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I'm not sure I understand the question. Pretty much every successful internet company began with zero or limited revenues and huge losses (Amazon, Ebay, Google, PayPal, Facebook, Yahoo, etc).
We're starting this already? Yawn.
There was an incident in Austin in 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html
It is a woman, but simply having a husband doesn't imply that.
I imagine that the individual ships themselves will also be very small. In fact, if a fleet is big enough, the communications gap becomes a problem - space battles may end up looking like a fight between two ant colonies, with small independent ships working together as a swarm, without any central guidance.
It isn't that people still think it is the only way. It is that people have realized that they don't want to be woken up in the middle of the night every time their server goes kaput. I have better things to do with my time.

I'd rather pay the 'extra' money to a PaaS in order to not have to a) hire a sysadmin, or pretend to be one on TV. b) get a full nights sleep. c) be able to go on vacation without worrying if the server is up or not. d) not have to worry about adding servers when my traffic has spiked and this one server isn't enough.

If you don't think EC2 instances go down, you are kidding yourself. Not only do they go down, but they 'appear' up. Talk about a mixed message. So, you also need to pay for a third party monitoring service just to tell you that your server is down.

At the end of the day, when you've added up all of those 'costs' of running your own servers, PaaS starts to look at lot more attractive. I certainly trust a company like Google AppEngine to be able to hire a lot more sysadmins, setup better monitoring and have better response times for fixing servers than I ever could.

I'd also love to never have to learn or remember the arcane list of setup configuration that this person blogged about. Instead, I'd rather be adding features to my app and making money.
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Note that the American disapproval rating of congress sits at 86% and an approval of 11% and dropping (Gallup polls).
NameCheap "doesn't support SOPA", but they're capitalizing on GoDaddy's missteps more than having any firm moral objection to SOPA. Their opposition to SOPA is very qualified, they publicly say they support new IP legislation, and they may well support whatever comes after SOPA.

I use gandi.net personally - Gandi has long supported internet freedom and is based outside of the US.
I'm not sure your A and B represent a dichotomy. They seem equivalent to me.
I also enjoyed Niven/Pournelle's descriptions in Mote in God's Eye - to paraphrase, space combat is incredibly boring except for brief flashes of terror.
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It's utterly irrelevant who you vote for if the incentives are out of kilter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHma3ZQRVoA
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I am flabbergasted to see Gary Taubes being named a charlatan, especially since Taubes has written a whole freakishly long response to Guynete's articles on his blog:

http://garytaubes.com/
If I dare ask, why does the human race want to leave the earth? There's no reason or benefit. There are more interesting, more pressing issues having mostly to do with our biology.
FWIW I really want a WP7 but I'm on Sprint and I'm not going to buy a year old phone. I really like the phone and would love to create apps for it. But the carriers need to get on board and give me some options.
This essay isn't all that realistic. I found this one [1] to have a far more realistic view of what space war would look like.

Tl;dr: it's much cheaper and much more effective to lob comets at your enemy's homeworld than it is to fight with ships.

[1] http://www.gwern.net/Colder%20Wars
I am fascinated that this thread has repeated mentions of Congress. See my response at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396655
Being profitable allows you degrees of freedom you don’t have when you rely upon other people’s money.

Suster inhabits a completely different universe than the one bootstrapped, profitable businesses do. The reality is very much the opposite. Being constrained by cashflow while watching new semi-competitors burning through OPM freely is absolutely maddening, particularly for technical development.
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Actually lots of schools have metal detectors now at all the entrances.
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This is sorta-kinda true, but not quite. While the residents of a state are technically held to the union of state and federal laws, the jurisdictional issues are important. If a state declares something legal, that means that state-level LEOs won't enforce the federal laws. Those laws are still in effect, but if you're a deadbeat twenty-something toking up behind the liquor store, you care about the subset of laws being enforced by the local beat cop, not those being enforced by the FBI.
Well, to not answer your question: Hotspot performance tuning is a fine art, and benchmarking is a somewhat separate fine art, people will sample their data carefully, do a lot fo runs, warming up properly, using different GC's, tuning heap,GC generations, MaxInlineSize, maybe 32-bit (-server). I remember reading linux package managers often don't include -client in the 64-bit install. JDK7 maybe faster, many people have said no difference between sun/Oracle and openJDK (except launcher and fonts, for IDEA, you must have sunjdk), and in some cases JRockit performs more predictably.

