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But if they're small, lean companies, is there room for people to just go off and do random things with little eye to profits?

An example would be someone like Simon Peyton-Jones at Microsoft:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/

Much of what he does may eventually filter down to the rest of the company, but there's a real risk that some of it won't, or that it'll be picked up by someone outside of Microsoft, etc...

How does that sort of thing work out with a number of small companies networked together?
I'm getting a bunch of "bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" in my SSH session when running commands like `ls`, etc. Could be due to high traffic?
This and Ubuntu for Android couldn't be more different... One is Android on a big screen and one is actually a desktop replacement...
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An analogous question: Would you marry someone who doesn't floss? I mean, otherwise they're great, but there's all this hype around flossing and I thought everyone did it.
This is one of the most interesting startups (outside of IT) that I've seen -- it's a meta tool which can increase scientific productivity for a lot of research, which in turn will help lots of people.
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Could something like this (http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-limiting-user-process.ht...) be quickly implemented on the server?
Sociopaths...
It's hard to imagine that, after all the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into this company, they would choose to charge the customer > $30K for a new battery in the few cases where this occurred. Is it really worth a few hundred thousand dollars to get the PR this article implies?

And, why isn't there a failsafe mechanism that simply stops draining the battery completely before this happens? Then at least you can tow it home and recharge it -- inconvenient, but not $30K inconvenient.
Bumping rlimit! Should be good for now.
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1. It's you who started the flame by publishing your obviously unfair comparison.

2. I didn't receive your email (if you really sent it).

3. Stunnel overrides the OpenSSL default of enabling compression by default since version 4.51 released over a month ago http://www.stunnel.org/?page=sdf_ChangeLog

4. Whether compression is useful or not depends on many factors, including not only type of data, but also available bandwidth and CPU power. And data compression is not an illusion. I'd be afraid to use your products if you don't understand it.

5. Compression is indeed much slower than encryption. This is a fact. Do you really mean that your product is better just because it doesn't support compression?

6. Stunnel is indeed a performance bottleneck, but only if your internet connection is over 0.5Gbps, and your server is as slow as my desktop: http://www.stunnel.org/?page=perf
Yes, I think it's an absolutely fascinating subject, and while I have some instincts, who knows which way it could go.

To have some predictive value, what other industries besides web companies that are super cheap and easy to start, might morph towards this kind of structure? Or, here's another one: this industry has long been dominated by giants: IBM, Microsoft, Google, and so on. Will we see the end of that?

(And just to be clear, I think what pg has done is fantastic, and he/them are quite praiseworthy, etc... I'm just pushing back a bit on the idea. I can't foresee doing business with PG or YC, so I have no interest in not calling it like I see it)
The theory isn't one way.

The third world has tiny average firm size, and the theory correctly predicts that in the developing world firms will get larger rather than smaller.

Consider the small proprietor in a third world who spends tons of time bargaining with vendors and customers. As people's time becomes more valuable and more products become available, the cost of bargaining increases, and larger stores replace vendors because it reduces total negotiation costs.
This is why it's a very good idea to include the line, "We will never publish anything to your timeline without your direct permission", on your sign-up form. Or even more direct, "We promise not to post to Facebook that you signed up with us!".

Something along those lines will go a long way in getting me to use Facebook Connect to register for your application, because like you, I immediately go check... and I'm infuriated when they do.
I feel some of this discussion misses the point. To date the best predictor of the future is the past. And the best way to measure the past is by reviewing work done - not a self-declared history of yourself. If Github does not get you there, then creating some kind of show and tell for anyone to review is necessary. The other stuff you would assumed you can get out of a CV, ie cultural fit, etc you can only assess by meeting the person and working with him/her for a while. At the end of day Github is the best catch all for "show your work" for programmers
I have often thought this was where the future is going to be. For me the only question is will it be ARM based or will it be x86 with what I assume millions if not billions of dollars Intel is pumping into making X86 a contender for mobile devices.

Either way I love the idea of walking around with a full desktop in my pocket that doubles as an entertainment device, phone, gaming platform. The future is indeed bright.
You labor under a false assumption of what the process of science is or should be.

Science is not a process of walking from one stepping stone of absolute, solid truth to another stepping stone of truth. Science is messy. Because the world is messy. Science is the process of observing the Universe as best we can given our limits and attempting to verify various models and conjectures about the way the Universe works. But along the way there are many potentials for pitfalls. Every experiment has a degree of error due to factors unrelated to what the experiment is trying to measure.

