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Was anyone else expecting that many people? I was very surprised. I overheard one of the ushers say something like 800. Does anyone know the actual number in attendance?
a CTO I can respect - one who writes code =)
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It's worth mentioning that the value of releasing a properly timed anonymous analysis report on a company could be enormous for a properly positioned market player. If you research a company, discover fraud like this, take a massive short position, then release the information you gathered to someone like Anonymous for them to disseminate, you could potentially make billions, depending on the liquidity of the stock.

In short selling, one of the great risks is that the company you have identified as troubled will not collapse during the window of time for which you have shorted it. Something like this would completely solve that problem -- and better yet, without any direct, traceable links between you as the investor and you as the research originator, so the risk of being caught on some kind of insider trading charge is minimized.
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Anyone else have their computer freeze when they tried to open up the link?
The ridiculous case of adding a script element
"You promised the free update in a different era, probably expecting different circumstances. Things have changed."

True, but not how he means it. Now people expect lifetime free upgrades from smaller software packages. There's no Instapaper 2.0, for instance, and probably never will be.
Social sciences, unfortunately, aren't generally amenable to experimentation at the scale we're talking about here.

Which doesn't change the fact that "proven through history to be correct" is a meaningless claim in this context.

You don't have to be a malthusian to acknowledge that the physical resources of our planet are finite and that our track-record of dealing with similar problems on much smaller scales isn't exactly flawless.

There's a long string of data points supporting this assumption. (And I'm sure that survivorship bias isn't playing any role whatsoever ;) )

At least you're adding the winking smiley yourself. ;)
can't get the damn contra code to work!
Nope. That's odd
Working as intended:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-am-error
Thanks for the feedback.

1) you can press any key to show rest of the text quickly. (not exactly on a flash always)

2) I considered adding a sandbox view on the same page so that user could make herself comfortable but decided against it, as I wanted to keep things simple. So this kind of restricted command set in the actual tutorial might be a nice solution; I haven't done it yet since it makes the flow non-linear; I might make the tutorial more interactive in other aspects, but it needs still thinking. Good point, anyway.
In the list of permissions requested publish_actions does not show up. Is this because it is not live yet for the general public?
I am happy to hear you like it!
This is awesome Bret. I'm on the Platform Marketing team and being able to dogfood Open Graph like this is really helpful.
Ah, understood - that makes sense. Thanks!
re. my "ring replication", sorry that was sloppy of me, but-you-know-what-i-mean :)
If I had to guess I'd say 3 reasons.

1. Nuclear is unpopular because of the Japanese Earthquake incident. Fair or not theres a lot of baggage that comes with nuclear energy these days.

2. Second, the regulation surronding nuclear is a nightmare. A plant hasn't been built in the US since something like the early 80's because of this reason.

3. The financing approach makes a lot of sense for Google. They can make a lot of money without building any sort of infrastructure.
I remember the Nike ads with the slogan "just do it." This strikes me like that sort of attitude. That being said, I presume he either understands the risks (probably the most fearsome is the shrapnel cloud should one of the engines break free or a propellor lose integrity.) and does it anyway. And I admire folks who are willing to do things even though it may shorten their lives (helicopter skiing always struck me as an example of this).

That being said, I'm suprised he didn't go with a Quadracopter type design. Probably not enough lift but even a hexacopter might be easier. And the software to control them is already available on an Arduinio.
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right but they're presumably attracted to humans via some mechanism, just saying I hope it's the same mechanism for which they're attracted to the nectar so that if the population becomes resistant to the poison by no longer being drawn in by the nectar, they are also no longer drawn to humans.
Incidentally, the theory mentioned on that page that his name is actually "Errol" is nonsense. No Japanese person would write "Errol" as "ERAA." If they did not intend "Error," then it would have to be some fantasy-sounding name like "Erah."
Will it blend? Yep, I'm pretty sure...
I am pretty much a die hard BBEdit user for the past 15 years, but I purchased a copy TextMate years ago. I think it would create a lot of bad will if 2.0 was a forced paid upgraded.

I think TM2 should be free for TM1 buyers via macromates.com, but cost full price via the Apple App Store.
More like the YC Mafia.

Biggest take away for me last night was the importance of a strong community. A support system that encourages risking it all to change the world. Oxygen to a startup.

