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And yet here we are discussing a company that apparently have no problem doing exactly that. Just like most other companies out there.

Is Facebook solving a problem out there? Or are they solving a problem they created themselves.

Many businesses are build around this concept and the lines between solving problems and creating a demand are rather blurry.
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Hi, I haven't heard of Ken McLeod, but I'll look him up. I like reading.

I'm not a Buddhist per say, I did go through my Dalai Lama phase and saw him speak in person.. but we should be able to learn from every great teaching.

Universal truths exist in all great writings, spiritual, or not, and it's up to us to subdue our ego to learn to take the good from everything with our so called open-mindedness. Doubt really is the enemy.

I should have added one thing: My problems aren't unique, nor are my thoughts unique. No one's are. Very little thought or problems are unique or though about for the first time.

Man has been trying to figure their shit out for hundreds, if not thousands of years. Their journeys exist in books.

IF with our our ego we feel we have to locate and connect all the dots ourselves, so be it. But, not everyones doing this at the same time, or on the same page, or see the same picture from connecting their dots.

Too often we feel we don't have a single soul to talk to, and my words are more to reach anyone feeling that. It's not right.

All of this begins with an always growing and improving relationship with ourselves, fuelled by curiosity.

Are there Ken McLeod essays I should check out first? Feel free to email :)
....do...you even know who Dave Winer is?
If you don't have enough rep yet to vote-to-close yourself, flag 'em for attention, and the rest of us will bring down the Close Hammer.
Maybe getting this post to HN's front page would increase its priority.
Maybe for the whitelist ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656682)?
You could just say "Windows runs on a wide variety of hardware, OSX does not" to more simply get your point across.

edit:

Okay, the point being made is "Apple hardware is not cheap, and you need Apple hardware to properly run OS X".

It's made in a very hand-wavy way, though, which I find a bit annoying.
As far as Christianity is concerned, that's a guideline, not a sin. Churches have been known to harbor and protect people that broke the law.
Actually it's not just language, a lot of startups are US focussed which can be frustrating when you'd love to be their customer, don't mind using English etc.

Of course, with things like deals sites and so on, you might need to have localised sales organisations busy in each supported market.

But I wonder how many startups simply choose the English language/US market to minimise complexity and risk? (Nothing intrinsically wrong with that, but it does open the door to copycats)
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run the chips you get back in parallel

Who's to say you're going to trigger the condition that causes the backdoor? Seems very unlikely. If you have ideas on this, though, I'd be interested.

If you don't trust your compiler, why are you even bothering worrying about CPU backdoors when you've got a much easier attack vector open?

You may not trust your compiler, and therefore do certain things in a VM where e.g. access to network is limited. See [1].

[1] http://qubes-os.org/Home.html
Oh I don't doubt you. I'm not an expert on this, heck, I wasn't even allowed on to the actual servers (because of said compliance). I don't know the guidelines for login pages or what kind of security third party JS libs are supposed to have (also PCI is not a law, afaik).

What I'm asserting is that the servers that store the actual banking and customer data have very high security standards. It's one thing to store front end website code on a VPS, it's a totally other thing to store your database with customer & bank data on Linode.

The bitcoin breach seems analogous to Bank of America storing your account information on Linode and trusting it as the Real Data. Does that make sense?
> thus you have to use <?php echo $var ?> everytime instead of the shorter <?=$var?>

Is this really a huge concern? I guess I just have $tockholm syndrome at this point, and am used to writing <?php echo $var; ?> explicitly every time, precisely for the reasons you mentioned. It's one less thing to worry about.
Push harder for what, exactly?

In my experience, the best game developers are primarily motivated by their desire to create awesome games and their motivation level is already maxed out. Some see shares and other bonuses more as a sign of distrust than as a motivator, as if their dedication to awesomositude is being questioned.

Besides, awesomest isn't necessarily most profitable, so if you encourage your team to optimise for profit, there's a pretty big risk that the awesomeosity output rate will drop. With time you might even end up with a team churning out click-grinding Skinner boxes, which is not very awesome at all.
186 miles is 11,784,960 inches, and an Eastern Gray Squirrel is 9-12 inches.

I'm impressed, did you actually make the calculation first?
So write the compiler in assembler. Or at least a compiler that can be used to compile the source for the "real" compiler.
Hadoop upgrade will handle even bigger data
I wish the people who started this "movement" actually understood the economics behind what they're doing. It's dumb and won't amount to anything.
Thanks, that was the one reminder I gave myself for a few years.

Contemplating and realizing the puny existence we live is truly emancipating, we're free to be free and create. What a gift.

