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Yes, the dashboard / HUD could be a sweet mobile device if only manufacturers thought of it as a computing platform.

They could ship with a package manager (or "app store", what have you), and offer an API to the car. If they allow competition amongst app makers then usability standards should naturally increase.

Of course it would be necessary for car-makers to set high minimum standards of safety in app design, and to enforce those standards strictly.

I've considered starting a car company around this principle, but the barrier to entry is daunting.
I used to think kind of like you, until I realized that the rich people would also buy military robots. Then they could defend their land against revolutions for free. Sure, it would maybe be kind of pointless (although, maybe by then there would be "super golf clubs" that allow you to play really big golf ranges), but that doesn't seem to have stopped people sitting on lots of land in the past.
We deliver video content. We have a CDN that properly encodes and serves our content. All I need is to handle the HTTP requests for the "directory" of videos. A shared environment would probably be fine. All the 4GB servers seem to have most of their RAM dedicated to caching when I check what free -m gives me. Our physical disk space requirements are low. As I shift more of our content to the CDN, our bandwidth needs are decreasing as well (from 12TB/mo to 7TB/mo since I started optimizing).

I inherited this setup, so to me it looks like the servers are overpowered. Also, the customer service is terrible, which is the primary reason for wanting to leave them. I want a service where I can easily requisition and kit out new servers quickly in an "a la carte" fashion.

I have 3 servers running on EC2 already using micro instances. They're mostly to handle minor services (email list subscription/requeuing for all the web properties, payment processing postback handling, etc.) They've been up for nearly a year without any problem.

I've been leaning toward EC2, but I wanted to hear what else is out there.
You need to be a lot more specifc. Before or after taxes? Count benefits? Bonuses? Deferred payment? Freelance or employer? ...
This http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html has got the specs of the computer he used to calculate 5 trillion places.
Artificially reducing efficiency is of course stupid. However, I think new forms of wealth distribution might be required, because it certainly isn't a given that there will always magically emerge new jobs to replace the old ones.

Of course as an alternative to new forms of wealth distributions, people without jobs can simply starve to death. After a few years, there will again only be people with jobs. (I don't suggest this is a good solution, just that it is one reason there will magically always be jobs for people).
How much do I make? Sometimes, I simply can't put a price on what I do.

Two years ago, I was kidnapped by monkeys, who appeared to be in a trance. They took me to the top of the Swayambhunath Buddhist complex, in Kathmandu. I was told that this was the Monkey Temple. As a monk translated the wishes of the holy monkeys, I discovered that I was required to rewrite the OS of their ancient computer, which had failed to reboot, back in 1839. Since then, they had searched the world for a programmer competent to handle the situation. They were about to give up, as they stumbled onto me, and realized that I was the reincarnation of ChiChu Gomptar, the lead programmer for the CS monkey gang, which had served their monkey king, the creator of this computer. I was flummoxed by its design, as it was made of smooth stones, uniform beads, colored sand, and wooden levers inlaid with gold. I told them that I couldn't remember anything from my past life. They gave me something to smoke, saying that it would connect me, through the eternal ether, to my previous memories.

It did, and after 25 days of extreme programming, of which I recall no details, I had completed the monumental task. I stood up, and ceremoniously dropped the special IPL bead onto the machine, which then awoke from its 170-year slumber with a mighty roar. The holy monkeys were pleased. They handed over a small golden box, with mysterious carvings. It seemed empty, and I was told not to open it unless my circumstances had become truly dire. I thanked them, both for the box, and for the tremendous experience. Unfortunately, I was not able to sell them continued maintenance for their new OS, but that was mostly due to their language not having the word "maintenance". Anyway, I have those memories, and this box to use when things go really bad, plus the always-present hope of future adventure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swayambhunath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Program_Load
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I don't know. I'd argue that

if c not in s: ...

is more explicit (and readable) than

if s.find(c) == -1: ...
I really don't feel this is the right approach to come up with a HN alternative.

Maybe Hacker News has it's issues but, even if it Lamer News were a better option I do not think that somebody mocking 'competitors' (even though to be fair that is not even close - as this new site is only days old - as compared to HN) is a 'leader' worth following in forming a new community.
I ran with RootBSD.net for a year or so, and I thought they were awesome. Sharp guys and good support. I even migrated a client's site over to them, saving my client a bundle over unmanaged bare-metal hosting and earning myself some credit for the referral. At the time, I think $20/month was their smallest package, though they may have a $10/month now.

