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Had the same thought about Stargate.

"Sometime in 2009, Wallace started playing an online game called Prometheus, and in the course of the game he solved a math problem in order to advance to the game's next level. But unbeknownst to him, the problem that Eli solved was actually an Ancient mathematical proof that was procured from the Ancient Database, and that Stargate Command had created the game in an effort to find someone who could solve it."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Wallace
>I kept reading this and wondering why there was going to be so little improvement when dropping down to 22nm.
The new tri-gate transistor design is a big deal. With it and 22nm, Intel are literally doubling performance per watt in Ivy Bridge. That's staggering.
Ahh, takes me back, I sent a bug report to Google when I first joined GMail saying that most of it was in http!

They never responded.
Which part of it would you qualify as development?
It is not a luxury, it is a benefit of the credibility Mozilla has worked hard over many years to build.
Found this gem in the exit mail, which contrasts with the theme of the current blog post. Then again, maybe he has more clarity now than a year ago.

"Stay away from people who always have a conspiracy theory involving twisted office politics, unfulfilled Machiavellian ambitions, and unspoken agendas."
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Mostly hobbyists, but there are a few exceptions. For example, the Makerbot Thingomatic 3D printer uses an Arduino Mega as its mainboard. Makerbot had more than $1M in revenue in 2010.

I suspect that Makerbot sticks with the Arduino Mega because it makes their hardware hackable by their users, which is worth more to them than the reduction in parts cost (minus the non-recurring increase in engineering expense).
> Personally, I think the current Netflix stock crash has nothing to do with the subscription "loss" noise going around, and everything to do with the above (and other) competition.

I've seen this many times before.

The way it works is like this:

1. Insiders (both inside and outside the company, anyone with non-public information) known there are serious issues at play.

2. Insiders can't just start dumping shares (due to insider knowledge rules) without exposing themselves / future repercussions (SEC, lawsuits, prison time, etc).

3. Insiders wait for bullshit noise to go around... Such as a small fraction of users canceling subscriptions, Netflix raising prices, and media reporting that Netflix is now losing money even though they are making more now. Sometimes insiders create the noise via proxy (media contacts, websites, etc).

4. Insiders dump shares while pretending they are acting purely on "public information".

This is not something that happens once in a while, but almost 99% of the time.

Think of how many stocks have lost value due to bullshit news (a completely unproportionate response), and then a year later some real bad news comes out that finishes that company.

Red flag # 1 is unproportionate downward response of stock price on not-so-bad news.
Well said in the the keyword traction. That is actually the hardest part. But once we master it, the path will become smoother. Thanks for your advice.
Just for good measure: If you don't want to install an extension to inspect another extension all chrome extensions are just zip files so if you download the extension you can just unzip and see the contents.
"I find it interesting that the VMware-style hypervisors were originally implemented not using, but in spite of all the virtualizaton features of the CPU."

Errr, I've not directly studied this but I've read that the x86_32 architecture is particularly hard to virtualize, and that VMWare does it by rewriting the binaries it runs and Xen obviously started out by paravirtualizing the hard stuff.

You're second point speaks more to how horrible Windows security is than anything else, I'd say. The security conscious are more willing to do that sort of sharing in the UNIX(TM) world, but of course it started out as a classic time sharing system. And then Linux at least got seriously hardened by a whole bunch of people, most notably the part of the NSA that does this sort of thing (it's no accident a lot of SELinux is very familiar to someone who knows and/or studied Multics).

But all that said, separate VMs raise very high walls between parts of a system that must be protected from each other. A system with very serious real world security requirements that I'd providing some advice on right now is using XCP and separate VMs to help achieve that. Of course it helps that nowadays we have CPU to burn (and with caches bigger than the main memory of any machine I used in the very early '80s) and that e.g. 2 4 GB sticks of fast DRAM (DDR3 1333) cost ~$80. So I suppose this is in part a "if you have it, why not use it?"

It's certainly the case "that chip designers are lousy at developing what OS developers want" (see the 286, AMD's dropping of rings, the 68000's inability to safely page ... although all of these examples at least have been or will be fixed). As for "OS designers are lousy at developing what customers want" ... very possibly. It's certainly a problem that developing a serious OS is for almost everyone a once in a lifetime effort (David Cutler was famous for doing 3 or so). There's also the curse of backwards comparability, which has also cursed the CPU designers.

