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Can you elaborate on what his flops were?

LISA? kicked off the team

Macintosh? I'm typing from one right now

NEXTStep? considering the technology forms the foundation for OSX and iOS doesn't look like it flopped.

AppleTV? it's doing better than it's competition, maybe.

Apple Hifi? definitely.

Pixar? I think other animation studios wish they could as good as their worst films.

Over the course of his career most of his "flops" have turned out successful. He pumped millions of dollars over a decade to keep Pixar afloat. And it was him and his technical team at NEXT that turned the Mac into what it is today.
For now, I don't really have to. I work on AVR based chips (mostly the ATmega and ATTiny) serves me well and I think I can get a job with this. But things change and I can adapt. I can still use linux if I want but I don't really want to until damn nVidia releases proper drivers.
I think the problem is then: how do you decide, and build a consensus, about how much use is too much use? Especially given that the use is covert, you might not even know when it passes the threshold you might find abhorrent.

That's why my preferred kind of civil liberty protection relies on bright-line rules. Saying, "it's OK until it starts to feel excessive" is an invitation to law enforcement to go up to, and then beyond, that abusive line – in secret – waiting for some sort of delayed backlash as the only check.
My boss as at an internship charged a client 1200 euros for adding a Facebook button. I believe he sold it as a social marketing something or other. He liked to overpromise, overcharge and underdeliver. Oh, and sold stuff we couldn't do. Needless to say the company shrinked by 400% by the end of the internship.
I don't think people wanted to use it.
Hubot has this feature, and it also has an IRC adapter.
A good programmer who can find a job in an urban market can earn $120K a year. But there are a lot of programmers who can't find jobs, and that puts significant downward pressure on salaries; and there are a lot of programmers in more rural markets who are willing to telecommute, and that puts significant downward pressure on salaries as well.
Looks to me like FB acquired the people rather than the technology... The blog post from the founder:
http://blog.strobecorp.com/?p=304

I think it's quite clear from that post: "SproutCore, meanwhile, will continue as an independent project."

So FB was not interested by SproutCore but rather by the people. In a way it's not too surprising since FB most likely have their own way of dealing with HTML 5 and delivering web apps.
With various folks from Strobe leaving prior to today's announcement lead me to believe that Strobe was not doing that well and was going most likely to close down but they tried to sell off and FB saw an interest in the team rather than the technology.
Why not buy the stock anyways and sell it right before it gets dumped?
I doubt you got ripped off, given that most people have never heard of you.
Everything has to start somewhere. You've correctly identified bootstrap :)

You may not have any incentive to give up any of your company. The idea is to allow for companies/ideas at various stages to participate in the same class without it being about negotiating percentages, b/c that is not what's important at this point. 100% of $0 is $0.
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Wikipedia says that Shai lives in San Francisco. He also became wealthy in the valley.

Better Places is headquartered in Palo Alto.

I remember reading the story a while back and Isreal is just the first place they are running the experiment due to its size and government acceptance to the idea. But the goal is to deploy the cars in as many countries as possible:

"Better Place says it intends to expand into markets where the business model economics and investor returns are “optimized”, citing Europe and Asia specifically. "
That's a good question. When you make a deposit how long does it (if ever) sit in Simples possession before being put int your FDIC insured account? This may not sound like a big deal, but if Simple were to go under this float would go under with them.
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> Also, hand-made isn't fighting against capitalism, it's fighting against mass-production, sweat-shops and machine-people jobs like the ones portrayed on Chaplin's City Lights or even Discovery Channel's How It's Made.

That's capitalism. To be more specific, those are inevitable effects of capitalism.
What is a product/hustler guy? Thats not clear to me at all
Hmm, I just started working on an open source web-based IRC client a couple of weeks ago. This takes a bit of the wind out of my sails.
I agree with your core point, in some areas even a small variation in quality is worth paying a premium for.

But, Apple made most of their recent profit and revenue from sales of gadgets like the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, so Apple as a "computer company" does not really support your point. (See http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/10/despite-record-mac... )

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A (extremely) large number of usual local network IP ranges are issued to the DOD. Including my local subnet as well. 11.1.11.0/24, if I ran a whois on that IP as well, it would return DOD, but that doesn't mean the DOD is snooping my network, it just means my router has all the routes for 11.1.11.0/24 associated with it and doesn't actually attempt to send traffic over the wire to that IP. I assume your Android phone is listening locally on that address for the VOIP communication, which would in return mean the DOD is NOT snooping on your phone. Much similar to apache or (insert other socket application) listening to 127.0.0.1:80 for local only traffic.
Imagine a case like this:

def example(input_data):
l = list(input_data)
# code that uses list-specific stuff and returns a result

The function 'example' doesn't want to touch the original input data, so it needs to make a copy of it. It also contains code that assumes operation on a list, so the copied value needs to support list-like operators. If you assume input_data is a list, you can use [:] or copy() to copy just fine, but if input_data is NOT a list then you cannot feed example a generator or some other list-like object or iterable and know for sure that it is going to work. By explicitly converting to list, you can take anything that implements __iter__, and then safely assume that the rest of your code will be working with lists. This adds a pretty bit of extra flexibility to the function and can make it much easier and/or cleaner to use.

