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I like the sneaky footnote:

Addition loop test, completed in HP labs. Up to 100X faster than original HP 15c.

"For at least one pair of numbers, we can perform a single addition about[1] 100 times faster than we could in 1982."

Did any of the original owners complain about its addition speed? I'd have thought the matrix operations and numerical integration would be the slow bits. I wonder if you could get this speedup just by better fab technology and upping the clock rate, or if you'd need to go as far as bumping the process size down a notch or cramming stuff closer together.

Edit: it's a limited edition, so presumably they're not doing anything too complicated. I wonder how much a new set of masks cost these days.

[1] if it was more, we'd boast with that number!
My first gut reaction is: this sounds wrong. I don't understand how you're sending more traffic, although your intentions may be altruistic (solve the major problem of how to get people to test your site out). If you're just trying to convince people you're going to dump traffic on them, I believe those businesses already exist in the form of link/traffic exchange networks. And those are not interesting to me at all.

But if you're saying I can get some more beta testers who won't trash my site, I'm interested. Can you explain how exactly that works in as plain English as possible?
Clarke was right, about the technology. He was, unfortunately but rather predictably, so very wrong about people's willingness to adopt the technology. Currently, I'm looking to move from one very large city to another, even larger, city and all I want is a job that is willing to let me work remote from my new home. Unfortunately, because the new city is not one of the "blessed" cities where people expect software developers to work, I'm having an extraordinarily difficult time finding a good opportunity.

Even when there is no financial reason, no technological reason, people are still, inherently, unfortunately wary about people working from "just anywhere"...
Well, all these tuples can be represented as a List[Any] object in Scala with no problems and it would be just like any other dynamically typed language. However, if you want static type checking of your code, then yes - it is useful to tell the compiler the constraint on the range of values that are valid for your object. This is generally not possible in dynamic languages and should not be surprising.
City's have advantages independent of a location to work. For example, do you know where the individuals with the lowest carbon footprint in the entire USA live?

New York city.
Feedback:

- Typos: "Kiveve is a traffice exchange platform. Basically, a way for you to multiply your sites visitors. That means, everytime you send us a visitor, we'll send you around twice as many back. We multiply your traffic. Free." - 'traffice' -> 'traffic' and 'sites' -> 'site's'. Remove the comma after 'that means'. 'around' -> 'about'

- After the "We multiply your traffic. Free" bit, it would be helpful to know how. Right now, my response isn't, "wow, tell me more!" but instead, "Free? Bullshit."

- text encoding issue in the next paragraph: I'm seeing "Kiveve�s" on OS X 10.7 w/ Safari.

- "Ninja Time Analytics" raises my hackles for the same reason that descriptions of developers as 'ninjas' or 'rockstars' does.

- "from the day 1 you put our widget in your site." -> "from the day you add our widget to your site." Also, make "add our widget" a link to your signup page.

- "Stay tunned to future upcoming features" -> "Stay tuned for updates."

Net net: I am skeptical but intrigued.
The Wiki article[1] suggests a far more interesting story than better fab technology- Apparently these puppies have an ARM core emulating the original processor and operating system, making it possible to build custom firmware if you are so inclined.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-10C_series#HP-15C
Yeah!

What's easily missed too is that the 'free creativity and production for all' ethos on the web – all the good stuff that got us here! - so far largely missed out on financing for most of the traditional cultural sectors. Much of what is most highly valued in our cultures has been woefully underfinanced for our entire lives.

The iPad/app model – positioned between all these previously-existing devices and media/content like books/mags/+ – at least makes a start for a venue, a potentially enormously widely available venue, for content producers where they can be discovered – consumed/networked and get paid for their work by a simply enormous audience.

This is not necessarily at all a boon for central distribution in the sense of the old massmedia institutions!

I'd say that Apple having a lock on it – to the extent that Apple IS the central distribution channel, even if Amazon's tablet is just around the corner! – is not as important as that they provide a relatively 'flat' market for distribution – as I perceive them to do right now. To my understanding, they're basically running their stores at break-even.

With Amazon coming into the picture, it's about to become SO interesting – there will be so many different business models: sellers of Gadgets, Content and Ads!

EDIT: typos
Private space is important. So is freedom from interruption. And of course, the fact that trains don't always run on time, and never go from exactly where you are to exactly where you want to be.
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MG even has his own UserScript: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/77996
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What do you think? I've often thought about cleaning it up.
Interesting, I'd always thought that idea was due to Asimov in The Caves of Steel, but apparently the Heinlein predates the Asimov by 14 years.

