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I ran snapsta.com for a year along with a friend. It was a websnapping service, which eventually we got bored of, but had good fun writing it. And then Lenny(http://lennified.appspot.com), a mail alert service that uses gmail feed and Twitter to send out sms alerts wherever supported. Oops its currently broken (oauth url issues)

Never made a cent out of any of these.
The usual solution is to provide users with a choice. Default to showing a simplified field or set of fields that suit the common case for that locale. And provide an "advanced mode" with more fields and options to handle unusual cases.
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Appreciate the analysis, however I believe you made a fairly significant error with the solar capacity percentage. Unlike other solar power, the cool thing about this structure is that it doesn't specifically require constant sunshine to work effectively being that it works off the temperature differential through the tower, rather than pulling energy strictly from solar panels. Because of this, I would imagine capacity to be much nearer to 100% than the opposite.

"for every hundred metres you go up from the surface, the ambient temperature drops by about 1 degree. The greater the temperature differential, the harder the tower sucks up that hot air at the bottom - and the more energy you can generate through the turbines... Because the heat of the day warms the ground up so much, it continues working at night;"

As for how the difference in temperature between the surface and 100s of meters in the air changes throughout the day/night, I don't know.

So according to your equation, at 80% capacity, it could cover 128k homes. At 93.3% capacity it'd reach 150k.
This is based on an incorrect assumption: ... no one is storing their frontpage layout data.

The Newseum has this covered for over 800 newspapers. A recent front page of the New York Times, for example:

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=NY_NY...
Depends on what you define as "important", but with 6.5 billion people on the world, there are certain to be remarkable or notable events with great regularity and frequency.
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Fortified church build by a small German village of less than 1000 people around 1100, in Transylvania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Feheregyhaza2.jpg

Now compare that with anything build by the Great Zimbabwe, Old Ghana or Timbuktu. Don't worry, that fortified church is just one of many.
How about an email address to contact you?
I'm really surprised why this approach isn't used more often.

I've built several PHP and .net things like this over the years for clients, so they can author on there PC (or my console) and push static files to my hosting as static files, and still have roll back.

Seems like common sense to me, lower risk, lower server over heads, lower user error problems. Whack together a bespoke CMS/web form in a few a hours and you're done.
This seems the same as releasing the new version with a proprietary license, then switching the license to GPL after a while.
It's interesting to see the typo fixes and how long different stories last. At 2:11 a story relevant to us all. I wonder (with regards to his point about things disappearing forever) if a distributed effort among "tech people" to catalog a lot of websites would work, different people run nodes that are given tasks. Would be neat to keep a track of the top 1,000 article driven sites for a year (not just news, reddit, hn etc.)

> Due to an errant cron task that ran twice an hour

This has happened to me a few times. Recently I had accidentally collected over 100,000 copies of a website over a 3 month period after forgetting the thing was running.
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If you compare cybersquatting to real-world squatting, then no - it's not the same, because cybersquatting costs money.

The real question is whether this cybersquatting is a good thing, that we want. And the answer is no.
>Not all CC licenses are free for commercial use, though. In fact, most of them aren't.

Sure, it wasn't my intention to imply that. I'm talking explicitly about music that is completely free to use, and music licensed under certain CC licenses is just an example to illustrate the point.

Thank's for clarifying for other readers though.

It was also not my intention to imply that getting free music is easy. Of course much music is commercial, many people are reluctant or unable to give away products of any type.

My point was only that there are in fact a lot of people creating music and releasing it explicitly to provide music which can be used for any purpose commercial or not, and a variety of websites which catalog this music.

These people/websites are a boon to many, like podcasters who require into/outro/background music.

I'm not saying this movement could not use more momentum, support, etc....the contrary in fact. I'm saying only that it already exists.
I'm curious - why does a conference need a policy about such things at all? Are local laws against violent acts insufficient?
The source code was liberated and put on github just a few days ago. Take a look at http://pastebin.com/gAntZQik for a breakdown of how that took place. The github link is https://github.com/jrmithdobbs/netatalk-2-2-0-p6
"On the street, environmentalism has comprehensively failed to become a mass movement".

