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So you're saying it's wrong to copy your competitors, but it's okay to copy your competitors when a consumer survey says "people want your competitor's product"?
You can be an asshole and still have people love you. How do you think dictators typically operate?

No clue about Steve as I never met the dude. But you're implying that just because he is able to turn a hefty profit and that people liked him means is proof he wasn't an asshole.
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Not exactly building factories. The facility where they're doing the Karmas has existed for half a century, surviving on whatever specialty manufacturing it has been able to find (e.g mostly Porsches for the last 15 years or so, I think some other sportscars before that). In the news once a year with gloomy reports about how they might lose their current contracts in a couple of years, and don't have anything else lined up yet.

So not exactly a case of a ballsy decision from Fisker to build a new production plant in that corner of the world, but rather having exactly the right kind of factory be out of work right at the time Fisker needed it.
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A cynical perspective: schools are prisons, and some lower income gang-joining students are criminals. An extra hour in school corresponds to a criminal spending an extra hour in prison instead of out wreaking havoc. The next question is forcing such students to stay in the school to begin with...
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I use feedly for my news, and from their website I usually share content with my circles.
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I do wish there were more Hacker News meetups on Eastside, though ... getting over to Seattle is a bit of a drive, and compared to Bellevue and Redmond, hellish traffic and roads.
The page itself seems to resize pretty gracefully with one exception. Between a width of about 800-950 for me on Firefox there is a fairly sizable amount of empty space (about 750px) before the page content starts.
Wuala, so much better..
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What do you do when you get more data that fits in disk?

You do the same with memory, either you buy more RAM, or you distribute the data across multiple hosts (that is what we are trying to do with Redis Cluster).

The whole point is, what order of magnitude is my data? Is memory a big enough storage for my needs?

For instance for Lamer News you can store many millions of news and comments in 1 GB. So it makes perfectly sense for this application. For other applications you want a mixed solution where fast meta-data is stored on Redis and larger documents on disk in some other database. For other apps you need Cassandra and nothing else, and for other apps a good SQL database. It depends, as usually :)
I think there's a pretty substantial difference between touch as defined by the Apple iPhone and "touch" as defined by Windows Mobile 5 or BlackBerry OS 4. Do fingernails and styluses really qualify?
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It says, right at the top, that it requires at least Firefox 5.
> This application is designed to hold a lot of news and comments even using little memory.

Can you post some benchmarks on that? Would like to see how many (average sized) news/comments can be stored on the 512mb VPS.
Asking that question would lead to in-fighting since everybody would have a different take on Steve's opinion.

"What would _____ do?" is a great movie line but it hardly ever works in real life.
Good point, Josh! Since this is my first start-up school, I guess I'm not sure what to expect yet. I'm sure there will be a lot of impacting founders stories and hopefully my questions will encourages a new set of insights.
Here in Australia kids get 6 weeks off in summer, plus 2 weeks in autumn, winter, and spring. This seems much more sensible than getting everything off over the summer.
Really? Do you think making an OS (Mac OS X and iOS) and all the hardware designs of their dozens of products (remember airport express, iPods, macbook air, etc) are all "easy" to develop? Mac OS X and iOS are based on BSD, but they have been hugely modified. In fact, the kernel is far from BSD now, and they release it as open source Darwin -- it has influence from other OS'es as well.
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We are currently using Lua in an embedded system to define user interaction. The embedded application is a rather complex thing with a screen and a few hundred buttons, LEDs, encoders and faders, so user interaction can get messy. It all has to run on a single Blackfin processor.

Hence, there are serious memory constraints and processing power is very limited, too. But tell you what: Lua (no jit) does just fine.

User interaction is pretty complex. Most buttons have different functionality depending on context. Button presses can result in the screen content changing, LEDs changing, even motorized fader movements... More often than not, several dozens of hardware elements have to updated as a result of a single button press. Implementing all that in C++ would be a mayor pain.

