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I also like the technology potential - the question I am asking myself is what use to put it to where there is real demand.

Yes - it is a cloud SAN. And it could easily be bundled with a software iSCSI stack in a virtual machine image as a virtual cloud storage gateway appliance for private datacenters.
But for enterprise, I don't see the use case as primary storage ie. as the underlying storage for a DB. More likely as 'near-line' or archival storage where it is retained in a form that is readily mounted and accessible using standard FS api's for indexing, data mining etc.
As I've been focused on consumer, I haven't done enough research into the comparable cost against other archival mechanisms like tape.

When I built it, I guess I was inspired by addressing my own pain points: I didn't have a flexible, easily interfaced data protection system that automatically made sure I had a copy of my files offsite. Like having the equivalent of a massive offsite external USB drive.
I also wanted a solution that kept my files 'live' - rather than locked up in some arcane backup application image.

* Thanks for the feedback on the terms around security - will take this into account.

* Encryption is AES 256 on-the-fly - so it's encrypted before it hits local storage or remote storage - and it uses SSL for the transfer.

* The 256 Tb capacity is really just a way of moving the upper limit on capacity so that users don't have to worry about exhausting the available space in the volume - something that file-based solutions don't need to worry about. Users can choose whatever size volumes they want.
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You really think that republicans and democrats are two different parties?
(sorry for being sarcastic... I'm just frustrated with politics in US... It seems so corrupted beyond belief)
Have you seen http://www.nasuni.com/ ? It sounds like your product is very similar.
1. We can almost never be a registered broker for Bitcoin trading. There's almost no law regulating this market either. If you can't trust me now, it's all okay. I have never asked for trust. What I do is to write apps in the way that people feel trustworthy and reliable. If after, say, 3 months, my site grows larger with no known security issues, then the time will make it more trustworthy.

2. Not all people are doing long or short at the same time. Not all people are utilizing their margin fully at the same time. Not all people have active positions at the same time. We have a pool of money to make this possible.

3. Bitcoinica is not an Exchange. We don't match orders ourselves. The rates you see are inclusive of liquidity concerns. If there's excess positions, we trade them in Mt. Gox to balance our portfolio. When the order book is so thin that you can already move the market with your short positions, chances are the forced liquidation has already taken place. (Thin order book -> larger spread -> lower buying rate)
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I was interested, but when I tried in 2 different browsers, liking and then logging on with Facebook didn't work - got an ajax loading GIF and then nothing. Fail, they just lost me.
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// for a really long time
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finally {
// made a decision
}
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A couple of things:

1. I don't believe their site/demos are running the latest version of jQuery mobile (weird, I know).
2. Secondly, the resetting behavior can be easily handled now with the addition of beforechangepage by setting the current scroll position before transition and using $.mobile.silentScroll to update on page re-entry.
Hi all,

Convore co-founder here.

The company, Convore, is still very much alive and well.

However, we're currently working on a new, but related, product (https://grove.io/). We're still alpha testing it with a few users, but hope to have it out there soon.

Grove is a little more developer-focused, and my co-founders really wanted to work on a mainstream project. So yes, the Erics left Convore to start a new project, Can't Wait!, an iPhone app for watching new movie trailers.

That being said, the Convore iPad app by jazzychad is fantastic. jazzychad is a really smart guy and an excellent developer and I hope he has a great time working at Twilio (a pretty cool company themselves). I predict the future for jazzychad will be bright. :D
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> "but it also takes away an opportunity from other people who could have pitched in their place."

You don't have a right to a YC interview.
yes, they are in C# as well.
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I don't think Bitcoins will achieve prime status either, but not for the reasons you listed:

- Easy of use: this is mostly a matter of software, and I see no reason to believe it has to be difficult to use. With current proposals such as specific tags for websites and such, sending money can be made as easy as inserting someone's email address, the amount and hit "send."

- Unsafe for the sender: nothing in the design of bitcoin prevents the creation of escrow services. It's simply not an issue to be fixed by the currency but by higher level services, just like with other currencies.