YC culture seem to resonate with every startup that presented. Well done.
My thoughts exactly. The high center of gravity would have caused the thing to flip over and kill the pilot had it not been tethered (and close) to the ground.

For it to properly fly, he will need thrust control on each engine (either rotation of variable pitch), gyros, accelerometers and some brains to keep the thing stable. I'd also advise lowering the center of gravity (putting the pilot under the engine plane) to make things easier to the stabilization system.
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Yah, this will turn into the preview of what it will look like in your timeline once Open Graph officially launches.
Upvote for honesty at least.
I've seen this reaction when I advocate for Sublime-Text 2 (I don't use Text Mate as I want a cross-platform editor). Excellent FOSS applications exist in the space, but individuals may value what they get out of products that cost money.

To give an analogous example: You can get an old computer for cheap. Buying a newer computer might be still worth it - it really depends on what you're going to use the computer for. Paying extra money for the right tool for the job is usually a good investment.
As a user of Firefox since 0.x versions, I am happy FF still keeps up with nice updates in 2011 and onwards.
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Any chance of being able to delete issues?

I've previously opened issues as a test, assuming I'd be able to remove them afterwards. They're now permanently attached to my repository.
Love this.

I've been thinking A LOT about App Store Optimization recently. It's a big problem for app developers and, as someone who loves making tools for app developers, is something that I'd like to help fix.

We're (AppStoreHQ) thinking about creating some App Store Optimization tools, but we need more input from more app developers. If you'd like to learn more, please sign up (it takes 2 seconds and I'll keep all info private):

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Marx wasn't a socialist. ;)
My switch last year was exactly opposite, and I too am curious about this thinking.

The TM2 delay made me realize that I simply can't put my editor eggs in a proprietary basket. The way I see it, mastery of Vim will serve me with a solid baseline for the next 30-40 years of a polyglot programming career. While editors like TextMate and IDEs can create better user experiences in particular languages, nothing smokes arbitrary text manipulation like Vim.
Obligatory shout out: http://homepage.mac.com/rcareaga/diebold/adworks.htm

This is another interesting case to follow. Matt Blaze's work here is also telling (they found a bunch of software exploits). I wonder about the forces pushing electronic voting when there are so many issues unresolved. Perhaps Anonymous should elect itself President. That would wake some folks up.
Github actually supports SVN read/write support.

https://github.com/blog/644-subversion-write-support
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Danger never held the truly driven people back :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_the...

I would be very amazed if he knows the Quadracopter design. Same for Arduino.

One can think: If this guy came up with this without Arduinos, robot kits, HN and other social contacts, what could he have done if he had those? I think that's the wrong approach. I know of a few such mechanical tinkerers who wouldn't even have started building what they've built had they known more about the field.

Arhur Fry, the inventor of Post-Its has said that it was good that he was ignorant of the articles on that subject (creating the glue for such a product) because they conclusively showed that it cannot be done.
Actually, microlights of the last decade were built around 2 stroke engines originally designed for snow-mobile use.

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

My main concern is that an engine failure in that design is an instant crash from whatever height you happen to be at.
The possibility of them being the "same anonymous people" is inconsequential, and very unlikely. The very point of Anonymous is that anyone can be them.

(If that's even what you were asking.)
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Hard to imagine how deafeningly loud it must be.
But most people with malaria don't die. Instead they experience malaise and lack of energy (due to anemia). This causes tremendous misery and suffering, keeping entire populations stuck and unable to progress - but alive.
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I'm a Rails freelancer based in the UK and a company in San Fran offered me a contract on the condition that I come over and work with them locally.

I'm not a US national. I'm Irish and I am set up as a sole trader. (A sole trader is an independent businessman, not quite a private limited company.) Would it be possible for me to come to the US for 2 months and complete the contract? Is there anything I, or my employer, should be careful with?
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Even better: since SQL has a tri-valued logic (T, F, Unknown) it can assign "Unknown" as the result of a test against NULL. That means that `3 = NULL` is not true, but `3 != NULL` is also not true. If testing against NULL were merely false, then you'd have the bizarre result that

val > 3

and

not (val <= 3)

might return different results!

(I was just teaching this today in my DB class! Fun.)
Firefox reflects the general state of x64 adoption:
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The issue isn't that I'm tracked when I visit Facebook - that's normal. The issue is that I am (at least potentially) tracked when I don't visit Facebook due to your ubiquitous Like button.

