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While I generally agree with the sentiment presented here, it's a bit like arguing against the "violin" setting on your Casio keyboard.

The keyboard plays like a piano, and should probably sound like a piano, but sometimes you want a violin and you don't have a real one at your disposal.
That Comcast is your only choice, and if you disagree with their business practices, usage caps, pricing, or 'network management' that the alternative is dial-up?
I'm not sure you got my point. There is no non-stylistic interpretation, though I used the more technical term "biased" in the machine learning sense of the term. There isn't even one mathematically. Even RAW is inherently biased by the nature of the CCDs. Even what you physically see is fundamentally biased by the nature of the human visual system, which makes an amazing variety of choices for you long before it reaches your conscious mind. I don't sweat the fact that I'm not getting something that absolutely can not exist.

Your point is meaningless, because there is no way to choose a system such that it isn't affected by your point.
My only point is that the labeling of "cognitive dissonance" does _not_ an argument make. The points both you and SkyMarshall make are great arguments--but they should be addressed to yesbabyyes, not to me.

And they should be made in _place_ of any reference to cognitive dissonance.
I disagree. Personally, I would say no to the unrealistic version, wherein I have no escape clause, every time. I simply value the negative what ifs too strongly negative for it to be a rational wager. However, rationally speaking, the only way you can say no to the realistic version is if you're Catholic or otherwise have a strong (in your own mind) reason to be unwilling to commit suicide. Or if you have some reason you want to be old and decrepit, I guess.
I couldn't agree with you more. But I don't think the fear of failure is a phenomenon exclusive to high-powered MBAs -- I see it every Friday night when groups of guys stare at a girl for hours but are too afraid of failure to go talk to her. :)

Does this mean successful entrepreneurs are also good at pickup?
That's like arguing that electricity isn't available because you don't agree with how PG&E operates. Just because you don't want to give them your money doesn't mean they cease to exist.

The point remains that Comcast is still offering connections that are quite fast, and it's completely feasible (and expected) that they'd reach gigabit connects in the next 10 years.
O wow. I've been having fun there and I didn't even know y'all were YC backed. Congrats.
Unrelated: Previously on HN, I could generally trust that a semi-random link with a lot of votes was likely to be useful and not unsafe. Guinea pigs had gone before me. Now, if I didn't recognise skitch.com from having seen it a couple of times, I wouldn't know if this was safe and informative or just a new, dangerous link.

I checked 'lm741' and they have a karma of 1 but joined a while ago, so has this not been voted up (and is risky) or did they previously get slammed and this has been voted up (and is probably safe)?

[I clicked the link and voted lm741 up as it seems safe enough; just commenting on a side value of the visible vote count that we no longer get.]
I would suggest that on the site you offer a "demo" site, one that anyone can look at and use so they can touch and feel the product before making a commitment.

The reason I suggest that is because the product looks really interesting, but I test it without putting in credit card information, which makes me nervous. Another option would be to not ask for the CC info until after the user has had a chance to test the product out. During the 14-day trial, you could have a big banner at the top.

When the trial period ends you may send an email suggesting they sign up.
"DS-Lite"?
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Consider the possibility that you might get less signups if you open it up.
The ways he's thumbed his nose at the industry go well beyond my.mp3.com. I was employee #5 or 6 at MP3tunes (don't remember exactly), and saw it from the inception as an indie music store to an advanced locker service. One of the main things that led to me leaving the company was the AnywhereCD service, which -- while being a separate company in theory -- was built in early 2007. The concept was great: you buy a CD, and you immediately get the songs in your MP3tunes locker, along with the physical CD mailed to you. Everything was on track to be awesome; we signed Warner Music on for the initial launch, and all the tech worked brilliantly.

Why did it fail? MR made the decision to allow people to ship the CDs to nowhere. You owned the CD, but it was (in essence) thrown away. Warner explicitly did not want digital-only sales, and that was the only reason they signed on in the first place. He could've launched a service that made everyone happy, but instead he launched with that option, and Warner shut the service down on day one.

MR is far too clever for his own damn good.
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We have a number of failing tests that we've marked ignored at work. There are a couple reasons we don't remove them from the test suite entirely:

Some of these tests are from the 'before times', and they test functionality that was already in production when we got serious about not having failing tests. We want to keep a record of the fact that there's something wrong, but it's not a high priority to fix them right now (since there aren't any customers complaining). As we do more development on things that are priorities, it's easier and less error-prone to make sure that we always return to 0 failing tests, instead of 27 or 115 failing tests, so that we can ensure that everything we do from now on is solid, even if there are older bits that are a bit shaky.

