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Absolutely. I use a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner[1], along with the software that comes with it. Automatically OCRs both sides and then stores it on disk. I don't even have to name files as they are full-text-searchable in Finder on OSX. Check out Ryan Waggoner's post[2] on this (where I got the idea from).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001XWCQO2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

[2] http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/how-i-filled-two-dumpsters-a...
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Absolutely. I'm already half-way done writing an article on Archipel, and I'll be sure it gets posted to HN when it's ready.

As an aside, Antoine (the author of Archipel) just told me that beta 3 will be released next week, after which he'll be focusing on expanding the VM storage options.
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Help them succeed why? They're a corporation with 20,000 engineers, not a charity or even a plucky startup. Hell they have so much spare cash that this is their fourth attempt at a social network!
The headline refers to celebrities on the Today show, not "people".

It is sometimes hard to wrap one's head around the fact that generational change happens at the speed of... generations. One year per year, on average. Tune in ten years from now, when the average age of gamers may well be 47, yet gamers over 40 will be considered "weird" by people significantly older than 40.
Sometimes with reading RFCs, design, graphical work, database layout, looking at new tools to try out while building the project or just digging in.

As long as you start somewhere, it doesn't matter, it is a hobby project after all.
You might consider at some point in the future (when the backlog of essential work dies down) doing some testing on the impact of displaying the dollar symbol versus the pound symbol in the screenshot of the app. Or better yet based on ip show a screen shot with the currency symbol that is most likely to be applicable.
Going to that page in my browser (Chrome 14) gives me a warning about an insecure script that has been disabled - the learn more link points here: https://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=1...
You should absolutely learn how to program! As someone who was in your position three years ago, I can categorically tell you that learning to program is one of the best decisions I have ever made. My suggestion is the following - try and find a friend who is willing to be your tutor. It will help you immensely to have someone there who presumably knows the ropes and can walk you through the process and answer questions in real-time. Programming, especially when you are learning, can be intensely aggravating and you can lose interest very quickly if you have hit a seemingly insurmountable roadblock and have no one to fall back on.
> "Oh but that's different" - not really. Same thing would have happened if my friend was intentionally trying to fill his basement with water.

Sure, but if he called and stated that, they'd likely turn it back on and bill him for the usage.
Two things come to my mind:

1. That's gotta be one helluva manual

2. Reversing the procedure to automate documentation by examining variable and method names along various code paths would be brilliant.
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Yep - we just bought 54 x 8GB DDR3-1333 Registered DIMMs for about 10K, and we can sell the 54 x 4GB modules we are replacing for about 2-3K on eBay. But since this is a VMware cluster, now I have to scramble to see what this is going to cost me in additional licensing before I upgrade. :(
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I agree if you're doing this fulltime. My job was a part time Rails job for a professor. There are lots of opportunities out there that you can do on nights and weekends if you have another fulltime job. It's a whole different situation than what you're talking about.
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Ah, thanks for letting us know. Will work on better ssl support.
> What happens on a technical level when every device behaves like that?

We start putting battery backup in routers so they won't drop their DHCP tables? This isn't asshole mode, it's "assume the network is functioning properly and hasn't been reset" mode. In the world of portable devices, it's important to look at where we waste time and compensating for errors is a frequent culprit.
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Yea, I think the founder got pushed out by EMC.
If you believe the Lean Startup thesis*:

Success = F(#Iterations)
#Iterations = Runway / Speed of each iteration
Runway = Cash on hand / Burn rate

Then things are looking quite good for this team if they can continue to build, validate, and iterate this quickly with the new project they are pursuing (Assuming they didn't spend their Start Fund money on hookers and blow in the past 9 days).

[1] http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/03/cash-is-not-kin...
Erm... wouldn't the GC take care of that and keep the objects alive as long as they're in the channels, or something?
Is your new product still part of your YC experience?
The App Store offers exposure to a few hundred applications that are at the top of their category due to intentionally difficult to predict algorithms; relying on this mechanism for users discovering your app is asking for failure and makes about as much sense as making a web page and hoping that it appears on the front page of a website catalog/portal like Yahoo for the lifetime of the product. For 99.99% of the applications in the store, people are going to be finding out about it from online reviews, word of mouth, and search engines.
I've seen a lot of posts about US telecoms having "soft caps" for usage on what they call "unlimited data" plans, and I can't for the life of me figure out how in the hell something like that can possibly be legal.

