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they even included a guarantee with each one they sold. quoted in Return to Little Kingdom:

"The demonstrations provoked curiosity and Jobs and Wozniak made cassette tapes of tones that friends would need to call their favorite long-distance numbers. Jobs arranged a supply of about $40 worth of parts and Wozniak took about four hours to wire a box which was then sold for about $150. To cut down on time it took to build boxes the pair decided to stop wiring the boxes by hand and to have a printed circuit board made. Instead of spending four hours wiring a box, Wozniak could now finish a box within an hour. He also added another feature that turned one button into an automatic dialer. A small speaker and battery were attached to the printed circuit board, a keypad glued to the lid, and when all was finished, a card bearing a message in purple felt pen was taped to the bottom. It read "He's got the whole world in his hand" and it was linked to an informal guarantee. Wozniak promised that if a faulty box was returned and still contained the card he would repair it free of charge."
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I dislike all the trumpeting of the levels of radiation compared to some "legal limit". I wish it was in terms of effect on humans. I guess that is a conversion I could do, but many people will not do that, and will just be horrified by the 7.5 million figure without knowing how bad things actually are.
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Hi Hacker news, I recently joined a start up and after a month of grinding out our site, we discovered a direct competitor that has already launched, has users and has a better looking site.

What do you do in a situation like that?
Hell has frozen over.
Done? Done where?
I'm surprised that people view this as a destructive or loaded question. As a self-taught programmer, this sounds exactly like something I would ask as a way to fill gaps in my own knowledge.
It's as much a color as any other -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color
There are differences between each and every provider and every developer needs to choose which service they want to use in their own way. Customers choose Engine Yard for many reasons including 24x7x365 human technical support availability, a choice of infrastructure providers, resource transparency, request transparency (EY is not in the request path to your app), customizability and a strong history of supporting the Ruby open source community with projects such as Rails 3, JRuby, Rubinius and Fog.

We're very aware that there are other services available, and that they fill a need for certain users. Specialization is important, and it's difficult to be all things to all people.
This is a question that usually resolves itself.

If your SO went into a relationship with someone who he/she knew was extremely passionate about building things, and they somehow expected this to "change", they are delusional, dishonest, or both.

Did you really want to spend the rest of your life with a delusional, dishonest, controlling individual anyway?

Yeah, didn't think so. In this event, you move on and find someone who doesn't try to hamstring your dreams and crush your soul. They do exist, and your life will be richer for it.
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Well, you might join a plethora of other HN readers who also email him asking for a copy, and he might just remove the GPLv2 notice and "postpone the release of [the] source code until announced otherwise"
Hogwash. Look through those questions. Look at all the help needed for download issues, error messages, install issues, developer console problems, stats problems, payout problems for sold apps, uploading issues, etc, etc, etc. If I emailed HTC and asked why I couldn't upload an update to my app for the last 4 days they'd tell me to go to Google.
Awesome! I spent some time hacking the Epoc last year (which culminated in the Emokit project) and had a lot of fun with it. So much potential there.

Good luck with everything.
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It all comes down to your values and what is important. Personally, I wouldn't trade my girl for anything, but I'm the type that values family/relationship above all else. If you get your happiness through your work, then focus on your start-up. There is no right or wrong answer, it would be worse if you felt pressured to choose your SO then have some ill feelings towards them because you feel like they keep you from the things you truly enjoy.
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Friends of mine have put a lot of work into a groupon like startup for travel, Tripalertz.com. They got really lucky with some partnerships and are giving away a free space trip from XCOR. Check out the site you could win a free trip to space for your time. Comments on the site would be much appreciated.

http://tripalertz.com/space

P.S. I debated posting this to HN since it is my first post, but I am interested in what people think of the site and I thought this crowd would be interested in winning a trip to space.
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An RC car with a camera and a shotgun is not a robot any more than a toy you buy at Radio Shack or a hobby shop.
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"algorithm that best predicts which patients will be hospitalized and for how many days over the course of a year."

The cynic in me wonders whether such an algorithm would be used to deny insurance to those most likely to get sick.
If my SO couldn't deal with my startup life, I wouldn't wait for him to pack his bags, I'd already be gone. He knows I love him fiercly, but somethings in this world are worth fighting for - my hapiness being one of them.

