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Honda was founded in 1948 - which does qualify just!

Proton : formed by the Malaysian government in 1983. Yes- government created so not a fair comparison.
Perodua : other Malaysian manufacturer.
Both exist under a heavy tariff protection scheme, so possibly not good examples.

Pagani : started selling with no govt backup or protection in 1991. Very high priced, but similar market to Fisker.
Koenigsegg : created in 1994, again high priced.
Mclaren : created in 1989 as an offshoot of the racing team.
To be fair both McLaren and Pagani get assistance with engines from larger manufacturers.

There are a few more specialty/small manufacturers that have been created and still exist.

I think your original point stands that no new mass-production car companies have been created without severe government intervention.

Some of the chinese manufacturers would be interesting to study from this point of view.

I'm not sure why this is - I suspect it's related to the massively high fixed costs, but also the huge amount of government intervention that goes on in the vehicle market. There's not a market in the world that isn't affected by some type of regulatory requirements, tariff and trade protectionism etc.

I think vehicle manufacture is a bit like airlines in that many people seem to want to be involved for reasons other than making a profit.
"I wrote off Android a couple of years ago. That's the fundamental problem with Android, isn't it? People try a couple of 2.1 devices that suck and well why should they give it another chance?"

Considering that Android is leading the market place in almost every conceivable category, people obviously aren't just trying a "crappy device" and not giving it a second chance. So, no, obviously not a fundamental problem with Android...
I just started using SymPy for some undergrad math research. Handy!
Sure, that's why I wrote "online (display) advertising", which often has its cost measured in CPM, not in CPC, so CTR doesn't matter. This shows advantages of CPC ads over traditional display advertising and partially explains the success of Google.

I do not have technical ability to judge whether his solution can really solve this problem, however the problem does exist, though not widespread, and who can solve it will have a great chance to earn a lot of money. AFAIK advertising agencies pretty much trust the data from the like of Comsore. It's not that they don't know the data is not really accurate, it's that they don't have anything else. How much does Comscore sell its packages? I don't know, but I'm sure it's not cheap and online advertisers/marketers still have to buy them.
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Trademark... 
Quick question.

Let's take Facebook as an example. Let's say "The Facebook" was originally trademarked... would they have need to get a new mark for "Facebook" or would they be considered essentially the same under the rules for Trademarks?

I ask because I am in a similar situation (using "The" in front until it's worthwhile paying for the main URL, which is not in use but the buyer wants an amount I cannot afford to pay for right now).

Help appreciated... thanks!
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The iPod touch (current gen) has 256MB of RAM to the iPhone4(S)'s 512MB. The iPod Touch (current gen) has a retina display which the iPhone 3GS doesn't have. These factors may have produced a difference in performance.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Having performed a sort of reverse migration (mongodb -> pgsql), I'd have a few questions.

Is it possible to know the use case of your setup? Which size (storage, load etc.) are you currently operating at? What is the projected growth in the medium term? What is main the benefit of this migration? Is MongoDB
solving a specific problem that could not have been addressed by mysql/pgsql (or some document oriented/nosql other than mongo)? Are you using any ORM and/or middleware to interface to MongoDB?
Ahh.. I see
Plenty of tools don't require recompiling anything for profiling. Running the program once for profiling seems like it should be less work than running and interrupting it 10 times (heck, a lot of tools won't even require restarting the program if it already happens to be running). Visualizing the output by function or by something more fine-grained should be a matter of a single command. And if it's easier to manually find the hotspots by looking at a bunch of stacktraces than the profiler output, there's something badly wrong with said output.

Now, I'm sure there are special circumstances where this method is the right thing. But that's totally different from it apparently being suggested as best practice to newbies.
Thanks for pointing that out, but putting it another way, the things I expected I would benefit from by being in London did occur, along with the pleasant and unexpected bonus of the government's tech city initiative.
On more business oriented web apps, I use it to create separate windows when generating reports; i.e. web-generated PDFs don't have an exit button. There it is VERY useful.

I still use it on some sites, knowing not everyone knows how to create new browser windows by right-clicking links, and I do find it a pain myself on sites that don't use it, and I forgotten and have to page back to get to where I was before. So since I prefer it, and I find it convenient, I go with it.
I have written a few apps in ExpressJS and one of the things that I found annoying at first was how minimal and unstructured it was. I found a way of doing things in an organized manner that I like, so it has become easy to get things in my own structure. Perhaps that is the charm of Express, it gives you freedom to structure (or not) in the way you desire.