That's the privacy-endangering activity that has resulted from your sheer size. Please don't pretend it doesn't exist.
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This is one of the most well-designed and interesting projects I've seen posted here. Considering you built it in a weekend, that's truly amazing.

What's your plan going forward?
You've gone from saying it's impossible to start a business in the UK to talking about some totally random list of 'top' IT companies that seems to have plucked out of the author's ass.

BT has a bigger operating income than most of the 'top' companies but somehow it doesn't count. But Verizon and China Mobile do?

What about ARM? You know, that Cambridge, UK company? We're talking about the hottest company in processors right now. That 'equivalent' that doesn't exist?

Oh yeah, not on the list.

Netflix is there, but Lovefilm isn't. Because....

Last.fm? Spotify? And they're just the ones I know about personally.

And, um, exactly where on that list is Microsoft?

Maybe it's a little US centric because maybe, and I'm guessing here, it's written by an American. Just a hunch.
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If TextMate 2 is great software new customers will buy the software. If TextMate does not come out with a new version, other editors like Sublime Text 2 will deprecate TextMate. If MacroMates wants to sell more licenses of TextMate they will need to be competitive with the other more modern editing software. MacroMates should hold to the existing contract that subsequent versions are free to upgrade to for TextMate 1. If they want to change that with TextMate 2 licences, that is fine. If you want to entice MacroMates to develop TextMate 2 with money write them a check and tell them what the money is for or buy a new license when the new version comes out.
Don't get me wrong...I'm using it, and I like it. I just don't feel I should have to buy the same product twice.
Personally, I started out as a Netscape for Windows user thinking Microsoft had no chance of catching up to a competitor as nimble as Netscape. IE 1.0 was awful (basically a rebrand of an outdated Spyglass Mosaic), IE2 was a little better but still grossly inadequate, IE3 was just fine, but there was no reason to switch, and IE4 was legitimately better (in my opinion) than Netscape was at the time. (Helped by the fact that Netscape 4.x was a bloated mess.)

There is plenty of room for reasonable people to disagree, but my conversion circa IE4 was not an outlying datapoint.
I wish there was an anonymous-browsing/app fork of Android for smart phones and tablets; kind of a full private mode. this way i would be able to navigate without fear of any tracking.
How well would they respond to enticements instead of demands? I'm thinking something along the lines of "get these new features for free if you upgrade to an HTML5-capable browser."
Perhaps because he wanted to support the developer now, and it made little difference to him as it was as good as buying TM2 later... not to mention the price was locked in at the price you're paying now.
Video really shows how scary that is. Doesn't seem like there is any "flight control software" considering the way it was trying to take off.

Still, pretty impressive considering his junior high education and limited resources.
You are wrong.

They don't kill as much as they cause malaise (from anemia), so people have low energy and grow less food. So mosquitoes cause starvation. Get rid of them and people will grow more food without prompting. You won't have less food to go around - you'll have more!
Thank you very much.

I don't really have a plan at all, to be honest. I don't plan on putting affiliate links or ads on it ever. I just wanted to put up a simple showcase of products for like-minded people. It's sort of my hacker answer to ThisIsWhyImBroke.com.
Actually, the point of the piece is he didn't violate policy, Fareed Zakaria changed the rules.

But he did lie to the guy from Ignighter. Later, he apologized.
The financing approach makes a lot of sense for Google. They can make a lot of money without building any sort of infrastructure.

Solar is more hype than anything, and it's good press. Is anyone making money from solar?
I've never been remotely convinced by cycle models.

Fourier Analysis shows you can model any curve by summing enough sine waves of different amplitudes and frequencies; so given any shape of any market over any time period, I can show a selection of long, medium and short cycles that will approximately match the market. But this will have zero predictive power.
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> The world has a long history of famines that show we quite often bump up against Malthusian limits.

Famine isn't caused by a lack of resources - it's a political problem. 87 million people died of famine in the 20th century, but none of those were in democracies. Source (though I haven't checked the numbers myself): http://markhumphrys.com/end.war.html
thanks for the informative link.
I prefer running stuff on heroku, but that's hardly a solution to the problem.
FSLR is profitable.
What's particularly nice about this is that there is a category "Tech Evangelism" that this can be moved to rather than just filing it as "works for me" or "not our fault" and washing their hands of it.
It's limited by my own preferences for how to interact with git, admittedly. I like going back down to the command line to actually commit things, so this is just handy shortcuts to common actions like log and diff viewing.