If you have a written service contract with your provider that does not explicitly state the service has a bandwidth cap, then how can them shutting off or artificially limiting your access speed /not/ be a breach of contract?

Even if there is a clause in the contract about the traffic cap - without them explicitly informing you of the clause, wouldn't you be able to claim deceptive advertising?
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Some people enjoy frivolous chat and punnery. I particularly enjoyed the parody of Pirates of Penzance, a verse of which I sang out loud to the amusement of my coworkers. I don't understand this insistence on comparing websites to each other as if one were better than the other - I am a happy user of both HN and Reddit, they both serve separate purposes to me.

Interestingly, although on Hacker News the comparison is typically drawn with Reddit, on Reddit it's generally 4chan that serves that purpose. What site do 4chan users look down on?
> Particularly the wording - "ask your doctor for ..."

This of course just adds to the stress and unhappiness as described by Barry Schwartz in this interesting TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...
This question is only going to be relevant if the application is already open: if you close your browser windows and then re-open the application it will use the latest cache and evict the older ones. In essence, this mechanism is designed to allow an application to operate with an atomic version of the resources it requires for operation, and is not designed to allow the user to manage old versions.
Depends on who is generating the money and the type of things they do with it. Google seems to use its money benevolently, investing in projects and systems to improve the world.
HN is written in Arc - a Lisp dialect coded by PG. You can see it here: http://arclanguage.org/
If only the market was competitive, this would be a non-story. "Right" or not, our future economic success depends on driving broadband prices down and service quality up.
Except I drink hundreds and hundreds of cups of coffee a day. When it takes 10 seconds every time to determine who's coffee it is, we need to come up with a new solution.

Yeah this analogy blows as well. What it comes down to is old world technology spends a ton of time on error correction like this and it's an easy place to increase efficiency & speed for portable devices. It's going to keep happening, get used to it.
There was no link to any blog (or any kind of site to see a postmortem for that matter). Any chance you could send a followup to the goodbye email when you finally get around to writing something?

I'm very interested in reading it and I have this fear that it'll slip between my frequent HN checking.
Better yet, charge for overages. I don't know why Comcast wants to dump these customers when instead they could be charging them an extra $40 (or whatever might be reasonable) for each extra 250GB they use.
Not sure if private beta ever launched. I signed up for TestFlight and to try the app out, and still haven't, to this day, received an opportunity to try it.

I was looking forward to this though. Sad to see it go.
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At first glimpse, it seems a bit intense, but if it's what it takes for us to compete on a global scale, then so be it. I'd take it over the bigco where I'm currently at, if only so I could just continue to learn.
Internet access is required to file a police report in Oakland, or so I was told by the OakPD switchboard operator when I called to report my car being broken into and vandalized.

i.e. they would not send a car; they would not take information over the phone. I was told I must file the report online.

When an essential service like Police require you to use a service, it definitely seems like that service has moved from the category of "novelty," or "luxury," into "utility."

There are possibly good reasons for internet providers to continue to be private, but like water and power and other utilities, they should be heavily regulated. Going over a bandwidth cap should not land you in a position where you cannot (e.g.) file a police report after you have been the victim of a crime.
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I have a hard time accepting this fact. Yes, you might not know upload count, but reading Comcast's AUP, it states:

>> Common activities that may cause excessive data consumption in violation of this Policy include, but are not limited to,
numerous or continuous bulk transfers of files and other high capacity traffic using
(i) file transfer protocol (“FTP”),
(ii) peer-to-peer applications, and
(iii) newsgroups.

This seems to be exactly what the person who wrote the article was complaining about.

And in a world where we no longer have unlimited data plans on our phones; I am suprised people forget about the data used while uploading...

Updated: formatting and clairification.
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A few broken images retrieved, but I can kind of see how it works. Most of my friends have completely insane images.
now, the version of KVM I'm using is really, really old, but as far as I can tell, KVM, by itself, does not do any locking. It's pretty easy to start a single guest twice when using kvm by itself, which will irreparably corrupt your instance.

So yeah, I'd strongly recommend that you use libvirt (or some other wrapper that handles things like locking the block devices) if you use KVM.

With xen, on the other hand, it handles that level locking for you out of box, so personally I see no reason to use libvirt. The libvirt devs seem pretty focused on KVM anyhow; Xen support, at least in the past, was pretty poor, so personally, I use the native xen tools for xen.

