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Apples' designer's choice, or what seems to be a small heat/fire problem covered by warranty? I haven't heard of anyone's laptop being damaged by this, and the only people paying are out of warranty. It's a bother I don't want to see, but at least they cover it.
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Here's a much simpler explanation:

Because the cables cost $30 and revenue is good.
Sorry, I have no idea which spikes you're talking about. Could you elaborate or find a picture?
Heh - is nothing sacred? not even how much time i blow off trying to play stairway to heaven?
Interesting, Oracle is currently recommending not using async OCI calls in the 11g documentation (altho' the feature is obviously there), instead they recommend you to use blocking calls on separate threads. This means you can get notified when your query completes on the client with no network roundtrip to find out if it's still executing.
And there you go. The only people who value their own profession are the techies. That will not go very far!
Legal pressure on the author.
Looks like you need a mirror.
What technology giant will still be around in 100 years, like IBM?
Concerns over Apple's cloud computing for music
Yep, I remember that discussion. There was some doubt over it's use case.

If I had an iPhone, I'd be paying for this.
Something that requires (possibly on legal advice) an LLC or similar to go forward?
Hackers Protest Censorship by Taking Down a Government Website in Turkey
Hackers Protest Censorship by Taking Down a Government Website in Turkey
The lightbulb that's been burning for almost 110 years
These poorly-designed adapters have a history of shorting out and catching fire. Yes, I am surprised that anybody would think "looks nice" is a more important feature than "won't burn our customers' houses down".
Reflections on Trusting Trust (Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech)
Ask HN: Being an expert witness
I recently found a lawyer looking for expert witnesses "with a graduate degree from a prestigious school and a knowledge of algorithms." Sounded like a perfect fit and I ended up getting the job (with the up front disclosure that I had never done it before and would require coaching).

Has anyone else ever been an expert witness and what was your experience like? Any lessons learned?
How about: a small, tech-related business that aims to score big.
It's interesting that the older ones DID have the vented / slotted strain relief sheath.

I wonder how much more expensive that is to manufacture vs a stylistically cleaner, simpler solid sheath.
Homebuilt $70k single-person spacecraft tested
Yep. You're describing pretty much what happened. It's always a nice when you get sparks and smoke though. :-)
If you'd look closely these resources are grouped around a single topic, and carefully selected by an expert in a highly specialized field. It saves me, personally, a ton of time reading marginal papers and browsing through a clusterfuck of references.
No, it works outside the US as well. I can vouch for that.
Why would you use anything else?

Mysql:

- Never crashes

- Has more tested/reliable replication than anything else, possibly including Oracle (haven't tried the wacky 3rd party replication things like Goldengate or whatever, and don't believe in spending 6 figures on software licenses in general).

- Supports SELECT, INSERT and UPDATE

Why would I get anything else for a database? For more complicated stuff I have another approach that I employ called "programming".
Right - but GPS is never supposed to be relied upon for anything - it's secondary.

If there's no ILS and zero visibility - you should be landing somewhere else, no?
Yesterday it was only for US. I think they extended that service.
There are some businesses that will do very well with Groupon and others that just are not a fit. That's really up to the business owner to decide whether to do a Groupon or not.
Wow that looks amazing. I just moved out of Knoxville, so reading about your day there made me miss it a bit.

A few years ago, a buddy and I biked down the west coast, and it was probably the best thing I've ever done. I noticed you guys arent planning any rest days - we did the same thing, and I think it was a mistake. Towards the end of the trip, both of our knees were really starting to hurt, but we just pushed on. I was still getting pains in them for another year or so after the trip. Something to watch out for.
I thought I would give this thread some time to mellow out. I can't see your email address in your profile. I am in the Bay Area, as I believe you are. Currently not working and have a good deal of spare time.

Would you mind having a quick email to perhaps see if we can colab on something?

I am sure you got a lot of comments and thought that at one time your email was listed, and now it is unlisted. I won't take up much of your time, but I too am bored with where I am at, and want to do something that is not driven by money as the sole reason to do it.

I have a few ideas that are not unique in any way. The ideas themselves may not even be all that fun or challenging aside from the technical aspects of scale. Most would need to scale as large as many of the largest trafficked sites popular today.

What I think would be fun is the challenge of entering a market that is owned by only one player. Being the #2 is not always a bad thing, and shooting to make your #2 the new #1 sounds really fun. To me, it becomes about execution of the idea, which is the fun part.

Any idea will eventually become boring, you will complete it, and the challenge of starting will be over. Growing and executing your idea different from how it ever has been done is what motivates me.