Published scientific papers are not like chapters in a text-book, they are merely the results of experiments. Sometimes it's possible to have experiments which seem to support one result or another but turn out to have some flaw or merely involve factors which we cannot explain yet. For example, we still don't know what "dark matter" actually is even though we have a pretty good idea that it does exist and some rough estimate of some of its properties. And for decades we did not know the origin of gamma ray bursts. It's the rare experiment that is definitive enough to provide unambiguous support or refutation for a specific theory, most experiments are somewhere in the middle, somewhat muddled, imperfect, and generally only gain strength once independently repeated and producing the same result.
If you're working with a keyboard and mouse, and looking at a big screen, and you have a rich multi-tasking environment that does what you need it to do, does it matter if it's running on a smartphone that's connected via bluetooth to a keyboard/mouse and via DLNA to a screen? Why the need to have a big box containing your CPU, if a little one will do?

Desktop PC's will always find a niche, but they're already a niche today. Laptops by far outsell desktops, and smartphones+tablets by far outsell laptops. Right now you have to be a geek to buy a desktop, because regular people don't buy those anymore. I don't know anyone "normal" who bought a desktop in the last two years. The idea to buy anything other than a laptop simply doesn't arise. This happened in 5 years. Why couldn't a smartphone-centric transition happen in 5 years as well?
This looks absolutely terrible compared to some electrowetting technologies (e.g., http://www.pixelqi.com/ )
If you're ever worried about an app posting to your timeline or you want to use an app that only grants access based on the permissions you give it (like the horrid Washington Post social reader), there's a really simple fix. Just select "only me" from the "who can see this activity?" dialog box. It's sometimes a very light non-contrasty color (which is sneaky), but after doing this the app can spam 1000 stories on your timeline but it will never be seen by your friends.

Sure you will be able to see it, but you can then remove the stories at your convenience. Even when I disable permissions and double check the dialog box, I always click this to make sure.
ST2 is the only editor that has managed to pull me away from GVim - and I've been using that as long as I can remember. Great job.
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It is quite ridiculous and revolting that government would be able to use the UN so quickly and efficiently when the outcome to to give them control and possibly econical power over a resource, threatening to pass the agreement into "international law" and yet take years of bs negotiations, political stalling and blaming the UN on most major issues out there only to come on with non binding agreements...

To me that says the most and is just revolting. Let's hope this doesn't go through making the Internet dependent on a consensus based decision making process is just absurd and a good way of killing it as we know it.
This is probably the sweet spot exit that most entrepreneurs dream of ...

$1 million raised, 2 years of work and $15 million cash exit. The founders have obviously done very well in this exit.

Great story. Great product. Well done!
Another option might be that they're looking to integrate FPGAs on Haswell dies.
Disconnecting the BMS does not eliminate self-discharge, only the parasitic load. Draining your batteries to the point of being functionally dead, and then leaving them in that state for an extended period, will still "brick" them just as badly.
Except that it's not bullshit, at least not in the traditional sense. Think of it like your most basic unit test. Regardless of what the evidence suggests, can the candidate bang out a quick algorithm, without aid, in your presence?

Interviews are a HUGE time sink for companies; not just in the interview itself, but also in the examination of candidates, their resumes, their code, their references, discussions among team members to decide if they'll be a good fit, etc, etc. One interviewee can blow away two days work easy. So we're not in the mind to lose any more time than we have to.

Fizzbuzz is a sanity test. To the candidate it may seem absurd, but once as an interviewer you've dealt with enough fakers, or even people who honestly believe they can code and yet can't, you begin to appreciate the simple elegance of a 5 minute fizzbuzz test as a kick-off to the interview.
it would wreck your battery life because the life of the battery is almost directly tied to the number of screen refreshes.
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Let me make an analogy to a different market - hobby r/c aircraft. 10 Years ago, the only practical way to get certain sizes of aircraft was to use gas powered engines. Nowadays most people use brushless motors for everything, not because they think "hey these are better for the environment" or "these are more efficient", but because they are much more convenient and much more powerful. That is what Tesla is going after - more powerful. Their target market is people that have tiny sports cars and saying "electric motors have an insane amount of torque at low rpms", and then as this other thing, way over there - by the way, they don't use as much fuel too.

