to them for adapting to the situation and providing options for their customers.
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Infix notation is more readable then poorly written
"classical" prefix notation.
Lisp is not functional it is practical.
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"Shuffling the deckchairs on the titanic" comes to mind, but it isn't really a term.
Yeah, I'm actually more ok with Facebook lobbying than I am with 90% of the lobbying that already happens. At least their product doesn't kill people or cause a lot of pollution.
i didn't get what you mean by networked data store.

As opposed to a library like BDB.

your benchmark page makes numbers worse because of that 128 mb option.

I assumed that people would get "ok, here's the in-core performance, and here's the out-of-core performance" and understand that where that drop happens is a function of how much RAM they use. I suppose I should re-run the benchmarks with kivaloo set to use 1.5 GB of RAM.
I agree with the sentiment of JFDI Britain, however it depends how you "JFDI" ... if you can bootstrap and do it all yourself, then fine, JFDI. However if you want to attract finance from Angels, VCs or even get loans from banks you'll need some kind of justification and that requires a business plan.

I'm a firm believer that a business plan changes as soon as you get any money (and the earlier stage the business is, the more guesswork and unrelated to reality the business plan is). However by doing a business plan, it shows you've thought about how the business is going to work.

Building a business around technology and going "we'll build it and they will come" is in the most part, complete b*llocks. You need to show that you've at least thought about how revenues will be generated, if you haven't why are you running a business. Unless you're a charity (or a not for profit) your only reason for running a business is to generate shareholder value. That may sound corny, but that's why companies have shareholders!!!

So JFDI is fine, but prove it's fine and that it's not just tech for the sake of it.
a) Unladen Swallow wasn't research, in fact it was explicitly "just engineering".

b) I seriously doubt this goes anywhere, Python is simply not amenable to productive static analysis.
parasolving? Though this is not really the case, I'd say it's more like "the problem is still there but we walked around it with a different route". Perisolving maybe?

Especially if you consider that part of the problem is that something won't work but it may take hours to understand it's because the semantics of Enumerable#group_by in library X are not the same as the ones defined in library Y.
The fact that home schooled children often end up having a higher quality of education regardless of the educational levels of the parents seems to me a pretty damning indictment of the public school system in general. There is this perception (backed by laws, regulations, and taxes) that there is a specific and elevated set of skills necessary to be a teacher, however all of the evidence seems to indicate this isn't the case.
Circumsolution.
Exactly, or Rdio.
Fowndr: Putting the 'own' into 'founder'? ;)

Good luck, anyway.
Google probably would get the permission to link to Ryanair, though. And Google has to look good in the eye of searchers. They want to find what they are looking for and don't really care about the reasons for some results to be not available.
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Several commenters on soshable.com and HN say something along the lines of "no biggie - I can just delete my profile when FB becomes a problem."

But here's the thing: You probably can't delete your profile. As far as I remember, Facebook didn't even have a deletion feature in the beginning, only a deactivation feature.

Now there's a deletion feature, but can you be absolutely sure that FB doesn't save your info even if they tell you your profile has been deleted?

Think I'm paranoid? Think again: Several times I've tried deleting status updates, and while I get a deletion confirmation, some or all of the "deleted" status messages show up again some time later.
If you're working on a project with multiple people, having the CSS properties one-per-line helps a lot with determining who changed what in your version control system.

Most of the command-line diff tools don't highlight changes within a single line, and annotation tools usually work on a per-line basis as well.
Maybe this let you edit the PHP output in nodejs after receiving it back from PHP-FPM?
I hope, for your sakes, this isn't your business but just a side project. There are several reasons why I say this:

1. The name "fowndr" makes you look cheap. Why? Because the domain name was no doubt unregistered. Basically it looks like you went looking for a domain name that you could get for $10 for a year;

2. What defines a founder? As HN bears witness, anyone with a weekend to spare on a pet project can (and do) declare themselves a founder, some rightly, many not. But with the barrier to entry for starting an Internet business being practically zero, "founder" doesn't really mean all that much.

