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That's what I wonder given how grim the parent makes it sound compared to my experiences, but I haven't been around enough farms in the US to say with any absolute certainty.

The average heard size in Canada is about 60 cows and you can make a decent living with that. From what I understand the in US, 60 cows will leave you living in absolute poverty. If you cannot afford to live yourself, I expect the cows won't have much of a life either. But that's just an assumption.

It is a good question though, and especially timely as the Canadian government is seriously leaning towards scrapping the quota system entirely.
These are extra hard problems which have no guarantee of ever paying out, let alone raising money in the near term. This isn't a matter of getting rich quick - even just researching big issues requires sustained cash flow... if you can't provide that out of your own pocketbook then you are going to need to become self-sustaining pretty quick.
I'm sure they would have tried pushing code in that time at least a few times.
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Hi guys,

As Co-founder and COO at Protean, I wanted to thank each of you for sharing your thoughts on Echo. I tried to clarify some things in my responses to several of your comments. Feel free to contact me any time at cbartenstein@getprotean.com with additional questions, comments or concerns regarding Echo.

Thanks again for your interest in Echo!
It's a good point that there is a big difference between Internet communications and real life, and we're trying hard to address that difference.

There are a lot of nonverbal cues that you pick up in real life, and you pick up more of these with video than just with text or audio.

There are times when it's polite to knock, like if the office door is closed. If the door is open, or you're working in an open office, coworkers can generally just come and say hi. Working face to face is often best, but it's not possible for some people, and we're trying to enable some part of the working face to face experience for those people.

I know that it's hard to buy that auto-answering will help you be more efficient when working together, but together with automatic status detection, it works well for a lot of our early users. If you're ever in the situation where you want to work face to face with someone, but can't, then give us a try, and if it doesn't work for you, let us know why, and we'll try to build something that does.
This.

Look at what you call "innovation" today, what is it? Nothing about having locked down computers will prevent random folks from creating another Instagram. Look at the demo day for YC, how many of those demos require that the people install new program code on their "customer's" computer?

But a fully general purpose piece of hardware, could become much more expensive in the future.
If you're interested in other examples of this sort of solution, this is how Shopify has tackled this problem: https://github.com/tobi/imagery

It looks like tobi also has played around with porting it to go as well: https://github.com/tobi/imagery-go
When I hear 'domain expert', I hear 'business/idea guy'. There are a few services out there already [1]

1 - http://www.startupwithme.com/
- http://www.matchfounders.com
I don't see the main competition of this being Evernote or other "life recorder" applications. The main competitor is Facebook. People record where they are, put all their pics there, and mark all the moments of their life there.
Apple and Android devices are all closed so that excuses Microsoft from doing the same? Guess again; they are all wrong.
>You seem to toss out the history of computers. I owned my first computer when I was in high school, I soldered it together from a kit (it was based on a Z80). Today I can do the same thing with an ARM chip (in fact I've been playing with the ST micro STM324F 'butterfly' which is a Cortex-M4 architecture.

My point being, I doubt that this was your first encounter with programming a computer, and even if it was, you are in the extreme minority, even on HN.

>You also toss out with the bathwater virtual machines. You can boot a virtual machine where the hypervisor is 'signed' on a machine which gives you 100% access to your virtual machine that can do most anything you might want, from talking to the network, to displaying graphics, to running the latest fizzbuzz contender.

Ah, where is this VM i can run on an unrooted ipad?
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For those unfamiliar with the University of Central Florida, the site's name "You Could Finish" is not accidental.

"UCF" has long been said to stand for "You Can't Finish" since at least the early 1980's (i.e. shortly after the name change from FTU).

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22you+can%27t+finish%22+UCF
No love for Berkeley? I would argue that if you were a perspective student reading USWNR, simply due to proximity to the silicon valley makes the average student get much better chances at jobs and experience in tech.
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The whole point of the magsafe adaptor is that it releases when there's an accident.
His problem was that he kept on contacting the university forcing their hand. Once he was blocked, he should have backed off. Probably would have blown over.
Yes and no. Given the kind of volume Knight purchased during the faulty trades, it could be difficult to offload that many shares on the open market in a timely manner. Maybe those stocks are hot Monday, maybe they're not. Knight needs capital yesterday to keep floating, so they're likely looking to sell everything in one basket.