Not sure I agree.
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It's written in coffeescript and node.js instead of ruby. Jekyll is also made for blogging, for instance you have a _posts directory in Jekyll, in DocPad you have a src/documents page - this allows you to create urls like src/documents/about.html -> /about, and src/documents/projects/docpad.md -> /projects/docpad, and src/documents/posts/life.md -> /posts/life. Another great thing is that you can access the query engine inside the views, and the data associated to documents can be filled with whatever key values you want - so you can do advanced filtering/queries. The benefit is that you can extend the docpad server to do whatever you want (as it is just a node.js package) even add redirects and dynamic pages to the mix. Feel free to join me on #docpad on freenode.
> For really brain-dead reasons, they didn't like me.

I may be brain-dead too, but I have no problem seeing why they might not like you.
> I'm pretty sure that was part of the plot
> from The Mummy? :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)
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Any organization that maintains an institutional fear of saying the "wrong thing" destroys its ability to effectively communicate such that the morale will have already hit rock bottom by the time someone actually does get offended.
Earlier this year I unsubscribed from their newsletter. The unsubscribe page had a feedback survey stating that a reason was required. That really put me off. You can't require someone to give you feedback in order to unsubscribe from a newsletter (it may a violation of canspam, as well). I tweeted about it. They tweeted back an apology, saying it would be changed, but by that time the damage was done re my image of the company.
China. Or anywhere else that's closer to the Napoleonic code (command and control laws) than the common law (custom-based laws). (Sorry, I'm not a lawyer, so my terminology might not be accurate).

The problem is, the law is accountable to the government, not the other way round.

I guess you could create a hybrid system, in which higher courts shape the morass of law and precedent into simple explicit codes for the citizenry and lower courts to follow. That might give you the best of both worlds, but it might have its own problems.
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Agreed. By the way I remember talking with Google recruiter when recently I was in school (one of the west coast elites) doing my masters; he told me the best way to get into Google is via internship. I was interested in working at startup for internship and told him the same. He bluntly told me that its impossible for me to get a job at Google then.. :)

P.S. His prediction was true and I never interviewed at Google. However, I got job offer from one of their biggest rival :)
I think the article draw a rather long bow.

The bottom line is these people speak English and are perceived to be able to bridge the gap between the East and West.
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A fling? So you're just going to drop me like its hot afterwards? Let's just pull out the green and get it over with. Quit sugar-coating it with your low-grade romance.
Important to whom? What people find remarkable and notable varies wildly. What may be notable to one group (say the residents of X-town may find the mayoral election notable) might not be to another (Y-town doesn't care).

Something remarkable or notable may happen every day, but it's not necessarily the case that something remarkable or notable to a specific person happens every day.
If they collected the html and not just screencaps, it would be interesting to see a word-cloud evolve and change over time too.

Too bad there isn't an annual follow up for every major story.
You're right… let me rephrase. The only significant company.
non of them - weekend projects are about experience first, money second - what does work, what doesn't work - how much effort is it? every project that does not just stay in "idea space" is a huge win. and an infinite amount more valueable than any great billion dollar idea that is still stuck in someones head.

said that: checkout http://replycam.com - i learned that any technology that you cant easily iterate a (project) killer (in this case the flash webcam booth app)
Homebrew tries to reuse system packages as much as possible. MacPorts comes with its own everything.

Homebrew tends to have fresher packages---new versions of popular packages are usually updated within hours.

Haven't look back to MacPorts since switched to Homebrew two years ago.
Yeah, I've done that before. It's not too bad, but there's still a lot of boilerplate that could be made away with.
If a slide with bikini-clad women with laptops can destroy your teem's morale you have a bigger problems to worry about.
Thank you, that's very interesting.
I was more referring to Horners. Ethiopians, Somalians, Eritreans. But that brings up another interesting question for me. How would you consider them?
I know outside of Africa they are considered caucasians and have significant caucasian influence ( we're talking at least or over the 50% range.)