3. What value proposition are you providing founders? YC provides benefit by the connections, the social proofing and mentoring of PG & co and the brand, which has come to mean quite a lot. Quora seems to be the place to go for the Valley insiders to talk to each other.

The motivation behind invite-only seems to be to create this air of exclusivity, like a private club. Creating that pedigree such that people will want to be a part of your exclusive club and derive some benefit from it is incredibly difficult.

At this point I think it would take some serious names on it or behind it or some other similar form of momentum, which I just don't see.
He is comparing running ASP.NET through the test server in Visual Studio rather than working out how to setup IIS to running something like this instead of working out nginx or apache.
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Nice! Would deserve a github repository and keeping the pypi pakcage up-to-date: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/osh/
I believe so http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878722/
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> If you toss out the GUI stuff and the boilerplate encryption algorithms, the amount of important code in TrueCrypt is fairly small.

First of all, even if you use "boilerplate" encryption algorithms, crypto is ridiculously easy to get wrong, especially in a very demanding setting of disk encryption. Second, TrueCrypt's ability to present its volumes as virtual drives/mountable images is no small feat (both in Linux and NT).
As a corporation becomes bigger, it becomes a target. If they don't have a lobby team in Washington, they will just be pounded on by other political factors (including other corporations) until they do. See the case of Microsoft, which until the (in)famous DoJ investigation had no lobby team. Afterwards, donations started streaming and their lawyers set up offices in Washington.
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Like PDC?
Didn't Apple technically win by acquiring (then subsequently closing down) lala ?
It's just laziness. I recently sent the ditz maintainers a patchset for 1.9 compatibility, which they promptly ignored. They aren't on github/bitbucket, so I had to manually diff a copy of the original code against mine in order to create the patch. Then I needed to subscribe to the mailing list and send them the patch. On their end, they would need to run patch to apply my changes. None of this is hard, we've been doing it for a long time.

But at least with github/bitbucket, most of this friction is reduced to a few simple clicks. It's certainly no worse.
Seemingly every other month, someone comes out with a "solar power breakthrough". This has been happening for the past 30 years and they never seem to follow through. I believe it when I see it for sale at walmart.
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Success : Do one thing, really well. Focus.
Is using the term "cloud" a branding / marketing mistake?

The cloud is generic and multi-vendor. It's a utility. This angle makes sense when talking to developers.

OTOH, I could see a lot of users being confused because they put stuff "in the cloud", but they can't get it back (from another vendor i.e. different cloud).
I'm kinda bemused at the idea that 5GB is enough for my music collection or even some reasonable portion of it. I mean think about it: who here really gets by with a 4GB (or even 8GB) MP3 player?

I'd probably need 200GB ($200/year). A more reasonable person would probably be fine with 20 or 50GB ($20/50 per year).

I'm not sure I understand the business model and the hype behind cloud syncing of music though. What is the point? If you're going to copy onto an MP3 player you'll need a local copy. So the use cases are:

1. On the Web;

2. On networked mobiles; and

3. As a form of backup.

Well (1) is covered quite well with Grooveshark. I can find most things I want there and it's an awful lot cheaper (up to free).

(2) I don't think makes a lot of sense given the high cost of mobile data. Maybe in the future mobile data will be an awful lot cheaper but there are fundamental limitations with wireless bandwidth that I think will make that very difficult.

There are many solutions for (3). In terms of raw storage, Amazon's prices are pretty cheap. But backup misses the point entirely I think.

When I buy digital content of any sort I don't want to back it up. I want to be able to recover it easily and simply. iTunes for example only allows downloading movies once (is that right?). If so, I'm just never going to buy movies that way. If I pay for it and can watch what I download any number of times, why can't I download it again if I accidentally lose it?

So iTunes and Amazon MP3s need this feature: log onto my account and click a link that says "download all purchased tracks".

At that point I don't need backup of any kind (for my digital content).