Been married 5 years, and I regularly neglect my husband for side projects, and he knows it :) It's never to the point where we never spend time together but he understands where my head is at, and he supports me.

Those of us with a truly entrepreneurial spirit cannot run from who we are. And to lie to oneself in order to save a relationship will not work in the long run, because in the end, the truth will come out. If your SO can't deal with your startup fever, then of course, try your best to compromise so that you can still have both (if possible). But if you find yourself having to choose between the two and you choose your SO, but your passion really lines in your startup, how happy will you really be in that relationship?

Love is nice and all, but you have to be fuflilled in your life outside your relationships. Don't get me wrong, work is not everything, and probably not the most important thing to many ppl, but if your work drives you to wake up in the morning, then that's saying something profound about your passions and what makes you happy.

Someone who truly loves you, and understands you would never ask you to choose, but they would also never stand in your way either. If that means you can't be together, then that's something you just have to accept and learn from.
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I guess it depends on what your selling in the case of my comic click fraud doesn't make sense, and for my job board the majority of my competitors buying ads are major job boards.

If you're working in a more "black hat" corner of the ecommerce world like affiliate links, it's certainly possible that click fraud occurs, I just haven't seen it occurring.

Have you checked the analytics reports that Facebook generate to see if it is the same users clicking the advert over-and-over again ?
This is great! About 8 minutes in listen to Bob Graham talk about the negotiation with a firm that wanted all of the company for 7mm. His response was classic.
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I would call both of those things robots. Why would you say that they aren't?
Do you have a link to these studies? I looked around a bit and only found the ones claiming multitasking doesn't work.
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs...

Also, we are seeing reports, such as this thread of extremely high radiation - we already know that Japan was slow to report actual numbers and each report that comes out is something along the lines of "XXX times [whatever] levels"

Look again at the last slide where is specifically says "into fresh air"

I am not saying the pools are like backyard swimming pools with open exposure to the sky - but I would believe that if pretty every other report is claiming that radiation is very high there is clear evidence to show that being the case.

EDIT: Try clicking the link and reading it, there are multiple articles that clearly state "Up to 1,000 bodies of victims of Japan's quake and tsunami remain uncollected in the exclusion zone around a stricken nuclear plant because of radiation fears."

EDIT 2: please make an attempt to google fantastic claims if you don't believe them, and others should make it a point to link to sources when posting something that seems fantastical/really alarming.
One of the benefits of nuclear weapons was that they made total war too costly to contemplate. Any leader considering it would have to weigh the cost of a billion lives versus whatever his country sought to gain.

While I like the idea that robots vs robots could reduce the number of lives lost, I worry that it will also make war an easy option to choose.

Edit: Compare it to police tasers vs. guns. A decrease in lethality results in an increase in the application of weapons. Jevon's paradox for violence.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/201142...

As well.
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Great mashup, love that yammer supports json in their api
I Like the message, I thing people need to stop "waiting"
I just have patience and ignore people telling me they know that the full scale of one in only a handful of major nuclear disasters is going to be relatively harmless/harmful.
You can't even guarantee people with a CS degree know any of that stuff. In my experience, many of the people I've worked with that had CS dregrees had forgotten that stuff long ago, if they ever knew it.

The people answering on Quora are people who are interested in CS or else they wouldn't be on Quora answering the question. That interest is the reason they know that stuff, being taught it in college just made it easier for them.
Underpromise and overdeliver.
"My daughter and I have a bedtime routine where we read a story and also make up mathematical word problems that we solve together."

I am a late-bloomer in mathematics, by way of computer science. I love my parents and had a wonderful childhood, but I grew up thinking math was boring, and my interest in my high school and early college courses was shallow at best. I think it is wonderful that the author spends time with his daughter and also gives her some math practice. I feel like my life would have been different if I had grown up liking math instead of coming to it late.
I suggested similar thing one year ago: http://www.vcarrer.com/2010/03/hacker-news-mini-redesign-uno... and the bookmarklet http://www.allapis.com/HN/HN-bookmarlet.html
I found this very interesting, because it's an example of a problem which can be very subtle when just looking at the code -- but the errors become very obvious when plotted.

It raises the question of what other programming problems could also benefit from visualizations like this -- Aldo Cortesi's work on visualizing sorting algorithms (http://sortvis.org/) comes to mind.