Unfortunately, fast-moving underground moving sidewalks sound like an incredible waste of energy.
Sounds like some of these issues could be easily solved by setting up Behaviours properly. This is something new with Xcode 4, and allows you to configure what Xcode should do when certain events are triggered.

For example, the event for when "Run Completes" will trigger the behaviour "if no output, hide Debugger". This can be switched to always hide to solve the described problem.

I realise this doesn't solve the resizing issue, but it's a very handy indeed and makes working with panes a much better experience.
The developer would be me, thanks for the shout Alex! :)

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Out of curiosity, what strategy would you recommend instead? Something like Redis' B[LR]POP, where the blocking can be handled on the network layer? Or a different strategy entirely?
DLL hell solved indeed. How many versions do you keep?

For what it's worth, the DLLs in System32 are projected out of WinSxS with hardlinks, so they should not take up extra space. You still have the multiple version thing, however that can be somewhat mitigated by making service packs permanent[1].

[1] http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2011/02/15/how-to-...
Everybody in this discussion seems to be focusing on the problem of work, but how many of us would want to move out to some remote location even if we could perfectly telecommute?

I know I wouldn't. I'd go crazy being alone all the time, and video chat is a piss-poor substitute for actually being in a room with somebody, whether it's a friend or a colleague. Besides, I like the fact that within 20 minutes' drive of my house there's hundreds of restaurants, hundreds of bars, dozens of theaters, thousands of shops, et cetera.
maybe you remembered this strip? http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...
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I love my 42s. It's still running great 24 years later. The Free42 app does a nice job on iPhone.
You can't seriously use any of them though, it's far to slow for that.

You buy a Kindle because you want to read books, if you really wanted all those other features you would buy an iPad which is actually good at them.
It seems like in most communication decisions, being secretive loses you a lot more through misunderstandings and missed opportunities than you gain from control. At least, I've seen a lot of articles written asserting this, and my own experience backs it up.

I wonder if it's always true, or if not what the boundary conditions are. Apple, for example, seem to play on their secrecy quite well as a marketing technique, and it seems the Unity developers on that Reddit AMA had been cautioned against revealing planned features to avoid disappointing people.

The cynic in me thinks it makes you feel powerful and in control to have secrets, and that's the main reason why transparency is rare. I'd be interested to hear counter-examples, though - does anyone know cases where being secretive worked out to be a great business decision?
DigiNotar's complete collapse is intriguing. Doing a little Googling I noticed that they just got acquired 8 months ago http://www.vasco.com/company/press_room/news_archive/2011/ac... That investment is not looking very good for Vasco right now.

It would be interesting to know the backstory here. I wouldn't be surprised if something about the acquisition caused all the engineers to jump ship. Their one press release seems to be begging the Dutch government to provide staff http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/02/3881380/vasco-offers-dutch-...
I would argue that all the forced scaling in App Engine makes prototyping harder. You can't use SQL. You can't reuse whatever open-source components you find on GitHub. You can't just let your app run slow and optimize later.
I have several ideas that would scale well on GAE and neither want not need a relational db. I'm not making do without SQL, I'm actively not using it and its very successful. Even when I move to EC2, I still wont be using SQL. In fact I have only one idea that needs any kind of relational data and that is so relational that SQL is a bad fit too. EDIT: Actually, sorry, all my data is relational. Its just that I put the (small) effort in to figuring out how to make it work without joins. In the last 15 years, I've not done a single project that could not have been done with a NoSQL database.

In fact if you look at the recent comments of certain GAE engineers, they seem to believe that GAE is precisely for scaling, and that's why it now costs so much: its only for the big boys.

The problem is that I can never become one of the "big boys" on their system, because pretty much as soon as I get any traction, I have to move to EC2 or heroku or go broke. Their new found belief in the scalability of their system is just arrogance. Anyone can claim to handle lots of traffic when you require that your customers run 20 times as many frontends as they should reasonably need.

Good luck to them in the Royal Wedding market.

EDIT: on the nature of "relational"
Ask HN: How to know when to give up on your startup?
Hey guys, throwaway here for obvious reasons.

I have been bootstrapping a media sharing startup while working full-time for the past 1.5 years. Recently in June, it was getting so what I believe to be a lot traffic and growing. Growing 30%/mo since January, we hit a high of 250,000 uniques/mo in July.

