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What's the problem?

You close the nukes so everyone with an "Atomkraft Nein Danke" sticker on their VW votes for you.

You give huge feed in tarrif subsidy to anyone who owns a house to put panels on their roof - so the countryside votes for you.

You continue to subsidize coal so the Ruhr votes for you.
But burn the coal in Poland and ship the power back - so there is no acid rain to worry about.

A perfect (if expensive) solution for everyone (unless you live east of Poland)
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Be sure to compare servers with the same performance. EC2 servers are pretty slow, and generally way more expensive than dedicated machines.
The article basically boils down to 'if the startup can't support you fulltime, it's not profitable'.

If you still have to be a consultant to pay the bills because your side project isn't making enough money for you to quit, don't run around telling people your 'startup is profitable'.

Speaking as someone who has done the side project thing, I was never happy having to work a full time job when I wanted to be full time on my sideproject.
It's no longer a valid SGML processing instruction, which largely rules out decades of tools for working with markup.
Still, I am not sure how big other physical computers are (do any even exist)? I think it's cool :-)

Is there a compiler for it? :-)
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It's weird, I pressed the close on the preview video, but the audio keeps going...
You are misreading that number. It's not years, it's how much energy is returned compared to invested. i.e. 6.5 times as much energy returned as invested over the entire life of the device.

For comparison hydrocarbon fuels have numbers in the 30 range, and nuclear is 60 and up (depending on how long the plant lasts). So 6.5 is quite poor. And they list no numbers on expected lifespan - lifespan is the number one thing that controls the EROI on solar.

Also, these numbers usually use very sunny areas and ideal angles to calculate the return. In Germany the results will be much worse.
What's up with all the colors in the slides? The slides are so busy they become unreadable. At least for me.
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Mr. Simms is unapologetic. “Think about it less as coding and more as algorithms,” he said. “Traditionally there are the 3 Rs—reading, writing and arithmetic. We think algorithms should be the fourth. Not everyone has to learn to code, but needs to learn the notions of algorithms, realizing what you can use code for.”

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This is an odd thing for him say--when I tried Codecademy, the focus was coding and algorithms were given no attention that I could see. Has this changed?
It's not so much a theory as it is a colorful way of explaining basic entrepreneurial accounting.

He's talking about the difference between paying yourself and not, in a round about way of getting to this concept: not paying yourself a sustainable wage leaves nothing for investors (even if the "investor" is just you.)

If you have five separate entities that combine to pay you a salary, you win. Any extra money can be used to grow one or more of those businesses. ..if they are all tied together in ownership (for example, they are all owned by one person).

If those 5 entities are not tied together in some way, then no, they are not sustainably profitable on their own. That is, each entity does not throw off enough cash so that there is some left over for reinvestment unless you combine them all together.
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How did he do it?
DC is always more efficent to transfer.
But it was difficult to efficiently convert to high voltage and back so you only did it when necessary.

The reason underwater links (eg France-UK) were commonly DC is that they linked countries whose grid wasn't synchronised - the same reason long distance grids in the US are DC
OK, but the truth is most software engineers are not software engineers. "They are bad programming handymen- errant, reckless, and ignorant of best practices".
Interesting but when I ran into a similar backdoor on a clients server, it had been infected through a phpbb upload script, I found the password to the IRC server in clear text by using either hexdump or string. Not sure which of the tools but I also tried connecting and found a channel with just around 20-30 bots at the most. Fun experience just like yours.
True that. I suspect she was probably also caught off guard, and that this may have been the first time she was ever treated badly because of her sex, and responded passively because she was somewhat in shock. But hopefully she'll shake it off and if/when it happens again, will take the bull by the horns and channel Angelina Jolie or challenge the guy to a gamer duel or something.
Back in the days I used to do this. I would stay up better part of the night adding random people to MSN or ICQ and sending the Trojan saying it was my picture. So before sending it I would describe myself as someone they'd want to see, to drive up their curiosity, basically I'll be what they'd want me to be. This was very successful. I never maintained a big list of zombied boxes, I'd infect remove on a per night basis depending on how bored I was.

I also saw the progression of hiding IP's in MSN connections. At first they would make a direct connection, later they only made a direct connection while transferring files bigger than a certain size. They completely removed it after some point, don't remember very well.