If you at all would not mind having a short email or two, maybe there is something we can work out.
Thanks HN/YComb folks for reading. This was a fun piece to put together and Joe Hruska our CEO did the heavy lifting working all night to put these numbers together. Also thanks to our RescueTime users as they are the juice that keeps our engine going!
Chinese moon probe ventures into deep space
I find it very hard to believe: as soon as he mentioned removing small empty boxes the idea of a fan leapt to mind; I really can't imagine that none of the team already operating the factory thought of this solution.
Here are some more favorites (they may not qualify as the best books ever, but great books with original and useful ideas):

- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely

- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
I would recommend this habit especially to high school kids who bear the brunt of mass marketing from large corporations selling useless products.

...expound?
Marko (the creator of Gremlin) explains the difference here (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/gremlin-users/j9gb4c...)
A technology company that has a realistic possibility of scaling to something massive (e.g. hundreds of millions of users/revenue).
By not maximizing profit you are leaving money on the table that you earned. It's like going to your boss and saying hey why not give me a pay cut. I really deserve less. But I think what is worse is in the corporate world your job may or may not really add value to the product or service but just add cost. When you are pricing your own good and service in essence your capturing the value you created for your consumer.
If I have a concrete plan saying that I need to make 40% profit, why should I take 60%, even if someone is willing to give it to me?

Because you might think you can invest the money more wisely than other people in terms of its net benefit. You might invest it into charities you believe in, into research on topics you think is important, employ people you think need jobs, and so on.
That's pretty sad. My only real complaints about the Cr-48 were the low-quality screen, the trackpad, and the performance. Looks like they hit two out of three, but, like the review says, for $430 I expect more.
Nothing fancy. Just hosted calendar, address book, and email. I could roll something with LDAP for the address book, and any of the usual email-only servers (Sendmail plus UW IMAP, or more modern equivalents), but that would be a bit administration-heavy.
I wrote this in a comment on our blog, but I'll copy it here too:

If you find yourself thinking, “Thank you, Buzz Killington,” let me just add that the average time our most productive users spend on work related tasks per day is 3 hours(!). So if you put in your 3-4 hours of productive time, go nuts on that guitar doodle. We also show that if you work too many hours straight in a row you’ll have a down week next week. But all of that is for a future blog post.

Also, we were really careful to make sure no where in the blog post we claim that it ate up productivity. Just that it consumed time from something else. People must have guilty consciences. ;)
Interesting thoughts there. The audio is what matters though, rather than the video, would be nice if you added them to the Think Vitamin podcast (if you're not planning on doing so already).
Another way of visualizing (2) is to look at a hardback book or binder and imagine the top and bottom edges of the spine as two different possible hinges.
Unfortunately, I am compelled to share the same experience here. And being the "computer guy" for friends and family, I have seen the same kind of bad power adapters over and over. I thought that I was crazy or very unlucky because everyone tells me how great Apple products are.

And the replacements are quite expensive compared to the competition (I see mostly Dell and Lenovo, to be honest, no idea for the other ones).
If that is indeed a problem then that’s a problem. I don’t know. Stats?
Walrus - Mustache-like Templating for Erlang
Exactly 30 days after competitor Tropo lowered their SMS prices to a penny per message: http://blog.tropo.com/2011/05/11/announcing-new-lower-sms-pr...

The joys of competition :-)
This is what RIM executives see when they look at the company
Why millions of users? Few B2B startup have millions of users.

Likewise it doesn't necessarily need millions in revenue to be successful. Many exits have come from zero revenue.
Here is a picture that shows descibed problem on such cable: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaako/2316658032/
From what I've read, rather quickly, they can block it but then they have to either block google or cloak their content (present different versions to GoogleBot and to the public which is not really allowed). So they choose whether to make the content a gateway accessible from Google's SERPs or to close it off.
You have my permission. ;-)
The ghost developer is losing sales by going unmentioned in t he linked article. After reading the article, I thought "wow, maybe I should give this software a try- it sounds like its worth the money."

But, with no link to his site nor any info on the product, there goes another lost sale.
There is no O(1) fib.
I'm confused. What's new here? Isn't every designer able to do this already?

http://qranywhere.blogspot.com/2011/01/designer-qr-codes-by-...

My apologies, I'm sure I must be missing something. Please walk me through Paperlinks.

Paperlinks creates:

1, Custom branded QR Codes
2. More sophisticated landing pages
3. Scanalytics for use metrics
4. Something else?
5. All for a monthly fee of 25$

How are you going to lock this market in, when it already seems so wide open that anyone can do it?