My co-founder and I quit our jobs to work on it full time, and to grow it out, but now after the summer the site traffic has declined. It seems I quit my job when it "peaked", maybe this site was a passing fad? This month I only got 167,000 uniques -- a 35% drop.

So here I am. I'm not sure what to do. Should I shelf it, or take this as a sign and just give up? I told myself I'd try one more month to turn the traffic again towards a positive track, but I'm running out of savings and running out of ideas on how to turn the traffic.

I guess what I'm looking for is advice from those in my situation before -- did you shelf your project, or just keep working on it? I want to keep working on it, but I also want to make sure my reality is in check and that I'm not deluded by my own hope for it to grow bigger. How do you know when to quit?
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Would Mozilla (or any browser vendor) really remove them if they had 20% of the cert market? That will be an interesting test.
True. Although the new Intel system is not cryptographically secure.

Gigabit true random numbers could be used to modulate a jam-resistant radar signal. That makes it difficult for an opponent to use active electronics to cloak their target, even in principle. However actual systems would use dedicated hardware, not an Intel chip.

The profoundly paranoid could interleave true random bits with their data bits before encrypting (discard them on receipt). Pattern analysis would become much more difficult.
Interesting perspective. I wonder how likely those for whom iPads are the only computing device today are to ever think of using the 'production tools' specific to the PC though.

Or is it simply that the iPad makes so much consumption so easy – on a PC NOTHING is very easy to do in comparison. It's a little bit like the idea that TV only is for kicking back, even though you can make very difficult content for it too – all creators exlore the nature of their medium/device, whether it be developers or content producers!

iMovie - plenty of amazing music-making apps in addition to Garageband – and an increasing number of outlining apps, OmniOutliner, productivity apps like OmniFocus – seem to suggest that appmakers are still only starting to explore what can be done with this new UI and what the usage scenarios are for this device. They're different!

TODAY, most of the apps existing presume that you have a PC, and indeed, until iOS 5 – soon coming out – you need a PC for backups and various device management tasks. That PC dependence will end, and with it maybe most of the need for tablets to be defined as complementary 'consumption' devices. How file management will work with apps in the iCloud is only about to start to get worked out. Indeed, looking at how the iCloud works suggests their vision of how people will use their various devices together – it's still quite untried!

So, I'd not say tablets are doomed to be for consumption – it's more of a market dynamics question, like you note, together with technology just getting created. It's really about what gets explored. And one can hardly say that the app store model can't be successful for those who want to create something new.

I'm hopeful – and also did some of my best work at that time on a Psion Series 5, back in 1998. For editing, the touch interface, with a stylus and a keyboard, turned out superior to desktop word processing - at least to me.

What we're getting away from is maybe the idea that work is done at a desktop – something that still lived on with laptops. It will partly be a sort of 'self-conscious' loop of what is possible to be done – what we make possible to be done – and how convenient and productive these tools then turn out. 'A bicycle for the mind' indeed...
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Who does? She makes a fair comment about the state of interviewing. I'd hope she finds a position with a small team who can interview in a more relaxed manner. We hire on a trial basis, after interviewing on personality fit and seeing a good resume.
2050 is only 39 years away... as far away as 1972.

While Puerto Rico may become a state (for reasons having nothing to do with "natural resources and cheap labour") I can't see anything else happening.

There's no strong demand for secession or splitting of states, quite apart from the major legal problems with either of those scenarios. And as for external territories Puerto Rico is the only sizeable one left. (What else? Guam?)
Hopefully the bigger CAs have better policies, and would inform vendors immediately. (I'm sure Diginotar had policies too, just that they probably weren't followed)

But if a CA was compromised and they didn't know the how many certificates they had issued, surely they'd have to block the root cert, if not permanently?
Shit man, where I'm from I live in a city and travel 45 minutes to get to a different part of the city.
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Wow, I've wanted something nearly exactly like this for a long time. But for me "Send Later" is one of the lowest value functions (I think gmail already has a lab that does this). Instead I like an email re-appearing in my inbox if no-one has responded to it in a few days so that I can then follow up on it. Their email game seems pretty nice too, although I wish it had keyboard shortcuts as well.
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I should hope they would! What good is a security measure when you know that it has been breached, you know that there are significant exploits in the wild, and you don't know the extent of the damage? Not removing them would destroy user trust in the security of the browser in general.
They have put out a statement[1], although it's in Dutch. Assuming Google's translation conveys the gist and tone of it, they seem more irritated that the browser vendors are removing the root certificates than anything else.