Obviously as with anything the choice of list copy method is situation-dependent. Using [:] makes sense if you can guarantee the input is a list and you need maximal speed. Using copy() makes sense if you just want a copy of the input object and don't specifically care that the copy is itself a list. Using list() makes sense if you want to be able to take in all kinds of input values and be assured that the copy is a list. Use what is best for the situation at hand.
I thought the nav structure was a reasonably effective way to communicate the intended breadth/scope of the entity.
[EDIT: fixed.] The graph seems to imply that low-risk investment are the way to go: the blue line is comfortably over the red line in the "low risk" territory. Of course, the graph is useless anyway, but presumably it should be useless in a "give us your money" sense.
Well, true, but it's reciprocal. It benefits everybody else, who will presumably attempt to rally around you and/or share expertise when needed, maybe?

Similarly, there are 99 other companies you will be invested in as well, and you will naturally want them to succeed.
Daily ATM withdrawal limits are something we have some freedom to adjust, but ATM owners get to set their own limits as well. We're generally trying to make it easy to make substantial withdrawals purchases and such while still keeping a lookout for fraudulent activity.

We're issuing checks, so you can always make a check out to "cash" and take that into any physical bank if need be. Over time, though, I expect products like Square to make it possible to transact with your Simple debit card in places that might have previously required cash or a check.
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Apple is completely justified in booting him out of the developer program. He posted this trojan to the app store disguised as a stock checker, which could have been downloaded by unsuspecting users. His benevolence doesn't excuse him from such blatant disregard for the rules of the developer program.
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I imagine they don't use bittorrent because it is both very large (TBs) and changes frequently.

With S3, you could boot up a bunch of Hadoop processes, pull it (without incurring any bandwidth costs I believe), process it and dump out whatever you want.
Who do you think is speculating? Hint: try reading in context. It works better.
What does this do that is "smart"? The article only mentions one concrete thing that this program does, which is figure out your e-mail address when you send it an e-mail:

For example, send a short e-mail to task@do.com and it will automatically detect your address and add an entry.

I do not think this counts as smart.
So it's a website, about a website ? Am I missing something here ? BTW it does not seem to work quite right, I am on IE5.5 behind a corporate firewall, I clicked start 20,000 already and still nothing happens ?
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Hey, I wasn't bashing the bootstrap :) in fact my latest side project http://dashpoll.com uses it.

I see your point regarding percentages, and Dandelion Labs is definitely something I'll be keeping an eye on.
Watching the vehicle is fine.

Altering or attaching something to it is a violation of personal property rights.

How do you feel about private citizens attaching GPS devices to vehicles without permission? After all, private citizens can also just watch cars...
Before there is a rise in flying cars I think we're going to see the gradual evolution of driving aids (adaptive cruise control and automated emergency braking) into structured automated driving (there is a set lane on the highway that while you're in it your car drives for you) to eventual full on automated driving (you get in the car and say "grocery store" and it drives while you watch the latest episode of 'Ow! My Balls!').
Apple would not exist had Jobs not had the insight to turn Wozniak's hobby into a marketable product. Indeed he had much help to grow the company, but that help is a commodity far easier to find than a man like Jobs who could spy potential and lead those resources toward his vision.

In his early days, Jobs was a terrible manager, a tedious perfectionist, a narcissistic autocrat, and an emotional child - yet he had the passion, charisma, and vision to see potential and make it happen. Because of that, all his negative qualities become charming quirks instead of causing him to be kicked to the curb for good at 20. He was probably rightfully booted from Apple for those characteristics, and it was far easier for him to tame those demons than it would have been for Wozniak to take on Jobs' charm.

There's a reason there is only one Jobs and one Apple, yet thousands of Wozniaks and still one Apple - Jobs is a rarer and more essential talent. Wozniak was quickly replaced when he became disengaged - Jobs still can't be.
The german podcaster Tim Pritlove does Shows that sometimes take up to 4h. Because the guest had a couple hourse to explain a topic you could really get understand the topic and thanks to that I picked up Lisp (actually Dylan).

