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Is it really possible to be independent (not bought out) while being successful and in business when your area of operation (virtualization in this case), closely overlaps with that of another much bigger, wealthier company (VMware in this case) ?

I like the Steve Jobs quote where he says he doesn't like companies whose sole goal is to eventually get bought out by a bigger player. I personally would like to build a company, cultivate culture within that company and stay independent, even if that means more competition and less cash-in-hand in the short run.
I like the fact that the donations are per individual, rather than per project. It gives the recipients the freedom to explore other opportunities, rather than tying them down to their one popular project.
Have you tried setting your peer assist to allow and camera to allow here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplay...

this problem was solved for most of the other Linux + Chrome users by making the above selection

Also if that doesn't work try disabling the built-in Flash in Chrome and enabling the installed version using chrome://plugins

other than that, yes, give me your thinkpad and ill fix it :)
The wait staff and by others at the table. I think there's a subconscious perceived status thing that just makes interruption less likely for "white" men. Granted, this is just my perception. Data would be good. I should probably search the social psychology literature.
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I did, that's why it fails immediately instead of crashing now.

It really needs to "just work" and in this case, "just work" with a default Google Chrome install absent finagling.

If it doesn't "just work" then it's not solving a problem for me.

The problem to be solved is Skype being irritating. I hate Skype, but right now, it's impossible for me to use your app because it doesn't actually work.
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I suppose NASA has been keeping stats; I wonder what they look like.
That's what in app purchases are for. If you want to add new functionality then allow people to purchase it separately.

That way existing users still have a core product that will see upgrades.
Only if you don't differentiate "sounds like" and "are appealing in the same way." If you don't, having a conversation about this will be fruitless.
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Here's a good PDF about space radiation: htttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/pdfs/radiation.pdf
There's a lot of drama around some issues... here's a the most recently crowned canonical example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3584635

I look forward to seeing what happens when people start promising money to the various bikeshed construction crews...
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Great tool! This will definitely come in handy!

You might consider adding parameters for different logging levels. For example, it might be nice to only see the missing files.
What? How does the attacker know when the server sends mail?

Nice summary, sandstrom. Not as useful as reading the whole article, but much higher value-per-effort. ;)
aristocracy? The aristocracy were hardly 'self-made.' It was inherited. While a 'self-made' billionaire can't claim to have no employees, he probably did work for his money.
If it's a feature, it's a freaking annoying feature.
Fixed link: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/factsheets/pdfs/radiat...
This should have interesting fallout with EMC and Cisco's relationship. Cisco has invested heavily in creating a Nicira competitor internally (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/cisco-announces-its...).

Also, Nicira was contributing a lot to Openstack networking, at least as of the Diablo release, in the Quantum plugin and I believe in nova-network in general. That will have repercussions for HP, Dell, Rackspace, or anyone else heavily invested in Openstack.

I had the pleasure of working on a small project in which Nicira was involved. I didn't work directly with them, but they seemed really sharp. Many congratulations to them on a great exit.
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I'm from Canada and this wouldn't be considered NSFW even at an old workplace where my boss was an evangelical christian and very conservative.

But I am close enough to the US to see why people are nervous. Even acknowledging the existence of porn seems to be enough to make some Americans nervous.

I'm surprised at the number of people here making that many complaints about a PG-13 image, I honestly came here thinking I would see more people making fun of the NSFW warning for being completely reactionary.
Wouldn't it be more ethical to just scan the item without buying it?
Surely you're not suggesting that she will be less capable to head Yahoo after she becomes a mother? The first few weeks / months are difficult, but after she adjusts to the 'new normal' that is parenthood, she should be right on track.
Same setup, works for me. I haven't followed any magic special steps though!
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If he's talking about the scale of a single incident then he is correct.

The death toll from the 9/11 attacks far exceeded any other single terrorist attack.
To put it bluntly, Google is happy-clappy hippie wonderland in comparison to Apple, yet there are no stories of the top echelon being absolute cunts to each other. Success is not reliant on dictatorship. You don't have to be a horrible person to be honest, you don't have to be a tyrant to demand and foster excellence.
really? What kind of person spends that much on a car, then keeps it for 8 years?

I mean, Tesla, I think, did the right thing by going for the luxury market; people there are accustomed to considering a ten year old car essentially worthless. (Yeah, a ten year old BMW still runs, but for what you pay to keep it running, unless you have the auto repair hobby, well, you probably want to get a new one.)