After I got to know more about networking how things are connected, I realized that my ISP allowed to initiate NULL sessions to other customers. I remember how excited I was to find this. I would place the RATs everywhere with curious names in hopes for them to click or just test exploits on them.

Another interesting thing I found was I was able to invite anyone, even random emails (Hotmail) while having a group chat. I had so much fun doing that back then.

After infection it was basically just chatting, messing with the LED's, CD-ROM's.. people were more interested in finding out how I did it and just chat rather than being mad. I remember one time when I did this to a friend he got scared and ripped of the cable breaking the wall socket.

It was really easy to evade anti-virus programs at the time. I usually just split the file into half, run the scanner on it, split again until I narrowed down to the signature and would just change a value or two.

It was interesting to see how many times people change the text before hitting send while chatting. Obviously I was too naive to know and respect privacy back then.
I think it all comes down to demand generation for Windows 8/RT and the broader Microsoft ecosystem.

Case in point, Apple.. People don’t queue up for a launch waiting to get their hands on iOS, they want the iPad! It’s the device that interests people and gets them invested in an ecosystem, not the other way around. What Apple has always had, and what seemingly all its competitors have lacked, is a focus on developing and marketing products that people really, really want (and the ability to actually do it). Doing so gives ultimate mindshare.. You may not have an iPhone and may not even want one, but I’d bet you know more about it and all its iOS goodness, than any other phone out there (bar the one in your pocket, maybe); the average consumer certainly does and that alone provides for a significant lift to Apple's ecosystem.

That’s what Microsoft wants, and why we have Surface. Windows Phone is awesome (my opinion), but no one knows about it; the launch of the Nokia’s Lumia phones are helping, but not really in a big enough way. Microsoft can’t let that happen with Windows 8/RT tablets going up against the iPad; because, and I think rightly so, they see that the market is heading towards convergence between what we traditionally think of as PC’s and tablets/smartphones.

And I’d add that it’s certainly not about increased profitability here.. Microsoft’s margins are the highest in the industry and one of the highest of any Fortune 500 company (Apple ranks 24th on the list by this measure) [1]. I don’t think Microsoft wants to be in the hardware business, it wants to be in the platform/ecosystem business, and part of that business is having devices that drive adoption. Simply put, it’s about getting people to want a device, a device that runs Windows.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/perfo...
I wonder what the patent is for? Back in the 80s, I remember playing with some software which had a command-line interface. You could type "*SAY Hello" and "Hello" would come out of the speakers.

http://bbc.nvg.org/doc/Speech.html
Seat of your pants type stuff is hard. It can help to go over all the "shoulda saids" afterwards so that you are a little quicker on the draw the next time. It also helps me personally to remember that just as I was socialized to behave a certain way, so were men. Many of them are happy to be given a different option for how to interact with women, assuming I give them the benefit of the doubt, treat it like a bad habit rather than a personal sin, and give them some option better than letting me abuse them instead of letting them abuse me.

Intended to be helpful, not critical. Have a great day and thank you for participating.
"The start-up has turned in to something of a zeitgeist and has even signed up the Mayor New York, Michael Bloomberg, who said he would learn code this year. London Mayor Boris Johnson, a man more at ease with Catullus than C++, was reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. to be “in awe” of Mr. Bloomberg."

"signed up the Mayor New York, Michael Bloomberg"

"London Mayor Boris Johnson, a man more at ease with Catullus than C++, was reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. to be “in awe” of Mr. Bloomberg.""

In awe of signing up apparently. Of course I have no personal knowledge of whether Bloomberg has actually done anything on codecademy since signing up. But I suspect he hasn't simply because of his busy schedule and limited utility for learning "to code".

It's amazing how things like this get repeated by the press though. As if signing up really means anything at all which it doesn't. It's like signing your name to a petition at the mall.
I'm not meaning to imply that YC is discriminatory. If you look at YC as if it were a product, you could say its adoption is highest among people below 30.

I did look this up before submitting my comment. If you figure that there aren't many 15 year olds getting into YC and the distribution is flat, then that means there aren't many 35 year olds getting in either. I think the distribution is probably not flat, and probably peaks somewhere in 20-27 years of age, and that there are probably 40+ year olds who have been admitted and that there are also larger macro dynamics (e.g.: the age at which people get out of college is centered around low 20s) at work here.

From: http://www.ycombinator.com/faq.html
What's the average age of people you fund?