There is a whole another ideology that the "green" movement is, which is saying we need to get people to drive less, and when they drive, they should use the most fuel efficient car they should, because you know, the environment and stuff. Generating power at a central power plant (which can happen to be solar/wind/other renewable method rather than coal) and using that energy to power cars is much more efficient than having thousands of miniature power plants burning gasoline/diesel carrying people around town. However, most people don't care about the environment the way that people that want to push everyone to drive electric vehicles. I certainly don't.

A year or two ago, I wanted to get a new car, from my 1998 ford mustang. I had two desires, one was to get a more powerful car. The other was to spend less money on gas. My friend had bought a Prius recently and I liked the features of it, so I went to the Toyota dealership and took one for a test drive. When I finally got to do it (I would not recommend the Rosevilla Toyota to anyone, for the record), the power was completely unacceptable to me and there was no way I was buying that car. I ended up buying a Mini Cooper S, which was more powerful, and had better gas mileage. I think that is the goal of Tesla, to get cars which are more powerful than the gasoline cars, and cheaper to operate.

Do you really think that the customer needs to adapt to the car, rather than the car adapting to the person? Isn't that like the opposite of everything Hacker News stands for?
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I have used this framework, I have to say, elegant is the correct way to describe it. It is very simple, intuitive and very performant (I think it is faster than CodeIgniter for a helloworld no db call benchmark).

Several limiting factors are there however, the migrations functionality is a bit weak, it supports many databases so you can't really go specifics (ex: changing database engine, it's INNODB by default)
The orm is very straightforward, it works but it's slightly too simplistic, I found my self hand code a couple of times.

All in all: A++++ great framework!! will use again!!
Candidate's only "resume" was code would be a huge red flag for me [I hire Python engineers btw]. Outside of startup / few persons / open source projects, code is actually a small part of an engineers job. And not that rare/hard of a skill.

Communication, being able to work on and contribute to a team (and not just a team of developers), understanding business, being able to estimate, being able to understand, articulate, and extract requirements from/to clients/non-technicals/management, etc, etc. Are all much more important and difficult to find.
im getting this.."bash: fork: retry: Resource temporarily unavailable" each and every time.

is that a sign that i won this game without executing any cli yet?
I wonder why it's so slow sometimes and so fast others. Also, where the `ell are the Pixel Qi readers? The B&W mode on the original OLPC is like a LCD pretty effectively emulating eInk as opposed to this case of eInk trying to catch up to an LCD.
Hello Luke, and thank you! Can't wait to be there :)
The third world has tiny companies and huge (often state-owned) companies; it mostly is missing stuff in the middle. The huge state owned companies are the main ones which contribute to international trade (with the exception of agriculture, and even there, the farmers are organized into various kinds of reseller/cooperative/buyer arrangements.) I think international trade usually ignores the domestic markets of these countries, so only their primary exporters are counted.

Third world isn't really the right term; it's more like "mostly undeveloped" vs. "developing" -- China (at least the urbanized parts) has more in common in firm size with the US, Japan, and Europe than it does with Nigeria.
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"How hard can it be?" is a double-edged red flag - both the spark at the base of many wonderful inventions, and the most common last words.

Who would own that super-backend-service? Who would own the data submitted? Oh and btw, single point of failure (see the recent debacle inflicted upon jotform)?
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Good exercise if you want to join who wants to be a millionaire. I got 32 out of 50 for the record.
How many sites need to be humiliated like this before people learn to hash passwords with something like bcrypt? It's like two damn functions. You just call them! It's so easy that even a baby squirrel could do it! There is no excuse.

Until then, I hope everyone is using a throwaway password for accounts that can be non-disastrously stolen, and using strong unique passwords for the important ones.
"Graham is the cofounder of Y Combinator, the investment firm that plugs seed money ($18,000 on average) into early stage startups in exchange for mentorship and access to its ever-growing network of alumni."

Maybe I'm not understanding this right, but the phrase "in exchange for", seems like it should have read "in addition to". Can someone please clarify?
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Haha I never heard anyone compare Zen to Python. Point granted, anyways.
Seriously awesome, jump straight into non-stop project vids here: http://kickstumbler.com/view?vid=1
In addition to the other comments, it should be noted that this happens after the fact. You don't really know what your bugs will do until they turn up, which you can only know after you run the program.

Similarly, they didn't know what their results would be until after they ran the experiment. At that point, they can either: share the results, or hide the results. Hiding the results is the absolute worst thing that any scientist can do. The only time the option not to share the results would be acceptable is when they can be discredited or discounted (and sometimes they should still be shared). Since they couldn't discredit their results (they tried), they took the only responsible option remaining.

