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What do you know... the domain is alive and kicking (although it wasn't the plain dot com I was talking about, it had a country code at the end. Both are alive)

Maybe Google relaxed their stance? Still, I wouldn't bother having the word Google in a domain, just in case.
Hi HN, the developer here.

Short story: I quit my job last year and spent half a year to develop this.
It's still small, a minimum viable product, and I'm adding more features (and fixing bugs).

The goal is to have an IDE for the iPad and not just another editor (Simplenote, Evernote, etc).

At the moment, it supports importing projects from GitHub and pushing changes to GitHub. But, with the GitHub web hooks you can do some nice things: update your GitHub pages, deploy your app to AppHarbor or StackMob from your iPad, etc…

https://github.com/blog/961-deploy-to-appharbor-from-github
http://www.stackmob.com/devcenter/docs/StackMob-Hosted-HTML5...

There are a few bugs that I discovered yesterday. So, please bear with me :)
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That's how I felt too. ML-Class was an order of magnitude more "complete" feeling.
I suspect that Bayes reasoning is much more complicated than particle filters. The particle filters seemed to be a simple but powerful concept.
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The iPhone, when it was released, was something completely new, though. There was literally nothing like it on the market at all. Almost nobody had multitouch functionality. Nobody integrated a content market in the same way Apple did. And nobody made a smartphone as easy to use as Apple.

Tesla is targeting existing markets, making a product that looks pretty damned similar to other available products. They're not targeting the general public(like Apple). To compete on this level, their features are exactly what people talk about.

Also, the Roadster IS disruptive in one of those. Efficiency.
If you have an electric car and get a permit you can drive in the carpool lane alone: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm
I don't do the initial screening, but I do use resume's as an ethics test and guideline for interviews. If you list a lot of random crud on your resume and don't know much about it then you don't get in period. In the end every team has a different process, but I don't care what you have in GitHub and I do care what's on your resume so don't get to infatuated with what you hear random people say on HN or anywhere else.
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HyperDex uses value-dependent chaining, which offers fault tolerance properties similar to those provided by chain replication (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/rvr/papers/osdi04.pdf).

A single node failure will be recovered from quickly without issue. Multiple concurrent failures are handled the same as the single failure case, so long as our failure assumptions are not violated (e.g., every node in the datacenter fails simultaneously).
I'm surprised that you would come to that conclusion. I would think that most "mega power-users" (as I'm now labeling you :) would simply assume that they were turning off some kind of public-facing display of their search history, and that you were not opting out of their ability to target ads at you with greater precision.

I would not be surprised if many people got the same impression.
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That's my feeling too, that this stuff is hot for the startup / dotcom hiring people which is a minority of the programming jobs out there, which are mainly intranet business stuff.
I think the point he was making is that the average person doesn't need to (or want to) care about these kind of things.

I mean, the mentality I'm seeing on HN and Reddit and other sites nowadays is "How DARE $company tie my activities using their service to the IP address I accessed it from!"

It always seemed like common sense to me that any data I give a company (whether implicitly or explicitly) would be combined and reused and remixed in almost any way possible.

Google is welcome to my web activity, as far as I'm concerned, that's my payment for some really awesome web services that don't really have an equal anywhere else, especially wrt. integration.

But then again, I'm not a political dissident and I don't really have anything to hide during an average day on the internet. (And if/when I do have something to hide, I take steps to anonymize myself)

There most certainly is something as a need for a certain degree of privacy, but please do not confuse "need" for "justification". A soccer mom's average activities might not need privacy, but any justification she has is none of anyone's damn business but hers. If she wants to keep everything she does private, fine.

Someone who has a need for privacy would be the usual, political dissidents, unpopular opinions, etc.
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> next year

The article itself says "later this year", so I assume that is wrong.
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Then perhaps you'd care to share one? Or maybe just start cranking out magic batteries and become uber-wealthy?

Since you haven't done that, I find it more likely you have no clue what you're talking about.
YC has nothing to do with replacing the traditional corporation. To do that YC companies would have to have sustainable business models and actually make a profit.

How many YC companies have ever made a real profit before being bought? How is the YC model sustainable without existing large corporations like Google or Yahoo or Linkedin waiting to buy out the startups?