As for GS's motivation, they're buying at a discount. Due to the time sensitive nature of Knight's predicament, they're probably trading the portfolio to Goldman at a reduced rate. Unlike Knight, Goldman has the cash to sit on it for a while and sell the shares directly out into the open market, even if it takes a few days. Given the discount they bought the shares at, they're likely selling with a decent margin.
What I wonder, following this story this week, is how the software quality controls at a place like Knight compare with those for life-critical systems like those in, e.g., aviation.

On one hand, you'd think the QA in finance would be pretty solid, considering that the survival of the company could be at stake (witness Knight). On the other hand, I have a feeling that even there, people just don't take it that seriously.

Would love to hear from anyone with more experience writing software for these industries.
To me it's not that awkward, I have no expectation that everyone else drop what they are doing and meet my needs immediately from a text/IM.

I regard these expectations as very self-centered. It really only takes a small short conversation and most people realize that it's self-centered to expect immediate responses to text/IM.

If someone needs my immediate attention I don't have a problem with them phoning me, or finding me in person. If they expect immediate attention from text/email/facebook then they are choosing to use the wrong communication medium.
What about scientifically minded philanthropists like the Gates Foundation? E.g., they funded a genetic engineering project to dramatically lower the cost of the antimalarial drug Artemisinin by producing it in yeast instead of the original tree.
"It falls out if you tip the laptop slightly."

I agree with that part. Doesn't take much at all if it's pulled from anything beyond straight on.
I agree completely. You can make anything sound awful with that kind of analogy. And some people use it to devalue the things they don't like or understand. There should be a name for this behaviour.
Regardless, I maintain that you are looking for something that really is not there.

This is from a company that has faced criticism from prominent figures that safety would be an issue simply because they were not NASA. It only makes sense that they would place a high emphasis on safety in their public relations in light of that.

Not to mention this is coming from a company who's president said just a few days ago, "In the early days of aviation there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate. We don't want that — the public would not be accepting — but by the same token we can't have a situation where no deaths are ever allowed, because that would put innovation in a coffin too."

This simply is not a company that is taking the safety of their craft for granted.

I still don't understand what you think their attitude towards safety should be.
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This was hilarious, yet with a grain of truth: "Now, if you throw two engineers and a designer together and tell them to come up with a new startup idea, you've got better than 50% odds they will come up with another mobile local social photo sharing app."

Reminded me of PG's comment about why people overlooked the Stripe opportunity: "For over a decade, every hacker who'd ever had to process payments online knew how painful the experience was. Thousands of people must have known about this problem. And yet when they started startups, they decided to build recipe sites, or aggregators for local events."

http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
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No, the real key here is that IE was included with copies of Windows. You absolutely cannot account for the rise of IE without this. It is pure revisionism to try.

Apple's position with respect to Safari is nothing like Microsoft's position at that time. For starters, Apple doesn't even approach a monopoly in the desktop PC market. And Chrome and Firefox got big in a different era, years after Netscape was buried.

You seem greatly concerned to say that Netscape was "whining" and "screaming" and that it wouldn't "make sense" for Microsoft to have done otherwise. I am only concerned with the accuracy of the account of how IE got popular. If that impedes your Netscape bashing, that is only incidental to me and I don't even understand why you would still have any kind of interest in the subject given how long Netscape has been buried.
Echo may be used with or without a phone. When you are without your phone, you can use any one of the three cards already loaded on Echo. When you have your phone (iPhone or Android) with you, you can set Echo to mimic any mag-stripe card in your wallet with a couple taps of your phone.
We are confident most merchants will accept Echo at the POS. Echo will be laser engraved with the cardholder’s name, will display a CVV code in E-Ink, and will be signed just like any other card. Today, merchants are increasingly used to seeing unusual looking cards, such as the Chase Sapphire (https://creditcards.chase.com/credit-cards/chase-sapphire.as...) and Amex's titanium Centurion card.
Zenst, our product is extremely secure. All card holder information is actually stored in secure memory on the card (Echo) itself, not on the phone or app. By default, Echo locks when out of range of your phone's Bluetooth (and can be unlocked by entering a pin code on echo, enabling you to use Echo without your phone). So, even if you lose Echo or phone, your card info will not be vulnerable to theft.
> I am not aware of any instances in which FB has muscled in on a games dev.