Indeed, they didn't just publish the results, they asked others to look for the bug. Like others have said, this is the best possible outcome.
I agree with you, I'm not trying to make a general statement that is true for everyone. Just trying to point out that FB Connect might not be viewed as negatively in certain markets.
That's the point of the quiz.
This logic is fallacious.

> In just a week at UPenn, our startup Greekex has
> received 500 registrations via Facebook Connect
>(we do not offer an alternative login).

500 registrations via Facebook Connect compared to what, exactly?

Any idea of how many didn't sign up after visiting, or backed out?

You have no alternative login so you can't compare it against people opting for those.

How about projected signups? Were your expectations met or exceeded?

All you're saying here is that you've had 500 signups through Facebook. No useful conclusion can be drawn from that.
It's fun to feel like a nefarious hacker. I'm at level2, see you at level 6 guys!
I don't know if it's just me, but I tend to shy away from reading these sorts of articles here. On HN I'm able to recapture some of that child-like joy that goes along with building things, so it feels extra-painful to be reminded of my mortality.
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Invariably on exercise-related articles there will be a comment saying, basically, "Congratulations, science, for proving the obvious..."

The proper response is always the same: even what seems intuitively obvious needs continual verification through the scientific method, both to understand the underlying physical mechanisms that drive a phenomenon, and to detect situations where our intuition is wrong.
That old adage that you can stave off memory loss and general degeneration of cognitive ability by keeping your mind active always seems strikingly obvious to me, and I think it's pretty much true for people at any age. And anyway, what the heck are you doing if you're not keeping your mind active anyway? Watching paint dry ;-)
That old adage that you can stave off memory loss and general degeneration of cognitive ability by keeping your mind active always seems strikingly obvious to me, and I think it's pretty much true for people at any age. And anyway, what the heck are you doing if you're not keeping your mind active anyway? Watching paint dry? ;-)
On the same note, why do we keep writing the same client-side code over and over again, Isn't there some sort of system that can take arbitrary data from the server, and display it for user input/modification? Perhaps some layout/templating and simple data interaction rules.

Also, I'm not really being sarcastic or the like. But overall, data presentation has always been pretty trivial IMO. For the bsaic set of data-munging apps that so many tend to build, I can't imagine a 90% solution can't exist as a simple set of basic data definitions and rules.

In fact, aren't we both just talking about something like Filemaker on steroids?
Well, we're convinced that 99.9999% of Greeks have Facebooks. But all I'm trying to say here is that FB Connect might be extremely effective for certain markets, and horrible for others.
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If your secondary is doing work, then you'll get a performance degradation from losing the primary anyway.

The difference here is that once the slave's warmed up you're back to full speed, whereas with a hot-spare-being-read-from the performance degradation lasts until you bring the other box back.

Any such corruption is effectively a buggy update - normal replication will propagate a buggy write just as happily, and even if it crashed the node entirely there's a good chance your application's retry logic will re-run the write against the slave in a moment.
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nice dig!
FB recently introduced Enhanced Auth Dialog which solves the problem you mention about.(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/authenticatio...)

It allows users to remove permissions such as posting to facebook.

Unfortunately it is opt-in for apps.
Ok, in hindsight, I agree that might have been a pointless statement in the grand scheme of things, but 500/3000 Greeks in one week is significant market penetration. This is also a MVP that we developed in 4-5 weeks, so I say that with pride.
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This type of faux-populist attitude is bothersome, especially since it's so popular on HN. Why dichotomize attempts to change education along monetary lines?

Khan is changing education from without, and Knewton is changing it from within. What's wrong with either approach?
If we cure aging abruptly, it may halt the accellerating returns of technology. Notice that the time it takes for a retarded idea to go away is the time it takes the community to train the kids the right way, and for the stubborn old folks (who don't need training) with all the money and power to hand off the reigns to the fresh mind. A cornerstone of our American explosive progress is that old people and old ways get the hell out of the way by losing their ability to think straight. If people never die, we will have to create a new system to preserve this creative destruction cycle. A simulated turnover of power from the old to the new. A scary thought: the popular world religions/delusions during the time aging was cured will be the religions that remain with us for a thousand years.
Maybe! My point isn't that Mailinator made the wrong choice (in fact I said they probably made the right one)--it's that the decision for a situation we know nothing about is more complex than "Cogs bad".
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I've seen some very small companies do things that would count as research projects in some places. E.g. Etherpad.