RailwayJS seems to provide a common structure to be used with Express. It does provide a lot, and a part of me feels that it provides too much. But you can always choose which parts to make use in your application.

I'm on the fence about if I would recommend it to a new Express user or not though.
I don't think Ubuntu has as strict policy on releasing feature-updates as Debian. So I wouldn't rule out that browser would be kept up to date. And of course you have always the ability to use some other binaries than those provided by Canonical.
My complaint about Bing for technical querying is that when I tell them I want an exact phrase by wrapping it with quotes, it doesn't always believe me that I really do want that phrase to appear in the result page.

Some of those other operators look promising, though. I'll have to try them out.
Well, you can rent a trailer and you can rent a generator, so I don't see any reason why this wouldn't work!

Could be fun to try driving a Tesla transcontinentally with a trailer and... however many generators it would take to keep it running.
Very nice. I always forget to get the Google scale of these sorts of issues.
As soon as the query hits a server, they probably replace the quotes with a plus sign so they didn't have to change anything in the infrastructure.
So basically they are extending their "server" support to desktops too. I always found it funny that it was tiered like that, considering that they use the same packages.
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Sebastian, you write lots of interesting articles and make a lot of great contributions to HN, but the post you wrote about Patrick was self-serving and in incredibly poor taste. Jacques was nowhere near the only person here who thought so.

You haven't bothered to delete the post, but you're writing 3,000 word missives slamming one of its detractors? Why? Presumably if you thought your post were fair, you wouldn't try to excuse it by saying that you "don’t link it at all."

I don't get it, but I'd like to.
Although it's a preprint, the study seems quite rigorous. I don't see why this is getting downvoted.
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I was about to sell my remaining bitcoins this morning when I realized: wait a minute, I don't even know how long the Euro will continue to exist (living in Euro country). As much as it pains me, because probably the price will fall even further, I'll keep some BTC around just in case...

On the other hand I suppose the existence of Silk Road is not sufficient to drive prices up, because most vendors will just convert their BTC to dollars again immediately.
There certainly is no shortage of other options:

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules#wiki-web-framewo...
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Yeah, Express is deliberately minimal. In addition to frameworks like Railway there are a number of helper modules, like express-resource, that build on Express it as well. Express is good for new users as it's minimal enough that it forces them to get the lay of the land, but its Connect underpinnings remove some of the sharp edges of just using Node's http module.
The US DOT limit on tractor trailers is 40 tons. If your average salad-carrying tractor trailer is hauling 10 tons of salad, and the average serving size of salad is 1/2 pound, then you will haul 40,000 servings of salad per tractor trailer.

In this case, your stated fuel costs will add about 1.8 cents to the cost of each salad.
I don't disagree. But I think the correlation between urbanization and malaria is one that would be very interesting to analyze, particularly where rural people are primarily cattle herders (and as such have beef for the Anopheles to feed on).
According to the article , intel's strength is in per thread performance.But most of today's heavy applications enjoy multi-thread performance: Multi-user servers, Heavy math applications and other applications written with today's better multi-programming tools.

So that means selling a lot less chips.

But that bad for intel's business model , and get worse with moore's law(they gotta sell double number of transistors).

Now about demise: it's hard to tell because it depends minimum sales intel needs to sustain it's business model, But intel are trying to counteract that with several interesting moves:

1. An integrated pc platform strategy: CPU+GPU integration , chipsets with better integration with their flash modules(z86 chipset), buying an anti-virus software.
This way they can get more money and have more control on the pc market. This may compensate them on decreasing volumes. And hurt GPU manufacturers along the way.
2. Finding new sources for chip manufacturing r&d investments: Manufacturing flash, letting non-competing companies manufacture chips using intel fabs.
3. trying hard to compete on the multi-core performance game: letting old code(c++/fortran, etc) run faster on a 64-core intel platfrom might be more appealing than needing to import that code to a GPU.Working on parallel development tools also helps there.
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Lack of correlation isn't "proof" of lack of causation, but it's damned strong evidence. Yes, in theory a precisely calibrated confounding variable could be precisely canceling the real effect, but until you've got some sort of actual evidence of such a factor you're in blatent violation of Occam's Razor.

I'm really starting to loathe the thoughtless chants of "correlations doesn't imply causation"; it used to signal a deep understanding of science, now it tends to signal quite the opposite.
Agreed, but those should be considered early weed out questions, or a segue into deeper topics. For example, appendChild and removeChild, it's almost obvious what
they do, but ...