I gather Zynga has that covered (and has an interesting relationship with Facebook)
We're very excited about NFC and mobile payment. We feel, however, that mobile payment is not yet ready for prime time. A small fraction of current smart phones are NFC enabled, and an even smaller fraction of merchants and retailers have upgraded to terminals capable of accepting NFC payment. Echo is compatible with existing swipe terminals and therefor enables Americans to begin taking advantage mobile payment/wallet technologies today!
Best thing I've ever read on HN. Bravo.

The problem I see with startups is that they have become the "cool kid table" and only hire "their kind". I can't believe that I'm seeing job listings with the phrase "top tier / ivy school only please". If startups keep pulling from the same diluted pool of talent they aren't going to get new ideas or any type of domain expertise.

Ths isn't about rewarding your 5 best friends from MIT anymore. Building a business and changing the world is about hiring the best people with the broadest backgrounds who want to accomplish a common goal. Your education should be a bonus not a prerequisite.

Find people who want to change the world and you just might do it.
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If any of those people are comfortable with vim, they could try VimOrganizer ( http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3342 ) -- a vimscript implementation of org-mode. (There's a few other implementations including one based on workflowy, but VimOrganizer happens to be the one I've started using.)
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I, and many of my coworkers, found the ad series - especially the "Basically" ad painful to watch because it was so embarrassing to watch. Apple generally tries to make their products seem "cool", but this ad did just the opposite. Add that to the fact that no one that I'm aware of makes something that is "basically a Mac" and you get a really odd ad.

The new iPad branding would be fine - if they weren't planning to make any new models of the iPad. It would forever remain the "new iPad". However, assuming they do release a new iPad, anyone who still uses the new iPad terminology will have to refer to the new iPad as the old new iPad, or, do what pretty much everyone else has done, and refer to it as the iPad 3. I noticed something similar to this the other day when I was comparing the 1998 VW Beetle (which was released under the name the Volkswagen New Beetle) with the 2012 VW Beetle (released under the name Volkswagen Beetle). In order to get which car I was talking about across I had to refer to the 1998 beetle as the old new beetle and the 2012 beetle as the new new beetle, which was awkward and felt counter-intuitive to everyone involved.

However, like I said, we'll see how this all shakes out. I've certainly been wrong about Apple's future success before, and I'm sure I'll be wrong about it again.
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I'm not convinced that putting most of an OS into the bootloader is a good idea. Particularly when that OS is closed source and written by the same geniuses that write BIOSes.
Agree with author's main point. But:

>>It’s like anyone who programs is essentially, at heart, a mental masticator, happy to forgo “real life” in order to do what could have been done “by a real person” in the same time.

Mental masticator? Does he mean masochist?
Also, ideas like "feeding the world" don't fire the "make lots of money before the fund term ends" neurons for VCs. =/ Execution is long and painful on a real world problem like that.
What do you think about this concept? Is it useful for you?
I recently tried angular.js and then chose Ember.js, I ended up struggling with it for about a week, after which it was easy enough. Since then, I've written two relatively simple internal apps with it in less than a week.
Doesn't this mean that others made a killing, taking advantage of all the mispriced orders?
This was apparently an infrastructure problem of some sort:
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/tom-joyce-knight-is-open-for-...

Infrastructure changes can be notoriously difficult to back out by simply using an "off" switch, particularly if this was some type of a firmware upgrade that impacted all of their production servers. Backing it out at a minimum would require some type of a reboot, which would cause problems with an active trades. It could very well be that they were running an Active-Active environment, they had to go Active-Passive, back out the changes from the passive environment, reboot, and surgically cut over to the passive environment. This could easily take 30 minutes.
You are right, the presence of a Gates Foundation will create that. Although, I like your example because while it is an important problem, it is also a reasonably sized and quite specific problem.

And it shows that "important" and "big" work is being done by companies that just aren't on the HN startup radar because, well, it is a different sector. I think people in the internet sector make facebook-things rather than antimalarials because they are in the internet sector.
Thanks, we're glad you like our design! I think Evernote is a very well done app also, but targets a more business/work-driven use case. A poor analogy may be if Evernote is good for those 8 hours you spend at work each day, then we hope to be helpful a few times during the rest of those 16 hours in the day (minus sleep, of course).
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Strange article. Lots of text but missing the main thing I was looking for. What kind "erroneus trades"? where did the money go? If you buy stock at the market you did not intend to buy, why not just sell them the next day?
> If you cannot afford to live yourself, I expect the cows won't have much of a life either. But that's just an assumption.