If you speak german and are intressted in PLs:

Dylan: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre031.html

Lisp: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre084.html

C++: http://chaosradio.ccc.de/cre063.html
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i guarantee you they dont run a credit check - i have horrible credit and was able to get one.
So you're saying that providers are using these address ranges where you'd usually expect to see something like 10., 172.16-31. or 192.168.*? That is, purely internal traffic that's not routed over the public net?

If so, I could buy that, but my question is "why?" That is, why not use an actual RFC1918 private address?

Or is your point actually something different, and I'm just missing it?
> With Kindle Lending, there is no substantive gain for authors.

They gain access to readers who won't put up with being forbidden to lend someone a book.
The problem is that most customers do care what the underlying bank is, especially given the events over the past few years. The world may have been ready for this five years ago, but not anymore.
Hi, cofounder of Simple here.

There's a ton about when and how and if we exit that's out of our control, and I wouldn't presume to predict exactly what's going to happen. But, please know that our goal is not to sell out to a big bank. We're building this because we want to use it, and part of what we want to use is a banking service that's provided by people who are acting in the best interests of their customers.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure that going with a smaller or local bank provides a more solid guarantee that you won't be banking with a giant down the road. The economic crisis of the past few years has seen a ton of consolidation in retail banking, and I think there's even more to come.
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that i can use any irc client i want and not install adobe air or use their web-based chat
Additional information from http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news171.html :

- the asteroid is 400 meters in size

- it's a "C-type" asteroid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-type_asteroid)
Any chance of pinging out an invite code for HN users?
That's exactly the point.One of the most promising uses of data that might be transmitted with this protocol is Behavior Based Maintenance. Most equipment maintenance these days is time based; the new goal is to be able to analyze data coming from the equipment (vibration, fluid flow, temperatures, etc) and predict that a failure is imminent and send a service person out before the equipment even shows any outward signs of failing.

Most of the businesses that want to do this don't even have the data they need to get started and don't have a clue where to begin. Having an industry standard comms protocol may be just what it needs to really take off. I've been watching the space for a while, looking for an opening that a startup can fit into.
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It's possible that those images show a side view generated from the radar response, rather than a front view. The pixel intensity could be sample intensity, so the more reflective surfaces there are at a distance Y, angle X, the brighter the pixel at (X, Y) will be. Since the back of the asteroid is shadowed by the front of the asteroid, the radar provides an image of the side facing the radar only.

This is how I generate side and top view images from Kinect data in my lighting automation software, anyway (Shameless plug: see https://github.com/nitrogenlogic/kinradar for an ancient ASCII art version you can play with, or http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/ for the real thing). I don't actually know how the NASA images were produced.
Who I'd be submitting my business idea to in confidence is not a detail.
Good catch. Fixed. Thanks for thinking, someone has to :)
"Researchers must also go through IRBs (independent review boards) at their institution prior to engaging in research that deals with human subjects. If the collected data is going to be made available publicly, it makes the process more arduous."

That is not really my experience. Getting IRB approval to release human data just means proper de-identification which one should do anyway. For example, generally subjects are given randomly generated IDs with only the PI having the master list.
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Coming back to ruby development after several years off. I'd be open to other frameworks, but don't feel like learning a new language at the moment.
There's a lot of similar material on http://www.coolhunting.com/video

There's actually one about this same guy from 2008:
http://www.coolhunting.com/tech/cut-brooklyn-kn.php
The major advantage I see with this over HipChat is that you can use existing IRC client software to connect. Personally, I'd much prefer Irssi in a terminal to an Adobe AIR product.
You can use XMPP clients with HipChat.
Wait till you start dealing with ARM based systems. You'll get a choice of expensive commercial tools or scavenger hunts to find the right libraries to work with gcc...
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we are talking about an address IP range that happens to be DNS registered..it could be as simple as the DoD has some extra bandwidth/infrastructure that they are leasing out to say Sprint?
Firefox and Chrome both have the same update cycle - a new major version every 6 weeks.

I believe the main reason for both projects doing it are allowing them to get improvements and new features to users faster. One or two releases a year means a very long time before improvements get to users, and it holds everything back. 6-week releases means you get improvements to users in just a few months.

Of course there are downsides to 6-week releases. If you prefer a slower-updating browser, there are other good options, such as Opera. And if you want even more stability, there are Safari and IE, which these days are quite good as well.
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At this point it will just be me (grandalf) reading them. I'll get your permission before showing them to any of our board members or investors.
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I think it's more likely Google becomes a Yahoo (or even more likely, a Microsoft) than Facebook becomes Myspace.