1) What implications do those have on DOM performance?

2) Contrast appendChild when called on a DOM element, vs. an absolutely positioned DOM element, vs. a document fragment

3) Why do you want to avoid calling appendChild w/in a loop?

Keyword I'm looking for from candidates: Reflow, which requires a deeper level of understanding, and that's the level I'm really targeting in an interview.
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Since this is a copy of an email sent to CS students at Stanford, I'm not sure it's intended to be public information. One of the staff members in the CS department emails graduates every year to survey salary data and to ask about how useful the recruiting resources provided by the department are. I'd imagine the numbers accurately reflect the responses received, although as others have mentioned there may be biases in who chose to respond.
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I worked at google for a couple months this year. My experience of their so-called open corporate culture was a bizarre mix of elements from William Gibson's _The Belonging Kind_ and Robot Chicken's _Our Newest Member, Calvin_. It was one of the loneliest and depressing experiences of my adult life (but with really good food).

That said, it turned out that way because I was stupid and naive and let myself get flung into the russian roulette of their blind allocation process. This put me on a team doing work for which I had no real relevant experience and working under a manager who promptly forgot I existed for 3 months.

I'd call my experience an outlier, and it all turned out well in the end when I fled the place for a better offer doing work far more relevant to my previous job experience, except that I keep running into others that had almost exactly the same thing happen to them.

Amidst the hooplah of Larry and Sergei's Montessori for overgrown gifted kids, there's something very rotten, elitist, and ineffective going on at the googleplex and the initial frustration in Steve's rant hinted to me that deep down he knows this too. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I had such high hopes for the place and they were utterly dashed on the rocks.
Wow. Very high salaries indeed. What I find particularly interesting is that the PhD's clearly have absolutely no incentive of staying in academia. I wonder how bad an effect this has on academia..
But its presumably cheaper[1] to grow salad in the east coast and pay that $3.40/gal than it is to grow the same salad in the west coast. Otherwise a smart farmer would make salad in the west coast and saturate the west coast market with his own offerings.

There are great arguments for eating locally. One of the main reasons for those agriculture tariffs that stop poorer countries flooding the markets with cheap produce, which allows local farmers to compete. Otherwise your salads would be even more ridiculously sourced from China or something.

[1] admittedly it could still be more expensive but happen anyway due to comparative advantage that I can't explain well enough this late.
I have tried similar personal experiments down this path, with the same result. However, for fairly instant gratification, it may be easier to learn about WebGL first.

The code to create a fully lit and rendered scene is much smaller for WebGL, but the principles are the same, and you will still learn about writing shaders.
The very notion seems strange to me, because when I read SICP it was primarily a "learn LISP's model of computation" book, not a "learn how to program, and we just happen to be using a LISP" book. Because of that, it doesn't make much sense to me to port SICP to a non-LISP language.
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My experience over a long career of fixing bugs is that it just doesn't matter. Comment-free code doesn't tell you why it does what it does. "Well"-commented code devolves into lies over time. Hard bugs are just hard.

What does help is keeping the voodoo out in the first place by reducing the "non-obvious" bits to an absolute minimum. Which of course is isomorphic to saying that "great code has less bugs". Not exactly profound. But notably it has nothing to do with commenting or documentation, per se.
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Actually Australia has the highest median wealth in the world.

http://au.ibtimes.com/news/234393/20111020/forex/australia-d...

Not sure why you think Australia is more expensive than the US. I visit the US every year and do not find this to be the case at all.
"If I had to guess, humans end up implementing something like the reverse of a typical boosting algorithm, in that we take a bunch of too-strong pattern recognizing subunits, and then put them together into something that pits them against each other to become more robust against mis-prediction"

"Ensemble methods" seems to be what you're talking about. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_learning )

The application of many models put together to produce one signal to accurately predict the future.

I believe the Netflix challenge was won using ensemble methods acting in concert.

"Our final solution (RMSE=0.8712) consists of blending 107 individual results. Since
many of these results are close variants, we first describe the main approaches behind
them.
"

( PDF paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.142... )

QIM, a large hedge fund that works futures, also uses the same model.

"In more direct language, Woodriff uses a statistical technique called the ensemble method, which is a way of mining data to produce something akin to the wisdom of crowds. A bundle of computer models, each searching for patterns in different ways, are linked together to produce a consensus statistical prediction—a sort of prediction by algorithmic committee. Scientists use the method to help predict ozone levels, for example. Woodriff uses it to help predict where futures markets are headed over a 24-hour period. His predictions are derived from four basic bits of historical pricing information: the open, close, high and low of specific markets.