That's a fair assumption for a commercial operation. In India, small holders (2-3 cattle) are in majority & the primary use is for tilling fields. Consequently, cattle are considered & treated as family members, rather than as milk producing machines. Even if the farmer has to live frugally, he/she does not ill treat cattle.

> It is a good question though, and especially timely as the Canadian government is seriously leaning towards scrapping the quota system entirely.

Thanks for that info - will be interesting to assess the outcome if the shift happens.
partial list of actually meaningful opportunities:

- camera drones to provide a "real-time Google Earth"

- camera satellites for same purpose (see DARPA SEE-ME challenge)

- cheap laser scanners for self-driving cars and robots

- synthetic meat

- genetically engineered supercrops for the developing world that provide protein, fiber, and every vitamin

- AR / VR glasses (shameless plug: http://vergencelabs.com)

- subvocalization microphone

- myostatin inhibitor gene therapy as an OTC cosmetic procedure -- would solve obesity

- cheaper rockets

- VR telepresence to eliminate the massive petroleum waste of the workday commute

- self-driving car (great open hardware + source project)

- "brain backup" using high-res MRI + in-depth biographical interview + DNA sample

- seasteading

- "bio lab on a chip" using microfluidics, flourescence-assisted cell sorting, nanopore sequencing, and phage-assisted directed evolution

If you read this list and say you lack the necessary skills -- bullshit. In the age of Wikipedia and Google Scholar you can learn anything you try to. The only limit is your courage.
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Hi, thanks for the feedback. We just need it to stay in touch with you and we don't want to spam your Facebook, Twitter, etc to do so.

Re: the About page. Yes, in our rush we didn't have time to put up an About page to tell you more about us. We'll be putting one up soon. We really hope to build something that can help people collect and tell the stories of their lives. To me that's what gets me really excited, is knowing that this app may be able to help someone share an exciting trip they've had to London, or to reflect back on how they've gotten to this point from a year ago. That's really fulfilling for us to know, and our motivation for building this.
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This type of shortsighted paternalism is peculiar to higher education, not just any system bloated with bureaucracy.

The sanctimonious and patronizing reaction by UCF is a perfect example of why the model is ripe for disruption.

It reminds me very much of the MPAA right before bitTorrent's invention.

I hope that this entrepreneur will realize they are wasting his time and money and drop out, and start charting his own course.
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Welcome to the grim realities of corporate computing...

Exactly. I have to assume the people that don't get this have never worked in these environments.
I've had bad luck with video drivers for AMD and Nvidia cards on most distros, so I'd stick with Intel whenever possible.
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It was even worse. They required ability to fly to polar orbits, plus ability to make single-orbit missions, which meant a lot of cross-range (meaning otherwise unnecessarily heavy wings). To make things worse, nobody ever paid for these features because Air Force bailed out of Shuttle project long before first flight, but when it was too late to delete hardware needed for these now-unnecessary features. Shuttle had terribly bad luck since the beginning.
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...a built-in disassembler so you could inspect anything in the ROMs.

Which you didn't need to do because it also came with commented ROM listings.

Utterly amazing how far Apple has come (or gone) in the intervening 30+ years...
This is ironic, as IIRC the computer science department at my alma mater (SJSU) had the creation of a class schedule finder as a requirement for all students in one of their core classes.

To think that another school would discipline one of their students for something that another school requires of some of their students is quite interesting.
$440 million is four times their 2011 net income. I doubt the CEO is comfortable with the outcome of being on the brink of bankruptcy. He is trying to arrange a fire sale of the company as we speak.

But I think you are right that they tried to avoid an outage. The incompetence, if any, is that they apparently did not know how much money they were losing and still kept the system going. It wasn't a caclulated risk but rather an incaculable one.

I imagine it's not easy to know how much you're losing at any moment in time. They certainly knew they were building huge positions, but knowing how much they were going to lose on those positions requires an estimate of the price at which the positions can be closed (or a hedge).

What I cannot imagine is that it is common practice to leave this kind of decision to an individual's judgement call. There have to be rules for a situation like this. And there's only one sensible rule for a rogue algo racking up unknowable losses. Kill it and deal with the consequences later. Anything else is negligent.