I don't think there is a 'startup' depression, just not paying attention to your thoughts, actions to see if it's getting us what we want in a lasting and fulfilling way. If we get into a rut and aren't paying attention, that rut gets bigger, wider, deeper.

Discipline and paying attention are 2 skills that are so important and ones I fight to keep improving every day.
Hey guys - I wrote this. Just to point out: this project is really just a proof of concept. I haven't personally seen any figures to suggest that localStorage caching is more optimal than standard browser caching, but once these benchmarks are available (hoping to get them up on jsPerf), they'll be posted to the same page.
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Great piece...the duality of man. The yin and the yang, etc.
What is it about HNers that they have so much trouble understanding the appeal and success of a service like Yammer and the nature of venture investing?

For starters, Yammer is undeniably successful on pretty much every measure, including revenue (something HNers normally value). Yammer sells to businesses after all which have a good ability to pay and in a category where businesses have demonstrated such.

Yammer is executing on a brilliant acquisition model. It is a perfectly constructed freemium model that takes maximum advantage of the characteristics of email addresses (as organizing mechanism and communications tool).

And $100 million may seem like a lot of money to raise (and for what?) but remember that Yammer's founder's previous experience was at PayPal where $225 million was raised. However it's quite apparent where a lot of money could be spent going up against the likes of Salesforce, Oracle, Jive, etc: sales, marketing and product development...globally.

Some HNers need to get over their "build it in a weekend" mentality and start trying to understand how and why services get traction and become successful (if they care).
From what I know, PCI compliance is firstly, just a guideline. It's not like OSHA, but IANAL.

I also know there are "levels" of PCI compliance. The highest one, which reputable banks should be following, is very strict AFAIK, and includes provisions for controlling who has access to the physical hardware, encryption levels, etc. The fact that a Linode VPS can be 'rooted' via their management software by a sysadmin working for Linode would, from what I can tell, make them unqualified to be used to store banking transaction & customer data, though perhaps I am wrong.
Working for a startup is low risk in terms of getting to work with decent tech, with smart people, etc. It also raises your employability in general. It's higher risk financially, sure, but for a funded company, you still get paid a decent wage while working, so that's not as big a risk.
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They did not "steal" them, they merely made a copy. The original owner still has their sequence of numbers. Snarky perhaps, but every possible argument one can make about why torrenting a video is not theft applies equally to the "theft" of bitcoins.
It seems like you're trying to criticize the article, but I think the article is in agreement with you. As far as I understand it, the author does not present a solution to the need to trust the processor and the hardware that moderates memory access.
Love it! Watching the video on You Tube I noticed other videos on the side including Lady Gaga on Letterman. Couldn't help but think Grace Hopper is the kind of person who should be famous and a role model. Instead its people like Lady Gaga.
No worries. It can be difficult to catch spelling mistakes in things that you write or read over many times.

Pro-tip: When I don't have the luxury of a spell-checker, I read the paragraph backwards, one word at a time, and I find that it helps to catch most of the common errors.

When you read text normally, your brain reads ahead[1] and skims (or omits) a lot of errors out of your field of view so you miss a lot of easy typos. Reading backwards mixes up your brain just enough that it stops "helping" you read.

[1] http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/
Why isn't SO open-source?
How do you feel about the many clones out there?
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The bitcoin breach seems analogous to Bank of America storing your account information on Linode and trusting it as the Real Data. Does that make sense?
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//reply to tomg, but seem HN stops nested replies beyond a certain level

At the end of day you can have millions of dollar of security, auditing, PCI compliance tests passing, developers that celebrate every Friday that everything is secure, data is hosted on premise etc... But if you leave the login page javascript to a third party hosted on Linode then you might as well be BoA storing your data on a mySQL linode instance. So in a nutshell it kind of undermines the work you guys do.
It would be nice if it could be merged with:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3656156

which already is discussing the topic.
If medicine came from R&D sponsored by the government, I think we'd live in a better place.

That's because big-pharma companies love to focus on treatments, not on prevention and they also like to focus on controlling the disease instead of curring it.

Like in the case of allergic asthma, why treat a patient once when you can take money from him monthly?
Is it just me or is the #features div broken, having a 620px width but makes more sense to be 880px. Or am i missing something?
Isn't that a bit like leaving a loaded handgun laying around? It's unambiguous today, but what if someone else starts working with your code and it's no longer unambiguous?

(edit: talking about JS only.)
petabyte of data every second. that's huge. I wonder how this compared with the speed at which google bot fetch/reads data ?
Hi loeschg.

Thanks so much for your comment. Actually, what your wrote perfectly sums up a point I was trying to get across in the article. I too have reached the point where I want to start giving my knowledge back.