Also, wouldn't it be cool if IDEs supported this kind of thing natively? You could imagine a plugin for Eclipse so that each time you have a function of type

int f(int x, int y)

it would let you right-click on it and instantly plot the output... (obviously it would require some care to deal with side-effects).
I'm not sure we at Hacker News are blissfully uninvolved; we're busy building tomorrow's sinister megacorporations. Or Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
As I understand it, an alternate reality doesn't need to correspond with the primary reality (the metaverse, the grid, the matrix, etc) whereas an augmented reality is essentially a HUD type setup for the primary reality.
The heat map on page 2 is pretty interesting
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It doesn't change the nuclear calculus.

It's also worth at least pondering the question of whether or not a "war" of robot on robot is as big a deal in the concrete as human vs. human. I don't have an answer, I could argue in either direction. It's an interesting question. Especially when you try to consider second-order effects.
Yep, TinEye was used here, as indicated in the comments over on the blog.

Didn't help for this particular person, and I got four emails this morning all claiming she was a different person.

It's a great tool. Highly recommended. Anybody posting images should use it.

The problem is what to do when you get a negative result. If Facebook wants to start requiring paperwork for every little 160 x 120 ad image that's fine with me: I'm a photographer and would love taking a weekend and shooting some stuff. But I'm not sure that a negative result on a Google or TinEye search is indicative that copyrights are being violated. If it is, there's a hell of a lot of material on the web (and Facebook) that needs to be removed. As indicated in the article, it's not whatever the rules are or aren't: it's the selective enforcement that can drive folks nuts.
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Agreed. I don't mind the cost of the others if I get a sneak peek. I'm not whipping out my credit card for something I'm not sure of.
Personally, I appreciated the addition of the rationale.

The "revelation" about Barry Warsaw being an Emacs user won't be news to those who have visited his home page! http://barry.warsaw.us/elisp/
"It's also increasingly annoying to see shots taken at Heroku in their blog posts and on Twitter"

Really? We've always been friendly with everyone in the Rails deployment space, and I don't ever remember taking shots at Heroku specifically, though it's certainly possible that we've expressed disagreement on technologies or practices that they and others may use. I'd appreciate it if you'd point out what you've seen, as it's certainly not part of our philosophy or business practice.

With respect to your comment about our "aging" platform, we all age a bit every day. There's tremendous work underway at Engine Yard, some visible, some not. This is no-doubt true of every competitive platform. Many of our customers choose to describe this as maturation! :-)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577116

I wonder why the dup checker didn't find it - the link is exactly the same.
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Wouldn't the beneficial effects of using robots be like the beneficial effects of a broken window?

You are still destroying industrial production and diverting other production into warfare / war-related devices.
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The author describes it as an "asset" manager, but the readme shows only javascript frameworks being used. This looks more like a javascript package manager.

Now if someone can integrate this into a module system that can be used within JavaScript, then the world has become a better place.
Robot implies a certain amount of autonomy, IMHO. First full robotic engagement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dart_missile#Gulf_War_.2819...
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Excellent, the more things we're making more efficient with math, the better. If the pricing proves to be a huge hurdle I think they should try a subscription based model as well, and/or selling rides in bulk for cheaper.
From what I can tell, the ground based bots don't have any onboard intelligence - they require an operator at a remote terminal at all times, more like telepresence than autonomous or even semi-autonomous robotics. In contrast, the UAVs presumably have the equivalent of an autopilot, and the X-47B referred to in the article appears to have a very good one. The equivalent ground-based robot would probably be something like a backpack scout that you could chuck into a building and have it autonomously map it.
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Figure out what they're missing and make it a hallmark feature of your product. Alternatively, just out-do them at their own game.
I think the next thing is to provide customization. That is, you can change colors and some settings (like padding and margin) to control white space. You may want also to change the font. I actually like the white space. Just the grey is a little bit pale, but this helps for concentration on the text that matters. Taste differs, not good to argue about it.

It's still a good move from the Author. I was thinking of something similar, but time was a constraint. I might look to help improving that one. Any Github?
You need to break apart the statements and translate it into normal english. If you enjoy this stuff, I recommend reading some philosophy texts from your local university.

> Todays market of representations means that we exchange images that are valued by statements without consequence, statements whose only value is the one of attention, something we have learned from the advertising process, which has become the key process of culture.

Our current culture communicates and understands ideas in the form of sound bites. This is because advertisements have become important in shaping our culture.