Here's some blogs that i like about this:

http://openjdk.java.net/groups/hotspot/docs/RuntimeOverview....

http://q-redux.blogspot.com/search/label/all%20jvm%20options

http://redstack.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/recommended-jvm-par...

http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com/2011/10/javaone-2011-defini...

http://blog.headius.com/2009/01/my-favorite-hotspot-jvm-flag...

http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages/browse_thread/t...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java+hotspot?sort=...
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> There is nothing strange about being seen naked by strangers, most of evolution we've been naked.

What about being bombarded by ionizing radiation? The millimeter wave machines don't bother me so much, but there's a reason they cover you with a lead vest when you're at the dentist. Full-body x-ray scanners are banned across Europe due to cancer concerns.
There are hidden costs to increased airport security. Money spent on increased airport security could be spent elsewhere.

The expected cost of a unwanted event should be less than or equal to the expected cost of preventing that event. The choice to implement a security policy should be a rational one.
"there's no stealth in space, but there most certainly is stealth in an atmosphere."

It would allow for ambushes, and fake-ambushes.

A lone-ship running from a fleet, carrying a local governor, running past an uninhabited planet, away from a chasing enemy fleet. The lone-ship passes right next to the planet and keeps going. The enemy fleet follows. When the fleet is passing next to the planet, will there be an ambush waiting? Will missiles hidden in the moon orbiting the planet emerge and fire in a cloud of <"thunder" replacement>?

The algorithm deems the chance of an ambush springing from the planet atmosphere as "possible", and the fleet retreats.
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Thanks for pointing to this. Wasn't familiar with this one but it is a great example of using the "signature" tactic.
I put myself through college about 6 years ago contracting. I found most of my clients through similar sites (Rentacoder and scriptlance). I was making about $30k a year working part time during the school year, and mostly full time in the summers. Not a spectacular wage when you compare it to full time Silicon Valley wages, but I'd definitely call it a "living wage" for the US.

The key to being successful on these sites is to view them as a way to meet and get to know longterm clients. It's much easier to charge higher rates once someone has gotten to know you and the quality of your work. I often did one or two projects through the site on a fixed rate while we got to know each other, and then would work directly with them on an hourly basis after that.
Nah, just the startups looking to become absolutely huge (most shouldn't).
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Profitability should not necessarily mean that you are earning more than you are spending, but that you have found a scalable way to make $1 while spending less. Once you have achieve this, you can focus on everything else.
Look at it this way.

A woman was terrified of the relatively minor consequences of speaking loudly in an airport. She did it anyway because she knew she should be allowed to. And we all learned a valuable lesson: our government and the airline industry allow innocent civilians to be subjected to abuse and detainment if they don't silently obey all commands regardless of how stupid they are.

This woman's efforts show everyone just how inhuman and wrong the system is. She can't change the system by herself. But if more people like her show up, maybe, just maybe, it can make a difference.
I also upgraded for development reasons. But I haven't had any issues.
Ask HN: Are you developing anything for Windows mobile phone 7?
Just curious if anyone here is doing any work for Windows mobile app?. Just read on TC that they reached 50K published apps mark.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/27/windows-phone-marketplace-hits-50000-published-apps/
> But here's the thing:
They can improve the software.

Here is the other thing: the software is the only thing that matters. I can forgive an awkwardly placed on/of button, I hit it a couple of times a day. Lost touch events and the like, are an absolute deal breaker. I would never buy a car that regularly ignored throttle input or turns of the steering wheel, why would I buy a touch-interface device that regularly ignores touch events?
I'd claim that the relative success they have so far is a result of them using these tactics.
Namecheap won the lottery that is blogs spewing out content as fast as HN, Reddit etc can vote it up.
"Small-claims flash mob" - Car owner takes legal fight away from lawyers
I don't think they're going to 'go under' anytime soon. Domains are only a small portion of the product portfolio they offer.
Ender's game spoiler alert! Hope it doesn't ruin it for anyone else... (grumble.)

Anyway, how the heck does one lob a comet? If throwing one was so easy, why wouldn't they just throw it right back at you?
Here are the two examples of it coming up that I remember, both due to Prime vs. non-Prime and Amazon switching the first result to a lower priced third-party:
http://crookedtimber.org/2008/12/22/amazons-price-discrimina...
http://brightviolet.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/amazon-coms-pri...

Maybe someone has a real example though... I just remember the debunked ones.
You're in the AZ area? Interesting.