Pictures results after googling around a bit:

http://i.imgur.com/sgCSr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Xt8pQ.jpg

In my opinion, this just shows that humanity is a gradient. Overlapping. It's rather fascinating.
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Because, the building in Dubai will grow to 832 meters once they're done.
In some ways, paying out to employees does "help them stay afloat".

Think about it. They are obviously doing this to retain their employees. Imagine if you work for Twitter for years and have all of these stock options but can't do a single thing about it because you know Twitter will not IPO any time in the near future. I'm pretty sure at some point you'll be feeling some frustration.

Obviously I am speculating and it doesn't necessarily mean that's the case but to me, it sounds like they are doing this so that they can "reward" their employees. If it was me working for Twitter and was given a chance to cash in some of my employee stock, I would be a very happy and grateful employee.

If you look at it this way, then you can think they are doing this to retain some of their most loyal employees to continue working for them hence "keeping them afloat".
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Not sure if it is just me, but I feel LED lamps emit inferior quality of light for reading. Hurts my eyes.
Per Facebook's advertising guidelines [1]:

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So yes, it is clearly not allowed, assuming that the copyright holder has not given the advertiser the permission to use his picture.

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Why does it have to be that tall ? is it because the top end becomes much cooler with more height ?
I'm all for freedom of self expression. Yes it means there could be a bad joke (damn you!) here and there, or a comment that is edgier than it should be, but hey we're all human... I do not believe creativity can thrive if you need to sanitize every word, and make everything perfectly dry and businesslike, with the organizers ready to chime in if you make any remotely sexual or racist comment...
Not really. You might think something isn't right to do, but, after the fact if it's done, think it's really really cool that it got done.
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this is to bad! used to be one of the best and most interesting blogs out there. not only with respect to solaris, sparc and general oracle/sun stuff. just a good blog. I hope he comes back one way or the other!
Part 1 of the post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2747344

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Small clarification: I shared some info on the internal workings of Command&Conquer in the comments of the last post. The author of this post took that to mean that I was one of the developers. That's not true - I'm just a bored coder with a disassembler and (not so much lately) free time on my hands. Some friends of mine and I reverse engineered large amounts of code in those games to add new functionality or fix bugs, which there were plenty of...
It's not just salary which is taxed at source. We have Fixed Deposits which are incurring interest which needs to be declared. We may have made donations which need to be accounted for. Most of us hire a chartered accountant to do the filing. Therefore a software could be of use.
They could have built a cheap and reusable space plane. The problem was they built it do far more than was necessary. You can build a "cheap" space-plane that get's 7 people to orbit at around 100-1000$/lb. (by cheap somewhere under 10 million a flight.) You can't build a cheap space plane that hauls up 7 people and 50,000LB of junk into space at back at the same time. If they just focused on people they could have avoided an external fuel tank and all those fragile tiles. Focus on a reasonable amount of structural redundancy and ended up with something that could get back from space without needing a new paint job let alone a full engine rebuild.

PS: Feathers don't burn up on rentry but bricks do. The shuttle was far to close to a brick to get back without a lot of trauma.
Well, you can't only have these things powering US homes because I can't imagine they work that well at night.
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I wish I could reply to everyone on this thread, but I'm more interested in what they did to market these services ? If you do absolutely as little as possible to get people to use your services, any endeavor will be an unprofitable one.
Read the full article. The policemen said they would not arrest the kids in the mob who had attacked them, despite multiple eyewitnesses pointing out this mob, ostensibly because of the lack of individual identifiability, but in reality because the policemen were afraid of being demagogued as "racists".

