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I am struck by the relative peace, prosperity, and safety of our time. It is a costly gift from those of my grandfather's generation. I feel compelled not to waste it.
> "Microsoft's Surface looks like (for me) it could replace both the ipad and my macbook."

Things always have a way of looking like what we want them to, before we get a chance to see them. I know how it works; I spent a lot of time waiting, hoping and grumbling about Windows tablets.

And what I see here, is an ARM tablet that has a real shot as a tablet - provided the Windows side stays out of the way.

And a hand-waved x86 tablet that may or may not be notably improved over last year's Windows tablets.

From that, you seem to be hoping the best of the ARM tablet (size/battery/usability) is implicit in the x86 tablet or vice-versa (does the ARM tablet even allow keyboard/mouse style apps from third parties?).

And that's precisely what remains to be seen.
thats the thing though...people that know how to program know that programming is not about typing words on a screen.

patio11 brought up a good point in that in order to read one must learn the alphabet. I think this is very true but lets apply that here and realize codecademy teaches the alphabet -- not how to read.
Ah, thanks for the correction.

Knowing that, this doesn't really matter, but "git lg -10" produces no output at all for me.
You use a real computer to download the torrent. Then you use a real computer to transcode the movie for your iDumb device. Then you use real computer with iTunes to upload the transcoded movie to your iDumb device (you can skip this step and stream the movie to the iDumb device from your real computer which surprisingly is not called iAirPlay).

Either that or you purchase the movie in iTunes on your iDumb device and watch it there.
I use the following script on Arch to do what you're looking to do:
http://pastebin.com/9si8EdFQ
I wonder if a revenue stream would be partnerships with hosting services. I guess it would just be plain old affiliates, something like how Facebook recommends Heroku when creating an application via developers.facebook.com. "You've finished our tutorials and your website is ready! Want to take the next step? Check out Heroku and Dreamhost!"

I learned the same way as you, using free website hosting (with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanadoo) in my local library in 2003. While my friends played Runescape I harnessed the power of <marquee>
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You'll spend about twice as much time doing non-billable work than you think you will.
We are using Chikka (http://www.chikka.com/) in the Philippines since 2001
Does anyone know why the original Greplin product didn't take off?

We have more of our data siloed in cloud services like Evernote. We need a way to search them and Google is too distracted with G+ to enter this space. So why weren't more of us using Greplin?
What is "10k" about it? 10,000 what?
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Calling it iMessage for Android is misleading. MightyText is basically a web interface for your SMS's.
Surface Tablet vs. Surface Table
Does anyone find it strange that MS used the same name as another product to release their Surface Tablet? Remember the bar table they launched (sort of) in '07. I guess they've decided to rename it PixelSense.
have they sorted out the security issues with having the sync code exposed to clients? what prevents others from accessing that information when they shouldn't?
just downloaded. i can text so much faster now. is this for real? wow.
This is fantastic. I did the same with a very similar botnet way back when, except my "hello" in IRC wasn't as friendly. Left to eat for an hour, then came back to my hard drive erased. Live and learn...
I assume they're collecting everything, but I'm not quite sure if I'm ready to buy that they're analyzing everything (beyond maybe a cursory inspection to classify traffic type very generally).
i think its whatever your phone's plan is cause it sends from your phone.
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"Generally government is poor at picking winners, and inefficient" [citation needed]

"Often the government people end up on the side of workers in the field rather than the public that they're meant to be serving." [citation needed]

Oh, it was all opinion.

That's fine.

In my opinion, government is as efficient as the private sector (ever seen the waste and mismanagement going on in these huge megacorps? it's insane!), and by definition can be _more_ cost-effective than the private sector because there is no need to turn a profit. Private businesses have, built in, a bit of skimming off the top for the owners (and there's nothing wrong with that, of course--that's part of why people start businesses), and government-run services by definition do not. They're not profit-seeking services. They're public services.

(You may disagree on what ought to be a public service, but once we're all on the same page that the government ought to do some things, it's just a matter of hashing out what those ought to be...)

Also...wait... NASA has grown into an organization that works for the glory of its leadership? what? sorry...again...what?
You know that GPUs are coprocessors, right? This is analogous. The cores on here are small, power-efficient, and have a lot of SIMD.
His creation is used to run half of the world's smartphones and probably 90+ percent of the world's servers.
His other creation (git) is used to develop maybe half of the world's software projects.

Having this in mind, I can't really imagine how can he have an "inflated view of their own talent or importance". I would say he is even quite modest...
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That really isn't the argument I was trying to make.