There are also some tests that pass, but we don't want to run on a regular basis. We have a bunch of tests specifically to make sure that we don't fail when you do something that takes ten minutes to run and eats up three gigs of ram. These tests rarely fail in any sense that a test framework would notice, and they slow everything down considerably if you run them during normal development. So we ignore them, and know that if you do anything that has perf implications (or if it's a slow Friday afternoon and you don't think they've been run in a while) you should run those tests to make sure they haven't gotten worse.

Those are the two reasons why we ignore tests that I can think of off the top of my head. It's about what lets you get work done, not about always having everything be perfect all the time.

As a final note, expectedFailure (which I assume is analogous to NUnit's [ExpectedException]) isn't really addressed outside of the title, but its use is completely orthogonal to [Ignore]. Especially for those of us writing APIs, there are cases where we're expected to fail, and it's important that we fail in the right way. If you ask me to save to a file that's locked by another process, I'd better throw an exception, and I might as well write a test to make sure that I throw an exception with a useful type and message.
Postal service workers take an oath that they won't do that, with severe penalties if they break that oath.
it's broken Nivo Slider (2.5.1) but a global replace of '.attr(' with '.prop(' has fixed it. Not sure if this is the best thing to do, but it works
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Intel recently let Achronix use their fabs for 22nm FPGAs , so this is not really a new move by them either (that said, Achronix was a /tiny/ deal. This one may not be.)

http://www.achronix.com/products/speedster22i.html
I've been a netflix customer for 11 years and a couple of months. The reason I was totally blown away by Netflix for the first few years I was a member is that they were constantly iterating their product.

I'd be on their website cursing some minor UI annoyance, and next week.. it was gone. Keep in mind this was 2000/2001.. Long before it was common for folks to deploy new code every few days to production. I was so impressed at their commitment to the quality of the product that I really wanted to work for them quite badly. Only issue was that they were in Los Gatos (wherever that was.. sure didn't sound very nice.).. So I never applied. Netflix was my first employment-crush.

And anyways, I didn't really deserve the gig because I didn't have the vision. I kept telling myself (for like, a decade) "I'd invest in Netflix, except that'd be silly.. cause literally any day they get remotely smart Blockbuster is gonna eat their lunch. They've just got too much leverage in the space, and no way is anyone stupid enough to watch these scamps nibble away at the market that they'd eclipsed already".

Yeah. We know how that went.

To me, Netflix isn't a story of the great idea that someone came upon and ran with... The idea was kind of obvious, and most of us would've dropped it the moment we had it for fear of the installed competition. Netflix remains a story of brilliant execution, to me.

I dig those scamps.
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The biggest argument against immortality is that your chance of ending up in eternal pain goes way up. There are countless scenarios where you end up stuck in the bottom of the ocean, in a cave, maybe in jail, forever and ever.
Agreed. It's like saying all of DropBox's competitors/progenitors were "like" DropBox. If they were truly like DropBox, they would have been DropBox. "If you were the creator of Facebook you would have created Facebook." Even just an inch distance short can be as bad as a mile, in the consumer space.
Not to be too meta, but I think you also have to look at how they are choosing which strategies to implement. I remember hearing in a Clay Shirkey talk, that when an institution is threatened all nominal goals of the institution get pushed back, and survival becomes the main goal.

I look at the behavior of the music industry, and all of the seemingly short-sighted moves they make, and I can't help but think they are all operating or beginning to shift into survival mode, trying simple not to die.

I don't think it's that they want digital goods to die out, or are threatened by them, since iTunes, with foresight and good design, was able to turn digital sales into a success, I think it's more that they are experiencing the institutional equivalent of tunnel vision and depth-first thinking. They aren't implementing these solutions because they are too focused on the short term problem of their survival.
It appears you've put a lot of hard work into the site, and the videos certainly make it look nice. I think now you'll need to focus on marketing. People have posted a lot of suggestions here that could help.

I found in my small venture that word-of-mouth is hugely important, so try to find ways to get enough users to get the word out there.

You may try other payment options, like a discount for 1-year over month to month, and a free trial that doesn't require a credit card. You may also want to solicit a "beta testers" group that would get the product for free in return for feedback. Getting real people using the site could generate a lot of ideas you might not have thought of.

Good luck and don't give up yet.
Agree. In my circles, it's never dismissive but always a brief "If that's a significant problem for you, you have it pretty good" distraction that the group laughs about before returning to the discussion.
also http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/amazon-enters-the-f...

seems like it's still a crowded marketplace for this sort of fashion stuff, and fashion remains a tough sell online as far as the 'shopping experience' I think... but there must be enough of a margin in it and Amazon's definitely got the inventory and reach to pull this off, so seems like a logical, nice addition to their portfolio
I love my 28S bought used 20 years ago for $100.

