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Did you read the article? He has invested:

" I started the year with almost nothing and ended with a used van, a new utility trailer, less debt, fully paid bills and money left to take the family to Hawaii. "

At some point you need to make the decision to actually enjoy life too.

> Sorry to be a Debbie downer, but it irks ne to see people who have their long term priorities all out of whack(and they usually have way more kids than they can support)

Everyone hits tough times sometimes, but this is someone who clearly can support his kids, enough so that he's been able to afford investing in a van, a trailer, pay down his debts, and take the family to Hawaii. In that context this comment just makes you seem like an ass.
As pentotype is a web app, it only requires a browser. In principle, it will work on all high performance tablets, no matter which OS.
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There aren't too many manufacturing facilities in the US of that size that are automated to the extent you mentioned. There are many situations where it's nearly impossible to have a robot do the job such as installing wiring harnesses, installing hardware in very tight, awkward spaces, etc..(when I say impossible I mean it would cost more to develop that job than the income it generates). I've seen many cases where a human can do the job faster than a robot too. Sure, improving object design can improve manufacturability, but robots are not going to replace people entirely anytime soon in every type of manufacturing.
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After making reference to artisan bread from Germany and baklava from Iran, the author asks, "How many items in our homes today will gain value over the next 30 years?"

I don't want to know what that bread or baklava is going to look like in 30 years.
Thanks - it's interesting to know that the Kármán line provides some justification to the 100km value.
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Yup, totally agree, that'd be an great addition to Kickstarter.

Just shift the pre-sales out of the pledges and into 'we have some accountability' area for people who want to buy something.

Some kind of phased release of the funds to the project if they meet certain delivery milestones or something. I'm sure it could work~

(and you know, be ethical and legal at the same time...)
And post 2007, smartphones have shown that the the OS really does still matter.
I think you might be right. Anyway, my distrust for ALL politicians still remains.

The left-wing's MO is "think of the children" while the right-wing's is "we must fight terrorism". But in the end they all have the same goal.
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What seems really interesting to me here is the ability to extend an existing class by implementing an interface (instead of a set of extension methods), and therefore becoming able to cast any instance of this type as an instance of this interface. I'd love to have that in C#, as it would simplify (if not eliminate) the creation of wrappers around types you don't own.
In my small rural county of Gloucestershire there are over 60 languages spoken. (This is a county with a population of about 800,000 people; spread out over a large rural geographic area).

Here's a short list of languages spoken by school children.

(http://www.irespect.net/CIRCLE/EMAS/Languages2001.htm)

Cities such as Bristol or London would be considerably more diverse.

And these people are, mostly, integrated into local communities rather than separated into various ghettos.
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I, too, think the layout is lacking, as some here suggest, but the bigger issue is probably that the op relied on a handful of big tech blogs. Unless you have connections to them or already are a big name in the business, nobody will ever read your email or answer it or write about it in their blog.

This is drawn from personal experience with an online appointment scheduling software we offer. There are too many of those out there. Nobody really cares about the next one, even though it has nice features others don't.
We really want to make pentotype offer an experience like on paper, so we also keep an eye on pens that improve the drawing accuracy.

Do you mean an HP Touch Pad? We don't have one, so we cannot say anything about that currently. It depends on its JavaScript and Canvas performance in the browser.
Yep. Des fois ça marche. Mais c'est sûr que c'est plus dur...

Faut dire, les startups, içi, ça fait un peu alien. Et encore, je dis içi... Depuis que j'ai émigré à Lyon, je n'espère même plus en voir près de moi...
> Great people are not necessarily nice people. I understand that Leonardo Da Vinci was a jerk.

I don't understand the deification of Leonardo da Vinci either. He was a nice painter but nothing extraordinary. His science and engineering is basically bogus, like his flying machines. Now Newton and Gauss for example, they were true geniuses. But when historians see a drawing of a flying machine by da Vince they think "amazing!" and so does the general public. When they come across Newton's works the see a bunch of unintelligible stuff.
Make sure you show her Gauss’s trick for summing arithmetic series.
This is only part of the why. The other part is the valueOf function which you can specify in order to control what the value of an object is when coerced.