More, that communities evolve and the demographics change. And as the demographics change, the needs and demands grow more diverse. Sure the fundamental core need that unified people remains, but new needs emerge.

The problem with empowering the core to be moderators is that they enforce their idea of the what the community should be based on their use at the time. This means that they're excluding new uses, and more specifically that new demographics would use the tools provided in unexpected ways... thus revealing the new needs. But if moderators prevent the use of tools in unexpected ways... then you not only don't discover the new needs of the community, but you send a message to that new demographic of users that they aren't wholly welcome (on the users terms).

And to in part respond to spolsky, I've immense respect for you and SO and what it's achieved (thank you for saving me from expertsexchange). So I know you've probably already got ideas and views on how to react to the evolution of the community.

I would say one thing... I recall someone posting on HN a while ago a picture of an org structure... it might even be related to where you are. And in this org structure the pyramid was inverted, managers were merely admin to engineers.

This is what I believe moderators should be. That moderators should be led, rather than lead.
OK, then that's not as good as google voice, for me. Thanks.
If you put two spaces at the beginning of a line, you'll get a monospaced "literal" mode.

For example, int(float(10**18 - 1)) != 10**18 - 1,
but xrange(1, 10**18) is perfectly valid (even in Python 2).
It's not a straw-man argument. The post would make perfect sense if it were talking about an offline, labor-intensive business. Unpaid development time has nothing to do with cost-of-running-a-business expense. That's a fact. You can say from YOUR point of view it does. But it does not from the business's point of view.

This is like saying that a surgeon can't launch a profitable web business, because the time spent on it will not generate as much profit for him as if he had spent the time practicing surgery.

that's plainly completely false, and the web business can be very much profitable (just not to him.). Just THINK about it.
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I recently saw this episode and you misheard.

He did say that he wanted a 6 figure salary to "live the L.A. life", and he repeated that statement more than once.

I like the show but agree with a lot of your points, my understanding is that these pitches are more than an hour so we only get to see the "juicy" parts.
It crossed $30 at the close of trading Friday.

Perhaps you mean "up".
Most of the time those moments of getting caught turn into great opportunities to get out of trouble by going white hat for them. I figure if they threatened him with any real punishment, just offer some free security consulting.
The American leaders had an endgame planned. "Let's spy on them" is not an endgame. Unless it's part of a much more detailed plan, I don't think the comparison holds up. Spying on your own government is more akin to a couple of 18th-century Americans saying, "Hey, I know, let's go shoot a couple of British soldiers." Outside the context of a revolution, it's only good at getting you killed.
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So let's get this straight. You're saying that a surgeon can't create a profitable online business if the total profit from it to him is less than if he had spent the same time practicing surgery?

we're not talking about whether it's "worth it" for him, we're talking about from the point of view of whether the online business can be called profitable to an outside investor. Nobody cares about your unpaid sunk development costs.
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I used one to make a ringtone from a crowd reaction in a video gaming tournament video.
A visit to the Auschwitz camp should be mandatory for all aspiring politicians. What you see and experience there changes the way you look at the world afterwards. For anyone with a soul, the words „never again” will be forever engraved in your mind.
Well, maybe the ones that are installed in half of the world's smartphones?
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Again, employer is sucking and blocking access to Phoronix for me. Is the text of the release available anywhere else?
I don't think that GP were saying "ramen-profitable" and "beer-profitable" were synonyms, just that both terms are sub-categories of the more general term "profitable." If you're talking to a VC, you should prefer one of these more specific terms.
"The Internet is, in fact, a series of tubes."
Ah, but maybe he's not overlooking, for one example, the broadband monopoly or (essentially non-competitive) duopoly that exists in contemporary American society.

Compare what we've got with countries where the government owns the physical medium and leases it to a variety of bit-carriers--it's tough to argue against that kind of observable evidence.

There are plenty of cases where government stewardship of the playing field--with private companies competing on that playing field--works out for the great benefit of the citizenry.
Why would telling the American people how much you are using the powers given by the people threaten your protection of the people? If Obama said how many drone attacks have been carried out, that wouldnt help a terrorist evade Drones. The idea that informing America of the amount of wiretapping that goes on would threaten the NSA's operations is seriously wrong. Unless the NSA is counting lack of oversight as an operation. Which is wrong.
There was a section I found fascinating:

"We want to eliminate willpower as a factor in achieving goals. Imagine smooth, fun, optimized, self-reinforcing paths for every aspiration. That would qualify as a giant impact on human potential. We think we can turn chores into positive draws."

Isn't willpower self-reinforcement?