I've had a few Linux VPSs under $3/month (posted specials on lowendbox.com). I agree with the article: don't expect the world for $2/month, back up anything of value frequently, and enjoy the too-good-to-be-true ride while it lasts. The performance is hit-or-miss, you'll find your VPS rebooted more often than you'd like, but for dinking around with an idea, they're perfect.

I'd even be comfortable using these cheap services for backup mail relays or DNS servers. Just don't forget the backups.

Most seem to support PayPal subscription payments, which makes them easy to set up and forget.
I recommend checking out KDevelop 4's PHP plugin, which probably offers the best semantic PHP support in an IDE on Linux (including 5.3's namespace support).
For my purposes I need a bignum library with an FFT, assembly optimisation, a bignum format based on full 32/64 bit words and the latest algorithms for performance.

If I don't want this to become a multi-decade effort I have to compromise somewhere. The particular compromise I make is that the library will initially compile with GCC only and will use inline assembly.
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No. University should be intrinsically leet.
I could buy one of these coins, then make a thousand coins with the public key of that one coin on it, with nothing inside the tamper-seal.

The moment I start circulating them, this now means that everyone who wants to accept these coins needs to destroy them, reveal the private key, and transfer those coins.

That defeats the purpose of the whole tamper-evident system - the idea behind it is so that they DON'T need to be redeemed.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ne/the_parable_of_the_dagger/

They are _not_ instantly verifiable without destroying the coin.
Strong citation, thanks! I'm not quite sure it proves your point, which seems to be that the sites are a gateway to criminal behaviour.

"Studies and case reports indicate that 30% to 80% of individuals who viewed child pornography and 76% of individuals who were arrested for Internet child pornography had molested a child. It is difficult to know how many people progress from computerized pedophilia to physical acts against children and how many would have progressed to physical acts without the computer being involved. It is interesting that the NIBRS data from 2000 show that most child pornography crimes reported did not involve a computer or the Internet but were related to photographs, magazines, and videos."

So while it's seems undeniably true that many users of child pornography sites are child molesters, I'm not sure that "stop at" has the right progression. I presume the more common case is that real life molesters are attracted to illegal sites, rather than that casual online viewers become criminals.

Consider applying the same logic to heterosexual adult pornography sites, which are also illegal in some jurisdictions. I'd presume that the majority of individuals viewing such sites have also engaged in adult heterosexual behaviour, but I'd probably assign the causation in the other direction.

As honeypots, though, the sites seem like great bait. But where's the line, and what should the response be. I've recently bought lye (for brining olives), sulfuric acid (for scarifying seeds), controlled antihistamines (for allergies) and looked at Erowid (for trying to understand SSRI's). How much intense police interest do I deserve for my "obvious" profile as a meth producer? Which, to be very clear, I'm not.
1. You don't. Standard practice is to log everything, and more than you think you'll need. If you don't want to see those queries, configure your log viewing process/facility to ignore them.
They are very close age; Both had jewish parents; Which were part of soviet intellectual elite/science. I can guess that the environment in which they both were raised is nearly the same.

Perelman's disenchantment is caused by his mathematical institute stupid old professors who didn't care about math as a science (i.e. way to figure out new things), only focused on art of reiterating same things over and over again. Which led him to think that the official math scientific community is dead. He said it in interviews.

It does not seem to have anything with "people like Milner".
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The advantage is that you don't need 1:1 ratio of tasks. You could have many mappers and just a few reducers, or the other way around.. depending on how the problem is broken up into tasks.
This is great news, well done!

The existence of FreeBSD and other 'alternative' o/s and software in general is more valuable than it may appear at first sight.

I would draw an analogy between variety of software and variety of a genetic pool, from which innovation and adaptability spring.
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The last version of BSD I used regularly was 3.2, and I've missed it since. Although, I've somewhat gotten my fix by installing via ports on MacOS.

Perhaps with this release, I'll try my hand at getting it to run on Ec2.

Alternatively, does anyone know of a good cheap vps that runs BSD?
Cars are a lagging indicator for technology in every feature that isn't specifically automotive.
What does Siri know about foreign policy?
In a slightly different sub-topic , i'd like to bring this up again :

http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_heywood_the_big_idea_my_broth...

Social webapp for complex diseases, helps patients communicate and share data/insight. Great inspiration.
The digits look backwards, but by storing the digits with the ones place first, they will line up with other numbers correctly even if they have different lengths.

Aka little endian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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>> Those ARE affordable to anyone.
>> jobs below a certain wage are illegal
So everything is affordable to anyone , and jobs pay too much.Those lazy whining plebs! how dare they protest ?
The mapper only has a small fraction of the data for each reduce key.
Does it make everyone who manages a high-profile international mining business unfair without trial? Because they are known to do the things you mentioned.