- Pseudoanonymity: it's mostly a red herring. When I'm buying from a random Chinese 'shop' through Ebay I won't be able to sue him either. When I'm buying from a reputed shop in my country, I don't need to ask its bank to know who I need to sue.
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Some backup services are still running (cell, lights at freeway exits, etc), but it's unclear if this is graceful degradation or and power is still coming into critical services, or if their just burning up their batteries and generator fuel hoping the main power comes back.
I fail to see a correlation between an internal Apple policy, and the price of their products.
Well, that's a good challenge. As it so happens, I do do research for my Master's, although sadly, it's just evolutionary, due to me not being bright enough, time & funds. Fortunately for my graduation date, I don't have to come up with something seminal. :-) I am working on some parallel debugging technology for an XMOS XCore chip. It's mostly a rehash of techniques...from the 80s. :-)

If I had a really revolutionary idea, I would have dug up a PhD program to sponsor me and be working on it, telling it everyone who would listen. I don't have that class of ideas right now. Research is hard, and takes a lot of very bright people collaborating for years and creating a good tribal knowledge to come up with really strong results. The MIT lab is a good example, as is the Bell labs.

For an evolutionary approach, I would like to revisit the on-demand compilation to native code of dynamic languages. Getting Python/Ruby/Perl to compile native on the fly would provide an efficiency boost. (Please note, Steel Bank Common Lisp already does this).

Another needed research area is a usable and robust certificate authority system. Diginotar/Comodo-style hacks need to stop, ASAP.

Yet another evolutionary approach would be to work on a provably secure/levels of trust style system for phones operating systems (c.f. early 80s DARPA research).

A more revolutionary research program would be to revisit the WIMP metaphors for computer use. Review the early Stanford/PARC research and take a different jumping off point. I strongly suspect there's a local maximum of awesome between pure CLI and pure WIMP, and we've not gotten there yet.

A more ambitious (possibly physically impossible?) project would be to determine how to create massive WiFi ranges: single WiFi hubs that easily cover a mile. Determining how to create, say, 10Gbit Wifi would provide a very nice public good.

I've had good success working with CSP-style parallelism, and would love to see more parallel constructions that use it (c.f. occam). That avenue may be the 'normal' way forward for parallel code.

None - NONE - of the above technologies is more than a rehash of old tech.

SCADA systems are sickeningly insecure/fragile. I would fund heavy-duty research into how to put together secure SCADA systems (Protocols, operating systems, control centers, etc, etc), and have them be a straightforward upgrade. I suspect that satisfying the constraints of SCADA systems would result in some interesting new knowledge.

Possibly a distributed yet authoritative CA system would induce some groundbreaking algorithms relating to trust and efficient distributed systems.

Automatic testing, verification, and reliability analyses based on Software Contracts instead of HM typing seems like it'd be fruitful to me, but I don't know the state of the art there.
I'm curious, have you considered leaving the site online, but charging a small amount per month for personal access?

I'm guessing there might be a fair number of people (myself included) who will miss it, and it might at least provide you a little extra income on the side without too much effort or expense.
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I think stating it that way trivializes the amount of work that _has_ gone into lambdas.
There's been a lot of other, more fundamental things discussed over that 2-3 year period about their implementation; way more than syntax.
If you ever happen to find yourself wondering if copyrights are about to be extended again, just remember, The Beatles and Mickey Mouse will never be entering the public domain. Either of these events about to occur? Dude, you're getting an extension.
The health care model envisioned is essentially a replica of the swiss health care system—one of the best in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_health_care

It solves both the problems of free-market insurance by regulating and making insurance mandatory, and the problems of universal healthcare inefficiency and abuse by employing 10% copays on top of deductibles and competition between private insurers.
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Haven't seen that particular one - thanks. Nasuni is actually a NAS filer but yes, the underlying benefit is the same. I haven't seen a SAN version yet though.

I believe this class of cloud-backed SAN/NAS products fall under the umbrella of 'hybrid' storage appliances, acting as gateways to easily distribute your data from a private cloud to the public cloud - as well as accelerators by virtue of their caching capabilities.
What would be the advantages and disadvantages of making school available to those who want it, and denying both school and welfare eligibility to those who don't?

(A GED could still "reverse" bad decisions from teenage years.)

People don't want to give up on these students, but it doesn't seem we have much to lose.
In principle, absolutely. In practice, maybe.

If you defensively publish, the person who files the patent can still file within a year. If they learned about it from you, directly or indirectly, they are not supposed to do that. But now we're dependent upon their honesty, and their keeping sufficiently good records that we can prove that they did, in fact, learn it from us. People who'd be inclined to abuse that are unlikely to be honest, and are unlikely to keep good records of their dishonesty.
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OP mentions that there were other ideas in the running. Anyone know what they were?
I did this, but for a specific city service in Madison, WI. I built an API for the Madison Metro bus service that provides a nice web service for developers, but does ugly screen scraping behind the scenes.

http://www.smsmybus.com/api/
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Exactly.