When I got my first real engineering job, you could tell the age of the engineer by the era of HP calculator on their desk (or frequently in their hand). One guy had one with red 7 segment lights and 4 slots in the back, lots of guys had the engineering version of the 12, I had my 28S, and a couple young-uns had the 48. There was one guy with a TI, but he didn't last long.

I find I'm a lot better with the 28 with it's 3 or 4 visible stack items than the single visible one of the smaller calculators. But it is a lot bulkier, and i teats batteries. I think I've had to replace them 5 or 6 times in the time I've owned the thing.
I know something that does give you magical powers:

Ctrl+C,Alt+D,Ctrl+V,Home,j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t-:,Enter!

I guess if you can convince people that you have something they want, you can make them do almost anything to their poor browser :(
Kudos for your correct prediction, but if these same arguments were made by someone in their late 40's, would that change their truth value?
Time your opportunity and Choose the right niche...

They came in to my view just after blockbuster had beat the local store. Going into a blockbuster was about as fun as going to get your teeth drilled but people still dragged in and out of there.

This article focused more on their development strategy as they progressed vs. entry and was all the better for it.
Agreed. There are a lot of "color scheme" sites, but Colourlovers is by far the best.

I use Colourlovers all the time for color inspiration and palettes. Its a wonderful site.
It's interesting to see the number of filings per docket in the last 30 days too: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/hotdocket/list

This one has 3,386. The next closest has 389.
Ask HN: how do you share news stories you like?
Email to group? Broadcast to FB/Twitter? SMS? Post to your blog?
It's a shame that most e-waste recycling in China is not as clean and neat as this. Case in point, the town of Guiyu:

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1870162_182214...
http://www.viceland.com/int/v14n9/htdocs/ctrl.php#

(Don't get me wrong, responsible e-waste recycling is to be lauded and encouraged - it's all the more important because of places like Guiyu. I'm not too surprised Nokia choose to focus on one angle while not really mentioning the other one, though.)
That's what I got out of it. I also concluded that we need better English grammar education in this country so people don't mess up quotes like that. :)
Ask HN: How is the Portland web dev/startup scene?
I've been freelancing in Austin (doing mostly PHP and Python web development) for about 5 years now. After living in Texas my whole life (now 30), my wife and I are interested in relocating.

We visited Portland in March (to experience the rain) and it seemed like our kinda place. However, I don't know much about the web dev community over there. Are there many companies hiring? Startups? Agencies? Are interviews similar to Silicon Valley with lots of algorithms/data structures questions? I figure salary is similar to what you would get in Austin, but I always hear bad things about the job market in Portland, such as don't consider moving unless you already have a job lined up. Either way, I will probably sublet a room in late June/July to check it out. Anyone have the inside scoop?
Nothing major or egregious. Just by presenting it as a quora post I was expecting to go there and find answers already there. At least if it was an Ask HN, people would understand to not expect an answer. I'm not sure HN is meant to be a place to "advertise" like this. But in the end some good answers/discussion was generated, so it's all good.
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>> I'm not sure what part of the title you think is misleading

The title got edited. The original title was something to the effect of "Rackspace kills slicehost... ", which the author defended as a 'killing of the brand'. The current title is not misleading at all.
TC are really on fire ... they launched their iPad less than a week ago, have 250k downloads in 11 days, tomorrow it will hit 300k in 2 weeks.

Nice to see they're getting some traction though.
So what do you suggest? The person I responded to was specifically concerned about the iPad, I presume vs other devices that might also be able to deliver the Khan Academy content. Are we now to criticize anything not affordable to $150/month wage earners?
Firefox is millions of lines of C++ and has had more than one fix-it-NOW security issue. I see the problems with the Torbutton model, but a one-man fork is not necessarily a good idea either.

Still, I hope it works.
1. Interesting. They certainly might be more careful. But then another (bored?) group of people may develop warrior's mindset. Given infinite lifespan, these guys might invent very destructive weapons, so ‘careful people’ may not have a chance against them.

Immortality would really complicate things.
I didn't really try to go to a good school and am finishing up my degree now at UMass Boston. I regret it because everything and everybody is average and there seems to be a natural tendency toward the average of the group, which is not good when surrounded by average people. I don't know how well Poly stacks up, but at a school like MIT you are going to be surrounded by many more people that are smarter than you and you will learn so much more.

Here are my thoughts on how to scrounge up some money.

Over 4 years you can borrow up to $27k through Federal Direct Loans[1]. I'm pretty sure these are available to anyone who fills out the FAFSA.

You can get an on-campus job, probably at a good wage (can someone chime in the hourly wage for a student worker?). Assuming $15/hr, working 15 hours per week for 9 months, that's $34k over 4 years. Assuming same rate, you can also get a summer job for around $8k over 4 years.

