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You quote me saying the correct thing about inflation, then you provide an example that is consistent with what I said, and then you claim that I am ignorant.

All in a thread where I responded to someone who lied about what I said, and pointed out that I didn't say that at all, and in fact, I said the opposite.

But what I actually said does not matter to you, or others commenting here. You're dishonest, and a perfect example of why HN sucks for trying to have a worthwhile discussion.
I so LOL'd when someone in the webinar pointed out that their measurement wasn't a vector so their paper should be titled neutrino speed not velocity. http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4897
Great story, it really highlights the lack of strategical thought in a product, and how the non-engineering "decision making" teams can just spin their heads around not getting anything real accomplished.
Sorry to hear that! Sounds like time to look for a new job as the best of days are behind you now.
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Wow. That took forever to load (the first time), then locked my browser for about 5 seconds.

I can't help but think that one of the things that catapulted Google early on was the quick load times and simple entry point.
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I got a kick out of the "Help us get featured on:" section. My first reaction was, "How on earth did they get onto... OH. Clever."
Great links, Reg!

That said, here is good opportunity to prosper on other peoples' platforms, but diversify.
All true. But to be fair, you're praising the easy stuff. This is one of those one-in-a-career, truly groundbreaking results. They don't have to sell it. They just write it up in plain language and it sells itself.
Very disappointed to see that this is all still routed through the Chrome App Store. It kinda defeats the vision of "the open web" if we're forced to use unfederated app stores.
You put words in my mouth and then you characterize me. This makes you consistent with the rest of the commentators. This is why you can't have good discussion on HN.
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Oh, man. It must feel good to say it.
If there is no difference on the syntactic level between owning and non-owning pointers, like in Go programming language, like in Python, then I agree with you - it's extremely easy to make a cycle.

But if there's a difference between owning and non-owning pointer, then backlink to parent object in child object could be non-owning and other issues could handled in similar manner.

Cycle detector which stops the program with references to the source code where the cycle was created - is a good idea, because in server systems under heavy load it just could be disabled. Basically it's a debugging tool, once it was proven by the testing that there are no bugs, these checks can be turned off in production. Like a C assertion checks.
More info: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110922121407.ht...
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I met a guy at a startup related meet up here in Chicago. I shared my story, and he liked it. It turned out that he was doing some writing for The Startup Foundry, and he said that he'd love to interview me (I had pitched TSF before and received no response).

E-mail is great, but face to face interaction has always been way more effective for me.
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sure, i agree. i just think things like weak names, hungarian notation, brace preferences and lispy one-liners have no objective impact on the complexity of a system.
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If there isn't an open regulated market for Facebook shares how are we sure it isn't some shell game?
The story broke on the 12th but the name was registered on the 9th. So someone with the knowledge of the shirt (either Mike, a friend or (the guy at the tshirt shop) decided to register the domain. Because of the whois privacy it's impossible to tell at this point if Mike registered the name or not.

This story appeared here on 9/15:

http://domainnamewire.com/2011/09/15/michael-arrington-unpai...
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Those scientists with their caution, pah! They just want to keep the time-travelling deloreans to themselves ...
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The context of that is entirely different than a "do we need QA" context. "Think and Analyze" is an abstract philosophy, not a process for engineering.

I'd say that if you have a T&A team it would be great to measure and publish your defect rate. Of course, if you just have better than average coders, then naturally your defect rate can be low.

But even a low defect rate does not preclude having a formal QA process. Even the best coders in the world can ship the wrong product when the specifications are wrong.
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It's not just about emotions. It's the next frontier. Don't you want us to get there first? It's also a great investment, it creates jobs and develops technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone.
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Sharecropping is kind of a weird analogy to use here.

In farming, sharecropping is the low risk way to grow your business. It is the landlord that takes on much of the burden if the crop fails. But with small risk comes small reward.

In technology, "sharecropping" is the high risk venture. The landlord here assumes no risk at all if your application fails. The burden falls squarely on you. However, with the high risk, if you hit it big, the payoff potential is huge.