About 26. A lot of people think it's younger because the press especially like to write about young founders.

The press comment is relevant because a lot of people probably think the average age is 19-21. 26-27 are consistent with the point I was trying to make.
I'm playing devil's advocate, mostly. The environmental holocaust that happens in Austin during SXSW makes this little faux paux look puny. One company painted a house green just for SXSW...painting is horrible for the environment. Generators were humming 24/7 all over downtown. Traffic was at a standstill from morning to night every day, with cars pumping out smog. Bottled water was being distributed everywhere at a disgusting rate. And all of it was in the service of companies pounding me in the face with ads at every turn.

I'm not the biggest fan of SXSW, if it wasn't apparent, and the environmental impact is one of the reasons I dislike it so much (but mostly the pervasive corporate agenda invading one of my favorite cities in such a vulgar manner).
I really follow the ESR's asking questions the smart way guide pretty seriously(http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) and most of my easy to difficult questions get answered easily without ever asking a question.

What I really care for is getting answers to tough questions. The problem with SO is it doesn't aim to be a QA site on the longer run. It aims to be a database of programming answers site that slowly evolves to solving most commonly faced programming problems. I don't know if their aim is to be advertising based revenue site on the longer run.

I ask a question because I want to get help. It has so happened when I absolutely can't get anything out of the problem at hand. I go on SO and ask a question, often I've been down voted down to oblivion, then I delete the question. Because all I see in response is sarcasm, cynicism and attempts by commenters to prove how big a fool I am.

To me stack overflow looks like site that wishes to attract people who already know answers to their questions, but want it put in a community wiki kind of way.

But I do agree that a simple Google search on SO sites, gives you solutions to most commonly known programming problems. And not just that most commonly known problems on areas that stack exchange sites deal with. These address most problems people face daily. Tough problems is a different cup of tea. But most common problems often get answered and their database seems to be growing with regards to those problems. And this might also be a great business model for SO.

SO was the cool new shiny tool, few years back. We all like to play with Shiny tools. Until something new, and more shiny come along.

These days most of colleagues ping me with interesting answers on quora. I would be happy with Quora opening their questions for reading without opening an account.
I scanned one once, but it was to learn more about a museum exhibit. :)

My personal favorite was when I found one on a banana sticker. I didn't try it, though.
Once again, in action, the unnamed law that decrees that any article about anything happening in any country in the world inevitably turns into a thread about much worse things are in the US.
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Let's try more succinctly. "Stop claiming your lemonade stand is profitable if it only pays for itself if you don't count the person selling the lemonade."

That's fair. But the Internet doesn't work that way. If you develop something once, you don't need to keep standing there and keep developing it. The whole reason the article is wrong can be boiled down to this. For more nuanced response you can see my other comments.

Basically, it would be like saying, "A restaurant that makes 50,000 per month in profit isn't profitable if the person who made it is Bill Gates."

Since, "automatically" Bill Gate's time is worth a lot more doing just about anything else other than launching a restaurant. But come on. When it comes time to buy the restaurant and see how much it makes in profit so you can see how much you will pay for it - do you really think you'll reconsider the whole thing as unprofitable just because Bill Gates spent way more of his time on it than can possibly be valued at as low as that?

Get real. From an investment standpoint, nobody cares about the founder's development time. And guess what the article is about? Investment standpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprocessor

Yes, the idea is that you will offload highly parallel tasks to it while the main CPU handles serial tasks.
I definitely get where you're coming from. I don't know the full story, but it seems they had an embargo snafu (code for: one of the reporters that was under embargo conveniently forgot they weren't supposed to post until 2 days from now).

It's got to be an extremely stressful situation that was not of their own making, and I think we could all cut them some slack while they scramble to get everything ready 48 hours earlier than anticipated! :)
In journalism, breaking embargos is considered bad form. Which journalist/blogger/publication is responsible for the "mixup"?
Fair enough. We don't have any live examples yet but should have some really soon. What sounds unbelievable to you? Be interested in finding out.
What's really sad is how the city was rebuilt afterwards. The absolute last people you want rebuilding a grand city are Soviet engineers.

If you've never been to Poland, land in Warsaw, spend a day or two, then head south to Kraków. The amazing disparity between a city leveled in WWII and rebuilt by communists and a city untouched by the Nazis (and therefore the Soviets) is heartbreaking.
http://live.wsj.com/video/83CA8241-F6C4-462A-B236-7F7759005F...