YC is about grooming startups ready to be bought out in talent acquisitions after a period of rapid growth, not about creating sustainable businesses with viable products.
This is a step... albeit in the wrong direction. There shouldn't be one Marketplace per browser/OS. We have the power to make a single unified marketplace, why don't we. As a developer, I don't want to maintain an HTML5 app, and then have to submit it to 10 different marketplaces with 10 different codes of conduct with 10 different formats.
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they just tightened the cable to see the error? science is scary.
Coworking communities around the world are having a very similar effect.
I am actually curious that if it is a fundamental design issue with battery, how are major car makers like Nissan handling its Leaf car?

If everyone bricks their car needs to pay 40K for the replacement, it would be outrageous and all over the news. Personally, I do think that Tesla could have done more to make sure drivers are fully aware of this issue before making their purchase. Otherwise, I wouldn't put my money in Tesla stock, as they are sitting dock and waiting for class action lawsuits
The author is either a robot or speaks English as a second language. There are a ton of factual inaccuracies that aren't present in the linked source material.
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So your argument boils down to: Tesla would be a true innovator if they only tried to convince us hedonist Americans that we should drive loud, uncomfortable vehicles?

Gotcha.

Count me on the other side. Tesla is slowly moving down market, and at the same time (hopefully) the technology will improve so that we can easily convert over to electric without compromise.

I do grant you your point on range though. If the average person drives 10 miles, then I don't think our goal should be a 300 mile range car. That's pointless engineering. I do not grant quietness or AC or build quality or style or safety.
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Care to offer your analysis of the parent comment's question in terms that you don't deem sexist? Msutherl offered anecdotes of his experience, and I don't think that their statements were offensive unless you think females should be completely immune to all attempt at generalisation.
I just got an email from them today for a "Senior Java Developer" position. I can't figure out what the deal is, because I have a) very little public Java code anywhere (I have the roughout of a Swing GUI in my github repos) and b) no mention of Java on my resume at all.
Knewton's model seems to be "academic advantage for those who can afford it".

I prefer the Khan Academy model: "provide good lessons for free to those who have the desire to learn".
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Sublime is nice, and would probably be the best choice if you were choosing your first text editor. If you are coming from TextMate, it depends on your situation. Sublime is faster, it has a nice always-on, miniaturized preview of your whole document, and it has tremendous momentum in the developer community. I'm primarily a designer who writes JS and CSS, and, so far, Sublime's benefits don't outweigh the arduousness of committing different keyboard shortcuts to muscle memory. So, I have both installed, but I still use TM primarily. My good friend, who is a much better programmer than I, prefers Sublime. He is a fast learner and so his "switching cost" for new editors is relatively low.
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Hey hey now, I'm (male) in there, under the office section, you can decide on the attractive part.
Great point. I've found you need to have two ways to approach people. One is the short, clear message that communicates the unique value proposition ideally to someone who is already in the target market. The "a-ha!" moment should happen pretty quickly.

The other way takes a little bit more work but helps you develop the fist. This is where you can explain the idea more in-depth and address all the concerns and pain points the person you are speaking with is going through. You need to be able to adapt your idea and think on your feet. When this person gets their "a-ha!" moment, that person is now armed with the knowledge to address others' concerns and be your biggest advocate.

This is even more important in this age when product ideas are a dime a dozen. Your value is in how others perceive you and reflect that in their communication with others.
That's definitely a concern here at UserVoice. We're firm believers in saying "no" (and explaining why) rather than letting ideas sit open or in "under review" or "planned" piles. We do and will continue to preach that to our customers, and we're looking at ways to actually encourage them to respond via the UX.
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This is due to the Bluetooth Headset Profile (HSP) using a terrible codec[1]. There's nothing you can do about that.

[1] 64K PCM or CVSD http://www.swedetrack.com/images/bluet03.htm
YC has the sustainable business model and does make a profit.

How many teams within traditional corporations are profitable? How many new products that traditional corporations launch are profitable?
The Native Client source code repository is huge, but it is not that hard to find your way around in. I have been studying it because I plan to build something on top of it. I am by no means a stellar programmer, and I have found it reasonably navigable. (It did take me a few days to get my bearings, though, and I plan to use a much simpler, custom API to minimize the application's attack surface. Haven't looked much at Pepper.)
Yay, I made the cut, if you want to hear me talk about the Table of Wonders at Kiva, it's near the center here http://companies.thedailymuse.com/kiva/office
Good riddance. Flash has never been anything but trouble for Linux. It consumes huge amount of power on Linux and they are not inclined to fix it. Hopefully we will see better HTML5 support in future.
But is the Apple-DRM thing repeatable? The circumstances there were: 1) Apple had a majority market share on portable music players. 2) The only DRM that worked on those players was Apple DRM. And the other way around -- Apple DRM was not available on any other players. This led into a lock on the market, where the music industry had to play by Apple's rules. So to break out of that, the only option was to go DRM-free (so they could sell music through Amazon, etc).