So while there are some parallels, from a business point of view, working with someone else's platform is nothing at all like sharecropping.
Paul DePodesta, the subject of the film Moneyball, actually spoke two days ago at the O'Reilly Strata (big data) conference in New York.

http://strataconf.com/summit2011/public/schedule/detail/2165...

So you can get his insights, straight from the horse's mouth, in a talk aimed at data geeks. For me, one of his main takeaway points was to question your assumptions. Always ask: "If we were to start again today, would we do things this way?" This exercise is used to tease out entrenched biases that you might not normally examine.

Because it was a keynote address, it should be publicly available on the O'Reilly youtube channel in the next few days, if not sooner: http://www.youtube.com/user/OreillyMedia#g/c/2543D0F253DD85C...
Yeah, I'm begging them to take it down at this point. I do think wiki editing with notifications would be one way to do edits of something people signed. But yeah, still not practical.

They did have a "review before publish" page that I accidentally clicked right through (the "Oh crap" moment). I wonder if you can share it in a limited fashion to get feedback on the language from that page?
Hmmm, I would think that 2:02pm is one of the best times to start ticketing.

1. Kids are out and about during this period. There aren't as many of them, so that's the time when drivers are more likely to miss them.

2. Drivers tend to drive the speed of prevailing traffic. By slowing down traffic at 2PM, you're slowing down the traffic, and that effect will persist for a little while at least.
Very cool. Science fiction without the fiction. The only thing I'm worried about now is the introduction of thought police.
Were the results of last year's survey published? I never looked that up.

EDIT: Apparently, they were published here[0]. I can't open the site right now, though.

[0] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitSurvey2010
You can look out for yourself without lying, cheating, or backstabbing others. You can operate as a moral, ethical person, and not have to mislead people, or break your promises.

Looking out for yourself is not the problem, dishonesty is.

This becomes a bigger problem when dishonesty becomes part of the culture.
I'd love to hear more about your apps if you're comfortable with sharing the information.

Background: I've been working for a couple of months on a Facebook Page app called FanBldr.com and I've found it fairly difficult to operate.. it's hard to get feedback from users, Facebook is always updating the platform, and I'm not even sure what percentage of my users will upgrade to paying once I drop the paywall bomb. I find traditional web app development easier to manage and operate in the long term.
Not a founder, just a dude. But I've built Dayta, Color Stream, Gumroad, and more by myself. Dayta has a few hundred thousand downloads (many paid), as does Color Stream. I made enough in around six months to sustain me for the next 2-3 years. I'm now going full-time with Gumroad.
How does it work? Do users provide a buffer and the kernel fills the buffer with data and notifies the user when ready?

That is more akin to AIO Linux system, then? Otherwise, epoll/poll/select just notifies users when data is available but the actual copy is done by the user. Surprisingly this can make a huge difference when streaming large amounts of data.

http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/11/12/lighty-1-5-0-an...

We have argued here before and I have gotten downvoted into oblivion for being pedantic and distinguishing between asynchronous IO and non-blocking IO but it looks like that extra user-space memcpy can make a huge difference.
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Not based on the linked article, which is horrible. I gave up when it was simultaneously trying to claim that the ether exists but space can have no properties.
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Do they at any time say how much faster than light are those neutrinos moving? 1% faster? 100 times faster? I couldn't see that info anywhere.
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It means that I (the dev) will have no one at my back.

Everyone should always code and test their code like that, right?
Don't let that be an excuse (I'm trying not to :-) ). There are plenty of travel bloggers out there with kids. They've all found ways to make it work.

http://unstoppablefamily.com/ is one example
This is not endemic to Facebook. It applies to any platform. Apple, eBay, Amazon, etc.

When you build a business on their platform, you don't have a business. You have a product on their platform and it is their product. They are simply taking a hands-off approach and reaping the benefits. They can shut you down at any time and they will, when it suits their interests.

That is the key here. That conflict of interest. Most of the time, it isn't an issue ... but when it comes to the surface, you will be thrown under the bus.

Also, the customers you think you have ... they're not your customers. If you went to a different platform, those customers would not come along. The customers, they are their customers, not yours.
Be that as it may, it wouldn't be the first time a scientist messed up the PR game. Galileo springs to mind.
Question:

When you're doing QA on a product, do you worry about border cases? I found quite a few bugs related to time syncing and inadequate safeguards in a project I worked on - but they were difficult to reproduce without a macro.