Thanks in advance for the clarification .
It's a little strange to me that 7.7 human lifetimes were spent playing around with this little widget (assuming 78.7 yr lifespan).
That is one of the most ridiculous and tenuous pieces of television I've ever seen from the BBC. It's almost like Curtis plays random association games then tries to impose a historical narrative on it.
Out of curiosity, how often are you using the Ethernet port at those places?
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Let s be clear about this from the beginning at its best X-Men First Class is a standard Batman Begins build a movie franchise which many had fallen in love right after the double blow
True, but this is also several orders of magnitude simpler than a modern combat aircraft. It has vastly simpler dynamics, it doesn't have to deal with control surfaces, it doesn't have to be stable with irregular patches of supersonic flow on its wings, and so on. It'll probably only take three or six years, I bet.
Minor nitpick given the scope of these additions, but his use of a boolean argument to enhance implode is not my favorite.

implode(',', $array, true)

A new function (or even leaving it the way it was) is far more readable.

implode_keys(',', $array)

implode(',', array_keys($array))
While none of us can predict the future - I think it would be silly at this point to think of BTC as anything but a fairly high-risk investment right now. Assuming you can live off this for years and not work is a very dangerous assumption. I'm not knocking on bitcoin - I think it has great potential, and some interesting things are going to happen - it's a game changer - but you need to think more near term.

Given the current values (and remember, i'ts a market) - figure out the best way to dump it on a schedule - faster than you are now, and the tax implications.

Then, just figure out what that unexpected money means to you and your life - nobody else can tell you that.

Me, personally (and I'm not you, probably not your age, etc) I'd just stick it all in the bank and keep on trucking for a while, knowing I have an awesome cushion of cash in the bank.
Still not sold on the entire chromebook idea.

Offline apps are still not here.

They have a 3G plan, but no bundled wifi hotspot plan? At least an iPadWifi/iPodTouch would be fairly functional offline at say, a coffee shop.

All in all, this seems rushed or not fully thought through. Why even release these devices to reviewers before offline apps are ready?
OS X Server will do that (pay), I've been doing the OpenBSD / Postfix / Dovecot / OpenLDAP / WebDAV thing. Still not sure on the whole calendar thing. It really isn't that bad once you get it setup and make sure to keep up with the updates.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BinetsFibonacciNumberFormula.ht...
Actually you just need a few females, and a large store of sperm to provide genetic diversity in further generations. If you used inseminated eggs (so the mother has no genetic relation) you can bring the human race to another planet with only a few people. When you get to the habitable planet, you let the population grow.

Also since a large genetic pool comes with the colonists, it limits genetic drift.
Andy Wingo knows quite well what he's doing. It's just a fun post. Read his 2/3 previous posts if you want more serious stuff on V8.
TL;DR
table of alternate services: http://min.us/lG4uE
What it takes to become a Nintendo studio
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I got mine June 7th too from Gilt. I'm contemplating trying to return it, I'm not sure how returns work out with Gilt though after you've opened a box. The other option is to give it to my parents/little sister as a good machine they can never screw up, but I'd kind of like that $500 back.
Bringing part time hacker on-board for equity only. How much equity is fair? 
Howdy,<p>Just 6 weeks ago my co-founder and I began working on our startup full time. We are addicted to HN although this is our first posting.<p>We want to accelerate development and have talked to a friend who has the right skills and level of interest. He has a full time job so he can only commit 10hrs/week; but he is willing to work for equity and no cash.<p>My co-founder and I both work in SF – we believe the time we spend together is very valuable in the early stage when a lot of spontaneous discussions take place. Our friend lives in the valley, so we will not have some of that interaction.<p>We are thinking we should offer him 4-5% with the same vesting schedule we have for ourselves. Would you consider this fair? If not what would sound more reasonable? Also, would you consider this guy a co-founder?<p>Thank you in advance for your responses. We greatly appreciate the help.
gmail is a big ask. would be so rad if it was open-sourced and i could just host myself with pop.
Lobbying is perfectly legal. The argument is not pro-corporation. It's that restructuring the system (like eliminating lobbyists) is the way to do it.
I've had two of those catch on fire from where the wires became exposed near the RCA + 1/8" headphone jack connector.

This is the same design used on older (circa 1994) Powerbooks, like the 520.