In the case of other content, for the most part it is either streaming only (most of the movie content, Netflix etc), or there are multiple players in the device market -- Amazon, B&N, Sony, etc. for ebooks.

I would hope that DRM goes away for all other media, but I don't see the other industry players giving in anytime soon.
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But Java comes with several currency-safe hash-maps and trees and such - where have you been?

If you think that blocking TCP calls to a redis server that serialises everything is going to be faster than a `new HashSplayTree<String>()` you're absolutely bonkers.
We really like Helpdesk at ClassDojo, it's simple and doesn't get in your way.

They've had 1mm tickets total so far, so we've answered around 0.5% of all UserVoice tickets.
Did you even read the article? The "replacement" part is replacing the large internal network of connections at a company with the network of connections to YC alumni.
While noodling around for more information I found this article which describes some (completely unrelated) other super-conducting cable used at LHC.

(http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach...)

> The cables house 36 strands of superconducting wire, each strand being exactly 0.825 mm in diameter. Each strand houses 6300 superconducting filaments of Niobium-titanium (NbTi). Each filament is about 0.006 mm thick, i.e. 10 times thinner than a normal human hair.

> tolerances are only a few micrometers.

> Total superconducting cable required 1200 tonnes which translates to around 7600 km of cable (the cable is made up of strands which is made of filaments, total length of filaments is astronomical - 5 times to the sun and back with enough left over for a few trips to the moon).
I remember people saying things like this in the first few years but it's surprising to encounter it now.

If people who think we're in the business of grooming startups for HR acquisitions stopped to do the math, they'd realize we'd be acting against our own interests if we focused on that. Essentially all the returns in startup investing (for us as for any investor) come from the big successes. Whereas we often make zero from early acquisitions.
Then you're a fool! Generate new private keys on the PROD server and upload them.

I don't know if you can do it with your SCM, but a better solution would be the source control server to push to PROD rather than the other way round, as it prevents attacks from a compromised PROD server.
We can like them both. For-profits have often been better at rapidly exploring the beneficial-interactions opportunity-space than pure non-profits and charitable organizations.
>I don't think that their statements were offensive unless you think females should be completely immune to all attempt at generalisation.

Generalizing women is sexism the same as generalizing black
people is racism.

Edit: And to add some random education,
Men and Women have the same ability to read the emotions of others: "men as a group aren't poor "everyday mind readers"; they are simply unmotivated ones. If you want men to show you how well they can compete with women in "reading" other people's minds, just pay them for it!" http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/everyday-mind-reading/20...

Women's intuition is no more effective than Men's intuition.
That is very, very cool. Thank you for posting the link and for the details on retrofitting the engines. I don't know if you're in Brazil, but my understanding is that they are way ahead of the US in renewable fuel usage. Most of our ethanol is corn based for technical and political reasons, and corn is a worse feedstock because it's more difficult for yeast to metabolize and it requires more fertilizer. So it's not nearly as economical here. And you are right, fertilizer is the non-renewable input. Most of the N (nitrogen) in NPK (nitrogen/phosphorus/potassium) is ammonia or urea derived from natural gas via something called the Haber Process.
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YC can't replace the traditional corporation when the traditional corporation is the customer that buys their product.
WOW, I had NO IDEA that was still out there. I guess nothing ever dies on the internet.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3615701
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> Design a cheap energy efficient way to to turn cellulose into something close to gasoline

The closest match is probably thermal depolymerization
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization)
Doesn't work for me :-(
Huge swaths of 80 and 880 are three-person HOV lanes. Take a look at the interactive map here: http://rideshare.511.org/
Yes, and furthermore its the complete ignorance of how technology works that could lead to someone imagining that Redis could be a faster LRU than a `new ConcurrentHashSplayTree<String>()` in a single-process Java server (or equiv).

Apart from all the subtlety of not throwing away evicted lines until the last mail that uses them is discarded and such.

