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Two futures:

1. Every office in the world will buy each employee a separate office room so they can dictate their documents without being disturbed by the other employees.

2. Every office in the world will buy each employee a $10 physical keyboard.
Which could happen regardless of if you tell people your ideas or not.
Laptops made new types of work and socializing possible. Affordable laptops enabled people to cowork, work nomadically, come together for "data potlucks", etc. Laptops largely replaced turntables and hardware instruments. *pads merely iterates on this initial revolution, making it more convenient and providing training wheels for those not born into technology-influenced culture.
The only thing missing there is editing, if you are trying to do something beyond adding a few filters you are probably going to want either a mouse or something closer to a proper graphics tablet (which is quite different from a capacitive touchscreen).
Water is roughly incompressible and ~10 meters (33 feet) of it will generate 1 atmosphere of pressure, so at 6 miles deep, I would guess even a very small safety factor would dominate any gains from pressurizing the capsule (I don't know anything about diving, but Wikipedia says that saturation diving is good down to about 150 meters, and the most extreme experiments went down to about 700 meters).
I remember studying Fortran in college in 1993 and deciding to write a program (using no dynamically allocated memory, because I think we were still studying Fortran 77) that would solve simultaneous linear equations with arbitrary numbers of variables.

The Microsoft Fortran compilers we were using on, I think, 386's, would allocate all memory at compile time and therefore the more memory requested, the larger the executable. I discovered that this lead to serious issues on the 5.25in disks and I was better off writing Basic on my C64 for that task.......
"...and I wan’t to lay out some pretty simple math based on your pricing:"

wat.
This is a great solution, thanks!

I have one app that always ends up off screen when I disconnect my external monitor and I could never find a definite way to get it back.
Are you suggesting that journalists promote greater truth than entertainers? Have you read the news lately? Truth isn't limited to mere factual correctness.
As opposed to the lies of journalists who emphasise the wrong facts.
What if Amazon were just positioning itself to do rebranded fulfillment? i.e. First Amazon equipment is sold to Target, etc. distribution centers; but you could spend more and have Amazon actually run the center; or you could have Amazon's distribution centers use your branded boxes and use their fulfillment centers.
Perhaps though the 2 devices will have massively different use cases.

This is already happening for me to an extent, I run a dual boot of Linux and Windows 7. Essentially Linux is my "programming workstation" and Windows 7 is my entertainment.

I would quite happily replace my Windows 7 boot with something more like iOS since the only applications I really use there are Steam and Netflix.

I'm actually quite glad that Linux does not support most of my games, since this keeps my productivity high.

The only irritation is when I want to watch something from netflix in the background whilst working on some code but even that is easily overcome by running netflix from a PS3 on my TV beside my computer.

Regards restricting internet access only to certain devices. At a government level that would be difficult legislation to pass.

I can see domestic ISPs only supporting specific devices perhaps to keep their support costs down, but I'm sure there will always be ways around this. I remember the guy who came around to install my first broadband connection insisting that I would not be able to access the internet at all from my Linux laptop until I showed him how I did it.
Funny you mention that, but in a world totally dominated by iPads the price to just have your application being available by legal means is 99$. When I began to code(around 12-15) 99$ was WAY above anything I could imagine. I don't know if my parents would have allowed me to spend such a sum. Hopefully you can get started and publish for Android for free!

So, who knows what the future holds for the cost of content creation... Again people often ignore the long-term externalities they produce when they make their choices, buying a PC or a tablet being one of these choices.
This one:

http://perfcap.blogspot.in/2012/03/cloud-architecture-tutori...

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The question tells us a great deal about the interviewer, though. He's insecure, pompous, pedantic. Still want to work here?
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As I understand it, this fellow named Bjarne Stroustrup did once. Of course, the project eventually grew beyond its humble beginnings...
Some great recommendations in here!

Remember, though, don't get caught up in the theories: put yourself out there and create stuff!
I'm the author of BESEN and BRRE. No, BESEN's regex engine is in truth the predecessor of BRRE, so BRRE is the greatly feature-enhanced successor regex engine of (and based on) the regex engine from BESEN. :)
>That is impossible and a very silly thing to worry about. First of all, this problem has already been solved with fuses.

Fuses have nothing to do with not dying, fuses are not a life safety device. Your protected for the same reason your safe inside a car that gets hit with lightning, for electricity to pass through your body you have to be a path to ground more over you have to be a very good path to ground compared to other available paths, both of which are highly unlikely in the circumstance being discussed.