With your parents $100k, that's $169k right there. If that's not enough...

Your parents can fix their financial situation within 4 years and take on additional private loans.

You can have someone other than your parents cosign your student loans.

Good luck!

[1] http://www.direct.ed.gov/applying.html
I find myself emailing news stories to the same email group over and over, but unable to find a history of what we talked about.
This is fantastic. Disassembled all the way down to the capacitors... If these parts are resold and reused, I don't think anyone could hope for better, short of a way to decompose and reuse PCB, or at the very least harvest the copper.
They are talking about Latent Dirichlet Allocation which was made by Blei in 2002 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation )

Here is video by him where he explains the basic model as well timeline-related hacks the article talks about -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3077213787166426672#

You can very easily play with LDA yourself with this toolkit - http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/
I'd call it less "weaknesses" and more "normalcy." It's extremely intimidating to deal with certain aspects of the open-source community. Not because you're dumb or stupid or lazy, but because they're kinda, y'know. Crazy.

(Note that in some cases it's a very beneficial form of crazy, and is not inherently bad, until it starts becoming an issue with other people.)
I haven't. I abandoned the Rackspace ship before the acquisition, in Fall 2010.
That "increasingly large area" would fall entirely inside the fireball (and likely within a few-meter radius), and the detonation would basically indistinguishable from it all going off in one go.

Disintegrating the device is a serious problem for nuclear bombs, because when they break themselves up, they leave otherwise good material unused. For an antimatter bomb, splashing the AM uncontrollably would, if anything, speed up the initiation. (After the AM and the normal matter around it is ionized, the particles home for the closest thing to annihilate with. AM basically does all the work of the weapons designer for him.)
"boosted applications by 40 percent for the upcoming class"

There is some kind of misunderstanding here. On-time applications for s2011 were up by 84% from w2011.
The two companies can write whatever they like in the contract between themselves. You seem to agree that the contract should be held to some standard of reasonableness where it is used to establish damages caused by some third party. You think 200K is reasonable. I do not.

The position you're advocating is that a contract between two private companies should be used to calculate damages for a criminal act. That's a very bad idea - it makes those companies legislators.
Ironically, the usage would have been valid as a non-compound term if it had been describing the person rather than the device:

To use the calculator, one must adopt an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation".
And what happens if Steam is offline? Do not reply "it has an offline mode" because you have to enable the offline mode while being online.
Seems like someone did it with Narcissus instead:

https://twitter.com/clint/statuses/65523157737537536
You really need to look at Coffeescript (http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/) and Emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten).

I use coffeescript for all of my javascript development now and life has never been better. I've never used Emscripten in a serious capacity, but both of these projects are under very active development and show that javascript really is becoming the x86 of the web (as stated by Brendan Eich).

No need for us to wait on the four big companies. Things are moving forward without them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanisms#Dual...

(What a shame; they gave this protocol an un-Googleable name.)
Ruby or Python? Well, it depends...
The small (2K) RAM size is the limiting factor, not so much the code space.

You'll find a few more options if you look beyond the atmega328 in the Arduino: 'avr lisp', 'avr scheme'

The Lisps I've seen targeting AVRs have all used the atmega128 with 4KB of RAM and they still use external memory of some sort.

Scrying (w/ 64KB external RAM): http://scrying.org/doku.php?id=scrying:interpreter_notes

ActorNet (w/ 512KB external serial flash as virtual memory): http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/nest/ActorNet-1.1.tar.gz http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/docs/actornet/kwonActorNet.pdf

Femto microlisp http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/wiki/Femto

For my own REPL-fun on AVR microcontrollers, I've gone with amforth: http://amforth.sourceforge.net
As far as gigs/jobs, check out:

http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/

Salaries are on the lower end, but so is cost of living here. Lightbox to avoid SAD not included.

The Portland Seed Fund is launching this summer, which might bring some sexiness to the startup scene. COLORlovers just got 1mil and so did ShopIgnitor a few months back. So there is some action here for sure.

Portland is a big digital media agency town. Webtrends is here and lots of SEO/online marketing shops. GetClicky is here as well (go analytics!).

Not sure about interview questions.

I just hired a PHP dev strait from school at 50K/year. Hope that helps. Good luck.
Emscripten was actually creatd by a Mozilla employee. He has mentioned that Mozilla is interested in it.
Isn't this more a FTC/DoJ issue than an FCC issue? Anti-competitive mergers are more general than just the FCC specifics. Besides, I wouldn't think the FCC would have the jurisdiction to oppose the merger in any meaningful way. Am I mistaken?
Doesn't need to blow up like a nuke to kill 10% of the population inside the quarantined zone within 10 years from cancer caused by radiation exposure.