We implemented a minimal framework in Lua that just barely looks like an object oriented system. It gets called with updates from the hardware ("Button A has been pressed") and responds by sending similar messages back ("Move Fader X to position Y"). Wrapping all that in some kind of convenient object system only took about 100 lines of Lua code. Interfacing that with the codebase took about 200 lines of C++ code.

We also use Lua to do string processing and value conversion ("display element D wants to display value F, but represent it on a logarithmic scale and convert it to SI units"). Implementing this can be done in something like 20 lines of C++.

So, a call into the Lua code will take a couple hundred cycles (yes, we have to count cycles), sometimes even a couple dozen thousand cycles. But for user interaction, that is perfectly fine. Some well-optimized C code could probably do the same thing quite a bit faster, but that would take ages to write and debug. (Plus, the bottleneck is not the Lua code. Loading images from disk, or moving faders takes considerably longer)

So, we are really happy with Lua.

But where Lua really shines is in its adaptability. The Blackfin does not support double precision math natively but Lua uses double as its standard data type. Well, you only have to change one #define, and Lua uses float instead. The Blackfin does not have an MMU, so we have to do some memory management manually. Well, you only have to change this one function and Lua will be fine with that.
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I agree with "teach a man to fish ...", but you know, some people are far away from the sea (linux) so just providing them with the fish (pdf) is also a good option.
Hmm, wait. So couldn't I just download the video with an application like youtube-dl normally and save it within the Dropbox folder? Wouldn't that have the same effect? (Syncing with phone etc.)
There's been an announcement from Google that they are finally implementing one the most-asked for features for Google Reader: sharing items from Readers to your G+ circles. Once implemented, sharing news items from Reader to other Reader users no longer makes sense.

Google ditching Reader API makes more sense as a possibility than Google ditching Reader all-together.
It's more complicated than whether someone "is an asshole" or not.
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Nice, looks great on Android/FF. As expected, does not work on Android/Opera.

Should the shadow expand and shrink with the movement of the legs?
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I think Steve Jobs acted stupid.

"The first 90 percent of the task takes 10 percent of the time. The last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent."

Do you see where I'm going ? If you believe there's some truth in this saying (quote, murphy law, whatever it is) then you should fix problems as early as possible. Granted, you don't always have time for that, and this saying applies mostly to such situations. Software projects, for example. But if you have an opportunity to fix a complicated problem/task early, don't procrastinate. There are often unexpected complications. Solve them early. If you start earlier, the chance you into the deadline is smaller.

I think it's perfectly possible that Steve Jobs acted brilliant in some situations and plain stupid in this case. There are no 100% brilliant and 100% stupid people. It's not binary, a smart person is not immune to stupid actions.

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidit...
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If Apple makes FoxConn the most money, then Apple can take the lead that no other company can.

That you are not aware of criticism of other companies does not mean it does not exist. Just as Nike took point with criticism of its sweatshops but many companies also suffered that criticism.

But Apple from it's 1984 commercial, it's commercial celebrating Gandhi, all of its associations with musicians, the entire Apple brand stands for a humanism that is belied in its production methods.

They can do more.

Not only do they then deserve the criticism, they are precisely the most effective company to pressure due to their leverage with FoxConn giving them power, and their overall brand message giving critics power over Apple.
It does have a +1 button. Maybe you have it adblocked.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, but those lines don't sound cute, they sound like lies. At a minimum, they're embellishments. I don't understand this need to force people to know how valuable you are.

There are two ways to make people value you: 1) create value, or 2) create the perception of value.

Going around saying "I help 2 million kids to read" sounds like the latter. If you really did help 2 million children to read, and I'm not talking about putting a few words in front of them, but actually having a material impact on literacy levels of 2 million children, then I think your achievements would speak for themselves.

And software developers that make millions for a company in a weekend? Please. Not impossible, but I doubt that people who actually do this need to say it.
> Glass-Steagall has nothing to do with the secondary market for mortgages.