In terms of electrical energy discharge that would be determined by the voltage across your body and the resistance of your body given the contact points, environmental conditions and duration of contact. The ability of the battery to supply enough energy is really irrelevant, it takes a very small amount of current across your heart to send it into fibrillation. But, as just mentioned, you'd actually have to create a potential across your body first anyway.

> Since the power rating is usually an engineering constraint, this generally means that the stored power for driving 300 miles can usually only be released around the time it takes to drive for 300 miles. Perhaps a little quicker.

That is completely incorrect. I have no idea what constant your talking about but many/most/all batteries can discharge energy far faster than they would under standard operating conditions. You can even short them out and watch a nice explosion in many cases, which is far more likely to kill you than getting electrocuted in the example at hand.
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Just today in the IT department (this is why it's good to occasionally work in the office): "So my old PC at home finally bought it. I've seen you're all using Macs (this guy is observant) and I've been wondering if I should get one of them. Or could I just get an iPad instead? I've been tempted to get one of them anyways".

Turns out the iPad does everything he and the wife want, which is mostly surfing the web, listening to iTunes[1] and getting pictures from their point-and-shoot camera to someplace safe. Remaining issue: printing the odd document. But you can get an AirPrint enabled smearjet for £35.

Our recommendation: Get the iPad now, see if it does everything you want. If it does, get another iPad for the wife instead of that Mac you'd share between you.

[1] Explaining iTunes Match made his eyes light up: "So I won't need to back it up[2] to an USB disk anymore? And I don't need to buy the 64 GB iPad to fit it all on?" (Hey, it's like someone designed this service for people like him).

[2] Most casual computer users seem to do this these days because they've already learnt the hard lesson of losing all their stuff once.
The only reason I'll ever keep quiet about some ideas I have is to prevent that feeling you get after telling someone about an idea. You know the one: the one where talking about what you're going to do emotionally equates to having already done it. So I may keep quiet until I either have something (anything) to show, or effectively abandon the project due to lack of interest or realizing it's a terrible idea anyway (anyone want instantrummage.com? ha!)

But in general, the article is completely correct. There's not really a good reason to keep an idea secret.
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Probably not. I just see people keeping with what they have--if you can't justify a new computer how can you justify learning a new OS?

The iPad is an order of magnitude more simple than OS X or Windows, which are themselves quite a bit more user friendly than Linux.

I think something like Chrome OS is a more likely business target than Linux (thin client-ish and mostly web/cloud based).
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Nice and simple UI, I like it! Congrats on launching, looks like you're on the road to success.

As a founder of a similar business (residential rather than commercial), and YC interviewee in the same round as you, I would be interested how you plan to tackle the problem you state on your blog:

I did my best to search myself online and it's almost impossible.
It is incredible. Craigslist is almost totally filled with spaces
that are off the market, put up by brokers simply trying to get
you to call (it's called a flytrap).

We applied with our solution in the same round as you, so just interested how you guys are going to tackle the problem? It appears you're not doing anything at the moment, but I'm sure you have some ideas in the pipeline...

Congrats once again!
Just did a wildcard search and found all the documents in a second.

All 80,000+ documents from the archives:

http://alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Search/Results?lookfor=*&...
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>If a pure electric vehicle has a range equivalent to that of a gasoline-powered vehicle, say, 200 to 300 miles, this means that it is storing a tremendous amount of energy.

The gasoline powered car contains much more energy. The average gasoline engine is about 20% energy efficient. Electric power systems are more like 80%.

> There might come a day when we hear of an entire family electrocuted to death in their car after a crash.

How do you expect the entire family to become a better path to ground than anything else? Especially considering the nature of the virtual ground in such a system?

>The last thing the industry needs is the media devoting weeks to cover how a family got fried in their electric car while the fire department was powerless to aid them until the batteries fully discharged (which could take a long time).

Not if they are so shorted they are "frying" something.
I launched a similar type service for finding student housing near my university, so I've spent alot of time studying design of real estate sites. I've got to hand it to you guys. Well designed and very intuitive. Wish I could have taken inspiration from you guys back when I did LivenearUSC.com
Arguably, NASA has always been part of the military industrial complex, but it's a relatively less important component now that Cold War and the space race are over. Meanwhile, overall military strength continues to be important to US hegemony.
I completely agree. Initial government backing will be necessary. Europe eventually won because their programs of exploration and expansion continued for the next 600 years, the Chinese expeditions lasted only 30. The major reason for this is because the European model was more profitable and sustainable.
it finished when i had wet eyes so I think it was well done. And facts are scary. From monetary point of view, bailout cost more than 50 years of NASA? two years military spending. Gosh, thats sad...
Well... Tablets are kind of changing that. We'll see in a couple years if students will insist on carrying their notebooks running Windows.
Because top talent isn't enough. You also need up-to-date skills, connections, past recognition and opportunity. Most talented people I know live in fear of never getting these things and becoming failures. So people tend to take a fail-fast approach to career changes and move as soon as they aren't getting these things.
are you saying they looked into the future and chose a character next to return on a keyboard that hadn't been designed yet?