Facebook has avoided many of the things that made the fall of Myspace possible, and their network is much larger, including people who came to social networks late and are very unlikely to ever care about changing to another one.

Google, on the other hand, already shows the early signs of Microsoftism. Taking themselves too seriously, trying everything and excelling at nothing, massive employee growth (which has to lower average quality). 5 years from now, they'll be well into a downward slide.
It depends on your clients and/or the work you're doing. On the server-side, I do almost entirely ASP.NET work for small and medium business. Much of that is public-facing and you wouldn't know it was .NET unless you viewed the source and looked pretty closely. You certainly can build drab, enterprisey software with ASP.NET (or any other language), but you can also build sites like Stack Overflow just as easily.

Trying to host an ASP.NET 4/MVC3 site on Apache would be a nightmare. So, for the same reason you might tend to avoid IIS for your PHP work, .NET developers will prefer IIS for their work.

As for why so much "enterprise" software is written in languages like C# and Java, I believe it has a lot to do with those companies having very large teams with high turnover. Static languages (and their tooling) do have some compelling advantages in that situation.
Does anyone know of any existing hardware/gadgets/do-dadds or mainstream software that utilizes this MQTT? I've never heard of it until just now (which doesn't mean much, but it's new to me).
Why are the two curves plotted at different x-axis values?
> Or can you actually point to an elected official that says, let's END social security, medicare, and farm subsidies, cut the DoD budget by 80% and gut the rest of the federal budget?

I'm confused - are you claiming that the Tea Party supports all of those things? If so, some cites would be nice. (There is some Tea Party support for ending farm subsidies and possibly "gut the rest" for some definition of "the rest".)
These comments are so fascinating because they illustrate with a fair degree of uniformity, the personality profile of the HN crowd.

Two kinds of people we're all aware of: logical/rational vs. emotional/creative. That whole left vs. right brain stuff.

Remember, you need to think with both points of view to tackle the big consumer tech problems (where a looooot of the $$$ is) in the coming years... so
Not quite as shiny, but I've hosted IRC logs for a few years now. Example: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/today

If anybody wants a channel on freenode logged publicly, feel free to contact me.

(The search facility currently sucks, I'm working on a very different search backend these days).
An interesting idea -- although this bit: "So every company in the class is co-owned by every other company." had me instantly picturing someone sputtering, "but, but, but, SOCIALISM!"

Seriously, though, with that setup, isn't there an incentive to only work as had as necessary to get into a class, and then hope one of the other entrants strikes it rich, so I can take my little cut? Is that going too negative?

We've all had projects that we were immensely interested in for a while, but then put had to put on the back burner, and ultimately dropped. How do you ensure you're not selecting 100 back burner-able projects? For an angel, is the draw of casting a wide net bigger than the risk of no one really being that committed to the work?

One other thought, while forming a company/s-corp/llc might not be that hard these days, since you're essentially making a call for 100 "side project startups", you might want to add tools to automate the forming-a-legal-company side of things.
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ha! an LG phone. no thanks.

still interested on the plan if they provide an android image I can use with their wifi network.
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and lived to tell the tale (so far, anyway). any moment I expect Goofy to show up at my door with an ax.
I pulled the repository and all of the code is very well documented, and easy to read. Really a great resource for learning OS internals.
Since the IP address assignment was updated in 2009, it seems unlikely that the address was transferred from the DoD to Sprint or some other intermediate ISP.
It seems silly to be worried about this sort of thing given to low likelihood of a crash in the first place.
Most measures of flight risk are in "flight hours", so it's hard to make a direct single-flight measure. But most of the sources I was able to find quickly ranged from about 1/1MM to 1/10MM, largely depending on the airlines and countries out of which they are operating. I'll use 1/5MM for my purposes (if anyone has a better idea, pipe in).

So, if one were to look at the survival rates in the chart as "per flight" versus "per crash", it would be.

First Class: 49% * (1/5MM) = .0000098%

Ahead of Wing: 56% * (1/5MM) = .0000112%

Over Wing: 56% * (1/5MM) = .0000112%

Rear: 69% * (1/5MM) = .0000138%

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.it could be as simple as the DoD has some extra bandwidth/infrastructure that they are leasing out to say Sprint?

Ok, I get that in principle... but that particular combination sounds awfully suspicious. The DoD just happens to have extra IP space, and they just happen to lease it to cell phone carriers? Hmmmmmmmmm....

I mean, yeah, it could all be totally innocuous, but I'm still suspicious that there might be something else going on. I'm not exactly a card carrying member of the tinfoil-hat brigade, but I trust our government about as far as I can throw it... :-)
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i was wishing that this existed a few weeks ago. win. now i don't have to implement it.