Still, it appears that gamification of a general, broad based goals is something worth doing.
I know, and I do feel I am robbing the community in general, but I also don't think I would get my questions answered well at SO.

It would be great if someone came up with a way to bring IRC answers into a SO-like site for clean-up.
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"In fact, bcrypt works without a key at all."

Erm... What are they trying to say?

Sure, you can have a null password, and then have a salt and hash that with bcrypt, but your password is still nothing.
could you read all my other responses and respond (in a summary) to all of the major points I brought up? Let's get to the bottom of this.
I remember reading somewhere about the "google aurora hack" that the hackers were able to access gmails built-in backroom and were monitoring email accounts. I cannot find the link right now but here are a couple for google and facebook.

Google:
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines/
It's not totally perfect, but HandcentSMS will auto-group iMessages sent to you for you on Android.
I see Linus's rant as just pragmatic realpolitik. He's just one guy and he's wielding his influence in an effective way. He wouldn't be able to have nearly as much of an impact if he played by this idea that he should operate in a "professional" manner using only formal language and press releases.
do you have a link to any article explaining the patent?
As a Pole raised in Warsaw I can give you a different perspective: it's actually surprising for children to see things which were not destroyed and are original.

I still remember my younger brother, as a 10-year old, visiting one of the French Loire castles and asking my parents: "so, all this was rebuilt after the war, right?".

We should all learn. Never again.
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Hey, I'm a TS grad from NYC and friendly with both founders from YC and other Techstars classes. One quick misconception: Only 5 TS cities, none international, and the "affiliate techstars network cities" shouldn't be lumped in here. Both YC and TS are different formulas. Here are the two main things I liked about Techstars:

- the NYC program has a huge allure to anyone doing media or advertising focused startups. You're going to get that advantage from the mentors in the program and the speakers. We wouldn't have gotten where we were without all of the people in the media/ad industry hearing about us from TS. We're building for the longhaul in NYC and this helped us rocketboost our way into the media/ad landscape.

- TS is very hands on and my guess is that's why it's been kept to 12 or so companies per class. YC is hands on too, but my guess is it's in a much different way (either one works, choose your preference). I spent multiple hours a day with Brad Feld, David Cohen, and Dave Tisch leading up until Demo Day along with our $5mm round we closed < 30 days after.

Both are awesome programs and I think every entrepreneur should go through TS or YC if given the chance.
Sure, I'm not saying there isn't an issue here. Apple is in the wrong and so are the litigators in the patent suit.

My point is that they shouldn't be in fear of their daughter losing her voice any time soon. Are other kids going to lose by not having this app available in the future? Yes. Are they prevented from getting any software updates to this app? Yes. Will their ipad eventually die? Yes. Should they be afraid of Apple remotely removing their app from their device or updating the OS so that the app no longer works? No, they shouldn't be.
> Booting with a working framebuffer isn't something that tickles only the "kernel guys" interest

Is it? If my computer boots up directly to X anyway, why do I care about a framebuffer beyond the standard vesa stuff?

PS: If Linus would get off his high horse about closed source drivers, and commit to have at least a somewhat stable ABI, that would do more for hardware support on linux than 1000 years of ranting and moaning, which if anything, will only alienate the hardware makers even more.
I wonder if Google has a practical way to stopping them, reading from the article saying they've blocked the sites (by IP? ... so they'll use TOR?); I guess blocking is the best they can do aside from legal action (if that even works overseas)?
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Be excited about what you're presenting is key. You have to engage people through your excitement and by cuing off what they react to.

Many times I find myself including the audience feedback into the presentation in terms of spending time on certain points that get the most reaction.

The author is dead on about the questions, though they don't have to be after the presentation is over.
I should have read the article completely first.

I was thrown off by the comparison to iMessage in the article title.
Good one. Thanks!
> That's spun and unfair.

Hardly. NVIDIA says they "made a decision to support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than the Linux common infrastructure." HN responder says that's bullshit since they finally support RandR. I point out RandR is not 'Linux common infrastructure' but a Xorg technology and supporting that is very literally "supporting Linux ... by leveraging NVIDIA common code" because the NVIDIA common code is targeting Xorg technologies and not Linux specific ones.

Then you move the point to something completely different.

NVIDIA is clearly not interested in providing any Linux only support. Don't expect them to support anything under Linux that isn't also common to other platforms they support.
Outside the context of a revolution,

The point is, doing it, and the resulting fallout, may be part of what it takes to instigate a revolution. And, to be honest, I'm leaning more and more towards the idea that it's going to take a revolution to fix the problems with the American government... I still hold onto a little bit of faith in the democratic process, but it's fading.
'Looks nice. I bet it's expensive. If price were a feature, they would have mentioned it.
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It depends on the quantity of people who were spied on. If it is everyone, then it means nothing. If it is you and a few "terrorists", then people will draw conclusions.
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This is exactly why I (being Polish) go to vote in every election.