The repeal of Glass-Stegall let them flip loans to the market while their funding was FDIC insured since they were gambling with depositors money, something they didn't have access to before that. That makes flipping more attractive because you're insured by the FEDS.

The net capital rule change amplified this ability making handing them out like candy attractive; what good is a ton of credit if you don't leverage the shit out of for all you can.

> All the modified NCR rule would have done is allowed banks to hand out loans like candy and not flip them.

Which is what I said; I wasn't implying that the flipping was related to the net capital rule.
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I think you just specify A->C and C->B and they do the rest?

but i'm pretty sure you will have more luck in place like stackoverflow.com than here.
I don't think that all cops are dicks, but they have the power to behave like it if they want to.
One of my dream jobs has always been to be a murder investigator though (I'm a big fan of "The Wire"):-)

And yeah, even though I'm from South America, I don't look too latino. I once crossed the border with two mexican friends. They definitely treated them worse than me.
I'd expect they have some sort of rule that obliges them to use the cheapest service for each particular item sent, but that leaves them free to send whatever they like. So if they wanted to send a letter, and the letter rate was lower than the package rate, then they would be obliged to send it at the lower rate, otherwise they are "wasting" money.
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Overall, I agree. The thing I like most about my e-ink nook is that the only thing it can do is reading, as opposed to the iPad, which always has the temptation to play a game, or check the web, or chase that ding which means new mail.

That said, I think that HTML5 capabilities can improve the reading experience if used properly. iPad-type tablets can get access to interactive experiences with technical books and comics, kindle-type tablets get improved typography and layout. Some publishers may abuse the tech, but there's still a very strong market for Just Plain Reading, so I don't think it will be too bad.
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it's 3Dnes just serve to hide one section behind the cone.

also, what's size? number of files or total size of files?

i think that the 2D representation of the standard gnome app for that (which names eludes me now) convey more info
> A couple of customers later an older man asked how much for sandwich since it was just going to get thrown away. The guy behind the counter gave a price. He paid for it, walked outside and handed it to the homeless man.

Nice, I'd do that too.
As previously seen on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060215

(Curious the submission system didn't just join them, identical URLs and all.)
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Newer thin-film solar panels represent a jump in paradigm

isn't this what Allen said in his critique? scientific achievement doesn't just grow exponentially - there are those "jumps in paradigm" that move us forward, but they're relatively rare and unpredictable.
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Sorry you felt that way, I enjoyed reading everyone's comments though. I just reread the submission guidelines and won't submit articles like this in the future. Still new around here.

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Downvotes should have usernames attached, and cost a karma point.
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I didn't downvote but would you care to explain your reasons for all of these statements? What is so nightmatish about schools open 11mths of the year? How is school being open until 6pm dangerous? Is it something to do with darkness? Is darkness inherently dangerous?

Personally I think the suggestion about union rules and hiring/firing based on merit is the most significant of the bunch. More of the same type of school environment is not going to help.
Note that PBKDF1 is exactly that, vanilla chaining of the same hash function. And AFAIK is not believed to have known attacks, with the only drawback being the fixed output size.

I guess that the xor approach used in PBKDF2 is useful since you want to compute T1, T2, T3 ..., Tc that are multiple output blocks all starting from the same input, so this gives more information to the attacker and the schema is designed to avoid showing some "state" that is possible to more easily analyze. Not sure, but the point is, I don't think PBKDF1 is unsafe either, and it is just chaining.
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Very well done Andrew. It works perfectly on my iPhone 3gs and on desktop with Chrome.
Seems like Flash will be dead soon ;)

The only thing that bothers me is the legs. They go forward a little, but to the back a lot. And that seems un-natural to me.

Congrats!
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This looks like Facebook just as much as the next message list in a three column layout with a bar at the top.
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Great stories. Couple of similarities to my life. But hey, have you ever considered building a bot to play Omaha?
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We most probably live within few blocks of each other in Seattle.