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/kb/layout/stdXT83-c.html
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That requires two sign figs to appear so it's not that far off of what i guestimated (1 order of magnitude off: 9.01E11 - 8.83E11 is 1.8E10).

If i had said, "if you remove all NASA spending from the budget, the total budget remains the same out to something like 3 or 4 significant figures," then we would need 3 sig figs to see any impact by NASA's budget (3.803E12 - 1.78E10 = 3.785E12 ~ 3.78 ~ 3.8 ~ 4).

I think my ultimate point that NASA's budget is pretty inconsequential to either the budget or the yearly deficit stands since it is only 0.468% of the budget and 1.97% of the deficit.
The term post-PC includes both smartphones and tablets. These devices have a distinct use case to laptops.
Tesseroct maybe..

Tesserect? ;p

Mind you Tesseract OCR did miss a chance to be TesseractOCRus, which would be great, obviously.
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I'm OK with pocket calculators. What I find weird is that inertia has kept the 12c being produced long after it became a relic. There are many other business-oriented pocket calculators out there with much nicer and efficient interfaces than the 12C.

What some courses teach is not financial math - it's "how to get numbers out of a 12C". This is just perverse.
It's generally good for the web to know where traffic is coming from. For example, it would be quite frustrating to be linked on say Hacker News and not know it but still see your server sending out thousands and thousands of additional page views an hour.
I write and edit blog posts and books on my iPad. Some of them have been front page, top ten and even #1 on Hacker News. Are you SURE you haven’t ready anything that was created on an iPad?
A receptionist that does her job well enough to be a problem is much less of a headache than a receptionist that has aspirations and talent to be a programmer.
that's like parking a mile away from a mcdonalds so no one knows where you came from. There's privacy and then there's paranoia...
What happens when a 35-year-old man retakes the SAT?
I agree, the UI is kinda terrible :(
Relevant bit from pg's keynote:

"I was talking recently to someone who knew Apple well, and I asked him if the people now running the company would be able to keep creating new things the way Apple had under Steve Jobs. His answer was simply "no." I already feared that would be the answer. I asked more to see how he'd qualify it. But he didn't qualify it at all. No, there will be no more great new stuff beyond whatever's currently in the pipeline."

Looks like they probably won't be dreaming up innovative devices anyway unless a new Steve Jobs takes over.
Thanks for this optimistic reply. You're right, the "hacker spirit" has proven time and again that it can overcome any obstacle. Those who explicitly seek out open hardware will always be able to find it.

My concern is just that the lure of simplicity (and parent's paranoia) will mean that kids will be more likely to end up with a closed system rather than an open one, and consequentially deprived of the ability (and, more importantly, the inspiration) to tinker. But maybe you're right that hacker souls will always seek out systems that allow them to do what they want to do, and it won't make a difference in the end. I hope so!
Don't worry, you're full of respect ;).

It's maybe a philosophical question but who doesn't have an agenda? I mean when you buy a device, don't you want to convince the other that you haven't bought a stupid toy or a useless object? Everybody has an agenda, even someone just buy an iPad he has incentives to convince that his device is great, the only ones who don't have an agenda are the ones who genuinely don't care.

I have an agenda, I am trying to push people to see computers as something else that a tool to consume media/ slack around. But from the current design of tablets, especially Apple's iOs Devices it's getting really hard to see something else than a "pure-consumption" product.

To continue on the philosophical level, I think humans deep down aspire to do very little while receiving a lot of pleasure. The most productive of us have managed to channel this desire towards building systems that, when they will be working, will provide us with a lot of rewards with little additional work (the startup!). In a way the self-driven programmers have achieved a Post-Slacker era in their mind and god knows how hard it is to keep that up. The iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch/Android Phones are enabler of the slacktivist part in everyone of us, and that's one of the big reasons of their success.

Sure Raspberry Pi is great but, again, it's in the realm of post-slacktivism and thus it will probably NEVER be popular. It doesn't mean it won't be successful.