I'm not arguing just for a purpose of arguing. I'm trying to challenge your idea of "fair rules". If we would not find even one person in this subset who plays by "fair rules", (and you seem to imply there are indeed none), how do we know that "fair rules" exist? Who sets those?
A fair argument, but I don't see how excluding content without transparency is any better. At the very least you could let people know why or what is happening when something is submitted. Not all communities need to overlap and it's HN's decision for what goes here. Also, you'd be better off if your guidelines included some wording on this.

As for the competitors line, I was possibly confused by past drama certain threads that there was something going on with that. Sorry for any misinformation this may have spread. It might be to everyone's advantage to ensure that there is a proper way to communicate with HN to get someone unbanned (I am not with Nodejitsu but I'm sure they'd be willing to talk). There is good content on that blog.
"I must have a seemingly endless block of time at my disposal."

For me this is the most critical part. It's not enough just not to be interrupted. I have to feel like I couldn't be interrupted.

That's the great thing about programming at night. If everyone else is asleep (except other people who don't want to be interrupted) they won't even think of interrupting you.
Don't worry, that is what throwaway accounts will be for. Karma will accumulate in the system.

Maybe there have to be some mechanism in place that redistribute it from people that doesn't use their karma, though.
As of this year, I'm no longer a FreeBSD user. I've been a hold-out... finally converting over to Linux this year after years of denial. It was a very hard move for me.

The problem is that FreeBSD developers are still fighting wars of the 90's. By and large, with the welcome exception of Colin Percival (of http://www.tarsnap.com/ fame), they have not embraced virtualization. The only saving grace of FreeBSD is that it has adopted Sun's ZFS. This won't hold the fort for long though.

For BSD-on-EC2 see http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/
I just graphed the data: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/839/unledwte.png/
Doesn't really matter though because using argparse means an additional dependency on <2.7. In practice nobody really uses argparse atm.
Awful article. Others have discredited it well, but I wanted to comment on this plausible assertion that it makes:

"The market cannot accomodate everyone to be the best at something; in fact it is impossible by definition."

Actually, this isn't impossible by definition (think of an island with 100 people), but practically some people aren't the best at anything. That doesn't matter. Everyone has a comparative advantage in something (see Wikipedia for definition). This is because even superstars only have 24 hours in a day. The person who mows our lawns or picks up the trash doesn't do it because they are "best at it" they do it because they have the lowest opportunity cost.
From my perspective, it seems that you're taking too harsh a stance on this, of course though, you're entitled to your opinions. I believe though, that Mr. Ries is justified in calling this a movement, because of the pockets of people who have not only adopted these practices, but have built communities supporting the others' adoption as well. I find it especially notable that they're organizing and meeting completely separate from any urging from the author.

Regarding the substance of the book, from my perspective, I feel that the one requirement for a book like this is met. This would be enough structured advice and strategy to provide a startup founder with concepts to act upon, and improve their odds of success. As a founder myself, that's all I could want from a book, if I thought it would improve my odds by one half of a percent, I'd still buy it. All things considered, my greatest gains have been through the Lean community, not materials, but as an introduction, I'm inclined to believe that it's suffices for those new to the concept, and as a refresher, it's sufficient as well. (Again you are entitled to you're opinion, this is simply my differing perspective)

Regarding the pretentiousness of the author's grammar, I wasn't bothered and hadn't considered the implications of the capitalization or phrasing, due to my focus on the concepts inside book.
Couldn't it at least perform the reduce on the portion it does have? i.e. transfer partial reductions from M to R, instead of the raw map results? Presumably there are many problems where this would be a win.
Yeah, and not to forget, the free tier offer expires in November
I think RootBSD is the Linode of the FreeBSD community.
And thus begins the singularity.
The best Git explanation I've seen is "Understanding Git Conceptually" [1].

[1] http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/
Stuff like Blackboard uses Java in the front-end. It's terrible software.
Seems like using base-10 is a mistake- with a higher base, your bignums will be faster and use less memory.
WebGL, multi user art, draw on cars.
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Absolutely, for this reason it's much better to use the keyboard.
I don't see how excluding content without transparency is any better.