Interesting video to watch. Serious question here. When do you think starting most sentences with "so" is going to stop?
I'm not sure how it's relevant to the issue of group selection and altruism; but anyway such inheritance still seems to be relatively rare, as far as I know.

It's interesting that you call it Lamarckian - the epigenetic inheritance system itself would have to evolve in a normal Darwinian way... e.g. if genes get methylated (turned off semi-permanently) and passed down to offspring in this state, one could call that Lamarckian, but the methylation system itself is in need of a Darwinian explanation.
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Benihana is one I know off the top of my head.
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H2 is a much smaller molecule than even methane, and containers designed to hold natural gas will tend to leak hydrogen.
Nope, you have an established business relationship then, so opt-out is okay.
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Now if they could donate to pdx.edu to keep their mirrors up... that'd be great...
I go to HN because it isn't just a random news site with laypeople commenting on tech they don't understand; it's an aggregated news site with commentary from the exact people I want that commentary from. I've found myself not bothering to ask questions I want to ask because no one will see it after a certain amount of time despite the fact that threads that are over a year old end up on the front page.

Additionally, it sucks having to click two times (User > Comments) just to see if someone's responded every few minutes/hours. I've got better things to do. Notifications are a passive feature; you can choose to ignore them or turn them off, but I think they are vital to sites that tout their userbase and the intelligence therein. You could almost say Reddit's success can be hinged on the orangereds.
I completely agree. I would love to be able to ditch the heavy, bulky laptop for a tablet that fit in my purse and still allow me to do real work.
Also experiencing this.
Appreciate the kind words. Not exactly a fan of Warhol myself but thought the cans added a touch of levity, no?
I think the important point people are missing is Raman profitable does not include the founders cost of living as 'profit'. You still need to pay taxes on your personal income and you don't get to deduct the full cost of rent as a business expense. What it means is you can cover taxes and a subsistence wage for the founders and still have some tiny amount of money aka profit left over.

Once, you can pay everyone a competitive salary and still have money left over there is no caveat and your just plain old profitable.

PS: And yes the IRS has a specific definition for profit so it actually matters.
If that's the market you're addressing, I would suggest you be more clear about that. "Creative professionals" is not a specific-enough descriptive term. I would suggest making that clear with a list, and then linking each term (photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, etc.) to a gallery of example sites. If you're trying not to pigeonhole yourself, then have another list item like "just about anything else" where you link to a gallery of other miscellaneous examples. That's my two cents.
The objective of some is to turn it into a world government. This is just one more little step in that direction.

Having the Internet controlled primarily by the US and US-friendly organizations may not be ideal, but it would be better than having it controlled by a China, Russia, Mid-east dominated body.
I think you're spot on with the mini-computer to PC transition. This carries all the same echoes of the frontier-days of early PCs. Initially, people (myself included) wrote tablets off as being a toy for enthusiasts, and now they're reaching a level of adoption that's shifted the question from "Why would I buy one?" to "What's the best one on the market?" which can only be good for consumers and computing as a whole. Microsoft ended up winning PC's for a good twenty years, and have gotten destroyed by Apple in terms of branding and attention in the past twelve years or so. We'll see how they do in the teens.
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Sorry for the tangent, but did the author really have to assert his or her endorsement of Chinese nationalist politics and write "Taiwan, China" instead of the neutral "Taiwan"? Taiwan is not currently controlled by the PRC, regardless of whether or not one believes it "should" be. Taiwan's acting government, the ROC, believes it shouldn't be, and China's government, the PRC, believes it should be. Most Taiwanese people seem to agree with the ROC, but I've met some who identify as Chinese and would be fine being governed by the PRC. To refer to a disputed land as objectively part of a specific country, one that doesn't even currently govern it no less, really bothers me.
Is this still the way to get into Google?
It's rather like inverse fuzzing. So, zuffing.
It's also definitely a misuse of 'zeitgeist.'
And do you think it makes sense to convert "a lot of our in house applications to iOS" because "one of the executives" hadn't a "good experience"?
I hope the investigation will take into account the costs and the benefits (benefits other than making this executive happy with his iPad, i mean)

I'm not criticizing you, this sh*t happens to me every time too... (executives that want toys etc..)