But it's worse than that. It's hard to keep the original vision going, and counterwise sometimes part of that vision is wrong or rather becomes wrong as things change. E.g. we all thought the Windows registry was a great idea ... and then it got dreadfully abused (my favorite: using autogenerated 8.3 file names as values, making restores problematic). There are some great and I gather correct screeds about Linus refusing to create an HBI so that keeping existing device drivers from regressing is ... a very big problem. (Of course, that a big competitive advantage for Linux as well, but ... not a very nice one).
It does, and, the only user there, by default, is the first user of the system - the administrator. Not all people use this as their main user.
Yet proteins fold in polynomial time in all living things.
Google's entire business is collecting data. What would make you think they're not collecting this info?
People cost a lot. We raised a bit of money, and about 80% of our budget is for salaries.

We spend a few grand a month on hosting and services, and all of that is less than a single month's pay for someone.

Computers and software ... unless you're using some very expensive software it's not even going to add up to 1 month's salary for a person.

Office rent etc is negligible compared to the people in that office.

It's not even a competition really ... one person can cost you more than your hosting, office space and computers and stuff combined, and you're probably hiring more than 1. You don't even have to go to extremes and hire a ton of people like silverbax88 mentions, if you're hiring 5 people that's 100s of thousands of dollars.
@wx77 - yes but that extension is a pretty sweet way to preview other extensions :)
If you're curious about the history of this topic, Dava Sobel's Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is well worth reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
This makes very little sense as presented, not to mention that I think it solves a problem no one really has. It's more a side project than a start-up. I'm not sure how or why money has entered the equation so soon. Hate to be discouraging, but I couldn't see this existing off anything but viral luck and some ads.

I don't use Facebook, so my experience of the site is likely to have been very limited:

"Let only people that" - let only people that what?

Done link - huh? Done what? I see no responses. If I click the link, I get an error.

Links off to Facebook? Why push your traffic away?

What are the icons before and after the phrase meant to do? The first one looks like a radio button which is very confusing.

Might be because I have ads blocked, but the navbar is illegible. I can't see any branding either.
Here's what he actually said. It's pretty clear:

2. No socialisation of losses and privatisation of gains. Whatever may need to be
bailed out should be nationalised; whatever does not need a bail-out should be
free, small and riskbearing.

And the next sentence criticises what was done.

We have managed to combine the worst of capitalism and socialism. In France in the
1980s, the socialists took over the banks. In the US in the 2000s, the banks took
over the government. This is surreal.
Since the presence on the homepage is given both by upvotes and comments, they are probably using these accounts to get more comments and get && stay on the homepage.

I guess pg will implement something against this pretty soon (just checking if the commenters on a thread usually only or mostly comments on that specific poster's threads and giving negative value to those comments should do it).
Any feedback appreciated! This is definitely a work in progress.

I have a lot of music enthusiasts for friends, and we're constantly overwhelming each other with word-of-mouth music and band recommendations. I decided to build something that felt like my Twitter timeline, but for the music my friends were listening to and recommending to one another.

It's been a private site for close friends, but we recently decided to open it to the public and submit it to the EchoNest's Social Music Competition (http://developer.echonest.com/devcontest/).

Thanks for checking us out! We're excited to hear what people think. :-)
If I remember correctly, this was presented at A2NewTech [ http://www.a2newtech.org/ ] a few months back (I don't remember which month). They had a good demo and I really like what they're trying to do.

I wish there was a little bit of a better way to do side by side comparisons between Google Street View and the submitted photos. I'd prefer some sort of side by side vew than the fade in/out method it has right now. I'm not sure I have any ideas on how to make that better, for now.

E.g.:
http://whatwasthere.com/browse.aspx#!/ll/42.278652,-83.73908...

Great job guys!
Yeah, but that's why so many companies in the Valley fail. They hire way too fast (and often they hire too fast because investors are pushing them to hire so it looks like they are growing like crazy).

As an example/comparison: I worked for one startup on the East coast in the financial sector that had about $800 million in backing. We were profitable in 4 years and still had less than 100 people on staff.

Compare that to Digg, which had well over 100 people on staff, with only $40 million in backing and much less revenue. There's no reason a company like Digg needs 100 people, or even 50 people.
How can there be so little swearing with php? That's all I'm doing when forced writing that language.
Love this type of stuff though!
So I understood what it does, but when I added my word it took me to a facebook login error page. I abandoned at that point.