Of course I wasn't asserting that in every situation you are able to choose the specialist you work with.

I was pointing out that public school parents have little to no opportunity to evaluate and choose their children's teachers and, understandably, this makes accepting a teacher's opinion carte blanche seem pretty unreasonable, even foolish.

Picking who teaches your children should be nothing like arriving in the emergency room with a bullet wound. It's not hard to conceive of a public education system where parents are given a lot more choice about the teachers teaching their children.
Ah heck, Mozilla really is a better organization than Google. That's it, I'm switching off of Chrome and going back to Firefox.
"It can be super costly to legally gain control of a domain that contains your mark (tens of thousands of dollars). And there is no guarantee you will win it back."

Why would you want to "win it back" in the case of yourbrand.xxx? It's worthless to a non-porn brand.

"My concern is that many people on HN are building brands, and the last thing you want is someone buying yourbrand.xxx and covering it with porn."

Why would this be a concern? It's not worth anything to a pornographer to, for example, register virtualmin.xxx and cover it with porn (except maybe for extortion value). I could see "google.xxx" or "twitter.xxx" being a problem, but in those cases, they'd want to sue for trademark infringement. The domain name is irrelevant.

"If you have an established brand, you almost have to buy the .xxx."

If so, it's a license to extort money. I'm just not going to participate in that sort of scam, and I don't think anyone else should, either. All the people that do are funding further efforts in the same direction.
She got fired because 1) yahoo is fucked and 2) she didn't do shit to un-fuck it, and in fact fucked them even more.
Yup. You're absolutely right. I should have qualified that. We had about the same number of "real" tweets out of the 200.
I wasn’t really aware that computer science went into research directions like that. It seems either like classic social science (in this case communication studies) territory or like business economics territory.

What approach are you taking when looking at budding and failed social networks? Did you do a quantitative study or were you looking for patterns in a more qualitative fashion?
I thought usenet would be a better starting point for how todo it.
Are you planning on making these available to the public at this price point?

I personally would be tempted to hang on to the $25 price point for non-profit/educational institutions, and sell them to the general public at $50 a pop.
IANAL, but to me it sounds like patent trolls can now patent stuff other people invent, then sue the inventor.

"The measure would switch the United States from the "first-to-invent" system to the "first-inventor-to-file" system for patent applications."
Stats are wrong..
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try { /* for a really long time */ } finally { /* made a decision */ }
My feelings exactly when reading the title. "CD quality" was great in the 80's and good in 90's. In 2010's it's certainly no high standard.
It's used as a starter. You start with a tablespoon or two of plain yogurt (containing live culture) and 1 liter of milk, then you get 1 liter of yogurt.

By the way you don't even need a crockpot, just heat the milk, put in the yogurt then keep it warm for 7+ hours (google it for a more detailed recipe).
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How can a company that's worth $8 billion need an injection of $400 million? Simple- it ain't worth $8 billion.

Can we please put a moratorium on pegging valuations on companies that are still reliant on raising funding rounds? We're not talking about a company that produces industrial machinery in large factories. We're talking about a micro-blogging website that's been in existence for four years.
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That's the definition of Go, but I've been using it, and I wouldn't mind at all writing a web backend using it. Its very pleasant and high level, despite having low level features. The static duck typing definitively helps.
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Sorry, but since C# 2.0 we could just write "new Thread(DoStruff)" or "SomeDelegate del = SomeMethod".
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The $28k could be more accurately called 'Kickstarter costs' since they promised those things in exchange for the $200k they got.
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I've found it just as effective to start giving them the resources to make their apps. Offer to lend them books and point them towards tutorials.

Nobody ever wants my books.
Company A buys software from company B to carry on its business. Company B does not become liable for the acts of Company A.

A9 and A2Z are providing software and/or services to Amazon.com which Amazon.com uses in its retail business. This is completely different from A9 and A2Z engaging in that business. They do not buy, sell, distribute, or ship the products Amazon.com does.

So long as Amazon.com maintains arms-length dealings with A9 and A2Z (which is trivially easy for any company with semi-competent legal counsel to accomplish), the ownership of A9 and A2Z is irrelevant to Amazon.com's dealings with California.
Thanks for the correction. I was at the UPS store the other day and this guy wanted to insure $10,000 in cash he was mailing to his nephew. He wanted to mail the cash to keep it off the record and out of the view of the IRS. The people working there said UPS and FedEx wouldn't insure cash. But, apparently the government will.
Surprised Alan Turing is not on the list.
Good luck, Chad.