Here is a generic adapter for a 520. You can see the same connector...

http://cdn1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/138/470/449/Hsai.jpg
Haha, good point. I said ethernet because it is the first port blocked. The cord also blocks the display port and makes the first USB port awkward to use (this is the biggest annoyance for me, as I often have flash drives/my iPhone/a USB keyboard with me and there are only two USB ports on the laptop).
Revenue OR users.

The question is about what constitutes a startup, not what constitutes success.
Let's not forget Deep Impact. Flew past two asteroids, and even threw something into the first one while taking pictures (with an incredible autonavigation system). Pretty awesome if you ask me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)
It's now on Apple's Youtube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/apple
Is Portland, OR a good place for a tech startup?
Confirmed. Two fires here, also.

One with the RCA/headphone power and one with the magnetic connector.
He made a personal choice. He explained it in the first 5 paragraphs.
http://qrarts.com/ - since 2009

random designers take a shot.
http://dzineblog.com/2010/08/20-qr-code-business-cards-desig...

Amazing landing pages for Central Park's World Park Campaign via QR Codes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OCyfV_k2_g

4min
Dude. No Stairway.
I live by the beach, and every morning I get up and surf for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Getting in a hot shower after that is AMAZING, especially during the winter months.

Would highly recommend over a forced cold shower.
I threw together a quick and very dirty decoder for the "tune" string in the URL yesterday morning before I went to work.. I didn't really get a chance to do anything with it as I was busy, but I intended to write a generator. Anyway, here:

http://pastebin.com/pNP3BWXy

I wrote, but disown the above perl code. However, it does work, e.g.:

$ perl decode.pl <chopsticks
chord: 0001100000 5-bit duration 0
chord: 0001100000 5-bit duration 7
chord: 0001100000 5-bit duration 6
[etc etc]
I'm waiting for their response (Anonymous), it's usually comical and entertaining.
A child's hobby? Average gamer is 37 years old
Having such a profitable business model

Well, that's not true. They spend $1.43 for every $1 in revenue.
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I've often thought about cutting the power cable to be able to slide on some heat-shrink tubing and then re-solder the severed cable.

...or using a hot glue gun to 'decorate' a flexible, protective layer around the wire/connector.
My experience is similar, I still use the power brick which came with my first gen macbook (2006?).

I do wrap the thin cable around the little hinges when I take it with me.
Wait? --> BRIDE NEEDED FOR IMMEDIATE BABY PRODUCTION <--

That's brilliant.
Looks like Google is on to something...
Corporations: Don't Hate the Player. Hate the Game...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsion_%28mechanics%29

Different kind of force.
You can view the awesome presentation (in game-show format!) from the creators of the Pac Man Doodle from Google I/O (Ryan Germick - Creative Lead for Google Doodle, worked on both of these):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttavBa4giPc
I've been in the army. I've taken cold showers every day. Our commanders woke us up in 2am for a long run while carrying a rubber boat filled with water to the beach almost every day. When we finally got to the beach, we had to do push ups with our head inside the freezing water. I ran 20km carrying a fat man on a stretcher, cursing him under what remained of my breath.

Guess what? I still read HN instead of getting shit done.

Tolerance is only built on the same vector.
Great picture of a tornado track near Sturbridge
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/The_Fibonacci_sequence#Co...
I've always had that occur on the other end, where the wire meets the connector.
Calculating that formula is not O(1), unless you have a way of calculating exponentiation, multiplication and subtraction all in O(1) time.

A closed form does not O(1) make
Yeah, we didn't initially budget in any rest days, but their necessity became apparent quickly. We've actually taken a rest day in Memphis and Bolivar, TN so far.

Besides, what's the fun in blowing everything by? Thanks for reading.
It contains n-th power. So it is O(logN).
chart.io connects to their customers' databases, which include MySQL among others.
I never get tired of re-reading this. It goes right to the heart of what is magical and wonderful and also scary about computer programming, the sheer power of abstraction available and the unintuitive consequences that are a result of those possibilities.

It also makes me wonder how much we can rely on things generally held to be secure. I certainly have never tried to guarantee that the compilers I get from the distros I use are fully honest, much less disassemble my BIOS, and of course the tools I would try to use even if I did achieve that level of paranoia might not be reliable and I would need other tools to test the tools, and the next thing you know I'm out in the woods sawing at trees to get lumber to carve because only a hand-built analytical engine is a reliable and trustworthy platform in any provable way.
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The problem with that approach is that the asker needs to post follow ups and respond in thread. I don't know how Quora handles it, but it sounds like more work than PG would like to put into any feature with such little benefit.