I think the only business model that makes sense is flat-rate subscriptions. You don't store your own music. The provider simply has all the music. This solves a lot of storage problems for the provider (meaning 1000 people share the same copy of the song rather than each uploading and storing it individually).

I can see how they'll get some scale here by having duplicates of some songs (particularly iTunes and Amazon bought MP3s). It'd be interesting to know how much saved space they have from deduplication.

Anyway, am I missing something here?
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Yes, I know what he was talking about, just not how it relates to running a PHP-FPM server on Node.js. What was posted has absolutely nothing to do with ASP.NET and he's spouting off about how it's "full or traps" and how the development server that comes with the studio should be avoided.

If you want to bash ASP.NET for no reason do it on your blog.
Amazon is the opposite of eBay. Seriously, I can not think of two companies farther apart on the innovation spectrum.
I've heard that phrase a few times before, but I don't think it fits the context here. The context is a "solution" that creates more problems than it solves. "Shuffling the deckchairs/polishing the silverware on the Titanic" refers to busying oneself with small problems when there's a honking great problem that's being ignored.
Gotta love the banter on other forum sites. Its interesting how anyone operating on high school chemistry and some internet research is an "expert" in this forum. The threshold prerequisites for pretention have really decreased in the info-for-all age. My last sentence alone is no more a testament to my being an intelligent adult than to my being a twelve year old with a knack for thesaurus.com. Likely I'm somewhere in between. An intellegent 12 year old with a knack for adultasaurus.com perhaps.
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He's just using Ryanair as a general example. Maybe it wouldn't really hurt them, but it could have an effect on other companies with this dumb policy.
> [solar panels] are quite a bit more efficient than natural leaves ...

Got a citation for that? I'd be interested to learn more.
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Yup, the ones that don't align with US interests (anymore).
They fact that they are going to start backing up the Amazon MP3s is great news. Previously it was impossible to redownload a track once you have already downloaded it. Luckily I did not lose to much music when I got a new computer since I had a personal backup.

I would love Amazon Cloud Drive to have desktop integration like Dropbox.

Doesn't google have a cloud service now? It just doesn't have a pretty GUI or desktop integration?
If they're an order of magnitude cheaper than the competition, as is claimed elsewhere, couldn't you just buy two or three and switch when they're rebooting?
Don't think there's an easy way to monetize this, no. Paid links to other, monetizable Facebook-related services?
I assume that provided I never visit their website I'm not bound by their T&Cs and can therefore link to ryanair.com to my heart's content, right? :)
Starvation = Focus?
So i dont have any RESEARCH to back this up. This is all completely personal experience... but I've experienced this twice now:

( two periods of ~ 2 day introduction period followed by 2 subsequent days of "starvation" )

limiting caloric intake SERIOUSLY switches up my focus what its like while working. ( noticeable increase )

DISCLAIMER:
- I don't hold back on gratuitous intake of BLACK coffee, the occasional TEA, and water. Also multivitamins and intake of protein ( I'm not in this to lose MUSCLE )

Now I don't recommend this if you're seriously underweight .. I'd say I've got ~10 lbs of extra body fat.

NOTE 1:
the first 2 days are HELL, your body HATES YOU. After than I've been eating no more than 1 meal a day @ sub 600 cal

NOTE 2:
I also consistently break out 10 - 20 pushups at work, home, wherever ( also a good practice for the intro period to get your mind off the hunger pains )

The focus that i experience is sooo wonderfully even keel and persistent, though I'd recommend having LOTS of work to do ( multiple projects to switch back and forth between )

you'll need it, especially for the first two days =]
Out of curiosity, do you know of a local client or tool that can mount my Google storage locally? I/O to it is a serious PIA through the web interface compared to my smaller but easier to use Dropbox.
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A more reasonable person would probably be fine with 20 or 50GB ($20/50 per year)

Depending on their phone they could probably just get a 32GB SD Card and carry their whole collection around with them.
Also, please avoid the " this isn't healthy " commentary.

I'm doing it.
I imagine any publisher would have strong disincentive to publish UHAE. He has few good things to say about the scholastic publishing houses.