Easier to punish the guy digging up arrowheads.
Looks like that is the case from the article..
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Bureaucratic inertia. Who in their right mind would advocate their own good job be cut? Another example: the DEA broadcasts insane propaganda to justify itself while turning a deaf ear to real solutions for the withering violence on the Mexican border. It's infected.
Licence stupidity in 2011.
My take-away is that the 'rockstar coder' feels the need to be offensive to impress others with his/her edgy-ness. The idea that people who do these things at conferences, would never do them anywhere else, is a little naive. The 'slide with a bikini-clad woman' is more likely a symptom, than a self-contained aberration.
Wrong generalization. How many fortune 500 CEOs are from India? I can count on my fingers (correct me if I'm wrong)

P.S. Part of my ethnicity is Indian..
I can easily see innocent and benevolent dark humor being overreacted to with all this buzz about 'awareness' at conferences. Ironically sexist though it is, simply saying "don't be that guy" should be the extent of the conversation.

This says to me, "There are people ready to be offended at your talk. Walk on eggshells."
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Big toy.

For one, maintenance will _not_ be low. Wind turbines (and nothing else is used here) do have quite some maintenance costs, and additionally, you need to keep the greenhouse clean.

The main problem I see is the capacity. 200 MW peak capacity at 60% efficiency translates to 120 MW peak electric energy. If we assume 50% capacity factor (which I suspect is _very_ generous), we arrive at 60 MWe average output. You would need 15 of these to substitute for a single 1 GW nuclear plant.

Big toy.
Wow, completely agree about how the layout, and emphasis on different headlines, topics, categories, advertising etc.. are all huge indicators of society's interests and conceptions of the world. That said, I would be surprised to learn that the nyt doesn't store their front page every day into some archive? If they don't, then someone must!
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So, that's a few months of dev time and a few thousand dollars of investment (VPSes, designer time, etc) that I won't get back.

Was this before services like Heroku and Google App Engine existed? The free tiers make failing much less painful.

Edit: One of my failed apps, http://app.reminderbear.com is still in existence thanks to Google App Engine. It has about 10 or 15 happy users that can keep using the service forever. It only costs me $10/year for the domain name.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity says pretty much the same, though in a general terms

"The main problem is that every transaction is publicly logged. Anyone can see the flow of Bitcoins from address to address (see first image). Alone, this information can't identify anyone because the addresses are just random numbers. However, if any of the addresses in a transaction's past or future can be tied to an actual identity, it might be possible to work from that point and figure out who owns all of the other addresses. This identity information might come from network analysis, surveillance, or just Googling the address. The officially-encouraged practice of using a new address for every transaction is designed to make this attack more difficult."

Not that you are saying they claimed otherwise and it is exactly your article that made me look through this page in detail, so thanks for that.
FWIW, I ditched regomail. It didn't even make enough to cover the domain renewal.

You could enter your rego to check for messages. To try and boost pick-up, for anyone checking an empty inbox, I auto-added a randomised and semi-believable message. Not sure if it helped much, but obviously not enough.

Slightly related, I also started building a little web site for people to track cars they'd owned and driven with a view to building relationships between past and new owners for the hell of it. "I wonder what happen to that '74 Civic I traded with that girl for three bottles of wine?" Domain drove.com.au was free when I checked. Took me half a day to build most of the site but by then the domain had been taken and so I bailed - stupid.
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I may have missed something, but this doesn't feel like a review, it feels like he's rehashed and summarized every point in the book without adding any original content, beyond how he's been using the techniques. A nice glowing review with some choice summaries would have been plenty to get me to dig deeper and purchase the original book. After reading this though, I feel I've pretty much gotten everything I could have from the book and have no desire to actually purchase it, beyond supporting the original author. I enjoyed the material, and I think it's going to be really useful going forward, but maybe a Spoiler Alert warning would have been appropriate.
I love hearing about the failures of others like this. Not in a point-and-laugh way, but in that happens-to-all-of-us way. I have so many of them it's embarrassing.