I'm still not sure whether people were happy or angry with me, for reporting all those bugs.
I started with including bootstrap linked from github to try it out and ended up keeping it. Ended up writing an entire weekend project in it. It's a great way to simply organize your site and keep it looking nice.

If you're a themeforest person you can totally use bootstrap to override for better form elements and still enjoy a decent theme.

It's seeing a lot of nice updates regularly too, which is nice. I was really happy to see the drop down menu on the menu bar.
Awesome job. Regarding Color Stream, is this intentional?

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That is awesome. I'm hoping for a similar post in 6 months! Congrats on living the dream!
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I agree. If you feel what you have to say is important enough for other people to read, put some time into shining it up, and making it readable.

Otherwise you leave yourself open to criticisms like: "If he can't execute on the small things in a blog post, then no wonder Silverlight is dead" etc.
I'm British, currently working for a startup in NYC- while I'm here I can't start my own company without significant difficulties, and I'm even having trouble transferring between jobs (my degree is not in computing, immigration appear to not like this).

So I'm seriously considering making the move back to the UK. I'm hesitant, because it seems like the startup ecosystem here is just so much more developed. Has anyone spent a decent amount of time in both areas that could give an opinion on whether it's worth doing?
+1 Always love to hear about (real) app success stories, and folks who have found a way to make it a sustainable business (and not just the one hit wonders of 3 years ago)
I definitely sympathize with the story - that just flat out sucks...
but...
Making a "feature" product is always a bad idea, IMHO, for reasons even beyond the ones the author points out. You should never build a feature for a product, if history is not a lesson on its own - very few of them make a successful exit. At any point, the company might decide they can do it better than you or it would be cheaper to build the feature than acquire you - or, most importantly, your hacks and external servers might not mesh well with their vision of an integrated platform.
I was fortunate to have Gerry teaching my section of 6.031 (the predecessor of 6.001). I remember a story he liked to tell about why he thought Marvin Minsky was very smart. Gerry was building some kind of connectionist system -- a neural net or something, I don't recall exactly -- and mentioned to Marvin that he was initializing the weights randomly "so it won't have any preconceptions". Marvin replied, "Of course it will have preconceptions! You just won't know what they are. "
I don't have anything to add as an example but I want to say I really found this thread inspiring.
Content of the article: Charlemagne was not a Neuroscientist.

Thanks for writing a blog post that tells me something I already knew by appearing to tell me something I didn't.
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Mozilla is doing federated web apps[1] although it's a bit half-baked at this point (not built into Firefox, requires a rather large not-minified js library). Google should really be contributing their experience with CWS to that project.

[1]https://apps.mozillalabs.com/
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I've been eyeing Seaside for a year or so but have never found a really compelling reason to take the plunge. It would've been nice for the article to give pros and cons of both, instead of simply pointing out that it exists and what it's written in.
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This looks like great work. Does anyone know:

* Approximately how much work it would be to port this to another Python framework (e.g., Flask+WTForms) from Django?
* If something like this already exists in Python in a more framework-agnostic form?
This situations represents a failure to understand economics. From the moon race to the period of the XPrize, and even after, NASA and the FCC has stymied private access to space. It is hard to test a launch vehicle if you can't get a launch or even testing (e.g.: static firing) permits. It is hard to start a space tourism business if the person developing your vehicles is barred from showing the CEO of the company the designs (as happened to Virgin Galactic for a couple years because Richard Branson is not a US citizen!)

This should resonate really well with anyone building a startup. A startup is a money engine. You find something that is profitable, and you invest in it and grow it.

You can go out and spend a lot of money doing things the manual way, but if everything pretty much stops when you stop spending money, you're not really investing in a sustainable business.

This is the case with NASA and a lot of government programs. We were spending a lot of money, but we were not building a space industry... in fact, because government bureaucrats saw space as a competitive advantage (NASA, for instance, long enjoyed easy funding from Congress) they worked to stymie private interests that might show them up.