(I'm not saying this is a reason to use xen instead of KVM; I'm just saying that if you do use KVM, you should also use libvirt.)
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Feeling very foolish. When I read this story on my mobile I read it as Sony not Story. Not being familiar with the line of readers or that OEM, I just made a leap, and foolish comment.

Thanks for pointing out it, though. I'm going to give this a closer look in person.
The original article doesn't mention mathematical constant at all, just mentions dismissive behavior. Do you think Google was following something like what I proposed in another comment in this thread?
For anyone looking for an alternative, I've been using https://venmo.com/ with good success. They have been around for a while.
Web applications can be icons on your home screen (at least on the iPhone): just click (+) and "add to home screen". If the application is setup correctly, when spawned in this manner it will also appear without any browser chrome, allowing it to be a truly full screen application.
Same here. Making my noon reading of HN pretty annoying. (Read front page, hit more, get expired, go back, reload, hit more ...)
The earlier book was called "Social Circles" and the new one is called "Grouped"? :)
I think there is good reason to be skeptical of hardcore gamers who are above a certain age. These games all use the same basic tricks to trigger to pleasure mechanisms of the brain. As such, anyone who is sufficiently intelligent should be able to figure out that they're all basically the same, and thus to be avoided after a certain point if one wants to keep growing as a person.

Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy playing genuinely novel games when they come out like Katamari Damacy or Braid, but that's still not more than a few hours a year. And I appreciate that gaming can have other ancillary social or parenting benefits.

But at it's root most serious games today are designed to exploit the mechanisms of addiction. I don't think this is entirely a bad thing, it may even be beneficial to a limited extent. But if you eventually want to make your own art and contribute to the world in a meaningful way then this requires becoming fully self-actualized. And this is very difficult when you start spending several hours per day deriving pleasure from the baser parts of the brain.

That being said I'm not a neuroscientist, but this is sort of the vague feeling I get after reading some of the basic literature on both addiction and extrinsic motivation.
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I think many people in the Today show's late morning audience, were they to be mapped to the technology adoption curve, would be classified as late mainstream or even "laggards". Calling adult gamers "weird" plays into preconceived or outdated notions of gaming that many of them have.
Let's compare with Rackspace cloud load balancer for one month (30 days * 24 hours) = 720 hours. (From their pricing page: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...). Linode is allowing 5000 simultaneous connections. Rackspace charges for balanced bandwidth. Let's pick something modest 1 TB up, 5 TB down. Rackspace cost: $1530.80/mo.

So, I'd say linode's price seems quite reasonable. :)
In reality, economics is not about money.

If you produce resources or services of value, then the future is rosier because others will trade with you in exchange for access to those resources or services.

If you make some piece of software junk that's dismally easy to copy and do so based on speculative capital, particularly when it provides arguably zero unique value, then what you've done is wasted everyone's time... including that of your own workforce. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evernote#Similar_products_and_s...

Unfortunately, this sort of thing is rife in the US.

Back to reality: I cannot conceive of China suddenly sending squillions of RMB to the US because someone figured out how to Web2.0 a TODO text file. Hence, skepticism on real economic value.
I've tried and failed to get the point of Evernote a few times.

Do you mind pointing to the article/articles you used to get you up to speed?
I don't work at Google, but it's hard not to read that statement as isomorphic to: "My ideas weren't accepted because the senior people are smarter than I am."

In every job I've seen, the reason for embrace/rejection of ideas from the junior employees is never a pure technical decision. If anything, senior people grab and push ideas because they lack their own.

At least Google's model works as long as the senior people are smart have good taste.
On any visualization page, hit the "Toggle Full Screen" button (on the right of the "Find in this dataset" search button) - that should solve it. Also see this FAQ: https://finances.worldbank.org/page/faqs#scroll
Is Comcast really a monopoly in some parts of the US? Aren't there any other viable options?
it's simply not the problem domain it was designed for, and it shows

Ah yes, the "single purpose tool by design" fallacy. PHP wasn't designed for Ajax or JSON or HTML 5. Perl wasn't designed for the web.