Also interesting is that I had no idea that Maker Bench existed, even though it's practically within walking distance.
I learned Clojure this year, but I don't think I have finished learning it. So my plan for next year is to study on it until I am comfortable enough with it (which would be: good enough to make some money from something built in Clojure) -right now I am having a look at Seesaw to builf GUI's in Clojure, I am quite impressed!
Then I will go for some low-level C, and after that Haskell probably.

I hope I'll remember in December 2012 to ask myself "well, how far did I get in Clojure/C/Haskell?"
This incident will in a public relations textbook as a case study in ten years.
The Guild Withdraws Support for the  Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Well, both gwern's essay and the essay linked by OP assume that both sides have ships capable of interstellar travel. In gwern's case the idea is to not bother with the ship; just bolt an interstellar drive to a comet and point it at the enemy's homeworld.

As for them throwing comets back at you, that is addressed in the essay. In short, there is nothing stopping them from throwing comets back. Space war will resemble the Cold War much more than any active engagement. Mutually assured destruction will be the overriding doctrine.
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Does anyone with knowledge of the industry care to estimate how much money these companies could make using such a scheme?

Considering how often these sorts of stories pop up (once in a while -- maybe a few times a year), and how profitable I would expect to be, I bet price-fixing happens way more often than once in a while. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the norm amongst big electronics manufacturers for most products.

I don't expect raising penalties to be effective at stopping this -- they're settling anyway. It's so profitable and so hard to catch that probably most companies would rather take the risk. If there were a better way of enforcing it, it might work.
First page of the website or the first page of the book?

Either way, you should spend more time reading it. Consider it science fiction if it bothers you.

"The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind" is also mind blowing. Neither is foolproof, and both are potentially crackpot -- but if should read a crackpot book to broaden your horizons. Just consider it scifi instead of science.
In the quickest summary, SpaceX is structuring their business in such a way as to grow fast, get profitable, and remove the need for external funding. They are using COTS (government funding) in much the same way as a silicon valley company would use a VC to provide capital needed for rapid growth. They've been using that money coming in the door to create a non-government market and to make their technology very cost effective in order to grow the space market. Orbital has structured their COTS approach in such a way that they will be able to meet objectives and stay profitable, but it is not an evolutionary path towards a general space architecture.
There are several other reasons regarding why startups win:

* Startups usually have great hackers. Business is about people, and successful startups are started with or staffed with great developers who are exponentially more productive than the norm. PG explains this phenomena in his essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

* Startups also tend to be more focused, driven, agile, and create an environment conducive for productivity (no meetings, HR paperwork, etc.).

* Startups also target the low-end market. To quote PG again, "it's easier to make an inexpensive product more powerful than to make a powerful product cheaper...if you build the simple, inexpensive option, you'll not only find it easier to sell at first, but you'll also be in the best position to conquer the rest of the market."
Like all upgrades, there are things that change. Some things you'll no doubt appreciate, others you will not. To decide if it's "worth it" you'll need to research these changes at some depth. Perhaps the Ars Technica review[1] is a good starting place?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
...and now someone else has the Twitter account, because Paul renamed it to @OceanStrategy and didn't realize someone else could swoop in and get the old one:

https://twitter.com/#!/oceanmarketting
Eventually, yes, since Snow Leopard will become a dead end, but I like 10.7 better. It's the pinnacle on OS X from a UI standpoint.
Thanks for reply, Scotty. What technologies were you using?
Great. But for many people it's too late. What would help GoDaddy at this point is making large, public donations in opposition of SOPA and anything like it. Even then, it's time for their business to make some big changes (see: http://kottke.org/11/12/the-internets-go-daddy-issues).
I guess that's a step...
I could be wrong, but I thought unlocking referred to unlocking the device to all carriers, and jailbreaking to loading on non-Apple sanctioned software (from Cydia primarily).
What's stopping us from boycotting the rest of the list?
The reason that is not available is that the universe of options for beginning programming has exploded since the old boot into BASIC days, and there is no longer agreement on the easiest way to begin programming.

As for the same set-up on every single Mac/PC, it's already there, it is just slightly harder to get to than you want. It's called a web browser, and there are numerous URLs you can go to that let you program right in the browser.

W3schools is probably the easiest to find, and lets you try HTML and JavaScript right in the webpage. http://www.w3schools.com/html/ and http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

The online version of "Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming" by Marijn Haverbeke has an integrated JavaScript console at the bottom to follow along. http://eloquentjavascript.net/chapter1.html

If anything, the problem is that there are too many answers, targeted at too many starting levels, so it is hard to Google for any likely phrases and get to the answer easily.Searching for "begin programming" seems to give better beginner answers, whereas "learn to program" tends to give more college-level answers.