So for instance:

var arr1 = [1,2,3], arr2 = [1,2,3,4];
console.log(arr1 + arr2); // "1,2,31,2,3,4"
arr1.valueOf = function () { return this.length; };
arr2.valueOf = arr1.valueOf;
console.log(arr1 + arr2); // 7
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Thanks for mentioning that this is happening in South Africa, since I recently got my mother a land line there. That said, her laptop is so bad and used for so little that it would be funny to see them trying to do anything with it.
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Given the focus of this community, I'd expect there to be a high density of people producing APIs, so I'm particularly interested in feedback from you all.
Given the focus of this community, I'd expect there to be a high density of people producing APIs, so I'm particularly interested in feedback from you all.
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Water filtration is indeed a key survival technology for humanity in the next 50-100 years, so seeing technology already providing possible solutions to the so-called "water wars" of the future is great!

I presume such a filter will also remove all bacteria/etc from the water. So basically, you could grab some water from the Thames, stick it through one of those filters, and drink it. It might lack some minerals, but it won't get you sick.
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> What is something that is worth much and uniquely European?

Champagne; whiskey; other (often regionally protected) foods.

Sabatier knives (when made of the right steel in Thiers); Sheffield Steel knives

British small garage sports cars (Ariel Atom; Bristol; etc etc)

I don't know how to say this in the style of HackerNews, but I feel the need to anyway: Your ignorance of other nations is weakening any point you have.

> What tangible products are uniquely American?

There are plenty of examples. Certain other cars; some guitars; bourbon; shaker style furniture. That's a list off-the-cuff; with a bit of research I'd be able to find a few more.
The title is a bit misleading. One other lab's failure to reproduce the results does not prove invalidity of the original publication. It certainly raises some eyebrows, but it makes sense to wait and see what comes of Wolfe-Simon's further analysis before we declare that arsenic life definitely does not exist.
> Cannondale

In 2009 there were reports Cannondale is going to move production to Asia (http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cannondale-closing-us-...).
Did they decide against it? Wikipedia says the production sites are in Vietnam and Taiwan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannondale_Bicycle_Corporation#... - second paragraph)
> Over the long term, I would not be surprised to see those companies switch to WP7 given that they are already paying Microsoft for the OS on their phones.

Except for the fact Android phones outsell WP7 ones 40 to 1
The Wallenberg family is definitely in the 1% and quite powerful. Wikipedia says their sphere of influence "is estimated to indirectly control about a third of the national GDP."

The author writes: "I remember, for example, bicycling for hours through a small industrial city, looking in vain for substandard housing." I'm curious as to which city that was, and what route was taken. The concrete suburbs created by the Miljonprogrammet (eg, Angered in Gothenburg) are, perhaps not substandard, but definitely low status, with many immigrants, high unemployment and crime, and the buildings look ugly.

As the article doesn't mention these, the author comes across as using rose-colored glasses to interpret Swedish history. I point as well to the lasting effects of the strong labor and pro-99%'er movement in the US in the early 1900s, leading to everything from the 40-hour work weeks to woman's voting rights to the FDA to the FDIC. This is similar to what was going in Sweden at the same time. Using the same pair of glasses I would say it lead to the rise of the middle class in the US later in that century.
Not getting covered by tech blogs that you dropped an unsolicited email to should not be considered a failed product launch. Well maybe it is in the sense if you are counting on front page of TechCrunch as your entire marketing effort. This seems like the kind of app that spreads virally, after all the whole point is that it works without the other person needing the app. I'd say just start using it with friends and see what happens?
I've actually got a blog post in the works about this whole idea of value, and who "creates" value as opposed to "facilitating the exchange of value" (that's often regarded as inferior, but I would suggest that it's not). The line between the two is harder to draw than you'd think, anyway. Is art really creating value, or is it just facilitating things? Is building a physical product really creating value? From an environmental point of view, every physical product creating is destroying value, or at best turning one type of value into another. Is writing software creating value?