Sharing knowledge is something that's immensely rewarding, whatever form that takes: a chat in a bar, a blog post or a workshop. But, the workshop is by far the most bit of "sharing knowledge" I've ever done.

I wish you good luck finding people to chat about Grails in DC. I'm based in the UK, but if you ever wanna chat over twitter then please gimmie a shout :-)

https://twitter.com/#!/byrichardpowell

Richard
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Here is another great article about the credibility issues the Silicon Valley industry has because of its conflict of interest: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20120222,0,704....
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Wow, Looking forward to reading this. A primer on 'Wicked Problems':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem

It's a really powerful concept that describes many extremely complex systems like, say, health care in the U.S.
Yes they are free a day after the event. There are bound to be logs and with that the possibility of capture. The person or people who did this are not quite resting easy, well unless it was a foreign entity that did it... That would change things considerably.
Why is it that a pharmaceutical company spends billions upon billions on R&D and only gets to patent it product for 20 years, but some poxy artist/record label gets paid royalty for a cajillion years.

There's something very wrong there...

I'm in 2 minds about the whole medicine patent thing. One the one hand, as you say, new medicines would not be developed but on the other hand the patents drive the prices so high that people in 3rd world countries cannot afford them. It also means medicines for 3rd world diseases are not worthwhile for the large pharmas. There really needs to be a better balance, maybe spending 5-10% of their R&D on medicines they know will never see it's return on investment but will save many more lives than their high profit products.
This message is for @paraschopra.

I'm sorry your link got downvoted and killed, it shouldn't have been.

I hope this reaches you: What I wrote isn't hokey self help. It's also not blind faith or following.

We can't know HOW to pursue peace, or discipline in our lives, without first learning WHY.

That's the first change that sets up the rest. Learning to understand peace, and discipline is vital to turning on the light bulb that will let you see your path forward.

I'm not hurt or anything by what you said. But, I am not sure if you were consciously aware of how you just spread doubts instead of clarity yourself.

You didn't offer an alternative, a process, or anything yourself. And I think everyone is capable of that.

I appreciate you doubt what I'm speaking about. Feel free to email me, I will talk to you forever about this, most important, topic in my life.

Over and above my work in life, becoming the most I can by learning about myself is my life's true work.

I'm dead serious. I don't believe in hokey self help shit either.

We all have a compass inside of us, maybe our heart. Finding, learning to read, and follow that compass using our mind and gut is our goal. It's not all logical, or we would be able to think our way out of whatever we get into :)
+1. The real issues here are that the coins were all stored in a hot wallet, and that wallet was on a VPS. For some bizarre reason people have started to act like having a VPS is as good as running a dedicated box with a backup power supply and physical (cage) security. A VPS is just a big shared server dolled up with OS partitions. There's no reason to assume that a the provider doesn't have non-physical root access to all the accounts, or that a single compromised account can't escalate via god-knows what kinds of buffer overflows or other exploits into gaining control of the whole machine.

I run a Bitcoin site that keeps a very small percentage profit out of a relatively large amount of coins in and out, which have to be held in trust for customers. Not only is our bitcoin daemon not running on our webservers (it's got its own dedicated box with all unnecessary ports closed and a vicious denyhosts policy that's locked me out more than once), we also set up low limits to immediate withdrawals so that no more is stored in the hot/withdrawals wallet than could be withdrawn immediately by players currently online (usually no more than $250), with all larger withdrawals processed in batches on demand. That lets us offload the excess coins to another wallet as soon as they're deposited, so in the worst-case scenario we might lose a couple hundred bucks. The cold wallet is stored in a truecrypt archive on a thumb drive in my pocket, with an encrypted backup stored on a server in a third country, manually, with each batch transaction. Moreover, a lot of our funds are moved out into USD and held for safekeeping to avoid excess Bitcoin risk.

This is why banks keep their money in a safe, not in the little drawers in front of the teller. And no offense to Zhou, but this should have been the obvious step to take from the beginning. Hopefully they'll do it now.
Welcome to HN, and thanks for the info, from a fellow PhD student :) .
> Close to a petabyte of data is generated every second

True, but misleading. Most of this data is processed realtime in hardware within the detector(s) and the majority discarded (proton-proton collisions are messy with a lot of uninteresting debris). I believe the volume of data actually written out to disk is ~1GB/sec.

[Edit: it's actually 0.5GB/sec http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/en/LHC/Computing-en.html ]
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that was totally my problem as well. I still love SO, but am sort of discouraged from starting any discussions unless it's a very direct question (and therefore will offer value to a much smaller audience that encountered exactly the same problem).