Battery longevity is going to be a huge problem when these cars move to the economy market. But for the luxury market? I think that the technology is just fine. Using an 8 year old car, to them, would be like me using a cellphone from the '90s. (Personally, I think Tesla needs to be careful to provide luxury service; Charge a little more and roll that 8 year 'no questions' battery warranty into the purchase price. I mean, if I'm going to spend $100,000+ for a car? clearly I'm not trying to save money... but also clearly I expect a 'premium' experience. I mean, the nature of ridiculous high end cars is that they are less reliable than a Toyota, but the service had better be goddamn good.)
Yes - my bad. To be fair, we support both, but PUT is the proper verb
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That's exactly how the electronic tolling plans I am familiar with work, which is what makes them cost effective.
NTP argues that they are not a patent troll, because for a few years in the 1990s they attempted to build a product for which neither the market nor technology existed. Apparently they never tried to make that product happen once the technology did come around, nor did they try to build any other product. One wonders what, precisely, they have been up to all these years.
Thanks Chris, I actually thought of this too! I put all of the things I plan to do, in the README file on the github page here: https://github.com/mathew-fleisch/Weakest-Link/blob/master/R...
I've added +2 to the ticket.
I think VMware has made it fairly clear for a while that any part of the stack they touch will belong to them if they want it to. Even storage, which must make EMCers nervous.

Several people predicted that Nicira is a feature and the VMware of networking will be VMware; those turned out to be true, although in a different way than predicted.
Domestic with respect to the motive and perspective of the perpetrators. 9/11 and 7/7 had elaborate international and geopolitical motivations, from the perspective of foreign victims of respectively US and British foreign policy.
some papers by Nicira's CTO: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=martin+casado&...
Just for another data point, I'm in Vancouver, Canada and have never worked somewhere where I would be concerned having that article on my screen.

That includes working at a very socially conservative workplace run by an evangelical christian and consulting for a government agency in a fairly corporate environment.

Some people might do a double take because of the subject matter of that image I suppose but nothing I would need to worry about, it's embedded in a technical article and it's PG-13 material.

I would worry far more about reading blogs than the PG-13 screencap that only really references the existence of porn sites.

I find it interesting and surprising that there are this many people with such a different experience. Are you working in very corporate environments?
Yes, that's what I wrote. Software sales spreads across the whole spectrum (example at hand: Sparrow, $9/eternity). I just wanted to provide a different view.
They say the only requirement from physical network is IP connectivity. Technically it's straightforward to build a virtual machine on top of IP.

The real matter is to see that IP virtualization is the future of networking. However, I'm suspicious on the efficiency of that kind of virtualization as it might consume more CPU energy and maybe cause some lags between networks.
Often the simplest solution is the best: don't comment on YouTube videos.
The problem is provisioning and managing networks in a large scale data center deployment. And while networks are reasonably simple in the small (Hey plug in the cable and the light goes green, done!) in a larger (> 800 or so up to thousands and thousands) network lots of little things need to be dealt with.

When Google first started building their own switches I thought it was the stupidest idea ever. But when you look at it objectively, having the connectivity is essential and putting the 'smarts' in a place where it can be easily updated/modified/copied etc it vital. The network is just wire and switch companies put a lot of 'value add' in their switches which basically puts their second tier network programmers writing code you can't code review but can kill your network at any time. At Blekko the few outages we've had were all caused by a switch software programmer. How scary is that?

So if your wondering, what this means for the rest of us, it means there is a market for a rock-solid-dumb-as-a-post set of switches that do absolutely nothing to the traffic except forward it. They restart in milliseconds, not seconds. They achieve lowest cost per port because they have very little firmware, and the firmware they do have can, for all practical purposes, be proven correct. The money is spent on really reliable transceivers and low noise cross connects and just enough SNMP work to give the upper levels of the system a clue as to whether they are overloaded or not. They might do link aggregation. We'll see if they appear or not.
It's pretty obviously tongue-in-cheek. He doesn't look at all evil (sorry Daeken, you look kind of... Jolly) and any real evil people don't let Forbes take their picture.
yes. In SF Bay Area we have FasTrak for bridge/road tolls. Clipper card for public transit. For each, you keep some balance in your account that gets depleted as used and is recharged as needed.
Arguably the cloud and enterprise virtualization markets are separate and Nicira could have made money from cloud providers.
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I have often thought that statistically most astronauts are quite long-lived (barring launch pad accidents). That, and their careers are usually quite short.

Unlike airline pilots. They are exposed to quite high radiation flux for a good number of years over their entire career and are normally monitored closely for radiation induced disease within the normal routine medical checks.
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I didn't know about that untill now. I'll look more into it.
But the main idea behind the way accounts work on FS is that the user should have some sort of online presence before he can sign up.