Let's hope you will still like in couple of years the mostly cloudy, rainy, dreary, no sun weather of Seattle. It is depressing weather 10 months a year, IMO.

Wallingford area has some nice eateries on 45th from Dick's to Tilth. We typically just walk down street for dinner weather permitting. Some of our favorites on 45th are Joule's, Tilth, Issian, Kabul, Chutney, Sutra. You most probably also not far from Tutta Bella on Stone Way or student style eateries on University Ave. Pam's Kitchen and Chilli's are our favorite on Univ Ave.
wtf?

Everything you could want to know about networking is on Wikipedia. Just jump to a Wiki page for some random networking thing (like the OSI model, CSMA/CD, CIDR, etc.) and click around for a while.

If you're not capable of using the vast resources at your disposal, you're probably not worth hiring. What are you going to do when you can't figure something out on the job?
> "My office is in Santa Monica and the weather is 70s, sunny, and never too humid. We keep the door and windows open and a cool ocean breeze blows in all day.
Silicon Valley has similar weather, so that would be easy"

Hate to burst your bubble, but as someone who lived in the Valley for 10 years, then San Diego, no, the weather in the Valley is not nearly as nice as SoCal!

San Francisco gets the ocean breeze, though it's more like a freezing cold foggy rain. (We used to have this ongoing joke in SF: "How do you know that person is a tourist? Because he's wearing shorts!") I lived in Pacifica, which was beautiful, and right on the coast, but it was never warm and breezy like SoCal.

The rest of the Valley is a 1-hour+ drive from the coast, and it gets that "inland hot" weather. Not like the IE, but like a mini-IE. You don't want to live in San Jose without air conditioning.

I don't really miss the weather in the Valley!
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Great job! Nice clean code too - waiting to see your next project on your webpage!
The energy problem was solved by Freeman Dyson et. al. in the 50s at Los Alamos [1]. Here are his paraphrased proposals:

Kardashev Level I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale)

Dyson fusion engines.

He's not talking about unviable Tokamak designs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak), but something much simpler. Basically use H-bombs (which are the only tried and tested fusion technology) to drive a large internal combustion engine. The energy released by each explosion is stored by using it to lift water back into hydraulic dams.

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[1] Just as all problems in computer science were solved (in principle) at Xerox PARC in the 70s, all energy problems were solved (in principle) at Los Alamos in the 50s.
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Are you sure about that? The chart is showing a growth in GDP of 21% in 2007-2008. The growth rate in 2008 was ~5%.

More importantly, it looks like it works the other way around. If you are devaluing your currency in half, your GDP in dollars (or whatever means of comparison you use) will be cut in half, not double. This is what your chart is showing. It will be a bigger number in the domestic currency, but then it doesn't mean anything because you are just changing the scale.

Anyway, we are arguing over details. The larger point is that the economic policy mandated by the IMF is still largely in place, and whenever the Brazilian government tried to increase government spending, a short growth burst was experienced with a very long bust.

Lula gave a 1001 speeches saying that "they were breaking free from the IMF", but in the end it is just political bullshit: interest rates are still high and it is the only instrument the Central Bank is able to use to keep inflation under control. This is pretty much the IMF "formula".

Update: looks like you are correct that they use current dollars. It still seems a misleading chart. Take a look at http://goo.gl/BCNIo and you can see the numbers I was mentioning.
No, I don't think it is ever wrong to copy your competitors ideas ... it might be illegal if you do it at the level where it infringes on trademarks, patents, etc. but there's nothing wrong with copying otherwise.

But most certainly it is never wrong to make products consumers want. That's the basic tenet that makes capitalism and the free marketplace work - that the consumer wins is the overriding principle. Anything that gets in the way of that is the problem, not the solution.
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Firefox only got animations in v5.
surprisingly, looks great on the stock android browser.
So why bother offering a lock screen at all?
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