You can see everything that gets killed by turning on showdead in your profile.
Businesses are investing capital in automation rather than hiring people in large part because laws artificially inflate the cost of labor. The government keeps making it worse with things like obamacare. I'm pretty sure CVS would rather have plenty of cashiers rather than self-checkout machines, but hiring them has become uneconomical despite very high unemployment.
That's why they hoard the land, people can't create wealth and move up and be more productive without standing on that bottom rung of the ladder, which must be on defensible land. The only solution is the exact same process that built the great American society, give people access to land and then leave them the hell alone. All it ever took to build it, all it will take to fix it. Nothing else will work because nothing has changed but our collective delusion about what is required to create.
I don't think pg's trying to hide anything. It's presumably just a lot of work to maintain an up to date public index of blocked domains and rationale.
So it's not enough for the machine to pass the Turing test.

So what? That doesn't mean you can't build a machine indistinguishable from a human, except that you don't need to pay it.
Yes that's sometimes an option, but very often the reduce isn't associative.
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What recourse do Bruce Ivins and David Kelley have?
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Thank you very much - I don't understand why HN doesn't have at least a bar graph by default.
I think it's more about informing the person submitting. Most people who hear about this are surprised and had no idea. It might be solving the problem of transparency from the wrong end.
Edit: I was unfair to the author. The article clearly discusses Waldorf schools as a type.
I've actually had a pretty good luck with my $5 (base price $6) VPS I found on lowendbox. It has 512MB of RAM

Part of it is expectations. I know I'm not paying anything for this box, so I don't expect 100.0% uptime and the ability to run a high traffic service of which I really care about the availability.

I just need a place that can run cron scripts, regardless of whether my computer is on/online. And run screen so that it can download something that takes a few hours. And I do have a webserver on there, host some very unimportant things on there (like static versions of showoff slides from presentations I've given ... I'm guessing they get hit by humans once a month, though I guess I could check the logs), and occasionally I'll scp a big file into the web directory for someone to download.

The uptime isn't great. Pingdom sends me emails about it being down basically every month, but usually it's like 30 minutes. Uptime hovers right around the 99.9% that they guarantee. Sometimes pingdom monthly reports say it's a little less. I haven't bothered to try to invoke the SLA to get my month's $5 back, or whatever. For what I use it for, it works just fine.

If I were running a real website that I was invested in having people visit, I'd go for Linode/Slicehost/AWS/etc for sure. But this is the cheapest way to fullfil my needs for this box.
Simply killing submissions and relying on a lesser known profile switch on the users end is pretty indirect if not obscure. The submitter should be able to lobby to get something unblocked and to do that they need to know what happened in the first place. It's a pretty simple change to the process.
Hey, I still have genuine questions.
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We've been testing a new startup with a hacked together Tumblr, to simulate the app we're building. Because of this we've been monitoring our Tumblr traffic & interactions closer than most casual bloggers.

We have 300 followers right now, and I'm going to about 15% of our Likes are SPAM. A problem, but not completely overrunning the system. They seem to also be using Tumblr tag pages to find articles to like. Articles tagged with common product keywords like handbags, shoes, or a brand name get much more SPAM Like activity than other posts.

Tumblr does seem to be hiding the entries in the Dashboard for some of these, indicating that they have some sort of system in place for isolating spammers.
“Founder unfriendly conditions” do not compare to the way oligarchs operate and the consequences of their actions.

Much of the authenticity that comes through in your essays is based on being truly committed to the things you talk about. They are often controversial and authoritative (in a good way), but the possible discrepancy between what you say and what you do could easily undermine that authenticity.

Saying that other VCs do not care where their money comes from, does not make sense here. They are not judged as authorities on topics you write about.

Do you disagree with any of these points?

- You can use the profits from investing tainted money for further investments, but the money still stinks.

- The money that came from DST's partners is tainted.
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I'm currently a 100 pages into TLS. If anything, Ries has attempted to bring more scientific process to a historically religious field that achieves failure (successfully, faithfully, and rigorously executing a plan that turns out to be flawed) much too often. I would say he is trying to form a common language entrepreneurs can use to think effectively about entrepreneurism.
> This discussion will doubtlessly drift towards your claim of creating Facebook when it's unrelated to the rest of your solid argument.

Here, and at the intended recipients as well. "I invented Facebook" being thrown in to a formal letter is likely to drop it into the crank file (as will the "this guy also filed a bunch of complaints against colleges for having meal plans").
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Cool. My first impression is that this is also a good tool to get news on artists - because the first band I looked up was the Stone Roses; and I was gobsmacked (as the English say) that the first hit was of their press conference announcing their reunion. Big news to me, and way more important than rewatching an old video!
A serious bignum library wouldn't use base 10. I understood that he intended that you use base 10^15 or something like that. And even that was only by way of illustration.

A more standard approach when using doubles would be to use base 2^32. This is important if you want to implement a Schoenhage-Strassen FFT, which certainly makes use of the fact that the base is a power of 2.
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