That said, if anyone feels like submitting a patch to add commands I've neglected, feel free.
Riak is Open Source. It contains a very complete platform. Riak Core is a dynamo style distributed system platform (not database specific), Riak Pipe is workflows, Riak KV is a KV database, Riak Search is full text search over that database. And there's lot of other stuff I'm not even mentioning (like bitcask, the logging stuff, etc.)

When you go to the Riak project on github, what you find is actually sort of a skeleton, that has as dependancies all those projects I mentioned above, such as riak_kv, riak_pipe, etc.

Riak ES, the commercial offering, is a superset of Riak. It has Riak as a dependency, and adds the feature of cross datacenter replication. I think the real reason you buy Riak ES is because you're wanting to buy support.

Riak ES being a commercial product doesn't make Riak any less open source, than Oracle Server being a commercial product makes Linux less open source.

Also, Basho is keen to develop users of Riak ES, and customers of Riak (who don't spend any money) still get some support from Basho. Basho has a "Riak ES for startups" program, which gives you a huge discount.

I'm building my business on Riak because Riak is open source. IF Basho goes away, I'll still have Riak. There's nothing missing from Riak that I need.

I figure if I get big enough where I want to be running out of multiple data centers, I'll be big enough to afford Riak ES, and if I can't afford Riak ES at that point, then I'll be able to build my own solution. (I don't think it would be that hard, actually.)
8.012 is a lot more interesting than 8.01
Hopefully Anonymous will use their new capability to destroy morally bankrupt companies, such as the financial companies that refused to handle funds for Wikileaks.
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Here's the article I mentioned: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/26/facebook-defends-gett...
Now look at the year's chart. That $1.48 was great, but it was probably due to the scare over the creditworthiness of the US - and now that that crisis is past, we're heading back to roughly where the Euro/dollar ratio has been for a couple of years now.

I get paid mostly in Euros, and my debts are all in dollars. That makes me emotionally invested, too, but it also means I know what the Euro/dollar ratio is doing all too well.
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yes i am using using ubuntu for 5 years now, and have around 30 users following me to use it; and I find it a good step forward for canonical to focus on desktop. Last week I tried, kde4.6, gnome3, xfce and gubuntu and i was impressed by all of them. I am currently using gnome3 and sometimes unity 3D version.
I was just about to update my installation, but it told me that my Roboform extension isn't compatible with v7.

How do you get to that information prior to the upgrade?

I've only realized extensions were incompatible after updating, because Firefox disables them.
No, congratulating your grandparents for fogging their streets with pesticide and destroying wetlands has nothing to do with the struggle against malaria in the third world. Americans do NOT suffer the third world's pain of mosquito borne disease.

DDT has an important role in mosquito control in poor countries, and a lot of technical effort is being put into helping them to use DDT in a targeted, efficient manner, i.e. in manner different from that for which you congratulate our misinformed grandparents.

But perhaps you'd recommend that the third world destroy their wetlands as well (more than they already are). Care to defend that remark, or was that just a cheap drive-by?
Isn't everyone moderate compared to Stallman? I mean the guy only connects to the Internet periodically for batch email delivery and curl jobs.
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>> instead of joining high-potential startups, engineers are founding mediocre companies. ... There are a lot of small teams building small ideas. ... Their deaths will be great for New York tech. [Freeing up money and talent for more substantive companies.]

It sounds like lots of VCs are are lemmings trying to do the YC thing without the requisite talent and judgement.

I don't think I necessarily buy the conclusion that a lot of failures in the web space will free up money and talent for (say) the enterprise space. It could also be that the talent pool in NYC is too shallow to support hundreds of startups. (You are free to consider the last to be SV hubris.)
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It would be nice if you published the results of your data, too? Unless that is forthcoming.

I'm not into giving away my data if I don't get some feedback.
Are you using a Chrome beta? I've found some of the recent betas to show only a black page when visiting any posterous blog.
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Very cool.

There was a thread a few months back with a few similar ideas along this vein. See: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=1988328

My one suggestion would be to add an "additional resources" section under the more hackable products with links to relevant GitHub repos or blog posts.

I know for instance a few people have messed around with creating their own USB missile drivers for Linux. Here is one example: http://www.lukecole.name/research_and_projects/personal/usb_...