How can people think that mailnator is slow because its not using web 2.0 sauce?
... and with that the gender debate will be rehashed for the millionth time. i wish this topic was verboten on HN.
Makes me wonder whether we're now (mostly) sleeping through midnight because eating more carbs acclimates us to extremes of blood sugar and insulin levels, letting the midnight food craving pass unnoticed.
I have seen a lot of articles on HN that would suggest that someone somewhere is using github for hiring, but I have not heard of anyone actually doing it.
Then the same roads as 18-wheelers and buses. Good luck getting those off the bloody roads.
I have quite weird view on physical exercises, so for me seeing why it work this way and understanding what is going on in the brain during work out helps.
That's really interesting, do they have that published anywhere?
"This is as close to a concurrency-safe HashMap that you can get with the least amount of effort."

No, it's more effort than using a concurrency-safe HashMap in a JVM process.
Potentially losing the car after a week of NOT using it qualifies as devastating to me.
Do they not track your behavior if you are not logged in (genuinely asking), using cookies or IP address for example? Sorry if you find this to be a naive question.
1) The coding mistake was typographically small, but HUGE in impact.

2) Reading further, the test included the exposed network, which had more critical flaws: default passwords, no passwords, and terminal server keylogger feature that they used to capture the switches' admin password.

See "4 Attacking the Network Infrastructure" where they thoroughly penetrated the internal network. The funniest (in a sad way) part was...

"The first SSH attack we observed came from an IP address located in Iran (80.191.180.102), belonging to Persian Gulf University. We realized that one of the default logins to the terminal server (user: admin, password: admin) would
likely be guessed by the attacker in a short period of time, and therefore decided to protect the device from further compromise that might interfere with the voting system test. We used iptables to block the offending IP addresses and changed the admin password to something much more difficult to guess. We later blocked similar attacks from IP addresses in New Jersey, India, and China."
Agreed - the incredible speed of pulling up files in ST2 is great. And searching across dirs / projects is much, much faster than TM, also. There are few things that I miss, every so often (printing, dragging selected text), but I am overall very happy to have bought ST2. I haven't yet needed to install on a machine running another OS, but that is also a very nice perk.
They switched the Flash runtimes to a quarterly release schedule semi-recently. As mentioned in the roadmap document, the release that will include workers is coming in the second half of 2012. Maybe as early as six months from now, if you assume that 11.2 is coming very soon.
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What version of OpenSSL was used on the test machine? That would greatly effect stunnel's performance. See here: http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-benchmark-round2.h...
Congrats! It's a great product and Rahul is a really smart guy (as I'm sure the rest of the team is)
It's a bit of a middle ground. Yes, the replication is synchronous, which impacts availability. However, the master can remove a failed replica from the chain fairly quickly. In principle, with proper tuning, a node failure would merely cause a brief hiccup. This would feel more like a period of increased latency than a full-blown outage. So there really needn't be much sacrifice of availability.

However, there's also a sacrifice of partition tolerance. If the master is unable to communicate with any replica, the system can't serve requests. Also, the master is implemented as a collection of Paxos nodes; if these nodes are partitioned from one another, the entire system would grind to a halt.

Since this is intended for intra-datacenter use, one could argue that a full network partition might be unlikely. (Depending on what sort of data center you hang out in.) But in CAP terms, it's possible, of course.

(I base all this on the value-dependent chaining paper cited below.)
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Very nice!

Couple of notes:

• Why not create a custom title tag for each company rather than using "5 Inspiring Places to Work brought to you by The Daily Muse" for each one,

• If I click get updates, I can't close the sign in box.

• Shouldn't clicking on a help wanted note, link me directly to the job rather than their jobs page?

• It'd be nice to have some type of hover effect applied to the images
You wouldn't have a lot of happy buyers - you'd have far fewer. You are assuming that everyone on a dating service has a good match on that same dating service, which isn't the case. From the business side you have a choice, get a small amount of money from most participants or get a large amount from very few. Even if the totals are the same, the latter is far more risky.

There are quite a few human run expensive dating agencies. It is what rich people use. This one for example costs about $100k to sign up.

http://www.orlythematchmaker.com/

An article from a few years ago titled "Professionals pay matchmakers to be headhunters for the heart" about expensive human run dating agencies:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/2008-02-12-matchmakers-main_N.htm
That goes for me too. In fact, you could flip the advice: if you're such a great and experienced programmer looking for work, why have you spent so much time being paid well to do commercial work? Why have you not spent your time working for your employer and resting outside of work?

When I've spoken to (good) recruiters, they've downplayed the whole github/blog thing. We might use that (they say), but it will depend very much on the job we're going for. Usually once I talk to a techie for a while they get a pretty good idea of what I'm about technically (and vice versa). If they're not a techie, then github/blog will be of only limited use.