So if Mozilla's Persona doesn't offer a way for the user to publish some sort of online profile, then we probably won't add it as a primary form of signing up on FS. Linking an existing account to authenticate later is ok. But we do want to make it more difficult to create completely "anonymous" profiles. At least that's our thinking today anyway.
...I gained a great admiration for Steve Jobs because he seemed like a man in immense suffering

Russian? Hungarian?

it seemed pretty obvious that he was missing something in his life and he probably never found it.

Does it seem that he was in some sense, "alone?"

But he's the paragon of the self made man, in the Ayn Rand sense...

Many of Ayn Rand's characters seem to me to be tortured or somehow alone.
Yep, this is exactly what I thought.

Having done my time in Excel and VBA, I can say as soon as you need to use VBA in Excel you're at the limit of what Excel can do.

It's a fantastic tool for visualising data, but as soon as you need to pass multiple data sets through an algo - you reach the limit of not only Excel, but the concept of visualising the entire working of an algorithm.

Basically, it can't iterate (well).
And then 30% of all tips go to Apple. As much as I and others would love the convenience, I strongly object.
I just want it there as an optional addition. People should totally be able to donate to the general GitHub account.
Conveniently, they recently posted on that topic: http://networkheresy.com/2012/06/08/the-overhead-of-software...
I've yet to really think about it like this, but your comment seems spot on. Has any app really gone the route of already being established before introducing in-app purchases? The only utility app I can remember paying for an in-app was Paper — but even then, a large chunk of functionality wasn't available without it (the different brushes) and it wasn't an established app beforehand.
I've said it in two previous threads and gotten down-voted for it, but it's the truth: apps must have a recurring revenue model.

The upgrade-train model is over for a lot of software out there. Those of us who want good desktop software should be begging our favorites (I'm looking at you, JetBrains) to charge on a subscription basis.
Cool, are those related in some way?
Does RaspberrryPi [1] solves your problem with cheap and usable computers?
Also, why don't you set up a Kickstarter campaign? Lots of programmers would like to backup a project that teach programming to kids!

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Ask HN: Input on a data oriented website
Hello. My interests and livlihood involves working with data - accessing, analyzing, etc. - to improve the organizations of where I work. I'm coming across 2 particular problems:

1. Difficult to stay up to date on all things related to data & analysis. Hitting a bunch of sites and feeds is not very effective.
2. Keeping track of data/analytic resources in one place. I'm talking things like databases/software, tutorials, methods, case studies, and books. I like tracking these things for reference and to help others.

Proposed solution: a website with 2 initial parts:
1. a digg/hacker news/reddit part where users can submit links and vote them up or down. Could possibly include comments and an Ask HN equivalent.
2. an organized list of resources. People could submit their favorites.

What do you think...
1. Is there a need? Would you use this?
2. I'm thinking of creating a minimum viable product with WordPress on a shared server since I have limited web dev skills, limited budget, and trying to launch sooner than later. Is this stupid? If so, which part - WP, shared server, or both?
3. Having people submit links is good but this would need moderation, especially comments. Would you skip this? Maybe take an approach like R - Blogger where posts from other authors are automatically submitted based on key words AND comments are turned off.

Thank you - Brian
> "I saw a woman going into space as an indication of the opening up of space to 'normal' people."

This is one area where the Soviets had us beat:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
Why was this even funded? It could have been a nice business if they built the app and sold it through the app store, it seemed to be making enough money to support the team (based on the fact if was highly ranked in the top grossing sections of the App Stores).
This is also Top Gear's method of audience gender balance.
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Quite the opposite: GitHub would love if you signed up.

You probably won't log out, and chances are you'll end up on GitHub again sometime soon. You'll discover the wonders of social coding now that you have an account, and soon enough, you're a paying customer.
My own approach to this problem would be to consider each tile as a square polygon, then simply project the vertices outward from the light source. Then you take the resulting triangles and rasterize them on to an image scaled such that each pixel represents a tile and use antialiasing (or simply rasterize them on to an image 8 times as large as you need it and scale down, which is essentially the same thing). This gives you roughly the same end result, but would allow you to hardware accelerate almost every single aspect and avoids all the artifacts of shadowmapping. Notably, by restricting each polygon to a square, the projection could be done entirely as a vertex shader, without requiring geometry shaders. This would likely be vastly more efficient due to taking advantage of hardware acceleration.
I'm late to this party, but one thing I take minor issue with in this article, is the "log everything" section. I agree that logging is good, and don't want to give a wrong impression on that, but, logging everything can have some problems. Users regularly clicko the username/password fields and you'll get exploitable logs of: odd username from IP followed shortly by real user name from same ip with successful log-in. If you don't secure your logs well, you now have a potential security breach, and those log systems can be vulnerable to all the stuff you went through that password securing rigamorole to avoid (bad software, sql injection, etc, etc.) I bring it up, because a lot of times people don't think to secure the logging system as much as the other stuff, partly because it is regularly behind the dmz, and partly because it is just off the standard security map for user security issues.