You should let people contribute the words anonymously and then vote them up. Also, what are you charging for?
Yes, totally a fake
Interesting idea.

It's difficult to navigate when everything has a white background with no borders, and not aligned with each other visually. More standard design elements (submit button that looks like a button, reload link with curved arrows) would make the learning curve less steep, even if the language doesn't really make sense.

Also the need to log in via facebook is super annoying. I'm guessing that you're trying to avoid junk submissions? I'd rather fill out a captcha to do a one-off submission than to sign up to a site that I might never use again. If the site was really entertaining though - and it has the potential to be - frequent posters would be tempted to log in to get rid of the captcha.

As it is, despite seeing some good seed definitions, I quickly gave up after it asked for a facebook login. Look at your logs and I suspect that most others on HN feel the same way.
Compensation is irrelevant - if you bothered to sniff around a specific vendor's security and you discover an exploit then you really should disclose it. Such is the lore of white-hatism.

Sure many don't do the above, but the OP author is presenting himself as white-hat/legitimate.

And as informed users, we should consider carefully giving our business to vendors who don't go out of their way to encourage private disclosure --- a zero-day on a vendor is a zero-day on all of it's customers.
> Almost anyone can learn playing the guitar, but it takes a special talent to excel at it.

Curious about this notion of 'special talent' - So some people are just born to be better guitar players? Are you saying that something in the brain is pre-wired to be a better guitar player?

I'd say for a claim like that, you need a citation (preferably multiple).

In my opinion:
You can excel at anything you like, you just have to work at it (it helps if you do it when you're really young, as your brain has higher plasticity). Get rid of this "special talent" notion.
Are you aware of how much data collection agencies have on you? It makes Google look like a bunch of rank amateurs.
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Is it really the best idea to auto-play music? It feels like a web design cardinal sin.
Not too carefully, or you'll end up not doing much.
No one ever checks your signature and most stores have customer swipe pads these days, so it's not like the cahsier even touches your card in a lot of transactions.
Obligatory: and then there's Perl, which is swearing.
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In my opinion, the next 100 years are going to be the outcome of inventions in the areas of energy generation and storage. Systems currently perceived as futuristic such as solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, tidal will all become primitive in comparison. The results of expansions and discoveries will spill over into all aspects of our lives - however it will not start until someone picks up Fermi's work.

Just what the IC did for the last 1/2 of this century, and the spillover effect is from Apple to Groupon to FB, someone will figure a way to generate, move and store energy that will impact our transportation, how food is grown/produced, how we work and travel, how we share and present information, and the overall quality of life in the most underdeveloped parts of the world.

Wars will become more lethal and fierce, but will become narrower and be more targeted. If Steve Jobs were well, and Apple would have fired him again, I can see someone like him leading the charge.

The above is all speculative, of course, but this is what I think the next 100 will look like.
No, to quote from the article:

"The odds of it hitting someone anywhere on the planet are 1 in 3,200. "

Perhaps you are confusing "chances of any person getting hit" with "chances of you getting hit", which is not what the title says.
Looks like a good segway to my startup www.decideall.com (Honestly I have no connection to the OP!). It is an attempt to make Decision Making more rational.
Statistically, auto-pilot is a lot safer than a real pilot, so I don't see why a parallel cannot be drawn to surgery.
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> ... Architects, Test Designers...

The two examples you use, would have to be the best examples of 'waste' in the software industry.

I liken them to having someone on your team who is "The Debugger" where all he does is debug the developers code.

Developers should know how to test their code/app and should know how to design their app, and know how to debug their app. Sure they could 'specialise' one or more of these areas but they should all be able to build software (i.e write code).
Tou you and the author, stop being so damned vulgar.

Why can't I have a filter on this site that lets me trash articles and posts with vulgar words in them?
It's hard to get that deep in a couple paragraphs. But there is a longer version here:

http://paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
Normally I would definately agree with you, but in this case I think it's OK since that's the whole point of the website, I think?
Yes, there are car wash / detail companies at both of the nearby malls here (U.S.) and at our office building once a week. What I like about their plan is that it's a little easier for them to target people with disposable income. I imagine one in a Walmart parking lot wouldn't do very well.

I saw something the other week that I hadn't seen before. It looked like a personal trainer was working out a client in our office parking lot. He set up cones, heavy rope, some weights, etc.
Thanks for this great thread, zyfo.

Have a good day.