Install a library. It's a general purpose programming language designed for you to use libraries.
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Your wish is my command. I'm gonna integrate my Android app, Car Locator, with Evernote using their API. Check back with me in a couple days.
Not all web apps do, either, thanks to HTML5 Manifests and the like. That said, not everything plays along well with offline web apps, sadly.
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Or at least choke you way way down. But even more important than the "cut off at cutoff point" solution is the "let me know my usage" solution. They couldn't (or wouldn't) tell him anything about the shape of his bandwidth usage, or how much he was actually consuming, and there is no way (!) to find out how much has been consumed "so far this month". Even if that way to check was to phone Comcast, but especially if there were a website you could go to, I think Comcast would have a much better case here.
I don't think they're trying to "crush" Samsung by extorting $15 per handset, I'd say they're trying to maximize their revenues by charging as much as they possibly can without triggering a lawsuit.

If they wanted to crush Samsung, they'd insist that Samsung sell WP7 phones or nothing. If their patents hold up, that is their right.
Why is using more than 250GB of data a commercial use case? The author thinks his personal interests in photography and music are what topped the cap. I doubt Google Docs and his other work services would even show up on his bandwidth compared to Netflix and XBox Live.

Consumers shouldn't have to upgrade to a business plan, paying for business-class support, a static IP, and other features they don't need. Comcast would probably end up making more money and saving a lot of face if they had a plan with sane limits for people who live on digital media.
He admitted that he uploaded terabytes of data. That's not being "careful". Comcast has had data caps for quite some time now. There's quite literally no excuse for not knowing that upstream bandwidth also counts.
From what I recall, this is because the 'More' link is implemented using closures, which get garbage collected after a while. So if you take too long and a GC has happened in the meanwhile, the link will be broken.
I won't claim that Seattle is a terrible place for broadband, but it's also not wine and roses.

On the cable side, Comcast "competes" with Broadstripe. Broadstripe has both terrible customer service and poor internet service. Broadstripe also happens to have a bunch of apartment and condo complexes covered in an exclusivity agreement. Broadstripe makes Comcast look great in almost every regard.

On the DSL side it's true that Speakeasy is available, but if you are willing to ignore customer service, Qwest DSL is almost always dramatically cheaper. It's a good option, but sometimes not available above 1.5mbps, even in extremely central areas like Belltown, which is a neighborhood of condos and apartments directly adjoining downtown.

I'm on Comcast residential now and I'm pretty happy with it compared to my past experiences with all the companies I mentioned above, but next time I move within Seattle I now know one of the top questions to ask is what kind of internet access options the place has.
You use this word "the institution" as if companies were hive minds. Read the other comments on this thread. Again: the people who make decisions about password complexity are almost never the security people.
For what it's worth, I think people who watch the Today Show are weird, independent of age.
I'm pretty sure I didn't say Europe was a 3rd world country. Such a statement would be patently untrue, if only because Europe is not a country.

I also didn't say that people could not afford surround-sound. I said that most people do not have high-quality surround systems installed. Relatively few people have surround-sound systems, and those who do have fairly low-end ones. As for the "huge TVs", huge to most people is 50-60 inches. Huge for theaters is 90-feet (that's actually just standard Imax size).
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You don't have a legal question, you have a marketing question. The answer is to change your name if you think Google's use of it might overshadow yours or confuse your users/prospective users.
Their marketing materials say this is much easier but it doesn't seem easier to me. Right now, we have a three node Enterprise Plus, six CPU cluster. This is six licenses period.

Now, I have to track vRAM usage and decide to purchase EP licenses for all available RAM or just go with usage + growth for the year...or something. I'm not sure how that's easier.
Anyone who thinks of "TV-watcher" as a significant part of their identity is a bit weird, too.
yeah, but the point is that the marginal extra work going from, say, 2 physical servers to 6 physical servers is not very many hours at all. Sure, supporting the users on those other servers will be substantial; but the hardware itself? not a big difference.

I mean, going from 0 physical servers to 1 physical server is a pretty big marginal jump; you need someone who knows how to replace drives and deal with other hardware problems, and you need that person on pager.

But that person is going to spend a few days getting the thing set up, then maybe they will touch the hardware once a year ongoing. (as you scale up you can lower the setup time to a few minutes per server by using cobbler or another auto-provisioning setup, which is probably going to take a few days to set up in and of itself. After that, you can bank on spending some significant time every time you buy a different hardware configuration, but either way, most of the time spent on hardware will be when setting up.)

Adding more servers just means you have to run down and replace those drives more often; but like I said, if you have to physically touch each server more than once a year or so, something is seriously wrong.
"Patchy security"? What are you on about?
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Fun tip: If you do something like src="//website.com/resource.js", then browsers will use SSL if the source page was sent over SSL, and won't if it wasn't.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163755

It's been an known issue for years.