When you really dig into it, this idea of "creating value" is pretty damn complicated...
Well, that presumes a perfect seal on the filter, because otherwise the bacteria can just take the long way around the filter and into your filtered water.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-of-responsibility_pattern

Maybe I am citing the wrong pattern here. Basically each collection "filter" will do it's own work and pretend like it in itselfis a collection. The pagination is like a collection, but filtered in some way, the filtering is too. Eventually I can easily implement another in the chain to fetch records when I page to the page containing the record (say the record really only contains the ID) and it would be pretty trivial to do.

Also lets you have a master collection of data, and multiple views doing different things with that master collection, without constantly changing the master.
I've never heard of new scientist. Is it a real science journal or sensationalist? (based on this article I'd guess the latter)
Interesting...some things to consider when building a VM (not this particular one, but in general -- and I am by no means an expert, and could be wrong on some of these things, although I have built my own compiler and VM from the ground up):

If possible, avoid shorts, bytes, and compressed byte code. Most CPUs work with 32 and 64 bit numbers, and they will convert bytes/shorts to 32 bits usually, which takes time (your compiler may do this regardless, depending on optimization, but anyhow it keeps your VM smaller and cleaner). Also, your VM would need to support every permutation of action (add a byte to an int, a int to a short, etc). Also, compressing an instruction into a 32 bit or 64 bit space is adverse to performance. Memory is plentiful enough (both RAM and cache) that you should not bother with this unless you are targeting an embedded device or something.

Use enums for your op codes, and a switch statement (depends on compiler). If you use enums and a switch, the compiler can generate a jump table because it knows the enum will always be in a certain range. Much better performance than a bunch of if/else statements.

It is possible to write a VM that only uses floating point numbers, if you want to keep the VM as small and simple as possible. This means casting the floats for things like addressing, but otherwise I think it might perform well.
Pure code can be used in the monad just fine, (ie.: you can return values up to the monad and lift functions)

//turn a function into a monadic action
function lift(f){ return function(/**/){
var d = new Deferred(); //Im using the Dojo API
d.resolve( f.call(this, arguments) );
return d.promise;
};};

var f = function(x){ return x+1}

lift(f)(0)
.then(function(y){ ... })

The problem is the opposite direction: pure code using monadic code and pure code turning into monadic code

If you have something like

var x = f1( f2( f3() ) )

And f2 becomes a monadic action you have to rewrite this bit as

var xPromise = f2( f3() )
.then(function(f2result){
return f1(f2result);
});
The city building industry must be one of the greatest business opportunities ahead of us. It's very cost intensive, and the stakes are hight, but the possible returns is even higher.

In short, create a new manhattan on a desolate location, and the increase in real estate prices could be extreme.
I think YC is great, but.

YC is not for founders who like to go their own route, who like to figure stuff out on their own, even if it takes more time and is more risky. If you have too much handed to you, you will not learn as much as you would from your mistakes. Also, just based on HN there seems to be an awful lot of groupthink around YC (not the partners I'm sure), which is annoying to lone-wolf types.

Btw. I think your "tipping point" statement has a lot of survivor bias. Was it a tipping point for the ones that ended up going nowhere? Well, not, by definition. And for the ones that did and raised a series A, yes of course it was, but so is raising a series A without YC.
From the post:

"I would like to touch a slightly different application of this technology - protect your software/data from being hacked."

I wrote something similar that I posted to my blog a couple of years ago ( my blog post is titled "An Embedded Mini Interpreter" ).

While I had tinkered with making my own VM's with elaborate file-formats, the only data-structure I used for my VM was an array of integers that acted as indices to functions in a C program and an index to the array element next in line to be interpreted.

The interpreter would begin at the top of the array and would issue the function relative to the number in the current integer in the array. For some functions, I would encode data in the integer array. For the sake of example, I simply encoded a string for a "print string" function as a single character in each successive integer slot.
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That's not a show-stopper, though, is it? I mean, you could get near-perfect just by making the filter the right shape and having several layers of filtering, thus reducing the chance of a bacteria getting through down to some infinitesimal probability...
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I'd like to ask HN about my latest startup: SocialFolders. We take a Dropbox-like approach to managing your content on your social networks by mirroring all the content you have on these networks in folders on your computer. Moving this content around, between folders or between services, is mirrored in the all-mighty "cloud" (ugh, I hate this word).