There are too many over zealous users eager to close your question before it even gets any traction because they deem it too generic or off topic (or the most annoying of all, because some new forum you're not even aware of got created that fits your question slightly better). It is especially frustrating when you see another very similar question asked by someone else that got hundreds of up votes.
That's very true, and TBH I'm a bit surprised these banks are allowing that. IME doing frontend code for banks is that they're very strict on third party libs, even ones hosted by the bank itself, right down to only approving certain versions of the lib.
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> this is a good enough fix.

The story of PHP's life.
"Fat Finger" errors are surprisingly common in finance.

(http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2007/03/16/3207/the-curse-of...)
Be aware that localStorage is synchronous and browsers currently load the entire localStorage for a domain into memory to satisfy the first request. Shouldn't be a problem here but something to be aware of.
Hi brianbreslin,

When I first started this workshop adventure I was worried that there wouldn't be enough demand for it. In fact quite the opposite. I guess, like you say, I'd forgotten that initial learning is hard for others :-)

I'd be interested to know how you go about organising the workshops at RefreshMiami. One thing I'm painfully aware of is the amount of effort I had to put into the organise the workshop. So any tips on making that easier, and on running semi-regular workshops would be massively apreciated.

Anytime you want to chat on twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/byrichardpowell

:-)

Richard
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If your users uses Twitter and Facebook as a primary communications channel, then "going to where they are" is a good strategy.

However, if they aren't already there, then focusing on Twitter/Facebook will cause you to miss many users.

Also, as a startup you have multiple audiences - your users might be on FB/Twitter, but I doubt your investors are (to the same extent) - you must match the communications channel with the audience's existing preferences and behavior - they won't switch channels just to hear from you ; )
Quick Answer: No.
Longer Answer: Sorta.

Circular polarization of light (or waves in general) corresponds to a spin angular momentum that arises as the polarization of the light is "spinning".

This "twist" is the wavefronts phase rotating or being staggered as it travels forward. Think of the wavefront of the twisted wave as looking like a piece of spiral pasta.

It is this spiraling that corresponds to orbital angular momentum.
Possibly the most confusing web site I've seen in a while. It's like the author got excited and threw half a dozen images they liked on a page.
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A fish might be a practical pet too. A betta fish is a gift I often give to friends who live alone.

They're hearty, easy to take care of and really low maintenance, and live in tiny tanks without any issue that will fit on your desk.
That's the problem : you would have to trust your assembler. How was the assembler compiled or assembled ? Etc etc. You would go back to the first "physical" translation of a program "into" a computer.
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Also, perhaps update the expected date of the videos. Otherwise it looks cool, i've signed up and am going to give it a go.
What made you decide to make an offline tool? Do you find it's easier for people to use and collaborate with? Do your customers use source control?

Do people actually purchase your "business"-class license? Have people made over $5000 USD in revenue using your tool?
Long story short:

"Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy. Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine."
oh, we're still passing around the "emergency" ip list? these people have absolutely no idea what they're talking about, or why this won't work.

i hope they remember to send us a postcard from 30 years ago.
From larger history perspective, I hope the RIAA and rest of the information distribution cartel is a one time thing.

Knowing history I have little hope that will be the case.
I read the Tao Te Ching, check it out. An Open Heart by the Dalai Lama is a great general read, as well.

Both are not overtly, or covertly spiritual but definitely provide anyone food with thought.
SQL Server was $50k per socket (going to core) for the Enterprise Edition as a list price. The typical SQL Server sale was >$100k, easily. Also, sales were negotiated and Microsoft licensing is totally fluid, especially if an Enterprise Agreement comes into the mix (where the cost is spread out over a few years). People citing MS licenses here are blind to how the majority of MS license in Enterprises get sold--huge deals with multi-year subscriptions that cost lots of money. MS will typically "true up" licenses at the end of an EA.
Copying ideas and execution just happens. Look at other industries - there's a Chipotle clone, frozen yogurt clones, etc. And many luxury sedans seem to be about 90% the same design, at least on the outside.

The reason the Samwer story is so weird is a) there's so much damn money in their game (Groupon, Facebook, etc.) and b) they're generally regarded to be ruthless, cut-throat, slave-drivers.

I know I'd feel differently about the phenomenon if they seemed less like idea-pirates and more like contributors to innovation.
It cuts the other way too.

I'm a partner in an agency. We used to wear suits to meetings. After not winning a contract with one organization, I asked why they didn't choose us. (During our meetings, we seemed to have established a good rapport.)

He explained that everything we said made sense, but that we were "too corporate."

We have many more clients now. I wear the same understated thing to almost all of our meeting. Our sales have never been higher. Turns out, our clients care more about how good we are than the way I choose to dress.
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