I see no reason why a kid who is interested in how to do it, and grew up in the modern era around web browsers and search engines and such, would have any trouble finding something quickly.
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for all your back of the envelope needs.
GoDaddy still doesn't oppose SOPA that they helped creating.

Just a PR stunt of a butthurt company.

Fuck them. Keep moving your domains, people.
I call bullshit on that poll. People are not morons. If disapproval rating at congress was so high according to a representative poll group, then why aren't people voting in people that they do approve of? House terms are short. Senate terms are long but I don't think this 86% number would have happened overnight.
I wouldn't believe that wiki page's completion table for one moment. It hasn't changed since I was running mapping parties, and yet (for example) all of the one ways are now present.
However, a data plan that does not allow tethering is a carrier issue, not a phone issue. Here, tethering is included with virtually all data plans, across all of the major carriers.
Was referring to the scanners like they have at the airports, not mere metal detectors.
I'll be sure to send it his way. Thanks!
Thank you. Will pass this on.
No argument here! Just pointing out that they've got that covered, even if they obviously haven't thought it through.
GoDaddy is no longer on the list of SOPA supporters, but does that mean it no longer supports SOPA??
Well, how about FIXING it in OSM?
Check the other poll numbers:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_...

They do not differ much, but i used Gallup as they are known to conduct good polls.

Here is info in the specific poll:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/151628/Congress-Ends-2011-Record-...
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The guy took a stack trace of a segfault. If a guy comes up to me, tells me I have a glaring security flaw, and shows me a stack trace of my own code to prove it, I'd be an idiot /not/ to give him at least a few minutes of my time, no matter what community he comes from.
I don't see how this post adds any value to the HN community - bashing an Apple advocate/fanboy without any additional commentary is pretty lame.
I think referring to the technology as "Windows Phone 7" or "WP7" will probably generate better responses.

And I have one in the works, yes.
As to 1: It would take years for the light to get there, it would also take several MORE years for the ship to actually get there. The important take away is distance can't be used to hide, there is no "Oh they won't notice us we're still outside the orbit of Pluto."
With subscription SASS services, growth means getting closer to profitability. Maybe that is why i like them so much lately. It is nice when things overlap. If I were in the consumer space where you grow before trying to monetize, I'd feel really nervous about whether that something that will drive profitability even exists.
The big problem is in proving the collusion. It's just as easy, and mostly legal to send signals to your competitors through the marketplace... release a new model with foobaz feature at a higher pricepoint, see how the competitors react... if they add foobaz feature, and stay close to your higher pricepoint, you're safe, and legal. If they undercut, you can undercut to match.

Just look at the price delta for those TV's with Netflix streaming vs those without. You can't tell me it costs $300ish to add the parts to make this work. Wireless chips cost a few cents... the screens already have a CPU in them to handle everything, so add a few cents, or maybe $1 to add a better CPU...

Do I have specific evidence? no.
On the subject of privateers, why is the author so insistent on the danger of crashing ships into planets? What does the math look like when space craft like he describes hits the upper reaches of our atmosphere? At those speeds, could a space craft really penetrate far enough to cause terrestrial damage?
Damage has already been done. With the story of Weebly also making a point that they are not with the proliferation of free speech and Internet. Instead they are more about control.
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Let's see a public statement by the CEO that not only says "we've been removed from a list" but also "we will never support SOPA or any other far-reaching legislation designed to undermine the Internet."
This is true, but has to be thought through very carefully in multithreaded environments where another thread might remove an object from a collection, causing it to be deleted while you're still looking at it. Safe looping then requires locks or cloning the collection (which is suddenly more expensive because it will hit all the contents' ref counts).

In summary, safe and efficient multithreaded code is never easy.
I don't think it makes sense to even think about starting a company if you don't have some sort of idea of how you're going to make money. This whole idea of build it first and figure out the money stuff later may work for a few companies, but it's more or less a recipe for disaster. Investor capital is temporary, although many treat it as an endless source of income.
She is a professional writer who did this as a publicity stunt

I thought she identified herself as a doctor.

But in any case, you're simply building a strawman argument. You don't, and cannot, have any idea what her actual motivations were. Deluding yourself into believing you know what other people are thinking is not a good way to get to the bottom of any conflict.

(sorry, but you've hit one of my hot buttons)
that ship has sailed go daddy. You can have my internet privacy when you take it from my cold dead hands.
Time to string up the music labels, right?
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