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Most people seem to go for the charismatic figure. It's interesting how much of a backlash there is when it turns out that they were just human after all, people feel betrayed and manipulated for having placed that figure on a pedestal.

The stories about Steve jobs were always there (the most telling of which I thought was when he ripped off Wozniak with the Atari situation, but Lisa said a lot too), and gates was a dick in his time too.

Interesting people tend to have a few sides, and some of those sides can be pretty ugly.
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> That's strange, about 998 being absent. What follows is definitely nonsense

I had to re-read what the parent poster said to get it. So I thought I'd explain what he means when he says:

> Also, "998" doesn't appear 'in sequence' (it obviously appears as 97[9 98]0 981).

He is saying 998 is missing, as others have observed. He is also saying that if you took the string of digits and did a string search for "998", you'd obviously find those digits together in other places (specifically during the sequence of 979 980 981).

You'd also find them at 799 800 801.
It's an English magazine that's somewhere inbetween your two options. Generally their reporting is pretty good and they avoid headlines for the sake of headlines, however they do put a lot of focus on making their content understandable to non-scientists - it's aimed at smart, curious people, not scientists.

An example of this is their "last word" feature, where they take a question from a reader and let anyone write in with answers - these are usually random questions like "Why is the sky blue?" or "If it's raining, will I get less wet if I run than if I walk?" They've also released two or three Last Word compilation books.
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IANAL but I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think users of Clojure (and Scala, JRuby, Jython etc) are in the same category as Google with Dalvik. All those languages compile (or some combination of interpret and JIT compile) to Java bytecode and then run on JVMs. Oracle's lawsuit against Google had to do with an unlicensed non-conforming Java platform. The Clojure Google group seemed to agree when the suit was announced [1].

[1] http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...
> ... he pokes fun at some apparently crazy behaviours in Ruby and Javascript.

I am sorry, but that still is crazy behavior. You can excuse it with a historical perspective ("well it had to hide errors from users") or by explaining "the why" like you do, that still doesn't make that behavior less crazy.
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Internet access isn't available in everywhere and people will always want hard copies. I'm one of them. Who exactly is going to give Netflix money? Are you telling them to take out a loan, offer more stocks? Internet connection speeds aren't slowing down Netflix, it's Hollywood. They're not worried about their videos not streaming quickly enough; they're worried about making more $$$.
I think you greatly overestimate the amount of "pressure" a single company can exert on China, of all places.
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Type coertion is a language feature just like some other risky-yet-helpfull features. Take for example pointers: any programming language without pointer is safer†, but pointers help you express certain things concisely and thus avoid some classes of bugs. Heck, a knife with dull blade is safer just as well, but that doesn't increase its overall utility.

Compare with:

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--

†except that you can generate NullPtrException in the pointerless Java. Ask yourself, WAT?
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I'm starting to wonder if all these SV guys talking about fixing Hollywood is kind of like Hollywood saying they're going to fix SV (or revolutionize it with a poorly conceived product, poorly conceived because they have no domain experience there). Hubris?

I tend to agree there's likely a better model, but I suspect there's a bit more to it than the tech industry seems to think. Something to consider.
Plenty of people just want to get rid of stuff. They need the room or they need to move and they don't care what happens to it. If this no-one takes it it'll go to landfill.

He's providing a service to them. He takes the stuff away, and doesn't charge them to do so. He might even give them some money. (Compare that to hiring a dumpster / skip.)
I can't hardly overestimate something I didn't make an estimation of.
The 100km is not arbitrary. It's an altitude past which a wing would have to travel faster than the orbital velocity in order to retain lift. It's a model that only considers angle of attack and the density of the atmosphere. In other words, it's the maximum height at which an aerodynamic vehicle can retain altitude (where lift >= drag).
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> If this no-one takes it it'll go to landfill.

I don't think he takes landfill material since he is able to sell it on craigslist for money only a day or two later.
About pollution, what about troleys, trams and S-bahns then?
Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich_model
And take Basel as a small city(~170k population) with a very good public transportation system.

The models are already out there and working nicely, other cities just have to emulate them.
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Nitpick: dull blades are not safer.