[1] http://www.diginotar.nl/Actueel/tabid/264/articleType/Articl...
Why are you measuring your level of success in uniques per month rather than dollars?

How many dollars are you pulling in? Does it cover your costs? Do you think that more hits per month would be enough to make it cover your costs, or do you need to rethink how you're bringing the cash in?

edit: Don't worry too much about a drop from July to August though! I know it's disappointing, but you can't start thinking that a single setback is a trend.
There was a live press conference on Dutch TV a few hours ago (“this broadcast is being interrupted…”) stating pretty much what’s written in this article:

An audit revealed that the government certificates may have been compromised and thus these have all been revoked. The government will take control over DigiNotar and will quickly replace all existing certificates.
These things live and die on the communities they create.
Was the Socratic method ever a good idea?

Doesn't it only work in contrived, scripted debates against an interlocutor who seems to spend most of his time saying "Yes surely Socrates that must be the case"?
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Lucky Dragon Nanofax!

Darnit, now I have to re-read the Idoru chain of Gibson books again...
The answer is because the network isn't a self contained system. Network sites get traffic from other sources (Facebook, twitter, Google). So let's say Site A gives generates 1 click. Site B and Site C get lots of traffic from Google, they have the supply to send to Site A two visitors (through impressions and CTRs).

It's not a bad system, and of course will depend on network effects so the more sites that join the network the better. But resolving the chicken and egg issue at the beginning is always the big problem.
I complained about similar problems, particularly with a multi monitor setup. Then I really dug into behaviors and tore tabs off into new windows. Productivity bliss!

There's a very good video on behaviors from wwdc if I remember correctly. Go look at the session videos, it was very helpful.
We've bootstrapped Stormpulse for years. Even if we take outside investment, I will still acknowledge our start as bootstrapped. At that point we would no longer be "bootstrapping" though.
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There are 3 major CAs: VeriSign (47% share), GoDaddy (23%), Comodo (15%). So would they remove VeriSign or GoDaddy? I really doubt that, those CAs hold way too much of the market. I guess the question is: would those big CAs make the same mistake?

Relevant quote: "This is a nightmare scenario. You have to trust the companies selling these certificates and if we can't, then all bets are off." —Mikko Hyppönen, head of research at F-Secure
I wouldn't change a thing. This is awesome. I will be using this to consistently improve my language. With the amount of content I read online, improving a skill at the same time is an added bonus that I think is awesome. Curious how you will monetize.
Don't worry I'm sure some bean counter crunched the numbers and they decided it was an acceptable risk.

I mean, if you want a fully functional pirated version that doesn't expire every 30 days and you never have to activate you don't exactly have to look very hard, or far.
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How soon before state governments start claiming that these lockers are a physical presence of Amazon's retail operations?
Not only will they make mistakes, they already have.
Great point! Illustrates just how we're still living with the implications of just how the first extremely undemocratic reality of 'code as content' – first encapsulated in program devlopment, then going through a slight democratization route regarding computer usage through the Macintosh, and moving on through the html web – still is playing out.

One can at least see that the path-to-market of content has been democratized with the web over time… and the App stores/'App paradigm' are also helpful in making it possible for more to program.

I think a big part of our dilemmas have had to do with how isolated and abstract programming and development have been compared to mainstream society. A relative 'mainstreaming' of programming is still an incredible thought – yet it is happening right now!

Whatever happens to our present jobs, I can't help but think that the infusion of new programming talent is about to create a new reality – a wave that could lift a great number of us – given appropriate channels for us all to contribute so much more than regular business logic programming - and us people practicing and getting ready to catch it!

(over the top eh? :)
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I've had an HP-16c for 20+ years. Bought it new. I've been a programmer all that time, and probably used it about a dozen times. Unless you're a collector, there is no point to it.
If you shut down one of the big boys like VeriSign you might as well shut down the Internet as far as someone like Amazon is concerned, since VeriSign issued their SSL. The entire ecommerce world would be at Challenger-level rationalization, in essence, "How do you know it will burn through the O-rings? Since we don't have enough evidence we can't shut it down!"

I think it's much more likely that lacking any evidence of widespread active fraud, ecommerce would simply go on as usual but with more trip wires to detect fraud and perhaps delayed payments to reduce the chance that money from fraudulent transactions would make its way to the bad guys. And of course, they'd switch out all the certs ASAP. It's a chance merchants and banks would be willing to take, I suspect, and sort out damages in court afterwards.