Rishi Narang, whose Telesis Capital is a longtime investor in QIM, says other fund managers use similar methods and techniques. "The core idea is not so magical," Narang says. "It is how he puts it together. Getting the program correct is very challenging."

( http://www.absolutereturn-alpha.com/Article/2361672/QIMs-Jaf... )
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Very true but I think perhaps people are conditioned to think that they can replicate the success if they learn from successful people first hand. But I think people who have failed have a lot to teach us as well. As Edison once said,"I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb." :)
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hacker-news should work too.
And Google news, docs, calendar. Not the Google search pages though, since key presses are intercepted by the search bar.
The code

printf("goodbye, Dennis");

would give

$ ./goodbye
goodbye, Dennis$

What you want is to add a newline ('\n') at the end:

printf("goodbye, Dennis\n");

Now you get

$ ./goodbye
goodbye, Dennis
$

That's why the canonical "hello, world" program contains the line

printf("hello, world\n");
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I just noticed today that my searches for "ipadm" return something relevant, rather than assuming that I meant "ipad", and forcing me to confirm that I did actually mean what I typed, which I think was the case just a couple of days ago.
"\n" is a linebreak which would guarantee the text is printed and place whatever output came afterwards on the next line.
I can't even scroll his main website[1] with the keyboard if I enable Javascript. Thankfully it degrades nicely without the latter.

[1]: http://worrydream.com/
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The Economist ran an obit of Mr Jobs recently, hence it made sense to refer to it to help regular readers understand the context and relationship between the two figures.
This is the reason I stopped using Altavista and began using Google. I will now move away from Google, this is the last straw.
Quickly, yes. But I can't see why they took out this functionality before they were launching the new functionality.

It seems that this is just inviting ill will for no reason. At least if they did both at the same time, they would be able to say "But we did this other new thing instead! Isn't it neat?!"
Interesting approach, I like it. I believe there is a lot of room in this space for many different players in many different verticals.

Making it simpler for the average user to list something for sale is critical for growing the space. There are far more products laying around in garages and basements that could be sold than are currently being listed for sale online. I believe the main reason that these products will remain in garages and basements is because A) creating the listing is still too difficult and cumbersome; and B) shipping to a non-local buyer is seen as too much work.

It looks like this does a good job of solving A. Good work. I have similar plans for a different market in the future. I believe the key for the platform in this space that will really disrupt the market is the data on the products themselves. The retailers have some of the info but it isn't really being used at the C2C level. Getting that data requires solving some other chicken-and-egg problems first though, I think.

I like the idea for hosting Bazaars on a scheduled basis. Very creative.

Jon/Sean I'm not sure if you'll be around Startup School next weekend but if so I'd love to talk with you guys and hear about your thoughts on the space and the challenges you've overcome so far.

Edit: Ah ha.

Unlike other sites where you have to pay for shipping and wait days for delivery, our sellers are local, so you can get your item the same day!

Problem B not an issue I see. I'm interested in seeing where this goes. Good luck, gents.
The back button on Android is a double-edged sword (based on what I have read/heard), because its function is overridden by apps in inconsistent ways, so you are never sure what effect that button press may have. Am I correct? (i am an iOS user, so don't know)
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Is this the YC startup that was called Yardsale?
It's worth noting that during the Macintosh and NeXT days, Steve was fanatical about building computer factories in California. It was probably a lot of very hard-learned lessons that got him to accept Apple's arrangement with Foxconn.
I've helped drag down the median for about 10 years myself.

I wonder if their subscriber income stats aren't heavily bifurcated.
Isn't the output stream at least guaranteed to be flushed once on completion of the program, though?
The article you link to has a photo of arguably some of the greatest designers of the mid 20th century, and Ive and his team are perhaps as consistent as the Eames or Saarinen. Doing good design is easy, great design however is much, much harder.
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Oh totally agree. I saw on person who commented on Salvatore's blog that said, "I just lost all respect for you and your project (Redis)." That seems like a rather large knee-jerk reaction.
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For anyone who might be reading with showdead on:

While a lot of people seem to attribute this quote to Robert Frost, possibly because of his poem "Mending Wall", this is actually from "The Thing" by G. K. Chesterton.

http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/The_Thing.txt