A while back, I hit a point where I felt like my startup wasn't going to make it. I needed a change. I took a job with an established startup, and about a year later, I was ready to move on and do my own thing again.

This is a marathon, not a sprint, and you have quite a while to make your mark.
In fact, this is very common in Greek. The Turkish word "dolma" means "something stuffed" and it is what they call stuffed grape leaves. Greeks have a very similar dish they call "dolmados". The Turkish word for shoe is "pabuç" whereas the Greek word is "papoútsi".

Also, it's true that yoğurt is of Turkic origin. If you go to Turkey, you will find it in almost all of their dishes. It's odd, though, that Americans don't seem to know anything about any of this. I'm nearly certain that if this Turk would have sold Chobani as "Turkish Yogurt", we wouldn't even know who he was...
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Sad to see it go, but good on you for having a solid go at it. No shame at all. Something to be extremely proud of for seeing the entire life-cycle of a company from the inside...something you can't learn any other way.
Please tell me how you got it formatted like code. I tried a block quote and got italics instead.
Those bet terms seem really odd. Your bet is that within 3 years, there will be a distributed social network with at least 1M users? Am I reading that correctly?

Google Plus, which people aren't even really sure is a success yet, had 10 million users in less than a month. Is there some reason that you chose the number 1M as significant traction? If anything, those terms suggest to me that you're not really convinced it's going to happen.
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Piercing the corporate veil becomes easier the more closely integrated the companies and their management structure are.

Amazon can maintain arms-length relations with most of their subsidiaries because those subsidiaries are not part of Amazon's core business, and can operate semi-independently with little to no loss in efficiency.

Maintaining such a relationship with subsidiaries directly involved in the day-to-day operations of Amazon's retail business (maintaining stock, setting prices, making sales, packing and shipping product, etc.) would be much more difficult, costly, and risky.
Indent by four spaces.
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IANACS, but I think the time is right for new ui paradigms too. Here are my thoughts: http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/9325300749/a-different-kind-o...
And in 5 years perhaps it will be usable. It will take that amount of time before it will attract a large enough audience. It will also take some time to port necessary libraries. It also could end up like D and stagnant.
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" “Lol,” he wrote " ...

What has happened to journalism.
Good luck Chad.
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I can't even begin to imagine what Reddit would be like if Karma had a monetary value. Karma whore-ier I'd presume.
Actually in my experience low/nonfat foods have just as much, and usually more calories than their original versions. They need to load in more sugar to get a similar taste as the original. Sugar being worse on your metabolism than fat, you end up fatter as a result. Low/nonfat is purely a marketing strategy to convince people they're eating healthy while stuffing their gullet.
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I have already been using salted BCrypt since day one. I know how important security is.
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The "(RED) is mismanaged" meme is debatable, at best:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_Red#Criticism
No.

And many of the ones I skimmed can be set from various other GUIs as well. This is just an easy way to apply one person's set of preferences to your machine.
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These guys were in the same position...
Thanks for the feedback. We try to at least get a reply to everyone, could you forward me the email so I can see if I can find it? tekkub@github.com
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An rt interactive tool to teach people how to use regular expressions. Took a couple weekends, but was my first dive into AWS and PHP MVC frameworks (Kohana) too :)
Well, I don't want to be one of the "Oh god this ruins everything I've ever loved" people, aka the hyperbole crew, but ... seriously? I manicure my twitter stream pretty closely. If they're raising the signal:noise ratio, I hope they give me a way to ... I don't know, not see it somehow.
Nice to see pragmatism playing a role here. A big problem with Java has always been the "design by committee" nature of it where we end up with some theoretical best case that satisfies everyone's egos but turns out to utterly suck when used in practice.

From another point of view ... it's a shame we needed so many years to come up with "let's do it like C#".
Big deal:

new Thread(new Runnable() { public void run() {doStuff();} }).start();
"I didn’t get founder’s stock. It didn’t seem worth the argument at the time"

Apparently he's a nice, amiable guy. Regardless of whether you want to technically call him co-founder or not, it's sad to think how much he possibly missed out on by not negotiating more with Jeff at the beginning.

What I walk away with is, consider all scenarios when making a deal, and don't be afraid to negotiate for something better.
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For those who have a habit of saving .txt files to their desktop as reminders, notes, thoughts and random ideas.

It's also on the Chrome webstore, and it has found it's own little fan club there :)

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