I hope this comment will find interested minds!
Then it should say so, not suggest any rereading is being done and that it's just kernel plus memcpy.
Sure, but "post" implies replacement, implying that PCs are somehow obsolete. It would be akin to heralding the introduction of compact cars to being the "post-sedan" era. "Mobile computing" is a more accurate and less marketing-driven way to say "post-PC". Mobile computing hardware, like the Palm Treo, has been around for awhile... 3G is the technology that has really helped it come of age.
I bet he'll do some great filming down there. He might make an awesome deep sea documentary
OI, this guy.

In my opinion, this guy is highly unethical and really should be locked up. First off, what he is doing is illegal (vigilantism, invasion of privacy and computer fraud/abuse) and even if it isn't, he is still tampering with evidence.

I am also very disturbed by the fact that he 'only targets bad-guys' and that the definition of 'bad-guys' is his own decision. Is the guy that bullied him at high school on there? What if he makes a typo and hits someone else?

Although reading a lot of what he says, he sounds like someone that read a couple security blogs and is just regurgitating things he read without knowing what he is saying all so that he can play at 'Patriotic Super hero'
>>It’s not an extinction level event but it’s pretty ugly .

Depends on the intensity, duration, & proximity of the radiation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst#Rates_and_poten...
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I would love the airlines to err on safety. By making the seats out of a fire resistant non-toxic foam, before they were made to after a series of accidents. By fitting smoke hoods nearly 50 years after is they were first recommended.

And by the FAA spending a 0.1% of what the TSA costs on weather radar at small airports .....
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iOS still sucks in many ways. I hope they are not content with themselves. By the way, why not reduce the share they get from app developers if they are so rich now? Apparently it would be in better hands.
"Top talent leave an organization when they’re badly managed and the organization is confusing and uninspiring."

Am I the only one who thought that this was extremely unspecific?
Many factors go into managing an organization- I'm curious as to which factors I should focus on to help motivate & reinforce top talent. The only details provided by the author are accountability and reward systems.
you have nailed wisdom to these younger 16 years old crowd. But nowadays younger crowd needs fashion,pizzaz,Prestige etc.
in my experience learning about Message Brokers is very important than learning new language.
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I wouldn't call it a war, but Atwood ... makes the point that tablets are about to take over large shares of the PC market.

No he doesn't. He says that everyone now owns a PC, so innovation is moving to post-pc devices.

I think the term "post-pc" causes many geeks to project a vast ethical struggle onto the tablet market. Chillax, game consoles didn't kill off programming, this is no different.

Personally, I prefer the term "portable device" but I guess that's not as link-baity.
The company I work for now is very profitable and growing fast. I can not wait to leave. If I cared mostly about money, I would want to stay.
I'm sure the internet will now point out how horribly wrong he was about everything.
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Macs are a traditional UNIX with a 'non-traditional' windowing system on top.
> Or code, test & deploy web apps from an iPad

I do this sometimes. It's definitely possible, and, under certain circumstances, preferable to using a laptop. I like having both in my arsenal.
Heh, not after the HN + Reddit effect.
The list of 10 concrete reasons I found more insightful and useful than the summary provided by the OP.
How is listing user submitted apps "promoting" that content? Is HN promoting CP* because they didn't delete your own post further down?

* assuming it is CP, as you claimed
You can park by the door, it still doesn't tell them where you came from.
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I think he's saying the art justifies the means.

As did Jobs.
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I look forward to the job postings. I always try to see how many cliches can be put into one job posting. This one didn't have too many. At minimum they need to add something about partying hard.

Anyone up for "HN Job Posting" bingo?

I think overall the posts on the monthly looking for work or freelancers threads are higher quality job postings than the ones we get from the YC companies.
"Poor people management" isn't specific enough, and it doesn't explain why top contributors are more likely to leave than mediocre contributors. It's a very specific form of poor management: treating technical people as interchangeable, and therefore assuming that all technical people are mediocre, and therefore assuming that maturity and judgment only exist in management. When people really, really swallow the Kool-Aid of management as the ultimate masters of the universe, as they must in certain large corporations, they start to think of management as the final step in human development: infant, child, adolescent, worker, manager. Some people linger on one step of maturation or another (literally "retarded") and that's fine, as long as they accept the natural order of things, right?

Apparently that approach works for some corporations. Getting rid of top contributors at least makes management's belief structure valid and gives their world a kind of simplicity and intellectual coherence that's hard to achieve on a large scale. (If you can't help believing something that isn't true, you had better make sure it is true in the part of the world you care about.)

Good managers know the people they manage and know their diverse capabilities. That's hard work, though, so it isn't for everyone.
I'm glad that HN isn't as active as Reddit, since if it was, it would be filled with bullshit. :)