Real: Several reasons;

1) A way to get points to go over HN's thresholds. It's quite a good idea if you want to game HN to upvote selfish support/articles and/or downvote undesirable comments/articles. It's more possible to get attention to flagged articles, but risky because moderators will look at the content and strip away flag and the up/down vote powers.

2) Train the spam filter to like those messages. Unlikely, but attempted against email spam filters though (Look up 'unsolicited bizarre nonsense email stories').

3) People with nothing to say but really feel that they must say something even if it's not contributing. I gather the sentiment is that those people should follow the HN guidelines and spirit because there are those that fear the immature link aggregator plague (Reddit, Digg, etc). There's no help for them otherwise.
Can any of the legal eagles provide more context for how this is actually better for inventors?

It just reads like different loopholes and lawsuit strategies.
thanks for the comment -

i'm the ui/ux designer on the project, so if a cardinal sin has been committed, it's mine to pay for. snikolic makes all the magic happen on the backend.

normally i would totally agree with you - but the whole point of this site is to listen to music - and it's been paramount to us throughout the project to engage our users right off the bat. it's pretty easy to change tracks or stop playback if you don't like what you're listening to - but part of the fun is hearing things you may not have before. we haven't received a whole lot of negative feedback from our current users about this aspect of the design, but if that starts to change, we're totally open to revising the way things work.
This is simply not true. I work with quite a few of these reasonably qualified electronic engineers, EE's and managers who all love how fast we can turn out prototypes and concepts using the Arduino platform.
True that the platform itself does not go into commercial designs, but the ATMega168 and 328 chips certainly do and priced quite competitively at quantity.
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Snarky, but an important note:

Just because you do something, does not mean you're good at it.
Do you want to do a startup to make money or win a IQ competition?
How? The problem he mentions at the end of the post only applies to the currently logged-in account. If you can change root's password, then you're already root, and don't need to change root's password to gain access.
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I'm not sure there's as much of a culture of using version control among PHP devs (they generally just upload the new version via FTP) or I'm sure it'd be much higher..
I realize this post is a little tongue-in-cheek, however, you cannot use it to draw any meaningful statistical conclusions. This data makes no sense until you factor in the relative popularity of these languages on Github.
We don't know if PHP has little swearing because if it is a great language, or if PHP is rare on Github. Similarly, the reason Javascript and Ruby score so highly is most probably due to the fact that they are extremely popular languages on Github.
i agree to your first statement, but i won´t dismiss any organisation just because one member is a dumb-ass.

and honestly, the source you´re citing is a bit offside.

official statements are;
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js...

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js...

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js...

however, its a young party and until this they weren´t properly set up to deal with such a case. i can´t understand why they haven´t kicked him out so far but according to a current interview of a member of the PPs federal board this will happen soon;
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js...
I've recently also started learning RoR. For me, the best motivator is to have something in my head that I want to accomplish as soon as I finish the "learning" phase.

For this language, I have two projects - one as a "I just learned this, and I want to make my first app using RoR" project, and one as an actual product that will generate income. The first project is a pretty important part of my learning process, because I know that it's going to take a while to accomplish as I learn all the little things that I didn't pick up in the tutorial. However, hopefully that exercise will make the second project go smoother.

One particular problem for me is when I get to the part of the learning process where I have to deal with things I don't do well. I know that doing actual site layout takes me forever, as I'm a developer and not a designer, so I always end up dragging my feet at that part. If you find yourself quitting then, pay someone to do it for you. Seriously. Even if you're just making the project for fun. Consider that investment as part of the learning process... you'll be much better off having completed the whole project than if you abandon it in the middle.
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The real focus for web services needs to return to SOAP. SOAP is a truly contractual design that solvs many of the problems that have to be solved by hand in REST, do we use JSON or what to transfer the data? How about argument types? REST is like a nice way to express HTTP other than that SOAP was designed to and solves web service problems very well.
We had the same situation. My 11 year old daughter has had a Gmail account for many years and started using a couple years ago. Everything was fine until she tried to accept a Google+ invite and was locked out. Unfortunately this was more than just losing a few silly emails as this is her primary account for lots of school activities.

My wife found the credit card verification link and got the account reinstated. I wish Google+ would make it more clear or just disallow underaged accounts and not invalidate the whole Google account.
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I wrote a response to this (in defense of philosophy) a few years ago at http://jsomers.net/pg-philosophy.html.

And here's the yc discussion about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404707.