> This cultural praxis fails to find a history of the human faces. The faces tried to break the boundaries of word and image, they were processes of conscious creation of speaking images for the feelings that words fail to describe.

We are trying to find a new way to communicate but we are failing at it and becoming irrelevant. (I might be losing something in the translation here.)

--

EdiX's comment "I interpret it as 'kids this days like them lolcats'" is right on target. It captures the angst of the writer bemoaning the loss of culture of our current generation.

On another note, I find this snippet to be strangely ironic. It complains about a failure to redefine the way we communicate. The writer is attempting to precisely define their ideas in language that reminds me of a lawyer trying to write a bulletproof contract. The end result is nearly impenetrable and risks losing the entire message because no one can understand it.
I'd argue that the combat-relevant definition of robot is any machine that can perform some combat duty that, if blown up, will not injure or harm a human, only equipment. How simple the machine is doesn't matter, as long as it's out there and a human isn't, but up to this point not very many things have met this criterion.
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The Grumman X-47B verbiage may have come back through a time portal. The X-47B had its first test flight on February 7th. It's a little soon be doing carrier landings and operational deployments. Carrier trials are slated for 2013.[1]

The cost is stunning. The entire 6 year program cost appears to be only about $600m. That is, the whole development was done for the cost of about 4 manned fighters.

[1] There is a similar looking, much more secret Lockheed RQ-170 operational in Afghanistan, but it probably doesn't carry 2+ tons of bombs.
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I would agree that one conceivable economic failure case would be an endless incentive to pour resources into war, instead of real wealth.

In fact one can argue that Orwell's 1984 had this economic setup. IIRC he explicitly had it set up so that all excess economic output went into an endless war, so that the proles never got wealthy enough to have enough spare time to rise up. He never addressed the question of how the military was structured but in a way it makes even more sense for the militaries to be fully robotic, rather than placing humans in command of powerful machines that could be used to start a coup against the State.
I'll take that over a way-too-long line of text any day. Improves readability.
I'm really interested in seeing how companies grow; I hadn't realized quite how large of a role non-engineers played in Google's structure.

Glad to see it's moving in the right direction.
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It's yet to be determined whether that is the right direction or not.
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This is a big story. I'm both an engineer and a manager (to which engineers will say "management!" and managers will say "developer!"), and I haven't seen this pendulum swing back and forth so much as be ripped in half and pulled in opposite directions. Google's obviously got very smart folks in both engineering and management, so it's going to be very interesting to see how this is handled.

I can't imagine a Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, etc going through this exercise, so I'm seriously rooting for Google. It'd be lovely for this change to produce some real knowledge on how to run a modern, big, high-speed tech company without getting trapped in the argument over engineering-vs-management.
The iPhone/Android device as a kind of handheld augmented reality window is very real and available in a great form factor at a great marginal price (assuming you want the rest of the features of the smart phone to begin with). Still, it's not quite the same as being able to go full on Snow Crash gargoyle.
Combat robotics goes back further than I thought. I found mention of Soviet 'teletanks' being used in the 30s-40s - the remote controlled armed robots being developed at the moment look a bit puny by comparison :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletank
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster-Miller_TALON
And yet he goes ballistic when people "blue box" the iPhone by jailbreaking it. I know, it's not the same, jailbreaking is legal.
I think this is a great direction for Google, but it certainly is not a direction most other companies with equivalent growth can pursue. I think one of the unique aspects of Google, is the type of engineer they pursue.
Now, combine this with autonomous cars about ten to twenty years hence, and you've got a recipe for a major sea change in how we get around. Just another example of why I think naively projecting 20 years into the future as if there will be no changes in anything is a foolish waste of time.
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Who is upvoting this? This is outright spam.
Of course it will..
This, on linux, is defeated by Chrome's Incognito mode. It's why I didn't use it to track spammers on ragechat.com.

Edit: that, and it tries to use silverlight to store some silverlight based cookies, and people would just get big "Install Silverlight!" button/adverts coming up.
I think it should be mentioned that the map shows the locations of the members of the StartupGuild, based on the location field in their profile. Members who have not supplied a location (or entered something like "Down at the beach"), obviously don't appear on the map. According to Martin, who created the map, the data is updated (via a cronjob) once per hour.
Is there some text available somewhere (slides, perhaps)?
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