Just $.02 for this conversation :)
Ride on, Sally Ride.

As usual, an apropos xkcd reference, though this was a blog post, and concerned the surviving Apollo astronauts: http://blog.xkcd.com/2012/07/12/a-morbid-python-script/
Ask HN: Favorite Place for Startup Jobs?
Is news.ycombinator.com/jobs your go to place, or somewhere else? How often do you look at what is out there?

And in the same vein, what are you looking for in a startup position? Equity, cool problems, location, great team members?
I would really recommend looking into this - credit-cardless people who just buy top-up cards like myself would be able to get involved!
I've been saying this for years. It is easier, way easier, to sell someone a 12 dollar a month subscription to a traditional SaaS app that stores their sales leads. Get your monthly churn rate down to 2% over time and you have a client with a life time value of $600.[1]

Now, you could spend the same time making an app that you sell for $0.99 but you would need to sell about a thousand of them just to break even (since Apple takes such a huge cut, plus it costs more money to service a thousand people than it does to serve one). Furthermore your cash flow is much more predictable under a SaaS model (hence, easier to raise on, exit with, hire on, or just plain sleep at night with) so it isn't even a 1:1000 ratio. More like 1:2000.

The psychology behind this is pretty simple. Most business owners know that saving time increases their billable hours. If you can do that, then great. They would be thrilled to hear that they will be paying you that 12 bucks for the next 4 years, because it would mean that they survived at least that long! Most of them think there is a good chance that they will be toast in their first 3 or 4 months, and what's $40 bucks compared to their other expenses?

Whereas a general app purchaser isn't costing in their saved time (for business or productivity apps), since they don't view their mobile device as a work tool, and consumers don't usually care that your game is good because their are plenty of alternatives to choose from when it comes to wasting time on the internet.

Where I would build an app:

For an existing product that exists in a browser, mostly as a sales gen tool. Possibly for functionality that people would like to be mobile but doesn't work in a traditional SaaS app (check-ins for a ticketing app, for example, could be done on an iPad).

Most other cases I just wouldn't bother.

[1] I'd say 1.5 to 2% is basically the floor because that is roughly what small businesses close at.
The limit of 50/50 doesn't guarantee an attendance of 50 women it just limits the attendance to 50 men, although it obviously doesn't guarantee that either. Personally I think it's a pretty useful message to say 'here are a number of ways that you can make your hackathon more appealing to women' but that's a very boring headline and it would never have hit the front page so I can understand why it wasn't used.
The number of frankly misogynist (I don't mean yours or the parent posters) only heightens my belief that articles like this are useful. There are well known ways to entice men who spend time hacking to your hackathon such as beer, pizza etc. but if we want to broaden the appeal of coding/hacking/programming we need to broaden the appeal of the events that nurture such creativity.
Eventual payout from Google aside, I wonder if the team ever regretted the fact that taking funding "changed the yardstick" for success. I'd guess that going back to work for a big company (even with a big payout) wasn't really the original goal.

But then again, maybe it was.
it didn't really fail. You were up after it was all over with. Fast, cheap or good - pick two.
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Thanks to cold fusion, NASA again has an opportunity to take a lead in developing new technologies for space applications, and more, from low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), even as it embarks on a series of lab experiments to test the basic science behind LENR.
I understand some people having trouble with reading comprehension, but.... that's the very first line of the post.

I'm not sure what the problem is with that, but getting 50 women to a hackathon, much less any event, is quite an achievement. Perhaps you should focus on that, rather than immediately poking holes?
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Logo existed in many languages, although I think it started in English. Falls into the educational category.
It's smaller.
I can appreciate that you're unfamiliar with the build and dependency management tools used by Chromium and related projects. However, it's disingenuous to imply that somehow the project is any less public or open because of that.

Some dependencies are pulled in and set-up by the checkout scripts, which is not an unusual degree of complexity for a large group of projects with such broad dependencies. It's all clearly documented and everything you need to know to checkout, build, and contribute code is linked from right here: http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient
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Ah I see, no doubt a cheaper, lower-security line. Thanks for the info and congratulations on your hack.