It is great that things are changing now. We have SpaceX building launch vehicles. Virgin Galactic will start their business any day now (hopefully, though remember how congress wanted to shut it down because it might not be "safe"?) Jeff Bezos is doing something off in the desert of west texas, and even John Carmack has a small space business.

But we cannot ignore the legacy of hundreds of billion sunk into NASA on unsustainable programs, and quirky launch vehicles designed to meet bureaucratic needs, such as to at least have one component of it built in each of the 50 states.

So, the news that NASA is in an "embarrassing" state to me, is good news. I say this, because I would very much like to see Humans have ready access to space.
Neat project, I just got done doing the 10K Apart contest and this would have saved me a lot of resizing when testing different widths!
While I agree we need QA (today), I would like to see different expectations.. Expectations that over time we will need less and less QA work.
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It's a dual edged sword and I love it. Chrome is pushing Firefox and IE in extreme ways, yet Mozilla remains a more authentic and open "beam of light". I love seeing them compete and I'm hopeful that as w3c "web app" manifest, etc specs are fleshed out that they come to Chrome in the more open fashion as well.
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I'm actually a little sad to see the demise of web plugins. Unity, multi-file uploads, webcams, voip, decent video, sockets, and many other web technologies first appeared in browsers via plugins. Then, once they're popular enough, the major browsers might incorporate them.

Will browsers be able to keep the innovation up without plugins as a playground for testing new ideas?
I'm betting its a consultancy that fills up IT positions in big companies.....the hiring business is one of the easiest ways to make money!
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Just wanted to comment that Seaside is not the only Smalltalk framework out there. If you're interested, you may want to take a look at the following:

Aida (http://www.aidaweb.si is a web framework that's been around for quite a longer while and includes very nice features like Ajax for free.

Also, Iliad (http://www.iliadproject.org) is a smaller, lighter, faster framework that also provides Ajax for free. Being small doesn't compromise its power though, it's being successfully used in commercial apps.

To top it up, you may wanna take a look at the latest thing going on in the Smalltalk web dev community: Amber (http://amber-lang.net), formerly Jtalk, which is a Smalltalk dialect that runs on top of the Javascript machine, so you're actually building your site from _within_ your site, live!

Just my 2¢ ;)
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No, it's not an attack on the PRNG in the usual sense.

One way to think about it though is that CBC mode "sort of" uses the previous ciphertext block as the output of a PRNG which is used to randomize the plaintext before it's encrypted with the block cipher. However, the way TLS 1.0 uses it, the attacker is able to learn the output of that PRNG well in advance of when it can be used. If he can choose some plaintext during that time, this adaptive chosen plaintext attack is made possible.
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I'm a french student currently studying Computer Science in Dublin (Trinity College), and I would like to know if you have some tips to find & get a good/interesting internship during summer '12.

For the record:
- I enjoy mainly C/Python programming but I would be happy to learn something else (like functionnal programming for instance)
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Just so I can read up, what do you mean by how firms are being operated and financed (end of the corporation thesis)?
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The guy who wrote this story should go back and reread it. He comes off as a jerk who will self-admittedly manipulate (in a bad way) in an effort to get what he wants. Seems exactly like the type of guy I'd hate to work with.

And on content, it's stuff like this that shows where he's at:

"A guy I worked with Joe Marini, tweeted about Nokia phone he was excited to hold in his hands. I like Joe, he was a nice guy and I have a lot of time for him and to see him get fired over a bullshit tweet about Windows Phone 7 and Nokia?

They should be firing Brandon Watson down, for failing to market the stupid phone not firing the guy who spent most of his days highlighting the positives associated with the product?"

Joe Marini did an ill-advised tweet about Microsoft's most important partner. I'm sure Joe is a great guy, but if you ever want to stop leaks, this is what you have to do. I get the feeling that he likes Joe and would keep him. When you're running the show you have to fire people you like.

And fire Brandon Watson? Last I saw he was not head of consumer marketing, he was head of developer marketing. And while Windows Phone hasn't caught on at retail, it's doing a really good job with developers. Again, it sounds like he has a personal beef with Brandon and would fire him based on that. The marketing problem with WP isn't developer facing, it's consumer facing.