I feel I do not have the right to say "nah, I don't really care" — I haven't earned it. I owe a debt to our grandfathers, who ran around with guns, fighting for our freedom, as well as to my parents' generation, who managed to break out from under communist (Soviet) rule. People who did run around with guns have earned the right not to go and vote — I did not.
> Nobody cares about your unpaid sunk development costs.

Not if they happened a year or six months ago, but if your unpaid sunk development costs are happening every day, then you're not profitable. You're not profitable until you're paying everyone who is working for you something relatively close to the wage they could be making as a regular employee somewhere else.
Supporting Linux is important to NVIDIA, and we understand that there are people who are as passionate about Linux as an open source platform as we are passionate about delivering an awesome GPU experience.

Recently, there have been some questions raised about our lack of support for our Optimus notebook technology. When we launched our Optimus notebook technology, it was with support for Windows 7 only. The open source community rallied to work around this with support from the Bumblebee Open Source Project http://bumblebee-project.org/. And as a result, we've recently made Installer and readme changes in our R295 drivers that were designed to make interaction with Bumblebee easier.

While we understand that some people would prefer us to provide detailed documentation on all of our GPU internals, or be more active in Linux kernel community development discussions, we have made a decision to support Linux on our GPUs by leveraging NVIDIA common code, rather than the Linux common infrastructure. While this may not please everyone, it does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our customers, regardless of platform or operating system.

As a result:

1) Linux end users benefit from same-day support for new GPUs , OpenGL version and extension parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA Linux support, and OpenGL performance parity between NVIDIA Windows and NVIDIA Linux.

2) We support a wide variety of GPUs on Linux, including our latest GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla-class GPUs, for both desktop and notebook platforms. Our drivers for these platforms are updated regularly, with seven updates released so far this year for Linux alone. The latest Linux drivers can be downloaded from www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html.

3) We are a very active participant in the ARM Linux kernel. For the latest 3.4 ARM kernel – the next-gen kernel to be used on future Linux, Android, and Chrome distributions – NVIDIA ranks second in terms of total lines changed and fourth in terms of number of changesets for all employers or organizations.

At the end of the day, providing a consistent GPU experience across multiple platforms for all of our customers continues to be one of our key goals.
Sigh.

"all because I turned to Airbnb instead of Craigslist to find roommates--and a chunk of income in the process"

A huge, huge difference between the two. Craigslist is generally used to find long-term roommates, who may even be on the lease of the apartment.

"My landlord thought I was running an actual bed-and-breakfast business [...] In fact I was using Airbnb to find short-term roommates"

You were running a B&B business. Someone staying in your apartment over a weekend is not a "roommate". The title of your article describes it as a 'business'. You were violating the terms of your lease, you were evicted. I have sympathy, but come on.
Well we were thinking of using SQL Azure. It's £50 for a 20gb db. This gives you triple redundancy. To get this type of redundancy in a hosted platform would be at least 3 sql licenses and 3 machines to put them on and manage the failover layers

I wasn't thinking of using SQL in aws, although it is slightly cheaper
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Whenever we advertise online for a position the salary range is listed for two reasons:

1) We have a limit on how much we can spend, so we don't want to waste anyone's time.
2) See number 1.

When the initial phone interview occurs I make sure that the salary range is ok before I get into the detailed discussion. We've had candidates express reservations with the range during this part, but that's ok. The front end is the time to handle the range.
Thanks! I agree that things like this are pretty fantastic. Part of me misses those days of being so experimental and new to tech. Sorry to hear about your hard drive, though :)
You're dating yourself. YouTube hasn't been limited to 240p videos for many years; they're rarer than 1080p videos these days.
At 13:36 in the keynote video, he opens up Internet Explorer and surface freezes. By 14:22 he has to run back and get a new surface.
This solves nothing - the driver support for NVidia GPUs in Linux is still crappy, FreeBSD is worse, Kernel upgrades on machines with Nvidia GPU and binary driver are still a pain, instability and bugs are still plenty etc. So this PR response deserves another huge "FU" to Nvidia for refusing the provide documentation - especially in the face of ATI and Intel doing so successfully.

I stopped buying anything Nvidia - all my machines are AMD or Intel only. It's also very easy to avoid Tegra based Androids.
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